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can't believe this hasn't come up!

apparently radio one has ALREADY PLAYED their new joint, 'something kinda ooh'.

reactions etc?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

DON'T TRY IT

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

i haven't heard this because i refuse to download radio rips. but i am excited!

(it's the lead single from forthcoming greatest hits)

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Does it have a Michael Crawford sample?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

Apparently there's a video where GA do a whoopsie in Petridish's beret.

A great single as always, and doubtless doomed to peak at number eight or similar.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

OMG OMG OMG

― snowballing (snowballing), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

Fuck off. Srsly, fuck off. I am sick of this shit. Girls Aloud is shit, just admit it. Shit shit shitty shit shit.

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hi Paul!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Carcello Marlin, yer cruisin' for a bruisin'.

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

i thought it was phil?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

xpost O RLY?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Buttez, how will the bruising be administered from halfway across the world? Via the INTERNETS? Web-bruising != real bruising.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Who knows what rabid thoughts leak through the heads of my internet stalkers?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

And to think people believe I'm the demented one on ILM...

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

The thing of course is that if I were a moderator on ILx I would have administered the severest of all bruisings simply by banning careerist trolls. The boards need a touch more micromanagement on that score.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

Sometimes I'd quite like to evict Esteban and put Calum back in the house. Sometimes.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

On Friday night in a tired and emotional state I seem to remember promising the Lex full moderator powers on ILM! Luckily I had forgotten this by the time I got home.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

Thereby avoiding a Monday morning of "where have all the guitar/indie/emo threads gone?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Careerist Trolls?

You get paid for this?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

The thing of course is that if I were a moderator on ILx I would have administered the severest of all bruisings simply by banning careerist trolls.

Ah irony, you have a new name...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

WHO DOESN'T?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't advocate Dissensus-style micromoderation because that kills any spirit on a messageboard and simply turns it into a vanity project. There has to be room for argument.

But in terms of posters who literally have nothing to offer except habitual trolling and treating other posters like cunts, which is not only offensive but tedious for the reader to wade through, then a line has to be drawn where recidivists and repeat offenders are concerned.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

LESS TEDIOUS META, MORE GIRLPOP!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've never looked on that rolling teenpop thread - is it worth scrolling through, or will I regret it?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Anyway, as I wrote elsewhere:

I think it sounds a bit perfunctiory to be honest - we know Xenomania can do the big pounding epic electro-rock thing with their eyes shut but the song they wrote with it could have been loads better (see also Wake Me Up).

Production-wise though, top-notch. I'm sure there's a Garbage vs Republica thread waiting to happen as to which forgotten and direded 90s act has had the biggest effect on 00s pop.

Incidentally, the last few seconds of this = Get On by 2002 French house types Moguai.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

marcello, frank shines on that teenpop thread, but it's a struggle to actually follow all the myspace-derived music.

"Ready to go" sounds rather contemporary at the moment doesn't it. it's being used in an ad over here and the republica album has been re-released to take advantage of it.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

garbage by a million miles!

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

At least Garbage had the good taste to rip-off MBV.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

The second Garbage single - "Vow" - was by some miles the best thing they've ever done. Why they didn't include it on their debut album continues to baffle me. Certainly anticipates "Wake Me Up," etc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

Are 'Something Kinda Ooh' and 'Wake Me Up' not well written songs? If not, why not?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

b-b-but Vow IS on their debut album, just before Stupid Girl! I'm listening to it right now!

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

'Something Kinda Ooh' sounds like a badly written song, but I haven't head it, so.

xpost I wondered about Vow.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

Sorry, my mistake, I meant "Subhuman."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

xpost to a different thread:

Ah, a greatest Hits album.

They should call it "Goodnight Vienna" then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

eerily familiar and strangely enjoyable at the same time.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

On Friday night in a tired and emotional state I seem to remember promising the Lex full moderator powers on ILM!

A PROMISE IS A PROMISE TOM

I AM WAITING FOR THE KEYS TO POWER!!!

Garbage vs Republica

garbage! first garbage album is really really good. the second has some even better songs but also some bad filler. everything from the third on is dire.

republica had 1 decent song.

there are many 90s acts more worthy of derision.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

18 Wheeler?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

who?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Wheeler.

Admittedly, I missed the other seventeen bands on his list.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 Heavy Stereo

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

What Marcello is forgetting is that I bring more to the table than his quasi-intellectual wanking ever will.

