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Cesar Inca 
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 Topic: Your fave Spice Girls' UK no.1 single
Posted: December 17 2007 at 22:43 |
I'm not kidding, I like the Spice Girls' catalogue, and particularly love their first 2 albums. Guilty pleasure albums that contain 2 or 3 real pop gems. IMHO, 'Stop' is their best single ever and it should have topped the UK rankings (and any other ranking anywhere). But since it cannot be part of this special poll, my vote goes for 'Too Much'.
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 22:46 |
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It has to be Say You'll Be There. Underrated gem, just like the movie Spice World (loved both when I was 8)
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 22:48 |
Other than the one making David Beckham's millions, I've got no clue. It's a shame I don't remember because I actually have heard most of their music. I remember it being a'ight 
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 22:49 |
 moreitsythanyou wrote:
It has to be Say You'll Be There. Underrated gem, just like the movie Spice World (loved both when I was 8) |
I was in my 20s, so I guess I was more hot-blooded than you were back then, he he he... Anyway, 'Say You'll Be There' is easily the most accomplished song in their debut album, together with their eerie R'n'B ballad 'Naked'. When performed live, the instrumentalists enhanced the eerie thing almost reminiscing about the techno-pop side of 80s British new wave.
Oh, and the video... that's where I fell in love with them, especially Geri.
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:02 |
Confession time continues. I bought both "Spice" and "Spice World" albums after I first saw the 'Stop' videoclip. That Motown sound was so well crafted that I couldn't avoid to acknowledge to myself that I was, indeed, a Spice Girls fan.
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:03 |
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Okay, please stop, my hero is confessing an unforgivable crime. I LOOKED UP TO YOU MAN!
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:03 |
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So was I. I had four out of the five dolls (shared with sister).
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:12 |
Okay I never had the dolls
But I've committed worse musical crimes than being a casual Spice Girls fan, so I'm not embarrassed.
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:13 |
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Yeah it was a youthful fling in the realm of pop. Could've been a helluva lot worse.
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Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:13 |
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Trust me, it was!
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 00:34 |
schizoid_man77 wrote:
Okay, please stop, my hero is confessing an unforgivable crime. I LOOKED UP TO YOU MAN! |
I'm sorry to disappoint you this way, man. But I just couldn't resist that delightful Motown melody trated with a polished attitude not unlike Culture Club (at their best) and SwingOut Sister, and I couldn't resist the countryside frivolous joy shown on the video-clip. The seed had been planted one year earlier and it might as well have died before it was watered... but the 'Stop' video tore down all defence walls that were still standing. I was a Spice Girls fan and I couldn't help it.
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 00:34 |
Zappa88 wrote:
Okay I never had the dolls
But I've committed worse musical crimes than being a casual Spice Girls fan, so I'm not embarrassed. |
So, what do you vote for?
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 03:28 |
I see you in a whole new light Cesar! 
(Makes my John Denver appreciation positively credible)
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 03:36 |
What I love about ProgArchives is that you can post something like this and people don't flame you. Imagine posting this on a death metal forum.
The Spice Girls movie was quite good. |
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 03:38 |
I only remember Wannabe and Viva Forever, and I vote for the latter 
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 05:34 |
2 Become 1 was my favourite. I think I still have their first album. 
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 05:56 |
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What?
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 07:22 |
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That was bizarre! A slang for 'having sex' was a vital part of the lyrics to a song that was an instant classic among female infants everywhere. Let's not forget the 'get it on' and 'put it on' (the condom) in '2 Become 1'.
A similar phenomenon occurred with Cindy Lauper's 'She Bop'. It all dates back to Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti' (an ode to free gay sex) and 'Lucille' (who was a transexual, not an actual woman) - he started it all in teh art of inserting questionable messages in pop music culture.
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 07:25 |
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2 Become 1 was my favourite. I think I still have their first album. |
You are from the land of Hoyre-Kone and Discordia. let me tell you that the Spice Girls' sophomore effort "Spice World" is their best, more varied, with a majorp resence of effective vocal harmonies and an enhanced protagonism of Melanie C, the one with the most peculiar and powerful singing. There is also more confidence in Geri's deliveries - she was the least accomplished singer of the five, although her stamina and pop-persona definitely helped the band to sound attractive on record and appealing on stage.
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Posted: December 18 2007 at 07:36 |
Ahhh reminds me of middle school.... When my best friend was trying to impress a girl he liked by trying to get into the Spice Girls (we were both heavily into Sabbath and Sepultura at the time  ). But naturally, I had to go on this horrible journey with him.  Still, Wannabe makes you wanna get up and shake that booty or whatever, and I'm struggling to remember, but I seem to recall so much bad innuendo in '2 Become 1' that it was pretty funny.
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