Completing this unintentional wee run of releases with fine female female performances is a #28 hit for Saint Etienne from February 1994.
Pale Movie very much reminds me of the 80s hit Domino Dancing by Pet Shop Boys as it is a mix of a great dance tune with some traditional sounding Spanish guitars. It was a fairly brave move by the band to go down this road - all of the songs on Tiger Bay, the LP that was released a few months later, was described by Bob Stanley as an album of modern folk songs done in twentieth century styles like techno and dubmix. It didn't go down all that well at the time with the singles that were lifted from it not doing nearly as well as previous efforts and dance fans being left a bit bemused by it all.
If only the hardcore element had bought the 12" version of the single for they would have found all sorts of different styles to meet their every whim, including a hugely extended 10 minutes plus version:-
mp3 : Saint Etienne - Pale Movie
mp3 : Saint Etienne - Pale Movie (stentorian dub)
mp3 : Saint Etienne - Pale Movie (secret knowledge trouser assassin mix)
mp3 : Saint Etienne - Pale Movie (lemonentry mix)
I've really no idea where the names for these mixes come from.......might have seemed a great idea at the time but they now just look daft.
Happy Listening.
3 comments:
You beauty! That Lemonentry mix is awesome and my 12" is god-knows-where in the loft.
Cheers,
Stephen.
indie music blog
The mix names aren't that daft. "Stentorian dub" is a dub by Mark Stent, and presumably Rick Smith fell back on the Lemon Interrupt theme because his mix is so unlike the usual Underworld style. "Trouser assassin" is pretty stupid though, I'll grant you that.
However, the Secret Knowledge is the best mix.
ctel
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