best spice girls single?

[WasGeri]

Great thread

 

[kyser_soze]

'Colourful' is a very good word to describe that song.

 

[tastebud]

why? whaddayamean "why?"?!?!?

cos the spice girls were pop giants, they reigned supreme, they were the soundtrack to all our lives CL

ok fine!
i voted anyway.
if you vote, it really isn't a hard choice.
the rest of it was pony as far as i'm concerned.

 

[milesy]

a good pattern in the voting results that seems to be consistent with the career trajectories of "manufactured" pop bands....the first single is very popular - the next couple even more so - and then it's a slow steady decline in popularity until we get to the final couple of songs that no-one really remembers that well.

of course, take that are an exception to this rule. the last two singles did very well indeed - both reaching number 1 in the charts.

 

[DaveCinzano]

a good pattern in the voting results that seems to be consistent with the career trajectories of "manufactured" pop bands....the first single is very popular - the next couple even more so - and then it's a slow steady decline in popularity until we get to the final couple of songs that no-one really remembers that well.

of course, take that are an exception to this rule. the last two singles did very well indeed - both reaching number 1 in the charts.

oooo oooo - get the professor of pop

 

[Virtual Blue]

2 become 1 - reminds me of my favourite animal porn movie.

 

[kyser_soze]

a good pattern in the voting results that seems to be consistent with the career trajectories of "manufactured" pop bands....the first single is very popular - the next couple even more so - and then it's a slow steady decline in popularity until we get to the final couple of songs that no-one really remembers that well.

of course, take that are an exception to this rule. the last two singles did very well indeed - both reaching number 1 in the charts.

What's also interesting is that is that the Spice's - unlike many other factory pop groups - had a balance of upbeat and slow songs, as opposed to the boyband approach of Boyzone/Westlife who started with somethign dancey and then spent the rest of their careers singing ballads.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Was that called 'Say you'll be there'?

Well I never. Well that gets my vote anyhoo.

Mine too. 'Wanabee' was great fizzy pop music but I thought that was actually a really good song.

As for the rest of it, some quite good and not so good before a post-'Stop' gradual descent into vapid, irrelevent slurry was pretty much it IMO.

 

[kyser_soze]

I remember hearing it when it came out and thinking 'Spice Girls go Warren G gangster stylee'. Fucking great bassline and tune.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I remember hearing it when it came out and thinking 'Spice Girls go Warren G gangster stylee'. Fucking great bassline and tune.

Aye, definitely a great phat tune. Cool and chunky and, sadly (although encouragingly not here ), strangely forgotten by the history books in comparison with 'Wanabee', '" Become 1' or 'Who Do You Think You Are'...

 

[stavros]

I went for "Who Do You Think You Are?" but it was more or less level with "Wannabe". I can't remember a debut single that was such a huge cultural event as that, only Britney's "Baby... One More Time" comes close. They were absolutely phenomenal, everywhere in the media. All of us boys at my school had a favourite. Emma probably had the title as most popular before that night at the Brits when Geri soared into an unassailable lead. An earth-shatteringly huge group, of British bands I think probably only the Beatles and the Stones challenge them in terms of bigness at any one time.

Oh and they were indeed called just Spice, but even before that they were called Touch. That was before Emma joined replacing Michelle who's heart wasn't really in it. That was also before they were signed.

 

[spanglechick]

I voted for "Stop" - it even had a dance routine...

I used to be a teacher (a brief brain-fart), and once was persuaded - with some fellow teachers to lip synch to "Wannabee" at a charity fashion show at the school.

There I was, barely 23 years old and already a middle-aged walking (nay, dancing) embarrassment. The rot set in early...

I was Geri by the way...

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I went for "Who Do You Think You Are?" but it was more or less level with "Wannabe". I can't remember a debut single that was such a huge cultural event as that, only Britney's "Baby... One More Time" comes close.

Hey! What about 'Bingo Master's Break-out' by The Fall?

