Happy, happy, happy birthday to Sarah Cracknell, born 12th April 1967.
Chanteuse, songwriter, mother, wife and all round fabulous person, today's selection celebrates Sarah's 58th with 58 minutes of Sarah singing. What could be better than that?
It's mostly Saint Etienne, with a couple of songs from Sarah's solo catalogue and collaborations with David Holmes and Mark Brown.
There are also mixes from Masters At Work, Kid Loco, Richard X, Two Lone Swordsmen aka Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood, as well as Andrew's former compadres in The Sabres Of Paradise, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. All very different styles and approaches, though Sarah's voice shines through.
Here's to you, Sarah, hiope you have a good one.
1) Aussie Soap Girl: Sarah Cracknell (1997)
2) Method Of Modern Love (Radio Edit By Richard X & Pete Hofmann): Saint Etienne (2009)
3) Nothing Can Stop Us (Masters At Work Dub) (Remix By Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez & 'Little' Louie Vega): Saint Etienne (1992)
4) Goodnight Jack: Saint Etienne (1998)
5) Message In A Bottle: Saint Etienne (1995)
6) Stop And Think It Over (Kid Loco Mix): Saint Etienne (2002)
7) Penlop (Album Version By Pete Wiggs): Saint Etienne (2021)
8) Some Place Else: Saint Etienne (1992)
9) Gone (Edit By David Holmes, Jagz Kooner & Gary Burns): David Holmes ft. Sarah Cracknell (1995)
10) I Threw It All Away: Saint Etienne (2012)
11) Sleepytown: Sarah Cracknell (2015)
12) Like A Motorway (Japanese Version): Saint Etienne (1994)
13) The Journey Continues (Vocal Radio Edit): Mark Brown ft. Sarah Cracknell (2007)
14) Andersen Unbound: Saint Etienne (2002)
15) Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi) (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix By Andrew Weatherall & Keith Tenniswood): Saint Etienne (2000)
1992: Avenue EP: 8
1992: Nothing Can Stop Us EP: 3
1995: Gone EP: 9
1995: Xmas 95 EP: 5
1997: Goldie EP: 1
1998: Good Humor: 4
2000: Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi) EP: 15
2002: Action EP: 14
2007: The Journey Continues EP: 13
2009: Method Of Modern Love EP: 2
2009: Now 4 EP: 12
2010: Finisterre (Deluxe Edition) (2x CD): 6
2012: Words And Music By Saint Etienne: 10
2015: Take The Silver EP: 11
2021: I've Been Trying To Tell You: 7
If that's left you hungry for more Sarah, I've resurrected my 1997 Saint Etienne C90 side which I posted last year. You can find it here.
thanks for rembering! https://shorturl.at/CNrhS
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sintra! And apologies, I think your previous comments kept getting swept up by the blog's anti-spam guards due to the URL and anonymous post.
DeleteI managed to get to this one in time and mark it as 'not spam' - I appreciate your visits and comments!
Happy birthday to the lovely Sarah. Whenever I'm feeling a bit jaded with the world, I turn to Saint Etienne and immediately feel better.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, C. Weirdly, even the melancholy undercurrent through much of their music gives me an uplift.
DeleteHappy birthday Sarah. St Etienne forever
ReplyDeleteI concur with everything you've said. However, despite liking them intensely I've barely talked about them over at my place - this was the only piece I could find readily:
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JM
I concur with Adam and John! Coincidently, I nearly fell into the same trap as John in his blog post, in that I automatically dropped Pond House into the first draft of this selection, until I remembered that Sarah doesn't sing on it!
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