It's among my least faves from them but if released at a different time I might have liked it more but at the time I wanted another upbeat banger like the previous releases.

'Life Got Cold' isn't a GA favourite for me - the 'Wonderwall' similarity is really quite striking and one of those is enough. Belated 'The Show' appreciation though :wub:

 

(it was the first Girls Aloud single I ever bought though as I spotted it at a car boot sale a few years later and wanted it just because it was them :lol:)

Wonderwall is one of my least liked oasis songs which is probably another reason I'm not a huge life got cold fan.

A couple of days late for this one - Long Hot Summer was released 17 years ago this week! 22nd August 2005.

 

 

It reached #7 in the chart, unfortunately ending an 8 single streak of Top 5 hits!

Now, 'Long Hot Summer' really is one of their best! :wub:

15 years ago - Friday 31st August 2007 - Girls Aloud released Sexy! No No No… on download, 3 days before its physical release! It initially entered the chart at #64 before climbing to #5 in its first full week on sale.

 

Girls Aloud the pioneers of Friday release dates? :cool: x

 

 

Did going with this release schedule mean that they cheated themselves out of peaking at #4 instead? Probably…

 

4- 1973- James Blunt (21,911)

5- SEXY NO NO NO- Girls Aloud (21,612)

They def cheated themselves out of a number 4 rather than 5 peak.

That's one single I like a lot more now than I used to, also seems to be very popular with non-fans from what I can tell.

Id be the same, i like it more now than then but its not a go to girls aloud song for me.

Two great songs! Long Hot Summer should have been NO.1!! And so should Sexy ... No No No tbh! Long Hot Summer is one of my faves.

They wouldnt be the front runner i would pick for what should have been number 1s for me they would be no good advice, something kinda oooh , call the shots and something new.

'Long Hot Summer' was done dirty, especially for a brand new song at the time!

It didnt connect with people at the time in the way other singles managed straight away.

I appreciate 'Sexy! No No No...' now more than I did at the time as well *.* for years I considered 'Biology' to be my favourite GA single but this eventually dislodged it. After just commenting in the 'Gimme More' thread, it has suddenly struck me that 2007 was really serving the memorable pop intros with both "it's Britney bitch" and Cheryl's opener here.

 

I remember clear as day receiving an email from their website saying that a new GA single called 'Sexy! No No No...' was coming out and being very excited, but also confused by that title :lol:

Sexy! No No No came and went quickly as did Long Hot Summer.

Sexy!No No No is the superior of the two.

 

Sexy! No No No came and went quickly as did Long Hot Summer.

Sexy!No No No is the superior of the two.

 

Nope along hot summer for me! Criminal how it missed the top 5 was such a bop, although it is one I have grown to appreciate over time I remember not being very impressed back in the day.

S!NNN's chart run is shocking, I thought it hung around a little bit longer than it did.

I think it's one of their middling chart runs. There were many hit singles that experienced fairly frontloaded chart runs in those days, but they still felt like hits even though they were shortlived - and I think that applies to 'Sexy! No No No...'!

 

10 weeks in the Top 75 was a longer stay than Life Got Cold (9), Wake Me Up (9), Long Hot Summer (8), See the Day (6), Whole Lotta History (5), I Think We're Alone Now (7), Walk This Way (6) & Something New (7), and it equaled The Show, Love Machine, Biology and Untouchable.

 

I wouldn't say its quite comparable to Long Hot Summer, which spent 13 weeks in the Top 200 compared to Sexy!'s 21 weeks.

 

Radio wasn't overly supportive of Sexy [93-Out-47-48-42-*30*-47-52-Out] (The #30 peak was the same week it reached #5 in the charts). Considering that the video is arguably one of their best, TV airplay was surprisingly a bit on the cool side as well (It peaked at #8 in the TV charts, in the same week it was #5 in the singles chart - and it only spent 7 weeks in the TV airplay Top 40).

 

As a song it is quite out there, not the safest of choices - so I think all things considered it did quite well!

 

Love Machine was released 18 years ago on Monday 13th September 2004! #2 in the UK for two weeks and certified Gold in 2020.

 

This song reminds me of starting sixth form, that certainly dates me :drama:

Love machine is good and while i prefer many other single to it, it is a very well known Girls Aloud single.