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Glitter Hot Days and Music
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Track Listing
- Shifty disco girl
- Jump up and down
- Atomic beat boy
- Who stole the stars
- 2000 MPH girl
- Love and glitter, hot days and music
- Does your heart go booooooomm
- Happy hardcore
- Bigbig kiss
- MC5
- Punk boy
- Better get your phasers to stun
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #129728 in Music
- Released on: 2000-09-18
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
the bubblegum punk-pop disco girl out on the town tonight
It's been a long time coming.... from "Ahead of the race" (which was supposed to be the only single) thru the "Radio hits" compilations, the move to che, the universally acclaimed "Does your heart go Boom" (included here) and "Long live the UK music scene", and only now, finally "Love and glitter, hot days and music" rears itself into the public eye, a year after it was recorded.
The songs are big, disco pop numbers - with the obligatory Ramones guitars giving it the punky feel we've come to expect from the Swansea girls. The bright and breezy "Shifty disco girl" kicks off the album, closley followed by the vengaboysesque anthem to the mosh-pit - "Jump up and Down" and the cuban boys collaboration "Atomic beat boy", bathed in string sections and a desperate, pleaing vocal "she turns to him and wipes the tears from her eyes/she says do you love me, he says i still love you".
An obvious highlight is the ressurection of the helen love classic "Punk boy", presented here as a duet between Helen and Joey Ramone, which is worth checking out solely for the Ramones frontman's unique take on the line "Swansea bay". From the sheer disco delights of "Bigbigkiss" and the atari teenage riot assisted "MC5" to the laid back title track and the closing euro-trance "Phasers to stun", this album has been worth the wait.
Helens left school, she's home from a day out on the beach, and shes there, in the middle of the dance floor, dancing to the light of a glitter ball.
bubblegum punk pop disco - the subtitle says it all
absolutely infectious. it might not be the best album in the world, but listen to it a couple of times and you'll be singing it to yrself for days. it's quite stylistically heterogeneous, but constantly bubblegum discoish. highlights are shifty disco girl and does your heart go booooooomm ( yes SEVEN o's ! ). my brother was impressed by the vaguely manga-ish cover, but hated the music. so : try it - i recommend it, but don't blame me if you can't stand them ! btw, the singer's name is apparently helene - helen is just a stage name !
