#foxbase alpha

[thechemistryset]

Pete Wiggs, Celina Nash and Bob Stanley, c. 1991

(Photograph: Joe Dilworth)

[midnightbossanova]

Top-tier all-timer. Fucking perfect song.

I need to dig out my Foxbase Alpha t-shirt.

[sonofshermy]

[endingupinkingscross]

But only love can break your heart Try to be sure right from the start

[rexandbalances]

Loveless is the best of this entire list.

Also, don't sleep on Foxbase Alpha.

[reckonslepoisson]

Foxbase Alpha (1991), So Tough (1993), Saint Etienne

The earliest days of Saint Etienne, a concoction of twee and club that could only have been a product of the carefree, complacent, arrogant British cultural 1990s. Much like New Labour just a few years later, this stuff is only really of superficial interest, tuneful and innocuous but gloating with its delusions of radicality and importance. It’s good that St Etienne has repeatedly cited OMD’s Dazzle Ships as reference, as both these works are pretty much generational copies – only with fewer original ideas and less remarkable standout pop moments. 

Pick(s): ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’, ‘Avenue’

[trash-tulpa]

[kraftwerk113]

Life´s too short for weird music - Tagesempfehlung 28.08.2021

Saint Etienne / Spring

Ein echtes Jubiläum in der Life´s too short for weird music Aktionswoche „important debut-albums“: Foxbase Alpha – das Debütalbum von Saint Etienne wird runde 30. Und dass das Trio bei „Foxbase Alpha“ vieles – wenn nicht sogar alles richtig gemacht hat belegt schon allein der Umstand, dass Saint Etienne nach Foxbase Alpha viele gute Songs – auch einige durchgängig gute Alben veröffentlicht haben aber an Foxbase Alpha nur selten herankamen. Auch wenn es bald Herbst wird: Happy 30th anniversery „Foxbase Alpha“ mit dem Stück „Spring“.