Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer

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OK, this is clearly fecking great, but I'm now undescribably excited about the follow-up single because I prefered both "NGA" and "Love Machine" to "Sound Of The Underground" and "The Show" respectively, although all four are meisterworks.

Girls Aloud are the best group of the past ten years. Make that 20

I'm having difficulty thinking of a counter argument to this, unless we can call Britney a band somehow.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:16 (twenty-four years ago)

This track doesn't strike me as light; it strikes me as inane, a step above the Cheeky Girls.

OTM. I listened without prejudice and I came away praying for the day when Basement Jaxx are producing popular teen idols and Richard X's girl group are up and running to happen really bloody soon.

Indeed, the main problem for me here is confusing lighthearted with lightweight. The airy way the song carries itself around screams of desperate grabs at SAW-type instant memorableness and the groove is...ordinary. You could tell me Hilary Duff sang this, or maybe her sister, for her latest movie, and I'd probably believe you for a sec - and no, that's not a compliment. 5/10

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:22 (twenty-four years ago)

I came away praying for the day when Basement Jaxx are producing popular teen idols

JC Chasez?

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:27 (twenty-four years ago)

Besides him.

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:37 (twenty-four years ago)

I see your point because his stuff with the Jaxx is ace, especially Plug It In.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:45 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

New single. On file-sharing applications.

A little underwhelming on first listen, but some catchy bits and will sound better when it's not being heard as a shit radio rip that fades out before the end, I think.

Miranda Cooper's lyrics continue to be spot-on, though.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Reference points this time around: Imani Coppolla, Betty Boo, big beat

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

do they sing abt kitchens, catching the spatula on your shorts, accidently in well love, here?

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

i guess you just told me! idk who imani coppolla is tho

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

Got no shame, nobody knows my name, I'm gonna ride into the next town...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Imani Coppolla had a minor hit in the late 90s with "Legend of a Cowgirl". The delivery of the lyrics, the almost-rapping and such, reminds me an awfully lot of that song, minus violins.

If one is familiar, the GA song it most closely resembles as far as the sound goes to these ears, is the excellent, unjustly overlooked B-side "Androgynous Girls".

Can't make out some of the lyrics, but listening closely to try to decipher has made me sure that I do love it QUITE A BIT.

x-post.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

yes well in general and at this pt im thrilled there are girls aloud bsides i havent heard, anon, atlantic, its funny to be a booster and to only know what they looklike by six minutes at their website on new years eve

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

almostrapping and such! do they make dungarees, jellybeans

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Do you want it gmailed?

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

geta better copy

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

idk yes? any thing i cn say wo a req hello to a pidgeonhole. mully is there such a thing as a better copy really? i havent thot abt it

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure poptimists everywhere (hint hint) would appreciate the chance to hear this!

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

thx ed!

― 007 (thoia), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

"I’ve ricocheted around the world drinking pink champagne - it’s easy."
"Boy I seen you disco dancing with your pants on fire."
"You put me in a fever fifty storeys high, and suddenly I’m freezing and I don’t know why."
"Like a cannonball, got what I wanted."
"I know you like to wear my dressing gown when I’m not there, I guess you like it in my shoes."
"Watch the needle when you’re heading south."
"I’m shaking like a cool lemonade."
"If you wanna get fresh get outta my car."
"How you gonna like me running down that Old Kent Road?"
"If you wanna fly high keep outta the sun."

Are these:
(1) All lines from the song, or
(2) Is Popjustice putting me on?

Was it:
(2) Just the margaritas, or
(2) Are you lookin' at me?

― brittle-lemon, Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

They are all in the song, BL! The top line is right at the end, and sadly cut off in the radio rip.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Yay! I do so enjoy a bit of a richochet.

Frankly I'm just relieved that it's not a soppy ballad version of the Style Council song.

― brittle-lemon, Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

So am I, because I hate the Style Council. Did I email you about something a while back, BL? I had planned to but can't remember if I did...

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

You did, Ed, and I believe I replied. Although I was on an email system so useless that perhaps you didn't get the reply.

(PS: I'm a little upset that you hate the Style Council.)

― brittle-lemon, Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I didn't get it. Piss pots, etc. Actually, I don't HATE the Style Council, I just hate Weller, generally, and SC gets the brunt even though they've never done anything I dislike per se.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Well on first listen I'm loving it.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 July 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

ysi?

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah can anyone ysi or gmail this

― i am nervous (cochere), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

thanks edward

yeah this is pretty great / wish i had some lemonade right now

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 17 July 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

I can't find this on slsk, at least without having to wade through thousadns of Hendrix matches.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 17 July 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Can you handle an Mp3 in your hotmail inbox, Nick?

