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Originally Posted by Gone Sugaring
So Tough by Saint Etienne. I own their first album which I thought was merely ok but so far I find this to be much better. |
I love that album. This album was a breath of fresh air in the early Ninties when electronica and dance music was frowned upon by the dungeon masters of grunge.
The sampling and club beats of Sanit Etienne was forward thinking. I thought of them as being closer to Massive Attack, Portishead and the other trip hop bands of the early Nineties. The two albums after So Tough,
Tiger Bay (1994) and
Good Humor (1998) are even better.
A lot of Saint Etienne's best releases were singles that aren't on any of thier standard release studio albums. I was never fully aware of how good St. Etienne was until I purchased
Smash the System which was a 2005 collection of their single froms 1990 to 1999.