Violet 2), CI 42090 (Blue 1), CI 15985 (Yellow 6), CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77019 (Mica), CI 77491 (Iron Oxides). I remember at the time they were heavily pushed by Busted in magazines, opening for them on tour and televison shows, seemingly long and frequently before this release.

So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.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 can imagine myself liking McFly, even loving McFly, and honestly I expected this place to be more enthusiastic about them, but I was never quite convinced myself. It's definitely a song that has more going on than a lot of the previous commenters are giving credit. In all honesty I can’t claim to be the world’s biggest authority/fan on these guys (or Busted for that matter), so it gets a generous 4/10 from me. But there’s a crispness to their power-pop borrowings, an easy, confident tunefulness most British bands struggle to access.

Plus, the whole TV-tie-in thing just makes me slightly suspicious, it's just a bit too Saturday morning. Put simply the influences are fairly obvious but there is a twist on them that make the overall sound McFly’s own.The band made “Five Colours In Her Hair” as a bubblegum introduction, but they also made it a second time for the US market, a noisier, snottier version that’s still the one they play live. And if they’d recorded it during season 4 of As If (it released during the 3-4 gap), they’d have been disappointed to learn that Sooz’s dreadlocks were now entirely red. If you actually knew the first thing about music (and I mean more than just being able to name the members of the band) then you'd actually hear that this stuff isn't badly written at all, in fact it's quite good. I rewatched the first episode and a half a couple of years ago, I think because I was staying somewhere and the only thing I could get to work on the TV was All 4 (that’s my excuse, anyway).

It all came from the heart – Matt Helders of Bunctic Bunnies actually memorably said as such in an interview one time. McFly were Busted friends and affiliates, and refreshed the earlier band’s ailing formula with sixties pixie dust – chanted do-do-doo harmonies and a sunshine disposition conjuring a spirit of Monkee business. notice that we all just assume they were grown in a lab by image consultants, rather than actually answering NME ads or anything.Come to think of it, even “Cumberland Gap” had that twangy minor pentatonic lead line, and it was BEFORE Dick Dale! Eventually, they released their first single in 2004, which was this, a tribute to the character Suzanne 'Sooz' Lee from the comedy-drama As If, a rebellious punk who you guessed, wore multicoloured dreadlocks in her hair. 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.