Continental (album)
Continental is an album by the British band Saint Etienne which had original release only in Japan.
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| Released | 21 June 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1995–1997 | |||
| Genre | Synthpop, house, trip hop | |||
| Length | 52:43 | |||
| Label | L'appareil-Photo - COCY-80608 Heavenly - HVNLP70 | |||
| Producer | Saint Etienne, Ian Catt | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10) link |
| Jam Showbiz |  |
It is a compilation that includes previously released material such as the UK hit "He's on the Phone" as well as curios like their cover of the Paul Gardiner/Gary Numan song "Stormtrooper in Drag". Many of the tracks were recorded during the 'wilderness' years of 1996/97 when the band members worked on their separate projects. The remix versions on this album had all appeared on Casino Classics.
As part of the 2009 Saint Etienne back catalogue reissue program, the album has had a UK release for the first time. It also has a Heavenly catalogue number - HVNLP70. The deluxe edition includes four previously unreleased tracks.
Track listing
1997 release
All tracks are written by Stanley and Wiggs; except where indicated.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Shad Thames" | 3:33 | |
| 2. | "Burnt Out Car (Balearico Mix)" | 4:18 | |
| 3. | "Sometimes in Winter" | Stanley, Wiggs, Cracknell | 4:11 |
| 4. | "Winter Melody" (longer version of "Sometimes in Winter (Psychonauts Mix)" from Casino Classics) | Stanley, Wiggs, Cracknell | 4:44 |
| 5. | "Public Information Film" | 1:02 | |
| 6. | "The Process" | 3:09 | |
| 7. | "He's on the Phone" (Radio Edit) (Featuring Etienne Daho) | Cracknell, Daho, Stanley, Wiggs | 4:07 |
| 8. | "Stormtrooper in Drag" (edited version) | Gary Numan | 5:27 |
| 9. | "Star" | Cracknell, Catt | 4:02 |
| 10. | "Down by the Sea" | 3:13 | |
| 11. | "The Sea" (edited version of "The Sea (PFM Mix)" from Casino Classics) | 7:16 | |
| 12. | "Lonesome" | Cracknell, Catt | 3:25 |
| 13. | "Angel (Broadcast Mix)" | 4:16 |
2009 release
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Accident" | Cracknell, Daho, Stanley, Wiggs | 4:30 |
| 2. | "Is It True" | Marc Bolan | 2:52 |
| 3. | "Where Did Our Love Go (Demo)" | Stanley, Wiggs, Cracknell | 2:49 |
| 4. | "Groveley Road" | Catt, Cracknell | 3:40 |
| 5. | "How I Learned to Love the Bomb" | Treacy | 3:04 |
| 6. | "Postal Interlude" | 1:25 | |
| 7. | "Can't Stop Now" | Waterfield, Cracknell | 4:34 |
| 8. | "Under Her Spell" | Waterfield, Cracknell | 4:20 |
| 9. | "Saturday" | 3:20 | |
| 10. | "Suburban Autumn Lieutenant" | Daho, Stanley, Wiggs | 4:04 |
| 11. | "We Could Have It All (Demo)" | Stanley, Wiggs, Cracknell | 2:48 |
| 12. | "Lover Plays the Bass" | 4:16 | |
| 13. | "Home (Demo)" | Batson, Cracknell, Male | 4:47 |
| 14. | "Burnt Out Car (X Files Version)" | 2:52 | |
| Total length: | 49:19 | ||
Personnel
The liner notes list the album's personnel as follows:
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gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972
gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.
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