Posted September 21, 20213 yr Don't know if this has been posted here. But after coming across the Sugababes one, there's also this one for 'Girls Aloud' in this link below All 23 Girls Aloud Singles, ramked from worst to best Or if u don't wanna go into the link, I'll copy & paste what it says below: 23. Walk This Way An abomination from start to finish. Dreadful. Sugababes in a spectacularly bleak era after Mutya’s departure and everybody’s pretending Amelle’s fag ash breath vocals are anywhere near as good. Sarah’s spoken word bit was the death of pop music. This was for charity, but I think perhaps the most charitable thing would have been if nobody had bothered. 22. I Think We're Alone Now I have no clue why Girls Aloud were constantly forced to do naff karaoke covers of classic songs, but this was one of the stinkiest stinkers they ever got lumped with. And I Think We’re Alone Now is genuinely one of the best pop songs ever, so I’m not sure why this is so bad. Perhaps because it’s truly unnecessary. They literally just shout the chorus. 21. I'll Stand By You So dreary and sickly and syrupy that it makes me want to heave. Hate. Hate. HATE. If I was in charge of this country I would outlaw Girls Aloud singing cover songs. Everyone’s vocals except Nadine’s sound paper thin and stretched within an inch of their life and the production is so dated that it’s carbon dated. 20. Whole Lotta History A song that just slips my mind too often for me to rank it higher. Less ballads, more bangers. But I will say I love Nicola’s vocals on verse two – the “end of story” is a vocal styling most pleasing to me. 19. Long Hot Summer Long Hot Summer is a song everyone pretends doesn’t exist. Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper, the writing and production team behind nearly all of Girls Aloud’s singles and albums known as Xenomania, DESPISE IT. Higgins called it a “disaster record”. It was the first Girls Aloud single to not get into the top five on the UK Singles Chart and is completely absent from their greatest hits album Ten. I think it’s fine, but that much disdain for a song from the artist always leaves a bad taste in mouths. 18. See The Day Another cursed Girls Aloud cover song that vied desperately to be Christmas number one – and one that Cheryl has stated she hates and wishes they never released. Me too, darlin! 17. Jump The best of the Girls Aloud covers. It’s a decently produced Pointer Sisters attempt, and the song suits Nadine’s vocals really well. Makes me laugh a lot in the video that Nicola is lip syncing along with Nadine as if they’re both singing when it’s pretty much just Nadine’s voice in the mix. Not the worst way to spend three minutes and 26 seconds. 16. Beautiful 'Cause You Loved Me Their last ever single, and quite a despised song in the Girls Aloud canon. Nadine in particular threatened to refuse to take part in the 10 year anniversary of Girls Aloud at all unless this song was scrapped as the lead single from Ten because she hated it that much, and said she didn’t agree with the message because all women are beautiful regardless of whether anyone loves them or not. A fair point. I do kind of… like it though? Sorry. Everyone sounds in really good voice and I don’t think it’s as hated as it should be. End of. 15. Can't Speak French We’ve just arrived at the good stuff. This is a really solid pop song, that just kind of drags on a little bit too much. It runs at three and a half minutes but for some reason manages to feel like five? That being said, I think the verses are absolutely delicious and that melody of “I wai-ay-it underneath the covers all ni-ay-ght” is so INVITING! 14. Sexy (No, No, No) A very solid Girls Aloud banger. Does exactly what you want and expect it to. Xenomania to a tee. The slight issue with Sexy is that it’s in the exact same world as Something Kinda Ooooh and Wake Me Up, and unfortunately draws the short straw of being the worst of them three. But still a corker, and enjoy the strange, pin cushion, arthouse A24 film video. 13. Something Kinda Ooooh Really hate that this song isn’t just called Something Kinda Ooh. The fact it has FOUR os just doesn’t sit right with me. Bit of a rammer though, isn’t it? So much so that we’ll let the lyric “something kinda ooooh, jumping on my tutu” off, because I still to this day am none the wiser as to what that means. 12. Love Machine One for the straight boys. Honestly I can’t breathe a word of liking Girls Aloud near a heterosexual man without him INSTANTLY saying “have you heard the Arctic Monkeys version of Love Machine?“. YES WE HAVE. It is good tbf*, and so is Love Machine. But it’s the everyman Girls Aloud song, not the thinking man’s Girls Aloud song. *Correction: I’ve just listened for the first time in years and it is not good AT ALL. What were we all thinking!?!? 