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Saint Etienne
Misadventures of Saint Etienne
Release Date: 1999
Label: L'APPAREIL
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A mostly instrumental album released only in Japan, The Misadventures of St. Etienne is not quite a proper St. Etienne album. Instead, it's the soundtrack of a little-seen British indie film called The Misadventures of Margaret, starring Parker Posey and Brooke Shields. Fans of Sarah Cracknell's Lulu-style vocals should be warned that she sings on only seven of the 20 tracks, and that many of the remaining songs are simple piano instrumentals and themes. That said, the album's centerpiece song, "The Way I Fell for You," is a complete stunner, one of the band's best-ever tracks, and the ironically bouncy "It's All Gone Horribly Wrong" isn't far behind. Elsewhere, Bob Stanley's well-documented love for '60s French pop finally appears in their cover of Francoise Hardy's "Find Me a Boy." A few tracks sound a bit familiar, particularly "17th Century Sea," a kissing cousin of "The Sea" from the Continental compilation, but the overall mood (upbeat melancholy, perhaps?) makes up for weaknesses in individual tracks. Not an album to start with, but fans of St. Etienne's later work will find it essential. Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Statues
2Jack LemmonKelly, Wilson-Wolfe, Adamson, Cracknell
3Paris Bar '89
4SaturdayWiggs, Cracknell, Stanley
5Dream Dentist
6Lost in the Library
7Find Me a Boy
8Edward Undecided
9Martin Court
10Space Shuttle
11It's All Gone Horribly Wrong
12More Statues
13French Detective
14Do it All
15New York Skyline
16Seventeenth Century Sea
17In Dreams
18Lonely Margaret
19Way I Fell for You
20I'm Here to Mix the Nuns







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