Sam Brown - "Stop" Classic or not?

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This record - which I recently found gathering dust in my attic - is an anthemic, glass breaking ballad from 1988.

I can't decide whether this song is classic or not. The reason is can't decide is because the singer has a very grating voice, which many people (especially at the time) find/found highly annoying. Also the chorus is a bit choppy as if they were making the song up as the were going along. However, it's a song everyone knows and recognises, and you hear it often in commercials.

So help me make up my mind, classic or annoying? And would you admit to owning it.....

― janice irving, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

AAAAH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I nearly got stabbed at school for owning this record, plus its a rip off of It's a Mans Mans World.

DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY this and "Can I Get a Witness" immediately.

― JTS, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sisterhood" music, i.e. Music for women who hate men. You can imagine a woman in 1988 listening to this, and then going home, throw her coat on the floor and sing "OooOOOooooOOH you better STOP before yo TeaR mE aLl ApArT. STOP before yo Go AnD bReAk My HeArT......"

I have no qualms with the melody but I don't think those lyrics should have been let out into the public.

― bad girls are the best, Friday, 27 August 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i adore this song.

― purple patch (electricsound), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was once in a restaurant where this was stuck on repeat play for two hours and the staff wouldn't do anything about it. So I could quite happily never hear it again (or go back to that restaurant).

Anyway, it's the 80s Dido, innit. Not classic, not dud, just meh.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 28 August 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it.

Sam Brown's voice is a mannered London, a good thing.

The LP (1988; the 45 was ... *re*released c. feb 89?) is good too, and so is April Moon (released April 1990).

Another fact is that the LP, but not the 45, or the song, has a '!' at the end of its title.

― the stopfox, Saturday, 28 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, she is Joe Brown's daughter.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 28 August 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.joebrown.co.uk/images/img_homepage.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 28 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear! She's let herself go!

― JTS, Saturday, 28 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I take back what I said, the song isn't that bad actually. I enjoyed it when I bought it.

The only reason I grew a dislike for it is because of how the Greatful Dead and heavy metal fans threatened me when they discovered I had the single. They held me down in an alley with a scalpel to my neck and said if I didn't sing "Stop!" all the way through they would stab me, so I did......

― JTS, Saturday, 28 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks good, for his age.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 28 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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