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The Spice Girls’ oeuvre is sometimes interesting for how clearly it reflects the modish musical preoccupations of its era: there is a distinct hint of trip-hop about Take Me Home’s sparse breakbeat, sawing strings and echoing wah-wah guitar and sax. His name is Prince … the Spice Girls celebrate 21 years of the Prince’s Trust, 1997. The Spice Girls were not great interpreters of song – they tended towards karaoke favourites such as Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves, which is why this list omits the handful of live covers they released – but the decision to record the Waitresses’ Christmas Wrapping was inspired, auguring the 1981 song’s belated entry into the canon of unimpeachable festive classics. In the late 90s, Move Over became so synonymous with flogging Pepsi, the most high-profile of the Spice Girls’ umpteen endorsement deals, that it is subsequently a bit hard to hear as a song rather than an advertising jingle – compounded by the fact that it’s pretty flimsily constructed. Tell Me Why (2000)Īs tough as Jerkins’s productions on Forever got: a sparse, uptempo slice of R&B, flecked with chattering electronics. A snappy leftover from the sessions for Forever, Voodoo still could not touch their best 90s hits, suggesting the reunion would be predicated on nostalgia. The other “new” track from the re-formed Spice Girls, included on their Greatest Hits, was better than the single Headlines. It might have been more striking had it remained in its original form, as First Time Lover, a song about losing your virginity. The fact that it is the only track from their debut album that the Spice Girls never performed live has sealed Last Time Lover’s fate as pleasant but unmemorable padding. This is not a bad ballad in polished, Heart FM-friendly style, but there is nothing spectacular about it: the explosive din of Wannabe seems like the work of a different act entirely.

The sound of the Spice Girls’ first incarnation going out with a whimper, rather than a bang. Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar 32. National Elt Service … Sir Elton makes a guest appearance in Spice World, 1997.