Posted May 30, 20241 yr Your votes have been counted and verified and it's time to reveal the results! What will be crowned Buzzjack's favourite S Club song? :o Make your predictions!
May 30, 20241 yr Author hK_zwDZigSA 71 5.29 The Greatest 72 5.07 If It's Love 73 4.81 Lately 74 4.50 Dancing Queen 75 4.43 The Long & Winding Road Firstly, before we begin, worth noting that all ties have been broken firstly by number of 11s, then 10s, 9.5s, etc to give each song an individual placement! I'll do blocks of 10 to get through the results without delays, but first let's take a look at the bottom five, four of which are covers...! S Club weren't known for their versions of other people's songs, with only Natural from their singles canon being a cover of sorts (an English language cover of a French track), but amongst their deep cuts were a handful of tracks originally performed by others. Jon recorded a version of The Long & Winding Road as a b-side to You, which was also performed on the Carnival Tour around the same period of time, while Bradley led a version of Stevie Wonder's Lately, which featured on the '7' re-issue as well as the Don't Stop Movin' cassette a few months after. Neither song got a moment on the TV show, unlike Dancing Queen, which had a Miami 7 performance in the episode Bermuda Triangle, where the band travel back in time. In reality, the song was recorded for the ABBAmania compilation. A much lesser-known cover, The Greatest was originally performed by American group Scene 23. S Club's version was produced by one of the song's original writers, and as a result, it sounds basically identical - a curious move for them, especially when the song wasn't ever performed on tour or used in the TV series or movie. That said, not even all of their originals got a TV show moment, like Natural's b-side If It's Love, which is another Jon lead and penned by the legendary Cathy Dennis.
May 31, 20241 yr No major losses there! Although “if it’s love, if it’s love baby” does get stuck in my head for a little bit after hearing it. :lol:
May 31, 20241 yr Author Be2VzQbytU8 61 6.56 Boy Like You 62 6.39 Best Friend 63 6.19 Spiritual Love 64 6.17 Can You Feel the Love Tonight 65 6.14 Bittersweet 66 6.11 All in Love Is Fair 67 5.75 The Two of Us 68 5.64 Special Kind of Something 69 5.50 Family 70 5.43 Every Kinda People The song at #70, technically speaking, isn't an S Club song, despite its presence on Seeing Double. It's actually technically a Jo solo song, but obviously never went as far as launching her career and it was another three years before What Hurts the Most arrived as her actual debut single. Every Kinda People probably wouldn't have done her career any favours anyway, going by its placing here! #69 is only just an S Club song too, credited to SC3 (S Club 3) and performed by Jo, Bradley and Tina, though Family was actually recorded by all seven members during the 2015 reunion. Would love to hear a version with them all present, I wonder if it would fare better here? A few covers appear in this section too. For the Say Goodbye b-side, Jon took the lead on a cover of Kavana's Special Kind of Something. The single's other b-side was original song Bittersweet (penned by Joseph fave Lucie Silvas, heard prominently on backing vocals), already available on the Seeing Double album, and it falls out just three places higher. Jon also took the reigns, alongside Jo, on a cover of Can You Feel the Love Tonight for Disneymania in 2002. Spiritual Love is also a cover, of a song by Urban Species that peaked at #35 in the UK in 1994! Elsewhere, Stuart Little soundtrack song The Two of Us also falls quite early, Sunshine loses its first track in Boy Like You, which curiously wasn't performed in Hollywood 7 but instead the preceding one-hour special episode simply titled Christmas Special (very festive right x), and '7' loses another couple of album tracks in the form of lively Bradley bop Best Friend, and the more moody All in Love Is Fair.
May 31, 20241 yr Still no real losses or shocks yet. Though I do really like All In Love Is Fair and Best Friend.
June 1, 20241 yr A perfectly pleasant bunch of 10 songs on the whole, but no real highlights. My favourite so far is Spiritual Love, but I'm not too disappointed to see it this low!
