A major let-off for Steps.
IV - 13 September 1998
I WANT YOU BACK
Melanie B featuring Missy Elliott
It’s all too easy to mock. One of the remaining Spice Girls trying her hand at hacking it on her own? Oh stop, please, my sides are aching too much! There, you see what I mean? Nothing to it. And then you get round to hearing it and suddenly, without warning, alarm bells start ringing. It’s not bad. Mel B has a half-decent voice after all, Missy Elliott does her usual swing-type stuff, it’s mad and funky and stone me, it works. There was me thinking Mel C was the only one who could sing – makes you wonder what well-hidden talents lurk within the other two, doesn’t it?
LOVELY
Wagon Christ
Remember Dreadzone and that bright, breezy, poppy, horrifically upbeat reggae-tinged ditty called Little Britain that troubled the charts about three years ago and also turned up in Endsleigh League Extra? Well, imagine that song being played by a small kitten high on catnip. This is truly a song to be experienced rather than listened to.
STEP ONE
Steps (album)
Exhibit A – 5, 6, 7, 8. A line-dancing epic, breathtaking in its scope and vision. Stayed in the charts forever.
Exhibit B – Last Thing On My Mind. Pop in its purest form, untarnished by such adult themes as learning to drive or adolescence. Stayed in the charts forever.
Exhibit C – One For Sorrow. Pop in an even purer form than its predecessor (yes, it’s possible). Will quite probably stay in the charts forever.
Exhibit D – Step One, the album, which contains Exhibits A, B and C. The title alone ominously suggests that this is merely the opening volley in a bid for world domination. Pete Waterman is back and this time he needs neither of his old partners Stock or Aitken. Prepare yourself.
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This review ©1998 Simon Darnell.
