One of the most overlooked groups in British music history. They produced some of the most perfect songs and were the soundtrack of the 90s, as much as Blur, Oasis, Pulp, The Verve etc. Sarah Cracknell is a goddess!
@KENKENNIFF6 жыл бұрын
They found it hard to make it onto the Radio One playlist, possibly because it was drawn up by nonces
@ultimatewestyexperience43454 жыл бұрын
She certainly is!
@kyachdistent13014 жыл бұрын
@@KENKENNIFF When wasn't it?! Please, the best 80s acts had the same problem, among others!
@neodiscotheque4 жыл бұрын
I agree all of it.
@rojaktar35093 жыл бұрын
They were on a par with Pulp music wise. Just like Pulp they weren't exactly typical britpop but more indie disco
@shadowplay53634 жыл бұрын
For me Saint Etienne are one of the most baffling cases ever. I remember in 92, when they came up, they had great tunes with huge commercial appeal, glowing reviews, a charismatic and gorgeous singer, could be as camp as Pulp, as pop as the Pet Shop Boys, as exquisite as the Auteurs; released great solid albums with no weak songs, had a world of their own with a so enticing retro chic, but somehow they never got the success they deserved. Sure they were popular, but never really "made it". It's so unfair when you see some of the C-rate indie and Britpop derivatives that were charting really big at the time.
@vernpascal15313 жыл бұрын
True. I'm in the States and they are fantastic. As strong a body of anyone or group in the last 30 years. The bonus disc of Continental is unbelievably good.
@stupidjock3 жыл бұрын
@@vernpascal1531 do you know where I could listen to this Continental Deluxe version? Also can't find bsides to Good Humor anywhere:/
@kyachdistent13013 жыл бұрын
Please, the 80s was full of acts who barely got any of the success they deserved while over-charting and over-playing all the utter shit like slagdonna, cure, bon jovi, pill collins, minogue, houston, turner, madness, sting, paul weller and his bands, dexys midnight scummers, etc. Saint Etienne did well enough to chart some albums where they did and singles too. It's not true they don't have some weak songs-they do, like 'The Avenue' and I wouldn't buy their albums, but they've more right to be chart-bound then virtually everything back then. Only a few things like Dubstar and Ace Of Base and Tasmin Archer managed to matter, beyond 80s quality acts still working.
@waynedarronwalls64683 жыл бұрын
@@kyachdistent1301 Cure were NOT SHIT
@kyachdistent13013 жыл бұрын
@@waynedarronwalls6468 Then she must be singing about YOU as you're CLEARLY in a bad way if you proclaim the shitty, crappy, twatty, dumb-as-fuck, embarrassing none-entities of nonsense called The Cure (and boy would they and we ever need one!) were "NOT SHIT". I like the 'were' bit, though, makes it sound like they're FINALLY gone, though that was a few decades too late). Otherwise I may have answered you could be on to something: "they're WERE NOT SHIT, they ARE STILL SHIT". I got ears and eyes luv, and they're as shit as Spamhead Ballet, Bon Jovial and Wet Wet Wetter are. Oh and all the Beatles shitpop wannabees and boyband losers that followed. All the crappy girls too! But what this has all got to do with Saint Etienne I'll never know, but then again, it's all irrelevant is as irrelevant does as what the Cure have to do with music in the first place (like Madogga the vile) I'll never know, nor the rest of the world.
@drparnassus28674 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for Sarah Cracknell's minimalist dancing style, and for everything else.
@reggiedixon2Ай бұрын
If you look like her, no point in making an effort
@syteanric2 жыл бұрын
The 90s, I started them as a little boy and ended them a man. We had hopes, dreams, the world was genuinely a kinder more caring place. The millennium hadn't happened and the world was our oyster. No Internet, no mobile phones, no social media. The last decade of innocence, the music was incredible. My heart breaks when I think what kind of world my teenage daughter lives in now
@shannonllewellyn72613 ай бұрын
"the world was genuinely a kinder more caring place." Except it wasn't. It had the same petty cruelness it has now, yet was generally less understanding and tolerant of people's differences. It was a great time to be young, but you're viewing it through rose-tinted glasses.
