Friday, October 30, 2009
I figure if you want to know what’s really happening in today’s Pop Music world you don’t have to go much further than to listen to Brit Girl Groups. They have the cream of the crop writing and producing their albums and some of them are actually listenable – some of them are quite brilliant actually. The three groups over the past 5-6 years I’ve learned to love are (in order of consistency and general quality) Sugababes, All Saints and Girls Aloud. The first three Sugababe albums are great. Modern Pop at it’s best. Loud, catchy, sing in the shower stuff – and occasionally even a little bit soulful. It’s a weird group – with many personnel changes. I think the last original member has now left but that doesn’t seem to have a lot to do with the quality of their work – although if I had to pick only one album I’d probably go with ‘Three’. All Saints were a bunch of girls with famous boyfriends/husbands – with great connections obviously – and really well produced and played songs (they disbanded after the first album and just came out with a follow up that’s very disappointing). Girls Aloud are the current monster group in the UK – well Cheryl Cole (a judge on the X-Factor) is. She’s kind of huge there. The Girls Aloud album I’m most familiar with is ‘Chemistry’. If you want to follow up on this (and I think you should) here’s the best stuff (in my mind) that these groups do:
Sugababes:
Too Lost In You
Stronger
Hole In The Head
All Saints
Black Coffee (produced by William Orbit I believe)
Pure Shores
Girls Aloud
Whole Lotta History (this is as good as any 60’s girl group song – in fact it’s an amalgam of a ton of them. Brilliant stuff)
See The Day
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