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Nicola revealed today on Twitter that the album was going to be named "Girls Aloud: Revolution" before they decided for "Out of control" :o

 

I would have LOVED that ! :o

Nicola revealed today on Twitter that the album was going to be named "Girls Aloud: Revolution" before they decided for "Out of control" :o

 

I would have LOVED that ! :o

 

Wow! They so should have went for that. :(

I was never expecting them to rival the awesome Tangled Up, but they did a pretty amazing Job, they always delivered. Miss You Bow Now was just bliss and Revolution in the Head was so different to anything I had heard previously. I have much love for this album.
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I did not like this. I liked a few songs : Promise, Loving Kind, Untouchable, something with Stone in the title and one that had police lights in the song (cannot be arsed to look up the titles).

 

Tangled Up was much better as a whole imo.

Oh yes. Tangled Up was better than Out Of Control. But saying this, I much prefer this album now than I did a few years back. Any album that contains Loving Kind, Untouchable, Turn To Stone and Love Is Pain must get some praise.

Had some hideousness on it too though. Whoever thought Live In The Country was a good idea should be shot.

LITC wasn't that bad :o Sure it wasn't much more than a 6/10 but still...

 

Anyway, for me it's TU > OOC as well.

Nice to see you FINALLY come around to "Untouchable", Aled! :D I do love this album, but it is weaker than 'Tangled Up' (my favourite album of theirs, and of all-time). There are a load of great tracks on both though, but both styles are completely different, which makes it a bit hard to compare.
Oh I have no idea what I was on when I was hating on 'Untouchable'. It's brilliant.

Echo Theo's comments regarding Aled's Untouchable hate!

I'd say it's their best single...and the album version is amazing too! :ph34r: Love Out Of Control, not a single bad track IMO. I have Tangled Up too (now of their other albums but have spotified them before) and I'd say OOC is EASILY their best album. Such an enjoyable album and I still listen to it regularly 2.5 years on. :D

Live In The Country and We Wanna Party aren't great but all the others are brilliant! I still prefer Tangled Up on the whole though.

 

Rolling Back The Rivers In Time, Untouchable, The Promise, Love Is Pain and The Loving Kind are some of my best songs ever.

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Onto their final studio album together. Been a while since I last heard this so I'm excited to hear it again and see how well it's held up.

 

'The Promise' is their most overrated single, period. Never really taken to that one as much as I should. It's good, but very overrated. 'The Loving Kind' does that CTS sound better than CTS did, imo. It feels a lot more whole and the production just sounds a lot more fulfilling to me. Gorgeous. 'Untouchable' is my favourite song by them ever. Even before it was made into a single, I was praying it would become one (preferably in the album version form, but for radio play to happen, that would have been impossible to push). Gutted that, just like 'Stop' for Spice Girls (my favourite at the time) it was the one to break a streak! :arrr: The time really flies when listening to 'Untouchable'! Their most ethereal and anthemic sounding song ever I think. Just sublime! I really think this was ahead of it's time ever so slightly tbh!

 

Also, if I recall correctly... I'm going to have a VERY unpopular opinion (one even more unpopular than finding TP overrated) but we'll see how I feel about the track nowadays when I get to it :kink:

 

My Ranking:

1. Untouchable

2. Miss You Bow Wow

3. The Loving Kind

4. Live in the Country

5. Revolution in the Heard

6. Love Is Pain

7. We Wanna Party

8. Turn to Stone

9. Love is the Key

10. Rolling Back the Rivers in Time

11. Fix Me Up

12. The Promise

 

'Miss You Bow Wow' has ALWAYS been an instant favourite for me. That "I rememBERRRR..." post chorus is flawless! It's just hook after hook after hook! Amazing. Should have been a single! 'Live in the Country' is the unpopular opinion, I think. LMAOOO. I love it so much. Animal noises and all! It is one of like 3 tracks that uses that GA-garage sound they've littered throughout every era (this, 'Revolution in the Head' & 'Miss You Bow Wow'). 'Love Is Pain' is the better of the "Love Is.." tracks. It really drives home that Pet Shop Boy's 80's synth sound and drives it well!

 

'We Wanna Party' is so fun! 'Love Is Key' is a v interesting song. The country elements kind of work against their usual Xenomania backdrops. I've never loved it, but I've always kinda appreciated it. 'Rolling Back the Rivers in Time' was getting big fan calls to be made into a single before 'Untouchable' wasn't it? I seem to remember that being a v popular choice! I've always found it quite mid. But it's nice!

 

Again, another album where I don't dislike anything. A fair few I don't really care that much about personally, but everything from 'Untouchable' down to and including 'We Wanna Party' are all fantastic!

 

Album Rankings:

01. Tangled Up

02. Out of Control

03. Chemistry

04. What Will the Neighbours Say?

05. Sound of the Underground

 

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Overall:

 

Loved revisiting their albums. Been a while since I revisited them all like this. I don't "love" anything except 'Tangled Up', but I like the others a lot and there's something from each album that I would more than happy go back to. Pretty sure each album had at least half the tracks I'd go back to, so that's a win.