@rossmum3 ай бұрын
Right, the difference was nobody had to think too hard about anything because it was all out of sight, out of mind, and "our side" could do whatever they liked on the world stage while pretending there'd never be any consequences. Now the consequences are arriving and people pine for the exact world that brought them about 🙃
@NeboqusecАй бұрын
the 90s had plenty of shitty stuff in it, but Saint Etienne was a bright spot along with the whole 60's/70's revival in british music in the 90s
@jansenblyth4320 Жыл бұрын
30 years old and it still sounds great and fresh, the video looks like it could have come from the 60s,79s,80s or 90s
@basedscotsman81428 ай бұрын
it did come from the 90s
@NeboqusecАй бұрын
from the 90s, revisiting the 60s
@marceldee116318 күн бұрын
WTF…I was aware of them from the start, obsessed between 1995-2000…but I’ve NEVER seen this video…someone explain to me why 🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@CalLatMan2 жыл бұрын
A beautiful song sung by a beautiful lady with a lovely voice.
@sonraysonic3146Ай бұрын
brilliant bit of pop and a nod to the great Joe Meek
@shaunpierce41744 жыл бұрын
One of my top 5 songs of all time, there's just something magical about the 60's vibe it gives off.
@paulbradley705 Жыл бұрын
So rare a band releases so many perfect songs all sounding different.
@bazzaah11 жыл бұрын
Fantastic song - much better than I remember it. Sarah Cracknell is so lovely!
@globalpilot765 жыл бұрын
Possibly, the world's most perfect pop song...
@kellymelrose85276 ай бұрын
one of a few
@97509393 ай бұрын
Yes, pure pop perfection, visually and musically.
@wisienkakochacie6 жыл бұрын
I reckon there was too much great music in the 90s and the brilliance of Saint Etienne escaped - in a way - public eye. Every single of theirs destroys the very best of pop/indie today. Such a wonderful band !
@kyachdistent13014 жыл бұрын
Too much great music???!!! A decade where c/rap exploded everywhere, while howling, caterwauling bags Pariah Carey and Celine Dion shrieked your ears off with their banal shit, while equally shit where the vile boyband muppet puppets Take Crap, New Kids, N-Sick, Westlife, Bollockzone, while tuneless embarrassing hags like Sheryl Crow thought they were doing something 'new' for women. Bjork was unfathomable, Alannis Morisette didn't start singing properly till her 'in' phase was over, and even Tori Amos makes no fucking sense with her weirdo fairytale thesaurus book of high-prenetious pontification, though she sings lovely. The poncy Suede, loathsome Beatles-knock off Oasis, embarrassing Blurb, disgusting Peter Andre, and then bimbo slagland girlband plague of Spice Girl/Eternal/All Saints bad crap, while the 'indie' ones like forgettable Sleeper/Elastica were no better, just disappared mercifully swifter. Rap continued to suck, soul lost itself in stripped down pop garbage, and equally badly, all the no hopers from the 80s like slagdonna the vile, minogue, estefan, turner, sting, weller, collins, houston, the jacksons carried on too, adding worse to an already unendurable mess. This following the wonderful 80s was too much to bear, but here and there a few decent things managed to breathe, if still not quite in the 80s league. But even all this paled slightly against the even more noxious offshoots once the decade turned, though they now simply added to the mix, as most of this 90s rubbish didn't go anywhere, just carried on-like plagues do. "Too much great music"?! If that wasn't so horrendously wrong and offensive, it'd be almost ha ha! Almost...
@bighill82723 жыл бұрын
@@kyachdistent1301 A very valid evaluation
@WillScarlet1991 Жыл бұрын
Late 90s sucked. Too much depressive shyte.
@HEEDRECORDS4 жыл бұрын
What a great track. We've all been there and there's nothing better than hearing someone telling you they're on your side.
@DaveAndBeth19782 ай бұрын
As a teenager, I always longed for a Sarah Cracknell-type who would tell me she was on my side, that's for sure! 😂 I know for a fact that I wasn't the only teenage boy in the 90s who had a crush on her - but she was a genuinely lovely person too
@jmc00753 жыл бұрын
I’m in a bad way as the reality of been 50 years old has just hit.
@RomyIgoeX4 жыл бұрын
A great mix of Joe Meek and 60's French 'Yeh Yeh'. Stupendous!!
@jkar19734 ай бұрын
wow! the clip is great!!!
@db2805Ай бұрын
I love her red black suit ❤️❤️🥰🥰
@1061andy7 жыл бұрын
just discovering saint Etienne - they're great -especially Sarah 😊😊😊
@tomlovejoy21412 жыл бұрын
Sounds (and looks) like a song that was a major hit in Japan.
