Stock, Aitken & Waterman

about

In the mid- to late '80s and early '90s, the London-based team of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman was to European dance-pop what L.A. Reid & Babyface and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were to urban contemporary: a slick, well-oiled producing/songwriting team that had a reputation for cranking out one major after another. Back then, many urban contemporary artists reasoned that the quickest and easiest way score a big hit was to work with L.A. Reid & Babyface or Jam & Lewis; and in England, dance-pop artists were every bit an axious to wotk with Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Many British rock critics hated Stock, Aitken & Waterman with a passion; they destested the threesome's ultra-slick, very glossy approach, which was heavily influenced by the music-styles of Euro-disco and Euro-pop of the late '70s; Stock, Aitken & Waterman's roots were folks like ABBA, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Cerrone, The Village People, Phil Spector, The Bee Gees and Silver Convention. Stock, Atiken & Waterman were about as commerical as it gets at times, they were downright bubblegum and that fact wasn't lost on the British rock critics who bashed them unmercifully. When Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced an album, they could usually count on receiving their share or scathing reviews from the British press; and plenty of American critics weren't terribly supportive either. But what critics like and what the public buys are often two entirely different things, and Stock, Aitken & Waterman helped B

top songs

albums

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Roadblock

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Top 40 1987

Gold Disc 2

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1000 Original Hits 1987

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Blank & Jones Present So80s (Soeighties) Formel Eins

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Gold

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The Hit Factory - The Best of Stock Aitken Waterman

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100 Hits: 80's Pop Disc 4

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1000 Original Hits 1987 By BSBT RG

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Blank & Jones Present So80s (Soeighties) Formel Eins / DISC 1 - Mixed By Blank & Jones

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Coming to America

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Pure Grooves

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