Girl Bands in the 'pop' heyday

What the fuck, the name of the group vaguely rang a bell but I had no actual recollection of them until I read “The Misunderstood” in that blurb. As soon as I saw it, the chorus came straight into my head. Sort of bops.

A song about people falling over silently after tripping off the kerb. Beautiful.
 

Island

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Looks like N-Tyce went on for bit after their album came out. A track called “My Business” has an entry on discogs and this seems more like a promo copy. The track itself if not single material but it’s a decent indicator of what their 1999 sound would have been.

 
I loved N-Tyce, but outside of the singles, there was only 1-2 other great songs on their debut and they needed something more to push them into the mainstream public.

In hindsight, I almost wish that you could take the best songs from Fierce (a similar ill-fated girl band) and the best songs from N-Tyce and then have just one group record them, releasing the best possible debut:

1. Right Here, Right Now
2. Telefunkin’
3. Hey DJ (Play That Song)
4. Sweet Love (Stargate Radio edit)
5. We Come To Party
6. So Long
7. Sunshine
8. Boom Boom
9. Days Like That
10. Do Me Right

Add 2-3 more Stargate tracks and this would have been a killer debut from any girl group of that time.
 

Island

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I feel like N-Tyce should’ve led with We Come to Party instead of Hey DJ.

Also, the album should’ve been out when Telefunkin was released. They had potential but it seems that All Saints basically cannibalized any hype.
 
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The All Saints album came out nearly 3 months before Telefunkin.

Bootie Call was released as a single about 6 months after Telefunkin.
Hmmm that's interesting then, so technically the Saints were first but the single release was a lot later afterwards, so it is possible N-Tyce ripped them off but then again could just be a coincidence. I wonder if any of them felt any type of way about it. The pop world back then was so damn chaotic yet fascinating; I would give everything to have been a fly on the wall at a major back then.
 


This description for Kick Angel is absolutely wild:

Kick Angel were Abi, Anna and Laura - a UK girl group formed in 1999. Signed to Mercury Records and teamed with songwriters/producers Pete Kearney and Steve Robson, the girls debut single, 'I Don't Care', was due for release in February 2000. Their label however decided to halt it's release, leaving a promo video incomplete, as the label were unhappy with the group's styling.

In May, Kick Angel appeared on the Smash Hits Magazine cover-mounted freebie CD, 'Things That Go Pop!', with a new track 'Eyes Shut Under You', which was 'from the forthcoming album'. A couple of weeks later, they released 'Misunderstood' (or 'The Misunderstood' on promo copies) but it only charted at #79. At this point, Mercury decided to call it quits, dropping the girls and leaving their debut album, 'Tales From The Tent', shelved. It was originally scheduled for an August 2000 release and set to include tracks called 'Goodnight Judas', 'Medicine Girl', 'Pussy Galore', 'I Need You', 'So Tired', 'He Loves Me Not', 'Sometimes You Know' and 'Dream Hangover'.

Ok but we need Pussy Galore on Spotify.
 
Hmmm that's interesting then, so technically the Saints were first but the single release was a lot later afterwards, so it is possible N-Tyce ripped them off but then again could just be a coincidence. I wonder if any of them felt any type of way about it. The pop world back then was so damn chaotic yet fascinating; I would give everything to have been a fly on the wall at a major back then.
I’d assume the N-Tyce album was all done and recorded by the time Bootie Call hit public domain?
 

Seems they listened to me, although the version they're playing is the album version, and not the far superior Tom Chester mix.

Hopefully both tracks will be included.

Also Insta says that Lip Service will be out May!

When I was speaking to their old manager the other day, he said that it was all ready to go, they were just finalising the artwork for the album.
 
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Wasn't really sure where to ask this but what were the rules for CD singles back in the day? I remember you could have two CDs and a cassette and then around 2004 it changed to have that 2-track/maxi and the two track couldn't exceed 10 minutes but what other rules were there? I feel like @AcerBenII would know?
 
Wasn't really sure where to ask this but what were the rules for CD singles back in the day? I remember you could have two CDs and a cassette and then around 2004 it changed to have that 2-track/maxi and the two track couldn't exceed 10 minutes but what other rules were there? I feel like @AcerBenII would know?

They changed several times but in summary, they dropped from 4 formats to 3 in 1995, which basically killed off the 7". Then reduced the number of tracks allowed to 3 in 1998. In 2001 they backtracked slightly by allowing up to 40 mins of remixes so long as all tracks were the same song. Then yeah around 2004 it changed to a £2 2-track and a maxi, which resulted in a brief bounce in sales.
 

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