Lisa Stansfield - I Got A Feeling (Polydor)

This is a perfect example of someone who has had their face on telly and automatically assumes they can sing. But all is not lost. Not only is this actually a good song (a cover), but Lisa has the funniest voice ever, sort of a strangled Tracey Ullman. Unlike Tracey, however, Lisa's serious about it. (Paul Bursche, No 1, November 19, 1983)

It's very hard to make a Holland-Dozier-Holland song (the Motown writers) sound bad so I hope she has a hit with this bright pop song. However, my panel thought it a miss. (Jools Holland and The Panel, Smash Hits, November 24, 1983)

Lisa Stansfield - The Only Way (Polydor)

Looking like a prime candidate for 'Vest What I Always Wanted' Ms Stansfield shouts through a plethora of electro beats, syndrums, etc. A performance that must surely be a trailer for her eventual appearance on page three of the Sun. (Jim Reid, Record Mirror, November 6, 1982)

Nominating this as star single isn't going to win me any credibility points. It's the kind of obvious, blatantly commercial number that everyone sneers at until it makes the top five and then some vaguely apologetic voice pipes up with: "actually, I quite like this". The producer, who also wrote the thing and, for all we know, knitted Lisa's rather fetching string vest for her as well, has boosted her little girl voice until it's just this side of glass-shattering, schooled the drummer in the ABC clatter and compressed every element right down so that, on replay, everything springs out like the contents of an overstuffed suitcase. A contender. (David Hepworth, Smash Hits, October 28, 1982)