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

No idea to be quite honest. Is it just attached and comes out as a standard MP3 file?

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I mean space-wise. What the hell, I will send anyway.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Well it fitted fine and a top tune it is too. Thanks a lot Edward.

Is this just a one-off release or a prelude to another new album?

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Prelude to new album. And ARGH, hello, what's this that's just popped up but a CD rip. Pisspots.

It sounds MUCH MUCH better, hooray!

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Maybe try this it may not work, but it might, possibly!

http://rapidshare.de/files/3107472/Girls_Aloud_-_Long_Hot_Summer.mp3.html

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Fuck me. Three albums in three years? Ouch, Xenomania are good. Pre-Christmas release I would imagine?

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

This file has been downloaded 215 times already.

In three minutes? Or is this an old link?

Works anyway - ta!

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Old link, I think, sent by a friend.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Little Baby Blondie! Rapture '05!

Brilliant.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that rapidshare copy is a lot better. Cheers for that.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

It's quite Banarama isn't it? Not that that is a bad thing.
(I would like to hear GA do 'Cruel Summer' as a matter of fact.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

this is great!

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

OTM.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Ooh I like this plenty. And yes it's definitely got more than a touch of the 'rama to it. What's the video like, anyone?

― j0e (j0e), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

1. Someone needs to do a mash-up of this song over the Pet Shop Boys' "The truck driver and his mate."

2. I hope this doesn't eventually get used in a TV ad for Barcardi rum, or some similarly "cooling" beverage.

3. Because it is quite possibly better than anything on the last album, and it would be a shame to spoil it.

4. It's like "Wake me up," except slinkier and more effortless, and therefore without the slightly desperate "fierceness" that marred that former track for me.

5. Thanks, Edward. I emailed you again, so let me know if you don't receive and I should kill my email.

― brittle-lemon, Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

It is doing what "The Show" did, but more liquidly, after it melted all over your hands and dribbled down your arm.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

i'd like them something long and hard but it isn't summer.

― tweryl cheedy, Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

BL, no go again - are you sending to the gmail or one of my others?

"Long Hot Summer" continues the tradition started by "Sound of the Underground" in that it sounds like about 160,000 other great pop songs, while still being noticeably the same thing throughout (unlike "The Show", which was about five great songs bolted together to make an Uber-Powerful Song Of Death).

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, edward. Good song.

Of course, inevitable now that the week they release it here the current hot spell will end and we'll have rain for weeks. ;)

― Jeff W (zebedee), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

I think it has the same big startling shiny (summer/sunshineish) newness of "The Show" but it is a more-fluid-less-jerky motion, you can't see any joins between the various Bits, this time (admittedly The Bits probably just = verse/'bridge'(?)/chorus). So in that sense it is more "Wake Me Up", and also in the way that it hits a little bit harder (the high notes in the verses and the "ba ba ba"s sit very very nicely on top of the forcefulness of the beat).

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Girls Aloud can do no wrong. This single is absolutely fantastic.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 17 July 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

the link won't work for me because of my funny connection

can someone gmail it to RJG123, please?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

It's on its way.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 17 July 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

YEah could i get a GMail pretty please!

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 17 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm very disturbed by the *constant* *tambourine* for some reason. I prefer the Girls Aloud Songs of Death, as Edward O so aptly described them, and this just sounds like, well, Paris Hilton fronting the Partridge Family. Poptimism is based on the belief that lightheartedness is what the world needs, and thus it's extremely serious. This track doesn't strike me as light; it strikes me as inane, a step above the Cheeky Girls. And it's all in that fucking tambourine, which is being shaken without any sense of rhythm whatsoever.

Sure, there's a lot of tambourine in "Crazy Chick" as well, but it seems quite a bit sharper, as if Miss Church is beating me with it because my Ph.D. isn't therapeutic enough for her.

― esque, Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't get the big deal about this...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Girls Aloud are the best group of the past ten years. Make that 20.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

ta, jerry!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Gmail here too please!

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

The Style Council's "Long Hot Summer" was and is great. I haven't heard this yet...

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 18 July 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

this song ate my hamster. Dom is OTM.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

IMHO:

- The initial 40-50 seconds of the song are probably the best bit of pop music we've had this year. ¿Are all of those lines sung by Cheryl?I know I'm not being too clever here, but that bit sounds exactly the way a glass of cool lemonade should taste.

- I like it how it works as a "xenomania greatest hits", overall it sounds like "Round and Round", but it also has the tambourine from "No Good Advice", the guitars from the amazing "Androgynous Girls", the "ba ba ba" from "Some Kind of Miracle"; kinda like a trip through their own batcave, where they show you their trophies from old battles, etc.