June 1, 20241 yr Author CHm68R9i-AU 51 6.86 In Too Deep 52 6.79 Everybody Get Pumped 53 6.75 I Will Find You 54 6.72 Gonna Change the World 55 6.71 Secret Love 56 6.67 Hope for the Future 57 6.64 Dangerous 58 6.64 Hello Friend 59 6.63 Right Guy 60 6.60 Anytime, Anywhere One of just two S Club songs entirely absent from streaming now, Anytime, Anywhere is an S Club Juniors song from their album Together. The S Club 7 version featured as the b-side to Automatic High in 2002, and was the final S Club 7 song to be released until Everybody Get Pumped surfaced on Best a year later - that also features in this batch of songs, out at #52. From their own discography, Dangerous and Hello Friend are also b-sides, with the former bringing a more mature, R&B-esque touch to the Sunshine era, while the latter was a touching ballad duet between Jo and Jon, which was performed on the Bring It All Back 2015 tour curiously. Right Guy started life off as a b-side, but got polished up for inclusion as the UK bonus track on Sunshine. While perhaps not the most essential song on the album, its absence does leave Bradley without a proper song to lead, which every other member has at least one of on Sunshine! Album tracks populate the rest of the section. Hope for the Future closed the debut album, featuring in Miami 7 as the group swam with dolphins in the penultimate episode, and Gonna Change the World got a moment just one episode later as the group enjoyed a limousine ride to meet their actor friend Jill Ward (played by Cathy Dennis). The other album tracks to feature didn't get TV show moments, with Secret Love and In Too Deep not even being heard in the background of Viva S Club or Seeing Double, but nevertheless they ensured Tina and Jon respectively got their moments to shine on the parent album. I Will Find You was played many times through Hollywood 7 at least, despite no performance.
June 1, 20241 yr Dangerous is the biggest loss for me so far, though I did t expect it to place much higher if I’m being honest. I have really grown to love Gonna Change The World. Hope For The Future and In To Deep are both pleasant enough but are probably where they should be.
June 2, 20241 yr Far too low for Dangerous <_< I'm surprised that Gonna Change the World ended up ahead of Hope for the Future... I'm not wild about either but I'd say the latter is better!
June 2, 20241 yr Far too low for Dangerous <_< I'm surprised that Gonna Change the World ended up ahead of Hope for the Future... I'm not wild about either but I'd say the latter is better! I’ve grown to really love Dangerous. Also I might be in the minority, but I really like Gonna Change The World, though Hope For The Future is a great album track too.
June 2, 20241 yr Author fwswta9WtJU 41 7.61 It's a Feel Good Thing 42 7.42 Good Times (Bradley & Jon) 43 7.39 I'll Keep Waiting 44 7.36 We Can Work It Out 45 7.36 Straight from the Heart 46 7.25 It's Alright 47 7.17 Cross My Heart 48 7.14 So Right 49 7.09 The Colour of Blue 50 7.00 Someday, Someway The '7' era takes a bit of a hit once again, with four of this section coming from that era, and three from the album itself. Reach's b-side Someday, Someway is at #50, another cover version and another b-side led by Jon, but this one had a TV show moment, playing over a montage of the group making their own movie. I'll Keep Waiting and Cross My Heart had LA 7 performances, but The Colour of Blue didn't get a performance on LA 7 or the future series. Other b-sides that got TV show moments were So Right and We Can Work It Out, both of which we lose here. So Right was performed by the group during Miami 7 as Jo, Rachel and Tina take Howard shopping in preparation for a date, and We Can Work It Out featured in the episode Alien Hunter, where Tina, stuck in a fancy dress costume, ended up stranded halfway across Miami it's a unique song in that it sees Rachel and Hannah on lead vocals, a combination we don't hear on any other song! The debut era also loses It's a Feel Good Thing, performed of course on a plane as the group left for Miami in the TV show. Elsewhere in this section, Seeing Double loses Straight from the Heart, which was the first song performed in the TV show after Paul's departure (though he actually had a hand in writing it), Sunshine loses the vibrant It's Alright, one of what feels like a small number of songs with four members contributing a solo, and the band's newest release falls out at #42, a touching version of Good Times recorded by Bradley and Jon in honour of Paul on what would've been his 47th birthday. As we hit the top 40, here's a breakdown of what's remaining! 8/11 S Club + 2/5 b-sides 7/14 '7' + 1/3 b-sides 9/13 Sunshine + 0/2 b-sides 9/15 Seeing Double + 1/1 b-sides 2/3 Best + 0/1 b-sides 1/7 others
June 2, 20241 yr Already up to an average score of 7 in the Top 50 :cheeseblock: Straight from the Heart is my favourite song to have not made it into the Top 40 of the results!
June 7, 20241 yr Author Sorry this has slowed down this week guys, work's been more tiring than I expected!! Promise I'll pick the pace up this weekend *.*
