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Well, of course the Spice Girls needed a greatest-hits album. They'd need one even if they weren't reuniting for a world tour that is as heavily hyped if not as anticipated as Led Zeppelin's (which of course is just a one-time shot, right?), as they were a singles-oriented group without a singles album in their catalog. And so, 2007's Greatest Hits, which has everything you know plus a few songs you don't and no left-field choices (if you were hoping that "Bumper to Bumper" would gain its rightful place as one of their finest, you're out of luck!). The songs have aged exactly as you thought they might: "Wannabe" is still too familiar, "2 Become 1" too drippy, "Spice Up Your Life" plain ridiculous, but "Say You'll Be There" is still sexy, "Stop" is as awesome a slice of obligatory British Tamla/Motown as you'll get, and "Goodbye" is actually a pretty good finale, while the rest is forgettable, as are the two new songs, the sleepy "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" -- which isn't as self-referential or clever as its title suggests -- and the peppy "Voodoo." But music was always secondary to the Spice Girls' girl power image: they had enough great singles to be huge for a couple years but not enough to be more than a quicksilver pop culture phenomenon and that brief moment in time is documented better on this Greatest Hits than any of their three albums. [Like any big-budget release in the late 2000s, Greatest Hits was available in a variety of formats all over the world upon the time of its release. First, the set was available in three incarnations in the U.K. and Europe: as a single CD, as a set including a DVD with all their videos -- which, frankly, is as tempting a collection as the CD, if not more -- then a box set containing those two discs, plus a karaoke CD and a disc of remixes. In the U.S., this Greatest Hits was initially available only at Victoria's Secret, then was available at other retailers in early 2008.]
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Richard Stannard, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Bushby, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matt Rowe, Producer, Keyboards, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1996 Virgin Records Limited
Eliot Kennedy, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Absolute, Producer - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1996 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Bradfield, Producer, Additional Producer - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Craig Armstrong, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matt Rowe, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - N Mañó, Translator
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1996 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Composer, Producer - Melanie Brown, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Melanie Chisholm, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Geri Halliwell, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Emma Bunton, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Rowe, Composer, Producer - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Watkins, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Wheatley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Absolute, Producer - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - ADAM BROWN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Mary Pearce, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Pete Davis, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Adrian Bushby, Engineer, Recorder, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jake Davies, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul "P-Dub" Walton, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Clifford Lane, ComposerLyricist - Mary Wood, ComposerLyricist - Matt Rowe, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Bushby, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matt Rowe, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Paul Walton, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Watkins, ComposerLyricist - Paul Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Absolute, Producer - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Andy Watkins, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Wheatley, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Higham, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Paul "P-Dub" Walton, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Absolute, Producer - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Milton McDonald, Guitar, Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matt Rowe, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1998 Virgin Records Limited
LaShawn Daniels, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Fred Jerkins III, ComposerLyricist - Rodney Jerkins, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Harvey Mason Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2000 Virgin Records Limited
LaShawn Daniels, ComposerLyricist - Fred Jerkins III, ComposerLyricist - Rodney Jerkins, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Melanie C, ComposerLyricist - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lashawn jenkins, Producer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2000 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - John Themis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Rooke, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - David Treahearn, Additional Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rosie Danvers, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Rowe, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Spice Girls, Composer, MainArtist - Rob Haggett, Additional Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Gendler, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jake Davis, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Savvas Iosiffidis, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wired Strings, Strings, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Rooke, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - David Treahearn, Additional Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Geri Halliwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Rowe, Composer, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Spice Girls, Composer, MainArtist - Rob Haggett, Additional Keyboards, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Gendler, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jake Davis, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Savvas Iosiffidis, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Virgin Records Limited
Richard Stannard, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Bushby, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Waller, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Jake Davies, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul "P-Dub" Walton, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Wil Malone, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Geri Halliwell, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matt Rowe, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Victoria Beckham, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jan Kybert, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1998 Virgin Records Limited
Junior Vasquez, Remixer, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Stannard, Composer, Producer - Melanie Brown, Composer - Melanie Chisholm, Composer - Geri Halliwell, Composer - Emma Bunton, Composer - Matt Rowe, Composer, Producer - Spice Girls, MainArtist - P Dennis Mitchell, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gomi for Junior Vasquez Music, Programmer - Victoria Beckham, Composer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 1996 Virgin Records Limited
LaShawn Daniels, Composer - Fred Jerkins III, Composer - Rodney Jerkins, Composer, Producer - Mischke Butler, Composer - Tony Coluccio, Producer, Additional Producer, Remixer, StudioPersonnel - Melanie Chisholm, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emma Bunton, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Mel Brown, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - JONATHAN PETERS, Remixer, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Victoria Beckham, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - LaShawn 'The Big Shiz' Daniels, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2001 Virgin Records Limited
Junior Vasquez, Remixer, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jonathan Buck, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Brown, ComposerLyricist - Melanie Chisholm, ComposerLyricist - Curt Frasca, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeremy Wheatley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eliott Kennedy, ComposerLyricist - Absolute, Producer - Geri Halliwell, ComposerLyricist - Emma Bunton, ComposerLyricist - Spice Girls, MainArtist - Joe Moskowitz, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Victoria Beckham, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2007 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2007 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2007 Virgin Records Limited
Album review
Well, of course the Spice Girls needed a greatest-hits album. They'd need one even if they weren't reuniting for a world tour that is as heavily hyped if not as anticipated as Led Zeppelin's (which of course is just a one-time shot, right?), as they were a singles-oriented group without a singles album in their catalog. And so, 2007's Greatest Hits, which has everything you know plus a few songs you don't and no left-field choices (if you were hoping that "Bumper to Bumper" would gain its rightful place as one of their finest, you're out of luck!). The songs have aged exactly as you thought they might: "Wannabe" is still too familiar, "2 Become 1" too drippy, "Spice Up Your Life" plain ridiculous, but "Say You'll Be There" is still sexy, "Stop" is as awesome a slice of obligatory British Tamla/Motown as you'll get, and "Goodbye" is actually a pretty good finale, while the rest is forgettable, as are the two new songs, the sleepy "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" -- which isn't as self-referential or clever as its title suggests -- and the peppy "Voodoo." But music was always secondary to the Spice Girls' girl power image: they had enough great singles to be huge for a couple years but not enough to be more than a quicksilver pop culture phenomenon and that brief moment in time is documented better on this Greatest Hits than any of their three albums. [Like any big-budget release in the late 2000s, Greatest Hits was available in a variety of formats all over the world upon the time of its release. First, the set was available in three incarnations in the U.K. and Europe: as a single CD, as a set including a DVD with all their videos -- which, frankly, is as tempting a collection as the CD, if not more -- then a box set containing those two discs, plus a karaoke CD and a disc of remixes. In the U.S., this Greatest Hits was initially available only at Victoria's Secret, then was available at other retailers in early 2008.]
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:11:37
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Spice Girls
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Virgin Catalogue
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2007 Virgin Records Limited ℗ 2007 Virgin Records Limited
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