The Wednesday Canon: GURLS ALOUD!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now on an Wednesday, hence its new name of the "Wednesday Canon", and kicking off not with Madonna (tho see poll for more on this) but with pop darlings Girls Aloud. They've had 12 hits. You get 4 picks. Let's see who WINS.




[Poll #708860]


That's really not a bad foundation for a greatest hits, bulked out with choice album tracks anyway...

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Transistor-Chic: We've done ABBA, sorry! I wd have supplemented the post with a list of Friday Canons In Full but I didn't.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, good timing, have just been listening to the mighty GURLS ALLOWED. One more single from 'Chemistry' in the next couple of months, non?

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Has Madonna really had 25 more UK hits than the PSBs? Crikey.

[cis.livejournal.com]

Deciding between 'sound of the underground' and 'no good advice' == SO HARD.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Lex: good idea.
Alang: one for indieguilt perhaps? Oh OK maybe.
dubdobdee: 50+ UK hits - prime candidates! CATEGORICAL NO.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I never understood why 'SOTU' was so beloved of everyone! It's great and all but it's aceness was v much "omg I didn't expect them to sound like this" - it is a formula yet to be perfected and I think it is categorically trumped by most of the bangers since.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

haha also SNAP encore une fois

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's actually 'only' 60, I miscounted.

What happened w/Madge is that she got very famous and all her older stuff got reissued, so she had TONS of hits very early. Also there are lots more random soundtrack singles than you remember.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

was that last one Sir Cliff? I nominate Sir Cliff, if not.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

GA seem to be strong believers in the "second single strongest" theory of release schedules.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Irrelevant opinion alert: Sarah looks hot in the photo Tom posted.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Strange_Powers: Yes.
Stevem78: Yes.
SBP: KEINE CLIFF.
Plumsbitch: Not enough hits I suspect. (no, I checked, it's 11, but still no cos it's obvious which would win)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Nah, Ver Quo. Cliff wd be much more interesting.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Katstevens: Yes to Wham, maybe to Wham/George together, maybe separate. Yes to DDD. Dunno about Miss Ross, LOTS of stuff most won't remember.

Catsgomiaow: Have a cup of tea.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Braisedbywolves: Rather well-trodden territory right now what w/the Now and Shine polls, but both good candidates for later.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

oo i thort you'd deleted indieguilt - i tried a search for it and couldn't find it. otherwise that's where the PA question would have gone.

ISTR we've already established the rank of both the A-sides and B-sides of the "hit parade", but a canon-poll would not be out of the question

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Or: second, then first, then fourth.

(The Chemistry release schedule should have been 'Biology', ''Wild Horses', 'Whole Lotta History', 'Watch Me Go')

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm not actually sure HOW to delete it! So it lives. FOR NOW.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Marvellous.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yes. i can still imagine 'Swinging London Town' as a great single tho, albeit only in the brilliant fantasy universe that i inhabit in my mind.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

It's not a formula, there still isn't another record that sounds remotely like it. Which obv is more than can be said for No Sharona.

Argh and SOTU isn't even in the top 4! You are all mentalists!

AHEM

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Addicted To Bass" sounds quite like it.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Separate 12" of banging electro remixes for SLT methinks. (maybe one which turns the quiet bit in the middle into a proper dance break, and which makes the whole think double the length) (these two things really are starting to annoy me about the original)

Unfortunately 'Swinging London Town' isn't a good single for much the same reasons that 'Graffiti My Soul' wasn't.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

er there is, it's called 'addicted to bass'!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I've scrubbed my initial answer because I'm going to have a cup of tea consider my notes from when we thought about this.