A Journey Through SAW

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This podcast delves quite deeply into Kylie's (as well as other artists on the roster) career at PWL. SAW fans might want to have a listen.

Anyway the lastest episode discusses the re-recording of Locomotion, Kylie's frustration at not being able to record what she wanted (R&B) on her debut and using her US promo to vent her feelings on the matter. :o

Also features a snippet of an interview with Mike Duffy, though aside from getting the impression he was disappointed, it beats me if I can work out what he's saying. He's supposed to be a Brit but he has a very strange accent.

 
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Also :D at Pete Hammond trying to get a vocal take out of Jason that WASN'T flat.
 
Hazel Dean:

"A lot of people love my version of it, SOME people like hers".

:D
 
For reference, previous Kylie related episodes:

Locomotion/I Should Be So Lucky/Getting Closer:




Got To Be Certain (including the revelation that Kylie was in tears during the recording session):

 
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Iv'e been really enjoying this. The two guys have a breezy manner to them and they've managed to wangle some brilliant interviewees. I'm only up to Episode 30 so far, so no Kylie yet. The Princess stuff has been brilliant and some of the Bananarama stories hilarious. Pete Waterman is equal parts monster and genius, as I always suspected :D
 
They're great aren't they? The only thing that irks is the determination to refer to SAW as "saw".
 
Anyway the lastest episode discusses the re-recording of Locomotion, Kylie's frustration at not being able to record what she wanted (R&B) on her debut and using her US promo to vent her feelings on the matter. :o
This is one of the American interviews/articles in question:


She comes across as really quite resentful. :o
 
This is one of the American interviews/articles in question:


She comes across as really quite resentful. :o
Thank goodness she didn’t. Although I don’t love much of the SAW stuff it definitely set her up longer term than an rnb album at that stage would have done, I reckon.

Also both Bananarama and Samantha Fox AGOG that SAW introduced them to the world according to that article.
 
I don't really go for podcasts particularly but I started this the other week and it is a great listen. The interviews they've got are wonderful and there were some songs from the early years that I hadn't heard before.

I've still got a long way to go until I get to Kylie... Showing Out up next.
 
I've just started listening to other Kylie related podcasts after initially dismissing them on the assumption that they'd be naff and I'm quite enjoying "This Is Disco" also run by a pair of Aussies which covers Dannii too (they've actually had her on for one episode as well as people like Steve Anderson and Terry Ronald).

Loving this Anti Tour episode with Steve:

 
I’ve shared videos from this channel quite a bit recently, but there’s a lot I wasn’t familiar with here - plus some truly horrendous band names :D

 
From her interview on the podcast O'Chi seemed delightful and very much loved the gays.
 
Princess needs to publish that tell all book and read the audio version. She sounds mildly terrifying every time she's on this show :disco:
 
Princess needs to publish that tell all book and read the audio version. She sounds mildly terrifying every time she's on this show :disco:

That's before you get to the infamous Don.

My favourite part was Princess telling us how, despite being actual royalty, she chose to make tea for everyone because she didn't care for their tea making habits/hygiene.
 
Great anecdotes on the recording of Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi including the suggestion that the prolonged "whyyyy" was added very late into the production of the track and Kylie's refusal to mime it given that they weren't her vocals.



Matt Aitken has also started being interviewed for the podcast.
 
In the Heat of a Passionate Moment was such an undeserved FLOP

DOO! DOO! DOOOOO!

Wasn’t it just. Not only Desiree’s finest hour but one of SAW’s very best for me, total top drawer.

Anyway, I’m a big fan of this podcast but still well behind. Loving it so far though- amazingly well sourced and researched interviews. Hazell is my favourite. What a joyous MAD OLD BAGGAGE she is.

“You see I was sitting at number six so I had the power. In the charts, you see. Sitting at number six”.

Also DYING at Mike Stock trying to claim Mandy Smith’s first single being called “I Just Can’t Wait” and featuring lines like “they talk as if I’m just a baby” and “they’ll never see you the way that I do” was ENTIRELY coincidental to her paedophilic relationship with Bill Wyman :D
 
Still reeling that Pepsi & Shirlie were not even in the same room for Heartache, yet claimed it as one of their owns for years to the extent it was on their Hit Factory/Ton Of Hits compilation.

The Princess stuff is very believable spite on both sides.
 
See, it’s odd, at the time, I don’t ever remember Heartache BEING a SAW production. And I even had the album (which is fucking brilliant by the way). It wasn’t until it appeared on those compilations that I remember it being credited to them and being surprised.

I do wonder if it was all rather retroactively changed…
 
See, it’s odd, at the time, I don’t ever remember Heartache BEING a SAW production. And I even had the album (which is fucking brilliant by the way). It wasn’t until it appeared on those compilations that I remember it being credited to them and being surprised.

I do wonder if it was all rather retroactively changed…

Lovers Resolution is great - but yes they disassociated themselves with SAW despite their reissues including the usuals later on.
 
I've caught up unfortunately so now waiting on the new episodes. Even when they go off on non-PWL/SAW tangents it is still really interesting.

Hazel Dean:

"A lot of people love my version of it, SOME people like hers".

:D

Haze was also very keen to tell us how Turn It into Love has become a real anthem at (Surrey) Pride.

Most of the interviewees are great value. Karen Hewitt in particular seems LOVELY. I thought it was interesting that Mike Stock has been referred to a few times as the 'nice' one, I guess that was before he went fully swivel-eyed.
 
Dying at Sinitta claiming she was “16/17” when she recorded the video for So Macho

Doesn't she realise that Shock Treatment exists and that she is clearly not an 11/12 year old in it

We have cinematic (or should that be SINematic) evidence and yet she persists
 
Dying at Sinitta claiming she was “16/17” when she recorded the video for So Macho (she was actually at least 22/23 if official reports are to be believed) and then completely forgetting it 5 minutes later when talking about how her 18 year old boyfriend was her toy boy in 1987 :D
Sinitta,39.
 
I have to say that this podcast continues to be utterly fucking fantastic and has prompted quite the over-excitable and consequently occasionally weepy and slightly hysterical SAW revival chez moi. Reminding myself of the inventive array of A LINN intros on the 7” versions (even though I mainly focus on the 12” versions) has been a particular highlight. Toy Boy and Together Forever being especially notable :disco:

Also I now realise that RSVP in either form (12” the preferred option obviously) is all manner of :disco: and I’ve been very excited to discover the presence of multiple key changes in the verses of I Should Be So Lucky :disco::disco::disco:
 
Loving the Matt Aitken episode, not least his suggestion that coming up with the title of I Heard a Rumour was the most Bananarama ever did when it came to songwriting. (“Sue me! Sue me!”) Too busy scowling and sneering no doubt :eyes:

I never fail to be astounded by how blokey SAW and associates (Harding, Curnow, Hammond, etc.) were / are, given how fabulously faggy the songs were (:disco:)
 
I'm glad Matt Aitken gave Princess her props for making "Say I'm Your Number One" her own, if not a cut of the songwriting.
 
Impromptu SAW top 10 because I can (not including production-only songs, hence no You Spin Me Round)

1. This Time I Know It's For Real
2. Better The Devil You Know
3. Together Forever
4. Respectable
5. Listen To Your Heart
6. What Do I Have To Do?
7. GTO
8. I Can't Help It
9. Too Many Broken Hearts
10. That's The Way It Is

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Too Many Broken Hearts higher than Turn It Into Love?

Hang your head in SHAME.
 

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