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| Pete Waterman Presents The Hit Factory | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 3 2012, 12:11 AM (576 Views) | |
| Riverwide | Jul 3 2012, 12:11 AM Post #1 |
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Sorry, but I WANT THIS. ![]() http://www.backstagepass.biz/2012/06/pete-waterman-presents-hit-factory.html ![]() Pete Waterman Presents The Hit Factory, three CDs bursting with The Hit Factory’s biggest and best-selling singles, is to be released by PWL and Sony Music on July 9. Boasting fifty pop masterpieces, Pete Waterman Presents The Hit Factory is packed with the Stock Aitken Waterman and PWL classics that came to define an era in British music history. Stock Aitken Waterman scored an unrivalled run of global hits in the 80s and 90s, they launched the careers of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan amongst others, and are now acknowledged as one of the most successful songwriting and producing partnerships of all time, while Pete Waterman’s PWL empire became the ‘British Motown’. Now Pete Waterman Presents The Hit Factory brings these hits together in one sensational package. Celebrating the irresistible pop that became the soundtrack to a generation, this must-have collection contains classic hits from the likes of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley, Bananarama, Mel & Kim, Dead Or Alive, Steps, Sinitta, Sonia and many others. The release of the album coincides with Pete Waterman Presents Hit Factory Live, a once-in-a-lifetime spectacular taking place in London’s Hyde Park on July 11 and featuring the classic artists from the PWL Hit Factory together on one bill. Full tracklisting as follows: CD 1 Mel & Kim – Respectable Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Bananarama – Love In The First Degree Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me Loving You Lonnie Gordon – Happenin’ All Over Again Loveland Featuring Rachel McFarlane – Let The Music (Lift You Up) Sybil – When I’m Good And Ready Brother Beyond – The Harder I Try Hazell Dean – Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go) Divine – You Think You’re A Man Sinitta – Toy Boy Big Fun – Blame It On The Boogie Pepsi & Shirlie – Heartache Princess – Say I’m Your Number One Kylie & Jason - Especially For You Steps – Heartbeat CD 2 Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart Bananarama – Venus Hazell Dean – Who’s Leaving Who? Cliff Richard – I Just Don’t Have The Heart Rick Astley - Together Forever Sinitta – Cross My Broken Heart Samantha Fox – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now Dead Or Alive – Lover Come Back To Me Opus III – It’s A Fine Day Stock Aitken Waterman – Roadblock Princess – I’ll Keep On Loving You Lonnie Gordon – Beyond Your Wildest Dreams Jason Donovan – Sealed With A Kiss West End featuring Sybil – The Love I Lost Brother Beyond – He Ain’t No Competition Sonia – Listen To Your Heart The Reynolds Girls – I’d Rather Jack Mel & Kim – Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend) Steps – Tragedy The WIP 2 Tribute Mix CD3 Princess – Say I’m Your Number One [Princess To A King Mix] Mondo Kané– New York Afternoon [Extended Version] The Three Degrees – The Heaven I Need [Extended Version] Morgan McVey featuring Neneh Cherry – Looking Good Diving (With The Wild Bunch) Mandy Smith – I Just Can’t Wait [Alternative 12” Mix] Precious Wilson – Only The Strong Survive [Extended Version] Sybil – When I’m Good And Ready [Original 12” Mix] Jason Donovan – Too Many Broken Hearts [Party Hearty Mix] Kylie Minogue – What Do I Have To Do? [Billy The Fish Mix] Dolly Dots – What a Night (Party Night) [12” Remix] Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) [Buzzing Bees Mix] |
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| Jimmy Mack | Jul 3 2012, 11:58 AM Post #2 |
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I ADORE half of PWL's singles. I've already got their first compilation and fookin' LOVE it! |
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| Jimmy Mack | Jul 3 2012, 11:59 AM Post #3 |
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Oooooo, this one's got Sonia's "Listen to Your Heart" on it. LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! |
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| johnnox | Jul 3 2012, 01:06 PM Post #4 |
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You too are so fucking gay. (I want it too) Where's the Donna Summer though? |
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| Fembot 1 | Jul 3 2012, 02:54 PM Post #5 |
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What a fabulous compilation. SAW were genius pop writers. |
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| Riverwide | Jul 3 2012, 02:58 PM Post #6 |
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Phew! I'm not the only one! Yeah, that SAW sound has dated and is now sort of laughed at, but they were excellent pop songwriters and they really defined a moment in British pop history. |
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| Fembot 1 | Jul 3 2012, 03:02 PM Post #7 |
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I love that Brother Beyond song. I had a total crush on the lead singer |
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| Riverwide | Jul 3 2012, 07:07 PM Post #8 |
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Nathan Moore? Is he the one went on to "manage" Lisa Scott-Lee's solo "career"? ![]()
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| Jimmy Mack | Jul 4 2012, 12:24 PM Post #9 |
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"Hi babe ... it's tweeny-free!" http://www.youtube.com/embed/n2suIf1Ky1s |
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| johnnox | Jul 4 2012, 02:52 PM Post #10 |
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Jimmy - our mututal friend Darren went to interview Pete and was played loads of unreleased stuff and remixes that were never released. I was quite jealous. |
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| Jimmy Mack | Jul 4 2012, 07:27 PM Post #11 |
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If Darren wasn't such a charming and funny bastard, I'd fucking HATE him. |
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| johnnox | Jul 4 2012, 10:21 PM Post #12 |
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I must have missed his wit and charm. |
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Jul 5 2012, 07:08 AM Post #13 |
