Your fave Spice Girls' UK no.1 single
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Topic: Your fave Spice Girls' UK no.1 single
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Subject: Your fave Spice Girls' UK no.1 single
Date Posted: December 17 2007 at 22:43
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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'.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date 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 By: Chris H
Date 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 ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 17 2007 at 22:49
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.
Kind regards.
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moreitsythanyou wrote:Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:02
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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.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: Dim
Date 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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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date 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 By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:12
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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. ------------- Beauty will save the world.
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date 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 By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 17 2007 at 23:13
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Trust me, it was! ------------- Beauty will save the world.
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 00:34
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.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 00:34
So, what do you vote for?
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date 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 By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 03:36
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: Visitor13
Date 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 By: Vompatti
Date 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 By: Dean
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 05:56
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zig-a-zig-ah ------------- What? |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 07:22
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.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 07:25
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.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date 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. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 07:45
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:05
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2 Become 1 gets my vote..
I think Emma B sung that one, and she was always my fave Spice Girl.. |
Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:17
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When I was younger I bought a Spice Girls poster.... (Im cringing as I write this) What the f**k was I thinking?  |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:18
She sang the bridges, as well as the 1st voice in the choruses' main lines. In fact, she and Mel B were the most featured soloists in the first album; Mel C would have her chance for teh second. I sound like a SG expert, don't I?
Kind regards.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:23
Yes, you do. We'll only worry about it when you start to argue their prog credentials, and how they should be on PA..
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 08:34
I did have Spice World too, but I succeeded in selling it. I don't think I've heard anything by Höyry-Kone or Discordia. Are they as good as Spice Girls? |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 09:29
I see you didn't enjoy that one as much. Well, those aforesaid bands are real prog bands. They are listed in PA with lots of positive reviews for their respective albums. Hoyry-Kone was a "predecessor" of Alamailman Vasarat (I'm conviced I've totally mispelled it).
Kind regards.
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 09:31
No, I'm not like those avid fans of Talk Talk or Kate Bush (great music!!) who have the urgent need to seem them listed side by side with yes, KC, PF et al. You won't see me proposing Ultravox or Japan for the Archives (someone else did it...).
But... thinking about it... aren't those initial layers of keyboards and vocals of 'Vive Forever' kind of proggy? Just kidding, just kidding,...
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 09:36
I did enjoy it as much. I tried to sell the debut too, but nobody wanted it. |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 11:47
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 11:58
Their own lightweight recreation of The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" - I watched it twice at the cinema two weeks before the 'Stop' videoclip blew me away. It was like falling in love fluidly at a fast, yet sustained pace.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 12:08
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 12:33
Absolutely, they're in under symphonic! 
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 12:33
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Progheads my arse Since the thread started, over 150 visits! Seriously though, I like "Spice Up Your Life". It's kind of "spacey" (perhaps "starry"  ).And that's the only tune I'll ever give them credit for... ------------- |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 13:03
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'Spice up Your Life' is kind of a homage to mid-90s Ricky Martin with a basis of piano-and-bass (inherited from the 'Wannabe' hit) and instilled with strong techno-pop sounds. Weird in its own terms of pop instant simplicity.
Kind regards.
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 21:30
I dont like the music of spice girls ,but I feel atraction for the black girl when she sings ,she looks very beautiful ,specially I like how she open her mouth while she sings,,
  http://images.google.co.ve/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/music/spicegirls/spice_girls_8.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wallpaperbase.com/music-spicegirls.shtml&h=768&w=1024&sz=696&hl=es&start=586&tbnid=3FhOkGsuSIGwZM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspice%2Bgirls%26start%3D580%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Des%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN -
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 22:24
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 22:27
I thought it meant cigarette. Oh well. You need something dirty I guess. ------------- <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 07:35
This very poster hung in my friend's basement AKA our band rehearsal/music room all throughout middle and high school while we rehearsed our Black Sabbath cover songs |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 10:17
| Don't know about you, but when I view this page I get loads of Spice Girls related ads! |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 19 2007 at 11:35
| I don't, but maybe that's because you're an administrator. Have you voted yet? |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 08:51
Here's the enhanced reprise of 'Spice Up Your Life' that wraps up their concerts for this 2007/8 Tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-aoAjGdZLo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-aoAjGdZLo Less spacy and more into the "fiesta" thing.