- It's certainly not as awe-inspiring as "The Show", in spirit, this is closer to "Love Machine", more of a party anthem and therefore more engaging.

- The last 40 seconds are amazing too, I wish it would not end.

― iodine (iodine), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

"The initial 40-50 seconds of the song are probably the best bit of pop music we've had this year"

Make it "I've".

But I can't believe there's even one person in the world that has had anything better than that bit this year, so I could say "we" as in "the human race" and I wouldn't be too far from the truth. Well, maybe. A bit. Oh, well. Whatever.

― iodine (iodine), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

This song by itself is a golden age of pop music :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

a desperate plea for [EMAIL REMOVED]

― N_RQ, Monday, 18 July 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

sent!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm still asking too...

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

if anyone could send a copy to falseazure at gmail dot com it would be deeply appreciated also...

― falseazure, Monday, 18 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna wait till this starts airing on telly, given that I deleted 'No Good Advice' from the pod last week.

~~Possibility that I'll end up asking Alex to mail it is 50/50 right now~~

― BARMS, Monday, 18 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Will one of you DJs out there please mashup this song with "Funkytown" (especially the "A little late to take it slow..." bit)?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm still asking too...

-- kit brash (kitbras...), July 18th, 2005.

if anyone could send a copy to falseazure at gmail dot com it would be deeply appreciated also...

-- falseazure (falseazur...), July 18th, 2005.

You should have it by now

― iodine (iodine), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Will one of you DJs out there please mashup this song with "Funkytown" (especially the "A little late to take it slow..." bit)?

OMG yes, this is so obvious I nearly posted it but IT REALLY MUST HAPPEN RIGHT NOW. That end section MAKES the song, it's brilliant.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

WHY isn't this song a billion-selling #1 worldwide megasmash?!?!?! Everybody's lamenting the fact that there haven't been any summer songs this year!! This is, like, the greatest summer song ever!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

is it out, yet?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

only just heard this -- thx lex! one word: fucking awesome.

― n_RQ, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

lyrically, they've surpassed themselves. how is it lightweight? i don't like heavy music, perhaps.

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

The guitar over the fade-out in this STILL sounds like the cheesetastic guitar solo from Betty Boo's "Where Are You Baby", surely someone else detects this.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I hear it. A bit.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

What is this attitude that says there have been no summer songs yet? R. Kelly's "Happy Summertime" and Jay Z's "Dear Summer" both seem to qualify admirably.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

This is amazing! Is Xenomania still in charge?

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it's Xenomania, again doing the whole album.

I'd bet half my life savings that the song was at least co-written by Mania, in addition to Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper (her lyrics are pretty unmistakeable), as the "flow" in the second verse is awfully reminiscent of some of the songs on the Mania album sampler.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

I've found it:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/allgener/promo-lhs2.jpg

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

you're right

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

they should've covered wham "club tropicana".
i wish they'd cover sabrina "boys" and make a similar video.

― tweryl cheedy, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

i saw the video for this. they kind of give up on lip-synching, but it's pretty powerful stuff.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

but but but Cheryl looks not-so-good in the video == it has failed. (although whatever they've done to the colour makes Nicola look like a painting, a Titian madonna or something, incredible)

I'm still not convinced enough by the song; it's kind of above 'wake me up' in terms of quality, but well well below e.g. the show, to me. I got all kinds of excited when I first heard it, but-- eh.

― spontine (cis), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

basically I want it to bludgeon me about the head with SPARKLY POP KNUCKLEDUSTERS and for some reason it doesn't land a single punch.

― spontine (cis), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

nicola still looks awkward, but in a hot way. at the moment i like it even more than 'the show', which can sound a bit forced (mad talk which i'll gadly take back -- but 'lhs' needs defending).

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

It's now my third favourite GA single, behind "No Good Advice" and "The Show".

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

The saturation in the video is really quite horrendous. They are curious and orange, ah.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

It's not up to No Good Advice but then I can think of few pop songs that are. If that's the cover for the single up thread then I'm surprised the girls don't feature on it. They are, after all, not unattractive women.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that's got to be the first time a straight up pop act haven't featured on their own CD cover since...?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

i think they'll be on the coverm that just looks like the promo.

'long hot summer' is still fabulous but it has diminishing returns: bizarrely it's the lyrics which keep it afloat.

as much as i like the idea of girls aloud being little baby blondie i wish they'd do more mindfucky electropop like 'the show' or 'graffiti my soul'. this seems like a bit too safe a direction.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

still great! even better now it's actually sunny, yeah?

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Single of the year so far.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

just (finally) caught the Breeders - "Cannonball" link in this song - Xenomania you tricksters!

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 18 February 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

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