Girls Aloud yas!

Or any girl band

The Nolan’s ?

For what’s it’s worth though Nicola Roberts solo album is a sublime work of genuine genius

Girls aloud was my suggestion and I’m as conformist as they come

Or how about 80s New Romantics?

Should at some point widen it out and do one for the best Eurovision tune, in the spirit of this year's competition being cancelled and all of the songs from 2020 being scrapped. Nothing more feelgood/bonkers than that.

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Should at some point widen it out and do one for the best Eurovision tune, in the spirit of this year's competition being cancelled and all of the songs from 2020 being scrapped. Nothing more feelgood/bonkers than that.

If someone reminds me we can do that when the comp should have been on, which is mid May normally iirc. Same day as the FA Cup final generally.

Five

We made guys on the phones in a call centre use "What's your favourite Five song?" as small talk to avoid dead air.

There has been some calls for a pop group, im not sure many have the variety to dedicate a round to so lets do a versus.

The year is 1995 and Oasis are going head to head against Blur in the charts. Fast forward 12 months and the talentless hacks at Smash Hits don't have an original thought so another Brit pop battle is on the horizon. Because money says so.

In one corner we have the originators of the Girl Power movement the Spice Girls.

In the other corner the one you are allowed to like because they wear khaki trousers All Saints.

Spice Girls vs All Saints

Usual rules, pick a track for each then pick a winning group. No solo tracks or anything from "Appleton", shudder. I will allow that one hit the Spice Girls had as a four piece.

Pure Shores is better than anything the Spice Girls ever did imo. 

I'm basing this on very hazy memories of the outputs of both bands though, plus I only ever really heard the singles and big hits.

Wasnt aware Never Ever sold that well. That is quite impressive. Singles actually sold back then as well, the twilight years of the real charts.

Spice Girls probably smash them internationally, they broke America.
I'm not sure All Saints ever did, possibly Pure Shores because of The Beach.

Yeah listening to Pure Shores atm and it's so evocative of a time and place for me, great tune.

I actually liked the Spice Girls at the time 'cause I wasn't afraid to like what I like, I just didn't tell my friends  Think I had the album copied off a similarly covert buddy.

Culturally Spice have this, musically probably All Saints - gonna enjoy doing a bit of digging.

On instinct I'd have said All Saints clearly the better band. However Dante's post made me think it might be an age thing. Spice Girls were probably the first "tween" band, so I guess if you're 38 or over that might have put you off at the time, though me and my mates were still rating them on bangability when they first hit the charts. Will be interesting to go back and listen with different ears, after all, given the music I choose there's no way I can claim to be averse to "pop songs"

Never Ever gets docked a massive amount of points for basically stealing the tune to Amazing Grace.

Oooft. I suppose someone had to die on that hill. Sorry to see you go Liv, you’ll be missed.

I had such a thing for Melanie Blatt back in the day. There was a TV advert with her photocopying her bum that blew my mind.