Posted July 18, 20241 yr The vast majority of the Girls Aloud catalogue is produced by Xenomania, but there are a handful of songs which aren't! Which are your favourites? All I Need (All I Don't) Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me Boogie Down Love Don't Want You Back Everything You Ever Wanted Forever and a Night Girls Allowed Girls on Film Grease Hanging on the Telephone Hopelessly Devoted to You I'm Every Woman Lights, Music, Camera, Action Love Bomb Mars Attack On a Round On the Metro Sacred Trust Stay Another Day Teenage Dirtbag Walk This Way White Lies (I'm not actually sure who produced Teenage Dirtbag - the studio version from the "Radio 1 Established 1967" compilation, but I don't think it's Xenomania :thinking: )
July 18, 20241 yr Author 'On the Metro' is definitely the gem from this list for me! Invisible Men/DJ Fresh (and Nicola!) really nailed it with this song, which I feel really has the spirit of a Xenomania song. I like most of the other songs, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that any of them are particularly essential.
July 18, 20241 yr I will always love 'Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me' I know it is probably their least popular single, but the way it elevates Nicola to the front, with flawless vocals :wub:
July 18, 20241 yr These four I listen to more than the rest: Don't Want You Back Forever and a Night On the Metro Stay Another Day I really like the cover of Stay Another Day! On The Metro is definitely a gem, and I agree does sound like Xenomania. Forever and a Night is underrated, the verses and bridge especially are lovely.
July 18, 20241 yr Forever and a Night is a tuuuuuuuuuuuuune. I am a softie - I always delight in ballads by girlbands
July 18, 20241 yr I'm surprised On the Metro wasn't Xenomania! I always had it in my head BCYLM was the only non-Xenomania production from Ten!
July 18, 20241 yr Author They did indeed! Walk This Way (Dallas Austin) and Beautiful Cause You Love Me (Jim Eliot) are their only non-Xenomania singles. The Xenomania songs from Girls Aloud's debut album era: - Sound of the Underground - No Good Advice - Some Kind of Miracle - Life Got Cold - Stop - Love/Hate - Jump - You Freak Me Out
July 20, 2024Jul 20 I am gobsmacked that they didn't do On the metro, it sounds like such a Girls Aloud / Xenomania track! That is an essential track for me, I utterly love it should 100% have been a single over BCYLM. My other one on here is All I Need (all I don't), I utterly adore that track, always have done.
July 20, 2024Jul 20 I definitely thought On the Metro was Xenomania too! Flop stan :lol: It's comfortably the best song on the list for me, I like some of the debut era songs like Boogie Down Love though. Love Bomb is the definition of guilty pleasure x
July 20, 2024Jul 20 'On the Metro' is my favourite here by an absolute mile :wub: I love it even more now after experiencing it on tour.