11. The Promise A stone cold classic, and their only Brit Award winner. A great song. Pride of place in the Girls Aloud history books. Might be controversial that it’s not higher, but for me I think it’s because of how much this song is recreating a music style – almost to the point of pastiche. I think Girls Aloud singles are at their best when they feel cutting edge, and the ranked list is gonna reflect that. Sue me! 10. Wake Me Up Kicking off the top 10 Girls Aloud ranked singles is the absolute shot of adrenaline to your veins that is Wake Me Up. Whew! It’s a thrill ride, isn’t it!? Bursting with life, attitude and personality. Just adore it to be honest. 9. Life Got Cold An understated and underrated WOW that pissed off Oasis because it pretty much rips off Wonderwall. And what! It’s better than Wonderwall actually, because it features a Nicola Roberts vocal. I’m not afraid to say it! This song is so charming to me. I really laugh at the lyric where Cheryl says “we sink another Coke” like Coca Cola is some hard ale. A very early 00s midtempo tune but one that’s aged really freshly to me. Love it. 8. Something New Everything a Girls Aloud comeback single should have been, because it showcased everything they’re so good at and why we loved them so much in the first place. Something New is literally bursting with bombastic personality, attitude and star power. I love everything about it, and it deserves to be ranked high amongst the stellar singles of Girls Aloud. It’s got this furious anger to it that I just can’t get enough of. Particular attention goes to Sarah’s final “follow the leader” adlibs, especially when she does them live and belts them. 7. Biology A Frankenstein song with a load of mashed up different sections put together that somehow works completely marvellously. Every bit of it is a hoot, and it’s just a song that never fails to thrill me with the way it’s put together. Girls Aloud at their most adventurous and most critically acclaimed. 6. Call The Shots Absolute pop perfection. So lushly produced it’s insane. Such a delicate song that makes me feel like I’m floating on clouds. Bloody gorg. The middle eight is SO good. Full of twilight dreams that glitter INDEED! This sound suits everyone so much. It’s heavenly. 5. No Good Advice Sound of the Underground’s brattier little sister. Such an amazing pop song with great build, the way the verses lead into the pre chorus and that final shouty line before the chorus? Perfect. I love that the lyrics were made to be “shut your mouth because it might show” but the girls wanted “your shit might show” and sang the x-rated version live. Angry queens! God, I cherish this song. Funniest and most stupid bit is the fact “no need to count those dirty sheep” is an actual lyric. 4. The Show Honestly, probably the weirdest song Girls Aloud have ever done. And just absolutely one of their very best. The Show is just so much fun, the production is so vibrant and each of the girls has a really fun thing to do. The chorus is one of their best. I do think though that the reason I love The Show so much is because it just transports me to the chaos of the video. The Show video is basically Girls Aloud making a salon into a torture chamber for men, and I endorse that! 3. The Loving Kind The Loving Kind is a Pet Shop Boys penned masterpiece and it’s just beautiful. Every second of it is heavenly, the girls all sound great, the production is everything you expect it to be from the standard of Pet Shops Boys AND Xenomania. It’s a really spectacular song, and it disgusts me deep in my core that Nicola hates it because it’s great and as a woman of superior scouse taste she should honestly know better. 2. Untouchable One of the most spectacular things Girls Aloud have ever put their name to, especially the full album version that runs at nearly seven minutes and never once gets boring. It’s sprawling, dramatic, euphoric and dreamy. It’s one of them songs that could play forever and I’d be happy with it not ending – like Hung Up by Madonna. Just going to leave the lyrics to the bridge here, because they are quite frankly gorgeous: “Whenever you’re gone, they wait at the door / and everything’s hurting like before / without any meaning, we’re just skin and bone / like beautiful robots dancing alone.” 1. Sound Of The Underground ust exemplary, to be honest. A girl band created on Popstars: The Rivals beats out the expected boys group to win the competition by scoring the Christmas number one in the UK with Sound of the Underground. An absolute beast of a track in anyone’s hands, but one that in the grip of Girls Aloud’s is a monstrous force. Johnny Loftus once described Girls Aloud on this track “exploding like a five-headed Kylie Minogue”, which is a far more cinematic and apt description than I could muster and I think about it often. The clashing of surf rock guitar with electrobeats? Amazing. The drama of this song and the fact they ran a campaign to get it to number one with the slogan “buy girls, bye boys” is incredible. Sound of the Underground quite literally shook up the British pop music scene with its weirdness, unexpected attitude and gave Xenomania a girl band to continue to work with to create cutting edge pop music. It will always be ranked top when it comes to Girls Aloud singles. Doesn’t get better than this.
