The one Medicated Soap posted is much better LOL

The cover isnt confirmed at all, so no-one needs to fret yet.

Fall Out Boy have postponed their album, so these are now the threats for 3rd ;

 

Cliff Richard - The 50th Anniversary Album

Girls Aloud – Out Of Control

Razorlight – Slipway Fires

Status Quo – Pictures: 40 Years Of Hits

Not too bad!

Edited October 14, 200816 yr by coolnav

Hmm, Falloutboy werent really the biggest threat either though. Its one of the others thats needs to postpone for me to be happy.

I can really only see Razorlight as the major threat - They will take the number one spot but as long as the girls go top 5 then i'll be happy.

Hmm, Falloutboy werent really the biggest threat either though. Its one of the others thats needs to postpone for me to be happy.

Really? Their single is getting lots of attention at the moment and their last album peaked at #3 - either way they're gone though so thats good news.

 

It looks like Andrea Bocelli isnt even releasing an album so i've edited the release sheduale threats.

Wasnt the last FOB album realesead early in the year though and not in the christmas rush when sales are massive. Anyway good to see another threat is gone. Razorlight is probably the biggest one though.

If they end up top 3, i'll be ecstatic!

 

I duno what sales will be like but id rather they were no3 with sales of 80k, rather than no1 with sales of 50k any day.

Edited October 14, 200816 yr by Robintime11

The cover Jark posted is Horrendous! :puke: but I actually really like the one Ben (MS) posted :wub: The Girls Aloud on the wall thing was naff! But the font, positioning and everything else to do with the title of the album and band was awful on the first pic. I can actually see them using the one Ben posted!

 

The Picture used of them though is :heart:

Popjustice's fantastic review ;

 

What's 'The Promise' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Well! It's like an elegant, sophisticated 70s disco song inexplicably missed off the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. It's the first single and you've already heard it. You might not feel moved to play it very often, but when you hear it you enjoy it. It is the Girls' least brilliant (ie worst) comeback single to date, but it's still 'a pop treat'.

 

Best lyric: "Giving up just looking into windows"

Is it amazing? Fairly

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Sort of. Yes on a good day

 

 

What's 'The Loving Kind' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! Like 'Call The Shots' and Kylie's 'The One' this is essentially a hi-NRG ballad. Rhymes the word 'kind' with 'disinclined'.

 

Best lyric: "The issue's never mentioned, with all the best intentions" <<<CLASSIC TENNO*

Is it amazing? Yes. Really properly amazing

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud PLUS Xenomania PLUS Pet Shop Boys standards? Let's be honest - no

 

* It's probably Miranda having said that

 

 

What's 'Rolling Back The Rivers' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! Sonically it sounds like Girls Aloud doing 'I Just Called To Say I Love You'. The chorus has a great "ah-ooh" bit but the track's a bit nothingy - do we really come to Girls Aloud albums for lyrics like "there's a feeling in my soul that sets my heart alight"? WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OUR MINDS ON THIS (seeing as it's Track 3, a traditional 'single position' on an album).

 

Best lyric: "Ah-ooh"

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? No

 

 

What's 'Love Is The Key' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! It's like a Girls Aloud album track mixed with one of the upbeat (good) songs on the Gabriella Cilmi album. Lyrically it's basically Paula Abdul's 'Opposites Attract' or A*Teens' 'Perfect Match' with various "you save all your money, I get into debt" type business.

 

Best lyric: "The life and soul of the party it's safe to say you're not"

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

 

 

What's 'Turn 2 Stone' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! It's like a mid-tempo piece of electronic incredibleness based around an ethereal "don't turn away, or you'll see it turn to stone" refrain. There is an amazing zoomy whoosh noise in the middle eight.

 

Best lyric: "Say you want to be certain, certain that this feeling will never fade"

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

 

 

What's 'Untouchable' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! Let's start off by saying that this runs to over six and a half minutes. It's fast, electronic and fantastic. The build-up to the chorus is immense: there's a great bridge ("I know a heart shouldn't beat so hard and sometimes you're swimming with the sharks"), a brilliant bit where it all drops out, and then a massive chorus - "in my dreams it feels like we are forty storeys tall, when you're around we're untouchable". The second time the chorus comes around there's a second part which includes the line "we're beautiful robots dancing alone".

 

Best lyric: The robots one

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? YES

 

 

What's 'Fix Me Up' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! This is down tempo but it is not a ballad. We are aware that certain people might in fact refer to this as 'low slung'. The intro and middle eight have a vocodered, pitched-down (or sung by A Bloke) "oh sex me up cos I'm feeling like I want you" line. It's basically a song about f***ing.

