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YourLeadSinger

YourLeadSinger

And let’s not forget about


Absolutely Sublime! It’s such a stunning song, the way it lulls you in, then continues on with a harmonized bridge before an easy breezy chorus. The instrumental (especially the 7” version)? Lush!

All four singles from Pop Life should’ve been smashes. All dance pop but still varied and with their own identity.
 
idratherjack

idratherjack

In hindsight it's surprising that the record label didn't hit the panic button after the first 3 Pop Life singles underperformed and release this



As the most traditional Stock Aitken Waterman song on the album and a throwback to their late 80s heyday it would have been interesting to see how it would have done. May have got them back in the Top 10 but we'll never know... Great song anyway.
 
letuinmybackdoor

letuinmybackdoor

idratherjack said:
In hindsight it's surprising that the record label didn't hit the panic button after the first 3 Pop Life singles underperformed and release this



As the most traditional Stock Aitken Waterman song on the album and a throwback to their late 80s heyday it would have been interesting to see how it would have done. May have got them back in the Top 10 but we'll never know... Great song anyway.
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Maybe they saw What do I have to do (which is sonically similar) miss the top 5 and thought otherwise, which is insane.
 
nanafan

nanafan

idratherjack said:
In hindsight it's surprising that the record label didn't hit the panic button after the first 3 Pop Life singles underperformed and release this



As the most traditional Stock Aitken Waterman song on the album and a throwback to their late 80s heyday it would have been interesting to see how it would have done. May have got them back in the Top 10 but we'll never know... Great song anyway.
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I was convinced this would be single 4 at the time. Definitely the biggest missed opportunity in Bananarama’s back catalogue. I’d love a proper extended version of the album mix
 
phoenix123

phoenix123

I remember seeing multiple unsold copies of Trippin’ On Your Love vinyls on the shelves and then in the bargain bins at Woolworths for weeks and weeks and weeks and i just wasn’t interested in buying it despite having bought every Nana single since I Can’t Help It. Not sure I had heard it at the time. It was a certified flop. I think there was too long between singles 3 and 4, also had Jackie already left and was that publicised? I just remember thinking they had reached the end at the time.

Thank god for Movin’ On.
 
phoenix123

phoenix123

WhatKindOfKylie? said:
The Pop Life run singles run, is truly up there as the best singles run of all time. Bananarama for the 90s and done right.
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1990 to 1991 was one of my favourite periods for epic single runs from some of my faves:

Bananarama: Only Your Love to Long Train Running
Kylie: Better The Devil to Shocked
George Michael: Praying For Time to Freedom
Whitney Houston: I’m Your Baby Tonight to I Belong To You
Mariah: Vision Of Love to I Don’t Wanna Cry
Janet Jackson: Come Back To Me to Love Will Never Do Without You

Then in 1991 we had new girl on the block Cathy Dennis with 4 classic singles from her debut and Kylie’s sister had 4 bops that year too.
 
carlbob

carlbob

Such vivid memories of Trippin’ - the confusion when it appeared listed in a few places as the second single and then didn’t emerge; the fact when it came out the catalogue number placed it in sequence as the second single; Dannii Minogue reviewing it in Number One magazine (although can’t for the life of me remember whether she was positive or not)… then being horribly confused, and then crushed, when I listened to the Top 40 the week after and it wasn’t there (and it not even being in the Top 75 in Music Week that I tracked down at the newsagents).

Was one of my faves on the album.
 
YourLeadSinger

YourLeadSinger

Pop Life not being released in the US, the brain worms. Should’ve white-labeled the first two singles, then again, probably would’ve been easy to gather it was Bananarama with their signature three voices as lead vocal arrangement.
 
Musiquelover64

Musiquelover64

Why did Jacqui leave? Why didn't they replace her. I'm still learning about them and digging deep in their discography but their wiki page is pretty vague on why she left
 
manloveuk

manloveuk

Tripping On Your Love flopped because its a poor song that not even George Michael could breathe sufficient life into to make it float. A hideous blotch on an otherwise flawless run of singles. Only Your Love, Preacher Man and Long Train Running however, should have been massive.
 
WhatKindOfKylie?

WhatKindOfKylie?

idratherjack said:
In hindsight it's surprising that the record label didn't hit the panic button after the first 3 Pop Life singles underperformed and release this



As the most traditional Stock Aitken Waterman song on the album and a throwback to their late 80s heyday it would have been interesting to see how it would have done. May have got them back in the Top 10 but we'll never know... Great song anyway.
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Certainly one of the best songs on Pop Life for me. One of their strongest works with the Hit Factory altogether I think. Although, considering SAW themselves were starting to struggle come 1990/91 (Kylie aside), I don't know if this would have made much difference either.
 
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