S.A.W. was the 'Hit Factory' of that time; and gave many artists their start or career boost if you will. Who were some of your favourite artists or songs that emerged from that 'era'?

Kylie Minogue (early years)

Rick Astley

Samantha Fox

Dead Or Alive

Mel and Kim

Pat & Mick

Sinitta

Donna Summer

Sonia

Jason Donovan

ALTHOM?


any others.....? I know I'm missing a lot.




Label/Producer edit!
[This message was edited Sun May 30 9:17:33 2004 by Chico319]

aren't you confusing Stock, Aitken & Waterman?

abierman said:

Yeah...I realised that about 2 hours after I logged off. But you know what I meant.

Chico319 said:

Yeah, Banarama's "Venus", plus - urm - The Jones Girls, "I'd Rather Jack".

God, most of that stuff was fucking awful! "Never Gonna Give You Up" was ok, Mel & Kim and two DOA songs were ok, but the rest .... Barfarama.

Shapeshifter said:

Wasn't that by the Reynolds Girls?

Stock etc.... sucked bigtime! Just copied American artists and made a crapy sounding version of them so even that is against them!

Glenn medeiros.....jason donovan
Paula abdul....Kyle minogue
sonia.....tiffany

Surprised knowone noticed these as blatent rip offs of US acts! Paula was way better then Kylie though (She could also dance unlike shitty Kylie) and Glenn I guess at this stage was only a bit better then Jason (Glenn can sing better-check "Not me"- it's quite nice actually) and Tiffany vs Sonia! Well I really liked Tiffany's "New inside" album but that is different to this though as was Glenns attempt at a "tough" album!


BUT I always liked "Respectable" by Mel and Kim though! The "tay,tay,tay,tay..." bit always cracks me up! They were no Jimmy jam or Terry lewis though were they!

Pete seems quite arrogent though as well but he fooled the charts 4 a couple of years so.....(though the public had no choice)

thesexofit said:

Kylie started in 87 out of OZ Paula started in 89 sooooo uuuuummmmm I think Kylie came first

Chico319 said:

Yeah, you're absolutely right, although it wasn't "really" by them but some anonymous session singers.
[This message was edited Mon May 31 23:20:55 2004 by Shapeshifter]

Thanks to SAW,Donna Summer was able to make a late-80s comeback with the Top Ten single "This Time I Know It's For Real".The rest of her album 'Another Place And Time' was also produced by SAW,and it was her most consistent album in years.Songs like "If It Makes You Feel Good","The Only One" and the title track are solid gems.

Princess...i used to love Say I'm Your Number One. Still do actually.

polkadotsuit said:

I didn't know that was a S.A.W. production. Cool. I love that song as well. Been ages since I've heard it.

On the whole they were a really lame outfit. Kylie's SAW material is pretty horrid, Rick Astley had a few good tracks, Donna Summer had a few more, Samantha Fox was the 80's Britney but with a voice, and the rest just plain suck. Sinitta? Wonder whatever happened to her.