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  1. 1. Should ?The runner? have been released as a single?

    • Yes please!
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    • Maybe, if?
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    • No!
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Do you think ‘The runner’ should’ve been released as the Platinum Collection second single?

 

I’m going to say no in the end. ‘Hard 2 forget’ wasn’t their strongest release in my opinion and this track is in the same league for me. It also wouldn’t have changed the run of the PC I think.

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Absolutely not! Not unless they went back to it with some re recorded vocals and a better mix.
I put maybe...meaning that if it got a remix /edit treatment as in its original form, it could do with some work as the track feels very rushed. Now I did like the track upon the album's release, but after a few listens, I went off it & found the production rather lacking. I still find 'The Runner' a better song than 'Hard 2 Forget', however neither of the tracks are up there with most of the other classics on the album.
I’m not saying Hard 2 Forget is a masterpiece but it’s miles better than The Runner. I doubt I’ll return to the latter at all.
The runner for me is just very catchy, I've always liked it more than hard 2 forget.

 

I’m the same, I can’t remember the last time I listened to Hard 2 Forget.

 

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I put maybe...meaning that if it got a remix /edit treatment as in its original form, it could do with some work as the track feels very rushed. Now I did like the track upon the album's release, but after a few listens, I went off it & found the production rather lacking. I still find 'The Runner' a better song than 'Hard 2 Forget', however neither of the tracks are up there with most of the other classics on the album.

 

This!

 

Though I voted no ;)

After months of letting them settle, neither was a vintage Steps song for me. I prefer The Runner but neither that or Hard 2 Forget are anywhere near my personal top 100 songs of the year and Steps rarely miss that with any single.

I feel like 'The Runner' is a perfect song for them but the end result of what we got here is really badly executed, it sounds immensely cheap and poorly produced. If it was a bit meatier sounding and more bombastic (like 'To the Beat of My Heart's production for example) it might have been better.

 

Bananarama did a much better version of it a few years ago which is more like what their version should have sounded like:

 

The Bananarama version so have more punch but vocally i prefer the Steps, i always think the vocals by Bananarama are really crokey for some reason as i usually dont find that with them.
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I think the runner fits in very well on the platinum collection, probably a song that will forgotten quickly by many but im still really enjoying it.

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