CANON: Steps

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Today, in shock news, H has announced he is a big gayer just in time for his appearance on Celeb Big Brother! Well done H. To celebrate, here is a list of all Steps' UK Top 40 hits. Pick your favourite FIVE out of this lot!

[Poll #899623]
(Most of the above are on youtube if your memories are not up to snuff!)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Absolute hats off to byebyepride here, who spotted that Steps were grebt as soon as he first heart 5-6-7-8, and predicted their excellence to a sceptical me.

I do not think I have ever heard Steps doing "I Know Him So Well" - BLIMEY.

"One For Sorrow" is the peak surely.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

One for Sorrow is the best, but I reckon that Heartbeat and (madly) the cover of Chain Reaction run it close.

5-6-7-8 is nightmarishly poor.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Butbutbut I can still remember THE DANCE!

Eight is numerically superior to one

[koganbot]

"5-6-7-8" is a trillion times better than "One For Sorrow." No. That is an exaggeration. But it is eight times better than "One For Sorrow." (Those are the only two I've heard.)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i can't go for the steps love. one for sorrow is nice, and i like all the "homage" elements.

i do however have their I know him so well as mp3...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

5,6,7,8 is amazing! H doesn't sing on it AT ALL. Lee does some awesome rapping. StepX0r at their most BOSHIN'.

A Rodeo Romeo

[koganbot]

It is a country stomp! In the video, they line dance on the beach, and mention "two step"!

ALL GOOD

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

No really, ALL OF IT.

I cried when Steps broke up.

Re: ALL GOOD

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A like-minded soul.

The video to 'Heartbeat' is absolutely amazing (I linked to it on my own journal just before wobs), poor old H being kidnapped by evil White Witch, he didn't even get any turkish delight...

Re: Heartbeat video

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It needs to be linked AGANE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNDq3JW7Hgs

tis indeed incredible

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Erm he was out on H Side Story as having a blokey partner! They were playing together in the garden!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Shhh! The Sun might ask for their money back!

Crimes against pop

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

And you can get all their albums for about £1.99 a go in charity shops these days, if you look hard enough! It's great for late-starting poptimists like myself.

I actually have the unpleasant feeling I may have shoplifted 'After The Love Has Gone' on tape, rather than, as I claimed above, paid money for it. If someone could suggest a suitable pop penance, I am now older and wiser-ish and see What I Have Done.

STEPXX0R FAXX0R:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

- Deeper Shade Of Blue was originally meant for Tina Charles
- Lee was 'accidentally' a big r4c1st: "Foreign people and people from ethnic minorities should all go home so that there can be more jobs for proper English people." STEPS responded that the quote was taken out of context.
- Steps supported Britney on one of her US tours.
- 5,6,7,8 is the highest selling single not to reach the top 10, thanks to its inclusion on Dance Dance Revolution
- Steps got their very own Brit award for Best Selling Live Act after being ROBBED of the Best Newcomer award the year previous by none other than Bell End Sebastiang.
- Claire used to go to school in Ruislip, our school regularly beat hers at netball

Re: STEPXX0R FAXX0R:

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Faye went to the same school in Dunstable as livejournal genius the_heiress, and the two went head-to-head for every female lead in teh drama.

Re: STEPXX0R FAXX0R:

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

has anyone else ever had 7 double a-side hit singles?

Re: STEPXX0R FAXX0R:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also: all the singles from One For Sorrow onwards made the top 5. Last Thing On My Mind got to no 6. Apparently only the Beatles, Oasis and Girls Aloud have managed 14 consecutive top 5 hits. Blimezor. (I wuv wikipedia)

Re: STEPXX0R FAXX0R:

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Tina Cousins, you mean.

Tina's version is crap anyway.

Even if you love the tacky day-glo pop, and I do, "One For Sorrow" reigns supreme above all of those, quite apart from that, a shimmering masterpiece. That said, "Tragedy" reigns even higher than that. Best pop song ever written, FACT - best out-and-out pop single of 79 (or whatever year it was) AND 99.

Re: STEPXX0R FAXX0R:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Tina Cousins! Of course! Doh. Although Tina Charles singing it would be ace on a stick.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

so that's what the H stood for

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The colour co-ordination plays a big part in being able to tell one song from another. Guess what colour they are wearing in 'Deeper Shade Of Blue'?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I've been on YouTube and this is bothering me more and more: where did they get those outfits from? Are they secretly haute couture, high-street bargains or the work of some great and holy Pop Wardrobeer?

Thorts (post youtube session)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

1. They were a LOT more like Abba in the early days (post their linedancing phase anyway) than I remembered.

2. The five I ticked earlier are indeed the best ones (phew).

3. "Stomp", which I only ticked reluctantly cos our then secretary at work loved it at the time, is WAY better than I remembered*. As good as the 70s disco it was imitating. (* I think had some rockist hang up about the fact that it was ripping off another song or summat.)

It's (Not) the Way You Make Me Feel?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Hmm... This is easily my favorite by them - very surprised it's not getting more votes.

On the other hand, the only other songs of their's I can remember now are 5-6-7-8 and Tragedy and vague visions of the Deeper Shade of Blue video (though I can't remember the song at all). And I thought I quite liked them!

(BTW, despite how grebt they may have been at the time, they are true disposable pop: very difficult to find anything by them nowadays on slsk)