Best Girls Aloud Single

I think I voted The Show. I hope I voted The Show.

the ballads are definitely their best suit.

Couldn't disagree more.

If there was a new poll I've got a real soft spot for Call The Shots, but I know loads of people hate it, so even though I don't think it's their best I'd vote for that

Aw, I love that song too! Think I got hooked after repeatedly listening to it in an attempt to make grammatical sense of the chorus.

Call the Shots is good. I also really like The Promise.

Flicking through a Woman's Own at the checkout yesterday, the cover story was an x-factor twofer: Simon & Cheryl's worst nightmares. Inside a double-page with the moving story of S's learning ten years ago of his father's death on one side. On the opposite page: C's horror at realising Alexandra Burke has a single out this month too.

Girls Aloud aren’t bad exactly at ballads, but they’re a long, long way behind their up-beat tunes.

THIS is how you do a ballad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3C57O17Ui4

Yeah the Sugababes are infinitely better at balladry. I don't know what kind of bizarro universe one must be in to think that Girls Aloud's strong suit is ballads...I don't think I have heard a GA ballad on my own volition in years and I'm all the better for it.

And this thread makes me miss old Girls Aloud. Sexy No No No, Call the Shots, Can't Speak French, The Promise, The Loving Kind, Untouchable: competent but boring. Xenomania takes themselves too seriously now.

it's true. some of those are less than competent, too.

sugababes have also fallen off in recent years, but somehow their old stuff (first four albums, give or take a few duffers) just gets better and better: it holds up really strongly. girls aloud's...hasn't, in the slightest. maybe because GA's problem was diminishing returns on the same qualities to the extent that they almost seem like a very boring parody of themselves now, whereas sugababes were always a) magpies flitting from one style to another, b) were fundamentally really good singers.

There is a more timeless quality about the Sugababes' output, they have been all over the place but in a good way. Their critics might call them flighty for moving around from sound to sound but they have never stuck around one style for too long to get stuck in a rut and that has worked to their benefit. Girls Aloud have been on the same level their whole career and now that they have squeezed all the blood from the turnip (excuse my half-heartedly crafted analogy there) they are still sticking around the same sound, and why shouldn't they? The irony of it all is that they are at the pinnacle of their commercial success and neither the girls nor Xenomania have any incentive to recapture their old style. Looking at the list of their latest singles, when I picture them singing the songs I don't see cheer or giddiness or abandon, I see restrained maturity from a bunch of ice queens. They were at their musical best when they were wearing shiny silver spacesuits and wearing bikinis in car garages. Now they are classy fashionistas and Cheryl Cole is England's Sweetheart (by the way I remember when she was a violent racist chav, her publicist needs an OBE or MBE or whatever it is you give out). Shame.

Sugababes = Beatles, GA = Stones?

The only song by either Sugarbabes or Girls Aloud that I ever play is "Hole in the Head".

Would you let your son date a Girls Aloud?

They were at their musical best when they were wearing shiny silver spacesuits and wearing bikinis in car garages

Wait, early GA as Ziggy era Bowie?

guys

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/leaders-of-the-pack/id1327907750?mt=2

Biology is legitimately incredible by any standard.

How surprising that Lex doesn’t like “Biology.”