Come And Get It

#28 on the UK albums chart - how is this not already on the list?

I like this user submitted list because now it’s stuff like this - some actual human’s fun favorite album. Catchy pop nothing wrong here

Yeah, the 2000s girly pop is sorely under represented on this list, and this makes for an interesting entry.

I do appreciate the slick pop-album from time to time. And that is exactly what this is. Will it change my world? Bring me insights into new musical realms? Trigger me emotionally? No. It doesn't do any of these things. Should it, to be enjoyable? No, it shouldn't. It is just a well done album with plenty earworms on it. Job well done.

lol it's the chick from S Club 7. Just pointless, mindless 00s dance pop. I vaguely remember thinking she was the hot one of the group. But still: fuuuuck off. This has to be a wind up. 2/5.

Huh. I mean, I get why someone would like this, but I'm fascinated that it would be given "must listen before you die" treatment. British popstar, I've never heard of her, and it's not necessarily bad, it's just mostly flat and plain pop. "Dumb Dumb" was actually really cool, that honestly saved this from 1-star territory for me, but other than that I'm mostly left scratching my head. That whole meme of "imagine carrying a child in your womb for 9 months to name him Hubert" or whatever, except imagine listening to 1100 albums over a span of years and getting a chance to pick one for everyone else to hear and you pick this one. On my hater shit today. Favorite tracks: Dumb Dumb, I Will Be There. Album art: Just a shot of this woman's face, about as generic as the music if you ask me. 2/5

Never thought I would like a pop album this much! It's totally not cliché in any means. Some good beats, easy lyrics to sing along.

Random dance pop from the 00's? wtf! I was ready to put 1 star and rant about the selection... but then 'Crazy Boys' came in and.. ok, it is pretty good. 'I Will Be There' is not bad at all. Sampling The Cure on the next one? wow... OK, it is what it is... but I have to admit is much more inventive and catchy than what you normally get from the genre. Looks like Rachel was part of the band S-Club and this was her second solo record. One third and last was released -unnoticed- a few years later. A shame, she deserved better. Thanks for sharing

Very much the example of heavily produced mainstream Pop. Which is fine but not particularly, you know, special. Can this person really sing? Did they have anything to do with these lyrics or were they written by one of these teams of Swedish savants? Not quite interesting enough to bother looking into.

6/10. Very bold of a 2000's pop song to claim "I'm gonna stand the test of time". I liked this music in a nostalgic sort of way, but the album was definitely a little longer than I would have liked.

If Come and Get It was delayed for ten years, nothing would have kept me from discovering it during my college poptimism years. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it today. Though a historical shame, the fact that Stevens's discography is shallow is convenient.

Call me crazy, but I actually enjoyed this at some moments. At first I had my review already written down. But after a few songs I felt a different vibe than with her other candypop sisters. A little sophistication if you will. Long story short, sometimes there's more than meets the eye.

Like 3

A fun bubblegum pop LP to mix things up a bit – ran a bit long for its melodic content, but was a mostly fun listen that was evocative of what I heard on the radio while growing up. Fun to see everyone's different tastes here, even if I don't like every single album it's much more varied and exploratory than the canon 1001 list.

It's pop music. Never heard of this artist before, most likely won't in the future. However, album was pleasant entertainment.

Not something I would normally listen to, but it's poppy and fun. Nothing wrong with that. Reminds me of Madonna. 3 stars.

It is what it is!

“The Guardian placed it on their "1000 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" list.” Yeah, ok. I find this completely soulless and manufactured. Sorry.

What if Britney Spears was named Rachel Stevens? What would that be like?

A unique pick. Not sure how its an all time greatest (I mean, other than someones favorite that made it through the list of 1001). In the vein of "Albums you must listen to" I don't feel this falls on that list. Come and get it.

Not much my taste. Prefer other club music instead

Life has been way too depressing and serious. I needed something like this!

I was so happy to hear some catchy, dancy synth pop today! It feels like it's been forever since I've gotten to hear the like. This was new to me, as I'm not sure it made it to the US back in the day, and I really had a good time listening. Yay! Thanks!

This was some great mid 2000s pop. One of those where I didn’t have a bunch of standout songs (except nothing good about this goodbye) but I really enjoyed my time with it from start to finish.

