A nice little Girls Aloud retrospective

'The Loving Kind' gave Girls Aloud their twentieth Top 10 hit yesterday. The band have done absolutley fuck all promotion for it since before Christmas, so it really wasn't that shocking when midweek figures indicated it was a kitten's whisker away from being their first single to fall short of the Top 10. Hardcore Aloud fans took action in their masses, and were out in force downloading the single from every downloadable outlet, buying multiple copies of the CD and ordering copies off Amazon by the van-load.

Which is kinda weird really, because if the singles chart is meant to be a list of the most popular songs in the country, surely it defeats the object if one person buys twenty copies just for the sake of a statistic...?

Regardless, the first twenty singles have been, on the whole, pretty damn good. But they've done so many equally amazing tracks that never got a single release. Note especially 'Some Kind of Miracle', 'Wild Horses', 'Graffiti My Soul', 'Models', 'Girl Overboard'... Which is a shame when you consider that a few of their singles have actually been shit:

The worst ones:
- See The Day
- Life Got Cold
- See The Day
- Walk This Way
- See The Day

The rest have all been consistently really very really good. Kudos to the Girls, but especially kudos to Xenomania. God help the band if Xenomania decide to retire from songwriting. They have given the girls some of the decade's best pop music, and picking the highlights from the back catalogue is somewhat difficult, but we can pretty much say that if we HAVE to choose their best single to date, it probably still has to be this one...



IT'S A THREE MINUTE SONG AND THE CHORUS DOESN'T KICK IN FOR TWO MINUTES. Literal wow.

Good job, girls. Now we'll have twenty more please.