Artist	Song
Sarah Cracknell	Sea Shells
from Kelly's Locker (2000)
Saint Etienne	Stormtrooper In Drag
from Random (1997)

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With its name lifted from a French football club whose glory days belong to the '70s, Saint Etienne was a conceptual project dreamed up by a couple of music writers who successfully made the leap from pop criticism to pop creation. Starting out in the post-rave years of the early '90s, the band would help lay down the groundwork for much of Britpop, combining studied grooviness with musical smarts on cleverly constructed singles like "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (a gorgeous reworking of the Neil Young original) and "You're in a Bad Way", which is a dream-like distillation of northern soul and insouciant, hipsterish pop.

Saint Etienne perfects its formula, in Next Steps.

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