 

[Sorry.]

what's the one with the arsing about in the desert?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

what's the one with the arsing about in the desert?

'Say You'll Be There' would be that song again.

How can it be that, after nearly a decade of believing that this was the SG song no one remembered, there is such a renaissance all of a sudden?

 

[kyser_soze]

I was Geri by the way...

GRRRRRR...didja wear the Union Jack one piece?

Late surge for 'Say You'l be There' then...

 

[spanglechick]

GRRRRRR...didja wear the Union Jack one piece?

hate to dissapoint - it was pre Brits/Union flag interface...
FWIW I wore a hot pink satin babydoll nightie, but I was younger then...

 

[mangakitten]

I voted for say you'll be there.

But while I'm in favour of this thread and of pop music in general, the Spice Girls really never did it for me. They always looked so cheap and nasty and, imho, they just didn't have the tunes.

Now All Saints... they were a different matter!

Why don't I remember Stop? I keep just hearing Stop by Sam Brown... how did it go?

 

[milesy]

"stop right now/thank you very much/ i need somebody with the human touch/hey you/always on the run/gotta slow it down baby/gotta have some fun"

or something like that

very upbeat shimmy-shimmy-hair-shaking-go-go-dancer-sixties-stylee number.

 

[fractionMan]

I thought they went downhill after wannabe.

 

[mangakitten]

"stop right now/thank you very much/ i need somebody with the human touch/hey you/always on the run/gotta slow it down baby/gotta have some fun"

or something like that

very upbeat shimmy-shimmy-hair-shaking-go-go-dancer-sixties-stylee number.

Ahh, thank you... I remember now. I'm still sticking with my vote, though. ;-)

 

[kyser_soze]

mangakitten...totally agree with you about All Saints...they were kinda like the sexy older sister/cousin of the Spice Girls. Bit more sophisticated and not so shouty and 'in yer face' as the Spices...

Love yr boardname BTW...probably due to too many of Shippou-chans manga -cat-woman pix posted up here tho...

 

[mangakitten]

mangakitten...totally agree with you about All Saints...they were kinda like the sexy older sister/cousin of the Spice Girls. Bit more sophisticated and not so shouty and 'in yer face' as the Spices...

totally!!

Love yr boardname BTW...probably due to too many of Shippou-chans manga -cat-woman pix posted up here tho...

Why thank you.

 

[starfish]

2 become 1 was bought for me as a joke present. Actually did quite like the song just didnt want to admit it at the time.

 

[mangakitten]

2 become 1 was bought for me as a joke present. Actually did quite like the song just didnt want to admit it at the time.

That isn't a bad tune, but the 'be a little bit wiser baby, put it on... put it on' bit makes me cringe.

 

[milesy]

"2 become 1" was out at the time that i'd just split up from my bird and i was very emotionally distruaght....even though i love that song it took ages for me to listen to it without getting a bit teary - especially at christmas!!

but i'm more than over it now, you'll be glad to know

 

[kyser_soze]

That isn't a bad tune, but the 'be a little bit wiser baby, put it on... put it on' bit makes me cringe.

Yeah, but come on, look at the main audience it was aimed at? Sexual health messages in kids songs?

Milesy - I had the same thing with Sade's Paradise album which was advertised constantly during the first 6 weeks after me and x split. That and that poxy Toploader tune from the Sainsbury ad...'We get it on most every night...'

Yeah, really wanted to hear that every fucking commercial break didn't I? Cunts.

 

[mangakitten]

Yeah, but come on, look at the main audience it was aimed at? Sexual health messages in kids songs?

Are you saying that's a good thing or a bad thing?

 

[kyser_soze]

A good thing, and it tied in with the whole 'girl power' thing as well - basically the song is saying to teenage girls who are giving it up that it's a positive and good thing to ask their partner to wear a condom and that it's an intelligent thing to do. Postive and empowering message.

 

[PacificOcean]

They fucked up by going all r'n'b with Holler. They were a pop group and got above their station.