Product Description

Of the twenty tracks on this collection, fifteen have reached the top 5 of the UK singles charts. 'Gold' also includes their first single '5678', alongside three previously unreleased tracks 'Words Are Not Enough', 'Baby Don't Dance' and 'Only In My Dreams'.

Track Listing

1. Tragedy
2. One For Sorrow
3. Stomp
4. Better Best Forgotten
5. Love's Got A Hold On My Heart
6. Deeper Shade Of Blue
7. Last Thing On My Mind
8. Better The Devil You know
9. Summer Of Love
10. 5,6,7,8
11. Chain Reaction
12. Baby Don't Dance
13. Its The Way You Make Me Feel
14. After The Love Has Gone
15. Here & Now
16. Say You'll Be Mine
17. Only In My Dreams
18. Words Are Not Enough
19. When I Said Goodbye
20. Heartbeat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4101 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-15
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Countless tribute and sound-a-like bands have had various stabs at mimicking the magic of ABBA. Of the bunch, Steps have been the most successful in their attempts to nurture a similar ABBA-esque musical style and image. It comes as no surprise that Steps should call their "best of" anthology Gold, just like the bestselling "best of" from their Swedish heroes. The ABBA influences can be heard right from their earliest material--"One For Sorrow" to "After The Love Has Gone" (October 1999), through to newer compositions such as "Baby Don't Dance" (an updated version of "Voulez-Vous?"). Released at the peak of the line-dancing craze in the UK, their thigh-slapping debut "5,6,7,8" thus sounds remarkably out of place. Proving that they're no puppets of Mr Waterman, the Euro-pop style "Only In My Dreams" is the first song written by Steps as a group. Their cover of Diana Ross's 1986 number one "Chain Reaction" looks destined, along with "Tragedy" and the 70s disco inspired hit "Stomp", to become the songs which future generations will best remember Claire, Faye, Lisa, H and Lee for. --John Galilee

Customer Reviews

Fab
This album is great, when i was in my teens it Steps were a popular group, i have this album and it's great to listen to when you wanna remember your childhood. Abba was the group when our parents were young and step etc were the ones when i was a teen

Steps are the Gold-en group and this is a Gold album
Everyone knows that Steps are famous for their dances. I mean everyone can do 'tragedy' and if you can't well, Why not? This album has only one failing. It does not include Steps hit 'You'll be Sorry' which became a double A side with 'Here and Now'. In fact the two videos (if you get the VHS or DVD) are linked. If you liked their hits- this is a fantastic way to relive them all, with four new songs, three of which ('Baby don't dance'- their last single, 'Words are not Enough' and 'Chain Reaction') were released. Baby Don't Dance was technically released and then withdrawn. The video is the group in their Gold concert. The words are all included as well a history lesson to how Steps began. This is a must buy dance album- plus it saves room if you have all of their singles (I do and they take up six inches/ 15cm/ half a foot of shelf space- compared to the album which takes up 1cm in comparison.

My favourite album of all time!
I bought "Gold" a few days after its release in October 2001, just before the fab five went their separate ways, and I still haven't got tired of listening to it. In my opinion, every Steps single is a pop classic and if you didn't fancy buying their earlier albums but liked their singles, this album is for you. Every Steps single is included here, except their groovy disco-esque track "You'll be sorry". That doesn't really matter, however, as there are 20 superb songs that will distract you from that!

It was probably only fitting that "Tragedy" should kick off the album - it was the gang's first UK no. 1 alongside "Heartbeat" and has the most famous dance routine ever. Following this super-cheesy but brilliant track are two of my personal Steps faves, "One for sorrow" and "Stomp", and countless other pop corkers that'll have you leaping from your seat and boogying away before you know it (if "Tragedy" didn't manage to get you dancing already, that is!). All of the tracks on "Gold" have this quality, apart from the three beautiful ballads at the end of the album, "Words are not enough", "When I said goodbye" and "Heartbeat", a true favourite with Steps fans everywhere. Even the new tracks, "Baby don't dance" and "Only in my dreams", the latter especially, are surprisingly good, although "Baby don't dance" had to grow on me as it lacks a bit in the lyrics department.

If you are a die-hard pop lover, you NEED this album for your collection as all these tracks have wonderful singing and excellent, cheesy, happy, backing music that real pop fans like me crave. I guarantee that if you buy this album, it will not leave your CD player unless someone takes a sledgehammer to it and you dive in to rescue Steps' amazing Greatest Hits collection, endangering your own life in the process! I know I would do that for this CD.