Customer Reviews
Fab - By: Sarah, 01 Apr 2006 
This album is great, when i wasin my teens it Steps were a popular group, i have this album & it's great to listen to when you wanna remember your childhood. Abba was the group when our parents were young & step etc were the ones when i was a teen
Steps are the Gold-en group and this is a Gold album - By: A. Robinson, 05 Feb 2004 Everyone knows that Steps are famous for their dances. I mean everyone can do 'tragedy' & if you can't well, Why not? This album has only one failing. It does not include Steps hit 'You'll be Sorry' which became a double A side with 'Here & Now'. In fact the two videos (if you get the VHS or DVD) are linked. If you liked their hits- this is a fantastic way to relive them all, with four new songs, three of which ('Baby don't dance'- their last single, 'Words are not Enough' & 'Chain Reaction') were released. Baby Don't Dance was technically released & then withdrawn. The video is the groupin their Gold concert. The words are all included as well a history lesson to how Steps began. This is a must buy dance album- plus it saves room if you have all of their singles (I do & they take up six inches/ 15cm/ half a foot of shelf space- compared to the album which takes up 1cmin comparison.
My favourite album of all time! - By: J. McKay, 29 Sep 2003 I bought "Gold" a few days after its releasein October 2001, just before the fab five went their separate ways, & I still haven't got tired of listening to it. In my opinion, every Steps single is a pop classic & if you didn't fancy buying their earlier albums but liked their singles, this album is for you. Every Steps single is included here, except their groovy disco-esque track "You'll be sorry". That doesn't really matter, however, as there are 20 superb songs that will distract you from that!
It was probably only fitting that "Tragedy" should kick off the album - it was the gang's first UK no. 1 alongside "Heartbeat" & has the most famous dance routine ever. Following this super-cheesy but brilliant track are two of my personal Steps faves, "One for sorrow" & "Stomp", & countless other pop corkers that'll have you leaping from your seat & boogying away before you know it (if "Tragedy" didn't manage to get you dancing already, that is!). All of the tracks on "Gold" have this quality, apart from the three beautiful ballads at the end of the album, "Words are not enough", "When I said goodbye" & "Heartbeat", a true favourite with Steps fans everywhere. Even the new tracks, "Baby don't dance" & "Onlyin my dreams", the latter especially, are surprisingly good, although "Baby don't dance" had to grow on me as it lacks a bitin the lyrics department.
If you are a die-hard pop lover, you NEED this album for your collection as all these tracks have wonderful singing & excellent, cheesy, happy, backing music that real pop fans like me crave. I guarantee that if you buy this album, it will not leave your CD player unless someone takes a sledgehammer to it & you divein to rescue Steps' amazing Greatest Hits collection, endangering your own lifein the process! I know I would do that for this CD.
Such cheese, it could only be Steps! - By: polly_anna86@yahoo.co.uk, 08 Feb 2002 
Goodness! A greatest hits album already? Where has the time gone Steps? Yep, "Steps Gold" is jam-packed with pure cheese, terrible dance routines & track after track of Mickey Mouse squeeky clean bubble-gum pop. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY IT'S SO MUCH FUN!!! O.K so it's not as if H & co. broke any boundriesin the world of music. But then, who gives a damn? This is a great album for sticking on & getting everyone on the dance floor, pronto. With classics such as "Tragedy" (which even the most hardcore 'SlipKnot' fan knows the dance routine for)and "Stomp", you can't loose. Even the laughable "cover" of Diana Ross's "Chain Reaction" will force the most dance floor shy up off their bums to make fools of themselves trying to copy the ridiculous dance routines. The fab thing about Steps is they've never taken themselves too seriously & when they have they've failed misrably (remember "One for Sorrow"? Yes, this is on here too!)So polish those old dance shoes & get on down for a night of boogying, but better skip the slowies, they're so full of 'puppy-love lost & found' stuff it hurts. Oh & Steps aren't just for eight year-olds, they have that undoubtedly kitsch but slightly cool value as well, so dig into this feast of 18-track (don't worry you don't actually have to listen to the cringable "Words are not enough.") pure cheese but quietly thank a greater being that there won't be a Steps greatest hits 2 (they've split up.)
Steps at their best. - By: jennifer.toms@lineone.net, 27 Jan 2002 Steps have had a lot of hit singles. Gold is the ultimate collection of songs if you don't have any of thier previous albums.
There are four brand new songs, including the hit singles 'Chain reaction' & 'Words are not enough'. Unfortunately it does not include 'You'll be sorry', a great song. If you have a favourite song that Steps have released then it will be on this album. If you love this album then you will love their previous albums. From the fast pace songs to the slow ballards, Steps have produced some of the best singlesin the last five years.
With two number ones Stomp & Tragedy, Steps have proved themselves to be the best boy/girl pop group around. It is a shame that there will be no more new material to add to their greatest hits.
