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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 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T TRY IT

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

Does it have a Michael Crawford sample?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

OMG OMG OMG

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Paul!

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

Carcello Marlin, yer cruisin' for a bruisin'.

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

i thought it was phil?

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

xpost O RLY?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

Careerist Trolls?

You get paid for this?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

WHO DOESN'T?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

LESS TEDIOUS META, MORE GIRLPOP!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

garbage by a million miles!

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

'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 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, my mistake, I meant "Subhuman."

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

eerily familiar and strangely enjoyable at the same time.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

18 Wheeler?

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

who?

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

Wheeler.

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

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

1 Heavy Stereo

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

2 Octopus

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

two 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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

i just got an email from nicola roberts!

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

an archivist, at tate britain.

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

Thanks for sharing that valuable information with us.

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Number two in the midweeks!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

damn mcfly.

― danzig (danzig), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Does this mean that the record company have given up on Girls ALoud then if they're releasing in the same week as McFly in the first place?

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

So are My Chemical Romance gonna outsell them or what?

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Friday, 27 October 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

there are only 52 weeks in a year dom. you gotta release it sometime.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

'something kinda oooh' is a decent and solid and danceable single which has the effect of making me marginally less interested in what girls aloud do next. enough of the electrorock please.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

do you like 'no good advice'?

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

yes, it's probably the best GA song outside of 'whole lotta history' but it was also about five years ago!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

you're not very consistent.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

who would want to be?

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

people who lay down iron laws of pop, probably should be.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Lex would like them better if Timbaland produced their next album. Then he could 'phone in his chicka-chickas with Cheryl playing temptress then tempted etc etc zzzzz.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds okay, though. (lex would prefer scott storch.)

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

both sound great!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

I would prefer Scott Walker.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

how is timba a has-been and not scotty?

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

Because you cannae change the laws of physics.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Neptunes? Anyone?

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

These days they could certainly be anyone.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

girls aloud working with any of these 'yours for a million' R&B producers would be horrendous.

― tigertiger (tigertiger), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

heard the demo version of 'Love Machine' on the Popjustice CD? weird and quite ropey but funny for the chorus:

how can i feel this way
hang on to what you say
this is so very ~~gay~~ strange

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

listened to whole greatest hits all the way through woooooo sugar rush!!!!!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

bosh 'i think we're alone now'!

sweary 'no good advice'!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

'money' is brilliant!

the 'i think we're alone now' cover is hardly the greatest tilt at the song, but it just about won me over by the end. Cheesy eurovision synth solos ahoy!

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh man a pink floyd cover :-(

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

if only

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

'money' isn't very good, it's a bit too messy. also horrid guitars.

girls aloud singles in order of greatness:

no good advice
the show
love machine
whole lotta history
life got cold
jump
i'll stand by you
see the day
something kinda ooooh
wake me up
sound of the underground
biology
long hot summer

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

change_the_record.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

'long hot summer' is underrated and i'll take it over 'life got cold' and the ballads but that's some great singles there.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with NRQ, "Long Hot Summer" is a longterm keeper rather than an immediate stunner. I go back to that and "Graffiti My Soul" more often than any of the other singles.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

'long hot summer' has long lost most of the charm it initially held for me! the coda is wonderful but too little too late to save it from the stodgy arrangement and limp key-change-missing chorus. 'graffiti my soul' is possibly girls aloud's pinnacle though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Biology is fucking amazing...the "Give it up, and then they take it away..." verse is J-pop brilliance.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Graffiti My Soul wasn't a single.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't think anyone is saying it is though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand the Long Hot Summer hate at all - the "if you wanna get fresh get out of my car..." bit is fantastic.

Life Got Cold is their worst single.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind "Life Got Cold", but Lex overrates it on his list. "Some Kinda Miracle" shoulda been a single, I usually forget that it wasn't one.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

I go back to that and "Graffiti My Soul" more often than any of the other singles.

I believe that sentence implicative of the presumed existence of "Graffiti My Soul" as a single.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Such urgent issues.
-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...), October 31st, 2006.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

ULTRA CONTROVERSIAL ALERT my least favourite GA single is still "Love Machine".

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Marcello, I meant the "other" in relation to "Long Hot Summer".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

'life got cold' has really great lyrics. LOADS of GA album tracks should have been singles! if i made a GA 15-track compilation half the singles would be nowhere near it.

ed o : love machine :: lex : biology

'biology' has the potential to be so good but is completely fucked by the ghastly production.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

'life got cold' is lyrically EMO, right? and it bites oasis. so OF COURSE lex digs it.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

'life got cold' isn't emo at all, it's nihilist! it's all about being completely blank and having no soul (or a frozen soul).

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

it's about being mizz about getting old.

haha k-punk likes things that are about blank and having no soul and he practically invented emo.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think I agree with NRQ on this.

it's one of those songs that allow teenagers to indulge in premature nostalgia (see also "When You Were Young" and all "end of school" anthems ever esp. Green Day's "The Time Of Your Life")

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

The album's number one in the midweeks, ahead of Winehouse (3) and the Who (6)!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

shitty article:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1962798.ece

didn't know they recorded round my ends.

haha i admire this: '"The higher it gets, the better the album will sell," says Walsh, "and ultimately that's what we're trying to promote."'

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Last Christmas, your scribe found himself in the somewhat embarrassing position of being genuinely moved by their take on The Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You", though, in my defence, I'd have to cite its limpet-like adherence to the arrangement of the fine, Chrissie Hynde-penned original. Make no mistake about it: Girls Aloud can carry a tune.

What a goon.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

From the twanging, almost Monkees-like pop of "Love Machine", to the fabulously melodramatic, cod R&B-imbued "Biology"

You'd have thought maybe a music journalist would have, at some point in his life, heard both a) The Monkees b) any R&B ever.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

'i'll stand by you' is amazing. i prefer GA's cover.

i have heard the monkees! but i hate them.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

lex in hating pop non-shock

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

REHAB cover live on radio 1 just now.

― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

of amy whitehouse?

her voice is terrible.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

her ~~voice~~face is terrible.

fixed.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

dude that's misogynist.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

SHOCKAH

amy winehouse's voice is great.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

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― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 10 November 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

who is maureen o'hara?

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

http://www.cafesappho.dk/weblog/kikk/tw/tw01.jpg

― 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 (nineteen years ago)

five 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 (thirteen years ago)

here

― daavid, Monday, 15 October 2012 21:05 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Leonard Pine, Monday, 15 October 2012 21:14 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Mark G, Monday, 15 October 2012 21:35 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

(not spoiling that by checking, ahem..)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:17 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:55 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZYqQWbEHWI

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

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

topical use of Aspergers as a slur upthread, kudos.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:47 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

Skrillex would have been the "hip" choice.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

3 best GA singles IMO

Something Kinda Oooh
The Show
No Good Advice

― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:32 (thirteen years ago)

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

― daavid, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 00:32 (thirteen years ago)

on your link!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsV_LMu8VZs&feature=share

― piscesx, Friday, 19 October 2012 07:18 (thirteen years ago)

"This live event will begin in 15:10"

ooh.

― Mark G, Friday, 19 October 2012 08:45 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 19 October 2012 10:36 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 19 October 2012 11:16 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

― daavid, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:35 (thirteen years ago)

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

― nathey, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:39 (thirteen years ago)

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

― daavid, Friday, 19 October 2012 13:53 (thirteen years ago)

"some kind of miracle" please

― prolego, Friday, 19 October 2012 14:03 (thirteen years ago)

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