The Friday Canon: BANANANARAMA

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Woo woo! It's the biggest girl group of the 80s! Siobhan & co have racked up 24 UK Top 40 hits! You get to pick your favourite EIGHT Narner songs. Well go on then!

[Poll #938493]

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Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

These are the ultimate SAW tracks pretty much aren't they - a band who did "anybody can do it" well with the great anybody-can-do-it producers.

Both really awesome. I bet "I Want You Back" is too but I can't remember it.

SAW canon!

SAW canon

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's on the list!

However it will have to wait till a slow werk day as it is non trivial to compile (as opposed to plugging BAND X into everyhit and c+v-ing the results.

Re: SAW canon

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I knew a very serious SAW fan who ran a fanzine entirely dedicated to tracklists from European CD single releases (and suchlike).

He also made me a double-cassette compilation of Manics B Sides.

Re: SAW canon

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

wow, he sounds GREAT :)


(NB: it wasn't me viewers)

Re: SAW canon - Hey Kat!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Aitken_Waterman/songs

Re: SAW canon - Hey Kat!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Sadly it's incomplete. As you may see on the edit history I just put Dead Or Alive in there myself about 2 hours ago.

Re: SAW canon - Hey Kat!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

oops sorry

Re: SAW canon - Hey Kat!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I spent half an hour copying/pasting the UK top 40 hits from there before I realised there was no Jason Donovan in the list!

I think instead that I shall use the tracks that appear on the Hit Factory Best Of. There's 48 tracks in there (yes including the Reynolds Girls) so plenty of tick opportunity.

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Weirdly enough I think there was a best-of SAW a couple of years ago - if it wasn't a SAW best of then it was a best-of of one of "their" acts - and some of the production has dated absolutely HORRIBLY (even some of those old Kylie tracks are almost impossible to listen to). But Bananarama's stuff (and Dead Or Alive!) still sounds good.

Kat I have a best of the narnerarma I can dig out and LEND if you'd like (same goes for the other "I can't remember"ers on here)

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

That would be wicked! Cheers KT!

JEBUS the SAW wiki sa: "The three can be considered to be the most successful songwriting and producing partnership of all time, scoring over 200 top 40 UK hits in the mid '80s to early '90s."

BIGGER THAN ELVIS!

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have IN MY BAG TONIGHT the 2CD collection "The Hit Factory" which covers their oeuvre nicely (though with rather too many shonky W acts fom the post-SA days, it does have Steps though, lovely Steps)

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What I might do to reduce the chaff is Top 10 hits only?

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that's still going to leave you with a fair old number. there was a time where EVERYTHING they did went top 10...

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think that cuts out the Reynolds Girls though :(

Why not leave out already-canonned artistes i.e. Kylie?

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Didn't I'd Rather Jack get to number one? Or am I totally making that up?

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If it had done rock would have been VANQUISHED FOREVER.

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Number 8, sa everyhit.

Re: Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[sbp.livejournal.com]

The production irritated me at the time, never mind dated horribly. But I noticed a general "too much production on all popsongs" from about 1985 onwards. Phear my 16 year old self.