Scouting for Girls are the worst shit ever

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 shopping for lingerie for muh wuhmmun in debenhams last night. She got some nice stuff, and it was 1/2 price in the sale! SCORE. Pity we had to listen to this on the in-store TV thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzREgP3RiU

it is seriously the worst record I have ever heard. Leaden playing that sounds like they got shit musicians and used protools to pull their performances into time, shit singing, shit lyrics. Shit, shit shit. Are all their lyrics dislikeable butthurt whining about not getting the girl, that makes you think the singer will be getting a restraining order for stalking in a few more weeks? GET ONE REALDOLL, LOSER. This is some awful rubbish. Fuck these people, they deserve pain.

Also, NO TUNE. I'd defy anyone so sing or whistle it.

It is whineable, possibly

Oh there are "Girl Scouts" btw.

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better than the kooks and razorlight ,,, wat a band and savage tuneeEE!!

savage tunee?

tuna marketed as salmon maybe.

Did someone think there wasn't?

xpost now that's damning with faint praise

Savage tunee - was this a mishearing of Jimmy Tarbuck? "Oho, lovely tuney, I play it on my iPoddy when I'm on the green with Brucie, Lynchie, Dan Hipgravey and TV's Tim Vincenty, oho, Maggie etcy."

Amazingly, every single is shitter than the one that came before.

I like how this thread title is axiomatic.

Good tunes, played with a smile. What's not to like?

Is that a press release quote or have I got to start a BAN thread?

You've been listening to too much Radcliffe and Maconie (xpost).

You goota start a BAN thread.

I like the cheeky irrepressability of theswe scanmps.

good lord on the razz at 10.30 am

I've sounded more cheeky and irrepresible than these cunts on a wet Monday morning in February with a 3-day hangover.

Raw Challops

is yungblut NRQ?

Every single song is exactly the same yet still as someone has already said, shitter than the first and I cannot stand the pianists face. Plus the glamour model that appeared in that first vid must have fallen on hard times (joke somewhere) to be convinced that being in their vid would lead to more fame.

I hate everything I hear from this act.

And just when you think..

Every single song is exactly the same yet still as someone has already said, shitter than the previous

.. has to stop somewhere...

I Wish I Was James Bond

the high bits sung in the chorus just... fucking... drive... me... mad.

Date-Rape Indie at it's finest.

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
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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.