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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps the best Pop Album of the last 10 years, March 25, 2006
If you are reading this review because you are interested in this recording - just add it to cart now. This is the tightest pop album since - Blondie's 'Eat To The Beat' ? This is that good. I have turned so many people on to this - because it is still not available domestically in the states - one must wonder what is wrong with the industry here considering the garbage they force on you if you listen to commercial radio here. Maybe the 'Babes are TOO TALENTED AND TOO HOT for the States! Wouldn't surprise me. Between the incredible Depeche Mode "Personal Jesus" riff in "It Ain't Easy", the inspiring title track "Ugly" (it quotes 'Taller In More Ways'), the funky 'Bruised' - the startling pop quality of 'Push The Button' - without a doubt the best single in the last 5 years - no wonder it was #1 in the UK forever. There is not a bad track - this is so listenable you will want to be a Sugababe - these women are genuine. No gashes to the Spices, but they could not put together an album like this. (Also these ladies can SING). Track 10 - ACE REJECT - is so amazing you will wonder over and over why this is not being played here! Of course, look at the president here and you can wonder lots of things.
Major love to MY personal sugababe, Lauren - love you babe. ;)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quite possibly their best yet, January 28, 2006
This album is battling to become my favourite Sugababes album. It is in competition with Three, which is magnificent.
This album, the last with Mutya, has some of their finest songs to date and some brilliant production and lyrics. At only 11 tracks long (12 if you have the UK bonus track, which I don't), it seems short, but packs a lot into those 11 tracks. My rundown:
01. Push The Button (9/10)
The lead single of the album, this was No.1 in the UK for 3 (I think?) weeks. It's immediately catchy and very easy to sing along to. Keisha leads most of the song, with Mutya and Heidi singing the verses. Fun, upbeat with a saucy video.
02. Gotta Be You (9/10)
Another upbeat song, this is really catchy, with a repetitive chorus that you would expect to get boring, but somehow it doesn't. The first time I played this, I was like 'Boooooring' but now I love it, it's a lot of fun to sing along to. The girls share vocals out throughout the song.
03. Follow Me Home (10/10)
This ballad is reminscient of songs from Three like "Caught In A Moment", "Too Lost In You" and "Sometimes". That, my friends, is a very good thing. This song is beautiful and moving - I absolutely love the chorus, it's amazing! Heidi is absolutely brilliant on the middle 8, and Mutya and Keisha do the remainder of the song well. One of my favourites!
04. Joy Division (9/10)
Another upbeat song, this song is slightly strange with peculiar lyrics music. It's catchy with singable bits throughout. I don't know why it's called "Joy Division," they don't mention those words anywhere in the song. Anyway, a good song, if strange.
05. Red Dress (7/10)
This is the Babes new single and first single with Amelle. I wish it wasn't and that they had chosen something else, this is one of my least favourite tracks on the album. I don't know why, but this song is bland and uninteresting to me. The chorus is slightly catchy though, and Amelle does improve the song somewhat.
06. Ugly (8/10)
This song is probably my other least favourite. The Babes Christmas single, this reached No.3. I loved it on the first listen, but after repeated plays, it has gotten boring. "Ugly" has a brilliant message behind it about accepting people as they are and not judging people by their looks, but to me, it's bland and boring. But it's Mutya's last single with the group, so good on it.
07. It Ain't Easy (9/10)
The shortest track on the album, clocking in at 3:05, this is fast paced and upbeat. The chorus is really catchy, and gets caught in your head instantly. Before you know it, the song is over! But that's a good thing, it keeps your attention with it's short length.
08. Bruised (9/10)
This song is incredibly cool, it's very chilled out and relaxed, until Keisha starts singing the bridge. This song is another catchy one, and I like singing along to the chorus, which Heidi leads. Another very cool track.
09. Obsession (10/10)
I didn't even know this song was a cover until recently. But even if it is, it's brilliant! The lyrics are kinda random, about being obsessed with somebody, but the girls' vocals are really cool. Very catchy with great music.
10. Ace Reject (10/10)
This song is wonderful! Heidi's middle 8 is absolutely brilliant, her vocals and the lyrics are just amazing. The song takes almost 2 minutes to get to the chorus, it's a different format of song then just verse-bridge-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus-middle 8-chorus. Very cool song, with a catchy chorus (when it finally kicks in).
11. 2 Hearts (10++++/10)
This is it! The very last track on the album is my absolute favourite. This song is absolutely, utterly amazing. Heidi leads the majority of the song, singing the first verse, first bridge and leading the chorus, whereas Mutya sings the second verse and Keisha sings the middle 8. This song is so beautiful - full of amazing instrumentals (especially the ending) and a wonderful chorus with great lyrics - "2 you's, 2 me's, 2 minds to please" is just one line. I absolutely <3333 this song so much, one of my favourite Babes songs ever!
Overall, the album's quality of songs is amazing, apart from two songs, the rest is high quality and brilliant. A great 4th album, look forward to more from the Babes with Amelle.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Killer Album In All Ways, December 29, 2005
Wow! Wow! Wow!....I really really truly freakin' LOVE this album....such a shame how different the U.S. and U.K. music industries are, as I truly believe this album could be huge here in the states.
Also, as the review before mine pointed out, this was Mutya's last album with group (left group to spend more time with her newborn daughter) so you should pick up a copy now before the re-recorded version with new member Amelle is released.
1. Push The Button - If your ass aint moving while listening to this song, then you must be paralyzed...such a fun fun song!!
2. Gotta Be You - The most 'hip-hoppish' track on the album is also quite the booty-shaker. Half rap and half singing, this song was written in response to all the negative publicity written about the girls.
3. Follow Me Home - The one song I really could have done without. Schmaltzy ballady song.
4. Joy Division - Rockin' little song about a girl tellin' the guy to get the clue already, she aint interested and it's time to go back to your wife.
5. Red Dress - This song is it!!!. Hot, hot, hot Xenomania produced track about how easy it is for a girls to manipulate guys who only think with the head they have downstairs. Very cool track that just seems to build up and up with 2 choruses and a seriously rolling bass-line!! This song is 25 out of 10 stars.....Perfection!!!
(This will also be the next single and has just been re-recorded with new member Amelle)
6. Ugly - Great mid-tempo song along the lines of X-tina Aguilera's 'Beautiful'. Written and produced by hitmaker Dallas Austin, in response to all the negative publicity he read about before meeting the girls.
"Personality reflects name/if I'm ugly then so are you!"
7. It Ain't Easy - Big boom-boom foot stomper!!
8. Bruised - Co-written with Cathy Dennis, kickin' song about those love/hate relationships we all go through
"I bruise when you get close/Feel my body choke/Bitter last blows/In the war with you/When you get close/Feel my body choke/So the pain grows/In the wars with you"
9. Obesession - Hot remake of the classic 80's song!!
10. Ace Reject - Ace song also produced by Xenomania. All about being blinded by what love should be, and not realizing how it really is. Lyrically this song is it.
"You turned down the light in me/I think our time is over/Ain't it funny how sweet I dream/But the bed keeps getting colder/And sometimes when I close my eyes/It feels like I'm living by numbers/'Cos I've been holdin' you so tight/I gotta stop 'cuz it's pullin' me under"
11. Better - Very indepth song about (in my opinion anyway) depression and pulling coming out of it.
12. 2 Hearts - Beautiful ballad closer!!
This band truly should be bigger than Destiny's Child ever were, considering the fact that D.C. don't even have 1/100th of the 'Babes talent.........
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