@ucc930ml Жыл бұрын
Japan edition 'You're In A Bad Way' Collette, 1998 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2e5g6qtgLx9p5o BADなあなた~YOU'RE IN A BAD WAY~ <Wild Mix> Kei-Tee, 1994 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIWaqImgmrqsgdk You're In A Bad Way (Japanese Cover on Ukulele) - Owen AKA, 2020 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGW2fH5tjpJgf80 You're in a Bad Way [Recorded Live at the Train Bar in Tokyo, Japan] (Channel 15 News Give Me... Katfish, 2019 kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6bGqoKhoK-co8k
@grahamsmith5768 Жыл бұрын
Sarah is a gorgeous gorgeous babe, stunner. Beautiful voice, and a terrific record and video. ( did she get a brucey bonus. ).
@liliencalvel61517 жыл бұрын
Never seen this video. Anyways, one of many songs that make me feel sad when I hear them, because I see so much of the innocence that was in our hearts, still at that time. Almost hauntig sound.
@madgemuso73149 ай бұрын
So true. I remember that optimism surrounding the new wave of music at that time (before it was labelled by a journalist) coming out of London and the North. It was briefly a magical time to be young and obsessed with alternative music and fashion as most people I knew at the time were.
@Greatest197910 жыл бұрын
Another gem from the Glorious 1990s!
@Stratoszero10 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@serenechaosuk46826 жыл бұрын
The early 90s was THE best time to be alive in global history, but it all turned to shit overnight between 94 + 95; britpop, Spice Slags, Alcopops sold to Minors, Ladettes and general underclass yob orientation was the mainstream norm by then ! Hey, people thought there was something wrong with you in the late 90s if you were a teen boy who wasn't interested in being 'hard ' !
@liliencalvel61516 жыл бұрын
Serene Chaos UK Hey, I know what you mean. I can relate.
@serenechaosuk46826 жыл бұрын
glad someone else realizes the reality of the 90s ! I get pissed off when Seal, Cathy Dennis and acid house are associated with Spice Slags, Oasis, Friends, etc !
@jasongoodacre6 жыл бұрын
I think the 90's went downhill after 97. Different Class was the highlight for me.
@Wildzippy9 күн бұрын
I was 19 when this came out and it was cool as chuff. Still is mind.
@colinwilson4609 Жыл бұрын
Sampling Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar was just perfect.
@josharples212011 жыл бұрын
love this song, sarah cracknel is so gorgous
@dchatterley14 жыл бұрын
This video always puts me in a good mood. Also, that really skinny dancer chick's dancing is pretty amazing!!!!
@MarkRaynor-nw7sd11 ай бұрын
Sarah cracknell is the vocal goddess of all time ❤️❤️
@drstevie11 жыл бұрын
A real classic !! Love the Joe Meek organ sound !!
@jdribeiro3 жыл бұрын
I'm here for the lovely sarah HairDo's!!
@NeboqusecАй бұрын
I loved listening to this when I visited the UK years ago, on the bus watching all the scenery go by, Saint Etienne just really fit the whole trip, fond memories....
@MaxColudro7 жыл бұрын
I must have listened to this every morning for a year when it came out. ❤
@persona8311 жыл бұрын
You can't go wrong with Saint Etienne. :)
@arita200611 жыл бұрын
When life is treating me like shit I listen to this song and everything is suddenly alright. What a song!
@alistairparkes9735 жыл бұрын
Could be worse bud, we could have bison head managing our great club 😭
@rw87335 жыл бұрын
It's a belter of a tune.
@jmc00755 жыл бұрын
arita2006 is that after yah have watched the toon. Lol
@grahamtowler98974 жыл бұрын
The club's on the up same as the song.
@shaunpierce41744 жыл бұрын
This and Heartache Avenue by The Maisonettes are fantastic
@deathbysnusnu5152 жыл бұрын
Strange to think we are now as far from the 90s as they were from the 60s when this was recorded.
@Stratoszero6 ай бұрын
Scary thing, it’s starting to feel that way now. The past is becoming another country, and I want to back…
@idoliznuman88353 жыл бұрын
Great band st ettienne the way they mixed retro sounds and modern techno was genius
@Meanwhiler Жыл бұрын
Bloke at 1:18 is officially the best thing in this video - get him some thug life shades. Legend.
