MKS performed live for the first time last night - in London - and there's quite a few postings on YouTube. Here's a new song...
And here's Freak Like Me...
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Showing posts with label freak like me. Show all posts
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
So which was the best Sugababes line-up?
We've been polling on this question for a few days and votes are trickling in.
Surprisingly, the original line-up is leading the contest. I say surprisingly because the greatest success and the greatest hits came when Heidi joined the band - when Freak Like Me and Push the Button stormed the charts.
Okay it's not that surprising. We know that young as they were, the originals were three talented young women. Unrecognised as she is, Siobhan has proved herself a talented song-writer. It seems that many of the songs on the under-stated One Touch album were written by the girls. What could they have achieved if they stuck together? Sadly that required commercial success - and that involved handing their fate to others.
Personally I've got mixed feelings. In the face of public opinion, I maintain that Change was the greatest and most perfect album. Yes, that's the next poll! But I was stunned by One Touch from the time when I first heard it, several years after it came out. It was so different from the overblown pap and synthesised absence of melody that characterises most pop music. And really Angels, with its double number one, five singles and two classic live performance tracks should be acknowledged as the best.
Surprisingly, the original line-up is leading the contest. I say surprisingly because the greatest success and the greatest hits came when Heidi joined the band - when Freak Like Me and Push the Button stormed the charts.
Okay it's not that surprising. We know that young as they were, the originals were three talented young women. Unrecognised as she is, Siobhan has proved herself a talented song-writer. It seems that many of the songs on the under-stated One Touch album were written by the girls. What could they have achieved if they stuck together? Sadly that required commercial success - and that involved handing their fate to others.
Personally I've got mixed feelings. In the face of public opinion, I maintain that Change was the greatest and most perfect album. Yes, that's the next poll! But I was stunned by One Touch from the time when I first heard it, several years after it came out. It was so different from the overblown pap and synthesised absence of melody that characterises most pop music. And really Angels, with its double number one, five singles and two classic live performance tracks should be acknowledged as the best.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Song of the Year 2000
Song of the Year: 2000 - Sugababes - Overload
Sunday Times March 15th 2009
"...Something about the song, even now, seems to foreshadow subsequent events in the band’s career.
In place of the synchronised polish and dance-routine uniformity of other girl groups, Sugababes came across from the word go as simultaneously hanging as a crew and pulling in different directions. If any song suggests a group of stroppy teenagers ambling down an urban street in search of trouble and mischief, Overload is it. Their choice of collaborators — among them Neneh Cherry’s husband and producer, Cameron McVey — hinted at the savviness they would show in later hook-ups; not least when their single Freak Like Me (on which they took up squatters’ rights in Gary Numan’s Are Friends Electric?) became their first No 1 in 2002..."
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