BoysForSeles
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I hadn’t known she co-wrote Is This Love with Dave Stewart. I might order The Key too seeing as she took the time to do these podcasts.
Your collaboration with Tricky “…that’s a great great track”…. “No…that’s one I struggle with.”![]()
Is she still mates with French or Saunders?
Ordinary Girl is a favourite of mine, and I remember being quite upset when it flopped at the time. It does have a horrible video, though - totally wrong for the song.I'm gutted that Ordinary Girl didn't even warrant a mention, let alone an episode. It's always been one of my absolute favourites by her.
I've been revisiting Raindancing this week. I always leant towards Alf for childhood nostalgia reasons but Raindancing is the better album. Without You and When I Say (No Giveaway) are so bright and breezy.
Ordinary Girl is a favourite of mine, and I remember being quite upset when it flopped at the time. It does have a horrible video, though - totally wrong for the song.
I do remember hearing her talk about the song a while back. I think she said she thinks it's a good song, but it got lost in the production. Which presumably explains why she reinvented it for The Minutes tour.
I’ve been listening through Alison’s back-cat since this podcast started and it led me down a Kirsty wormhole too. They definitely have certain parallels, despite Kirsty never achieving the kind of success Alison did in her lifetime.
He’s On The Beach is one of my faves of her early releases too. Deserved far more chart action than it got.
It's not grabbing me immediately.
I'm persevering, but it's not clicking for me. I'm sure it's in no small part because it's a song that already speaks a great deal to me lyrically, and hearing her deliver it in quite a different vocal style is somewhat jarring.That one is not doing anything for me at all. I got bored halfway through and put the original on.
I see the similarities, but interestingly (well, to me), she's probably the female singer I find it easiest to sing along with, whereas I really struggle sometimes with Erasure - I nearly always start too low and then Andy Bell will go lower to a place I simply cannot reachTalking of songs being offered elsewhere I’m surprised to hear she wrote ‘This House’ and offered it to Erasure but Andy vetoed it unless it was done as a duet but Alison felt it was a loner’s song so didn’t want to do it as a duet.
I have often thought there were some similarities in Andy and Alison’s vocals though obviously she can go extra places with hers.