Scouting for Girls are the worst shit ever

It's like Keane and The View had a lovechild then dropped it down five flights of stairs.

they sound like the feeling with jokes, and i'm sure that can't be a good idea.

mind you, they do have a song about michaela strachan...

I lasted 1.5min of that youtube video. Fucking mediocre bollocks.

Oh god, they're doing an instore at the local indie soon. I had to double take when I saw a sign outside saying "SCOUTING FOR GIRLS IN STORE. I'm not going.

Okay, just heard it. I nearly chucked my computer out the window, then realised it would be easier to hit the back button.

something has united dom and DL, it must be pretty comprehensive. alas, this work computer doesn't have flash, so i'm spared. i can only imagine the worst, though.

Commented on it, har. +1ed it from my other account too.

If you want to know what it sounds like, Louis it's basically someone failing to do an impression of him out of Maximo Park over this shit shit shit shit shit shit piano-led pop-punk thing. The chorus goes "She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's pretty/twitty/this song's so shitty/someone block my face up with a pillow full of sick" (I wish). And then surprise surprise, she's got some boyfriend or other. Then there's a line where the singer wonders what the object of his desire looked like ten years ago. Considering he's probably in his early 20s, this is grounds to have his cock and balls kicked off by Eric Cantona. Mind you, he's probably safe since the "girl" in the video looks like she ought to be on some kind of MILF site. Then there's another bit where he sings: "I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/I think that you are luv-lay/Somebody shove a rusty telescope up my waste gate NOOOOW".

It's basically an emasculated, feeble britishes-indie version of Bowling for Soup's "Girl all the bad guys want".

If it's supposed to be a joke, it's not funny. If it's supposed to be serious then god help them.

She's pretty/twitty/this song's so shitty/someone block my face up with a pillow full of sick

oh man i'd totally buy that song.

TS: Scouting for Girls vs. "Tooling for Anus"

oh sweet lord

it's BRITISH MALLCORE

this work computer doesn't have flash

you're at work?!??

(i lasted 19 seconds into the video)

I listened to the whole thing. Gosh it keeps going. And yeah, I'm on work experience at a sports website, which is nice.

I don't think Blink 182 could have written a worse song if they'd TRIED.

haha guess what, one of the actors in my play that was in the fringe festival IS THE GUY WITH THE TOOTHPICK IN THIS VIDEO

i mean literally.

that's him in the back with the cap:

http://www.class-stage.co.uk/images/CLASS%20Cast.jpg

and again:

http://www.class-stage.co.uk/images/CLASS%20Tomasz.jpg

this band is from my home town - my closest friend from back there knows them and invites me to their gigs often. i do not go.

Could they as big as The Departure?

Never

People just leak anything nowadays, don't they? Tsss. Still: LOL @ promo text

Artist : Scouting For Girls
Album : Scouting For Girls
Label : Epic
Genre : Indie
Bitrate : 206 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:39:42 (61.3MB)
Rls date : 2007-08-29
Store date : 2007-09-17

[Track List]
1. Keep On Walking 3:37
2. She's So Lovely 3:43
3. It's Not About You 4:12
4. The Airplane Song 4:20
5. Heartbeat 2:55
6. Elvis Ain't Dead 3:49
7. I'm Not Over You 3:25
8. I Need A Holiday 3:21
9. The Mountains Of Navaho 3:21
10.James Bond 6:59

"London indie-pop trio Scouting for Girls are lifelong
friends Roy, Greg & Pete, who formed in 2005. The name
is both a cheeky pun and a beautifully rounded image;
infused with the nostalgia of innocent childhood and
boyish adventure, yet suggestive of maturation towards
experience, adulthood and disillusionment. Inspirational,
quirky, escapist, and friendly, their music is unashamedly
nostalgic, mottled with loss, disillusion and a poignant
lamentation for innocent past times.
Scouting For Girls debut album is packed with potential
hits including current single 'She's So Lovely' plus stand
outs 'Keep On Walking', 'James Bond' and 'Elvis Ain't Dead'."

ok now i have to hear the almost-certain monstrosity of 'james bond'

seven minutes! obviously a prog epic

Indie-pop is a rather maligned term at the moment. I'm guessing these fuckers don't sound much like Talulah Gosh.

xpost: no, clearly a repetitive 'orchestral' shitfest of the most terrifying kind

or a two-minute song with a three minute silence and then a hilarious 'message from the band'

"actually, we were just taking the piss. sorry!"

That promo text does contain the concept of disillusionment twice, maybe that's the writer's way to let us know the real truth?

Was this really necessary? This song nearly ruined my day.

wait, did i iamgine the michaela strachan song?

