Readers of this bLog may or not be aware of my love for the Spice Girls. I guess it would depend on a) if we are friends in real life (not bloody likely), and b) if we have been friends for a long time (even less bloody likely). All you need to know is that I have a box in storage that contains a bunch of Spice Girls VHS tapes and some fold out poster book. I had a sticker book as well, but I didn't manage to complete it. For shame! Needless to say, 1998 meant singing Spice Girls songs and corrupting all my workmates into enjoying their music as well. Imagine a bunch of 18/19 year-old dudes getting high and listening to Spice Girls or watching a Spice Girls concert - because that was what we did after work most nights.
Anyways... they released 25th anniversary editions of their first two albums, and I held off purchasing them for multiple reasons; I was disappointed with the content on the bonus discs, the price was a bit off, and quite frankly I don't listen to them anymore. In fact, I think a few years ago I was looking in my iTunes and it was showing Spiceworld had never been played! That doesn't mean I don't still love them, because I certainly do! In fact, during one of our glorious lockdowns and watched some documentary on Spice Girls and girl power - which was actually very interesting, even if none of the Spice Girls themselves were actually involved. But read my bLog: the only music in English I listen to these days is Prince, Elvis or Kiss. Mostly Prince. I've eased up a bit on that lately and have been revisiting some stuff I haven't listened to in years. So when I saw that I could get the 25th Anniversary edition of Spice for cheap, I decided to jump on it. But then, being a completist, this meant I needed to buy the 25th Anniversary edition of Spiceworld as well - well, waiting for it to be on some sort of special as well. And while I didn't get it quite as cheap, it was still discounted enough for me to dash to the counter with it. Here's hoping Forever gets the same treatment, because that album is an underrated gem that even I didn't appreciate in 2000. I had clearly lost coolness in the space of 2 years.
Anyways, I'm sitting here giving them a listen and I'm reminded that Spice and Spiceworld are seriously just the best pop albums. And the remasters sound great. But boy, these bonus discs are almost a waste of time. Hilariously, I had somehow removed Viva Forever from my iTunes some years ago, and since all of my compact discs are boxed up in storage, it always felt like way too much hassle to go and find it just to replace that one song. So it 's quite nice to be able to listen to that song once again.
I think Spice World is going to need a good viewing on Sunday morning. Funnily enough, I have also just recently purchased the DVD. I had ordered it many many years ago, but it was actually stolen out of my mailbox. I know this, because the thief left the empty post bag in my driveway. But honestly, I can't really blame them; as far as musical comedies go, it is one of the best and wasn't so easy to find on DVD, so I hope they enjoy the movie as much as I do. And then I just started waiting for a blu-ray... and now I've given up on that entirely, so it seemed sensible to just bite the bullet and get my Spice Girls collection back to a more current state.
And then somehow this has segued into me listening to Kiss?
