Girls Aloud to cover "Girls On Film"

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...apparently.

This could be the single greatest piece of music ever made.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Or it could be absolute bobbins.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

More likely be the greatest thing ever, though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

meh

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

will they recreate the video for it ?

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that'll be a good episode of Re:Covered then. They'll probably appear with Kings of Leon and The Darkness. Woopieflip.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Link didn't produce anything for me. Sounds great though. Is it actually for "Recovered"? I would go off the idea if it was.

― Nick H, Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's on the B-side of their rather lovely Life Got Cold single. (Bah, Girls, should have been Some Kind Of Miracle or even Love Bomb!)

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 August 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the Droyds already did this

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 8 August 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree with Edward - "Some Kind Of Miracle" may be my favourite song on the album, although "Life Got Cold" is by far the best ballad-y thing on there, and we are talking about the third single.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 August 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate "Life Got Cold" - really clunking lyrics, and that horrible moment where every chorus you think it's going to turn into "Wonderwall"...ugh.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Your heart is closed, Tom. Open it and love Life Got Cold. Maybe you need to hear it in front of a campfire or something. Okay, it's rubbish compared to the righteous, sparkling glory of No Good Advice, and it seems a bit like a mood-killer after four glorious up-tempo disco monsters, but taken on its own it's just lovely.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 August 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Edward, Appleton are fine but I only need one of their records in my life.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 8 August 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

But Tom have you heard the *other* ballad-y type songs on there?

I hope they release "Some Kind Of Miracle" next though, or "Stop", or "Girls Allowed" (actually the last one might be a good 4th single choice).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

where did the mental critical over-reaction for these come from? was it an over-reaction?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan I don't understand.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Girls Allowed" is so so good and needs to be the next single.

"Life Got Cold" is great - it's not yer typical shite ballad, it's their whole Council Power! thing given added impetus by its sheer dead-eyed blankness. You've got these five teenagers intoning lines like "we skate as we date as we slowly suffocate" and its so resigned to the sheer ordinariness of life that it's terrifying. It's "Pretty Vacant" made flesh.

Tom, I love the moment where it's about to turn into "Wonderwall" (but good, obv) then doesn't and instead turns into something Oasis could never eevr touch.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

now do you Tim?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan, the mental critical overreaction is because they're great. Really great.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry Lex I don't buy it. (Heh should this bit of rhetoric now be "I won't d/l that" or something, oh the kids today). For one thing I expect the people who skate and date and text and whatever else enjoy it all quite a lot and for another if the point of the record is that non, uh, 'council' people can salivate over its dead-eyed ordinariness or whatever then it's a nasty piece of work as well as a boring one. Oh hooray a pop "Fitter Happier".

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all quite strange though, Sound of the Underground was average to good and yes No Good Advice was very good but I can't help but feel half the people comparing them to the Sex Pistols are only too happy to invoke the spirit of rock music past when it suits them despite readily hating it as a day job.

Is sounding like the Sex Pistols really new and fantastic? Or just a good way of getting a different audience to think some pop might be new and fantastic.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom otm, why should pop ape rock?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it's teenage boredom encapsulated + the class thing which most GA songs inevitably possess. Yeah, they enjoy the skating and dating and texting, but as anyone who's been a teenager (of any social background) knows, it's all pretty static. Maybe not quite meaningless, but close to it. It's like that Pulp line - "and we dance and drink and screw because there's nothing else to do".

It can't be a pop "Fitter Happier" because it has a tune and pretty vocals ;)

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 8 August 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"No Good Advice" has the bestest video EVAH!

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 8 August 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently the next GA single will be a new track that will get tacked onto a re-release of the album. One hopes they see sense and do a Some Kind Of Miracle/New Track double A-side thing. (Girls Allowed doesn't hit quite hard enough - would need a bit of a remix and Stop isn't an immediate winner)

Wonder if there's an age thing with Life Got Cold. Young pop kiddies feel the ennui and find it affecting while everyone else thinks it's boring and maybe even hateful.

Why shouldn't pop ape rock? Aping one genre isn't always going to be a blanket good or bad thing I don't hear very much Sex Pistols in GA, for what it's worth.

The sort of rhythms that make interesting pop music do not always come from house or hip-hop and as Tom pointed out on NYLPM, a lot of chart pop comes from one template.

(everyone should buy the Appleton album, by the way. It's great and is bound to be filling bargain bins now that the third single has gone tits up)

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 August 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan they're not the Sex Pistols at all (I find that whole line of argument really suspect) but the album is really good. "Some Kind of Miracle" in particular is awesome, resemblance to Sleeper notwithstanding.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 8 August 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread seems as good as any to point out that Lene from Aqua, who cowrote "No Good Advice" has a single coming out and it's really, really GREAT. "It's Your Duty" advises you to handcuff your boss so that you can get a raise, and he a "rise".

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

So if the 4th single is going to be tagged onto a re-release (presumably in time for Xmas?), it might be worth waiting awhile to buy the album right?

― Nick H, Friday, 8 August 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Edward the only version of the Lene single I can find is a 30-second looping one :(

Does sound good though.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 8 August 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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