*checks*

oh! they've cut if from the final album. wonder why...

would be *genuinely* impressed with a michaela tabb tribute song

you really need to see these lyrics:

i turned on the telly
when i got home from school
you were there in your wellies
and a yellow kagoul

you opened my eyes
to the birds and the bees
i loved you so on the really wild show
on the bbc

michaela strachan, you broke my heart
michaela strachan, you tore me apart
michaela strachan, you broke my heart
when i was 12...

want any more?

Indie-pop is a rather maligned term at the moment. I'm guessing these fuckers don't sound much like Talulah Gosh.

-- acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:02 (Friday, 31 August 2007 14:02) Bookmark Link

By logic, if there is a genre there will also be a percieved abuse of that genre's parameters

Holy hell this album is all the flavours of awful available

LOL my comment got 11 thumbs downs, and I even got a response:

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Yeahh yur right english are farr better than americans!!!! Lol they up emselfs *Tehe*

LOLOLOooL kiddie street teamers.

"they up themselfs"

The Michaela Strachan song is on there BTW, as a secret track.

I just checked the press release to confirm that the singer is also the keyboard player so I could figure out how many people have to be killed

and what a surprise treat it'll be for everyone!

should i disown my aformentioned lifelong friend over this? i don't think i can

"The name is both a cheeky pun and a beautifully rounded image; infused with the nostalgia of innocent childhood and boyish adventure, yet suggestive of maturation towards experience, adulthood and disillusionment."

Sorry PR folks, the name can only be described as utter wank. Why? Because in the UK there's no such thing as Girl Scouts... they're Girl GUIDES. What you've done is try and shoehorn an existing piece of wry humour (e.g. Powel's book was called "Scouting For Boys"/scoutmasters are notorious child abusers) into something that totally misses the point. It attempts to say "we want to be funny and camp (pun intended) - we're a bunch of cheeky lads - definitely not pedos."

Shame, at least if they were "that pedo band" there'd be something to distinguish them from the other faces in the sea of Anglo-dross that they're flailing about in.

(FWIW I've not even bothered to click the link or listen to their music, so please tell me if my snap-judgement of the band is woefully wrong.)

The Michaela Strachan song is on there BTW, as a secret track.

So James Bond ISN'T 6:59 ? :-(((

expect ilxors of 2027 to revive acclaim this as Prius Pop or something. the piano is alright y know. if it was marti pellow it would be really good.

(FWIW I've not even bothered to click the link or listen to their music, so please tell me if my snap-judgement of the band is woefully wrong.)

no, that's pretty much otm (the anglo-dross bit anyway... couldn't really comment on the paedo angle tbh)

expect ilxors of 2027 to revive acclaim this as Prius Pop or something.

Uh I'm not reading a lot of acclaim in that Mondeo Pop thread if that's what yr getting at... I mean I really don't endorse the idea of a 'hivemind' on here but if someone tried to make an album that was 100% no returns guaranteed to encounter blanket ILM hate, this would be the one

Thread could do with max r's view.

Elliot Minor are actually the worst shit ever, SfG are just the second worst shit ever

Dom, you should move to the U.S.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTlT7wBBw0

i was merely wondering what it'd be like to actually date a Scouting For Girl

quit your daydreamin melon head

^lolled at this

?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting_for_girls#Technical_Information_On_Songs

Geir, have you been editing Wikipedia again? Also, can someone who knows more about music tell if those BPMs are right. They seem awfully fast.

She's So Lovely is pretty quick.

Not quick enough

I know I shouldn't laugh but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scouting_for_Girls&oldid=244576906

'Anyone who stands up to play a piano wearing pale Fred Perry'
This makes me think of that film 'This Is England'. Y'know what I mean?
Anyway yeah they are pure shite but the worst thing ever is that someone keeps buying their records, I can almost comprehend why people are buying the Ting Tings (but only in a really abstract way) otherwise I don't get it. EVERY SINGLE SONG IS THE SAME.

Track listing

1. "This Ain't a Love Song"
2. "Little Miss Naughty"
3. "Goodtime Girl"
4. "Famous"
5. "Silly Song"
6. "On the Radio"
7. "Blue as Your Eyes"
8. "Posh Girls"
9. "Take a Chance"
10. "1+1=3"

Just in case any further proof was needed, cunt

Holy fucking shit someone please stop the manufacture of music in the UK right now.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:31 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

had my first conscious exposure to these fucks the other day. truly unbelievable.

She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly

oh that was them? assumed it was the feeling. jesus wept.

follow Tom D's link if you really want your mind blown

I was trying to think of something for the "LEAST favourite sound" thread, well now I done found it.

