Sunday Rain and Unbreakable Heart are brilliant. I've really gotten into them.

 

My other faves are EHB. Side Chick. No Can Do and Beware

Well I think I might be taking back most of what ive said, sorry to say it but this album isn't having much of a lasting effect on me at all. I know its early days but I can see it becoming very boring very quickly. I like the ones ive mentioned in my previous post but I find the rest really samey and nothing more than average. Definitely not one of their best to be honest but i'll give it time..

Edited October 18, 200816 yr by Chris_2k8

I think i need to listen again LOL, i cant remember anything of how it sounds at all except Every Heart Broken.

i cant remember anything of how it sounds

I kind of have to agree with you and i listened under 5 hours ago!

God the album is awful. I listened again hoping it would grow but you can't even differentiate the tracks from each other. It's like listening to one continuing mess of a track that gets worse and worse. Dreadful. :|

Well I think I might be taking back most of what ive said, sorry to say it but this album isn't having much of a lasting effect on me at all. I know its early days but I can see it becoming very boring very quickly. I like the ones ive mentioned in my previous post but I find the rest really samey and nothing more than average. Definitely not one of their best to be honest but i'll give it time..

 

I agree, people will realise it's no where near as good as any of their other albums in time.

God the album is awful. I listened again hoping it would grow but you can't even differentiate the tracks from each other. Dreadful. :|

 

I agree Jonny, they do all seem to just blend in to one song :(

Glad you like it! It should only get better with time too. What I've noticed is that although there are three big fan faves (You On A Good Day, Side Chick, Truce), everybody seems to love different songs. It's the anti-Change, where everybody agreed that NGDA and MLIP were the best album tracks.

 

Really? :o :( I honestly thought they were 2 of the worst :lol: I thought 'Change' was all about 'About You Now', 'Back When', 'Surprise' & 'Mended By You' :lol:

 

I really think this album is actually quite boring and quite forgettable :( (Apart from the standout tracks I pointed out in my little review) Maybe it's a case of not impacting straight away but growing to become a great album. It's not as bad as the first listen but it's quite boring, but hey who knows what could happen in the next few days...

Edited October 18, 200816 yr by J*hnJ*07

I agree, people will realise it's no where near as good as any of their other albums in time.

To say people will realise seems a tad patronising. I've listened to the whole thing ten times, some tracks twenty or more, and there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind it is their best album, and I'll only consider it not so if they release an ever better one...

 

God the album is awful. I listened again hoping it would grow but you can't even differentiate the tracks from each other. It's like listening to one continuing mess of a track that gets worse and worse. Dreadful. :|

Everybody's allowed an opinion but you must have no hearing if you can't differentiate the tracks. :mellow: The likes of You On A Good Day and No Can Do are breezy Supremes-esque pop, Side Chick and Unbreakable Heart teeter on the edge of R&B, Beware is gritty dark and Winehouse-like. It's a cohesive album but it's not all in the same sub-genre, for god's sake! I've heard albums MUCH more cohesive where every song literally does sound similar, eg. Madonna's Confessions. Gosh, over-exaggeration much!

After a few listens I rate the songs as:

Annoying - no one

Average and forgettable - You On a Good Day, Unbreakable Heart, Sound of Goodbye, About You Now (Acoustic Version) (3/5 stars in iTunes)

Slightly above average - Hanging on a Star (4/5)

Good - Girls, No Can Do, Side Chick, She's Like a Star (4/5)

Excellent - Every Heart Broken (5/5)

Outstaning, Brilliant - Sunday Rain, Can We Call a Truce (5/5)

And the best one... :heart: BEWARE! (5/5) Shame that iTunes doesn't have something like 6/5. :lol:

BBC Music Review

 

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Sugababes

Catfights And Spotlights

Island

 

Almost a year to the day after the release of lemon sorbet-flavoured Change, the Sugababes release Spotlights And Catfights, despite, in May, stating that the album would be pushed back until 2009 to give them time to write the new material.

 

But luckily there's no sense of the album being rushed out. The Babes continue to work with producer of every self-respecting pop chick, Mr. Luke (Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Lady Sovereign, Katy Perry…), and lesser known (Robyn) producer Klas Åhlund. They've described it as being more mature; concentrating on their individual vocals, and indeed it bounds out like a Kate Moss Rimmel ad, all metallic, sharp-sure and savvy.

