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I didn't have time to vote in this rate, but I don't believe Downtown would be ranked as high if it wasn't a single. It's a decent cover but it's nothing spectacular. I do agree with your statement about Emma not really establishing her own audience. It was a huge mistake not doing any kind of tour in the summer of 2004.

Holler was always meant to be on the 3rd album. They recorded it during the same month as Woman, August 1999.

Likely Stories is a decent song for an anniversary edition of Spice. It's funny one of the girls vetoed this song. It's not even dirty as originally rumored to be. The group has the opportunity to expand their discography, but they choose not to. It's so frustrating.

From Heiðrún Anna's interview I get the sense the record label's A&R and Simon Fuller were looking for potential songs for the group to record for the greatest hits. They all had their own thing going and it wouldn't be possible for all of them to write new material together, which is a shame. It does sound like Simon was pushing for Angels to be the single, but the girls went with Headlines instead. I'm surprised Melanie C recorded Voodoo. That song is easily one of their worst.

I did a little more digging on the songwriters credited on Angels beside the Spice Girls. The producers of the track are French producers Yann Mace and Luc Leroy. They are known together as Trak Invaders. Heiðrún Anna, the other songwriter on the track does have an official Instagram. Maybe someone could ask her for more info on Angels. https://www.instagram.com/heidrunna https://www.discogs.com/artist/384835-Yann-Macé https://www.discogs.com/artist/384837-Luc-Leroy https://www.discogs.com/artist/979004-Trak-Invaders

I stumbled upon 3 articles which interviewed Icelandic singer and songwriter Heiðrún Anna. She is one of the songwriters of Angels, a unreleased song from the greatest hits album. She reveals some juicy details about the track. Heiðrún was under contract with Universal Publishing as a songwriter for many years and worked with many well-known artists. For example, Angels was chosen by the Spice Girls and was supposed to be their comeback song. The Spice Girls recorded the song and the album was expected to sell around 5 million copies. Unfortunately, the Spice Girls cancelled at the last minute and the song was not released. "It was a huge disappointment when the song was removed from the album at the last minute. I cried for a whole weekend," Heiðrún Anna says in an interview with Viljinn. "When I think back and listen to the Spice Girls recording of the song, I remember that I didn't think it was nearly as cool as my original. One of the main bites had been taken out that I was actually asked to sort out at the last minute," she adds. "I played my song Angels for Simon at this meeting and he was adamant that this should be the Spice Girls' comeback song," says Heiðrún Anna. "I was just dancing on my way to the bank because he was adamant that it would be a global hit and would sell 5 million copies, and then it just didn't happen - as is often the case in this business." "The meeting actually took a complete u-turn when I played him a song that he thought was quite major and sounded like a possible hit. He got the song and everything started, first he was going to use it for Idol star Jordan Sparks, but then the idea became to use the song on the Spice Girls' comeback album." "Subsequently, I was contacted from Los Angeles, where the Spice Girls were filming, and I was asked to adjust the rhythm of the song. But at the last minute, their old producers came along, with another song in their bag, and mine was pushed out. There were only supposed to be two new songs on the album and mine would have been one of them." Heiðrún Anna admits that it was incredibly frustrating to miss out on this opportunity and was very disappointed for a long time afterwards. "Three months ago, Simon Fuller called me again and asked if the song was still available. I said yes and now he has it at his disposal for six months. We'll see what comes out of it," she says stoically. I used Google translate to read the articles. Here are the links to check them out for yourself. https://www.visir.is/g/2011886572d/fostudag...ggid-hingad-til https://nyr.ruv.is/frettir/menning-og-daegu...rir-spice-girls https://viljinn.is/plusinn/vid-mommurnar-ge...g-dillad-okkur/

I was listening to Pain Proof the other day. That song has a meta narrative which is now very common with the current big pop girls like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo.

Love Thing - Using the Instanbul tour version as the single version Never Give Up On The Good Times If You Wanna Have Some Fun Tell Me Why all should have been singles. Based on their Spotify numbers most fans prefer their uptempo singles over their ballads. 2 Become 1 is the only ballad in their top 5 most streamed tracks.

So there's around 15 unreleased songs from Spice and they only released Feed Your Love. Pretty ridiculous they couldn't include 2 or 3 more unreleased tracks for Spice 25.

