#96

Yeah, terrible values. Maybe I was too young to pick up on it at the time but seemed like they were in such a bubble of endorsement that stuff like this kinda went unnoticed.

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#97

There’s a harmonica solo in Say You’ll Be There. Not sure whose idea it was, it sounds absolutely horrendous. I only noticed it a couple of years ago when it came on the radio, don’t know why I’d never picked up on this completely incongruous instrumental break in the middle of the song before.

Starts at 2:29:

I mean fuck me, who was sitting in the studio (a) suggesting or (b) approving that?

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#98

As promised…

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#99

:smiley::smiley::smiley:

#100

Oh mate, I love you!

Still have those mad calves now. Look at them!

#101

Just incredible! Those calves!!!

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#102

and @rich-t

thanks fans.

#103

I went to Wembley with my girls and my GF (who introduced them very strongly to my kids) and I agree it was bloody brilliant. High point was GF bawling her eyes out at how pretty all the wristband lights were after much white wine. Kids loved it too. Great great great

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#104

gf started crying when they did mama :heart: i started crying laughing when they did that song about wonderbras from spice world the movie :grinning:

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#105

pretty good as harmonica solos go.

#106

Better than some of Bob Dylan’s efforts with the harmonica to be fair.

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#107

Remember when Mel C released ‘Goin Down’ and she had her short spiky hair, played Reading, did a cover of ‘Anarchy in the UK’ and changed the lyrics to ‘I am an anarchist/I am a sporty spice’…strange times!

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#108

It’s not that bad.

Plus they all look cool AF in that video.

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#109

I agree with your second point

#110

Gave them a 1 at the start but felt guilty as I fully expected you all to love them. But here we are.

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#111

Whenever I hear a Spice Girls song these days I’m always surprised by how bad everything sounds. I’m not talking about the songwriting but more the production, sound-design, mixing etc. It all sounds so cheap and half-arsed.

I don’t know whether that’s because it was always that way or whether it’s that the standard of pop production has been seriously improved since the Spice Girls heyday and it sounds worse now.

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#112

I think the production on a lot of 90s chart pop hasn’t stood the test of time at all.

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#113

I think The Spice Girls sound particularly bad. Compare Say You’ll Be There with - say - Deep by East 17 (which sounds like it could be PM Dawn or something), or Never Forget by Take That (which just sounds like a show tune). Even 2 Become 1 sounds half-arsed

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#114

It always sounded cheap. The music was entirely secondary to the marketing gimmick. A blueprint that was followed for a whole decade of TV talent shows thereafter - I firmly believe that there is a direct line from the Spice Girls through to a dog doing somersaults on Britain’s Got Talent being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (give it 4 years).

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#115

the standard of pop production now is absolutely miles above where it was back in the late 90s

it’s quite incredible the difference when listening on a good system