That article is trash. Sounds like a PR intern for the girls wrote it. At this point it's ridiculous the girls are sitting on these unreleased tracks. Fans are selling and trading them. They will eventually see the light of day so why not take back control and officially release them.

 

Agreed -- AND make some money off of them!

Yes, I agree, the vocals for WOMAN is trash as I've described them all before since I have the original WOMAN mp3 DEMO.

 

It's a horrible song, let's never ever dig it out girls

Yes, I agree, the vocals for WOMAN is trash as I've described them all before since I have the original WOMAN mp3 DEMO.

 

You're that girl I knew you were. :hand:

 

Yes, I agree, the vocals for WOMAN is trash as I've described them all before since I have the original WOMAN mp3 DEMO.

 

It's a horrible song, let's never ever dig it out girls

 

Double you hoe M&Ms

Yes, I agree, the vocals for WOMAN is trash as I've described them all before since I have the original WOMAN mp3 DEMO.

 

It's a horrible song, let's never ever dig it out girls

 

Oh do you mind sharing so we can listen and then we can all agree collectively that it is trash? :teresa:

Woman has always sounded bad. They need to put it out though just so people can shut up about it.

Oh do you mind sharing so we can listen and then we can all agree collectively that it is trash? :teresa:

 

NO!!!! I will never because I am sitting right here...

 

NO!!!! I will never because I am sitting right here...

 

 

:blink: I was expecting to have to have sex with anyone who has unreleased material from the girls to get it leaked, but I see from this reply that this is going to be much harder than that (pun intended)....

It was the live version that bought WOMAN to life!

They really need to put us out of our misery!

 

 

Did anyone see this? :lol:

 

View this post on Instagram

 

#enoughhoodies

They really need to put us out of our misery!

Did anyone see this? :lol:

 

View this post on Instagram

 

#enoughhoodies

 

YES! More please :dance:

 

#nomorehoodies(unlesstheysaygogogo) :teresa: ...#ifyado, then I will #treasure it both during the day and #overnight

 

“Used to buy us for 20 years, and we want to say Thank you.”

 

#nomorehoodies

Is Go Go Go even finished I don't think these tracks are finished or remastered like (pain proof and a day in your life) like they ignored them completely for a reason LOL

They really need to put us out of our misery!

Did anyone see this? :lol:

 

View this post on Instagram

 

#enoughhoodies

 

I really wish the fandom would campaign more for unreleased tracks and stopped buying the shitty merch!! #NoMoreHoodies #GiveUsTheUnreleasedTracks!!

Surprisingly, even the press has gotten on the bandwaggon of these leaks (to be honest, they also did pick it up with c**t and the other leaks in 2016!)

 

But what is surprising is that some of it has been positively longing for more Spice music. Take this for example, from The Telegraph's Neil McCormick a music critic that is often quite harsh:

 

 

The Spice Girls have nothing to be ashamed of with these leaked demos

 

The leaked Spice Girls demos from 1999 reveal a band in crisis. But these snippets also demonstrate what gifted vocalists they were

 

Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Mel B and Mel C performing in November 2000, a month before the band broke up

The Spice Girls have nothing to be embarrassed about the bits and pieces of choruses, bridges and verses from unreleased demos that have leaked online. Well, almost nothing.

 

“W-O-M-A-N – can you truly love a woman?” is a trite chorus lyric that suggests the world’s most successful girl band might have been struggling with their public image when it was recorded (and discarded) in 1999. It was probably designed to help shift perceptions of them from girls to mature w-o-m-e-n.

 

Unfortunately, with its already hopelessly dated “W-w-w-w” stutter, the results sound more like the product of a committee meeting of bored male advertising executives trying to conjure up feminist friendly slogans for a budget sex aid than a hot songwriting session by the group who gave us Girl Power.

 

Indeed, the banality of all three leaked titles – Woman, Too Hot and Go, Go, Go – is probably indicative of doubts and tensions that led to the Spice Girls breaking up in 2000 without ever getting round to finishing these songs. “You better run for shelter, you better run for shade,” they pleasantly harmonise on Too Hot with all the urgency of a bored family contemplating a damp weekend in Margate. Geri Halliwell had already quit the ranks by then so can’t be held responsible for the generally lacklustre impression of a group going through the motions. Indeed, might the ex-Ginger Spice have been the intended subject of Go, Go, Go, where her abandoned bandmates trill “turn around and shut the door” in tight harmony?

 

Well, probably not, but all we can do is speculate to fill in the blanks, because these are not unreleased songs, but rather a few stray snippets and elements of unfinished recordings. Alongside some acapella chorus vocals, we get a minute of sprightly rhythm guitar that sounds like it fell off a Haircut 100 record two decades earlier, 73 seconds of drum machine with amateurish “scratching”, and a 29-second track of assorted offcuts romantically labelled “Bits, Drum Beats.”

 

Such random unfinished parts really tell us more about the assembly line techniques that have taken so much character and fun out of pop recording. By the end of the 90s, long gone were the days when bands played and sang in studios together to capture arrangements of complete songs nailed down in rehearsal. Modern recording is never finished until it has been assembled and mixed. Heard in isolation without other ingredients that would ultimately tie them together, you can’t really tell what these records might have become, powered by dynamic production flourishes and perhaps topped off with new vocal tweaks recorded in a moment of inspiration.

