i'm taking a little trip down memory lane reviewing some of the albums that i used
to love as a child i am not a musical person i mean i love musicals stage musicals but i'm not
really into music pop music anything like that so i'm not reviewing this from the perspective of
a knowledgeable music addict i am discussing this from a nostalgic perspective seeing whether or not
for me it lives up to the memory i loved this album i think it might have been the
only steps album i had or i might have had the one i don't know what it's called but
it's a white background and it's got their heads reversed does that make sense probably not but
this was definitely the most prominent one from my childhood having listened to it i can
now conclude that the songs that i remembered definitely live up to it they're so fun cheesy
engaging nostalgic but the middle or maybe the the second half of the album
except for one song i have no recollection of i didn't really enjoy listening to it the second
well this time round um goodness knows how many times i listened to this when i was growing up
i didn't have you know that many albums i did listen to the same ones on repeat quite a lot
probably much to my parents annoyance so it's pretty decent still but not quite as powerful
as i remember so i was going to like cite some really interesting facts about a lot of
singles that are on this but then i realized you could just go to wikipedia yourself if you
were that interested i won't bore you with all the tiny details um but i will say that apparently the
titular song buzz peaked at number one in the uk singles charts which was steps as steps as steps's
second number one song which i think is pretty interesting is buzz my favorite on the album
my cat contributing to the conversation there no it isn't it absolutely is not but i do like
it it is very upbeat um kind of got that techno feel drifting into it when pop kind of started to
um kind of weave that into a lot of their songs but it's definitely not my favorite the other
tracks that i love well it starts off with better the devil you know which i love i love the kylie
version i'm not saying i prefer the steps version but i certainly have always adored it and then um
stomp which i absolutely you know i find really kind of addictive
is is good fun um obviously as i said it went to number one i think i just called it buzz a second
ago it's called stomp i'm losing my mind um stone point number one it's very catching very uplifting
then we have summer of love which vocally is actually pretty decent and i still find it so um
then we go into it's the way you make me feel which i think might be the slowest song on here
it's a lot more sombra it's a lot more emotive and i've always liked it i feel like as soon
as you see that title the lyrics are in my head the words are in my head and then sadly things
from that point kind of go downhill um learn to love again you'll be sorry never get over you
hand on your heart happy-go-lucky i kind of like i didn't really remember it you know i read the
track titles before i re-listened to it and this one didn't come back to me i couldn't recall it
and then i listened to it and i could kind of vaguely remember it but i didn't mind it like
let's say i was listening to it now for the first time i didn't really mind it that much it was okay
buzz i don't like paradise lost turn around wouldn't hurt so bad and if you believe all of the
last songs there i don't care they just do nothing for me but track 11 of 15 and really the only one
that i like from the second half maybe half you got lucky but here and now here and now definitely
is one that stuck in my head from when i was younger i could remember it very well and i still
really like it so this is definitely an album of two halves i'd say tracks well i say halfs
tracks one to four brilliant remember them very well still love them track nine happy-go-lucky
kind of like it still track 11 here and now love it as much as the first four the rest of it kind
of blends into one now does that mean that i just listened to the first four songs constantly
and kind of neglected the rest of the album or have they failed to leave a lasting impression
on me over the years i don't have an answer to that but i will say that considering this album
was released in 2000 and i listened to it probably for about four or five years very frequently
i hadn't listened to any of these songs in about 15 years maybe longer
the fact that i can still remember quite a few of them you know bodes well for it it's pretty decent
i'd say it's my favorite steps album it is my favorite steps album but as i said i think i
might have only had one other one if i even had that one my memory's a bit vague if you were a
steps fan you don't remember this check it out and let me know what you think if you do remember it
go and have a listen revisit it for me it will all always hold a special place in my heart