Saint Etienne Have London Conversations

09/11/08 12:52pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

After a 20-year career, English dream-poppers Saint Etienne will release a career-spanning collection of songs on Sept. 29 through Heavenly Records. It'll be available as an import in Canada.

London Conversations: The Best Of Saint Etienne will be released in several formats. A single CD edition collects 16 tracks and offers two new ones. There'll also be a double-CD version that will be included in a bound book along with a DVD of all the band's music videos. There's also a double vinyl set with the same tracks as the single CD.

Saint Etienne will release the two new tracks — an updated version of "Burnt Out Car" remixed by Xenomania and "This Is Tomorrow" — as singles. The former is out on Sept. 22 in the U.K. and will be available on seven-inch vinyl and CD. The latter should be out by the end of the year. The band also plan to reissue all of their studio albums.

Vocalist Sarah Cracknell and former music journalists Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs began playing together in 1988. They're named after France's Association Sportive Saint-Etienne Loire football club and have released seven studio albums. Their music has also been featured in film director Pedro Almodovar's Volver and in the Grey's Anatomy television series.

Here are the tracks on London Conversations: The Best Of Saint Etienne:

Disc one and LP:
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
"Nothing Can Stop Us"
"Join Our Club"
"Avenue"
"You're In A Bad Way"
"Hobart Paving"
"Who Do You Think You Are"
"Pale Movie"
"Like A Motorway"
"Hug My Soul"
"He's On The Phone"
"Sylvie"
"Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)"
"Action"
"A Good Thing"
"Side Streets"
"Burnt Out Car" (Xenomania remix)
"This Is Tomorrow"

Disc two:

"Kiss And Make Up"
"Filthy"
"Spring"
"People Get Real"
"Mario's Cafe"
"Goodnight Jack" (original 1998 version)
"The Bad Photographer"
"Lose That Girl"
"Lover Plays The Bass"
"How We Used To Live"
"Boy Is Crying"
"Finisterre"
"Soft Like Me"
"Shower Scene"
"Stars Above Us"
"Teenage Winter"
"I Was Born On Christmas Day"

Here's what's on the DVD:

"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
"Kiss And Make Up"
"Nothing Can Stop Us"
"Avenue"
"You're In A Bad Way"
"Hobart Paving"
"Who Do You Think You Are"
"I Was Born On Christmas Day"
"Pale Movie"
"Like A Motorway"
"Hug My Soul"
"He's On The Phone"
"Sylvie"
"The Bad Photographer"
"How We Used To Live"
"Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)"
"Action"
"Side Streets"