Gold Soundz
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Post by Gold Soundz on Jun 20, 2004 14:09:20 GMT -5
I heard 2 Become 1 one the radio today for the first time in years and decided to go find the CD. Who doesn't have this CD? Like Chris rock said, everyone would diss them, and then go listen to them in their room with their doors shut. I can honestly say this is one of the best pop CD's ever. While a lot of people look back and just think about the marketing and outrageous outfits, it was really the music that made them. Sure the personas helped, but the songs were and are to this day still extremely well crafted. Every track was well done, no filler. They got flack for their voices, too, which are 10 times better than Hilary Duff, Ashlee Simpson, Britney (save Halliwell maybe), and like those stars, could also put on a damn good performance. Spice World was a dcent pop CD, and Forever was a mistake with one or two good songs, but I think Spice will be in people's collections for years to come. I guess it has gotten a lot of recognition in CD lists and stuff in magazines, and those ridiculous VH1 shows always shocase them, but I don't think they got the recognition they deserved.
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George Tropicana
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Post by George Tropicana on Jun 20, 2004 15:36:54 GMT -5
Great CD. I didn't really like them until the second album came out.
My favorite song off "Spice" was "2 Become 1."
Who here doesn't know the dance to "If U Can't Dance"? Latin smash!
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Sean
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Post by Sean on Jun 20, 2004 15:51:36 GMT -5
Yes this is one of the best pop albums ever, from the best pop group ever! I preferred the "Spice World" album though. However, their debut has killer singles and I am proud to own it and listen to it.
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strong4PMB!
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Post by strong4PMB! on Jun 20, 2004 17:08:51 GMT -5
Who doesn't have this CD? I don't. I secretly wanted to buy it back then. Now I want it again, and once I find a cheap copy in perfect condition, I will definitely buy it. |
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Post by bluenote on Sept 6, 2004 23:45:05 GMT -5
I have their frist 2 albums and they both are great! I haide them when company comes over  LMAO |
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DuckHead
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Post by DuckHead on Sept 7, 2004 0:36:22 GMT -5
I bought the Spice Girls' first two CDs last year, and they are both really good. The Spice Girls rule!
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irice22
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Post by irice22 on Sept 7, 2004 16:30:35 GMT -5
I used to love this CD! I like the second one better.
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Post by reception on Sept 7, 2004 17:06:17 GMT -5
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Post by bluenote on Sept 7, 2004 17:07:25 GMT -5
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Post by GoWVUGo on Sept 7, 2004 17:53:00 GMT -5
I heard 2 Become 1 one the radio today for the first time in years and decided to go find the CD. Who doesn't have this CD? Like Chris rock said, everyone would diss them, and then go listen to them in their room with their doors shut. I can honestly say this is one of the best pop CD's ever. While a lot of people look back and just think about the marketing and outrageous outfits, it was really the music that made them. Sure the personas helped, but the songs were and are to this day still extremely well crafted. Every track was well done, no filler. They got flack for their voices, too, which are 10 times better than Hilary Duff, Ashlee Simpson, Britney (save Halliwell maybe), and like those stars, could also put on a damn good performance. Spice World was a dcent pop CD, and Forever was a mistake with one or two good songs, but I think Spice will be in people's collections for years to come. I guess it has gotten a lot of recognition in CD lists and stuff in magazines, and those ridiculous VH1 shows always shocase them, but I don't think they got the recognition they deserved. thank you. about 5 or 6 yrs ago it was really "uncool" to listen to them, now all my friends are like spice girls are the shit!! |
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Post by polly on Oct 20, 2005 11:19:37 GMT -5
Even though album number 2 didn't sell over 20 million copies (as Spice did) its mature pop sound really was amazing, and i feel it was over all, a better record. But Spice was amazing in its own right. Up until this year, late 90's pop has experienced a bacl-lash, now however, people are realising it is this type of 'happy' music that really makes us feell good. Spice and the singles it produced were brilliant. I feel that if Spice World had all four singles released in America (as it sold just as mcuh everywheer else) it would have almost sold 7 milloin (whilst its certified 4xplat, it has sold 5million copies.) Both albums were amazing! Now we're going to hear alot more of them now the back-lash is going!
