I'm listening to M People
fucking hell they were shit. I don't think I can endure a whole song.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 14:20, archived)

Christ they were shit.

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Tue 6 Feb 2024, 14:39, archived)

Well produced though
I worked in a HiFi shop and I'd put on "Moving On Up" if I wanted to flog a pair of speakers. I gave up after a while though and swtiched to NuYorican Soul.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:00, archived)

Every Mondeo driver’s favourite band.
Speaking of, where’s Planearm these days?
( Cheers Cheers, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:05, archived)

There would be room for six in the CD multichanger
M People - Elegant Slumming
Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive
David Gray - White Ladder
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Dido - No Angel
Moby - Play
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:30, archived)

Now That’s What I Call Bland 99

( Cheers Cheers, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:53, archived)

Somebody described her singing as if she’d eaten an ice cream straight from the freezer

( Cheers Cheers, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 14:54, archived)

I remember hearing that Time Out had described her as "grunting fuck pig, Heather Small"
when a reviewer put it in some copy as a joke for the editorial team but nobody spotted it and they published it. She sued. She won.

Cant' find any record of it online though so may be an urban myth.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:02, archived)

She, and they, were terrible. Also probably multi millionaires so who’s the chump now eh?

( Cheers Cheers, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:04, archived)

You.

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:37, archived)

NO U

( Cheers Cheers, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:52, archived)

Wikipedia is unintentionally damning - sections on M People, then solo work, then Strictly Come Dancing

( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 17:15, archived)

Victor Lewis Smith rip in the evening standard

( mongychops, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 19:04, archived)

They make me feel physically sick…
Along with the Lighthouse family and Toploader
(Fucksocks Put ‘em on, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:44, archived)

You're a creepy and repulsive person.

(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Tue 6 Feb 2024, 16:07, archived)

You like those bands? You fucking bad noncer

(Fucksocks Put ‘em on, Tue 6 Feb 2024, 16:36, archived)

By your logic there are good noncers.
YOU NONCE.
(Smegg Wallace The O.G. Q.R., Tue 6 Feb 2024, 17:12, archived)