Sugababes - The Lost Tapes (Deluxe)

[W2K]

Drum is one of their best songs.

 

[JadenWillow]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...gababes-centre-bidding-war-record-labels.html

This bidding war story seems to be getting picked up a lot!

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Back in the Day refuses to lose its chokehold on me. What a breezy, nostalgic jam. The interpolation is really great and Siobhan's voice is so beautiful on it.

 

[JMRGBY]

I first took a full listen to this the other day, despite having the leaks for years, and found myself welling up as Back In The Day ended.

 

[Blayke]

I uploaded some live (covers) performances Mutya did for the now defunct Pefoma, which was essentially aiming to be the British answer to the Tiny Desk Concert. Mutya (and Keisha and Siobhan) can sing anything.

 

[syren]

"Days gone but I still remember
The tape in the dashboard
Playing "Let's Stay Together"

 

[Zinone]

Drum grabbed me by the neck on first listen and has not loosened its grip in the years since.

Hypnotic, shapeshifting, bit weird, absolutely love it.

 

[JMRGBY]

Drum is one of the band’s best songs. It’s got that “Who” vibe where it’s just such an outlier in sound but it’s at the same time so unequivocally the Sugababes.

 

[SUGARPIE]

I do have to agree with some other members on here about the demo versions of certain songs, they really had more oomph and sounded better.

I also have to admit that I‘m a bit gutted that one of the best songs and my personal, ultimate favorite ''Fall from Grace'' didn‘t make the final cut..

 

[Spiderwebs]

I’m more of a casual fan but Drums has me hooked.

 

[La Toya]

Am I correct in thinking Fall from Grace doesn’t feature Mutya? Maybe a reason why it didn’t make it.

God, imagine hearing Fall from Grace in 2009. I think our heads would explode.

 

[Liberty]

Manifesting a The Lost Tapes side-b.

 

[Stopremix]

Manifesting a remaster.

 

[TaylorG]

I wonder if we'll get a Part II since we know there are many more tracks than the ones released!

 

[popjunkie]

Back in the Day refuses to lose its chokehold on me. What a breezy, nostalgic jam. The interpolation is really great and Siobhan's voice is so beautiful on it.

What does it interpolate? I didn’t realise.

 

[kal]

What does it interpolate? I didn’t realise.

 

[dell321]

 

[YourLeadSinger]

Who is in charge of the US one because it’s clearly a FLOP!

 

[pgss]

Why do the orignal writers not have a songwriting credit?

 

[beyoncésweave]

Back in the Day refuses to lose its chokehold on me. What a breezy, nostalgic jam. The interpolation is really great and Siobhan's voice is so beautiful on it.

"Back In The Day" is literally

It has always been the album closer for me. I think it meant something different back in 2013/14, in a 'hey we shared this childhood and look at us back together' kinda way. But now it takes on further meanings, and the middle eight in particular feels like it's about persevering on way past when you have a shared history.

It's possibly the most gorgeous thing they've done? The deliberate, reflective pace until it kicks up into a wrenching gear, and the harmonies right out front are almost overwhelming. And Siobhán specifically having the interpolated lines – sung in such a quietly wistful way – and the bridges in particular – as time bleeds away, never waits for me and a stone's throw away, yesterday for me – which respectively feel like they're about what Mutya and Keisha went on to do without her and what they all managed together at first, is so heartbreakingly poignant. It's the one song they explicitly reference themselves in (and it feels like they gave themselves just that one allowance) and they knock it out so emphatically.