September 21, 20213 yr It's wrong in many ways :( I love it but Life Got Cold ahead of The Promise and Something Kinda Ooooh? BCYLM not last? See the Day above I'll Stand By You? Long Hot Summer and Whole Lotta History so low? Flush x
September 21, 20213 yr Wonderful : 2. See The Day Average : 14. Untouchable 15. Call The Shots 16. Sound Of The Underground Weak : 18. Something Kinda Ooooh 19. Wake Me Up 20. Jump 21. Long Hot Summer 22. Love Machine Awful : 23. Something New 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
September 21, 20213 yr I cant stand how he writes about the songs he does not like its just very dramatic and bitchy? That said not how i would rank them.
September 21, 20213 yr Wow something new 23rd for Last Dreamer, each to their own as everyone has their own taste i think its one of best ever singles and i agree with Nina Wests comment that its bursting with bombastic personality,
September 21, 20213 yr Wow something new 23rd for Last Dreamer, each to their own as everyone has their own taste i think its one of best ever singles and i agree with Nina Wests comment that its bursting with bombastic personality, The journalist of the article wrote that about Something New ;)
September 21, 20213 yr Author Wow something new 23rd for Last Dreamer, each to their own as everyone has their own taste i think its one of best ever singles and i agree with Nina Wests comment that its bursting with bombastic personality, Can't take credit for that observation but i'm :wub: anyway
September 22, 20213 yr Sorry I read it wrong but it still describes the song really well no matter who said it :lol:
September 22, 20213 yr Whole Lotta History only at #20? Lies! I do like the top 5 though, if we could swap The Show for The Promise, then that would be my top 5 singles as well. And describing LM as 'one for the straights' is so true.
September 22, 20213 yr The Show is farrrrr to high! Always found that to be one of their weakest non covers for some reason yet I love the music video. Tbh though their songs are so high quality I find it hard to actually rank them. I’ve grown to really love certain singles over the years what I didn’t at the time like Can’t Speak French and Life Got Cold sound so good now and have aged so well. Edited September 22, 20213 yr by Jord
September 22, 20213 yr I think my list would look something like this 1. Call The Shots 2. Sound Of The Underground 3. No Good Advice 4. Something Kinda Ooooh 5. Sexy! No No No 6. Biology 7. The Promise 8. The Loving Kind 9. Can’t Speak French 10. Whole Lotta History 11. Life Got Cold 12. I’ll Stand By You 13. Untouchable 14. Jump 15. Love Machine 16. Beautiful Cause You Love Me 17. Something New 18. See The Day 19. Wake Me Up 20. Long Hot Summer 21. The Show 22. Walk This Way 23. I Think We’re Alone Now I really do think Beautiful Cause You Love Me is better than Something New :lol: Cheryl’s opening line always makes me scream standing over the basin I’ve been washing my face in. But aside from that it’s a lovely vocal from them all especially Nicola who shines on the chorus. It deserved so much more. Something New is so brash and in your face I go through phases sometimes I love it sometimes I’m less keen it’s a song of two halves tbh Sarah’s parts probably my favourite and the follow the leader chants. The top 15 I’d say are all bops. Tbh it’s only really the bottom two I’d skip and as they are both covers I’d say that’s quite good going. Covers wise I’ve always loved Ill Stand By You in a way definitely my favourite GA cover it might be a big dated yeah but it’s very essential to their discography and I think now especially it’s one of their songs what resonate with the GP a lot. Until recently I always thought Love Machine was a cover too I was so shocked when I discovered it was actually an original I dunno why I assumed it wasn’t a original tbh you can tell it’s Xenomania now :lol: Between 4-10 there’s not much in it either interchangeable depending on my mood. Edited September 22, 20213 yr by Jord
