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MODERN CLASSICS COLLECTION
ROOM ON THE 3RD FLOOR McFly
on a copy. Discovering that it had a hidden track called ‘Get Over You’ when I loaded the CD and accidentallpressed rewind on the opening track, I began my first big journey of musical discovery.
the youngest band to have their debut album reach number one, and it’s not difficult to see why: the songs are bouncy, poppy and fun. About 90% of the tracks are about girls and how bad the boys are with dealing with them. From the chart-topping ‘Five Colours in A fusion of the guitar pop pio- Her Hair’ and ‘Obviously’, to the Released: July 5 2004 neered by Busted (with many of ridiculous-sounding ‘Broccoli’, Chart peak: No1 the tracks being co-written by ROT3F was the perfect debut alLabel: Universal Island James Bourne), along with Beat- bum from 4 excitable teenagers Producers: Craig Hardy, Hugh les-influenced choruses, ROT3F who were clearly destined for big Padgham, Tim ‘Spag’ Speight, is just a great pop album. I re- things. Jay Renolds member clearly listening to the Singles: ‘5 Colours In Her Hair’, track ‘Surfer Babe’ a LOT because It does help that it had good play‘Obviously’, ‘That Girl’, ‘Room one line was sung by Dougie who backability (definitely a real word) On The 3rd Floor’ was OBVIOUSLY my favourite when Wonderland turned out to member (see what I did there?). I be a very difficult second album. I was 13 when this album also bought a lot of wooden bead- What we wanted from McFly was came out, but cruelly had to ed necklaces and random bits of bouncy pop with guitars and a riwait until my 14th birthday string and wore them all at once, diculously catchy chorus, not a party, 2 weeks after the re- in a bid to be McFly’s Surfer Babe. melancholy project including a song about a depressed alcoholic. lease date, to get my hands McFly displaced the Beatles as @Kesby_
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