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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4469098.stm

Crikey readers WITHOUT CLICKING can you guess which member of Take That is NOT reforming for the reunion tour.

Who should they get in to perform his BITS?

And oh why not....


[Poll #619751]

Comments

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

I thought that "Four Minute Warning" was a good song.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Mark Owen has at least THREE good singles. This is as many as Robbie!

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Mark's last two albums are basically good all the way through! "Alone Without You" is particularly underrated. I think most poptimists have a soft spot for "Believe In The Boogie" too.

Actually, "315" and "Wasting Away" off his last album should be heard by more people, the former is basically a JC Chasez song, and the latter is a MASSIVE ANGSTY ROCK SONG ALERT on which his lithp is particularly great.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

GOOD SINGLES TALLY

Mark Owen - 1
Fool Williams - 0

compare & contrast:

Emma Bunton - 5
Victoria Beckham - 1 (but SO good)
Mel B - 1
Mel C - 1
Geri - 0

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Which is VB's good one?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

"Truesteppers, you're out of your mind. Dane, you're out of your mind. This tune's gonna punish you!" SO CLASSIC! I bought the Truesteppers album for 99p last year.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

luv for truesteppers = you are OUT OF YOUR MIND. DYS!!!111

and hating on geri!? i think bag it up is a barrel of laffs compared to true-step-ass

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

truesteppers = GOLDEN AGE OF 2-STEP!

geri is jokes. 'look at me' was kind of compelling like a car crash though.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Emma Bunton has so not had 5 good singles!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

what i am
what took you so long
maybe
i'll be there
crickets sing for anamaria

PLUS most of the non-singles off her last album!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I remember none of the above listed tracks. Thus I judge them to be POP FAILURES and therefore NO GOOD.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What Took You So Long is v.good, but all the tracks from the last album sound like the kind of thing people half-heartedly dance to at How Does It Feel, weak 60s indiepop pastiche basically.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

That makes sense - weak 60s indiepop pastiche is probably my least favourite sort of music.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

So stylised though! I think La Bunton would have been very much at home doing that sort of thing in that era.

It was about as successful as R Stevens, come to think of it.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Emma much more successful than R Stevens as far as sales went. "Breathing" would have been a Number One, I am sure.

ALSO, Mel B - has no great singles, but four hilarious ones and that almost counts for something.

Geri - I LIKE SCREAM IF YOU WANNA GO FASTER AND CALLING AND "NO REGRETS" BY GIRLS ALOUD SOUNDS LIKE CALLING SO NER.

Mel C does not have any good singles, you are quite correct. "Out Of Your Mind" is super-awesome, but "Let Your Head Go" is also great.

Good R Williams singles - "Supreme" and "The Road To Mandalay". That's it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I like 'I Want You Back' (both in a hilarious way and in a proper way, it's an early Missy beat!) and 'Never Be The Same Again' (I admit this would be much much better with less Mel C but what can one do).

Is 'No Regrets' off Chemistry? If it sounds like a G Halliwell song that'd be 0 for 4 :(

I fucking fucking fucking despise Robbie Williams.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like "I Want You Back", "Tell Me" and "Feels So Good" plenty, and I don't care who knows it, Mel B's cover of "Word Up" is genuinely so bad it's good, and stands as a nice embarrassing blot on Timbaland's copybook even though it's actually really great!

"No Regrets" is off Chemistry. It sounds like "Calling" specifically but it has much better lyrics and is sung properly, so is not rub. 0 from 4! Oh no, well, FWIW, I do rate "Chemistry" below the other tow, because there DOES seem to be actual filler on it but I'm not going to specifically proclaim it as such until I've heard it enough times.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Good Robbie singles = I Want Your Sex Freedom, Let Me Entertain You, South Of the Border, and sorry but it has to be said, Angels. Plus 1/2 Kids and 1/2 Rock DJ.