This is inoffensive pop music. We need to put some historical context into this, because Come And Get It was released in 2005, and in 2005, music was appalling. We'd had a few years of appalling music by this point, and while there were some tiny hints of improvement, here and there, the landscape was one where the music industry was pushing out utter garbage, taking zero risks on new and different stuff. By 2005, Pop Idol had been and gone, and The X Factor (functionally indistinguishable from Pop Idol, and every other singing programme that's come since) was what people were talking about. It was utter lowest-common-denominator shite, and it pervasive and inescapable. What does this have to do with Rachel Stevens? Well. Pop Idol was a creation of Simon Fuller. Who in the parted buttocks is Simon Fuller? Well, let me tell you. He was the manager of the Spice Girls when they were very much on the up. After the Spice Girls' success, he put together a new band, through a 100% manufactured audition process that later essentially became the process for Pop Idol. The "band" he put together was S Club 7, and that's where Rachel Stevens comes in, because she was in S Club 7. S Club were campy trash, promoted out the wahooey via childrens' TV programmes and the incredibly lucrative gay scene - and they were huge for a while. Their hits were poppy nonsense, and the lowest of the low and the commonest of the common in terms of denominator. Rachel Stevens emerged from this, and worked with - as the sleeve notes suggest - some of the more talented music producers of the time. And came out with this inoffensive pop music. At a time where music, generally, was offensive by way of being awful. The fact that this is inoffensive, emerging as it did from a wallowing hippo-pool of utter tripe, is actually quite noteworthy, historically speaking. The actual music itself is disposable, but the fact it exists at all is the pearls before the swine of the music industry.

This is like submitting "Air Bud" to a 1001 Movies List, but I deeply respect that, and I'm all here for it. Actually way more fun and consistent than I expected. Sampling "Lullaby" by The Cure is a nutty choice.

Excellent electro pop, obviously no soul, but who cares when the Pop is this good?

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: So good, I said never again, Secret garden, Some girls, Every little thing, Dumb dumb

Yeah, okay.

So my complaint about the original list is that it's really done pop music post 2000 really poorly. So many obvious missing gaps. This is a step in the right direction but there must have been a better choice. I've never heard of this artist before but I have heard of S Club 7. These are great perfectly crafted pop songs and good fun and vibes. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4.5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Yes and no. More of these types of albums should have been included, but maybe not this one in particular.

It doesn't have Sweet Dreams My LA Ex... But. It's far better than I expected. With any given pop album I tend to expect 4 singles then dreck and filler. Here, you get Cure sampling oddities, neodisco bangers, and lots more than you'd expect. Don't get me wrong, you could still cut 15 minutes of fat from this, but it's better than it had any right to be.

I was prepared to hate this. With the bedazzled lettering on the cover and the fact that she looks 15 on the cover, even though she was 27 when this came out. But I actually enjoyed it.

Okay that was surprisingly good. It wasn't all brilliant but it was pretty good. It felt very Kylie or Sophie Ellis Bextor. I imagine that's the kind of thing they were trying to get on board with at the end. I especially enjoyed the lyric 'I'm going to stand the test of time'. Sorry Rachel, you didn't, unless you meant appearing on this challenge.

Damnit. Does this mean that I’m an S Club 7 fan now? That was Pop Wonderland and I’m not even British.

Some fun 2000's pop. It's not particularly incredible for me and doesn't do a whole lot to set itself apart from its peers of the era, but it holds up well enough and is full of catchy boppin fun.

This album was not what I expected. It manages to avoid some of the pitfalls of early 2000s pop. It is a reasonable length and it manages to stay relatively interesting throughout. It’s not my favorite genre, but I’m glad to have listened to it.

Poppy pop. Poptastic selection

Post-millennial dance pop that delivers, more than you might reasonably expect it to. Catchy, well-produced, easy on the ears. Rachel Stevens lacks a certain amount charisma compared to other singers in the genre, which makes all of this less than memorable, but it's still perfectly likeable stuff that I didn't mind hearing at all. Fave Songs: Crazy Boys, I Will Be There, Secret Garden, Funny How, All About Me

Enjoyable

2005 Kylie-lite pop. Catchy, dancy, easy. Nothing to dislike here. Rating: 3 Playlist track: Funny How Date listened: 19/11/24

Reminded me faintly of a few other pop singers but the beats and tempo had me bopping on a few of them.