Like knob jokes, for example.

(Just between you and me, he probably thinks that I too am getting paid by Geffen...)

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 Octopus

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

and not exactly breaking new ground but ech.

― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Alright, who the fuck locked the thread about the superawesome poptastic NEW GIRLS ALOUD 2CD GREATEST HITS!??!?!?!!??

Girls Aloud are the shit.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 6 October 2006 22:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

i just got an email from nicola roberts!

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

an archivist, at tate britain.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

Thanks for sharing that valuable information with us.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Esteban to post here in 5...4....3....

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

but surprised how well this did on downloads, even if GA's fanbase does include a large number of People. Like. Us.

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's their least good jump-off track, but still better for this PLU than xtina or beyonce's.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

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who is maureen o'hara?

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 14:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 years pass...

Not sure anyone around here cares anymore but the comeback single just leaked (for about 5 minutes) and it's good.

― daavid, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

here

― daavid, Monday, 15 October 2012 21:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

Girls (Run the World) except thicker and ... better. I like it.

― Leonard Pine, Monday, 15 October 2012 21:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

I had a series of funny on this thread! Who Knew that was possible!

― Mark G, Monday, 15 October 2012 21:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

all i heard was the intro. lyrics characteristically xenostupid. it's not 2005 anymore. let them rest in peace.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

i would say that if GA want to get any credibility back, xenomania are about the last people they should be working with.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

I don't see why that's an ultimate goal (getting credibility 'back'), and I would assume working with xenomania is a result of that being the thing that they do, not some higher strategy. having said that I didn't really dig what I heard when I found a working youtube earlier today

― abcfsk, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

sorry, i forgot ilx was asperger's central. anyone who's got anything interesting and worthwhile to say please feel free etc.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

I thought xenomania *were* the last people they worked with!

(not spoiling that by checking, ahem..)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

pls note that i said "the last people they SHOULD BE working with."

I think they are still capable of making good records but they need to get away from these Kentish clowns.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

New single sounds pretty good but I was expecting a bit more. Think I agree with Marcello on this one, it might be time for them to move on. That single xenomania did for Amelia Lily was so poor, could not believe for what a good reaction it got.

So is the new single for a a new album or is it a one off? I'm guessing the record company will push for another best of if their isn't enough material for an album.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

The Sound Of Girls Aloud came out six years ago so it sounds like they're probably going to go for a g/hits update.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

ok i have now heard the whole thing.

let's sound like a slightly horned-up (as in trevor horn) version of everybody else (i.e. guetta/calvin).

and then those BORING voices come in with a flotilla of cliches, "walk on the wild side," "leader of the pack" etc. and kill any impetus in the record stone dead.

not exactly pussy riot, is it? but it leads me to think that a big part of the problem with girls aloud are girls aloud. they just sound...out of time and place. like they might have mattered once but not now.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

also for a song abt female liberation to have its tag line voiced by a MALE-sounding autotune robot is a couple of train stops past ironic.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

except that the robot is 'replacing' the male..

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

It would be pointless bringing out another best of so soon but I do think they've have a great run of singles from Sexy! No No No to Untouchable, they could just replace all the covers with those.

I really miss that time around 2005 when Popjustice was actually getting it right with the acts they got excited about. Great albums from Sugababes, Girls Aloud, Annie, Junior Senior, Saint Etienne, Robyn and Goldfrapp. It was an exciting time.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

I guess I sort of wanted something a little bit more interesting given the variation on nic's record last year

but for a GA song in 2012 this is pretty good

― monotony, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

weird, i was just listening to some old girls aloud this week in a kinda so-old-i-can-make-my-peace-with-it-again way. this is whatever but itunes took me straight into "something kinda ooooh" after it and WHAT A BANGER eh? their best single outside "no good advice", maybe.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

I like the new single, even if it is a little by-numbers. Out Of Control was such a return to form i'm willing to believe that Xenomania are still the right partners for them.

― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

topical use of Aspergers as a slur upthread, kudos.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

a tiny infinitesimal (though admittedly rather pissed off) passing reference = a "slur."

