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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
"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.
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 🙃
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 !
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...
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
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 ' !
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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
Japan edition 'You're In A Bad Way' Collette, 1998 ua-cam.com/video/Y6VRwwKWJq8/v-deo.html BADなあなた～YOU'RE IN A BAD WAY～ ＜Wild Mix＞ Kei-Tee, 1994 ua-cam.com/video/zT7wVjeUyKw/v-deo.html You're In A Bad Way (Japanese Cover on Ukulele) - Owen AKA, 2020 ua-cam.com/video/F4SKK7Y--Ik/v-deo.html You're in a Bad Way [Recorded Live at the Train Bar in Tokyo, Japan] (Channel 15 News Give Me... Katfish, 2019 ua-cam.com/video/5ucyOkkJimg/v-deo.html
Wow, this takes me right back! I loved this song from St Etienne when I first heard it playing on the radio way back in 1993, around the time it first came out as a single in the shops (and the charts), and listening to it now, l STILL love it! Love the 1960's-themed video too!
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...
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.
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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!
They found it hard to make it onto the Radio One playlist, possibly because it was drawn up by nonces
She certainly is!
@@KENKENNIFF When wasn't it?! Please, the best 80s acts had the same problem, among others!
I agree all of it.
They were on a par with Pulp music wise. Just like Pulp they weren't exactly typical britpop but more indie disco
Thumbs up for Sarah Cracknell's minimalist dancing style, and for everything else.
If you look like her, no point in making an effort
@@reggiedixon2 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
I never thought of it like that, but now that you mention it ... 👌👍
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
it did come from the 90s
from the 90s, revisiting the 60s
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.
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.
@@vernpascal1531 do you know where I could listen to this Continental Deluxe version? Also can't find bsides to Good Humor anywhere:/
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.
@@kyachdistent1301 Cure were NOT SHIT
@@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.
One of my top 5 songs of all time, there's just something magical about the 60's vibe it gives off.
Love this track. It definately has a Pulp-ish feel. They were around at the same time and I bet they loved it too.
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
"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.
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 🙃
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
A beautiful song sung by a beautiful lady with a lovely voice.
Fantastic song - much better than I remember it. Sarah Cracknell is so lovely!
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 !
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...
@@kyachdistent1301 A very valid evaluation
Late 90s sucked. Too much depressive shyte.
I completely love every moment of this video.
I'm in a bad way because someone above me means to cause me harm
So rare a band releases so many perfect songs all sounding different.
Always loved this from st Etienne
Possibly, the world's most perfect pop song...
one of a few
Yes, pure pop perfection, visually and musically.
This video always puts me in a good mood. Also, that really skinny dancer chick's dancing is pretty amazing!!!!
What a great track. We've all been there and there's nothing better than hearing someone telling you they're on your side.
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
A real classic !! Love the Joe Meek organ sound !!
A great mix of Joe Meek and 60's French 'Yeh Yeh'. Stupendous!!
Another gem from the Glorious 1990s!
Indeed
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 ' !
Serene Chaos UK Hey, I know what you mean. I can relate.
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 !
I think the 90's went downhill after 97. Different Class was the highlight for me.
I must have listened to this every morning for a year when it came out. ❤
When life is treating me like shit I listen to this song and everything is suddenly alright.
What a song!
Could be worse bud, we could have bison head managing our great club 😭
It's a belter of a tune.
arita2006 is that after yah have watched the toon. Lol
The club's on the up same as the song.
This and Heartache Avenue by The Maisonettes are fantastic
Saw them in early 90s in Dublin, I was up front drooling over Sarah Cracknell, she was a goddess and an amazing performer! Happy memories.
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.
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.
just discovering saint Etienne - they're great -especially Sarah 😊😊😊
They can be ANY band I want them to be at any time.
One of the most instant & brilliant 'hooks' to start to a song
Sarah cracknell is the vocal goddess of all time ❤️❤️
Perfect pop and the most underrated band in history
@Ang543210 absolutely right
You can't go wrong with Saint Etienne. :)
This was one of the best pop tracks of the 90s from the UK.
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.
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.
I’m in a bad way as the reality of been 50 years old has just hit.
A very good song and production. I love the sad keyboard sounds in the chorus.
Sarah's voice is on point. Fantastic groovey little jig.
Great band st ettienne the way they mixed retro sounds and modern techno was genius
Possibly the most perfect pop record ever
wow! the clip is great!!!
This song still gives me goose bumps!
love this song, sarah cracknel is so gorgous
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....
Sounds (and looks) like a song that was a major hit in Japan.
