3 CD Hot on the rapturously received announcement of a reunion arena tour in 2024, the Girls Aloud catalogue project moves up a gear in earnest with a thorough reappraisal of their second album, ‘What Will The Neighbours Say?’ Scheduled for the first time on vinyl available as a sky-blue LP on 140grams .Even better, there’s a 3CD deluxe too, containing the original UK version of the album with 14 previously unreleased tracks including (scream!) three Girls Aloud tracks never heard before– all were produced by Xenomania, iand they number the band’s cover of the Chris Isaac classic, ‘Wicked Game’ plus two new songs that didn’t make the final cut, ‘Disco Bunny’ and ‘Baby When You Go’. There are also classic B-sides such as ‘Androgynous Girls’ and ‘History’, rare TV performance edits of the hits, a sparkling selection of the album’s attendant remixes, and Girls Aloud’s much-loved covers from this era of Blondie’s ‘Hanging On The Telephone’ and Chaka Khan’s ‘I’m Every Woman’. Regarded by some as their finest moment, the record contained all four hits plus the band’s first single of 2005, the thrashy explosive ‘Wake Me Up’ along with fan favourites ‘Deadlines And Diets’, ‘Here We Go’ and the nearly-was-and-shoulda-been-a-single, ‘Graffiti My Soul’.
