The Atomic Kitten album is fucking brilliant

I don't rate them much. "Whole Again" was good though.

"Sugababes didn't get any respect or attention when

Siobhan was in the group cos' they were shite all there songs sounded the same and there image was gay! Heidi is gorgeous tellented and brings a whole lot to the group..without her they wud be jack all!

From a massive Heidi Fan! Steph.
x x x"

Do What You Want isn't on the reissue.

arab strap spin off dudes have covered whole again and done it in the style you would expect. this is a mistake. by losing the production style the stevenage summer feel is lost, its britishness, its market square and arndale placing is gone, it is turned into another cliched indie song. the mistake of the travis/britney debacle not learned

spice girls were better than all saints for he simple reason that it was impossible to imagine all saints in castleford market. atomic kitten seem like a mid point of the two. actually they don't. they seem like they have been marketed to be sassier than spice girls, but easier to relate to than all saints, but they aren't sassier than the spice girls, and lack their approachability. perhaps this flaw in the marketing will count for them (alongside their distinctively, um, unusual looks - have you ever seen those 22nd century scifi progs where almost humans land in liverpool and wheel around pushchairs before nicking ciggies from the offie? ok, youi know where i'm at right?)

i'm not sure if their day is over, the cobbledtogetherness of their sound is endearing to an extent, but, to me, its the sound of arndale britain 1974, a lack of americana, or americana wannabeism, which can often be a curtailment (there is no overt britishness, it is not something that is pushed, it is a bumbling mediocrity of production that is simply there)

It doenst have the piano notes during the talking bit beacuse i forgot to put it on the final mix, i could mix it again adding and encode and all that shit but im just too lazy

Horses farting the melody would be preferable to the original.

Do check out Chupa's version -- heard it a couple of months back and very much enjoyed it.

I think Gareth has provided us with the foundations of a whole new critical methodology here, folks.

Whole Again was a terrific song, but I can't say that anything else they done has much caught my attention.

Anyway I don't like Atomic Kitten much at all, I pretty much hated Whole Again but I better not elaborate on that eh.

There is US wannabe-ism there. That's what I dislike about them actually - the trying to copy US r&b beats but failing (well not exactly failing, but just it being a watered-down thing eg with those little kick drums - instead of snare - on the fourth beat of the bar which Americans were doing about five years ago). Also if I thought Andy McCluskey was conscious of the Arndale thing in his songwriting, I'd have more respect for him, but I fear it's just accidental. But it probably will acquire 'classic' status in years to come (like Pickettywitch, Boone, SAW etc. etc.) because the melodies are good and the group have a distinctive identity.