I loved them too, had their poster on my wall. FLM and Showing Out also were great songs

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Its sad that Mel passed away from cancer.....I think Mel and Kim would have been bigger stars had she lived. Mel & Kim - That's the Way It Is

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Now I have figured out how to actually post videos here F.L.M by Mel & Kim. Also they came on the scene a year before Kylie Minogue who also Stock, Aiken and Waterman who wrote and produced Mel & Kim's debut album. So their music sounded fresh before everyone and their momma started to work with them.....if u know what I mean.

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NorthC said:

Oh God, Stock, Aitken and Muthafuckingwaterman. The most hated producer team of the 1980s! But it sold like fucking hotcakes.... Oh, those muthafucking 1980s... If anybody here ever wonders why I'm such a screwed up idiot making freaky posts, it's because I grew up when these moneymaking fuckers were all the rage. They knew something. They knew people don't think. People just want some mindless tune that they can dance to. Human beings really aren't that much more advanced than the average chimpanzee. Stock, Aitken and Whatsisname realized that. Prince didn't or didn't want to. He was about the music. Artistic growth and personal freedom. That's why he did what he did. And it is why never was the biggest selling arist of the 1980s. But it's also why we love him. [Edited 8/13/16 15:10pm]

I didn't mind their work with Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round

or Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up...now that man could really sing

or Bananrama's Venus

or Kylie Minogue's Step Back In Time

But after the 90s and everyone and their momma was working with them (even Latoya Jackson ) their music became cookie cutter Blandapalooza. Now back to Mel & Kim

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Here are some cool pics to celebrate the awesome duo that was Mel & Kim

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My all-time fav Mel & Kim video Respectable

Goddess4Real said:

Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up

I used to play a song by Samantha Fox a lot called I Only Wanna Be With You as I had it on a videotape compilation of her music videos. I think it was by SAW but the video might have been a remix, so it could have been someone else. Speaking of Rick

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NorthC said:

Oh God, Stock, Aitken and Muthafuckingwaterman. The most hated producer team of the 1980s! But it sold like fucking hotcakes.... Oh, those muthafucking 1980s... If anybody here ever wonders why I'm such a screwed up idiot making freaky posts, it's because I grew up when these moneymaking fuckers were all the rage. They knew something. They knew people don't think. People just want some mindless tune that they can dance to. Human beings really aren't that much more advanced than the average chimpanzee. Stock, Aitken and Whatsisname realized that. Prince didn't or didn't want to. He was about the music. Artistic growth and personal freedom. That's why he did what he did. And it is why never was the biggest selling arist of the 1980s. But it's also why we love him. [Edited 8/13/16 15:10pm]

I didn't mind their work with Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round

or Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up...now that man could really sing

or Bananrama's Venus

or Kylie Minogue's Step Back In Time

But after the 90s and everyone and their momma was working with them (even Latoya Jackson ) their music became cookie cutter Blandapalooza. Now back to Mel & Kim

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The main reason why I'm one of few music fans that will never hate on Mike Stock/Matt Aitken/Pete Waterman or PWL in general is because I remember that they actually were soulful and funky when they were really focus.

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NorthC said:

Sam Fox was known mainly for her tits, by the way, just like an Italian singer called Sabrina who became a one hit wonder in the summer of 87 with a tune called Boys (Summertime Love). Yeah, that's the kinda thing a teenage boy remembers.

Samantha had a few hits in the USA. Probably the most known ones are Touch Me and the songs produced by Full Force. S-S-S-S-Samantha Fox. She's on the newest album Full Force put out about a year ago.

That's nice Mel & Kim even had a greates hits cd http://www.allmusic.com/a...0000418530

^^I don't know about any hits, must been in other countries other than the US. I just heard the one song Respectable on the radio.

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NorthC said:

MickyDolenz said:

^^I don't know about any hits, must been in other countries other than the US. I just heard the one song Respectable on the radio.

I checked the tracklist and noticed that Showing Out and Respectable were on there twice and the other songs I hadn't even heared about, so I guess you're right. On a related (and sadder) note, didn't one of them die from cancer at a young age? [Edited 8/15/16 15:38pm]

Mel died on 18 Jan 1990 from Pneumonia aged 23, after contracting a cold, her immune system weakened by chemotherapy. She was diagnosed with secondary cancer of the spine in 1988, after previously being treated for liver cancer when she was 18, prior to the duo’s rise to fame.

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NorthC said:

Always sad when someone dies so young.

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Don't forget Kim's lovely solo dance tune, 'Don't Worry':

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Awwww yes, I remember this song! That sound effect was a cool thing "tay tay tay tay"... - does anyone remember Ferris Bueller pressing on his keyboard to simulate a cough? Wasn't that the same Sound Tech or whatever...?

Fascinated me to some extent then, probably should have got into it deeper.....

domainator2010 said:

Awwww yes, I remember this song! That sound effect was a cool thing "tay tay tay tay"... - does anyone remember Ferris Bueller pressing on his keyboard to simulate a cough? Wasn't that the same Sound Tech or whatever...?

Fascinated me to some extent then, probably should have got into it deeper.....

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I'm no expert on the subject, but I've heard this pitch scaling effect in lots of '80s synthpop songs. Funnily enough, I can't think of a good example. The only song that comes to mind is 'We Just' by Italo-disco group Moses, but that was only a hit here in Holland and not in the States, apparently.

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Can't stand most of SAW, but I do love this song. The "tay tay" bit just makes it LOL.