CD Of The Week: Sugababes: Three
Sugababes: Three **
UNIVERSAL/ISLAND GBP 13.99 Third place
This year, the unexpected success of Girls Aloud (however short- lived that success may yet turn out to be) has thrown a spanner in the girl group works. Prior to the quintet's assembly by television, the Sugababes stood alone, the genre-vaulting pop monster it was okay to like. Sugababes were the first girl group since The Spice Girls and All Saints era not only to master the art of the knockout hit single but to manage to release a few good uns in a row, both in their original incarnation with pale and interesting Siobhan Donaghy and their current line-up with grinning, perma-tanned Scouser Heidi Range.
They were not afraid to try something slightly left-of-centre, releasing Freak Like Me, their dancefloor-quaking version of the underground bootleg track which spliced Adena Howard's Freak Like Me and the Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric? …
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