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The formula is a common one; seminal 70s/80s tune appropriated for today's
incestuous marketplace, in this case the unmistakable riff from The Knack's
top 5 hit My Sharona. The source, too, is equally familiar; act designed for
instant success via a high-profile television show.
Given the paucity of imagination and class prevalent in contemporary manufactured
pop, the second Girls Aloud single No Good Advice ought to be dire. Yet, aggressively
contrived and trashy though it is, there's no denying the track's disposable
thrill. No Good Advice is released on May 12th.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
For the erstwhile S Club 7, however, the end is nigh. Four years after
announcing themselves with the annoying #1 Bring It All Back, they graduated
into a fairly decent outfit courtesy of great pop moments such as Reach and
especially Don't Stop Movin'. Then, in true pop fashion they lost a member,
and as a consequence their numerical suffix, before losing fans with last
autumn's coolly-received album Seeing Double.
Now, as their feature-length film of the same name arrives at UK cinemas, S Club have announced their
intention to split. There's just time for one last single, a second offering
from Seeing Double, Love Won't Always Wait twinned with Say Goodbye,
while an S Club Greatest Hits is likely later in 2003.
ATTIC AGAIN
1996 seems a very long time ago, not least for Alisha's Attic. The daughters
of 60s popstar Brain Poole, the duo hit immediate paydirt with Top 20 hits I
Am I Feel, Indestructible and Alisha Rules The World, as well as a
platinum-selling debut album (also titled Alisha Rules The World) and a BRITS
nomination in 1997.As is so often the case, returns were diminshed at the
second time of asking, 1998's Illumina album only managing to spawn a brace
of minor Top 30 hits, while third album The House We Built fared no better in
2001.
Thus, the appearance of The Collection this month is not exactly a
surprise. All their 10 UK hits are featured, plus a smattering of live
recordings and assorted odds'n'ends.
...AND THEN THERE WERE SIX
Bucking the modern trend for fewer singles per album, Polydor take another
two tracks from Ronan Keating's latest album Destination and issue them as a
Double-A sided single on April 21st.
The Long Goodybe/Love Won't Work (If We Don't Try) joins earlier releases
Lovin' Each Day, If Tomorrow Never Comes, I Love It When We Do and the
Lulu duet We've Got Tonight, making it a cool half-dozen Destination
songs to appear on a single to date.
FUTURE SOUNDS
The best music on the horizon:
DEAD OR ALIVE - EVOLUTION:
Get your eyepatches out, Pete Burns and company
are back early next month with a Greatest Hits set, preceded by a 2003
makeover for their mid-80s chart-topping single You Spin Me Round Like A
Record.
Available as both a standard single-disc with 18 larger-than-life
confections, and a limited 2CD version with more than a dozen extra tracks
for added extravagance. Kick it right down!
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