@jonahtitchmarsh49302 жыл бұрын
Brilliant band, and Bob Stanley is a great bloke.
@jmc00754 жыл бұрын
Sarah's voice is on point. Fantastic groovey little jig.
@terryperring1043 жыл бұрын
One of the most instant & brilliant 'hooks' to start to a song
@cantforgetyou13 жыл бұрын
A very good song and production. I love the sad keyboard sounds in the chorus.
@drstevie5 жыл бұрын
BRILLIANT....Joe Meek lives on .....
@Kelly14UK5 жыл бұрын
Yup. Joe Meek. Good driving bass in this, too.
@UltanMashup2 жыл бұрын
"Jeans are old And your hair's all wrong Don't you know that crew cuts and Trainers are out again?" Yup. Quality.
@paulhackney22565 ай бұрын
First time iv seen this video very retro cool song cool video
@Spicy_Pita2 жыл бұрын
I just turned on the tv and Billy Liar is on, the movie that was used in the beginning of this song. I’m sad the entire snippet of the movie isn’t part of this video…. But of course I had to hear this song now! ❤️
@Witheredgoogie4 жыл бұрын
A great nod and respect to 'Telstar' and the Scopitone video jukebox.
@kileyinns3420Ай бұрын
Betty boo your still amazing I love you so much back in the 80's and I still love you now ❤❤❤❤ xxx
@gaw675 жыл бұрын
She is gorgeous 😍
@bigbill74scots5 жыл бұрын
Still is, honestly 👍
@ThomasMueller444 жыл бұрын
When I think about it, what for a terrible trash today is in the charts....This here is a diamond
@DavidJones-mo9jc5 жыл бұрын
I'd totally forgotten the sampled dialogue from "Billy Liar" at the beginning of this. Brilliant.
@silverstevo5 жыл бұрын
A man could lose himself - looooooosseeee himself !
@tabascocat51023 жыл бұрын
I thought it was Richard Basehart from an old Colombo episode.
@Ineedyoulou2 жыл бұрын
1993 & I was 20 ... Excellent days
@hsianloon10 жыл бұрын
Rediscovered this song by chance, neighbour used to play it when I was about 7-8, by chance happened upon it while at a cafe ! Video clip is hilarious...
@terryperring1043 жыл бұрын
I wonder what these dancers are up to now? Especially the girl with the spatula and in blue @ 0:28-35. So watchable and pretty
@leebutton30324 жыл бұрын
Such an evocative song. And I’d never seen this video but it works perfectly. Truly truly one of the most perfect pop songs ever. They should have been so successful but I’m sort of glad they weren’t. Love the three of em.
@kocho42423 жыл бұрын
Great bass line. Other elements perfect, too :-)
@matthewsmith19314 жыл бұрын
Id marry that lady. She's an absolute darling. Bet she's intelligent too. What a combination.
@joeweston32522 жыл бұрын
l,d forgotten all about this song it's so good never hear it on the radio
@stevehotspur3 жыл бұрын
Possibly the most perfect pop record ever
@Zippy99413 жыл бұрын
Always LOVED this song. Used to play it over and over.... Haven't heard it in a long time. Found myself repeatedly bellowing "lose yourself in London" this morning in that funny voice for some weird reason. Completely out of nowhere. Decided to look for the video. Man, it's been a long time. Love the video. Was a big fan of Saint. Etienne in the 90s.
@johnrhodes70427 жыл бұрын
It's got the "Joe Meeks" sound Love it !!!
@chumbawumba49267 жыл бұрын
John Rhodes yup " Telstar" !
@derryk17 жыл бұрын
Very much Telstar which makes this even more of a retro inspired gem of a song and group.
@Maynardcomau2 жыл бұрын
This was one of the best pop tracks of the 90s from the UK.
@BohemianConspiracy13 жыл бұрын
waooowww the keyboards is in vintage Vangelis territory (for exemple... in the end of the song)... good ...good those guys knows really well how to mixes very different sources of influences... bravo
@Yakovlievich7 жыл бұрын
That big strange blue object in the background is what was once called a telephone, or phone for short. They were not actually that big, but did not fit in your pocket. All they did was facilitate spoken communication over a distance, and nothing more.
@annuvynarawn3925 жыл бұрын
yep, ye olde phone for ye olde people. smart phones now, see where this is going ?
@rw87335 жыл бұрын
I see. Thank you.