I did love the promise at the time but these days I still like it but much prefer the loving kind which deserved to be bigger than it actually was.
'Live in the Country' is the unpopular opinion, I think. LMAOOO. I love it so much. Animal noises and all!

 

Yes! Justice for Live in the Country, I've always loved it as well. Wasn't the song about Sarah's wise to move to the country? (which I think she eventually did as well).

 

The singles run for OOC was probably my favourite. The Promise is still a fantastic song for them; the sound suited them so well combined with the 60's video and it really is a stand-out moment in their career. Everything just came together and it was SUCH a moment to see back at #1 AND winning the Brit Award after all those years. Their performances at X Factor and The Brits are also among my favourite GA television performances. The Loving Kind is in my top 2 Girls Aloud singles- probably their most underrated song as well. It just gives me such special feelings and I can't explain how much I adore it. Cheryl "standing on a crowded platform, carelessly we lost out way" still gets me after all this time. And then of course, Untouchable. We don't talk about the single version, but the album version is in one word epic. The fact that this was the song to break their top 10 run is awful :cry:

 

Miss You Bow Wow would probaly be my favorite album track as well. the I REMEMBERRRR line is iconic. I've always enjoyed We Wanna Party, but it does sound a bit out of place and dated (which makes sense, as I think that song is from 2003/2004). Revolution In The Head is also very high up for me.

 

Overall I would rank this as their third album. I really really like it but Chemistry and Tangled Up just beat it for me.

Does anyone also remember the Night with Girls Aloud ITV show they did while promoting this? It really was their biggest era in some ways, also those album sales :heart: We weren't used to that as fans! And the deluxe edition, which came in some kind of book. Sweet memories.

 

Yes! Justice for Live in the Country, I've always loved it as well. Wasn't the song about Sarah's wise to move to the country? (which I think she eventually did as well).

 

The singles run for OOC was probably my favourite. The Promise is still a fantastic song for them; the sound suited them so well combined with the 60's video and it really is a stand-out moment in their career. Everything just came together and it was SUCH a moment to see back at #1 AND winning the Brit Award after all those years. Their performances at X Factor and The Brits are also among my favourite GA television performances. The Loving Kind is in my top 2 Girls Aloud singles- probably their most underrated song as well. It just gives me such special feelings and I can't explain how much I adore it. Cheryl "standing on a crowded platform, carelessly we lost out way" still gets me after all this time. And then of course, Untouchable. We don't talk about the single version, but the album version is in one word epic. The fact that this was the song to break their top 10 run is awful :cry:

 

Miss You Bow Wow would probaly be my favorite album track as well. the I REMEMBERRRR line is iconic. I've always enjoyed We Wanna Party, but it does sound a bit out of place and dated (which makes sense, as I think that song is from 2003/2004). Revolution In The Head is also very high up for me.

 

Overall I would rank this as their third album. I really really like it but Chemistry and Tangled Up just beat it for me.

Does anyone also remember the Night with Girls Aloud ITV show they did while promoting this? It really was their biggest era in some ways, also those album sales :heart: We weren't used to that as fans! And the deluxe edition, which came in some kind of book. Sweet memories.

 

 

 

TOTALLY agree with The Loving Kind. It's SUCH a song :wub:

I think every Girls Aloud album got better as they went along... until this one, but that's more because Tangled Up was always going to be near impossible to beat. I'd say Out of Control is their third best album. I've got a lot of love for it, and I often forget just how strong it is until I listen! It's really cohesive despite some different styles being touched on.

 

The three singles were perfect choices. I don't get the hate for The Promise, it's such a stormer of a track and it's easy to see why it did such big things for them! The Loving Kind is my favourite from the era though, Nicola's bridge is MAGICAL and the production is :heart: Untouchable shows just HOW you make a 7 minute song worthwhile. The way it builds, and Nadine's "beautiful robots dancing alone" section :heart: it's really rare I find a song over 5 minutes worthwhile, but Untouchable makes use of every second and doesn't feel that long at all.

 

I think if there had to be another single, Love is the Key or Miss You Bow Wow would've been my choice, I love both! Revolution in the Head is my favourite non-single though, so catchy :heart: Fix Me Up is a lot of fun, it gets a hard time I think, but I really hate its positioning after Untouchable, such a clunky transition in an otherwise cohesive album! :( Love Is Pain is probably my lowlight, the "feel I could wipe you" line is.... so weird :tearsmile:

 

1. The Loving Kind

2. The Promise

3. Untouchable

4. Revolution in the Head

5. Miss You Bow Wow

6. Love is the Key

7. Rolling Back the Rivers in Time

8. Fix Me Up

9. Turn to Stone

10. Live in the Country

11. We Wanna Party

12. Love is Pain

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