Best Sugababes Single

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Since there was a girls aloud poll, there has to be a sugababes poll. it's the rule.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Overload	12
Push The Button	9
Freak Like Me	8
Round Round	7
Run For Cover	5
Hole In The Head	4
Soul Sound	3
Walk This Way (with Girls Aloud)	2
Shape (feat. Sting)	0
Easy	0
Follow Me Home	0
Red Dress	0
Ugly	0
New Year	0
Caught In A Moment	0
In The Middle	0
Stronger / Angels With Dirty Faces	0
Too Lost In You	0

― danzig, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Now that I look back the Siobhan period singles are absolutely ace - and the Amelle ones are quite horrid.

― danzig, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

RUN FOR COVER 4EVA

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

unfair on amelle i think - she hasn't really been present for a sugababes album proper. she was the best thing about the otherwise awful 'easy'

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

it's true - she was also the best thing on "walk this way."

― danzig, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

sexy ass, new dimension etc.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

So obviously Overload.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Big drop in quality here I think, late period Sugababes = snore. I didn't even "get" The Red Dress which loads of ppl went mad for.

I voted for Round Round.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Everything after "Push The Button" I could do without, but everything before is pretty great.

― danzig, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Was "Follow Me Home" even a single?

I voted "Freak Like Me". "Overload" might be my least favourite from One Touch, they're all so good!

― Groke, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

the only "dip" starts with 'easy' - it's not even a cause for concern, it's a greatest hits bonus track and a charity cover. 'ugly', 'red dress' and 'follow me home' are all great, def better than 'shape' and 'in the middle' for example.

'follow me home' got to no 34 or something, tom :( mutya was apparently livid they'd re-released it with her vocals purged from it, as she'd written it for her daughter

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, she still gets the royalties anyway.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"In The Middle" is shit.

― Groke, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"i'm caught up in the middle / jumping through the riddle / I'm falling just a little tonight uh uh" - it's great and it's like the twin sister of Girls Aloud's "On A Round."

― danzig, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

'too lost in you' has a great remix that i still haven't ID'd. 'red dress' remains great. 'shape' is the poorest.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Those lyrics REALLY REALLY annoy me Danzig! The tune is fine. I don't like "On A Round" either though.

― Groke, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

blimey me and lex in agreeing shock. RUN 4 COVER 4 LIFE BITCHZ.

(also overload. obv)

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Voted "Push The Button", but "Stronger" and "Round Round" are great too. Same about "Hole In The Head". The only Sugababes hits I have disliked are the ones who have been either cover versions of sample based.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

freak like me

― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I picked "Run for Cover" but it was a real toss-up between that and "Freak Like Me".

I really don't like anything they've released after Mutya left. danzig otm, it's not so much that Amelle is bad, rather the songs themselves aren't as great as anything that came before.

― Roz, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, there was another reason why I started this thread - has anybody heard the new Siobhan and new Mutya? I've only heard the Groove Armada track and it's quite sublime. Mutya makes a nice muse to the dance producers the way that Sophie worked really well with Spiller.

― danzig, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

The new Siobhan track is quite interesting, but I've yet to decide if it's actually good (I like the verses better than the chorus).

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Groove Armada w/Mutya - amazing.

Mutya on own w/Kravitz sample - rotten.

― Groke, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

groove armada and mutya = very good but not great (everything good about it is due to mutya, she makes it good despite clunky groove armada)
mutya solo single = pleasant but dull
siobhan solo single = pleasant but even more dull, entirely unmemorable

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

so I dragged myself off to youtube to investigate:

Mutya's single is mighty disappointing. She's mining the same territory as "Ugly." I always thought Mutya was sass embodied and this is just meh.

Siobhan, on the other hand, has transformed herself into a cross between Kate Bush and Roisin Murphy. The song itself could be stronger -but the video is something to behold. she'll probably flop again though.

― danzig, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Siobhan's latest album is amazing...Mutya's is just okay, but it was smart to use a sample-based song as a lead single as it will will definitely get plenty of radio support. The Groove Armada song is definitely the kicker single though.

Follow Me Home was a single, but the single version used Amelle's vocals instead of Mutya's and it was awful.

I voted for Hole in the Head, no question, really.

― musically, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

siobhan already flopped. it peaked at 42 or something the other week

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It's gotta be "Soul Sound"!

I spent the first year of their existence complaining that they were an indie listener's idea of a pop band, and here I go voting for their most indie moment!

― Tim F, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Gotta add that "Walk This Way" is absolutely godawful, and I hope it isn't any kind of hint as to what their future material will sound like.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The rule is always that charity singles never count against an artist, only for an artist.

― musically, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

waht?

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Freak Like Me, but it's close.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I spent the first year of their existence complaining that they were an indie listener's idea of a pop band, and here I go voting for their most indie moment!

-- Tim F, miércoles 2 de mayo de 2007 0:41 (12 hours ago)

My experience was actually the opposite - I remember thinking that Sugababes were the indiest thing I was listening to then, and "Overload" was my entry point into Indie and Coldplay. I've since regressed.

― danzig, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

not familiar enough with their stuff to vote, but I love their Arctic Monkeys cover--is it not a single?

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

bside, wasn't it?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, bside to "Red Dress"

― danzig, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks.

this is one poll that will actually come in useful, as I will likely make a point of checking out the ones that come in near the top (I think the only other one I've heard is "Freak Like Me").

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe i should've voted 'freak like me'. it brought them back from THE DUMPER and they've never looked back since.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

sw00ds, you should check out most of the singles! there are only 4 really duff ones.

POV sugababes album tracsk:

bruised
just let it go
ace reject
whatever makes you happy
situation's heavy

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

POV sugababes album tracks:

Same Old Story
Switch
Virgin Sexy (this is hilarious)
Buster
Situation's Heavy

POO sugababes bsides:

Someone In My Bed (I think it was Popular that introduced this one to me - thanks Tom)

― danzig, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

er, I meant NYLPM

― danzig, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm stoked!

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

"Someone In My Bed" is fantastic! Should have been a single even.

My POV album tracks is exactly the same as Lex I think, except i'd probably swap in "Two Hearts" over "Bruised" (which is also great). I'm also probably the only person who loves "Sometimes".

― Tim F, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

'hole in the head', very narrowly beating out 'round round'.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

bump - vote before you lose your chance

― danzig, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

It's really unfortunate that Siobhan's single peaked so low. It's a bit understandable though as the song has been floating online since last year. Hopefully her album will at least crack the top 40 (although that leaked about a month or so ago and it's getting released in June).

Sugababes' version of I bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor > Arctic's version, definitely.

― musically, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Sugababes' version of I bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor > Arctic's version, definitely.

Doesn't take much though. Out of all those new postpunk influenced UK rock bands, Arctic Monkeys are the ones least deserving of all the attention. The title of their debut album was OTM.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

So "Overload" it is then. yipee. I pretty much agree with the order. But who the hell voted for "Walk This Way"?

― danzig, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link

overload is indie

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean "an old ilx staple"

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gonna say the Christmas one, or Round Round. Easy's pretty great though...

― I know, right?, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Sugababes are indie

― braveclub, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

New Year, that's what it was called.

― I know, right?, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but they are good indie...

― I know, right?, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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