@johnmcgregor54154 жыл бұрын
@@annuvynarawn392 Smart phones don't make people smart....
@annuvynarawn3924 жыл бұрын
You qualify for free entry to Pedant of the century. Congratulations.
@PictureProductStudio4 жыл бұрын
The irony is that many people of age you assume would not know what it is are actually very much interested in old technology and could give you a run for your money in that aspect, actually explaining how it worked. But yeah, keep shaming non-existent "lost" generation, just as your parents did to yours. The circle keeps spinning.
@capturedlondon3 жыл бұрын
This song has particularly fond memories for me, but this is the first time I’ve seen the video 🙄 I’m 47
@rachelgregory8883 жыл бұрын
Me too - I'm 46. We old 😂
@JasmineSurrealVideos3 жыл бұрын
I'm 46 and I'm not old, 80+ is old, always thought that as a kid!
@rockfavorites25402 жыл бұрын
Great song made into an absolute pop classic when you watch this fabulous video.
@jamesjohnson56004 жыл бұрын
Anyone listening in the summer of lockdown 2020...classic
@Project-Masculinity3 жыл бұрын
Listening in Winter Lockdown 2021...
@alistairmcdougall96253 жыл бұрын
I agree, I think it was unfortunate that they were around when the quality of music was at its best😍
@EugeneL19563 жыл бұрын
Listening to this in March 2021. Never get fed up listening to this.
@marcelloviana52703 жыл бұрын
2021 and i'm still close in my home.
@bigfish74f6 ай бұрын
2024 here
@noserialkiller3596 Жыл бұрын
This is a great song! No Serial Killer.
@simonocallaghan51855 жыл бұрын
Seen two different videos to this... Think this one's the best!
@MrMahlerman10 жыл бұрын
I completely love every moment of this video.
@johnmacleod44813 жыл бұрын
I'm in a bad way because someone above me means to cause me harm
@myartisindie10 жыл бұрын
This song still gives me goose bumps!
@zaftra4 жыл бұрын
back in the early 2000 I spent about 30 days leaving the pc on ,morning noon and night to download this vid from a torrant.
@stevecowan1121 Жыл бұрын
this was gold when on a downer
@globalpilot762 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fekkin' brilliant
@roskes6 жыл бұрын
Simply perfect
@johndimare32045 жыл бұрын
Love this song, Miss the 90s
@MrMatthank4 жыл бұрын
I love this band. I am a rock and roll guy, but I just love Saint Etienne and I have almost all their CD's. Interesting, irrelevant fact about Sarah Cracknell, the singer: her dad was Stanley Kubrick's assistant director and right-hand man for many years. She was born during the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and they considered using her for the Star Child, but they could not make it work.
@jarrodfurminger53524 жыл бұрын
Wow great fact thanks she really would of been out of this world !!!
@drstevie5 жыл бұрын
Love these so much. Joe Meek sounds ahoy !!!!!!!!!!!!
@jmc00754 жыл бұрын
I’m in a bad way watching this hungover. But still it’s brilliant.
@blissteria14 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Great video quality too!
@shafiq1537 Жыл бұрын
verygood song
@americoutima70445 жыл бұрын
Superb. Perfect pop song.
@Uly_Sandoval_3036 жыл бұрын
Amazing Song, Great Band..
@jarrodfurminger53524 жыл бұрын
This song sums up how I feel some days but listening to it sure makes me feel better 😊
@chewbacca4me15 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video!
@philiphalpenny3783 Жыл бұрын
30 years old peeps!!
@boredweegie5533 жыл бұрын
Thanks to Sarah they started having hits..My fav ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
@davidcassels73122 жыл бұрын
A most fantastic group.
@dickiea57910 жыл бұрын
Retro heaven. Groovy baby ♥
@quinningtons5 жыл бұрын
Awesomely underrated
@owenpeterson7229 Жыл бұрын
Amazing song
@americouhima86295 жыл бұрын
Superb retrô style
@ivomuzik8 жыл бұрын
I can't remember where I've heard this song before... But I really like it!
@craiginnes89192 жыл бұрын
So underated 🇬🇧✌️🛵
@robinevans129310 ай бұрын
A great retro song❤
@TheTestingGrounds4 жыл бұрын
What’s not to like? This songs a smasher, just brilliant!
@baseballfan994 жыл бұрын
Like many I missed their music at the time as I was a little young to find it but I found Dubstar several years later and they very much remind me of them . Both great bands.