S & D: old-school Brit cheesy pop

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All I know are the Spice Girls, S Club 7, and Steps (but aren't they from Australia)

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

anything produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman between 1985 and 1990 - Bananarama, Sinitta, Big Fun, Brother Beyond and Sonia mainly

i hate it all obviously but i figure it fits the description of what you're looking for

― blueski, Friday, 1 November 2002 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I prefer to call it 'bubblegum',other acts of recent note-Scooch(better than Steps),All Stars(similar to S Club Juniors,'Things that go Bump in the Night'is great bubblegum),A-Teens(Swedish S Club),early Atomic Kitten,Alcazar(check out 'Crying at the Discotheque',one of the singles of the year),Girls@Play(Spice Girls without the hits)A1.Bubblegum remixers of note-Almighty Productions & Jewels & Stone.All great kiddie pop

― Paul R, Friday, 1 November 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

boom! fallin' is a great lost track

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 1 November 2002 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeh Gareth,I've got that somewhere,I'll have to try & find it.

― Paul R, Friday, 1 November 2002 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Forgot to mention 'Hearsay'.I liked 'Everybody' & 'Lovin' is Easy'R.I.P

― Paul R, Friday, 1 November 2002 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

the best stuff is all much older than what's being discussed here, obv

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 1 November 2002 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

I agree,60s & 70s bubblegum from The Lemon Pipers & The Peppermint Rainbow to The Bay City Rollers & Wombles was fantastic,but I love loads of this shiny new stuff too,very underrated.

― Paul R, Friday, 1 November 2002 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Would Right Said Fred apply? I'm too sexy for this thread.

― rat, Friday, 1 November 2002 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Alcazar(check out 'Crying at the Discotheque',one of the singles of the year)

I'm pretty sure that was released last year- and it's hardly what I'd call kiddie Pop. Top tune, tho.

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 1 November 2002 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

It came out here in the UK early this year,it's been a long year.I agree it's more G.A.Y than kiddie

― Paul R, Friday, 1 November 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steps are English.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 1 November 2002 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're right Daniel,it came out end of last year-I think it was in the charts for ages though

― Paul R, Saturday, 2 November 2002 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

The best S/A/Wsong ever:

(crazy girl voice): HEEEEYYYEEEYYYEEYYYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEEEYYYYYYY!!!!!

HEY ROADBLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(sax solo)

Gonna be a roadblock
Roadblock
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Roadblock
Roadblack
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

(repeat for like ten minutes)

― Evan, Saturday, 2 November 2002 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

There was a tv documentary about Pete Waterman recently which, apart from largely excising Stock and Aitken from the story, repeated the Waterman-planted hype that 'Roadblock' conned the cognoscenti into thinking it was a genuine 'rare groove'. I've never understood this. Even at the time I remember listening to it and thinking that it sounded of its time, still with a SAW-ish quality and no way some kind of obscure sub James brown funk.

― David (David), Saturday, 2 November 2002 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Was "Roadblock" the beginning of that enduring tactic where non-credible acts release their records as club promos under pseudonyms?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 2 November 2002 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

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