Girls Aloud are a bit of atypical tho, since they've got the whole reality show thing, so I'm sure tons of ppl bought their first few singles as much for the Event of the whole thing as for the actual music...it'd be hard for acts w/o that type of multi-media appeal to muster up the same kind of hype.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 1 November 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 1 November 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 1 November 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 November 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
*I think we're overdue (and no, that piece-of-shit Annie record ain't it).
― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
What's this, a new(?) Kate Bush album or just the Futureheads cover.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 1 November 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, Nadine's ballad at the end is fab.
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I keep forgetting that I want the Shaznay, my Annie album still hasn't arrived, and there's Girls Aloud, Destiny's Child and Eminem to come in the next few weeks. As well as picking up Teedra Moses, Christina Milian, Stina Nordenstam, Tom Waits, Nancy Sinatra and oh god hundreds more from the past year...
The Twista album is ace, too.
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link
He gets it. Although, technically, Schizophrenic and In The Zone are this year's Justified and Stripped (with better songs and live performances).
Other GA downloaders should now start weighing in.
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Tasty is better than Schizophrenic! Although yes, JC is this year's Justin. (Although an argument could be made for Usher.)
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
"We Changed Everything" or "Dueling Egos: Dizzee Rascal vs Girls Aloud"?
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 5 November 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
"Graffiti My Soul" may just be the third best song they've ever done. (If they ever top the amazing 1-2 punch of "No Good Advice"/"Some Kind of Miracle" I will be thrilled). It really is crazy bonkers nuts in the best way.
"Hear Me Out" is quite a wobbly, endearing ballad as far as such things go.
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam west (adamwest), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I did get the JC record though, which is indeed excellent.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Really, she makes the others look bad.
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Thursday, 11 November 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
It is ace but Lene's pice de resistance is co-writing "No Good advice".
― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 11 November 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/tubesocks/123.jpg
Reminds me ofhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/tubesocks/charliesangels10.jpg & http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/tubesocks/voltron.gif
Alone we are nothing, together we are an unstoppable force for good!
― Gregory T (tubesocks), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
'Wake Me Up' is the best non-single i've heard so far (halfway through 1st listen).
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
ok 'deadlines & diets' is actually quite good. I expected to have to skip the slow ones.
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Plus, 'Real Life'... isn't really very good, is it?
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 29 November 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 29 November 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 29 November 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
It is pretty much perfect. The sequencing is odd - "I'll Stand By You" between "Love Machine" and "Jump", wtf, also the two ballads to close it make for a very muted ending which on first listen is a bit of a let-down. However. They're REALLY GOOD - especially Nicola's solo one, she sounds so sweet and vulnerable! Taking the whole 'girl singing into her hairbrush to herself' trope to its logical conclusion, ie it actually sound like it was recorded in her bedroom. "Big Brother" is so big and maximalist, I'd say that a remix from someone like Armand Van Helden would make it the best thing ever were it not for the fact that they have totally pre-empted that - no remix could make it better.
Cis and I were talking about how Sound Of The Underground epitomised a certain type of small-town mindset: the teenage girl gang hanging around on street corners, bored out of their skulls with provincial life and provincial boys, longing to escape. And What Will The Neighbours Say? is the sound of those girls five years on, career girls in the big bad city and loving it, supremely confident and sassy but not yet world-weary. "Thank Me Daddy" may thus well be the key song on the album.
(nb Cis was the one who thought of this theory)
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 9 January 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 9 January 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 9 January 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost NO, does that mean "Graffiti My Soul" is being re-recorded with less fisting references? and surely it is too late as the kids have had 1 1/2 months to be corrupted so far?)
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 9 January 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 9 January 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Life Got Cold2. The Show?3. Love Machine?
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
(I have not seen I'll Stand By You!)
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
B...b..but the TRENCHCOAT!
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Greg have you heard the Lene version of "Here We Go"? It was on her album in the 03, it's big and brassy.
"Real Life" is going to make a lot more sense when hot weather rolls around y'all.
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
(I haven't seen it either, I don't think! I mean, I have a pretty strong memory of it coming up on The Hits but like when I think back it's pretty undeniable that there are only three of them in the video and they're all bloinde and singing an Atomic Kitten track).
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
The trenchcoat is amazing! I once wrote a girl a letter that was actually an annotated issue of 'I <3 Pop' magazine, the bit about Life Got Cold like overspilled the page.
I haven't heard the Lene! Is it even better?
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
You must hear the Lene album, it is like a collection of Girls Aloud demos! I still haven't decided who does "Here We Go" better though: I think the Girls win on the verses, but Lene bellows the chorus better.
Another classic moment in the Love Machine video - the bit where, as they're teetering into the club, Cheryl gets distracted by a band member and the other Girls have to drag her away.
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Right, the reason this thread makes me slightly sad (as well as very happy) is that I DON'T HAVE MUSIC VIDEO TELEVISION ANY MORE. I have been bereft of it since October. This is a total nostalgia trip for the days when I'd spend like half a day flicking between TMF, The Hits and MTV Base non-stop. So... I haven't seen the Ciara vid :(
The top she's wearing on her album cover is awesome, though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barms, Monday, 10 January 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Jesus, even I don't like my taste in music anymore!
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link
every single Girls Aloud ballad ever has a way of insinuating itself into your soul without you noticing (while you're being stunned by the full-on assault of the other songs).
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― coyleboy, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
I was playing "Smackdown vs Raw" on the PS2 whilst listening to the album, and Ric Flair's pre-figure four strut was timed in synch to "Jump", so that gets points as well.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link