No

Yusss! I’m your face Dimery - you dumb shit! This mediocre, manufactured millennial pop is the perfect response to the dredge through dad rock I’ve just enjoyed/endured. Big 3 stars!

well, well, my first from the user submitted list. I had a girlfriend who claimed she was Rachel's cousin. Her mother confirmed, but I was always a little dubious about this. Anyway, this is your typical pop written and produced to be catchy and profitable. Can be sung by anyone and it would sound mostly the same whether S Club (fka S Club 7), Pussy Cat Dolls, Girls Aloud, Little Mix, Cheryl Cole... etc etc. I'm not a fan, but it's fine.

This one's interesting, because it wouldn't really stand out if not for having been released 2005. Feels really ahead of the curve in terms of where pop music was going.

It wasn't awful but it was just there. Nothing memorable, kind of bland. Move along.

Fine disposable pop. Am sure it had the same writers as Girls Aloud/ 100 different acts from this era.

in a world with enough silly pop music this album somehow has avoided me my whole life up until now. This isn’t bad it’s just generic mid 00s pop music and I’ve heard that stuff growing up. This one was a brit pop album so that’s probably why I never heard it but I’m not going to revisit this. It’s not terrible just not for me. 4.0/10

Pop. No me gusta el pop comercial. Un 2.

Pretty formulaic synth pop. I feel like i'm listening to an album of rejects from the Shrek soundtrack.

Well that came out of left field, didn't it? Ex S Club 7 member solo album. I honestly didn't care for this much at all. It's not my thing. It wasn't dreadful but I didn't exactly hear anything super catchy which is what I expect from a pop album. Major ups for "borrowing" from The Cure's "Lullaby" but that was easily the highlight for me. I get it. This was probably a personal favorite from back in the day and the user who submitted it probably loves it wholeheartedly. I just can't feel the same.

This album represents the mid-aughts girl group turned solo artist. It's not my thing but if you're into that sort of thing, here it is.

I want to commend the presence of such an album, because it's almost to be expected on a user list that you would get things like this, that are randomly just people's personal favorite albums. In terms of value for everyone else though, this is as generic girl band bubble gum Pop as it gets. It was a snooze fest.

Not completely awful

I love a good pop album, unfortunately that was not a good one

No, I just can’t like it, it’s impossible.

Are we being trolled? Don't get me wrong Rachel was my favourite S Club member (the best pop group of all time) but did this belong on this list! It was a good laugh to listen to but I'm not sure is worthy

Look, I won't knock anyone for loving catchy bubblegum pop. This starts off decently enough — bright, uptempo, and a notch above some of the soggy pop that made the original list. But submitting this as a must-hear-before-you-die pick? Bold move. After the first few songs, the quality drops like a stone. “I Said Never Again” and “Some Girls” are fun, but most of it fades into a blur of copy-paste pop. “Dumb Dumb” offers a bit of flavor, but overall? Not dying to hear it again.

I’m very glad I got an excuse to listen to this, though ultimately it wasn’t exactly life-affirming. Secret Garden is a really fun and quite weird track, and Some Girls is a genuine bop. Everything else is classic mid-‘00s run of the mill pop fare, over-produced to shit, and not that interesting despite its incessant optimism

Assume this is some sort of sick joke?

uh, no!

I can't get Lullaby out of my head on the song 'it's all about me'. Overall it's not a very good album. These lyrics... Oh, I let you in my back door You're the one who's creeping Rough love's so deceiving ... Anyway, I like the Cheryl Cole album much more than this one. It's better than gris gris... is that saying a whole lot?

Come on, sorry I don't get it. It's bland, slick, undistinctive and boring as hell.

Horrible.

Obviously Come and Get It isn't good at all, it doesn't even strike the right notes for early 2000s pop (although this is 2005 which I can barely believe). There are times where it comes across like she's trying to be the UK's version of J-Lo but it's such a poor effort, doesn't stick the landing even with hits like Some Girls. I did like It's All About Me (has a massive Sugababes sound to it) and Secret Garden (would pass for a decent radio hit these days) but I don't think either of those are strong enough to lift this from 1/5. I reckon whoever submitted this to the list was doing it to take the piss.

Are these quilty pleasures or a p*sstake to put these albums forward? To go through 1001 albums over the course of almost 3 years surely would teach you the wide range and breadth of music and expand your appreciation? Obviously not.

What? No.

