Track By Track

You can't mistake their anthology... Or ours!

It's 20 years since Girls Aloud released The Sound Of Girls Aloud, their first greatest hits album. And as we've been track by track through the three albums that preceded the compilation (Sound Of The Underground in 2020, What Will The Neighbours Say? in 2021 and Chemistry in 2025) we've compiled a 'best of' us talking about this 'best of' album.

Of course, we've got new things to add to the conversation, chart chat where it wasn't previously part of the format, AND we're talking about Something Kinda Ooooh, Money and this version of I Think We're Alone Now for the first time.

So what do you think - do you want more greatest hits episodes when we've already discussed all the tracks on there? Let us know in the comments on Spotify and Instagram, and if you've enjoyed the episode please do leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.

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Happy Halloween! It's been over two years since we we recorded a brand new Duran Duran on the podcast, so we've got a real treat for you... It's Danse Macabre.

Duran's Halloween themed album was first released in 2003, however we're delving into Danse Macabre De Luxe - the 2004 follow up that included three new tracks. (And we couldn't not talk about 2005's Shadows On Your Side, obviously.)

With new tracks, covers and reworking, and Andy Taylor and Warren Cuccurullo back in the studio, there is so much to talk about on this one.

Let us know your thoughts on the band, the album and the episode in the comments on Spotify or Instagram, and if you enjoyed the episode please do leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.

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It's been FAR too long since we spoke about friend of the podcast Melanie C on Track By Track.

Sporty is an ambassador for this year's National Album Day, which takes place on Saturday 17th October and celebrates the art of the album... Sound familiar? To celebrate that, as well as one year since she released the lead-single and title-track from her ninth solo album, we're going track by track through the tour-de-force that is Sweat.

Let us know your thoughts on the album and the episode in the comments, @trackbytrackuk on Instagram and Threads, or [email protected]

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It's a pop emergency! Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy AKA Sugababes have announced the release of their long-awaited new album, and with it a brand new single, Ghost. The self-titled album, and the ninth under the Sugababes moniker, has been a long time coming, and marks the first Sugababes album since 2010's Sweet 7 (which featured neither Mutya, Keisha or Siobhán as part of the band when it was released), and the original line-up's first album together since 2000...

WELL, that's not entirely true, of course. The Lost Tapes, surprise released on Christmas Eve 2022, collated the tracks MKS had worked on between 2011 and 2013, including the single Flatline. We went track by track through the album on Patreon for our first our first album of 2023, and now we're sharing it everywhere while we're on a major Suga high.

Let us know your thoughts on the album and the episode @trackbytrackuk on Insta/Threads, or email us [email protected]

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We've made it to the grand finale of our Pet Shop Boys Disco mini series, and after sharing parts 1 - 4 (which were originally released on Patreon a few years ago) we've got a brand new episode to make our eighth anniversary, as we go track by track through Disco 5.

As with its predecessor, this one is mainly about Pet Shop Boys remixing for other artists, including the legendary Tina Turner, Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher (with his High Flying Birds). They also remix Sleaford Mods' cover of West End Girls, their own duets with Olly Alexander and Soft Cell, and include the previously released rarity Let The Music Play by Carroll Thompson (produced by them and included on the soundtrack to The Crying Game).

Let us know your thoughts on the album, the episode and the entire Disco series in the comments on Spotify or Instagram, or on good old fashioned email: [email protected]

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We're up to the penultimate episode of our Disco series, and Disco 4... Or Disco Four: Remixed by Pet Shop Boys to give it its full title.

So far each Disco album has had its own identity, and this one is no exception. As the title suggests, this collection - released in 2007 - features PSB remixes, with the band putting their own spin on tracks by Madonna, The Killers, David Bowie, Yoko Ono and themselves.

In fact, the remixes of their own tracks are the only ones that weren't widely available when the album was released. Nevertheless, it's a strong collection of dance pop remixes from pioneers of the genre.

Let us know your thoughts on the album and the episode @trackbytrackuk on Instagram, or [email protected]

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We've reached 2003's Disco 3 as part of our Pet Shop Boys' Disco mini-series, and this one couldn't be further from its predecessor. With more of a focus on new material, as well as some remixes, rumour has it this one wasn't even originally going to be called Disco 3...

Critics loved it (some more than the previous year's Release), but what do you think to this one? Let us know @trackbytrackuk on Instagram/Threads, in the comments on Spotify, or email us: [email protected]

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We're continuing our Pet Shop Boys Disco mini series, and after kicking off last week with 1986's original Disco album we're jumping ahead to 1994 for Disco 2. Unlike the original, this instalment of PSB's remix collections was a non-stop mix of re-workings from two albums: Behaviour and Very.

Let us know what you think to the album, the episode and the mini-series @trackbytrackuk on Instagram/Threads, or [email protected]

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In five weeks time we're going to celebrate our eighth anniversary by going track by track through Pet Shop Boys' Disco 5. So to get you up to speed we're sharing our Disco 1 - 4 episodes (previously only available on Patreon) on all podcasting platforms.

The mini-series was originally released in 2022, so some of the references might already seem like ancient history...

BUT, there's a lot to enjoy so let us know what you think to the episode and the album on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/trackbytrackuk/

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They had two for the road before saying thank you and goodnight again, and that's when we realised - it's not all Said And Done for us because we haven't ever been track by track through a Boyzone album. They were one of the biggest boybands of the 90s, plastered all over Smash Hits and with hits galore, but how did it all begin? Before the documentary, the comeback, and before Stephen Gately's tragic passing, we're going back to Ronan, Mikey, Keith, Shane and of course Steo's beginnings.

Let us know what you think to the episode and the album in the comments on Spotify and Instagram, or email [email protected]

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