So I was trolling Youtube comments one bored day, and d'you know which band have really angry, defensive fans? It's Scouting for Girls. (NB NON-BRITISHES - DON'T WORRY YOU'RE NOT MISSING ANYTHING)

Anyhoo, here's the Channels of a great bunch of lads who like to threaten random internet pseudonyms with violence and sexual assault.

http://www.youtube.com/user/KashMan96

Hobbies: Bringing down jumbo jets, listening to Scouting for Girls,

young enough to be your grandson tbf

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSalway

Hobbies: Wanking off to war porn, listening to Scouting for Girls

‘The Light Between Us’ is an album full of love songs recorded in 10 studios across the world with 5 producers, and has been 2 years in the making. Roy Stride comments on the beginning of the recording process saying: "We wanted to make an album with a concept behind it, we tried but the songs were rubbish, so we decided to write an album of singles instead!”

The eight months Scouting For Girls spent in the studio also produced some surprises. The album’s beautiful title track is a startlingly sparse ballad that lasts just over a minute, includes two great train metaphors (“There’s a light in this tunnel/And I think it’s a train” is one) and shows a new, soulful side to Stride’s vocal. The singer’s favourite song is album closer 'Make This One Last', a stunning, strings-soaked ballad that proves SFG can do tender slow songs without sounding soppy.

Best friends Roy, Greg and Pete have a plan to kickstart the British summer with their new single 'Summertime In The City'. A classic Scouting For Girls smash it is three minutes of boisterous pop, witty lyrics and a chorus built for chanting back celebrating good-for-the-soul, shorts and shades days with burping brass, Blur-like bass, pounding piano and a hooky demand that it doesn’t rain.

Stride says “I’m counting on the song bringing the sun out. Imagine it as a telethon. The more people play it, the more the sun will shine. If it’s a hit, we’ll reach our target of endless glorious days. We could end up with an Indian Summer that lasts until November.”

dammit i was hoping at least one of these was dead

would've italiced and repeated part of that press release but where the fuck wd you start?

includes two great train metaphors (“There’s a light in this tunnel/And I think it’s a train” is one)

How do they come up with these?

burping brass

two great train metaphors

Blur-like bass

Blur like cheese.

hooky demand that it doesn’t rain.

Hooky demand that it rain on Hyde Park New Order gig.

a hooky demand that it doesn't rain (16 yr old girls any more)

Stride says “I’m counting on the song bringing the sun out. Imagine it as a telethon. The more people play it, the more the sun will shine. If it’s a hit, we’ll reach our target of endless glorious days. We could end up with an Indian Summer that lasts until November.”

OK, that.

See, I say "Bring back Pete Stride, guitarist of The Lurkers", round about now.

Haha, never heard of them before now. Five years I've been missing out on "She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly..."

How?

How have I missed them? Dunno, are they actually popular in the US? I'm pretty oblivious to most indie rock.

Especially indie rock that sounds like this. If it was on my radio I'd hit the button pretty quickly.

since when is it indie? They are a pop band loud and proud. Pop can be just as shit as shit indie!

and they are the shittest of the shit!

we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish
we tried but the songs were rubbish

I remember the year they played Glastonbury around the time their first album was out, my uncle was sat in his house watching the coverage on TV. "These don't seem too bad," he said to himself as they launched into the first song, much to my disgust. He took his eyes off the TV for about 10 or 12 minutes while he had a conversation with someone, during which they'd played something like three or four songs, and when he finally started paying attention to it again, this look of confusion came across his face. "Is this still the same song?". I was laughing my tits off!

can't sign into Youtube to post death threats on these guys vids :(

yay back in :)

I've just seen an advert on TV for a Scouting For Girls greatest hits... fucking hell.

Like, are there really that many people who are going to be like "yeah, 'She's So Lovely' was the shit - thank you for reminding me of the existence of this band, I really need them in my life..."?

sadly, yes

Just in time for Christmas too!

Looks like they've packaged their new album with the greatest hits, too. Christ.

they were on the telly once in their heyday and for some reason the main guy was tuning his guitar and he actually didn't know how to do it.

so basically scouting for girls are punk rock.

to me they are a lot like a lot of other terrible shit that many people who deride them are well into so yes

Show your working.

They are currently playing a festival across the river from me and they are so terrible they make me want to drown myself, except the tide is out, can I just chuck myself in and hope the mud plugs my ears?

expect ilxors of 2027 to revive acclaim this as Prius Pop or something. the piano is alright y know. if it was marti pellow it would be really good.

The nostalgia cycle is so strange. And it feels like it's lengthening?

The rest of the bands at the festival were cover bands. It was not a music festival, it was a 'foodie festival' whatever that is. Of the bands we suffered through, one did 60s rock, the next 80s synthpop. So we were drifting round the local garden centre first to the Stones and the Animals then to Soft Cell and The Buggles.

The gap from (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction to Everybody Wants To Rule The World was 20 years. But the gap from Tears For Fears to today is more like 40 years. Is the widening nostalgia gap due to the idea that 20 years ago was rubbish like Scouting for Girls? But then again from the (audible) reaction of the crowd, people were responding enthusiastically.

They had one no. 1 single, three top 10 singles, a no. 1 album, so they're bound to have a few fans.