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Sound of the Underground (Deluxe Edition) is coming on 16th June 2023! :o

 

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/sound-of-t...tion/1681137241

 

Disc One

Original 15 tracks

 

Disc Two

Sound Of The Underground (Alternative Vocal Mix)

Jump

Girls On Film

Lights, Music, Camera, Action

On A Round

No Good Advice (Explicit)

Sacred Trust

Life Got Cold (Radio Edit)

Grease

Hopelessly Devoted To You

Some Kind Of Miracle (Single Version)

You Freak Me Out

No Good Advice (Original Demo)

Stay Another Day

 

Disc Three

Sound Of The Underground (Instrumental Breakdown Mix)

Girls Allowed *

Some Kind Of Miracle (Illicit Mix)

Life Got Cold (Stella Browne Vocal Mix)

No Good Advice (Dreadzone Vocal Mix)

Jump (Almighty Vocal Mix)

Sound Of The Underground (Flip & Fill Mix)

Life Got Cold (29 Palms Remix Edit)

No Good Advice (Flip & Fill Mix)

Jump (Flip & Fill Mix)

No Good Advice (Doublefunk Vocal Mix)

Girls Allowed (Almighty Vocal Mix)

 

* It doesn't have a tag, so it's unclear which version it is, but it might be an Edit of the Almighty Vocal Mix.

 

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If I'm totally honest I'm slightly whelmed because there's nothing new here (bar the Alternative Vocal Mix from the 7" vinyl last year). Although the vast majority of the above tracks haven't been available to download or stream for a long time, so that's something at least.

 

There's no indication yet whether there'll be physicals.

Yeyyy! Cant Wait! Yes I would like more unreleased however be nice to get some of these tracks on steaming !

Their version of Sacred Trust hasn’t been heard before has it? I knew they recorded it but I’ve never heard it (not that I’m particularly eager to! :lol:).

 

There definitely could have been some unheard tracks on here as we know some songs from the original sessions were scrapped in favour of more Xenomania recordings, but perhaps they were just not good enough. Overall I’m happy with the collection and I hope we get physicals, even just the main tracking list on vinyl.

Sacred Trust was included on The Sound of Girls Aloud's bonus disc!

 

Praying for physicals, particularly a vinyl, although a 3CD version would be excellent too. I feel like it would be quite strange for Universal to have gone to the effort of creating a Girls Aloud store just for that 7" single? :drama: I'd like for there to be some merch too!

disgesteng flarps

Omg, not this! :arrr:

 

It's been pointed out that this is released on the same date as Dannii's Neon Nights reissue! Cheryl vs Dannii all over again x

It's worth it for Stay Another Day to be available on streaming at long last!

 

I simply don't get the hate above as I watch the TOTP performance with *that* choreo on YouTube all the time. :kink:

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Sacred Trust was included on The Sound of Girls Aloud's bonus disc!

 

Praying for physicals, particularly a vinyl, although a 3CD version would be excellent too. I feel like it would be quite strange for Universal to have gone to the effort of creating a Girls Aloud store just for that 7" single? :drama: I'd like for there to be some merch too!

Me too especially the vinyl.

I can see Jay probably doing a big write up but looks like we are indeed getting a 3 CD and vinyl editions of the album! :cheer:

Formats :w00t: :cheer:

 

3CD

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Green Vinyl

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Picture Disc Vinyl

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They're not available in the UK yet. I wonder if there'll be any other formats, or if this is it (no cassette?).

 

I'll admit that I'm a little disappointed that it's a single vinyl rather than a double vinyl. That's a lot of music to cram on just two sides... Side B will be over 28 minutes long and if you go much beyond 20 or so minutes, the quality suffers. So I'm not expecting the best sounding vinyl in the world.

 

Otherwise I'm very happy though, it's long overdue to have a Girls Aloud album on vinyl, and the artwork looks great - looks like some previously unseen pictures are being used too! I can't wait to order!!

