NEW East Seventeen - Around The World-hit Singles

Back into my youth, I remember period of time, when E17 was a top band! All songs are driveful and in good combination for the BEST HITS. Recommended.

East Seventeen. Or East 17. Or E17. When I think of East 17, I also think of Take That. These two rival boy bands were the hippest thing in Britain and the entire world from the border east of that country and over between 1992 and 1995. It's been 7 years since. And let me tell you, their music still sounds cool! You might call it a guilty pleasure now, I would call it some really cool memories. The songs on here are all of East 17's singles throughout their very short career. Dance tunes 'House Of Love', 'Steam', 'Let It Rain', 'It's Alright', the soulful tunes 'Hold My Body Tight', 'If You Ever', 'Slow It Down', and the ballads 'Stay Another Day', 'Someone To Love' and 'Hey Child'. This pretty much sums up one big part of what the early 90's generation considered to be the coolest music around. Enjoyed it then? Enjoy it again! East 17 are no more. But this collection of songs is timeless. Recommended

I bought this album a long time ago when Brian left the band and bought another copy coz the one I had was so battered! East 17 was one of the most underrated bands in their day, sidelined by their undefinable music since their hard-hitting, synthesizer-laced music was not sugary enough to fall under teen pop. An EXCELLENT compilation of their songs, tracking their career from the very beginning. Tracks to play over and over again would have to be Stay Another Day (Tony deserves that Ivor Novello Award), Steam, Thunder, House of Love & Alright. Their remakes of West End Girls & If You Ever are also worth listening to. Get it!

In the UK although NKOTB and Bros had #1 singles in the late eighties neither dominated the charts. However then came along a band called Take That and the British pop world would never be the same again, but why are they relevant to East 17? To understand East 17 you need to understand TT, where you had TT you also had East 17 and one of UK musics most enduring rivalries was born and in the process sent both bands to the top of the pile as the biggest pop bands in the country. North (TT) vs South (E17), Good (TT) vs Bad (E17) and Clean pop (TT) vs suggestive rap/hip hop (E17). Although it would appear E17 were the underdogs (TT 8 #1's to E17's 1 singles wise during the 4 years they were both charting and East 17's first three singles were put up against TT however were lower peaking) that was the whole point. They did however have one year when they sold more records than Take That in Britain and that was 1994. East 17 were formed in 1991 at Walthamstow race track when songwriter Tony Mortimer was told he'd be taken on as part of a group instead of as a solo artist and so recruited three school friends. They were harsher, edgier and a complete opposite to TT attracting a different crowd, pop fans who wouldn't be caught dead with a TT album. Swearing, aggression and drugs was their scene but also led to their quick fall from grace, things the nice boys of TT would never dream of or at least have so openly in the public. This East 17 believed made them 'more real'. This though ultimately led to a public condemnation from then Prime Minister John Major in Westminster and a step too far. Rather ironically it was an emotional ballad, which pretty much contradicts their whole image but nevertheless was superb and their finest offering that hit the coverted Christmas #1, Stay Another Day. They had 12 top 10 singles overall. Quite simply in a age where protecting image is everything this boyband were and still are unique both in sound and PR image control (or rather lack of) and all their songs are still fresh fusing rap and r'n'b. Would later inspire the creation of Brit boyband Five however they benefited in hindsight from E17's mistakes and how far to take the 'lad band'. Highly recommend buying alongside TT greatest hits. Which band would you pick? The band also won Best Dance Act at the European Music awards in 1995. Tony Mortimer the songwriter of the band won 'Songwriter of the Year' in 1994 for 'Stay Another Day' at the Ivor Novello awards for songwriting and composing. They are presented annually in London by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA). The group are referenced on the group Passengers (U2's pseudonym side project) 1995 single 'Miss Sarajevo'. Lead singer Bono explained it relates to when Sarajevo was under siege and East 17 at the time were the most popular group young people listened to on either radios or tapes and it was mainly when they were hiding in the hills to escape the shelling hence the line "is there a time for East 17". Such was the band popularity in Russia in 1996 they performed in Moscow's Red Square and fronted the Russian advert/promotion for Pepsi. Fun Fact: Despite Take That's overall chart dominance it was East 17 who scored the first UK#1 album out of the two in early 1993 with debut album 'Walthamstow'. The group also secured the much fought after Christmas #1 whereas Take That had been denied the year before and were a bigger act than Take That in Australia, France, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia and Israel where they had 8 number one singles! The biggest selling boyband in Britain: 1994 As of 2017 place on all time top 10 UK boyband sales (albums/singles): Albums #10. As of 2017 currently the 11th highest selling boyband in British chart history. Career album/singles sales in UK: 1.8 million/1.8 million = 3.6 million 4.Stay Another Day: UK#1, UK Christmas #1 1994.