September 22, 20213 yr 01 No Good Advice 02 Something New 03 Sound of the Underground 04 The Loving Kind 05 Call the shots 06 Something Kinda Ooooh 07 The Promise 08 I Think We’re Alone Now 09 Ill stand by you 10 Untouchable 11 Jump 12 Can’t Speak French 13 Sexy! No No No 14 Love Machine 15 Biology 16 The Show 17 Wake Me Up 18 Long Hot Summer 19 See The Day 20 Whole Lotta History 21 Beautiful Cause You Love Me 22 Life Got Cold 23 Walk This Way The Top 7 for me are the complete ultimate Girls Aloud songs. Edited September 22, 20213 yr by Feel_The_Fever
December 10, 20213 yr So after listening to all there albums and now all singles here's how I'd rank them. *Please keep in mind a lot of these I've hear a handful of times so it's really an initial rank. 1. Sound Of The Underground 2. The Promise 3. The Loving Kind 4. Call The Shots 5. Whole Lotta History 6. Biology 7. No Good Advice 8. Life Got Cold 9. Can’t Speak French 10. Beautiful Cause You Love Me 11. Untouchable 12. Love Machine 13. I’ll Stand By You 14. The Show 15. See The Day 16. Something Kinda Ooooh 17. Wake Me Up 18. Walk This Way 19. Long Hot Summer 20. I Think We’re Alone Now 21. Sexy! No No No 22. Jump 23. Something New
December 10, 20213 yr To be honest it never really clicked with me. I saw it on TV a bit and would listen to it on the odd occasion but it always just seemed loud and messy.
December 10, 20213 yr Wonderful : 2. See The Day Weak : 18. Something Kinda Oooh Awful : 23. Something New You are funny, honestly :lol:
December 10, 20213 yr Author My Ranking: 1. Sound of the Underground 2. Biology 3. Call The Shots 4. The Show 5. No Good Advice 6. Love Machine 7. Something Kinda Oooh 8. Sexy (No, No, No) 9. Untouchable 10. The Promise 11. Can't Speak French 12. Wake Me Up 13. Something New 14. The Loving Kind 15. Jump 16. Life Got Cold 17. Whole Lotta History 18. Long Hot Summer 19. I'll Stand By You 20. Beautiful Cause You Loved Me 21. I Think We're Alone Now 22. See The Day 23. Walk This Way (vs Sugababes)
December 10, 20213 yr I looooove that Beautiful Cause You Love Me is not near the bottom. Amazing vocal performance from Nicola
May 23May 23 My ranking (with scores) :1. Can't Speak French (2008) - 10/102. See The Day (2005) - 9.5/103. Theme To St. Trinian's (2008) - 9/104. No Good Advice (2003) - 9/105. The Promise (2008) - 8/106. The Show (2004) - 8/107. Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me (2012) - 8/108. Whole Lotta History (2006) - 8/109. The Loving Kind (2009) - 7.5/1010. Biology (2005) - 7.5/1011. I'll Stand By You (2004) - 7.5/1012. I Think We're Alone Now (2006) - 7.5/1013. Sexy! No No No (2007) - 7.5/1014. Life Got Cold (2003) - 7.5/1015. Untouchable (2009) - 7.5/1016. Call The Shots (2007) - 7.5/1017. Walk This Way (2007) - 7/1018. Sound Of The Underground (2002) - 7/1019. Wake Me Up (2005) - 7/1020. Jump (2003) - 7/1021. Something Kinda Ooooh (2006) - 6/1022. Long Hot Summer (2005) - 6/1023. Love Machine (2004) - 5/1024. Something New (2012) - 2/10Six songs were # 1s in my charts. Edited May 23May 23 by Last Dreamer
