Girls Aloud - Biology

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This is totally Prog-pop!

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Have never been a big fan of Girls Aloud till I heard this new track 'Biology' and saw the video on CD UK that goes with it and have to admit this is by far the best thing they have done, and is going to do really well.

Seconded!!!

I'll go further and say I have previously found them unfailingly inane & actively, deeply boring. Seriously, they are only usually beaten at this 'making regular pop music hateful' by the goddess of meh - Ms. Stevens.

But this one has... a memorable tune! some restraint! is not embarrasingly oh-so-clever or cringeworthy on some other musical level. They actually sound like a proper 'girl group'* on this, and not something created in some dr. frankenstein's labratory of really-bad-meta-pop.

Yes, kudos to whoever's behind this one! They (GA) hardly have a great strike rate so far, but I cannot deny this one's goodness.

*Please don't read some wacked out ideas about what I sexistly think a 'girl group' is 'supposed' to be, or absurd limits I'm putting on the form. I'm just saying it's 5 girls, singing harmonies - about anything you like ok? As flexible as you want it to be, they've just *never* worked for me before.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

That said, it's still not massively remarkable imho.

and obviously pwn3d completely by Robyn.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen them in motion before, so im not sure if this is par for the course or not, but did anyone notice the choreography in the video looks as though it was done by grade schoolers? Its seriously giving me flashbacks to the dance routines girls would perform at the old talent shows. It's pretty adorable actually, particularly the bit when they launch into the first chorus.

― jason., Monday, 17 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen them in motion before, so im not sure if this is par for the course or not, but did anyone notice the choreography in the video looks as though it was done by grade schoolers?

That's most of their videos.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.extremechristianclothing.com/images/store/shirts/Girls/whatever.jpg

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Here's the TOTP performance of it...

The dance routine looks loads better with some male backing dancers thrown in!!

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=115A5U6ON4VDR39MA4A6Q07VYO

― Joshua, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, let me retract some. The dancing (in this video at least) = GREAT!

The song itself, now that I've heard it a few times... Okay, it's actually really f*cking annoying how it wanks about working it's way through, like, three separate song sections. I realise this is usual for them, but ffs! Is it supposed to be an insurance policy to stop fans crossing over to Rachel Stevens? Talk about covering all bases...

But enough. When they do stop faffing and get to the point, it's still - damn! I never expected them to thrill me even a little at this late stage, esp. as I've previously found them really cack-handed and/or just cack.

― login name (fandango), Thursday, 20 October 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

...and it's the chorus that makes it. Sod the lyrics!

Where they've been lumpy, flat & very, very contrived before, this feels completely free. The hook/vocal/melody just breezes in from nowhere & gets it SO right it sounds like the easiest thing ever.

― login name (fandango), Thursday, 20 October 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

once THAT chorus kicks in it's very similar to 5ive's ' keep on movin' '. Ot is rather catchy tho.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

single/chorus of the year!

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

wouldn't go that far but it's alright :)

― login name (fandango), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

"I got one Alabama reason" ?

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 21 October 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Could someone YSI the original please?

― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 22 October 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Joshua for the video!!!ck! I love this song!

― Helen Boham, Saturday, 22 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

please... i need biology in better quality, cos i think mine is one from the video... can any1 help me? thanks! i love these girls!!!!!

― nacho, Monday, 24 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Uh, anyone see the Sunday Sport cover yesterday?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Care to summarise, PerveM?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

just the girls all in a row facing away from camera kneeling over a table with their buttocks on show. Cheryl had a slight look of 'oh noes wait, this might end up on a tabloid front page tomorrow...but...can't...seem to stop...'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

though if i had bought it it would've been more due to the strapline below 'Woman gives birth to 9lb haddock'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

class running through them a stick of brighton rock

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

http://rapidshare.de/files/6706271/Girls_Aloud_-_Biology.mp3.html

― estor9353, Thursday, 27 October 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

nice nadine can feed me and naughty nicole can pull me.

― retroboy, Thursday, 27 October 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

thank u very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i really love this song, so happy, so cool... GA rOck!!

― nacho, Saturday, 29 October 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

ok, retracting my whatever.jpg, wtf @ the video for what is clearly the greatest song ever. it's kind of flat-out bad, but maybe tongue-in-cheek?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

all the links are expired!!! what do i do now?! can't someone send to my inbox...please!!!

― jennifer aka laydee bos, Friday, 4 November 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

on its way jennifer.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Midweek chart position:

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

finally heard this. it's ok. i expect more of our girls though.

'the show' = three choruses welded together
'biology' = three bridges sellotaped together

also, irritating guitar jangle which is far too busy and far too fast

also, sounds a bit like franz ferdinand :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

wrong

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

the song is a bit.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

i think it's one of their best. i wouldn't read too much into the chart placing, the charts are basically meaningless now. it's better structured than 'the show'. i think i like them equally.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

A really good song, probably too smart for the masses. I didn't expect it to get into the top 5.

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

What's smart about it exactly? It's novel and catchy.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

i don't get this 'smart' thing either. sonically it's run-of-the-mill jangly guitars (please, girls, more of the insane headfuck electro sounds!). structurally they've done this no-chorus lark twice before (and much better both times) with 'the show' and 'graffiti my soul'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

You all know how I feel about them, but frankly, this is a surprisingly good, less smug effort, a nice riff on the first Plus-Tech Squeeze Box album and a fine pop song (though the spoken 'chorus' action is irritating). Slightly longwinded - overall, login name's OTM up above.

Diametric opposition between Alex and I re: GA may explain why he doesn't like this ;-).

― BARMS, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

also, sounds a bit like franz ferdinand :(

I just listened to this properly on headphones for the first time today, and that was my first reaction too!

It takes bloody ages to kick in, which makes it kinda tricky for the dancefloor, but I like it anyway, and its st(r)oppy-startyness is fun and disorientating.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

(though the spoken 'chorus' action is irritating)

haha you mean "the way that we talk! the way that we walk!" - that is the only bit of it i unreservedly love!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Tom, Lex: too much different choruses, and not one, huge, memorable one. It's not a superhit, I had to listen it a few times 'til it went my head. But since then I've been lovin' it.

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

What's smart about it exactly? It's novel and catchy.

but then why isn't it a #1? (see also Rachel)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

haha you mean "the way that we talk! the way that we walk!" - that is the only bit of it i unreservedly love!

-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), November 16th, 2005.

My point reinforced.

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

finally heard this. it's ok. i expect more of our girls though.
'the show' = three choruses welded together
'biology' = three bridges sellotaped together

also, irritating guitar jangle which is far too busy and far too fast

also, sounds a bit like franz ferdinand :(

-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), November 16th, 2005.
it sounds more like gaffer tape than sellotape.

― retrogurl, Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

sonically it's run-of-the-mill jangly guitars

have you heard it thru cans? it sounds a bit flat on tv, but there's a lot more going on with the production than that.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

OTM - headphones are key!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

i've only heard it through headphones so far

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

i dunno where you get this 'jangly guitars' idea from then.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

because there are lots of them, and they are busy, and are played out of sync with everything else in the song?

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

i don't know what ur talking about!

it's not exactly 'mr tambourine man'.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

i have not heard 'mr tambourine man'.

the mp3, i admit, does not appear to be the best possible quality. but it is the same one which was posted at the start of the thread!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

a nice riff on the first Plus-Tech Squeeze Box album

That, and the more I think about it, the more I suspect Brian read Andy Shortwave Set's interview with Jerry T' Nipper and read it's major points very closely indeed. This is all in relation to the suprising fact that I like this, of course.

― BARMS, Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

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