Girls Aloud - Biology

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh, anyone see the Sunday Sport cover yesterday?

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

Care to summarise, PerveM?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

class running through them a stick of brighton rock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

on its way jennifer.

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

Midweek chart position:

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

wrong

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

the song is a bit.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

OTM - headphones are key!

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

i've only heard it through headphones so far

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't know what ur talking about!

it's not exactly 'mr tambourine man'.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

i have not heard 'mr tambourine man'

This is John Wayne all over again, isn't it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm beginning to think Guitars are to The Lex as Chives were to Les

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/8115/thumbnail/LesChives.jpg

― Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy (fandango), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Andy Shortwave Set's interview with Jerry T' Nipper

and where may i read this doubtless fascinating piece of work?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I really like the guitars in "Biology" (though there's not actually an awful lot of them - less than in "Long Hot Summer" and certainly less than "Love Machine"). It doesn't make me think of Franz Ferdinand, but the opening bit definitely seems like a cheeky nod to White Stripes/other bluesy garage rock bands.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 November 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I get the Franz Ferdinand vibe too. Specifically the bluesy part of 'Biology' reminds me of the second part of 'Take Me Out'. And of course the fact that they're both 2 (or more songs) glued together.

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 17 November 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

and where may i read this doubtless fascinating piece of work?

-- CharlieNo4 (starsandheroe...)

Trying the Shortwavies' own ILX thread would be a good start!

Anyone else tried listening to this and Sugababes' 'Ace Reject' back to back?

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Thursday, 17 November 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

did Les mind women with chives?

― jive session (elwisty), Friday, 18 November 2005 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link

The opening is a really obvious nod to White Stripes, even Nadine's singing sounds like made on purpose...

― i0dine@gmx.net, Friday, 18 November 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone else tried listening to this and Sugababes' 'Ace Reject' back to back?

No, why?

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 18 November 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

It just seems natural as they're both signature Xeno breezy poppets. Tho' 'Red Dress' far and away remains the best thing they've done since 'Love Machine'.

Incidentally, if I'm comparing 'Biology' to any Japanese pop song, it should definitely be Kahimi Karie's 'Le Roi Soleil' (produced by Cornelius and written by Momus, obv.), which it is actually very similar to in execution and basic elements (blues piano excepted).

― BARMS, Friday, 18 November 2005 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Am I alone hearing Jean Genie more than anything else ?

― snowballing (snowballing), Friday, 18 November 2005 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Up to #5 in teh midweeks, and not actually that many behind 3 and 4.

― MC Stylised Vadge (edwardo), Friday, 18 November 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, try listening to "Ace Reject" and "Here We Go" back to back. The intros to my ears are quite similar.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

"The intro, to my ears, are quite similar." Also, I eat shoots and leaves.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link

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