 

Best lyric: "Fix me up in the middle of the morningevening"

Is it amazing? It's better than anything by The Enemy

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? No

 

 

What's 'Love Is Pain' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! It starts off pretending to be 808 State, then decides to be 'Break 4 Love' for a short while, and then ends up thundering into an early-90s electronic sort of affair. There are some brilliant "oh-oh-oh" bits at the end. That is a picture of a whip by the way, we know it doesn't look anything like one but it is.

 

Best lyric: "It don't matter to me, just be faithful to me"

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

 

 

What's 'Miss You Bow Wow' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! The intro kicks off with "everybody love love loves everybody everybody love love loves everybody everybody love love loves everybody everybody loves good loving". VERY GOOD. It might not actually be "good loving". It might be something else. The important bit, though, is the "everybody love love loves everybody everybody love love loves" portion - a lot of the song's based on a lyrical repetition but what's most amazing about this is how the song shoots off in a series of unexpected directions as it progresses - a trick which continues right into the last forty seconds. This might have the best chorus, melodically, and lyrically, on the album.

 

Best lyric: It's the chorus - "I remember living that dream, twenty minutes in a hotel bar, then I slip into your girlfriend's jeans, and I remember saying baby hold tight, twenty hours in the Twilight Zone, the only lovers in the world that night"

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? VERY YES

 

 

What's 'Revolution In The Head' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! It has a very agreeable "hey hey hey, oh oh oh" bit, which is a real bass-from-the-speakers-running-through-your-sneakers sort of pop moment. It's mid-tempo. It's alright.

 

Best lyric: "Revolution in the head don't count for nothing, you gotta move that ass, revolution in the head don't count for nothing, you've gotta beat the past", which is an excellent Oasis diss even if it's not meant to be

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? It is a very pleasant if functional album track

 

 

What's 'Live In The Country' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! It's basically the sequel to 'Swinging London Town' - waking up with a hangover and wondering whether things might be better with a couple of cows mooing outside your window. There's a great naivety to the lyrics ("if I live in the country I'll find another way - get rich, live in the country, I know I'll be okay"). It should also be noted that this is a drum 'n' bass track. Basically it's completely ludicrous. Ends with the distant bleat of a sheep.

 

Best lyric: "I want ducks and a lake and a family portrait and a pipe and a dog at my feet, I want a stall at the fete selling strawberry shortcake"

Is it amazing? Yes

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Yes

 

 

What's 'We Wanna Party' from the new Girls Aloud album like?

Story filed Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Well! It's a lot like Lene from Aqua's 'We Wanna Party', mainly because it's a rocked-up cover of that very song. We're not exactly sure why this is on the album but nobody's getting hurt, it's only a bonus track and it sounds great in a 'What Will The Neighbours Say?' kind of way.

 

Best lyric: "We're so depressed we wear our shades at night"

Is it amazing? It is above average

Is it amazing by Girls Aloud standards? Not in 2008

HMV album pre-order chart ('The Promise' is no.1 on their singles pre-order chart!);

 

1 Ac/Dc - Black Ice

2 Keane - Perfect Symmetry

3 Killers - Day & Age

4 Pink - Funhouse

5 Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads

6 Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns

7 Boyzone - Back Again No Matter What: Greatest Hits

8 Dido - Safe Trip Home (release date pushed back)

9 Bloc Party - Intimacy

10 Cure - 4:13 Dream

11 Leon Jackson - Right Now

12 New Entry Sugababes - Catfights & Spotlights

13 New Entry Paul Weller - At The BBC

14 Britney Spears - Circus

15 Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux (release date pushed back)

16 Razorlight - Slipway Fires

17 New Entry Girls Aloud - Out Of Control

18 New Entry Anastacia - Heavy Rotation

19 New Entry Jason Donovan - Let It Be Me

20 New Entry Va - Now 71

Management has apparently said that they are doing a special edition of the album which should be announced in the next few days.

 

Wonder what it is.

Is no-one like majorly excited by that review?! Its f***ing immense!

Ooooh, like the sound of the Special Edition!

The Popjustice reviews are GREAT ! I so can't wait for this album, it's gonna be f***ing amazing again !

I am dead excited about the album but i dont listen to reviews really coz i make mi own decisions when i hear the track.

Fix Me Up & Untouchable sounds v. interesting.

I need this album now!!! I seriously cant wait any longer for it!

is it going to be a 'special edition' with signed pics and a different cover again for the fans :lol: :D

 

Or will it have a few more tracks. Because I worry, a 6th studio album will only have 10 tracks :lol: I mean SOTU - 15, WWTNS - 14, Chem - 13, TU - 12, OoC - 11

 

 

But OOC has 12 tracks?!

But OOC has 12 tracks?!

 

well that blows that theory :P I wouldn't know :lol: as I'm avoiding anything to do with the album like tracklistings :lol: