Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Not the same thing as this, but we do meet a producer whose career foundation was the money he won on Deal or No Deal, so there is another bunny to come that exists in some way because of a mid-00s Channel 4 show! Back at “Going Underground”, Tom said you could potentially ask five people on that song’s most memorable moment and get wholly separate answers. I think it's a cute bit of bowerbirding, but (bear in mind I have not seen the video), it doesn't jump up and down and say "WE ARE HERE!

As If was a remarkable show, dismissed by some as Hollyoaks for teens (it aired in the weekend’s T4 strand) but ultimately the predecessor to the when-it’s-good-it’s-the-best-thing-on-tv-when-it’s-bad-it’s-unwatchable Skins.Harry Judd – who was at Uppingham Public School with Charlie from Busted – was then found as drummer from later auditions held through NME and The Stage, as was Dougie Poynter for their bassist (although in a very Nadine Coyle-esque manner, he’d lied about his age to get in, as he had just turned 15 at the time, and the minimum age was 16 or 17. In many ways, in much the same way Westlife was a finessing of what Louis Walsh got right with Boyzone, so were McFly a fine tuning of everything that made Busted work but even better, some of their best stuff actually comes long after they stopped having number ones. At first I definitely got the impression that Busted were being marketed primarily at the BOYS, as a slightly less offensive Brit version of Blink 182, Sum 41 et al, and that their GIRL audience was never taken into account until they suddenly turned up at concerts holding banners and screaming. This has a lot more energy than that, and as a carefully staged introduction to what McFly were all about, you can’t argue with it.

was, but it’s far from kind to its subject, quickly sketching her journey from – in the singer’s eyes – fuckable eccentric to nameless cast-off, broken by the attention she got for the things that made her unique (and maybe for getting involved with the narrator). I’d say the same applies here; there’s the surf riff, the frequently parallel do-do-dodo-do-DO, the hiccuping stop-start verses, the drawn-out melismas in the chorus (nayayayame) and the way each chorus draws its doors with the title. They also shoot various well known scenes as a tribute to their main influences including the Beatles and the Beach Boys. In 2001, while filming auditions for a new band, he met Danny Jones and they then moved into a London hotel while recruiting Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd, who quickly gelled due to their appreciation of American pop-punk group The Starting Line. Not that McFly really came into my orbit in 2004 – I was living in Australia at the time this was a UK hit, and the Aussies remained pretty immune to the group’s charms, although they did finally end having a big hit there in 2012 with “Love Is Easy”.It's definitely a song that has more going on than a lot of the previous commenters are giving credit. If you try to carefully keep the sound within tight, sensitive lines, you’ll usually end up coming up with something that’s neither great pop nor fantastic rock. In my memory of it I’d thought it was reasonably sympathetic towards the girl in question, but on a closer relisten you’re right that the song doesn’t really dwell on the tragedy of her situation, not when it could focus on how hot the singer finds her. McFly played themselves and play their hits and some other songs, but in the film they’re reimagined as a struggling band managed by Pine and playing above an American bowling alley, or something like that.

I love them when they're bubblepunk, but when they do that emo/grunge/indie/Charlie wank I just want to beat them about the heads with a Buzzcocks single. The Duckula-esque transatlantic twang made a certain sense with the “concept” of Busted, but here they were even more jarring as an accompaniment to McFly’s vaguely British Invasion-style pop.The UK version is pop rock, but the US version has an abrasive guitar tone that pushes it toward punk rock (of the 90s NOFX/Lagwagon variety). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. was a number 3 hit back in 1998, while the show’s mood was set by a whole stream of trip-hop and obscure album tracks (did I really hear James’ Alaskan Pipeline at the end of one episode? HSA used to like that about them, he would say "apart from the Hollywood looking one with the eyebrows, they're so ordinary looking.

Probably not an original comment, but it’s the voices that spoil the package for me, especially Dougie’s. Bratty pop-punk moves and sounds made Busted an unusual British proposition; McFly don’t entirely ditch them. There’s even a breakdown-and-reboot before the final chorus (possibly inspired, likewise with the riff, by Electric Six’s “Gay Bar”, a hit the previous summer).The “Bad News” episodes/films from the C4 years of Comic Strip Presents certainly lead to a few singles, although none of them troubled the top spot of the charts. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. Unfortunately for them it wasn’t a hit at the Box Office (the start of poor Lindsay being more of a tabloid fixture than film star) and the Soundtrack didn’t seem to go anywhere.