Playlouder - Music is the Network

this chat is all fucked up aint it ? i just added some text - and nothing appears.

ah ha.
well, i said something along the lines of :
"hurray melissa ! you have made me really want the album now, as this eradicates my concerns that i have OD'd on the GA groove'

no, you cannot possibly OD on GA. I've been playing it nearly nonstop, and will probably have it on repeat whilst I cook Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.

i am so buzzed up now as i have to wait until tomorrow lunch hour to pick this up.
i will even get the edition in Woolies with the tacky remix disc as an extra.
though it has to be said, the cover art is shyte. really shyte.
surely its nearly time to dig out their Crimbo Album if you are doing the Thanksgiving thing ..

the chat is fucked up - it's irritating even me which is a sure sign of a problem! going to fix shortly

I'm looking forward to hearing this album myself. I bought their greatest hits at the weekend. I shall have this in my stocking at Xmas.

I think this might be the first time the girls aren't on the cover, come to think of it (on second thought, please don't.)

you see i thought this was the cover :
http://girlsaloud.trinitystreetdirect.com/upload/product/large/1_30.jpg
and surely that would have been a lot better ?

those are the photos from inside the booklet put in a funky montage. but yes, that would've been better.

BTW not everyone is with you melissa : http://drownedinsound.com/release/view/12119

ok, she didn't even get past the first sentence - it's their FIFTH studio album, not their third. I'm not sure if I can even be bothered to read any further.

i gave up as soon as i saw the score.

i only ever read reviews that agree with my opinion

but that's at the bottom...?

quick scan

us nerds have these skillz you know

hahah, surely you don't mourn the scribbly heads?

oh god, you might actually have to read. with your eyes and brain. to figure out if we liked an album or not!

nah. playlouder reviews are worthy of my time

like Onion's AV Club. I always respected them

I've got the Kylie album now so I'mgoing to put John's review to the test tonight

ahh. i will hold back on that one for the time being. i'm still coming to terms with the album.
but john hits the nail on the head re it being patchy

I've found that with her albums in the past. but I've got no qualms about picking out the gems for my gympod

Ok. Despite the fact Melissa is probably drooling her seasonal egg nog at this very moment, or whatever the non-limeys slurp during this particular festival of gluttony, i have succumbed and got this album.
Basically, Melissa is right, DiS are wrong.

Always enjoyed "Sound of the underground" but couldn't recall any of the others and thought you were all being a bit too "post-over-irony" or whatever, but I put the greatest hits on at work today and it totally lifted my mood (working with assistant manager who gave me an earful the other day for reasons that were really her fault). That rarest of things - good modern pop (and I can't stand kylie btw). It beat the other stuff we had on today - James Taylor Quartet, Rufus Wainwright, Rod Stewart, a 70s funk compilation. Even the ballads went down well. Only modern proper "pop" artist I can think of who I might possibly prefer is the Scissor Sisters, although perhaps all their album tracks are shit. anyway, good tip people with Girls Aloud. Now everyone at work is going to think I am gay.

No Good Advice is their best song I reckon.

I did enjoy that one mightily. As rebelious as most of what indie rock has to offer. And a hell of a lot more fun than most indie rock. I was shaking my stuff to Mark Lamarr's 50s radio program this evening and thinking how nothing much these days approaches the shear raw fun of those old records and then I thought of Girls Aloud. CSS and the Gossip and the like are too pretensious to be as fun.

glad to see you have tuned in lost, i've lost count of the number of times i have to 'explain' my love for the GA groove ('oh its cos you just fancy them don't you?' - sigh).
i think a lot of people just write them off as manufactured pop, but the fact is the combination of consistent xenomania production and the writing songs specific for a group of young sassy girls has truly paid off over the years.
the hit-n-miss nature of most other Pop packages is often due to varying styles in the production which hinders a lot of albums (hello kylie/britney etc), oh and the ever so necessary dreary ballads, which as proven by Leona is always going to provide the big chart action so will always be something the labels will demand from their pop stars unfortunately.

and john - i cant boil it down to a single best song with this lot - i mean Biology, long hot summer, swinging london town, sound of the underground, the show, love machine etc etc all brilliant.

well put, marke (and it's pumpkin pie, not egg nog). Oh, and I agree with John on the Kylie album. rather disappointing, unfortunately.

fuck this is a good album. 'black jacks' is just insane.
through all the press over the years, its weird no-one has mentioned the KLF connection before, but damn, there in the credits it is ! i had no idea.

what is the connection?? I've got my cd copy at home...

one of the xenomania crew = nick coler, who helped craft the sound of many of KLFs classics. a classic case of 'subvert from within'

Do you think Jerres is trying to tell me something?

umm, not sure john - he ain on this thread ?

ahh - just spotted his Kylie X review. gotcha Mr D. yup, definitely. ha.
to be fair, i have held off on the album as i suspected it would become more enjoyable over time, and it has improved with age, ie all 2 weeks of it. still cant stand the calvin harris track, (get a new setting on your synths can you now please - you have money/budget), but the rest is perfectly enjoyable.