St. Germain -- where's the love?

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just trawling through some coworkers iTunes and came across St. Germain. Remember that dude? "I wantchu to get togetha/get yo hannnnnnndz togetha"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

St. Germain's super-fantastique live, but the discs...maybe a little too polite? Coffee table-esque?

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Todd Edwards did a couple sublime remixes.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Joel - awesome
Matt - not so much
St. Germain - just kinda eh

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe a little too polite? Coffee table-esque?

Great background music

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only heard the one that samples Dave Brubeck, which is great as "Take Five" is my favorite overplayed now-kinda-cheesy jazz song.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i love 'Rose Rouge' and Todd's remix of 'Alabama Blues' - found the 'Boulevard' album a bit boring and over-rated in the end. but is there anything else worth seeking?

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

when matt st. germain says "put 'em on the glass" he means like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20876321@N00/7746667/in/photostream/

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Great background music

Exactly. And to me the appreciation but not quite love of St. Germain. His/their music just isn't something you get all that amped about.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Great background music

Exactly. And to me explains the appreciation but not quite love of St. Germain. His/their music just isn't something you get all that amped about.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

But where would we be without great background music?

St Germain are fabulously ignorable when you need them to be but equally are majestically entrancing when the conversation dulls a little.

Love 'em.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I rather agree, nick. I wasn't being sarcastic.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

poortheatre once has an "italian" roommate who liked only st. germain and the crouching tiger, hidden dragon soundtrack. we miss him dearly.

― rockaction (rockaction), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't intend too polite/coffee table-esque/great background music as a slight, either. But precisely b/c St. Germain's music's forte is as background -- my quote-unquote love's there, it's just latent.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

so, this guy in 2015?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 7 August 2015 20:11 (ten years ago)

I used to love that Tourist album, haven't heard anything since.

― xelab, Friday, 7 August 2015 20:29 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/30/444166912/first-listen-st-germain-st-germain/

Last two songs are blissful.

― Pyschocandles, Sunday, 4 October 2015 04:35 (ten years ago)

Garn-St. Germain has had a troubled history. At this point, though, the parts of the law that have not been superseded by subsequent legislation are mostly beneficial and sensible, so I guess it's safe to give it some love.

― SlimAndSlam, Sunday, 4 October 2015 19:07 (ten years ago)

(Wait - that should have been posted to I Love the US Code. Carry on.)

― SlimAndSlam, Sunday, 4 October 2015 19:07 (ten years ago)

wow this is unexpected. i never thought he'd return at all. :)

― Ludo, Sunday, 4 October 2015 19:34 (ten years ago)

ten years pass...

Heard “Rose Rouge” for the first
time in maybe 15 years at dinner tonight— had forgotten how good it is.

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Sunday, 5 October 2025 02:48 (eight months ago)

inevitably classic 'working in a bookstore in the year 2000 and this was on the sound system'

― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 October 2025 02:56 (eight months ago)

I never heard "Sure Thing" until a few years ago. Love that one too.

― the way out of (Eazy), Sunday, 5 October 2025 03:18 (eight months ago)

I like this cover of "Rose Rouge" by Jorja Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH6RyVirWcg

― jaymc, Sunday, 5 October 2025 03:42 (eight months ago)

Jorja’s cover is such an ILM track for me, in the sense of being loved on ILM (including by me of course) but to all intents and purposes non-existent outside of our precious bubble.

― Tim F, Sunday, 5 October 2025 06:25 (eight months ago)

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