I really enjoyed reading through your posts about each era of singles, Spiceboy! :wub: I agree with a lot of what you say, in particular that a couple of the songs, One for Sorrow & After the Love Has Gone, didn’t really need to be so Claire heavy. There’s a scene in the Steps Reunion documentary which is quite iconic to the fans lol, when they’re recording Dancing Queen - Lisa doesn’t think that Claire should do a particular vocals in the song and says “it would build nicely with Faye - or me” :lol: She had a point though! https://youtu.be/egvP52G_aFU&t=5m02s

 

Really glad you enjoyed the listening party, Joseph! :wub: Most of your faves are my ultimate faves too *.*

 

Aah thank you :wub:

 

Lisa does have a point I mean Claire can be heard all over the chorus of most songs anyway so she doesn’t need to have solos in every song, and certainly not the only solos in any songs. It always bugged me as a fan and I can see why it bugged the other girls. I get it with Lisa to some extent, she isn’t the greatest vocalist, but Faye is every bit as good as Claire so it’s just unnecessary.

Thanks so much for hosting this, Jay! I discovered loads of bops :wub: I ranked all the singles as I went, this is my full rank:

 

1 Scared of the Dark

2 Deeper Shade of Blue

3 Stomp

4 The Way You Make Me Feel

5 Neon Blue

6 Something in Your Eyes

7 Tragedy

8 Heartbreak in This City

9 Summer of Love

10 To the Beat of My Heart

11 Here and Now

12 What the Future Holds

13 Better Best Forgotten

14 Heartbeat

15 One for Sorrow

16 You'll Be Sorry

17 Say You'll Be Mine

18 Love's Got a Hold On My Heart

19 Last Thing On My Mind

20 Chain Reaction

21 Story of a Heart

22 After the Love Has Gone

23 Dancing With a Broken Heart

24 Words Are Not Enough

25 Better the Devil You Know

26 When I Said Goodbye

27 Light Up the World

28 I Know Him So Well

29 5, 6, 7, 8

 

This is a great list. Poor 5678 though!

 

Agree with you both Jay and spiceboy. It was good to Lisa stand up and suggest trying it differently.

 

Yes it would’ve also been great if One For Sorrow and or After The Love Has Gone had shared vocals.

This is a great list. Poor 5678 though!

 

I agree with Joseph more or less. Its my most hated song by them and they do have some duds in their back catalogue :kink:

I understand why some don’t like it, does stand out like a sore thumb in their discography. For me though I like it, it’d be mid table though.