Unlike, of course, the many slurs to be found on this thread:
they moved the aspie next to me at work

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 13:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

shame on Neil S for all his posts to that thread five years ago tbh

― set the controls for the arse of your mum (sic), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 14:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

xp I tend to find never accusing anyone of having Aspergers on internet message boards is a good policy.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

Neither GA or Xenomania are particularly relevant nowadays but the alternative is Simon Cowell handing them over to Will.i.am or some Guetta-style hack and in that context I'm happy for them to keep plugging away anachronistically.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:18 (7 months ago) Permalink

Skrillex would have been the "hip" choice.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

Considering Will.i.am is responsible for most of Cheryl's solo output, I'm relieved they went back to Xenomania.

There's a rumor going around that along with "Something New," there will also be a something borrowed (new cover song), something old (new version of one of their songs), and something blue (new ballad).

― !Alicia!, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

Xenomania - just had a look at their wikipedia discography. The last couple of years have really been paltry. The last thing that I could actually recall was the 2nd flop of the Annie album - 2009!

Really the only thing that would excite me is if Girls Aloud worked with the likes of Teddy Park (2NE1/Big Bang mastermind)

― danzig, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

Xenomania effectively split up a few years ago though - the three non-Higginses all left after Out Of Control / Don't Stop / Pet Shop Boys' Yes, and it (or because it) became Higgins pouring all his money down a desperate factory of in-house session writers and musicians and even artists*. I was surprised to see Cooper listed against that new GA track because of this, but they probably insisted on him having her back as she's effectively written all "their" lyrics to date.

* and Fred Falke six months of the year

― set the controls for the arse of your mum (sic), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

3 best GA singles IMO

Something Kinda Oooh
The Show
No Good Advice

― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

Where did you see the credits, sic? Do you have them?

― daavid, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

on your link!

― set the controls for the arse of your mum (sic), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 01:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

― piscesx, Friday, 19 October 2012 07:18 (6 months ago) Permalink

"This live event will begin in 15:10"

ooh.

― Mark G, Friday, 19 October 2012 08:45 (6 months ago) Permalink

If they ain't announcing a trip to the moon, I ain't impressed.

― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 19 October 2012 10:36 (6 months ago) Permalink

Nadine, "I was expecting more noise". Facepalm.

― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 19 October 2012 11:16 (6 months ago) Permalink

http://www.girlsaloud.com/ten

GIRLS ALOUD have chosen their favourite singles for the main disc of TEN. Now, they want YOU GUYS to choose your favourite other singles, album tracks and b-sides for the special 2-CD deluxe edition!

*votes for Close To Love*

― piscesx, Friday, 19 October 2012 12:19 (6 months ago) Permalink

I hope everyone votes for all the b-sides so I have a good reason to buy this new best of, sadly I think people will more likely vote for Walk This Way. The first disc looks good although but Whole Lotta History or Wake me up should be on there instead of the covers.

― Kitchen Person, Friday, 19 October 2012 12:37 (6 months ago) Permalink

the unreleased jam with evan parker and spring heel jack should definitely be on there.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 19 October 2012 12:45 (6 months ago) Permalink

Opportunity missed. A greatest hits package with three or four specially recorded songs, call it "Something Kinda New".

― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:19 (6 months ago) Permalink

music video http://youtu.be/ZHSFTrcJYmM

Well.. the song grows on me. It's nothing big but it's enjoyable. Four new songs on the greatest hit, a tour and then they're done apparently .I have to say it IS kinda touching that they stick with xenomania for their last stint, years later and years after xenomania had any success or relevance, and the result could definitely be worse.

― abcfsk, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:22 (6 months ago) Permalink

i suppose so. they could have covered "on a mission" after all.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:29 (6 months ago) Permalink

Given that you can get their previous Greatest Hits package in most branches of Poundland, i'm not sure how well a retooled version will fare, particularly when people are being encouraged to vote for songs they presumably already own for the Special Edition. More excited about the tour.

― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:30 (6 months ago) Permalink

well it'll have "blankety blank" on it and presumably all their other memorable recent hits, like, erm, "greasy robots working in a coalmine."

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 19 October 2012 13:31 (6 months ago) Permalink

That video is spectacularly awful! I can't believe somebody got paid to do that.

― daavid, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:35 (6 months ago) Permalink

set a reminder to vote every day for the teenage dirtbag cover

― nathey, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:39 (6 months ago) Permalink

For some reason I can't vote, but I want "Long Hot Summer" and "Singapore" in there

― daavid, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:53 (6 months ago) Permalink

"some kind of miracle" please

― prolego, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:03 (6 months ago) Permalink

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