“1991: someone called it "the year that punk broke", but maybe the pun was intentional. "Pivotal", probably, but in a way that had as much to do with *Cold as Ice* as with *Nevermind*. And in London, Saint Etienne released their first self-penned single with Sarah Cracknell on it; it was called "Nothing Can Stop Us", and that was true. Bob Stanley has described what they were doing as "ridiculously”
