Saint Etienne/Tim Burgess - I was born on Xmas Day
If you were a red-blooded heterosexual into your indie back in the early 1990s then chances are you lusted after one of the two vocalists involved here, Saint Etienne's delectable Sarah Cracknell and the Charlatans' floppy-fringed frontman Tim Burgess. So it came as an added bonus when both of them decided to team up for this oft-overlooked festive frolic from Xmas 1993. Saint Etienne were in the middle of a faultless run of kitsch-pop hit singles ('You're in a bad way', 'Only love can break your heart', 'Who do you think you are?' etc) whilst the Charlies were in a bit of a lull that they'd emerge from a couple of years later with their 1995 eponymous LP (featuring 'Just when you're thinking things over', 'Feelin' Holy' et al). This tune is very much in the style of the former than the latter, Sarah maintaining the retro sex kitten rush whilst Tim potters around in the background and it's more likely to be fondly remembered by St Etienne's long term fans than by the raucous lager monkeys that turn out for Charlatans shows these days. Not a bad little number though and one that deserves more airtime than it gets, if only as a reminder of how sexy Sarah Cracknell looks in that mini dress. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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