Japan edition
'You're In A Bad Way' Collette, 1998 ua-cam.com/video/Y6VRwwKWJq8/v-deo.html
BADなあなた～YOU'RE IN A BAD WAY～ ＜Wild Mix＞ Kei-Tee, 1994 ua-cam.com/video/zT7wVjeUyKw/v-deo.html
You're In A Bad Way (Japanese Cover on Ukulele) - Owen AKA, 2020 ua-cam.com/video/F4SKK7Y--Ik/v-deo.html
You're in a Bad Way [Recorded Live at the Train Bar in Tokyo, Japan] (Channel 15 News Give Me... Katfish, 2019 ua-cam.com/video/5ucyOkkJimg/v-deo.html
Sarah Cracknell is one of the loveliest Pop Stars I've ever met - and her mother Julie was a great laugh as well!
When I think about it, what for a terrible trash today is in the charts....This here is a diamond
Great song made into an absolute pop classic when you watch this fabulous video.
She is gorgeous 😍
Still is, honestly 👍
Wow, this takes me right back! I loved this song from St Etienne when I first heard it playing on the radio way back in 1993, around the time it first came out as a single in the shops (and the charts), and listening to it now, l STILL love it! Love the 1960's-themed video too!
I'd totally forgotten the sampled dialogue from "Billy Liar" at the beginning of this. Brilliant.
A man could lose himself - looooooosseeee himself !
I thought it was Richard Basehart from an old Colombo episode.
Absolutely fekkin' brilliant
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 🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They made two videos for it-the other one was the one MTV usually played. ua-cam.com/video/4szHXagmryo/v-deo.html
@@daveborder7751 Cheers, man 🙌🏻😁👍🏻!
This is a great song! No Serial Killer.
1993 & I was 20 ... Excellent days
Seen two different videos to this... Think this one's the best!
What a brilliant track - video is perfect for the tune too.
BEAUTIFULL!!!
Aaaah The Sixties Always On My Mind
Saint Etienne Always On My Heart
Ahh thank you ❤ a song that I forgot 🤪 and now it’s back again ❤️😍
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...
brilliant bit of pop and a nod to the great Joe Meek
Retro heaven.
Groovy baby ♥
BRILLIANT....Joe Meek lives on .....
Yup. Joe Meek. Good driving bass in this, too.
Absolutely perfect in every way! 👍🏻❤️🎶🤗
This song sums up how I feel some days but listening to it sure makes me feel better 😊
Superb. Perfect pop song.
Love this song, Miss the 90s
It's got the "Joe Meeks" sound
Love it !!!
John Rhodes yup " Telstar" !
Very much Telstar which makes this even more of a retro inspired gem of a song and group.
Pure perfection 💖
Simply perfect
What’s not to like? This songs a smasher, just brilliant!
Fantastic video!
Brilliant band, and Bob Stanley is a great bloke.
First time iv seen this video very retro
cool song cool video
Amazing video!!! I ♥ Saint Etienne
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.
Wow great fact thanks she really would of been out of this world !!!
Gorgeous x
Strange to think we are now as far from the 90s as they were from the 60s when this was recorded.
Scary thing, it’s starting to feel that way now. The past is becoming another country, and I want to back…
Anyone listening in the summer of lockdown 2020...classic
Listening in Winter Lockdown 2021...
I agree, I think it was unfortunate that they were around when the quality of music was at its best😍
Listening to this in March 2021. Never get fed up listening to this.
2021 and i'm still close in my home.
2024 here
Underestimated group
A most fantastic group.
Sarah is a gorgeous gorgeous babe, stunner. Beautiful voice, and a terrific record and video. ( did she get a brucey bonus. ).
I'm here for the lovely sarah HairDo's!!
Great bass line. Other elements perfect, too :-)
l,d forgotten all about this song it's so good never hear it on the radio
Awesomely underrated
Amazing. Great video quality too!
Amazing Song, Great Band..
This song is pure awesomeness
Love these so much. Joe Meek sounds ahoy !!!!!!!!!!!!
This album and FBA are pure genius!
Love this song and video so much ! Saint Etienne are GREAT !
Love this :) ahhhh the memories!
A great retro song❤
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
Betty boo your still amazing I love you so much back in the 80's and I still love you now ❤❤❤❤ xxx
A great nod and respect to 'Telstar' and the Scopitone video jukebox.
I’m in a bad way watching this hungover. But still it’s brilliant.
Brilliant band still making great music.
perfection
Just magnificent. ☺
So GOOD !!
Id marry that lady. She's an absolute darling. Bet she's intelligent too. What a combination.