Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Overture
2. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
3. To Be Your Hero
4. Baby Don�t Dance (WIP remix)
5. Human Touch
6. I Know Him So Well
7. Lay All Your Love On Me
8. You�ll Be Sorry (WIP edit)
9. Merry Xmas Everybody
10. Why
11. Mars And Venus (WIP)
12. Just Like The First Time (WIP)
13. One For Sorrow (Sleazesisters Edit)
14. Deeper Shade of Blue (Sleazesisters Edit)

Disc 2:

1. 5,6,7,8 (WIP Mix)
2. Tragedy (WIP Reception Mix)
3. Last Thing On My Mind (WIP�t Up in the Disco mix)
4. One For Sorrow (WIP Remix)
5. Better Best Forgotten (WIP �99 Cream of Manchester)
6. Love�s Got A Hold Of My Heart (WIP Off The Wall Mix)
7. After The Love Has Gone
8. Deeper Shade of Blue (WIP Mix)
9. Summer of Love (WIP Mix)
10. Stomp (WIP Mix)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31992 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

CD Description
This two CD set brings together rare tracks from the Steps back catalogue, including the unreleased songs, 'Human Touch', 'Why' and 'Mars And Venus'. The album also features remixes of classic Steps songs including '5,6,7,8', 'One For Sorrow' and the UK number one singles 'Stomp' and 'Tragedy'.

Customer Reviews

The last ever slice of cheese from the fab five!
If you're like me and miss the one and only Steps like mad, buy "The last dance" as a stompin' reminder! Featuring two CDs stuffed full of fab little-known or unreleased Steps songs, this compilation zoomed my way at Christmas 2002, and I ain't bored of it yet! Here is my mini guide to each track on CD 1...

As a cool intro, "Overture" is an orchestra paying tribute to some of Steps' classic songs: "5, 6, 7, 8", "One for sorrow", "Heartbeat", "Last thing on my mind", "Stomp" and "Tragedy" are all given a different, classical feel here! Then it's "Too busy thinking about my baby", which the gang performed on ITV's Motown Mania a few years ago, and the beautiful ballad "To be your hero". H sings lead on this track, which was one of the B-sides to "Love's got a hold on my heart". Next up is a funkier remix of "Baby don't dance", a song that was featured on Steps' Greatest Hits album, and it actually sounds a lot better than the original. "Human touch" is super cheesy, but that's why I love it! It's the kind of song that I call pop, with Claire and Faye on lead vocals. "I know him so well" is a gorgeous cover of Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson's version, and the girls' voices sounds amazing on this swoonsome ballad, which was Steps' final single. The song that the gang performed on Abbamania, "Lay all your love on me" is number seven, with Faye, H and Claire taking the mike on this classic Abba pop track. A WIP radio mix of "You'll be sorry" follows, which is even dancier than the original version, and that's saying something! A good one to stick on when you want to hear "You'll be sorry" with groovy voice synthesizers coming into effect over H's brill voice. I'm not sure why this is here, but "Merry Xmas everybody" really fitted the bill when I got this album! I always play this when I'm not in a summery mood, and it's great that everyone gets to sing lead vocals in this cover of Slade's hit. "Why?" was a B-side to "Better best forgotten", and it's a slushy ballad with Faye singing most of it. "Mars and Venus (We fall in love again)" was apparently released in the USA, but I'm not sure if that's true! If it is, then I don't think it would have done too well as it's a kind of mid-tempo number, and Americans are into their R 'n' B and uptempo pop. Still, it's a nice song with clever lyrics, such as: "You stop and I go, too fast, much too slow, your uptown is downtown to me". To my delight, Lisa's fantastic solo song from the gang's 1999 tour, "Just like the first time" is right after "Mars and Venus", and it's been awarded a funkier mix! Lisa still sings the majority of this happy pop choon, but Faye and Claire help her out at some points. Finally (for this CD anyway!), there are great Sleazesisters remixes of "One for sorrow" and "Deeper shade of blue", both of which are, as you can imagine, faster than the originals and very disco-y.

CD 2 is chock-full of dancey remixes of ten Steps hits, and is an ideal CD to play full blast at a disco!

So go on people, you know you want to buy "The last dance".

Must for pop fans
Though the remixes lack the impact one would hope of such a well produced set of hits, the unreleased original songs, and even the covers, are brilliant additions. Their covers of I know him so well/Too busy thinking about my baby are worth buying the cd for alone, and the opening orchestral overture is sheer genius that even the most hardened twenty-something will smile at.

Excellent
Really Excellent CD's.

I do like the remix CD

Although released in 2002, it has not aged for me.

Play it all the time. What a pity they split up but their music lives on.