Come And Get It

Actually found this quite enjoyable — a nice palate cleanser, bubblegum breath freshener. The singles shine brightest: Some Girls (that Richard X production) and Negotiate with Love both deliver exactly what post-S Club 7 pop should. It's breezy, well-produced, and knows what it is. Not in a hurry to revisit, but pleasant while it lasted. Nice to see Robert Smith was given credit for Funny How.

It's funny how I have no recollection of this supposedly critically acclaimed album, or even of Rachel Stevens herself. I don't mean to bash her, I'm just actually surprised that I don't think I've ever heard of her. Maybe that critical acclaim and success was mostly in the UK/Europe? But listening to it also doesn't make me feel like I missed anything. It's a pretty boring and bland pop album, which feels like it was manufactured by a committee in a factory. And I guess it was. Stevens came out of the Simon Fuller factory, and this solo album has more producers and songwriters than I care to count. Too many cooks in the kitchen do not make for inspiring art.

I understand why this exists, but it is way out of my realm. This is Teenie Bop Pop. That checks out, as Rachel used to be in another pop group, S Club 7. These songs are mostly earworms, but I wonder how much staying power they really have? I feel like it may be something teenage girls would really love for a few years, then forget about as they grow older... But I think it will always have an audience of teenage girls to listen to it. It may not be revolutionary, or current, but it is catchy in its own right... Favourite songs: I Said Never Again (But Here We Are), Negotiate With Love, Every Little Thing, Funny How, So Good, Nothing Good About This Goodbye Least favourite songs: Some Girls, Je M'Apelle 3/5

It’s not bad it’s just very forgettable 2000s pop. Why not just include S Club

Bland at best.

Pop music is a Psy-Op.

Better than I expected

lol what a pick

Weird British Brittney knock off.

Engaging vocals. Not too shabby for a turn of the century offering

Not the 2.58, the userbase here lacks taste unfortunately. Very good 00s pop album

It reminds me of Goldfrapp’s second album but doesn’t connect as well with me. Harmless pop. Rating: 2.3

Lite harmlöst men samtidigt ganska intetsägande. Hon ser dock lite snäll ut.

An album that is the perfect mix of Britney Spears style pop anthems with the energy and urgency of Fiona Apple. Fun to listen to AND healthy. I liked this a lot. Great suggestion. 4/5

Oh I know this singer, she was in the teener bopper band S Club 7 that I liked as a child. I went into this assuming I wouldn't like it based on that, which was confirmed when I heard the first song which is pretty generic electropop/dance-pop. However the second song, I Said Never Again But Here We Are, is actually quite good! It's the same dance pop before but has a glam rock beat, and it's a pretty fun song. After this song however it's all downhill. Most of this album is standard electropop for the era, it's reminiscent of Goldfrapp's (who have two albums on the main list, none of which I'm talking about) electropop/electroclash era, e.g. Strict Machine. There are some "rockers" on the list similar in the vein to the second song which I talked about above, they use a rock beat (typically glam) underneath the main dance pop melody, and I find that these songs are easily the best and are really the only songs on the albums that sound unique or interesting in any way. Maybe she'd have had a more successful career if she was a rockstar. Anyway, after to listening to 13 inferior versions of Goldfrapp songs, I'm off to listen to Strict Machine. Should it be in the main list: No Top 3 songs: I Said Never Again (But Here We Are), Negotiate With Love, Some Girls

Millennial Club Pop. Not bad, just not my thing.

Overproduced pop. Is it bad no, just more of the same.

Standard pop songs. the second half really dragged.

Totally generic and bland pop

starts off strong but then loses steam in the middle. overall, fun pop.

My notes consist of: Britney (Spears) wannabe. I suppose it was alright but there was literally nothing special about it: it was a nice pop album but I fear that was it. I don't have any comments. Fun... but influencial? I think not.

Can this really be an album by "Rachel Stevens" if each/every song is written by a completely new batch of 800 writers and producers? Not the worst thing I'd ever heard but I've already forgotten it 5 minutes after finishing. Saccharine. 3/10 2 stars 🧀👧🏼🧀. IMO: Belonged in the book? No.

