I remember the girl group who were being 'hailed' as the new spice girls - girl thing. I think they only had 2 songs! I just remember their opening line

"It's a girl thing....."

Girl Thing we're managed by the Spice Girls' ex-manager simon Fuller and he marketed them into the same mould as the Spices however it backfired, as both singles didn't do to well and they were dropped. Apparently Hear'Say's "Pure and Simple" was originally written for them.

Other flops that spring to mind are:

Blessed - They had a song called "Booo" which didn't chart, however they had a very laughable video where the girl members tried to dance in the road, and had a dodgy old man as the DJ.

Benefit - Bizzarely, they were big in Lebanon and Ukraine where they had a song called "Sex Sells" which was a bigger hit in Scandiniva by Finnish singer Sheidi. Their UK hit was a latino number called "What's It Gonna Be?". They are probably living up to their group namenow

D-Side - Irish boyband, who had hits with "Invisible", "Real World" and "Speechless". Shame they flopped as they had potential.

Reel - Another Irish boyband, who could be described more as Westlife meets the Corrs. Had three top 40 hits, but were HUGE in Ireland.

Skandal - All I know of these, were they were touted to be the next big thing, and were one of the for-runners of these "boybands with attitude". Their only single flopped and they appeared on the Trisha show to launch the song back in 2000.

Yes, the song was called "Last One Standing" if I remember correctly.

and had the lovely Jodi Albert (Hollyoaks, Kian Egan's Mrs) and the pink haired one who went off to present Nickelodeon (im thinking Michelle?)

i love that song.....i think it was the one who wasn't in byker grove that wrote the songs. how about "what about us?" could have been good were it not for that freestyler bloke "rapping" all over it.

i always remember the a*teens, that abba covers band
oh and the fantastically titled e-male
"we are e-male,
we just can't fail"

hmm i wish i shared your confidence boys

LOL! Yes, I can remember those. They were a boyband who performed while on roller skates! The song flopped btw, it was #45!


Probably all working in Burger King now

probably... i remember their "boxtalk" (interview thingy on the box) like it was yesterday for some reason... yet it was 8 years ago or so. they were prancing around the record company MDs office. and they all had names beginning with the letter E ... E-nigma, E-go etc.

the box was/is an awful channel.... but in those days it was one of 3 music channels available to me.

Scooch were regularly on there too. did they not do a cover of "the littlest hobo" theme??

oh and has anyone mentioned other box friendly pop failures "northern line" with their classic "love on the northern line"

Hepburn
I remember Scooch and Point Break too. I think I had Point Break's autographs, but I threw them away. Oops.
Kavana..well not sure if he was a flop, can't really remember.
Bardot
Supersister

I don't think Hepburn were particularly a flop - I've heard I Quit played quite a bit on the radio (maybe not so much now), and it did go Top 10.

Supersister, well, with a song called Coffee ("I like my men like I like my coffee, hot strong and sweet like toffee"...!), and a follow-up called Shopping if I remember rightly (I don't think I ever heard it), they were never destined for success!

Oh okay, fair enough, I didn't know about that.

Hehe, yes, they were pretty dire.

hepburn!!
i quite liked that song "deep deep down"
at the time anyway
and i enjoyed the bass player

kavana.... M.F.E.O it took me ages to work out what that stood for (because i thought he was saying M.F.V.O for the most part)

good god! how could i forget that???

has anyone mentioned "allstars" with darren from hollyoaks and their rousing cover of "land of make believe"?

Made In London Dirty water was quite good.

yeah i remember that.....
that just reminded me of a lyric which was probably around at the same time
"when your boyfriend comes home early,
to find you sucking on a curly-wurly"

anyone remember this lyric?

edit: song is called "madness thing" by leilani

I still remember (unfortunately) the Supersister song Shopping:

We're going shopping
You'd better bring along the bank
We're gonna break it

Or something!

I used to love the Box!

I remember a Box Talk and a couple of attempts at success by someone called Ellie someone... Long blonde hair... memory is failing me, so does anyone know who I mean?

She still is now trading as the very respectable Xchange presenter Anna Kumble.
Thunderbugs had that dirge 'friends forever'. Made top 5 but they were still never seen again.
Girls@Play I remember too with their song 'airhead'. The lyrics basically went:
I've got the brains
He's got the looks
He watches TV
I read my books
He's in the slow lane
But he don't care
He's such a pretty face
But boy
He's got a head full of air

Gosh, memories come flooding back of me actually playing that song It was something I liked, I have no idea why.

you bought it!?
wow....my memory of that song is quite vague
was it any good?

another one just came to me
anyone remember
jimmy ray - "who wants to know?"

the year was something like '96 i think
he was quite hyped up
and then nothing

I remember that!

The song contained the classic lyric"

"I'm leaner, i'm meaner, I ain't no in-betweener"

I bet he serves up a mean Big Mac now though

does anyone remember the song 'bad babysitter.' the video was like watching a nightmare.

i don't remember who sang it. a person at my old work bought the single!

[quote=pelicano]Worryingly she had a few hits though. 3? There was some sort of xmas single - Rockin' Robin?

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Wasn't Lolly made out to be about 16, but was really something like 32?!?

yeah i remember it

"I'm a bad babysitter got my boyfriend in the shower, i'm makin' six bucks and hour"

Oh they're all comin back now, how do I even know the words to these songs!

Can't remember who it was by but can remeber the video like it was yesterday