Saving gays, empowering women and shagging Chris Evans. Gaga on a budget. Chocolate cake. Opening the window for gays, to throw themselves out of. Geri's galaxy of B-sides tell a different story...
07 Broken Glass takes off in the usual Geri ballad manner, and is really quite great.
06 Slinky rnb Slowly - by the time she's repeated it for the 12th time you kind of get the idea.
10 Announcing "welcome" with a slightly scary, drug-tinged friendliness, Brave New World is Ger's Bohemian Rhapsody. As a U.N ambassador, and with her mesmerizing bison vox, she obviously knows her stuff. This one sparkles like a turd dripped in liquid gold.
06 Live & Let Die. Not a dry eye in her vocal booth. She would have been the only one in it, but that's not the point. Geri sings the chorus like how most people sound having a dental exam. Her sofa-punching vocals are life.
10 Only someone with Geri's ample busom, knack for self-help bull-shit, and warm and lustrous range could cover a song as simple and boisterous as 100% Pure Love, a rampant and shameless slice of dance-pop finery. More crystal meth than Crystal Waters, it would have been the easiest hit of her short career. Her natural enthusiasm to be believe in herself is overwhelming.
06 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps. Perhaps not.
06 I Was Made That Way. Offering another excellent B-side to go on her biggest hit It's Raining Men.
08 Pretending to be Bassey on a post-gin stupor torch bender yet again, True Love Never Dies gets better with each listen (I've listened to it twice now).
10 Summertime. A bold stroke indeed. This could be underwater love. Geri does sauciness like whacking the bottom of an HP bottle to get the last of what's there - she gets her sauce, but it's never subtle and effortless, always overdetermined and far too deliberate. Geri's lack of table manners aside, this is a trip. Her impractical attitude isn't meant to make any sense, but her life-giving rhythms are one big carnival of cliches.
09 New Religion is clearly Madonna's inspiration for Give Me All Your Luvin', Geri's ever-costumery Scream era songs were prone to getting far too ahead of themselves. If you haven't killed yourself before it ends you're in for a treat, namely the singer triggering herself into a fit of demented, torturing laughter.
10 Doing her best to make gays ashamed of themselves again by sharpening every cliche in the book, her ANTHEM G-A-Y might be about as sincere as her acting, but the shoe-horned style is utterly Geru, discretion assured, and standing up to her homosexual impulses. Putting pressure on the world to be gay never sounded so horrendous. This must have scared the shit out of Gina G.
07 Up to her old trix, Getting Better needs some of its own advice, but has a sprightly charm to it. And you'll be lovin' it.
10 Queen Geru has always floored me with her subtle, allusive, and cannily ambiguous lyrics. The old-fashioned disco thump Destiny pulls an ace and shoots its load all over me, I can't get enough of this glowing danceteria mess.
00 She's Ingenious. Right? RIGHT? !!!!!!
RIGHT!!!????
The ironic thing is it's hardly any different to her masterpiece Heave & Hell (Being Geri Halliwell).
06 Set Me Off. Thrusting her disco in our face.
I hadn't heard most of these until today - what a CALLING she has for B-sides. Right?
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'Sue, did the President call?' ... 'No' Last.fm
I really like Broken Glass. It's a properly good song, marred only by her tone-deaf vocals.
Aside from that and her cover of 100% Pure Love I don't have much time for these, though I've heard them all. Emma Bunton was the real B-Side artisté of the Spice Girls.
Yes it is! Somebody needs to cover that and "Calling".Originally Posted by VoR
Ja I absolutely love "So Long"
@ Gaga on a budget
SO TRUE
FEARLESS FEMALE
FEARLESS FEMALE
For a minute, I thought the bitch had the LACK OF SELF AWARENESS to release a b-side compilation.
Top up, Sue?
Isn't it 'Breaking Glass' ?
Anyway that is my fave B-side, it should have at least been on the album, and maybe even a single. Although I didn't think her B-Sides were that great to be honest, she did a good job picking the best tracks that she had for the albums. And yes, we know there were some clunkers on there, too.
New Religion, Summertime and Getting Better all have their charms.
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Once I saw G-A-Y was scored as a 10 I quickly realised this whole thread, thankfully, is a pisstake.
Just had a mini work-out with weights to Destiny. I was quite scared as I'm prone to laughing whilst listening to Geri.
Also, can this not be rammed into the new Spice Girls forum?
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Way ahead of you, I moved it this morning.
I'm still waiting on COB's review of these
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I LOVE Summertime
I WILL GET REAL GRIMEY. I WILL START CUTTIN' UP CLOTHES.
I haven't heard a SINGLE Geri b-side and I feel like missing out. I don't know where to start! I only own the Look At Me single and that just had a bunch of awful awful remixes. I bought it when I studied in Canada for a while
cat, hat; in French, chat, chapeau in Spanish, el gato in a sombrero.
I'll shove them in George Michael's bin later and let you know.
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Did you manage to put Berri in the bin? I've not had the chance to take the bin out yet...
Yes you ungrateful bitch, that took me ages to upload two at a time (an activity you're probably quite accustomed to).
Last edited by straightorbroken; 17-08-2012 at 04:30 PM.
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Of course, it's obviously an 11!
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Summertime, Destiny and GAY are all wonderful. I Was Made That Way too, but it's an album track, not a b-side.
It was a b-side to 'It's Raining Men' before the album came out.
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How opinions change - I gave it a 9 yesterday
Proof that Geri grows on you like fungus.
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