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Everyone's doing it, so what the hell... I say Back For Good.
Whatever happened to destined-to-be-the-next-George-Michael Gary Barlow?

― nathalie, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Take THAT, mofos.

― nathalie, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He writes sub-Take That bubblegum pop tunes for people like Steps, doesn't he? He's still richer than Robbie. By quite a long way.

And how can anyone choose owt other than "Back for Good"?

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"A Million Love Songs" is better - "Back For Good" is OK but it tries a bit too hard to be a 'classic pop song', at the time I bracketed it with Oasis. Whereas "A Million Love Songs" is just pure swoony slop.

― Tom, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not a huge fan but I like 'I found heaven'

― Paul R, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom's OTM with "Back For Good" - perhaps the touchstone for the fetishisation of the "song" that came with Britpop. I don't think that makes it bad, but as with Robbie's "Angel" I find it a bit less godlike than it's rep. would suggest.

Their earlier stuff is a bit before my time, but I remember liking "Love Ain't Here Anymore".

― Tim, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Could It Be Magic'
("Girl / come / come into my life")

― DavidM, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't stop laughing right now, have we really run out of bands? I say it's obviously Back for Good, which is a HORRIBLE song but it is GREAT in its HORRIBLENESS, while their other stuff is just horrible.

― Ally, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

love in't here anymore seconded- for the way gary barlow sings 'over' over the last chorus.

― Richard Jones, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

Jesus Christ. is anyone in the UK currently unable to turn over their TV from Take That - The Circus live because its the most insane fucking stage how of all time? four band members start on top of a mechanised elephant that walks them to the stage which is a huge circus filled with hundreds of weird circus folk. This is more OTT than any prog stage set i've ever seen.

― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)

There's no way general consensus is going to make me lie to myself that Back For Good is a good song

― PaulTMA, Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

This clowns routine is a bit shit.

― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

Although it has to be said that Robbie could still out-clown this lot.

― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Saturday, 19 December 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Some well spent hours listening to vintage Take That this week while travelling, and I wonder, did they ever explain why the video for Babe is post-Soviet themed, perhaps even Russian Revolution referencing? Seriously, Mark reunites with his wife and child in the ruins of an abandoned Russian palace in the snow after returning from…war? It’s such an unusual aesthetic for them!

Nearest I could find was this discussion here (https://popular-number1s.com/2012/09/18/take-that-babe/) marked by this comment:

The video definitely shouts “returning hero” – there’s shades of “Nikita” in that whereas the Elton vid depicts the height of the Cold War, “Babe” suggests the Soviet Union’s death throes: the deserted church recalls St Basil’s, and it occurs to me the single came out a couple of months after Yeltsin’s showdown with the Russian parliament. But – nice video, shame about the song – the lyrics don’t reflect this, and it’s more like the deserting dad scenario mentioned above.

― colonic interrogation (gyac), Thursday, 30 October 2025 11:18 (seven months ago)

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