When supposed "positive" 4/5 reviews left in this generator are using words like "disposable" and "no soul" to qualify the music on this record, how can you expect the latter to be worthy of your precious time? This thing recycling tropes that pop divas like Madonna, R'n'B acts à la Destiny's Child and easy-listening stalwarts such as The Cardigans had already pulled off BETTER a decade earlier is just... awfully formulaic. In fact, it already sounded dated as f*ck in 2005, and yet was also too early to catch the poptimism wave somehow. Tough luck. Not that such later poptimistic wave has released a lot of good LPs in the long run anyway-- far from it, actually. But maybe *Come And Get It* would have found a far larger target audience if it had appeared in the *late* noughts at least. Yet even if it had done so, there's nothing that could have redeemed this epitome of fakeness and style-over-substance in my eyes. Commercial pop albums can be excellent. But to repeat what I have already said about the Carly Rae Jepsen LP that appeared in this generator a couple of days ago, those albums need to have flair and a strong identity. Which, once again, I can't find here. So let's explore why this pop album doesn't work. Opener "So Good" is somehow catchy yet it also sounds like a William Orbit-produced track Madonna could have recorded for *Ray Of Light* ten years earlier or so. "I Said Never Again" comes off like the result of a collab between Shania Twain and Robbie Williams' producing teams, here on a budget -- with the second British team ultimately having the upper hand. Gosh, I can already smell the fish and chips from here. Yet there's not even genuine English charm in that song, just strategic ornaments sounding way too cold and calculated to elicit any emotional response from me. "Crazy Boys"'s vocal performance, tight instrumentation and dreamy arrangements sounds far more promising at first -- as if Britney Spears sung over a Cardigans track. But when your pre-chorus comes off as catchier than the particularly bland chorus it leads to, you have a huge problem on your hands. The track never delivers on its initial promise, clearly. Go back to pop songwriting school, for crying out loud! And oddly enough, "I Will Be There" has the *opposite* problem: its chorus is evocative, but there is not much substance to the music in the background, only surface effects going from spacey (those nice-sounding synth layers) to hackneyed (that inert slow disco instrumentation). Things get even worse after that. "Negotiating With Love" thinks of itself as a cheeky bop whereas it is absolutely grating and terrible. Appalling stuff, period. "It's All About Love" is a slow R'n'B cut that's 100% predictable -- except for that Cure sample in the intro, a flourish that was most probably added at the eleventh hour so as to salvage the song from utter oblivion, to no avail. For all their "technical" skills, you can easily sense those producers clutching at straws so as to find *one good idea* for each of their compositions. But that Cure sample only appearing once during the course of the song is just pointless and useless. It neither rhymes nor reasons. After that debacle, "Secret Garden" is to eroticism and sensuality what plastic is to a wooden shed. Then "Nothing Good About This Goodbye" returns to Cardigans turf -- albeit with far less interesting chord sequences. "Some Girls" is basically a second-hand "Womanizer", and its background vocals going "hey" in the verses sound stupid and flat. They're supposed to bring energy to the whole thing, and yet only underline how out of breath Stevens often sounds compared to Britney. Next, "Je m'appelle" apes early Beyoncé without leaving much of an impression. Amazing how Stevens' producers circle back to the same three or four influences all over again, never really finding a way out of the ready-made formulas... I'm gonna stop here with the list of the songs. After "Je m'appelle", it's only more of the same variations exploring the same styles and influences listed up there without putting much imagination or striking harmonies to them. It's competently produced and performed. But there's no real spark. I will only mention closer "Dumb Dumb" as it's slightly more memorable than the vast majority of the songs displayed here. Yet even if those producers had written more memorable tunes, they would have probably failed making them sound one-of-a-kind anyway given what we can already hear in the actual "product". So few risks were taken for this thing. And consequently, It's just derivative dross that aged like milk from my current vantage point. Reading myself again, I'm wondering about something... How many times did I use the word "producers" in my tentative review? Well don't blame me, blame this album, because it's actually quite hard to use Rachel Stevens as the grammatical subject of my sentences when she's just one formulaic ingredient among the others. Because yeah, as you have probably already guessed, she didn't even write her own lyrics (bar one single exception), not to mention the music. You may as well think that this review is repetitive and goes into circles. But it can't be worse in that regard that the sort of "dumb dumb" pop I had to deal with today, you know. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5+1) Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 14 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 27 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 50 (including this one) ---- Émile ! J'ai répondu à ton message. Regarde environ douze reviews au dessus ! Pas de nouvelle réponse de ta part, mais c'est pas un souci, je compte juste vérifier toutes les deux semaines environ. On est pas aux pièces, comme on dit sur le vieux continent. 😀

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