 

 

The 3CD track list is also a bit different to what was previewed on Apple Music! The order is more chronogical on the CD, which I prefer:

 

Disc 2: B-Sides & Rarities

1 Sound Of The Underground (2022 Xenomania Alternative Vocal Mix)

2 Stay Another Day (‘Sound Of The Underground’ B-side)

3 Sacred Trust (Bee Gees cover version)

4 No Good Advice (Parental Advisory Version)

5 On A Round (‘No Good Advice’ B-side)

6 No Good Advice (Original Demo)

7 Life Got Cold (Radio Edit)

8 Girls On Film (UK Bonus Track) (‘Life Got Cold’ B-side)

9 Lights, Music, Camera, Action (‘Life Got Cold’ B-side)

10 Jump (from ‘Love Actually’)

11 Grease (Beatmasters Remix) (from ‘Greasemania’)

12 Some Kind Of Miracle (New Mix from album reissue)

13 You Freak Me Out (from ‘Freaky Friday’)

14 Hopelessly Devoted To You (from ‘Greasemania’)

 

Disc 3: The Remixes

1 Sound Of The Underground (Instrumental Breakdown Mix)

2 Sound Of The Underground (Brian Higgins Remix)

3 Sound Of The Underground (Flip & Fill Remix)

4 No Good Advice (Dreadzone Vocal Mix)

5 No Good Advice (Doublefunk Vocal Mix)

6 No Good Advice (Flip & Fill Remix)

7 Life Got Cold (29 Palms Remix Edit)

8 Life Got Cold (Stella Browne Edit)

9 Life Got Cold (29 Palms Remix)

10 Life Got Cold (Stella Browne Vocal Mix)

11 Jump (Almighty Vocal Mix)

12 Jump (Flip & Fill Remix)

13 Girls Allowed (Almighty Radio Edit)

14 Girls Allowed (Almighty Vocal Mix)

15 Some Kind Of Miracle (Illicit Mix)

 

I appreciate that they've gone with the "completist" approach and included the vast majority of versions from the era. It's not everything (I'll attempt to make a list of what isn't included) but that probably would have been overkill.

 

"[The 3CD] also features brand-new sleeve notes based on interviews with Cheryl, Kimberley, Nadine and Nicola." - how bittersweet :cry: I just can't get used to seeing four names only.

 

I can see Jay probably doing a big write up but looks like we are indeed getting a 3 CD and vinyl editions of the album! :cheer:

You know me too well :rofl:

This huge post is all about the Sound of the Underground Deluxe 3CD track list! Regarding what they've included on CD2 and CD3, as well as what they've omitted.

 

I'm comparing the new track list to what was included on The Singles Box Set from 2009 (the tracks on that box set were previously on the originally released singles and/or albums, of course - i.e. on commercially released CDs/Cassettes/DVD/Vinyl, and Promo CDs/Vinyl).

 

 

 

The following tracks are included on "Sound of the Underground Deluxe 3CD", and were also included on the "Singles Box Set":

 

Girls Allowed (Almighty Vocal Mix)

Girls On Film (UK Bonus Track) (‘Life Got Cold’ B-side)

Jump (Almighty Vocal Mix)

Jump (Flip & Fill Remix)

Jump (from ‘Love Actually’) [i.e. the normal single version]

Life Got Cold (29 Palms Remix) [aka "29 Palms Club Remix"]

Life Got Cold (29 Palms Remix Edit)

Life Got Cold (Radio Edit) [aka "Radio Version", 3:59 length, which was also included on Sound of the Underground re-release]

Life Got Cold (Stella Browne Edit)

Life Got Cold (Stella Browne Vocal Mix) [aka "Stella Browne Original Mix"]

Lights, Music, Camera, Action (‘Life Got Cold’ B-side)

No Good Advice (Doublefunk Vocal Mix)

No Good Advice (Dreadzone Vocal Mix)

No Good Advice (Flip & Fill Remix)

No Good Advice (Original Demo)

No Good Advice (Parental Advisory Version)

On A Round (‘No Good Advice’ B-side)

Some Kind Of Miracle (Illicit Mix)

Sound Of The Underground (Brian Higgins Remix) [aka "Remix"]

Sound Of The Underground (Flip & Fill Remix)

Sound Of The Underground (Instrumental Breakdown Mix) [aka "Extended Version for TV Appearances", from The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits bonus disc]

