Reply With QuoteWasn't it only about the SAW years? Surely Tina was after that.
So a SNIPPET of Lonnie Gordon and her plastic weave from the first Happening All Over Again video? I loved the not-dead one from Mel & Kim saying how dreadful she thought I'd Rather Jack was - it sounded like one of her own hits with different lyrics. I hadn't seen her on TV since Michelle Gayle got all "you just don't know how much I loved you growing up" when they were both on Trisha one time. More Than Words Can Say is still one of my favourite sloppy ballads though, not to mention a few of her solo smashes.
Perhaps a 2 hour documentary would have been better as so many high profile acts were air-burshed out of history: Tina Cousins for one. I never really thought about why Kylie's Rhythm of Love album didn't do as well despite the humongous leap in quality the singles gave her. And poor Jason, in awe of a song that probably makes Kylie cringe, and also having the biggest selling album of 1989 yet getting the absolute dregs PWL had to offer.
It's such a shame the team split as if they had kept going in the direction songs like What Do I Have To Do were taking them in, the results could have been unthinkably good.
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Wasn't it only about the SAW years? Surely Tina was after that.
Top up, Sue?
That's still no excuse.Originally Posted by Eileen
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Sybil SNUBBED
She WASN'T READY.
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Although Rhythm Of Love is her best PWL album, 1990 is really when Kylie began to move away from being popular with the kids to being a bona fide gay icon, and there are much less gay fans than little kids buying records. It began to be a law of diminishing returns for SAW, they started getting more flops in the early 90s with Kakko, Delage and Romi & Jazz. They really only had Kylie and Bananarama left by 1992 and even a last minute revival by Sybil was short lived.
They’d gone from the likes of Hazell Dean and Dead Or Alive at the beginning to WWF Superstars and Bill Tarmey at the end, and that’s quite a drop in quality.
I guess for a documentary for the general person on the street it was good enough, but there wasn’t really anything new for the fans, apart from some clips of rare footage. I am glad they concentrated on the SAW era though, Tina Cousins as fabulous as she is really had little involvement from any of SAW, all her stuff was written by Topham and Twigg!
Oh, do you have any unreleased Kakko tracks, Kala? I've heard about a track about a clock or something?
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Have you read this blog sorb?
http://www.thevervoid.com/media/musicbox_02.htm
That's Stop The Clock. Don't have ANY of them, they are the HOLY GRAIL among SAW loons. There are rumours that her stuff is going to be digitally released this year, there are about 5 other songs including a cover of Nu Shooz "I Can't Wait" and one called "L.O.V.E."
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Can you put them in among her immigration papers please?
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That COLLAGE on the main page is my WET DREAM
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The guy who writes that is a friend of mine, you should read them all, he's very funny.That COLLAGE on the main page is my WET DREAM
omgies shampoo are totes cool when i was 17 back in 94 i totally wanted to be them even tho i was boy. but now i'm a girl so it all worked out alright really!
I've only got the 2 singles and a B-Side...
Tell him to do more! They're years old now but brilliant. His Hazell Dean one is fantastic.
I went straight to Gina G and one of his sentences is SO me it's spooky. He's way more objective about these precious has-beens that I ever could be, his comments on Every Time I Fall are hilarious. If I didn't know any better I'd have guessed it was Robot Boy who wrote it.
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Bung 'em in, I have nothing but curiosity.
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Have I met him? I don't recognize the name.
Top up, Sue?
I am at work just now but will do it tonight...
I've got practically every single SAW produced so let me know if you want any in Hazell Dean's lesbian lunch box...
You've just reminded me that I need to continue uploading Berri (was it you who was sniffing around for it?). There's lots of PWL stuff I don't have, but I love their sound.
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It was me! :-)
Oh BRAVO LOVE. That certainly cheered up a SOUR SOIRÉE
Pleasingly comprehensive all round, I thought
HELLO. Someone needs to read their ENCYCLOPEDIA
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Maybe this doc should have been on whilst tickets went on sale..
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Why?
Top up, Sue?
Oh no, I was AGREEING with you!
If I need FACTS to justify bringing Tina Cousins into a conversation then FAIR ENOUGH.
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Oh I SEE. I had a WIKI moment thinking "but she was only 18 when SAW disbanded"
Top up, Sue?
sorb, forgot to do this last night, but I'll do it tonight. have you got The Twins? Tell Him I Called by Sequal is another lost classic...
Speaking as a bonafide child Kylie loon and being 8 throughout 1990, it's true. It's odd to think that Tears On My Pillow was in January, whereas by the time Rhythm of Love was out it felt like an eternity to us little kids. It wasn't the same Kylie we worshipped.
I liked the Rhythm of Love singles but never bought the album until I was 18. Which was odd considering what Kim Appleby said about the "cooler" dance music in the charts like Snap, Black Box and Soul II Soul, because that's exactly what I was loving instead of Kylie. I was also just starting to discover Madonna at that time, which completely contradicts the theory that we rejected Kylie because of her sensual new image.
I did however like the clip showing Kylie saying that people will look on the music differently in 20 years.
I was 11, so a little older when Rhythm Of Love came out and I was getting into dance music so I lapped everything up she did, but then I was a PROPER loon, buying all the singles, books etc too. and I HATED Madonna, she was like the Anti-Christ to a Kylie fan like me, I remember even falling out with my best friend because he liked her...
By the end of 1990 when Rhythm Of Love was released the tide was turning against Kylie. She'd been on top for 2 years but after The Delinquents (BRAZEN TOPLESS KYLIE) and dumping poor lovely Jason for mad, bad and dangerous to know Michael Hutchence (CHEAP SLUT KYLIE) the bad press she was getting didn't help. I'm sure Smash Hits readers started voting her worst everything in 1990, after being best in 1988 and 1989.
And the first 9 singles had all been released pretty regularly and the wait between Better The Devil You Know and Step Back In Time seemed like an age. And Step Back In Time was seen as a really odd choice for a single at the time, and the album didn't perform well on the back of it. Don't Worry by Kim Appleby and Step Back In Time were released in the same week and Don't Worry did a lot better and got much more media attention. And if I remember rightly Rhythm Of Love was released the same week as another album that would appeal to a similar market - possibly The Immaculate Collection? - and disappeared pretty quickly. Jason also had an appalling 1990 compared with 1990 and didn't even make the top 20 with one of his singles. Except for Lonnie at the start of the year and one of Jason's I don't think PWL had any top 10 hits, other than Kylie.
PWL did target a lot of their singles at kids - the b-sides were often instrumentals and the lyrics were printed on the back of the single so you could be Sonia or Big Fun in the comfort of your bedroom.
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There we go, my own top 15:
Euphoric - and proud supporter of Tooji-ism
Living the life of POP - 24/7!
So this is happening on December 21st in the O2 apparently.
Oh DAMN. I'm seeing SHALAMAR at the IndigO2 on the same night.
should make it A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
MOTIV8 VOCAL SLAM
Two days before my Birthday! I think I'm gonna do a DOUBLE whammy and come down and go see Viva Forever on the Thursday night! Anyone else gonna go?
Take me with you even though I can't afford anything please
"The few who understand me and learn from me will be wise beyond belief" - Lauren Harries
Ooh interesting
Madonna Madonna Madonna Madonna Madonna Madonna
Isn't that the day bookmarked for the END OF THE WORLD?
Figures.
Top up, Sue?
CHRISTMAS SAVED FOR HAZELL DEAN!
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