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GIRLS ALOUD | Sound Of The Underground | |
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Disco dancing with the lights down low Beats are pumping on my stereo Neighbour's banging on the bathroom wall He's saying 'crank the bass, I gotta get some more' Water's running in the wrong direction Got a feeling it's a mixed up sign I can see it in my own reflection Something funny's going on inside my mind Don't know what is pushing me higher It's the static from the floor below And then it drops and catches like fire It's a sound I, it's a sound I know It's the sound of the underground The beat of the drum goes round and around Into the overflow Where the girls get down To the sound of the radio Out to the 'lectric night Where the bassline jumps In the backstreet light The beat goes around and round It's the sound of the under Sound of the underground Chain reaction running through my veins Pumps the bassline up into my brain Screws my mind until I lose control And when the building rocks I know it's got my soul Water's running in the wrong direction Got a feeling it's a mixed up sign I can see it in my own reflection Something funny's going on inside my mind Don't know what is pushing me higher It's the static from the floor below And then it drops and catches like fire It's a sound I, it's a sound I know It's the sound of the underground The beat of the drum goes round and around Into the overflow Where the girls get down To the sound of the radio Out to the 'lectric night Where the bassline jumps In the backstreet light The beat goes around and round It's the sound of the under Sound of the underground I don't know what is pushing me higher It's the static from the floor below And then it drops and catches like fire It's a sound I, it's a sound I, It's a sound I, it's a sound I know It's the sound of the underground The beat of the drum goes round and around Into the overflow Where the girls get down To the sound of the radio Out to the 'lectric night Where the bassline jumps In the backstreet light The beat goes around and round It's the sound of the under Sound of the underground Where the bassline jumps In the backstreet light It's the sound of the under Sound of the underground |
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The song was originally recorded in 2001 by London girl group Orchid (Giselle Sommerville, Louise Griffiths and Eve Bicker), who disbanded before gaining a firm record deal.
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Punchy, sassed-up pop over driving neo drum and bass beats captured the
formula of the day and has set the tone for much of what's to come next.
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One True Voice, the winner of the boys competition, were a convenient reminder of how underwhelming manufactured pop can be, but it was clear a little more time and effort had gone into Girls Aloud. Glimmering and dizzy yet perfectly poised, the group's first single, 'Sound of the Underground',� was a consummate calling card, vaulting them into the forefront of the nation's pop consciousness. From then on their position as our most nonchalantly daring pop group has barely been challenged. Paul Scott
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If you've never stopped to notice (...) that Sound of the Underground is the only No 1 record to whack a surf guitar riff over a drum and bass rhythm, therein lies the genius of the whole project. It takes a Trojan horse as photogenic as Girls Aloud to pull it off. Pete Pephides
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Sound Of The Underground, of course, started the story. Like its pop classic precusor, Vacation by Vitamin C, it's built around the kind of surf guitar 60s bands attempted desperately to hit, but failed miserably. There's a purring cat sound in the mix, deep down. Like the best work of Madonna, it's a song about dancing, about music, the beat, the rhythm - and yes, we hope calling it Sound Of The Underground DID annoy some tedious indie whingers. For Brian Higgins (also responsible for entry #1, All I Wanna Do, so the guy knows his way around a guitar sample), and the Xenomania team, it was another wonderful little pop milestone, but it would still take a while for the bands hierarchy and lowerarchy to become fully established, so it's not a brilliant song due to any amazing vocal tricks or flicks, but somehow it still wouldn't sound right sung by anyone else. It's an amazing debut single, at least in the all time top 10, and it's shot right throughout with a kind of liberating JOY the best songs are riddled with. By the end, the Girls sound rather possessed and demented, and caught up in the moment. If you aren't dancing by the end, there's probably not a lot of hope for you... ThePopGirls
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Girls Aloud's debut single, now the title track of their album, proved a first: it was a reality pop record that didn't make you want to do physical harm to everyone involved in its manufacture. Sound of the Underground featured Fatboy Slim dynamics and an irresistible chorus. Alexis Petridis
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