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When I lay in bed I touch myself and I think of you
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Would Darren by any chance be looking for a boyfriend? |
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| Riverwide | Jul 6 2012, 12:15 AM Post #14 |
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The Guardian review Various Artists: Pete Waterman Presents The Hit Factory – review Were Stock, Aitken and Waterman the utter nadir of pop, or unfairly maligned geniuses? A bit of both, perhaps 3 out of 5 Alexis Petridis Incapable of telling good from bad … two definitive SAW acts, Kylie Minogue (left) and Pat Sharp. Next week, Hyde Park plays host to The Hit Factory Live, a celebration of the music of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. It's an event almost guaranteed to give a case of the vapours to the rock fan of a certain age, old enough to remember when Hyde Park was the venue to which the nation's freaks flocked for free concerts. Has it really come to this? Rick Astley and Sinitta desporting themselves in the very place where Mick Jagger quoted Shelley and released butterflies? Sonia taking to the hallowed stage once trod by Blind Faith, King Crimson and Roy Harper and "Heavy Friends"? Of course, since then Hyde Park has often played host to what would once have been termed The Man's Music – of late, Mike and the Mechanics, Jamiroquai and Gareth Gates – but this seems like the final insult. Even 21 years after Stock, Aitken and Waterman last worked together, they remain perhaps pop's most reviled producers, their wilfully tinny sound symbolic of all that went wrong with music in the 80s. But of course, to their adherents, SAW are unfairly maligned geniuses: these people congregate on messageboards to discuss the Super Dub Remix of Rick Astley's Together Forever and the extra tracks on the recent reissue of Big Fun's A Pocketful of Dreams. Listening to this 3CD set, you're forced to concede both factions have a point. SAW were not only capable of making fantastic records, they could make them in more than one way. You do get a lot of their signature style – blaring faux brass, chattery synth bass and cantering drum machine – to which time has not been terribly kind, though there are some deft touches: the weird, seasick chord sequence behind the "tay-tay-tay" hook of Mel and Kim's Respectable, the Northern Soul melody of Lonnie Gordon's Happenin' All Over Again. Equally, there's a huge sonic gulf between the demonic Hi-NRG of Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) and the slow-motion take on freestyle electro found on Princess' Say I'm Your Number One; or between the punkish snarl of Divine's awesome You Think You're a Man and the effervescent hip-hop of Morgan McVey's Looking Good Diving (With the Wild Bunch), an early version of guest rapper Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance. Bafflingly, however, SAW seemed absolutely incapable of telling good music from bad, as evidenced both by their label PWL's discography – where a record as good as Kylie Minogue's Better the Devil You Know rubs shoulders with the musical work of bemulletted local radio DJ Pat Sharp – and by The Hit Factory's track listing, which somehow finds room for not one but two offerings from the catastrophic oeuvre of Sinitta. It's hard to work out whether this was down to a Simon Cowellish contempt for their audience – in fairness, the British public showed a worrying tendency to buy SAW's dross in the same quantities as their good stuff – or if the trio just genuinely had no taste and sometimes made incredible pop records by mistake. Either way, their imperial period was shot through with a hugely appealing brand of iconoclasm: no wonder Malcolm McLaren was a fan. There were the interviews (in one, Pete Waterman offered the mind-melting opinion that the Beatles could have learnt a thing or two from SAW about artistic integrity) and there was the Reynolds Girls' I'd Rather Jack. The latter is not by any means a great record – it sounds like it might have taken less time to write than it actually does to listen to – but as an act of mad, nihilistic musical provocation, it's up there with the Clash's 1977. Actually, it's better – or at least more honest. When Joe Strummer dismissed Elvis, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, he was lying through his teeth: when SAW went for Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, heavy metal and, indeed, all "music from the past", they really meant it. It's impossible to imagine a pop act releasing a single like that today. You could say the same thing about everything on The Hit Factory: it's audibly music from a different era, less sophisticated, or at least less knowing. As it plays, there are certainly moments when you're profoundly glad it's all in the past: something like Big Fun's Blame It on the Boogie doesn't so much deserve to be confined to the dustbin of history as sealed in a concrete cylinder, like nuclear waste, lest it harm future generations. But there are also moments when it seems like a shame: more of them, maybe, than Stock, Aitken and Waterman get credit for. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/05/pete-waterman-hit-factory-review |
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| scrowfan | Jul 10 2012, 02:04 PM Post #15 |
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I have been scouring the internet for over a week now looking for this! I might actually have to break down and buy it!! |
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| Riverwide | Jul 10 2012, 03:52 PM Post #16 |
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I can't find it either.
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| johnnox | Jul 10 2012, 07:03 PM Post #17 |
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I see the concert has been cancelled. |
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| Riverwide | Jul 10 2012, 07:43 PM Post #18 |
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Oh shit!
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| scrowfan | Jul 10 2012, 07:51 PM Post #19 |
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I count on you for these things... keep searching!!!
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| johnnox | Jul 10 2012, 09:12 PM Post #20 |
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Bad weather had made it too dangerous to be in Hyde park. Wonder if it will affect the Madonna gig? |
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