 

One thing the snippets do show is that the quartet really could sing in tight harmony, with plenty of swing and sass in their rhythm. Individually, their vocals were sometimes lacking in tone or character (apart from Melanie Chisholm, who dominated lead parts as Sporty Spice) but together they were a force. Harmony is such a beautiful thing, almost completely absent from today’s charts, perhaps due to the dominance of solo artists employing autotune and other vocal effects. What a thrill it is to hear human beings actually singing together.

And whatever was going on in Spice World in 1999, the Girls still knew their way around a catchy melody and snappy hook. There’s a cute moment in Too Hot (the most complete demo) when a climbing cascade of “no-no-no” creates a contra rhythm to the lead vocal and gives a hint of what the song might have become, given more time and love. And Sporty's lost cry of “Louder baby, louder baby” in Woman would have been a perky addition to the canon of Spice Girl memes.

 

As unsatisfying as these demos are, they actually make me want to hear the Spice Girls sing again. Louder baby, louder baby!

LINK TO ARTICLE: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/spice-girls-leaked-demos-review/?fbclid=IwAR1bRKYf2Eobm7iLXUF-KoyZLUaMpOqGeEaFRMSqSu8b4ZW5OpFWrAeHwg8" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-l...4ZW5OpFWrAeHwg8</a>

 

 

 

This seems like a bit of a turn around in the usual type of article they write about thier music or their talents, and that's a great thing.

 

Granted, it baffles me as to WHY a music critic would feel it is ok to trash CLIPS of songs that they havent heard in full at all, or without ANY instrumentation lol so his comments on the actual songs are just plain stupid...

 

But the fact he clamours for the return of the Spice Girls music, is quite surprising... And very welcome ;)

Edited May 9, 20232 yr by Mr.X

Lol at the writer thinking it'sMelanie C singing "Louder baby, louder baby".

 

I'm actually kind of surprised that these vocal stems caught the attention of the papers and is considered interesting enough for articles.

 

 

There's been some drama surrounding these leaks, of course it's Spice Circle: https://www.facebook.com/groups/denden2.0/p...06517273068338/

 

Here’s the story on the “1999 demos” vinyl.

 

Earlier this year, like everyone else, I was disappointed that our hopes were raised about the demos and then dashed. I registered for discogs, even though I’d never heard of it before, and kept looking at the listing regularly over the next three months. Around two weeks ago, I noticed that a new owner had appeared on the site. I made him an offer of £1,000 and bought the vinyl, because I really wanted to hear the songs, particularly Woman.

 

I was surprised, but pleased, when he said he’d sell. When I listened to the tunes, I enjoyed hearing the girls as recorded, but knew I wouldn’t need the vinyl once I had the digital rips, so I listed it on ebay and announced the sale here.

 

The auction process was ridiculous. I never expected to earn more than I paid for it, and priced in that I’d almost certainly make a loss. The auction was interfered with by some unscrupulous members of this forum. I was asked to sell to the collective through Seth (agentspice) and agreed, in good faith, to work with him. This is because, while the music is nice, it’s not worth the figure of £7,100, which was the highest bid at the peak. The item is limited, in that we have only choruses, bridges and instrumentals, rather than finished songs. The idea that someone should pay thousands seemed insane and I wasn’t comfortable with it.

I was hoping to reach agreement with Seth to sell to cover my costs. Then (as an illustration) 50 people would have paid £20, rather than one person paying £1,000. And the music will have been socialised.

 

The songs were clearly leaked today because someone felt more strongly that I shouldn’t earn thousands than they felt about carrying on hoarding the songs. This shows there are members of the group who have been hoarding the digital versions for months. They only released them because I secured a copy and set all this in train.

 

Eventually, the auction was stopped by ebay because of complaints by other (or the same?) troublemakers as undermined the bidding.

Anyway, there’s been a lot of nasty things written about me here over the last 48 hours, which I am not surprised at given the immature, toxic culture in parts of this group. Thanks go to some really lovely people who reached out. Others said I was in it for the profit (wrong, I wanted to cover my costs, and was negotiating with Seth who acted on behalf of the collective), they said I was lying about having the vinyl (see attached photo) and they laughed when the auction collapsed and eventually was pulled (if I hadn’t paid through the nose for the music, you wouldn’t have it now, as the cliquey hoarders would have kept it to themselves).

 

Que sera. Anyone know where to get the full studio version of Woman we heard on Before the Live One in 1999?

 

Frustrating that the writer says Melanie C is the only one whose voice wasn’t lacking “tone or character”, and then credits “louder baby, louder baby” to her.

 

Shows how much attention he’s actually paid to their voices. The Mels sound completely different.

Edited May 9, 20232 yr by McAndrew

Releasing a rarities album alongside a tour announcement is such a no brainer. A solid, well crafted rarities album would almost act as a 4th album for them.

Releasing a rarities album alongside a tour announcement is such a no brainer. A solid, well crafted rarities album would almost act as a 4th album for them.

 

In total agreement of this :w00t:

 

If they had any GUTS in them, this year they would:

 

- Announce a world Stadium 2024 tour

- Announce and release an Anthology including rareties album

- A Goodbye /Christmas #1s EP with new remixes

- Release that documentary they keep banging on about

 

Then in 2024, do the tour and Glastonbury before calling it quits forever (and announce the end properly!).

 

The only other thing they would be left to do would be Forever25 release :teresa:

 

Of course, being the girls, they won't even do one of those things :(

Releasing a rarities album alongside a tour announcement is such a no brainer. A solid, well crafted rarities album would almost act as a 4th album for them.

 

Agreed. It's literally sitting in front of them: #Goodbye25. End it right, on a high, as a true unit, put us out of our misery.