Enjoy!!!
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 09:55
More likely because of the regional location.
No, I'm afraid I have not voted, I can't offer an informed opinion. Now if you'd asked for my favourite Spice Girl....
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 20 2007 at 21:12
AND... WHO IS SHE??
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Posted By: reality
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 02:56
| Is Wannabe the popular one I am thinking about? someone sing it. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 05:27
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 08:29
| Great choice, Easy Livin, and Geri grabbed her bottocks halfway fo the 'Wannabe' video. |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 08:34
Here’s the videoclip to 'Wannabe': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wgaWAHo2Q - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wgaWAHo2Q
And here you’ll find some interesting variations in the lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbd4-J77Ko - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbd4-J77Ko |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 08:39
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So, here's the music video that led me to buying the first two Spice Girls' albums at once a couple of days later: early February '98 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpPyBXMxeb0%20 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpPyBXMxeb0
Fate didn't give it the UK no. 1 that it deserved, IMHO, more than many other SG singles.
I just couldn't resist that candid retake on the Motown signature swing. Like I said in an earlier post, I was a reluctant SG fan until then, when I came out of the closet (the only closet I've ever known...).
Kind regards.
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Posted By: reality
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 15:56
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Yea I guess that is the one but now that I think about it I like their slower/balled stuff better.
And the second video took all the attractive qualities of the spice girls and threw them out the window! To me that is lowbrow and pretty repulsive, especially when there probably are thousands of children in the audience. That is something you would want to avoid anytime, more so if your British and the world perceives them in a class system. I am disappointed with them (not that I had a high expectation anyway). |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 20:40
| For Reality and Easy Livin, an unplugged version of '2 Become 1' by Emma Bunton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzMJtOTBv4Q - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzMJtOTBv4Q |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 20:42
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This is one reason to keep Geri as my favorite Spice Girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcG66QgsnUo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcG66QgsnUo
And here's another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWR8iHZ1jjA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWR8iHZ1jjA
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 21:00
Beautiful picture!!
You'll love this fan-made vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwFF3F3wA18 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwFF3F3wA18
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: December 22 2007 at 23:30
Mmmmhhh sss..she'sss hot...the song made me remember superstition of Steve Wonder ..of course saving the distances
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 07:43
For the two of you, too (are for everyone else, OK?), here's a wickedly refashioned version of the finest SG ballad ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLN6FOszoTA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLN6FOszoTA
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: December 23 2007 at 09:04
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Got to be 2 Become 1, lovely chord change in the chorus. Such a guilty pleasure. long and very funny interview with them on Radio 2 the other day conducted by Russell Brand. Then an excerpt of them live. Oh dear, but not one of those girls can sing at all... |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: December 31 2007 at 11:11
| Just to keep this thread working on a little bit more, here's a little Spice Girls debate on music leaking and downloading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI5lHchDc0g - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI5lHchDc0g |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 06 2008 at 23:01
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To celebrate the fact that this thread has welcomed more than 500 visits (and maybe we’re heading for 600!), here’s some historical footage from the European leg of their first world tour.- The classic choreography for ‘Denying’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRhPIvdgDj8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRhPIvdgDj8 The following song ‘Too Much’, bearing a somewhat bigger punch than the studio version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKoHzv9b46w - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKoHzv9b46w |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 03:30
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They had a nice build up in the songs. Wannabe was a nice song to start with: playful and catchy. Say You'll Be There was slightly better and 2 Become 1 let them sound mature, and is my favourite song. Most of their hit singles are good pop music. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Posted By: seansdadj
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 17:28
| it's strange that they had a come back! but good for them :) |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 18:00
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I love how on a prog forum people automatically are chill about this. Some guy said a death metal forum would be bad, well yeah, but the thing is, even on a mainstreamer forum people will either be like "wtf, are you kidding?" or "omg, I luv the Spice Girls!"
