Music : Tangled Up

Rating: - Tangled Up
Tangled Up is the 4th album by girls aloud and the best tracks on this album are call the shots girl overboard close to love can't speak french 8/10 must buy!

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Rating: - Pure Pop Perfection
This is just what pop music should be.
No duff tracks, each track is good no slow ones and no boring ballads.
Just great fun.

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Rating: - Play aloud
I love, love, love this album. It starts with the ace Call The Shots and in my opinion gets better & better. I really love the tracks Girl Overboard, Close to Love and Blackjacks. Tangled Up shows a new side to the band whilst keeping that 'thing' about that just makes you want to dress up and have a girls night out or even night in.

Whenever I'm feeling like I can't be bothered to go out i used to play the Greatest Hits but this album has now replaced that as it never fails to get me in the mood to dance all night.

Give it a go.

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Rating: - Truly amazing
This is the fourth studio album from the girls and it is by far the best. Filled with synth-heavy bangers and pop gems throughout, this album is sure to be a promising one.
1. Call The Shots- The second single, (which went to be the second best selling single of their career) a perfect track. 10/10
2. Close To Love- I'd say the girls are idiots not to release this as a single, it is irresistible and by the best track on the ablum.
3. Sexy! No, No, No- A #5 hit for the girls as the first single. Amazing rock sound and stunning video. 10/10
4. Girl Overboard- Continues the line of amazing tracks, very strong hooks and very impressive vocals, potential single. 10/10
5. Can't Speak French- The 3rd single off the album,and is it ever great. Its no Call The Shots/Sexy! No, No, No, but it is great. 9/10
6. Black Jacks- An interesting sound, and an amazing track with a fun chanting part included. 8/10
7. Control Of The Knife- The rumoured 3rd single off this album, and I can't resist this one, pop perfection. 10/10
8. Fling- Really rocky, and fun filled with cheek and camp all mixed in. Another great track. 9/10
9. What You Crying For- Not the best on the album, but still not the worst. A faster and smarter song for the girls. 6/10
10. I'm Falling- Easily the worst track on the album, (I don't know why Dog Without A Bone or Blow Your Cover weren't included instead) 5/10
11. Damn- Filled with amazing hooks and cute lyrics, this song delivers by a mile and will be in your head for a while. 8/10
12. Crocodile Tears- Even though I did not want this album to end, it does on a high note, the only thing close to a ballad, beautiful. 10/10

I am a definite girls aloud fan and this solidified that by delivering a perfect album. I could listen to over and over. Leave it to these 5 girls to take risks and mix with very different sounds, for a manufactured band they truly created a sound of their own.

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Rating: - Their best album yet - you need it in your life!
Barcode: 0602517505803

In a world filled with indie rubbish and sloppy American import trash, Girls Aloud are a precious rarity. As Nicola puts it so brilliantly in the album's booklet, it's really annoying when bands start off well but then go downhill from then on. Thank God then that it's been the opposite for Girls Aloud, Tangled Up proves they really do just keep on getting better. Like always their albums are consistently good from start to end, filled with state-of-the-art pop tunes that fulfill all the criteria - they're fun, catchy and damn good to dance too.

So let's have a look at what the gorgeous girls have treated us to this time round.

First up is Call The Shots, a song that oozes class and is accompanied by a brilliantly stylish video. I think one of the reasons why this song has been so successful is that not only is it a fantastic pop record but it represents Girls Aloud showing a new maturity to their music, something that has allowed more universal appeal to the public and appealing to critics, hence the BRIT award nomination this year.

Close To Love is 80s synthpop dancefloor amazingness. Now, Girls Aloud are famous for their witty, feisty lyrics but this takes it to a new level. Any song that has the line 'Guy with the terrible hair, back off' is a winner in mye eyes. Fling continues in much the same vein with some seriously suggestive lyrics but this time put to a riotous punk-rock bit of guitar thrashing tumbling into a filthy bassline.

Sexy! No, No, No... is still my favourite Girls Aloud song, holding a particularly special place in my heart. It sounds like something Depeche Mode would come up with, a storming mix of rock and electro and with that amazing video. We launch right into another stunning track next with Girl Overboard, one of the album's finest highlights, euro-dance brilliance that screams 'future single'.

Black Jacks is intruiging, tinged with echoes of Blur/Supergrass Britpop with some remarkably indie sounding shouty raps. Damn continues on the same lines, both tracks simple, all-round pop fun laced with that dash of everything that makes Girls Aloud so great.

I wasn't initially that keen on Control Of The Knife but now i totally love it. It's Reggae style in the vein of Chemistry's Watch Me Go and part of it's appeal is that relentless beat/guitar combo that i reckon would go down a right treat at summer parties.

What You Crying For and I'm Falling present Girls Aloud at their most adventuruous, this time venturing into drum n' bass with amazing results. The latter is pumped full of distorted vocals and guitar and sounds like the soundtrack to some high energy Hollywood action/thriller movie.

And then we have Crocodile Tears, a mid-tempo slice of epic beauty. Like Sexy..., this was written by the Girls themselves and once again presents an intense maturity to them and shows real potential as to what they could come up with in the future.

So... after all that, you get the message, the album is absolutely amazing so go buy it!