Released 20 years ago today on 4th November 1996 and went on to sell an estimated 30 million copies which I believe makes it the most successful girlband album of all time.

20 things you might not know about it

http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/04/20-thi...spice-6228121/

I remember buying this when I was 13 and listening to it nonstop on my discman. It's still a great album now quite RnB influenced though not as much as third album Forever was.

Fave single? Hmmm probably Say You'll Be There

Fave non single? Definitely Naked. Such a dark seductive song.

Yeah i think it is the best selling album ever sold by a girlband.

And to this day that awkward pose Victoria strikes on the cover still bothers me as it looks like she has no body or something

Anyway, I still listen to Love Thing quite often.

Mad to think its 20 years Wished all five of them were doing something to celebrate :'( I haven't listened to Spice in years but only because a few of the songs bring back too many happy memories of my childhood and reminds me that so much has changed since then. Particularly Love Thing, just hearing that song in my head makes me wanna cry just because it was my favourite song when I was a kid and used to play it non-stop.

its weird though as I don't have that emotional attachment with Spiceworld. Think its because I was a little bit older and even though I did play it a lot. I have more memories associated with Spice. Forever I'm fine with because I was 9 and played it for a year then got into Britney and P!nk then sort of abandoned Forever for a few years then re-discovered it again when they reunited in 2007/2008 so I'm not really emotionally attached to it. I do like the album, I think its because they released it late 2000 then they did a little promo then separated so there wasn't many memories from that era really

interesting read
http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/04/20-thi...spice-6228121/

I reckon it's a pretty good album! All strong catchy pop songs.

I love Mel C's vocals on Love Thing when she sings


It's at start of the second verse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Fc7j-2Ykg

I see what you mean.

What the **** am I looking at there?!

(Takes yet another look to see if he can figure it out before he submits the intended comment above).

Oh, I see now. Kind of. That's her leg, not her arm. Got it- I think. Even when you see it, that's a strange pose that makes her actual arm look bloody weird.

Remember having this for my 12th birthday.

I'll be honest and say I much prefer the album version of 2 Become 1 to the single release.

This was one of my first albums. I think I got it for Christmas 1996 or 1997, I can't really remember. It might be rather short but it has some classic pop songs on it. Wannabe is iconic in pop culture now.

Is the only difference the bit where Victoria sings "Boys and girls look good together" on the album version and "love will bring us back together" on the single version?

Geri sings the boys and girls line on the album version.

As a Spice Girls fan, Spice is my favourite Album of all time.

My favourite song on the Album is "Who Do You Think You Are".

Twenty years? Hard to believe.

I'm from a generation where a band consisted of guys who sang and played their instruments. The very idea of a group of people who only sang and didn't play anything, just gyrated inanely around to some sort of 'choreography', made a complete mockery of rock music to my way of thinking.

Girl bands (and boy bands for that matter, they're not mutually exclusive!) came and went and - again, because of my age group - they all sounded the same and pretty well all of them were instantly forgettable, but I'm prepared to acknowledge that the Spice Girls were there first and were largely responsible for the subsequent explosion of that sort of music.

If you like/liked them, that's fine by me, everyone's different.

Just a reminder - autotune wasn't invented till 97. It started spreading like wildfire in 99.

I can still remember getting this album on tape! I was 8/9 years old, and I remember putting it on and reading all the words to the songs as they played. I loved Spice Fever, had so much of their stuff that they brought out.

My favourite was always say you'll be there, I loved the video too!

I think everyone had it at school even the boys. Its really easy to forget just how massive these girls were at this point.

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to this day never had the intention of giving it a try, though it is easy to get (in the charity shops)
I would class Who do you think you are as a fav.
Wannabe and Say you'll be there playground guilty pleasures (as a 6 year old already lol)
and I never felt the need to explore girl power

I prefer the ballad singles from album 2, especially Goodbye

Don't get me wrong, I mainly to listen to my alternative/indie rock bands - but the Spice Girls were great (well their first two albums, anyway).

They had a very unique sound and wrote/co-wrote their own songs. Sang live, too, and sounded great with the live band.

The better songs, for me, were the ones not released such as Love Thing, Naked, If U Can't Dance, Something Kinda Funny.

Anyway, I'm off to drink some beer. Don't tell anyone I've told you all this.

Apologetic correction to my post ...

I was completely and unforgivably overlooking the sixties girl groups such as The Supremes, The Ronettes, The Crystals, Martha and the Vandellas, The Shangri Las and all the other 'girl bands' of that time.

Sorry Spice Girls, no way were you there first, but you were responsible for the later generation of groups who merely sang!

I was a huge fan of the Spice Girls. I was the target age and ate it up.

I remember making my poor mother take me to the cinema to see Spiceworld.

Can't believe how fast the time has flown by since then.

I always think that Mama is such an underrated gem. I know it was a #no 1 but when ever people talk of Spice Girl ballads its always Goodbye or Viva Forever yet this for me is their greatest track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsNbhwSXDB8

There's something coming out of her head as well

Great times and a great album.

her left elbow


I got this for Christmas 1996 - I was 22