This is a thread about why Girls Aloud are superb

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1) I'd have them all thanks. Even the Ginger one. Who isn't that bad really.

2) Nadine is hot enough to make sure the band is awesome even if the rest of them were mingers.

3) Sound of the Underground is FAB.

4) So is that new one.

5) Uhm...

― Poppy Pete, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

6) I once listened to The Show four times in a row, and I still wanted more.

7) The ginga is a bit minging (for a pop star), but that's more than made up for by Cheryll and Sarah.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a new one?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

They keep her out of the videos. I feel a bit sorry for her, but she's probably earning a fair bit and pulling reasonably hot guys cos of her status. I guess there is something in saying you were a Girls Aloud groupie.

― Poppy Pete, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicola Roberts is not a minger. (cries). Their cover of "I'll Stand By You" is better than you'd expect.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You"?

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

8. They have, at last, done a cover version of basically-lost CLASSIC "Here We Go", the proto-No Good Advice, originally performed by Xenomania's Miranda Cooper under the name Moonbaby a few years back, and then, tragically, not turned into a global smash when Lene Nystrom did an even better version last year.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought they lent 'jump' an urgency it never originally had, though the fact that the song was always shit means that their cover was never going to be brilliant. imagine cheryl and kimberley in a clinch, ooh what would the papers say?

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe they should have tried covering the Van Halen "Jump" instead.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Poppy Pete actually Calum?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You'll make it to Senior Detective one day

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I dream of being in Spooks.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

what happened to them?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what, the cast of Spooks? Didn't one of them get pushed into a vat of acid or something?

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom got sacked for having an explosion of conscience!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only seen it twice - it was exciting!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm talking about that rappin' bunch - Things I've Seen, Karma Hotel etc. (haha etc. implies they had more hits...)

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

They realised they were never going to top the emotional gravity of having their 'Things I've Seen' single played after silences on post-9/11 radio and killed themselves.

Actually they were tour support to, er, Arrested Development some months back

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

THEY'RE still around? good gravy...

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know, I'd do the Ginger one. she has nice pins.

― Poppy Pete, Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Incredibly, it took me years to discover them. But, hey, this is lightyear above anything else that has ever come out of the Idol/Pop Stars concept. Of course, Xenomania is the reason. Some really great pop stuff there.

So why did it take me so long to discover them? Well, first of all a general reluctance towards all things Idol/reality show/boy-girl bands. But there is another reason. I checked and it appeared that they had never been represented on the Norwegian hitlists. On further check, it seems their records actually aren't released in Norway at all. Maybe no wonder, considering those reality shows tend to produce acts that don't do too well outside the borders of the country knowing them. But, I mean, Girls Aloud are actually goood. They release good reviews. Plus they seem to be the main creative outlet of Xenomania. So, hey, about time for Norwegian music biz to wake up maybe!?

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 27 February 2009 00:20 (sixteen years ago)

Dear me, Geir, you've discovered them just as Xenomania have pretty definitively lost their spark.

"Memory Of You" off the "The Loving Kind" vinyl is brilliant, though, so there are still flashes of excellence, but the last two albums have been patchy and poor respectively.

― feelgood hat of the summer (edwardo), Friday, 27 February 2009 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

Dunno. I like the recent stuff better because it is more fully fledged 80s electro. The first albums sound more like the stuff they did for Sugababes, which was good, but not quite as gloriously 80s.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 27 February 2009 00:45 (sixteen years ago)

they release good reviews?

― or something, Friday, 27 February 2009 04:16 (sixteen years ago)

the final nail in a coffin which was all but shut anyway

― lex pretend, Friday, 27 February 2009 10:25 (sixteen years ago)

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