Change

Having been a fan of the Babes way back when Siobhan was in the group. I've seen the girls grow with each new album that they've released from "Angles with Dirty Faces" to "Three" to "Taller In More Ways" and now with "Change". The title is very appropriate as you hear a change in their music this time around. You still have the pop, electro sounds that the girls have been rocking like on "About You Now" and "Never Gonna Dance Again". But they also have a few more ballads this time around. They work out pretty well and the girls writing some more on the cd. At least one of the members writing on 9 out of the 12 songs on the cd. Never Gonna Dance Again Denial My Love is Pink Change Backdown Mended By You 3 Spoons of Suga Open The Door Undignified While you can hear the turn in direction of their music..it kind of has a more soulful, 70s flair to it. Even with the album cover you can see that they have more refined girl group look to them. But they still keep the sound and edge that makes the Sugababes so successful. Already a smash hit in the UK and other countries (Change is No. 1 there and the single "About You Now" as of the last charting week is number 1 for a 3rd consecutive week) Love the sound, look and feel of Change. I'm very eager to see what song gets released next on the cd hopefully "Never Gonna Dance Again" or "Undignified" (a lovely ballad). this review is for the import version of Change.

I downloaded this album and i finally got the Physical copy, I'm quiet disappointed in this album, I loved About You now, Never Gonna Dance Again, My Love Is Pink, Denial, and Undignified. Its quiet different, from previous albums, which all i have loved i don't mind listening to the full album. its just With change i only listen to the ones i like and skip over the other songs i did not list. i hope the new album Catfights And Spotlights will make up for this album.

WOW! Just received the album Change from Sugababes. I thought I ordered the single and when I opened it was the album. It came they way it said. Now I am listening to the whole album and checking it out if there are any other songs I might end up liking.

I love this album sugababes at their best.

Love them all keep them all coming a have a happy and wonderful but safe new year.

Blending some classic Sugababes electro-pop-trip-hop beats with some new, lighter beats the Sugababes 5th album is aptly titled 'Change' to reflect the addition of Amelle, replacement for new solo star Mutya Buena. However the album indicates the girl's sound isn't that much 'changed' - they seem to have moved away from producing potential club tracks in favour of producing singalong hits for the radio. Another interesting note is while Heidi and Keisha's writing credits appear on nearly every tune, Amelle is only included on a handful, indicating a lot of this album was probably in progress before the Mutya/Amelle bust-up. First single "About You Now" evokes Ashlee Simpson at the beginning and has a surprisingly catchy chorus, although it wavers on being slightly cheesy during some moments. The next 3 songs are probably the most upbeat dance tunes on the album - "Never Gonna Dance Again" & "My Love Is Pink" are both extremely poppy electro tunes while "Denial" sounds more like "About You Now". My favourite tunes on the album probably lay in the next bunch - "Change" is the second single with another great chorus, its a good mid-tempo tune about life changes. "Back When" is probably my favourite song on the whole CD, the vocals and instrumentation are just really solid throughout, it's another mid-tempo tune that outshines "Change" in my opinion, especially when back to back. "Surprise" is another good one - the vocals by Heidi around the chorus are kind of 80's but it works, in a kind of Lily Allen fashion. "Back Down" evokes a lot of Joss Stone's stuff in a good way - another great mid-tempo song in this pack, although it gets tiresome quicker than the others. "Mended By You" is the token sappy ballad on the album, and its not bad but it reminds me of "Change" for some reason, and isn't nearly as strong as past ballads by the girls like "Too Lost In You". For a change of pace "3 Spoons of Suga" is probably the most vintage/recognizable Sugababes song in terms of both instrumentation and tempo, similar to something like "Caught Up In The Middle", but it serves mostly as filler on this album. "Open The Door" is one of those songs you don't really think about till later - it tends to stick in your head after listening to it, with a bit of a r n b/hip hop flavour, it's one I always forget about but actually really like. In general the girls put something totally different as the last song on their album and "Undignified" sort of fits the bill - its one of the best songs on the album as it actually sounds like some thought was put into it, and the acoustic sound is nice, but again it doesn't compare to other 'last songs' ('Maya' and 'Two Hearts' come to mind). Overall this definitely won't go down in history as my fave Sugababes album - I think their last two in particular were really strong and as such this one sounds a bit rushed and formulaic, like they were desperate to show the world Amelle really 'is' a part of the group. However, after a few listens I've come to really like most of the songs on the album, even if they aren't as memorable or unique sounding as past efforts by the girls.

Loved it!

Just love their music, can't stop listening to them.

In the old days, before we were all engrossed in a generation of downloaders and MySpace hunters, and when record companies had more money to throw around in the golden age of MP:UK (manufactured pop UK, as the Sunday Times Culture guide labelled it), manufactured pop bands would, more often than not, have to split after three or four albums and a greatest hits - basically, it was a death knell to each individual members' future career - all to release flop solo albums, and then appear in some panto in Worthing with Christopher Biggins and some so called "actress" from The Bill/Footballers' Wives etc or a third rate, car crash reality TV show with David Hasselhoff or similar, dampening their public credibility forever more. Now, in times when pop bands are few and far between, this doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Sugababes are one such band, and in spite of no less than two line up changes in the past 7 years, they have surpassed everyone's expectations, as now, joining One Touch, Angels With Dirty Faces, Three, Taller In More Ways and last years' best of package Overloaded: The Singles Collection to their albums CV is their fifth studio album, Change. The title, like all the others before it, reflects numerous shifts in the band - they're all in their 20's now, it's their first album with still relatively new member Amelle Berrabah, and more importantly, it just so happens to be the best album of their career to date. Opening on the record company proclaimed, Cathy Dennis penned "spanking new single" (and it really is) "About You Now", which as I write is set to shoot in at #1 this afternoon on downloads alone, they establish themselves as the new queens of squelchy, catchy electropop perfection - it's a song that has all the makings of their biggest hits, while taking on something brilliantly different at the same time. This isn't the only standout though - as once again, Xenomania pop back up to contribute "My Love Is Pink" (which, on it's title alone, surely has to be a great song anyway, which it is) and track 2, "Never Gonna Dance Again", which, largely because of the paradox of sweet and breezy dance pop and gritty, doomed relationship based lyrics like "I lost the music when you said it's over" makes it one of their most clever efforts to date. Also worth a mention is the eponymous "3 Spoons Of Suga", which has many similarities between the title track from their second album, "Denial", penned by Novel (Stacie Orrico, P!nk) and which makes more than a passing nod to the Gossip's "Standing In The Way Of Control" while remainingly delightfully hummable, and the album's title track, a rousing, emotive little 60's style ballad which will surely join "New Year" and "Too Lost In You" as one of their finest slow numbers (and it should, after all, this is the next single). In short, if you're after an album of what British pop in 2007 should sound like, this is it. Keisha, Heidi and Amelle have struck gold again, and have set a high quality precedent many will have to pull their sleeves up for to follow.

Die Sugababes, die öfters schon mal ihre Formation gewechselt haben, bleiben sich treu und haben mit CHANGE wieder ein solides und perfekt eingespieltes Pop-Album auf den Markt gebracht. Ihre eingängigen Tanz und balladesken Songs machen das zuhören weder langweilig noch eintönig. So ist der kraftvolle Hammer Song DENIAL sowie der wunderschöne Titeltrack CHANGE herauszuheben.

Son liked it

Item arrived quickly and in mint condition. Very happy with it.