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Post by Pet Shop Boy on Oct 20, 2005 11:22:58 GMT -5
Spiceworld was definitely the superior album. "Never Give Up On The Good Times" and "Viva Forever" are my favourite songs of theirs.
But both albums are brilliant. They deserve more respect than they get.
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Pump It
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Post by Pump It on Oct 20, 2005 12:16:28 GMT -5
Spice Girls rock. Their 1st cd has such great song. I like every single song on there. Does anybody know any websites that have some of their performances or anything? It'd be cool to see...I remember I wanted to go to see them in concert so bad when they came here to Dallas when I was in 4th grade but nobody wanted to take me because everyone was too cool to like Spice Girls...blah.
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Post by francky on Nov 5, 2005 17:45:31 GMT -5
I loved their first two albums, especially Spice which i played like crazy back in the days.. The first time i have listened to "What do you think you're" i was really impressed, it's so catchy! :o I thought "the lady is a vamp" was a great choice to close Spice World. My favourite from them are "What do you think you're", "Too Much", "Say you'll be there", "2 become 1" and "Last time lover". If you can't dance was really funny, and Never give up the good times a great catchy song  This group was really huge and deserved it, they did their things. |
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Post by polly on Nov 6, 2005 7:32:15 GMT -5
OMg it's so uny how evryone loved em now! late 90's music is makin a comeback, as is pop!
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Post by unicorns on Mar 16, 2008 11:37:49 GMT -5
Good album!
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Post by jazklash on Mar 16, 2008 12:25:58 GMT -5
All those who put their impact over their music are quite right in the way they feel. In many ways, the Spice Girls were the last true pop phenomena ever. It wasn't just the sales numbers or their massive popularity. It also had to do with their cultural impact. Whoever manages to turn slogans like Girl Power into commonly used terms right into this day can only be considered as cultural icons of the highest order.
But then again, the music just aged badly. For the record, it wasn't already that good the first time around. Big catchy hooks notwithstanding, production wise their music was just too safe and stuck into tried and tested winning formulas to be considered anything approaching innovative, much less original, making it too tied to its time, place and context to ever survive both closer analysis and the test of time. In many ways, the Spice Girls were brilliant in every way, except what brought them here in the first place: the music. It doesn't Einstein to see that the Spice Girls were a cynically engineered thing all the way through. The music was just a tip of the whole marketing strategy, which included all the merchandising possible in this and other worlds: sold out concert tours, T-shirts, lunchboxes, food products, comic books and the infamous Spiceworld movie itself, among a ton of other things. What could never be cynically arranged, though, was how MASSIVE the whole entrerprise would turn out to be. I don't think manager Simon Fuller and Virgin Records would ever imagine that would look like it was going to be just another short-lived teenage sensation (and it was) would transform itself into a socio-cultural beast of unimaginable (and unmanageable too) proportions and, in the process, influence a future generation of pre-tween girls way of thinking. And that's where the importance of the Spice Girls lies, more than anything.
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Post by freakyflybry2 on Mar 16, 2008 13:16:04 GMT -5
It was classic throughout... girl power at its finest  |
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Post by Live Your Life on May 1, 2016 23:34:01 GMT -5
This album is pop perfection.
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vann
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Post by vann on Jul 30, 2016 10:00:08 GMT -5
It was one of the first albums that IΒ΄ve got as a gift.Good times and these songs will last forever.
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Post by The Brazilian Guy π§π· on Dec 22, 2016 8:00:36 GMT -5
My Spice album is falling to pieces because of how much I've played it growing up. I loved it so much.
The singles were great and all the album tracks were just as good in my opinion... loved the R&B-ish feel that a lot of them had!
The b-sides during this era (like "Take Me Home" and "Bumper to Bumper") were also great!
Funny how this was a huge hit with kids (at least in Brazil) when a lot of the lyrics were actually quite "adult"... in our defense, we didn't know what any of them said. LOL
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Post by Live Your Life on Dec 22, 2016 12:07:21 GMT -5
This album turned 20 years old last month. Time flies.
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Post by π―π² lucy88 π―π² on Jul 21, 2017 22:50:09 GMT -5
Spiceworld was definitely the superior album. "Never Give Up On The Good Times" and "Viva Forever" are my favourite songs of theirs. But both albums are brilliant. They deserve more respect than they get. Totally agreed that their second album was better, but I love the singles from the first one. |
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