 

Opener and first single, Girls, is a reworking of Ernie K Doe’s song of Boots' Summer 2008, and they happily stomp their attitudes all over it until you can't remember it being anyone else's. No Can Do is the super stonking bass-heavy follow-up single, playing to the Sugababes' trademark super-energised big goodbye songs, addressing boyfriends that don't quite come up to scratch. In contrast, You On A Good Day is a confusing Charlie's Angels-type shrugging acceptance of a man whose narcissistic personality disorder is hitting them in the wallet.

 

The track that most begs repeated listening is Side Chick: a light revved-up reminiscence of Rihanna's Umbrella with beautifully flowing harmonies tripping easily, nicely telling the boy to commit or be gone.

 

The low point of the album is the plodding Hanging on a Star, with Fergie style chanting and a hook almost completely ripped off from Offspring's Pretty Fly For A White Guy.

 

The trouble with the Sugababes' sound has always been keeping the balance between blending and preserving individuality, and they've managed it here on the whole. That is, apart from the bonus track, About You Now. It's a sad example of what can happen when you have three soloists outdoing each over a piano to mean it the most – the result sounds like girls at the back of the bus, sounding like the Sugababes, and screaming out for an auto-tune.

 

If only they had quit with Call A Truce, the most beautiful ballad with opening vocals from Amelle: it's a tired appeal for peace which finally secures her place and puts the ghost of Mutya to rest.

 

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Favourable review. ^_^

this album is awesome!! B) Best track is Side Chick

Edited October 18, 200816 yr by 7even

I can't stop singing "Your messed up from your chromosolmes to your enzymes" :lol:

I've heard this twice now and this is my take on it so far.

 

Awful :puke2: : She's Like A Star

Somewhat bad: Beware

Okay: Handing On A Star, Nothing's As Good As You, Sound of Goodbye, Every Heart Broken

Good: Sunday Rain

Really good: No Can Do, Girls (it sounds and is arranged better on the album), You On A Good Day (love the chorus)

Excellent: Truce (this should be a single), Side Chick, About You Now (acoustic), Unbreakable Heart

 

I definitely wont be buying this album, I dont think i'd end up listening to it that much

I can't wait to get this tomorrow!! :w00t:

Same, I'm soo excited haha. I'm going to the supermarket to pick up a copy before college. :D

I shall be getting this tomorrow

Sugababes

Catfights and Spotlights

The Sunday Times review

 

Presumably, the album title is supposed to sum up the band — they’re famous and they’re always having rows — and, yes, that’s the public perception of the outfit. Yet surely an album title that reflected the reality of the Sugababes would be something more like Consistency and Quality Control. Not as immediately catchy, I’ll grant you, but this is a pop group that has continued to turn out commercially successful and musically interesting albums for eight years. This in a genre where, if you turn out three albums, each containing two singles and 10 tracks of filler, then head promptly for the dumper, you’re adjudged to be pretty much “legendary”. There are 14 tracks on Catfights and Spotlights, and there isn’t a single turkey among them; frankly, it’s hard to think of another pop act who put so much effort into the tracks that prop up the end of an album. Right up the other end is the first single, a reworking of Ernie K-Doe’s Here Come the Girls — or “that one from the Boots ad” — followed by a 1960s Motown pastiche, You on a Good Day, and a 1970s Motown pastiche, No Can Do. From there, we get a mix of bright poppy things (Hanging on a Star), old-school Sugababes R&B (Side Chick)and swoony ballads (Sunday Rain), a track that manages to combine elements of all three (Every Heart Broken) and an acoustic version of About You Now, with delicately poised harmonies, just in case you hadn’t noticed that they can actually sing.

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Edited October 19, 200816 yr by Jark

My latest album rate after a good few listens:

 

01 | Every Heart Broken 10/10

02 | Side Chick 10/10

03 | Can We Call A Truce 10/10

04 | Hanging On A Star 10/10

05 | Sunday Rain 9.5/10

06 | No Can Do 9/10

07 | You On A Good Day 8.5/10

08 | Unbreakable Heart 8/10

09 | Girls 8/10

10 | Nothing's As Good As You 7.5/10

11 | Beware 7.5/10

12 | Sound Of Goodbye 7/10

 

Overall > 8.75/10 ^_^