Fairly middle of the road English pop

After 3 or 4 albums that can be described as "funereal" from this generator, this will certainly be a change of pace Rachel Stevens, formerly of the group S Club, whose biggest hit was 2004's "Some Girls"... yeah, none of these things ring any bells. My understanding of UK pop during this time period is very patchy. In fact, listening to this, I think of Doctor Who's seasons from around this time: the apocalypse set to Rogue Trader's "Voodoo Child"; the alien death trap disguised as Big Brother. In fact, I learned a lot about 2000s British pop culture this way- as recently as PinkPantheress's usage of its aesthetic- always years after the fact, and through a veneer of cheeky satire or pastiche. But no, pop music actually sounded like this irl! I guess not even Dimery & co. felt the need to share UK pop of the time, as by and large the big pop acts in the book come from the USA- Britney Spears, Destiny's Child, Madonna, Xtina. Perhaps that's why I had a hard time engaging with this album, as by the time I separated it from the historical context the album was basically over. Why was this so critically acclaimed? The songs are decent, but the BBC and the Guardian made some pretty big bets on it that didn't come to pass (the album underperformed; Rachel Stevens has yet to release a followup album). Maybe the UK really wanted their Britney The melody of "All About Me" evokes "All That You Are" by Econoline Crush, but I very much doubt Rachel Stevens was listening to Canadian post-grunge at the time. HL: "I Said Never Again", "I Will Be There", "Some Girls", "Funny How", "Every Little Thing" (bonus track) June 10, 2026

Fine but forgettable; undeniably dancable, but utterly disposable; not terrible but not surviving the test of time either.

Pedestrian pop

Was on board at first, but then it just became another pop album. Not the worst, but I was ready for it to be over pretty early on.

Yeah no thanks to this. Gave it a listen for about 8 songs and had to end. Should have left this music in 2005

You know I initially hated this, then thought it had some fun sounds, and then went back to it pissing me off. Low 2

actually pretty fun! I’m not the most nostalgic for this era of pop, but it does make for a nice listen :) 8/10

Whatever the word for something that sounds like it looks like, this is it. And not bad this time, some early 00s girl-pop is necessary. in this instance I've never heard of Rachel Stevens or her music so this was not what I was expecting, which was a Brittany, Xtina, etc. 3/5

Never heard of her, but I love Sugababes and Kylie Minogue as much as the next millennial girlie. Good pop is good.

This one must have been a joke addition to the list. Very entertaining. Beatles, beach boys and Rachel Stevens

This is appeal to the masses pop music. Not for me.

Mostly a very catchy, cute little album. I wish Spotify's quality of the tracks was better because some of them would be banger pop song if they didn't sound so muddled and compressed. 7/10

Rachel was from S club7, a band with a sitcom. I liked the show. This is her second solo album after that. It's inoffensive synth pop in the style Lady Gaga did a couple of years later, but it lacks personality. The songs are just fine, production is good, but she doesn't have a remarkable voice and the album doesn't really have any stand-out tracks. It's not terrible, though.

It's far from being my thing but I must admit that it was much better than what I had expected, especially knowing that she's from S Club 7. I actually liked some of the beats and synth parts here, also the The Cure sampling worked pretty well.

After going through 1089 albums that were more or less pretty shitty, I wouldn't have thought of a solo album by a girl from S Club 7, but hey. Who am I to judge? Still, I was surprised by how good it was, considering the genre. Way to go!

nah my dude

Some fine dance pop music. Not really my thing but I gave it a go.

A triumph of style over substance. Very much of it's time, a pretty vapid attempt to capture some kind of kitsch vibe.

Nothing good about this: Goodbye

I'm starting to think that the user submitted albums need some explainer why they selected it. I mean, I'm sure someone fancies the pants of Rachel Stevens, but I can't see much beyond manufactured bubble-gum pop here.

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

Pop. ¿En serio?

Pretty bland pop... A couple catchy songs but forgettable overall

I was not expecting anything from this. In fact I thought it was put on as a joke. But this could be the finest electro pop album of all time. Every song an absolute banger. This is absurdly good pop.

