Spice Girls

[Pat]

I feel like they are keeping the best stuff for a bigger anniversary like a 40th and these 25 sets are just going to be generic stuff

Who has time for that though?

 

[Black Melody]

Who has time for that though?

Not me. Something to look forward to when I’m on my 60s I guess

 

[GCZ]

Same, I think it definitely had potential from what we've heard. I feel like it was only abandoned before of the team they wrote it with, and wanted to distance themselves from the Old Guard.

What I find frustrating is if they put all the Forever unreleased material on iTunes tomorrow, it would outsell both the Spice and Spiceworld 25th Anniverary editions immediately, but we just know they'd never approve it.

It's always infuriated me that Mel said they didn't add more unreleased material because it wasn't good enough. If you've been a fan for 25 years, the wants of the fans are more important than the wants of the artist. It's for us, not them. The artist put out their vision of the album 25 years ago, and we loved it and are still listening to it now, so deserve to form our own opinion of unreleased material. That's the reward we get for sticking around. Likely Stories was ditched and that was loads better than Feed Your Love, which is proof we should have been given the opportunity to hear the others.

I agree with 98% of all of this except for the part about Feed Your Love. I live for the RnB moments on the first album like Last Time Lover, Naked and the B-Side Take Me Home, so for me, Feed Your Love is top tier. I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea though.

I think the fans would respond better to unreleased material than the girls think. I look at the Sugababes 20 year edition of One Touch, for example. That release had tons of demos, alternative mixes, and remixes with multiple formats. The fans all seemed to really enjoy that, even the rough cuts. I truly believe the demand is there for the Spice Girls but they just don’t seem interested in providing anything other than a hoodie, one unreleased song, and Youtube rips of performances.

 

[Misty Circles]

Spice Girls be like ”we can't put out unreleased material, it might cheapen our legacy!"

Also the Spice Girls:

 

[Misty Circles]

Seriously though, they need to stop being so god damn precious and get over themselves. The songs don't need to be great, that's why they'd be marketed as unreleased material. EVERY artist puts out this kind of stuff and nobody's ever been damaged by it. I seriously think they're stuck in 1996.

Michael Jackson, when alive, put out a demo on an unreleased collection that literally features the words "dah dah dah dah dah dah dah" and other nonsensical words through the verses as it was so unfinished. Nobody cancelled the rest of his material because of songs like this! But it sure was interesting to hear for his fans and the beats were banging on it:

 

[sugababesoverloaded]

They are not bothered to release new music, but all these demos they have collecting dust. They could easily make money from them and up their stream. Just do what the Sugababes did with The Lost Tapes, and drop it as an album of mixed demos. 3 Spice Girls albums is just not enough ladies !

 

[Sideout]

Releasing a rarities album alongside a tour announcement is such a no brainer. A solid, well crafted rarities album would almost act as a 4th album for them.

 

[_Gru_]

24 years wow. I still remember buying it from Our Price and the excitement was other level as it was the first spice related release since “Goodbye”.

In many ways it was the official spice follow up to Goodbye.

I still rate it a solid 10 like everything from Schizophonic.

 

[undisco_me]

Look At Me was such an exclamation of Geri. And the video simply superb.

 

[tylerc]

The way Likely Stories absolutely snaps to me! It should have made the cut of Spice 25 with the (also great) Feed Your Love. That said, them leaving Baby Come Round, Bumper to Bumper, and Spice Invaders off the 25 year reissues is absolutely unforgivable to me so I shouldn't be surprised.

I love A Day In Your Life, Pain Proof, and If It's Lovin' on Your Mind more than 60% of Forever so naturally they will rot.

 

[DaniSpiceBoy]

TMF really is the gift that keeps on giving! Victoria's fixing her nails and hair throughout the interview, Emma literally disgusted at Geri's joke and Mel B's response to that - my God were these girls entertaining.

 

[WhatKindOfKylie?]

24 years wow. I still remember buying it from Our Price and the excitement was other level as it was the first spice related release since “Goodbye”.

In many ways it was the official spice follow up to Goodbye.

I still rate it a solid 10 like everything from Schizophonic.

Oh my, those were the days. Was so excited about this and still think it's her best single. ANTHEM.

 

[Mvnl]

 

[Misty Circles]

"We didn't want to do a sexy video... Posing, urgh..."
"Yes but you will in 5 years time"

The way the host predicted Holler.

 

[Mvnl]

 

[worldspice]

They've released another montage video from the tour, but it seems like there's some additional footage in there that we maybe didn't see at the time?

 

[Obscenely Delicious]

They've clearly got footage, is it really that hard to piece together a 5-minute documentary video instead of these endless montages?

 

[masahiro]

Is this count as alternative video of Viva Forever like we had SUYL, Too much and Stop?

I mean If this is it, Spice World 25 era is officially end.

 

[P'NutButter]

People always say "oh it was for the screens" but there is clearly footage for a full release.

I mean if another tour is not gonna happen, at least let us enjoy the last one!!!

 

[Mvnl]

I mean, for a proper release you'd need at least 5 usable angles of any moment plus decent footage of whoever is singing for all bits of all songs (I've edited a concert without that and there's only so many times you can cut to the audience or a wide shot). There definitely is quite a scale between 'just the one shot that was on the screens' and 'enough to make a decent video of it'