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Track List
01) Glad You Came
02) Chasing The Sun
03) All Time Low
04) Satellite
05) Lightning
06) Heart Vacancy
07) Gold Forever
08) Lose My Mind
09) Warzone
10) Rocket
01) Glad You Came
02) Chasing The Sun
03) All Time Low
04) Satellite
05) Lightning
06) Heart Vacancy
07) Gold Forever
08) Lose My Mind
09) Warzone
10) Rocket
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First Released
2010
Pop
Good Natured
Rock/Pop
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Album
300,000 copies
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The Wanted is the self-titled debut studio album by British-Irish boy band The Wanted, released on October 22, 2010 through Geffen Records. The majority of the album was written by members of the band, with help from songwriters Steve Mac, Wayne Hector, Ed Drewett, Lucas Secon, Lukas Hilbert and Alexander Kronlund. The album was available in multiple editions, including a deluxe edition exclusive to Tesco, which contained two bonus remixes and two videos, and individual band member editions, exclusive to HMV, which featured a bonus slipcase and liner notes related to the respective band member. The album debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart, and at number eleven in Ireland. The album produced three singles which attained UK chart success, including the number-one single "All Time Low". The Wanted's first album premiered at number one on the charts, making The Wanted the first boyband since The Blues, of 2001, to have their debut studio album premiere at number one on the charts without a TV show.
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There are signs of pop evolution at work within the genes of this lot. They’re not quite the shameless throwback to the glory days of the five-guys-in-a-line boyband that they would appear to be at first glance. These days a quintuple-headed singing troupe can’t get by on ballads, teen fans and cheekbones alone, and if the example of Take That has taught us anything, it’s that nowadays you can be a mainstream pop act and make music which appeals to every generation.
But you can’t win over your core audience by ripping off their dad’s CD collection. There need to be modern production touches, like Auto-Tune and rippling club synths; there need to be moments of stately wonder and beauty, but also some oddness and character. There need to be highs, and there need to be lows, and The Wanted has plenty of both.
Take the two singles released so far: All Time Low is a wonderful two-tempo affair ”“ a slow song with a fast pulse ”“ with clever lyrics and a cocksure sense of its own high worth. Heart Vacancy, on the other hand, is a rather more hangdog sort of a thing. It seems to be too fast and too slow, the lyrics are daft, and it clearly needs a few more harmonies to glue some of the bits of chorus together.
And this is how the album continues. Arresting songs, with masses of personality ”“ like the swoony, choral High and Low, or the downright Wild Beasts-y Golden ”“ sit next to the formulaic (but y’know, fine) Say It on the Radio or Personal Soldier: the very acme of nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Let’s Get Ugly deserves special applause then, for the sheer brass neck of taking the theme to The Good, The Bad & The Ugly by Ennio Morricone and writing a come-on song to a girl over the top. And they pull it off, too. Hopefully The Wanted’s second album will be even weirder, if only to protect the future of all boybandkind.
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The Wanted is the self-titled debut studio album by British-Irish boy band The Wanted, released on October 22, 2010 through Geffen Records. The majority of the album was written by members of the band, with help from songwriters Steve Mac, Wayne Hector, Ed Drewett, Lucas Secon, Lukas Hilbert and Alexander Kronlund. The album was available in multiple editions, including a deluxe edition exclusive to Tesco, which contained two bonus remixes and two videos, and individual band member editions, exclusive to HMV, which featured a bonus slipcase and liner notes related to the respective band member. The album debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart, and at number eleven in Ireland. The album produced three singles which attained UK chart success, including the number-one single "All Time Low". The Wanted's first album premiered at number one on the charts, making The Wanted the first boyband since The Blues, of 2001, to have their debut studio album premiere at number one on the charts without a TV show.
User Album Review
There are signs of pop evolution at work within the genes of this lot. They’re not quite the shameless throwback to the glory days of the five-guys-in-a-line boyband that they would appear to be at first glance. These days a quintuple-headed singing troupe can’t get by on ballads, teen fans and cheekbones alone, and if the example of Take That has taught us anything, it’s that nowadays you can be a mainstream pop act and make music which appeals to every generation.
But you can’t win over your core audience by ripping off their dad’s CD collection. There need to be modern production touches, like Auto-Tune and rippling club synths; there need to be moments of stately wonder and beauty, but also some oddness and character. There need to be highs, and there need to be lows, and The Wanted has plenty of both.
Take the two singles released so far: All Time Low is a wonderful two-tempo affair ”“ a slow song with a fast pulse ”“ with clever lyrics and a cocksure sense of its own high worth. Heart Vacancy, on the other hand, is a rather more hangdog sort of a thing. It seems to be too fast and too slow, the lyrics are daft, and it clearly needs a few more harmonies to glue some of the bits of chorus together.
And this is how the album continues. Arresting songs, with masses of personality ”“ like the swoony, choral High and Low, or the downright Wild Beasts-y Golden ”“ sit next to the formulaic (but y’know, fine) Say It on the Radio or Personal Soldier: the very acme of nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Let’s Get Ugly deserves special applause then, for the sheer brass neck of taking the theme to The Good, The Bad & The Ugly by Ennio Morricone and writing a come-on song to a girl over the top. And they pull it off, too. Hopefully The Wanted’s second album will be even weirder, if only to protect the future of all boybandkind.
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