Stay Another Day (‘Sound Of The Underground’ B-side)

 

 

The following tracks are included on "Sound of the Underground Deluxe 3CD", but were not on the "Singles Box Set":

 

Girls Allowed (Almighty Radio Edit) [Never previously available on a Girls Aloud release, only on an Almighty CD-R promo]

Grease (Beatmasters Remix) (from ‘Greasemania’) [Never previously available on a Girls Aloud release, only on the Greasemania album]

Hopelessly Devoted To You (from ‘Greasemania’) [Never previously available on a Girls Aloud release, only on the Greasemania album]

Sacred Trust (Bee Gees cover version) [Previously available on The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits]

Some Kind Of Miracle (New Mix from album reissue) [Previously available on Sound of the Underground re-release]

Sound Of The Underground (2022 Xenomania Alternative Vocal Mix) [Previously available on Sound of the Underground 7" Single]

You Freak Me Out (from ‘Freaky Friday’) [Previously available on Sound of the Underground re-release]

 

So in terms of official Girls Aloud releases, this makes the following tracks: "Girls Allowed (Almighty Radio Edit)", "Grease (Beatmasters Remix)" & "Hopelessly Devoted To You" - exclusive to this new 3CD set, while of course this will be the first time that "Sound Of The Underground (2022 Xenomania Alternative Vocal Mix)" will be released on CD.

 

I still think it's a slight pity that the only kind of new song on the whole release is that SOTU Alternative Vocal Mix. It would have been nice if they had repeated that for No Good Advice, Life Got Cold and Jump!

 

 

 

There are some omissions. These tracks were all included on the "Singles Box Set", but are not included on "Sound of the Underground Deluxe 3CD":

 

Girls Aloud Interview [aka "Exclusive Interview with Girls Aloud"]

Grease

Jump (Almighty Dub)

Life Got Cold (Album Version - Edited) [aka "Album Version" on the Life Got Cold single, but it's the shortened 3:32 version - the intro is cut. To make things more complicated, this 3:32 version doesn't have quite the same production as the full-length and original album version from Sound of the Underground... and it also has a censored lyric (smoke becomes soak) - so therefore this isn't actually an Edit of that version...!]

Life Got Cold (Stella Browne Dub)

No Good Advice (Doublefunk Dub Mix)

No Good Advice (Dreadzone Dub Mix)

Stay Another Day (Karaoke Version) [aka "Instrumental"]

 

^ I think the most notable oversight for the 3CD Deluxe is the B Side verson of Grease! I don't mind at all that they've not included any Dub mixes.

 

 

There's some other versions that could have been used for this release, but they are mostly quite obscure, so I'm not exactly surprised that they were overlooked or not considered:

 

Jump (Almighty Radio Edit) - It doesn't seem like it was ever included on a Girls Aloud promo, maybe just an Almighty promo.

 

Life Got Cold (Promo Version) - Length is 3:47 and it's included on the Life Got Cold 1-Track Promo CD. It's essentially the Radio Version (from the re-release of Sound of the Underground) with the intro cut off.

 

Life Got Cold (Video Version) - This version used in the music video has never been made available otherwise. In terms of production, it's the same as "Album Version - Edited" [3:32] that I mentioned just above, however the Video Version includes the intro. So "Album Version - Edited" is actually an edit of the Video Version. Honestly, the different mixes of Life Got Cold in this era, and the tags they were given, makes it quite complicated to get your head around it!

 

No Good Advice - There's a different version in which Nadine sings the entirety of Verse 1 and Verse 2, and then the outro is only Nicola and Sarah - I'm not sure how this leaked!

 

Sound of the Underground (Without Kimberley Version) - [How savage would it have been to include this xx] - this was seemingly pressed accidentally on a particular Sound of the Underground promo CD, that was even played on radio sometimes.

 

Stay Another Day (Promo Version) - 3:19, making it shorter than the B Side version.

 

There's also shortened Performance Edits of No Good Advice (3:11) and Jump (3:32) from a promo.

 

Universal surely must have Instrumentals - it would have been nice to have Instrumentals for the singles, at least.

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