We own. My vote goes to "Viva Forever" because of the name. |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 18:08
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My vote goes to "Goodbye"
I´m a romantic kinda guy
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Posted By: Mourndark
Date Posted: February 09 2008 at 07:45
| I'm personally a fan of Who Do You Think You Are - I'm doing an arrangement of it for Big Band for comedy value at our concerts. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 09 2008 at 11:52
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2 become 1. |
Posted By: Raimondo
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 10:00
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Oh dear oh dear. What the hell?
Am I on the correct site?
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 11:29
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I'm proud to say that I don't remember hearing ANY of these options.
Ignorance truly is bliss.
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 12:59
That was an excellent homage to 70's disco, as was 'Never Give Up On The Good Times' in their second album "Spice World", only with an added Latin flavor. But yes, everything's so perfectly vintage pop-disco in 'Who Do You Think You Are?' - the way Geri Halliwell delivers the initial lines is justs legendary, rough, sexy, sarcastic yet seductive. Funny how the least technically trained of the Spice Girls could provide some of the most memorable moments in their best songs. And don't get me started with her Union Jack dress... the very personification of in-your-face sexyness in pop music.
Kind regcards.
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Posted By: MAN- ERG
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 07:32
Well... to speak frankly I don't care for SPICE GIRLS, but I am a HUGE FAN of SWING OUT SISTER.
Their last 2 albums SOMEWHERE DEEP IN THE NIGHT and WHERE OUR LOVE GROWS were exceptional. Their keyboard player ANDY CONNELL is very accomplished. These 2 albums were a blend of cinematic strings, soul and jazzy 60's pop. Highly melodic, moody and melancholic sounds....
The new one is about to come out. It's called BEAUTIFUL MESS.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 16:31
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Wannabe.... the rest were... well, decent pop...
Yes, I still love Craddle of Filth and Opeth.... But the Spice Girls had catchy tunes!! ------------- 
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 17:57
'Wannabe' is the ultimate truck-driver song, according to Homer Simpson.
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 18:05
| I like the one that jumps from 8/9 to 22.6/5....the lyrics speak of the theory of relativity...there's a 13 minute moog solo....which am I thinking of? |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 19:41
Posh Spice's collaboration with the whining guy from Sigur Ros in 1999.... -------------
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Posted By: reality
Date Posted: February 13 2008 at 01:20
| I just remembered 2 become 1 is my favorite song! I remembered a long time ago after I watched the video on the last page, but I think I just came out of my stupor. |
Posted By: tillo
Date Posted: February 13 2008 at 05:09
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I only know Wannabe, so... ------------- please, visit http://roberto-land.myminicity.es/ |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 13 2008 at 09:41
Actually, there are time shifts in 'The Lady is a Vamp'... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfVzULalcM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfVzULalcM , but no, no Moog solo.
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 17:44
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So... here's the last song in their last concert (Toronto, Feb 26th) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfPeLa-RwTU - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfPeLa-RwTU
To all SG-friendly progheads out there, from yours truly.
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Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: February 27 2008 at 23:19
| 2 Become ! is a serious pop classic!!! my bro swears that it has amazing compositional qualities hahaha |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 10:44
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So, it’s clear that ‘2 Become Don’t miss the Towers… they will never be forgotten. Here’s a live rendition of ‘2 Become And here’s Paul Gilbert’s rock version (soon to be re-titled as ‘3 Become Thank you for voting! And also to those who are yet to vote!… |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 11:32
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I have to pass on that. I never heard anything of them (at least not knowingly; it is quite possible that a song of them was playing somewhere while I was there too). I don't watch music channels on TV, and the radio, which is running almost 24/7 here, is set to WDR 3 permanently, where they will definitely never play them. they play classical, jazz, ethnic music and (very rarely) prog there
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