Sophie Ellis-Bextor - The Song Diaries

I have no idea how the thread has suddenly morphed into a Sophie Ellis-Bextor album ranking... I personally love them all. They are all individually brilliant and Sophie is a genius anyway.

BUT I thought we estabilished long ago that Trip The Light Fantastic is one of the best pop records of ALL TIMES, by ANY artist. There is really nothing to fault there except the stupid idea of relegating one of Sophie's masterpieces, Can't Have It All, to bonus track status.

 

Colour Me In
Love Is The Law
Dear Jimmy
Romeo (Don't Believe The Hype) or The Hype

 

Are we doing this?

Yeah, Trip's easily the best. 'New Flame' (the song) is not the best, but underrated. That simple sequence of "You release me, you please me, hypnotize me, capsize me, fascinated, captivated, exaggerated, worth the waited, what a fire!" is such a moment.

1. Trip
2. Hip
3. Lips
4. Make A Scene
5. Wanderlust (Great... except for 'Runaway Daydreamer', 'The Deer & The Wolf' and 'Cry...'.)
6. Familia (I'll take the first 5 songs, 'Don't Shy Away' and run.)

 

It's hard to rank her albums because she doesn't have a bad one. I guess as fans we are extremely lucky and spoiled in that sense. The time periods before and after Make A Scene were rough. I have nightmares thinking about it. I'm just glad that Wanderlust reinvigorated her and she pushed forward.

1. Trip The Light Fantastic
2. Make A Scene
3. Read My Lips
4. Wanderlust
5. Familia
6. Shoot From The Hip

 

Make a Scene is not on my Spotify- is that the same for anyone else?

 

Just how boring and uninspiring is Love Is You? It has no 'moments' whatsoever, just very bland. I get it, the whole let's cover what inspired Groovejet and all, but seriously what was she thinking???

 

Switch no 1 and 2 and you have my list

 

I really don't understand all the love for Make a Scene, it's a mixed bag of songs with no cohesion or musical sense, save for the superior Starlight and Cut Straight to the Heart (bless Ed Harcourt).

 

There are more stand out tracks on Make a Scene than her last two albums.

 

Make A Scene is let down by the sequencing and the inclusion of her two tackiest and overproduced tracks

Spoiler

Under Your Touch + Dial My Number

but the heights are terrific.

 

How are you all sleeping on Synchronised?

 

It's a fan favourite so I don't know what you're talking about?

 

I don’t regard it as her best, but it certainly was her most cohesive work back then. We were told that we were getting a dance-centric album and that is what she delivered... while all albums before that one were mixed bag albums.

I think the title track, Bittersweet, Heartbreak, Starlight, Magic, Synchronised and Cut Straight To The Heart are all fabulous.

 

I'm screaming at the picture. We agree to disagree then.

 

Talking about Make a Scene and good tracks and not mentioning it.
Unacceptable.

 

True. Synchronised is without any doubt one of Sophie's best tracks.

And Make A Scene, let's all face it, is a BRILLIANT album. If any other artist had filled one single album with all of those absolutely amazing tracks and gazillions of bops, we would cry best release of the year. Other artists would have given their kidneys (both!) for some of the tracks on that album. Since it's Sophie, and we are all sooooo spoilt, we think, oh well, business as usual.
Wrong. It is an outstanding electro-dance album.

Off to see her live tonight, by the way. Not overly excited, mind you. I do hope she stays true to the one part of the tour name I crave: the DISCO part. I'm quite over the orchestral bit already...