Perfect choices! But I would swap "Chemistry" with "Three" tho :kink:

 

I think I like Change and C&S more than Three, though they're all excellent.

So many people celebrating 10 years of this album over this weekend. Happy 10th Anniversary!! :cheer:

 

My fave Girl Group album.

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Their best album. So many timeless songs on it and I can't believe it's 10 years old! This was around the time that I started to stan hard for them, I was absolutely obsessed with "Can't Speak French" in particular although "Call the Shots" and "Girl Overboard" are my firm favourites now - I was so pleased that the latter appeared on disc 2 of 'Ten' (even though I didn't buy the deluxe version :P)

Can't believe it's 10 years old :o What an album, I still adore it just as much as I did back in 2007. Comfortably their best :heart:

Can't believe it's been 10 years since pop music in this country peaked.

 

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Great pop album and their very best studio album.

Today's date (19th November) marks 10 years since the UK release of Tangled Up! :heart:

 

:wub: One of the best pop albums ever, definitely my favourite by them too. Three amazing singles (and the quality of their music videos stepped up for this era) and a fantastic tour. :wub: I am so very :drama: that it's already 10 years ago.

 

I remember going to Woolworths at lunchtime at college, and picking up the 'Mixed Up' CD alongside the album. Also getting the fan edition cover from online. :wub:

It forever bugs me that 'Control of The Knife', 'Girl Overboard' and 'Close To Love' are all 10000x better than the singles. For me that would have made this a more exciting and interesting era with those released instead.

I mean the three singles are perfect? But i do adore those three also...

'Tangled Up' time and... both this and 'Out of Control' I know VERY well. This is my favourite girl group album, so I will never turn down the opportunity to relisten and fall in love all over again. The singles went on a gradual decline for me, but only because I prefer (by some way) some other options, personally. 'Sexy! No No No...' was the PERFECT single to kick start this campaign with, imo. Full of attitude and really captures your attention... one of the very best girl group singles in all honesty. Fantastic. 'Call the Shots' I like it, but not nearly as much as everyone else. I lowkey feel that 'Loving Kind' does this sound better.. oops. 'Can't Speak French'... MEHHHHH. So basic compared to everything else on the album, so I was disappointed when it got made into a single - despite it being catchy </3 At least it made for a fun video, I guess and a decent bilingual B-Side *.*

 

My Ranking:

1. Girl Overboard

2. Sexy! No No No...

3. Black Jacks

4. Close To Love

5. What You Crying For?

6. Control of the Knife

7. Call the Shots

8. I'm Falling

9. Crocodile Tears

10. Damn

11. Fling

12. Can't Speak French

 

I think at this point, 'Girl Overboard' is one of my favourite songs. Should have been the 3rd single! I love 'Black Jacks' so much. I love how hard the chorus hits. I would have loved to have seen how this would've worked as a single, but I am not sure it would've done much. 'Close to Love' would have been a great way to end the era as the 4th and final single though, I think. 'What You Crying For?' is so good too. I love that throughout their albums there are usually one or two which tap into that drum n bass sound that they utilised in the SOTU single! It's represented on a couple of tracks in OOC too.

 

'I'm Falling' is v interesting. A great song, but one I always overlook until I'm listening to the album. 'Fling' is good, but the first true "filler" from the album I think (that shouldn't always be considered a bad thing, especially if it's a strong filler track like this). I don't know if this is unpopular but I like 'Crocodile Tears'. It's not the best on the album etc.. but I think it really works with ending the album.

 

Oops at CSF being last. Like I said, I don't hate (or particularly dislike it - it's ridiculously catchy), I just think there are more better choices to use as a single that would've elevated the album more, imo. Although CTS is down low in my personal ranking, I get why it was chosen as a single and it fits that "a song that best represents the album but could sell the album during Q4" criteria really well.

 

But a flawless album. :wub: Not only one of the best "girl group" albums... it's one of the best... PERIOD. Yes. I am listening to it again :')

 

Album Rankings:

01. Tangled Up

02. Chemistry

03. What Will the Neighbours Say?

04. Sound of the Underground

I've been loving your trip down memory lane, Tafty :wub: It's such a joy to talk about these albums again, reading everyone's memories and also having some active discussions in the Girls Aloud forum!

 

Tangled Up is my second favourite Girls Aloud album, just behind Chemistry. It feels like their most consistent album, there isn't a single bad track and it just flows perfectly. Starting the era with Sexy! No No No... was a genius, and risky, move. I remember not liking it as much first and it took a while to fully grow on me. These days I think it's absolutely fantastic and a highlight in their back catalogue. Call The Shots is also a stunner, GREAT second single choice to launch the album and one of their most remembered songs these days. Can't Speak French is a fun and funky bop for me, loved the Marie Antoinette style video.

 

Good to see you speaking so fondly of the single that never was- Girl Overboard. This is a true banger and such a shame it never got the single treatment, would have easily given them another top 10. Fling has always been a highlight for me (Sarah's come give me love in kinky style line always gets me) just as Black Jacks. Like I said though, there isn't a single bad song on here. The only bad thing was the album cover artwork. WHAT HAPPENED THERE?? Thankfully I got the special fan edition, which has a lovely cover.

Aww thanks! It's always a blast doing them and that is kinda the end game for it all, to get discussion started on them and get people sharing memories or even their own rankings etc.. :wub:

It's a great album and I loved all the singles, sexy no no no is ny least fave I always felt call the shots should have even the lead single but I suspect sexy no no no was one of those its either a lead or wont be a single at all bit like kylies 2 hearts.

"Can't Speak French" always was my favourite Girls Aloud song. :wub:

Such a good album!! I remember buying it and thinking the cover was shit, then seeing the fan edition cover and being like "I need that one NOW!" :lol:

Ya the cover was awful and their worst from all their albums, girls aloud really did split at the wrong time as their last 2 albums were their best and they really had found their groove on those 2 albums and for me i always felt they had at least 1 more good album left in them.

What an album. It's such a rush of energy with explosive songs throughout and the softer moments are stunning too. Their best album easily imo! :heart:

I can't help but feel a good third of this album is pure filler (What You Crying For, I'm Falling, Crocodile Tears and possibly Damn), which stops me considering it their best album like so many others do but the rest of the good moments are REALLY good.

I wouldn't say there's any filler on here myself! Even the tracks lower down my ranking are still solid. It's easily my favourite GA album and the quality is so consistent! :wub:

Been listening to this album the most for the past week. I bought it back in 2007 but I think it's stood the test of time. Been listening to Close to Love and Black Jacks all week