Original video located here. Accessed 30th July 2021
Song title: Heart Failed in the Back of a Taxi
Artist: Saint Etienne
Year: 2000
Why I like this song:
Some songs remind you of a particular time and place and this is one of them. In this case, it reminds me of my first year of University and numerous sunny mornings at the Sandy Bay campus
Song title: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Artist: Saint Etienne
Originally Done By: Neil Young
Year: 1991
Why I like this song:
Truly an astonishing cover: Granted the song is pretty good on it's own but here it's the dance treatment and it becomes something else entirely.
Somehow I get the impression that this was the moment that dance music announced itself: By reworking one of the best-selling and well-regarded artists of the seventies.
Sure the cover was clearly made out of admiration for that era but it's a strategy that paid off - and one that has been replicated many times since.