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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Universal
Salesrank: 14427
Released: December 12, 2005 |
| Our Price: $7.54 |
| Used Price: $13.29 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Chemistry Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Models
3. Biology
4. Wild Horses
5. See The Day
6. Watch Me Go
7. Waiting
8. Whole Lotta History
9. Long Hot Summer
10. Swinging London Town
11. It's Magic
12. No Regrets
13. Racy Lacey
Editorial Review:
With "Chemistry" Sarah, Nicola, Nadine, Kimberley and Cheryl have made a quirky British pop album. In a genre where girl bands dream of being Destiny's Vogue, Girls Aloud have made an album that reflects what its like to be a 20-something girl living in the UK. Polydor. 2005.
Chemistry Reviews:
The Christmas album is brilliant 
2008-03-22 - Chemistry as an album is great on it's own. Add the 2nd Christmas bonus disc and the album becomes even better.
I've already reviewed the main album, but here is a quick bit about it: It's GA's 2nd best album now, full of quirky upbeat songs and a couple of great ballads. Best songs include "See The Day" (gorgeous ballad), "Watch Me Go" (an amazing upbeat track with a rap from Cheryl), "Swinging London Town" (a really dark, creative dance track) and "Racey Lacey" (a very risque little number about a promiscious girl).
But the focus of this review is the Christmas bonus disc. Half of it is well known covers and half are the girls' original songs. Both are equally good.
The best song on the bonus disc is "Count The Days." This is one of the original tracks and it's gorgeous. A song about wanting a lover to come home for Christmas, all the girls sing and Nadine leads the amazing chorus. I love this song.
The other original songs are all upbeat - "Christmas Round At Ours" is a funny little track about a family Christmas, "Not Tonight Santa" is a naughty song about wanting a boyfriend for Christmas and "I Wanna Kiss You So" is a fun song about kissing someone under the mistletoe.
My favourite of the covers is "White Christmas." It's been covered a million times, but GA's version is just beautiful. It's simple with amazing vocals from the girls and cute music.
The other covers are "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - the girls all share the vocals and it's fun to sing along to, "Jingle Bell Rock" - this song is only a minute and a half long but stays true to the original, cute and catchy and "Merry Christmas Everybody" - sung by all the girls as a group, another catchy one.
Overall, all of the Christmas songs are great and this bonus disc is a great addition to the already brilliant Chemistry. 5 stars.
(PS: This version has a great cover, much better then the original)
Fabulous! Period.
2008-01-28 - One of my all time favorite bands. These girls know how to rock. Maybe I am biased because I love all of their albums. They can do no wrong. I don't know of one song I dislike. If I was forced to make a choice of one group to have and listen to the rest of my life Girls Aloud would be it. Over and over and over ...
Love it!
2007-08-12 - I loved this album, and when I got it, I couldn't stop listening! Since I put it on my iPod, it has reigned as the most played album. Good from beg to fin.
These girls are a blast.
2007-07-28 - I thoroughly enjoy this group's songs. A nice variety of tunes that are very well done.
14 carat shiny pop stuff 
2006-11-27 - NOTE: This is a review of the Australian edition of this album, the track listing differs a little to the version on Amazon.
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In the UK Girls Aloud have endured years of critical slamming reserved for reality show pop bands (which is how they started). So it must be a sweet victory indeed that Chemistry is not only their third album but also a huge success.
Girls Aloud (which I've only just realised is a pun!) have also recently become the only other girl group to match the Spice Girls record of ten consecutive top 10 singles in the UK. Which again begs the question - why haven't they also been huge across the globe?
Biology is the first single off the album, it's a strange mix of swanky seventies pop that bursts into a high energy chorus; it's a bit like three different songs super-glued together, and it's only the start of the fun stuff. These pop stars know a good tune when they hear it and Xenomania deliver hooks that just won't quit. Wild Horses ("...couldn't take me back to you") begins like a school glee club that merges into a fantastic blend of rock and dance and The Show couldn't fail to impress with its rapid-fire lyrics ("sitting `round the kitchen in my underwear") and its techno shimmy.
There's the bouncy and strangely familiar sounding Watch Me Go, Long Hot Summer, and the Sarah Cracknell-ish ballad See The Day (a D Cee Lee cover). Swinging London Town is brilliantly executed with the techno pace dropping away mid-song into pop ambience and It's Magic, is just that. The track listing differs slightly to the UK release and the Australian version of the album ends with a reassuringly warm cover of The Pretenders I'll Stand by You.
There's the odd misstep - the All-Saints-y Whole Lotta History is just dull in a way some people seem to like and Models wouldn't have made it on to a Sonia album, but apart from that it's 14 carat shiny pop stuff all the way. Go on, forget your cred, hit the dance floor and enjoy, Chemistry is a sensation.
