Smash the System-Singles & More

smash the system-singles & more

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
2. Kiss and Make Up
3. Nothing Can Stop Us
4. Spring
5. Carnt Sleep
6. Filthy
7. Join Our Club
8. People Get Real
9. Paper
10. Avenue
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Disc: 2
1. Like a Motorway
2. Cool Kids of Death
3. Process
4. He's on the Phone
5. Angel
6. Burnt Out Car
7. Shad Thames
8. Wood Cabin
9. Sylvie
10. Lose That Girl
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Smash the System-Singles & More
Smash the System: Singles and More
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • One of the best collections around
  • I Love This Band!!
  • Great SE collection for beginners, good addition for fans
  • a purchase to ponder
  • Complete - from cover to cover
 Smash the System: Singles and More
Saint Etienne
Manufacturer: Musicrama
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005NB0I
Release Date: 2001-09-24

Tracks:

  1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  2. Kiss and Make Up
  3. Nothing Can Stop Us
  4. Spring
  5. Carnt Sleep
  6. Filthy
  7. Join Our Club
  8. People Get Real
  9. Paper
  10. Avenue
  11. Mario's Cafe
  12. You're in a Bad Way
  13. Archway People
  14. Who Do You Think You Are
  15. Hobart Paving
  16. Pale Movie
  17. Hug My Soul

Tracks:

  1. Like a Motorway
  2. Cool Kids of Death
  3. Process
  4. He's on the Phone
  5. Angel
  6. Burnt Out Car
  7. Shad Thames
  8. Wood Cabin
  9. Sylvie
  10. Lose That Girl
  11. Bad Photographer
  12. Goodnight Jack
  13. Madeleine
  14. 4.35 in the Morning
  15. Jack Lemmon
  16. Saturday
  17. 52 Pilot

Album Description

Import only compilation featuring most of their official Heavenly era singles as well as B-sides, favorite album tracks & alternative or slightly remixed versions of older songs. 34 tracks including 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart', 'Kiss And Make Up', 'People Get Real', 'Pale Movie', 'Like A Motorway', 'Burnt out Car', 'Jack Lemmon' and more. Sony.

Album Details

2001 Issued Updated Compilation Replacing the Old "Too Young to Die" Anthology. Every Track Has Been Digitally Remastered to Glorious Effect. Includes Many Alternate Versions of Tracks (Like "Kiss and Make Up", that Now features Vocals by Sarah Cracknell), Single B's and Tracks from the Obscure Japanese Only Albums.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the best collections around.......2007-03-29

This is one of the rare occasions when an album of greatest hits is so complete, not only gathering all the great songs for the loyal fans, but also giving to new potential fans the chance to know the band in all their variety and success.

Sarah Cracknell's voice is dreamy, the 70s-like tunes nostalgic, almost cinematic, the music covering an area from dream pop to independent. This collection consists of two discs yet you can't get enough of it. Their biggest hits are all here, including 'You're in a bad way', 'Only love can break your heart', 'Pale Movie', 'Who do you think you are', 'Hobarts Pavement', 'He's on the phone' and many others. The music strongly resembles a lot of Cafe del Mar collections only it's better.

If you miss that sweet era when pop was not 'pop' but a pop-ular genre of music for adults, go ahead and buy this album. Saint Etienne are unique, and frankly, there is no competition around.

5 out of 5 stars I Love This Band!!.......2006-05-10

I've been a fan of Saint Etienne since the age of 14 - over 12 years now. Sarah Cracknell was my first (and only) teenage crush after seeing her perform on Top of the Pops around Christmas time 1993. Not only did I find her amazingly attractive, she also had a great voice. That was the first time I had heard of the band and I have collected a lot of their stuff since then.

This compilation is missing a few great tunes which have been replaced with other great tunes. Listening to Sarah singing Hobart Paving and Mario's cafe in her unique way is a treat. Hers is the only voice in pop that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Along with Pulp and the Arctic Monkeys, Saint Etienne have encapsulated English life in a way that few others have managed.

Bob and Pete's clever production is superbly balanced by Sarah's gorgeous vocals. Top-quality music always stands the test of time and Saint Etienne's longevity is testament to this. This album covers their music up to 1999 and they have continued to craft superb music since then.



