@Levi Dwomoh-Piesie

Saint Etienne broke new ground with their very first single. The UK trio's 1990 cover of Neil Young's “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” effortlessly wed '60s nostalgia to an acid-house-inspired groove, collapsing past and future into a perfect pop song—and setting the tone for subsequent fusions. “Nothing Can Stop Us” maps bossa nova onto rolling breakbeats, while “Like a Motorway” projects Italo-disco through a dream-pop lens. “Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)” shows the band at their most gloriously atmospheric, wrapping Sarah Cracknell's husky alto in swirling organs and dub delay.