The upbeat "Christmas Wrapping," complete with the usual Stannard/Rowe pop, also has prominent guitars and brass section (trumpet, trombone, sax) horns making a funky beat. The song actually has the main reasons for singing "Merry X-mas, Merry X-mas, but I think I'll miss this one this year," simply wanting to stay at home and relax on one's own after a busy schedule of touring and obligations.

The next two songs were taken from their Live At Wembley tour and are cover songs, which given their Girl Power schtick, I expected them to cover. They do a satisfactory job of doing Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin's "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves." Now there's a song whose performance may be simply done for promoting their agenda, but may have a hidden agenda in telling Geri they don't need her. If so, that's mean, as Geri was the most spirited of the bunch. The guitars are quite fierce though, and both Mels have dominant vocal chores here.

How many groups have covered Sister Sledge's "We Are Family"? The Spiceys join the ranks of Ebony Vibe Everlasting and Babes In Toyland in doing this solidarity of sorority song. Again, "I got all my sisters with me" might imply that those sisters don't include a certain ginger-haired one who left.

This EP is their last stab at greatness, but with the full-length followup to Spiceworld, the full implications of ginger taken out of the allspice mixture would be sadly realized.


Goodbye was so cool!   September 29, 1999
I am so glad they at least made one more cd! goodbye was so awesome-thats the only good song, but christmas wrapping was pretty good too!!!