I'm not one to bring negativity to this thread but I really don't get the love for A Hundred Years Of Winter. Even though I'm not a huge fan of To The Beat Of My Heart, I totally get why people stan it. It's just not for me. But A Hundred Years, I skip every time and don't get the hype. Wish I could see what I'm missing.
Same. Winter is nice. But I just don't think it'd be a great single. Certainly not now we've filled the mid tempo quota for this campaign with Take Me For A Ride.
A Hundred Years is possibly my favourite on the album. It’s the one song I’m desperate for an acoustic on as I think it would fit very well and they haven’t had this style of song since It’s the Way You Make Me Feel. I’m not sure why everyone thinks Take Me For A Ride is a mid-tempo. It’s a bop, it’s just not as poppers o clock bpm as their previous singles
A Hundred Years would sound better if the lead vocal was either a) in a key the lead vocalist could comfortably hit or b) sang by a different lead vocalist (ie Faye, or, you know.... Or me.)
I also think it should be called Glitter & Gold, I've thought it for a while CD ONE 5,6,7,8 Last Thing On My Mind One For Sorrow Heartbeat Tragedy Better Best Forgotten Love's Got A Hold On My Heart After The Love Has Gone Say You'll Be Mine Better The Devil You Know Deeper Shade Of Blue When I Said Goodbye Summer Of Love Stomp It's The Way You Make Me Feel Here & Now You'll Be Sorry Chain Reaction Words Are Not Enough Baby Don't Dance CD TWO Light Up The World Scared Of The Dark Story Of A Heart Neon Blue Dancing With A Broken Heart What The Future Holds Something In Your Eyes To The Beat Of My Heart Heartbreak In This City Take Me For A Ride The Slightest Touch A Hundred Years Of Winter NEW SINGLE NEW SONG NEW SONG (I would personally ALWAYS choose Baby Don't Dance over I Know Him So Well) Maybe each member could choose a favourite album track/bside to bump CD2 up to 20
Ohhh I adore Hundreds. It's up there for me together with tracks like To The One, September Sun. These are the moodier vibes we get from Steps and I'm living for them. Dark, moody, experimental, but biutifullll at the same time. I want Steps to records more songs like these in the next record. We know it's Steps at their absolute best when they do a full-on poppers o'clock bangers such as Scared, Chain, What The Future, Something, but isn't it just nice to sort of chill and sit back and enjoy these "mid tempos" as well. Not all Steps songs have to be in my face at all times if that makes sense.
By the way, I can't decide which is better Tears or Part 2. Both are up there for me in terms of: 1. Solid album tracks for the non-singles 2. Flow of the album (except for I Will Love Again and probably High) 3. And can we talk about the gorgeous album artwork (Tears, gotten us all quite emotional with that throwback to Step One artwork and whoaaaaah, that neon pink just screams buy me, buy me! Loving that subtle Lee's pose with both hands "tied" behind his back ready to serve, I mean... wooooh Military Steps!)
I love “A Hundred Years of Winter,” I’m surprised I like it so much considering it’s predominantly male-led and the girls take a bit of a back seat. I think it’s a nice change of pace, vocally and stylistically for the band and the lyrics are gorgeous. It’s “High” that I’m not the biggest fan of - it’s listenable but just such a weird choice for them as a group, I think it would have fit better on Claire’s solo album, very similar to the sort of songs on My Wildest Dreams.
A Hundred Years Of Winter is a strange one. It's not a "go to" for me. While it does stand out on the album and is well produced. As a song is good but I'm still not sure if it's single worthy. Whereas The Slightest Touch and Wasted Tears are definitely that. I don't dislike the song and my man does have a verse in it, so there's a win there. Maybe it's the use of H's vocals (of which I'm not the biggest fan of) that erks me about it. However I can see this song having an awesome video. After Take Me For A Ride I guess I wanted something more punchy for the next single Wasted Tears/Living In A Lie/Trouble And Love maybe? Yet as a song it's actually pretty great.
I mean, nothing Steps release as a single is going to set the charts alight these days, so it doesn’t really matter what gets picked as long as it’s Radio 2 friendly, which A Hundred Years of Winter clearly is.
This. But they also need to make sure they cater for their core audience and release the camp bops as well so let’s crack on with The Slightest Touch then 100 years.
I love A Hundred Years of Winter, for me it's a clear standout of both albums and the best of the mid tempos. It reminds me of Gwen Stefani's Early Winter in the production and latter day ABBA with the melancholy vibe. It's a nice change of pace for a Steps single and I'm so glad we are getting a location shoot video. Radio 2 is going to eat it up as we go into the colder months. It's stunning.
Would it be cheaper to release new versions of the tracks for the greatest hits as majority of the tracks have already been composed for the tours so minor edits to make them into album tracks (cutting the extended intro/outro) or they could even license the new versions back to Sony to release Keeping the extended tracks could be used as EPs or even released as a single boost generating more revenue again.
I know you’ve gone for chronological, but opening the second disc with “Light Up The World” would be a choice.
The 7th Heaven remix could work and would flow better into the Tears singles. It's the only version that exists for me.