Five stars for the mere fact that this is on here. It's still so polished and slick, and the electroclash production and her silky smooth voals shine even when the songwriting doesn't. "Some Girls" is the best song Girls Aloud never recorded.

I have never heard of this artist before but I was quickly able to get into the music. Very easy to listen to. this was somewhat of a surprise of how much I liked it. I definitely would listen to it again and even check out more of her work.

I thought this was a joke addition but it is pretty catchy pop and it’s fun. I will never listen to it again though!!

What? This is the UK's answer to Britney Spears of course. Like a phoenix reborn after the tragic dissolution of the institutional group S Club 7. I think one of them said "we are probably more popular than Jesus Christ" and everything turned to shit. Wonder why the brits keep doing that? How can you not love this basic bitchass album produced by scientists in a lab and performed by a child model turned popstar. its pretty good

1990s-sounding ear candy that’s pleasing but ultimately empty.

Buenos ritmos, voz femenina sensual, canciones con estilo. Pop-dance, un poco estilo Madonna. Sin destacar especialmente, se puede escuchar para preparar el ambiente

I didn't get it, neither the album nor why it deserves to be here.

Above average pop

The album art certainly doesn't make one optimistic about the album, ehich is actually better than advertised. A very good version of what it is, slick sexed up synthy pop with no lyrical ambition but plenty of vibe. Enjoyable enough on its own terms so no objections from me.

Rachel Stevens is an artist that only ever found success in the UK an Europe. Seemingly none of her hits crossed over to America, supported by the fact that I had never heard of her nor her hit singles. So, what's the fuss all about! Stevens was originally part of the teen pop group S Club, which I'm guessing was an attempt to do a mixed-gender girl group or boy band. They had a few number 1 hits in the UK. It was actually a different member, Paul Cattermole, who initially left the group for his old metal band, but S Club soon disbanded after. With solo prospects in view, Stevens signed a record deal and had modest success with her first album. Come And Get It is the follow-up. While it received near-widespread critical success, it neither sold nor charted particularly well. Which is a shame because it's a perfectly good pop album! Nice production (albeit dated), solid hooks, and Stevens is a....serviceable vehicle for these songs. I suppose that's the issue, isn't it? I have no doubt that Rachel Stevens is a competent singer, dancer, and all-around looker for this role. But she lacks a certain "it" factor, eh? Just something that makes her stand apart from all the other pop girls at the time. Looking back, there is something there that is worth considering in the larger genre of pop music. but maybe not for all of music. CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: Not quite as impactful as I would've assumed, so no.

Yeah, I’m not falling for that one. We all know it’s shit without listening to it! Hard to believe anybody would put this forward, over thousands of other brilliant albums! Weird! It’s lucky there isn’t a 0 star option.

I love that someone has put this on the list. I enjoy a pop album probably more than most, but I just didn’t get this one. Nothing against Rachel Stevens, more the factory which has pumped this out.

Wasn’t really for me.

I'm sensing deep irony in this suggestion and therefor I support your humour

Assume this is some sort of sick joke?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Wrong list

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. 😀

What? No.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

When the introduction to an album is that it is from the most successful solo artist coming from S Club 7, I think it is fair to say that your expectation are not going to be through the roof. However, from the get-go, I was kind of impressed by the quality of the production and the songwriting. It is not mindblowing, far from being the best of the genre, but still way better than I anticipated. I think that with that kind of profile, the labels were able to pull some weight to get talented writers and producers come on board. Unfortunately, the quality of those aspects starts to fade by the end of the record. Ultimately though, my biggest issue with this album is the singing. Far from being the worst, but it is not convincing at all. No power, no emotion, she sings as if its just another gig and not something she is passionate about. Which is something you kinda need to do for a record like that to lift, especially when you have to compete with much of what was coming out those years. 5/10

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!

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.

Horrible.

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.

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.

Not completely awful

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.

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.

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.

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.

No

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

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

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.

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!

Yeah, okay.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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