Are You My Friend is now registered on ASCAP. https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/925114207

It will be interesting to see if Melanie C does anything for Beautiful Intentions 20th anniversary. Surly releasing it on vinyl for the first time is a no brainer like Jay said. We'll see if she releases any outtakes from her albums during anniversary releases.

I agree Jay. The songs you listed sound juvenile. The Evan Rogers & Carl Sturken songs have aged the worst for me from the debut album. A World Without You A Girl Like Me She Was A Friend Of Mine Merry-Go Round Emma should have recorded more mature material. Emma's voice sounds great on the airy, guitar pop tracks such as What Took You So Long, High On Love and Take My Breath Away.

It's ridiculous they only released one unreleased song when we know for certain these tracks exist. Pleasin' Me Likely Stories Serial Killer Seven Days Strong Enough Overnight (1995 Demo) Say You'll Be There (Demo With Rap) Sound Off Say You'll Be There (Spiceworld Version) Can't Stay Tonight Move Over (Extended Demo) The Lady Is A Vamp (Extended Demo) Never Give Up On The Good Times (Extended Demo)

Geri should have stayed on course with the Disco Sister Music album. The album probably would have performed much better had the release schedule been Ride It - Aug 2004 Love Never Loved Me - Nov 2004 3rd Album - Nov 2004 I feel the one, two punch of Ride It and Love Never Loved Me would have set the album up for more success.

Link to previous thread: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=60964 ------------------------------ I wonder if Melanie is going to release anything in October of this year to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Northern Star and her solo career. If Melanie was ever going to release some sort of greatest hits, now would be the time. An interesting idea might be for Melanie to pick which 25 songs she thinks are her absolute best in her entire discography regardless if they were a single or album track. Tack on three new songs and now you have a fantastic 28 track compilation album.

Last year for Christmas we got the leak of Likely Stories. Fingers crossed we get something this year. Melody of Life or Go Go Go would be my picks.

Goodbye is one of their lowest streaming singles so I'm not surprised they paid the 25th anniversary dust.

There's no way the group is going to release Touch era tracks. They have no writing credits on those songs so they won't make any royalties from them. Releasing Song For Her is never going to happen. More then likely we would get a new greatest hits with a few unreleased songs. Releasing a new greatest hits alongside a documentary would allow them to highlight a few non single tracks as well as a few outtakes that die hard and casual fans would enjoy. This would be my track list for a new GH. 1. Wannabe 2. Say You'll Be There 3. 2 Become 1 (Single Version) 4. Mama (Radio Edit) 5. Who Do You Think You Are 6. Step To Me 7. Spice Up Your Life 8. Too Much (Radio Edit) 9. Stop 10. Viva Forever (Radio Edit) 11. Never Give Up On The Good Times 12. Goodbye 13. Holler 14. Let Love Lead The Way (Radio Edit) 15. If You Wanna Have Some Fun (Radio Edit) 16. W.O.M.A.N. 17. Go Go Go 18. Spice Is Back

I'm curious what is their goal of doing another documentary. The 2007 documentary was a companion piece with the 2007 tour and greatest hits. Would be a shame not to release a new compilation album alongside a Netflix distributed documentary.

The group did the bare minimum for the 25th anniversary. They couldn't even bother having a track by track audio commentary. They really are lucky their reunion tours still have massive appeal to the general public. Othetwise, they wouldn't be able to get away with their lackluster releases and merch.

Forever 25 will only appeal to die hard fans. So the track list needs to be exceptional. As long as that happens I'm confident it will go top 10. The track list needs to do the heavy lifting because I can't imagine the group doing much promo for Forever 25. Hopefully we at least get Woman and Go Go Go.

I wouldn't call going on another reunion tour a comeback, but I get what you mean. Releasing an anniversary edition of an album or a new compilation album would sell better alongside a tour. Spiceworld 25 severely underperformed. I can't imagine Forever doing better unless they include 2-3 unreleased tracks.

If Universal and the group's team really don't get along, then we may as well kiss Forever 25 goodbye. I highly doubt the group cares about celebrating Forever or releasing any of the outtakes.

I wonder what the group's team and Universal don't see eye to eye on. There definitely seems to be a lack of synergy there.

This is what most fans want instead of cheaply made merch. Focusing on the music means they would actually have to put some effort in. Look at the low effort of Spice 25 and Spiceworld 25.