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Poll Results

Option	Votes
"The Slightest Touch" (7" remix) 4:19	3
"Rain or Shine" (7" single) 4:00	2
"System Addict" 4:04	2
"Find the Time" (7" remix edit) 3:58	1
"Let Me Be the One" (7" edit) 3:40	1
"Somewhere Somebody" (7" edit) 4:06	0
"R.S.V.P." (7" edit) 3:28	0
"Strong as Steel" (7" edit) 4:27	0
"Love Take Over" 3:49	0
"Another Weekend" (7" edit) 4:10	0
"If I Say Yes" (U.S. 7" remix) 3:43	0
"All Fall Down" 3:30	0
"Can't Wait Another Minute" (7" edit) 4:30	0
"With Every Heartbeat" (CD and cassette only) 4:11	0
"Rock My World" (7" edit) 4:06	0
"Stay Out of My Life" (7" edit) 3:51	0
"Whenever You're Ready" (7" edit) 4:18	0
"Something About My Baby" (CD and cassette only) 3:43	0

― soref, Saturday, 8 November 2014 14:53 (eleven years ago)

Stedman was on Pointless Celebrities (heh) recently and he looked so weird and android-ish. I kinda like "Find The Time".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2zXp0xUk7qI

― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:09 (eleven years ago)

"Find the Time" is a goodie, maybe their best. like "Rain or Shine" lots too

― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:15 (eleven years ago)

The Slightest Touch! There were some good Shep Pettibone mixes on the 12" too.

― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:16 (eleven years ago)

they seem oddly forgotten about, considering how big they were for a time, not part of the story of British pop in the 80s that gets told.
amazed to find out that Stedman is 50

― soref, Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:18 (eleven years ago)

I would be curious to know what American ilxors made of them, watching their videos there always seemed to be this ambience of provincial Britishness about them regardless of how glossy the whole undertaking was, not 2nd rate exactly, but not quite the genuine article? I don't know if it only seemed that way from a UK perspective though

― soref, Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:26 (eleven years ago)

i dunno what part Stedman's public indecency conviction played in the drop-off over here. i also felt that provincial thing at the time but looking back the ish is really that they're a pop group tinged with r'n'b rather than vice versa, so some sweet tunes but not much in the way of outright jams

― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:34 (eleven years ago)

oddly forgotten about

They're a mid 80s Bucks Fizz, more a commercial entity than artistic.

― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:37 (eleven years ago)

I don't remember the indecency charge. I think they were over shortly after they declared bankruptcy.

― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:42 (eleven years ago)

ie before the indecency charge ever came to light

― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:43 (eleven years ago)

Also between the bankruptcy and the indecency charge, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation cam out, which was like this is how you do R&B flavoured pop, and more or less ended Five Star's chance at a comeback in that period.

― wackness unlimited (snoball), Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:45 (eleven years ago)

I do quite like a lot of these, but I really like 'System Addict'

― Bloody Snail, Saturday, 8 November 2014 16:14 (eleven years ago)

Slightest Touch by miles.

― piscesx, Sunday, 9 November 2014 05:04 (eleven years ago)

literally never heard of these guys *bookmark*

― mattresslessness, Sunday, 9 November 2014 05:24 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 14 November 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/five-star-going-live-swearing-video-apology/

― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 06:47 (six years ago)

I <3 the internet

― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 08:42 (six years ago)

four years pass...

ALL FALL DOWN

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 October 2023 22:40 (two years ago)

one year passes...

RIP Stedman

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9xvg2125o

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 March 2025 22:14 (nine months ago)

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