5 out of 5 stars Great SE collection for beginners, good addition for fans.......2005-09-06

_Smash the System_ is great collection of earlier (pre-_Sound of Water_ as far as I can tell) Saint Etienne. It's less of an attempt at a definitive collection, ala the more recent anthology _Travel Edition_, and more of a nicely eclectic sampling of the group's prodigious output. If you've heard some SE that you have, of course, loved and want to get a sense of their wider catalog, this a good place to start. The two disks also serve as great party disks or fodder for brilliant pop mixes in their own right. It also shows that SE are no one consistant thing/genre except great pop music. Sometimes they are more dancey, sometimes more trip-hop, at others neo-classical Phil Spectorish pop. It's the sort of group that can make you think of Massive Attack, Sterolab, B.A.D., and Papas Fritas at the same time, while still being their own wonderfully incomparable thing.
It's hard to judge the title phrase "singles and more" as, at least according to the liner notes, all of the songs were previously albumn tracks, though at least some of these albumns were Japan only releases and almost all of them are a challenge to find in the U.S. (I suspect there's some story here about SE having had bad early experiences with U.S. distributors. _So Tough_ came out on WB but more recent releases have been on Subpop. Maybe it has something to do with that shampoo comercial.) So far as I can tell, many of the singles are not appreciably different from the albumn tracks that I already had from _So Tough_ and _Good Humour_. Still, these are fabulous songs. I had lost my copy of _Fox Base Alpha_ and so was greatful to have those great indie-pop classics back, and my girlfriend especially liked the section of dance-mix tracks that we hadn't heard before.
SE fans (at least those who are willing to shell out for the imports) may not be especially well served by this collection, as they will have many of the tracks already. Still, it's not a bad price for a two-disk set, especially as an import. So, if you want to widen your exposure to SE or introduce someone else to them, this is a fine way to do it.

4 out of 5 stars a purchase to ponder.......2004-12-21

it seems as if i've made it my mission in life to accumulate as much saint etienne stuff as i can so i recently purchased this album. there's only one bad thing about compilation albums and it's that they seem to miss the flow that you'd get on a regularly produced project. this holds true for the first disc even though it contains a few of my favs from the saints; with that said, it is a great introduction to their sound though. the second disc however, is a gem seeing as how it has that flow that the first one misses, a rarity indeed... any saint fan would love it i think.

5 out of 5 stars Complete - from cover to cover.......2004-02-26

If you are a Saint Etienne fan, than this is for you. This 2 disc set is so well put together. I love the packaging as well - it's very complete, including all of their best tracks. It's not very easy to find in local music stores it seems, so here would be the place to order it.
Smash the System: Singles 1990-99
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    Saint Etienne
    Manufacturer: Sbme Import
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0009FHLG2
    Release Date: 2005-06-06

    Tracks:

    1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
    2. Kiss and Make Up
    3. Nothing Can Stop Us
    4. Join Our Club
    5. People Get Real
    6. Avenue [Radio Edit]
    7. You're in a Bad Way
    8. Who Do You Think You Are
    9. Hobart Paving
    10. Pale Movie
    11. Like a Motorway
    12. Hug My Soul
    13. He's on the Phone
    14. Burnt Out Car
    15. Sylvie
    16. Bad Photographer
    Smash the System: Singles and More
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      		Smash the System: Singles and More
      Saint Etienne
      Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      BritpopBritpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
      Electronic PopElectronic Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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      Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B0000DEO99
      Release Date: 2001-11-01

      Tracks:

      1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
      2. Kiss and Make Up
      3. Nothing Can Stop Us
      4. Spring
      5. Carnt Sleep
      6. Filthy
      7. Join Our Club
      8. People Get Real
      9. Paper
      10. Avenue
      11. Mario's Cafe
      12. You're in a Bad Way
      13. Archway People
      14. Who Do You Think You Are
      15. Hobart Paving
      16. Pale Movie
      17. Hug My Soul

      Tracks:

      1. Like a Motorway
      2. Cool Kids of Death
      3. Process
      4. He's on the Phone
      5. Angel
      6. Burnt Out Car
      7. Shad Thames
      8. Wood Cabin
      9. Sylvie
      10. Lose That Girl
      11. Bad Photographer
      12. Goodnight Jack
      13. Madeleine
      14. 4.35 in the Morning
      15. Jack Lemmon
      16. Saturday
      17. 52 Pilot

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