I hate everything I hear from this act.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I Wish I Was James Bond
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the high bits sung in the chorus just... fucking... drive... me... mad.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Date-Rape Indie at it's finest.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't even think there's much dating here
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link
sounds feasible.. whats date rape indie?
― mmmm, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a bit like hating on Coldplay or Phil Collins by now isn't it?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Kaiser Chiefs, SfG, anyone who stands up to play piano while wearing a pale Fred Perry.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Suggest their record company use this quote to promote their next release
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
No, far more stalker-pop.
I diarrhea'ed all over the Coldplay thread about them. I had no idea they were quite so bad. Honestly, I know that ILM will get it collective knickers in a twist over anything, but...
They're like a blander, more insipid, more mediocre version of Maroon 5 - and I didn't think that was possible!
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
xpostsColdplay are better. Collins is a LOT better.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
KC and SfG are way worse than Coldplay or PCollins.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
That's Mick Talbot had it then (xxxxxp).
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
But nowhere near as bad as Elbow (xxp).
...and I'm not even going to get started on how the phrase "date rape indie" is possibly more offensive than the aesthetic content of their music. >:-(
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey have you ever noticed Alanis Morrissette doesn't even know what irony is etc etc?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
lol rape
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I've just rung up the Daily Mail. 1000 words by AN Wilson in tomorrow's edition.
― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Well that's the suggest ban clicked about 49 more times, then.
― post-apocalyptic time jazz (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa this thread took off since i last posted
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i was merely wondering what it'd be like to actually date a Scouting For Girl
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link
quit your daydreamin melon head
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link
^lolled at this
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link
?
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.
― Treblekicker, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
She's So Lovely is pretty quick.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Not quick enough
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I know I shouldn't laugh but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scouting_for_Girls&oldid=244576906
― Treblekicker, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
'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.
― VeronaInTheClub, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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"
― sometimes I feel like throwing my glands up in the air (DJ Mencap), Monday, 8 March 2010 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Just in case any further proof was needed, cunt
― I am utterly and abjectly pissed off with this little lot (Tom D.), Friday, 2 July 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 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.
― i am legernd (history mayne), Friday, 3 September 2010 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link
She's so luv-a-ly/She's so luv-a-ly
oh that was them? assumed it was the feeling. jesus wept.
― i am legernd (history mayne), Friday, 3 September 2010 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
follow Tom D's link if you really want your mind blown
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 September 2010 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I was trying to think of something for the "LEAST favourite sound" thread, well now I done found it.
― Bill A, Friday, 3 September 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dociah t. azzahole (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/KashMan96
Hobbies: Bringing down jumbo jets, listening to Scouting for Girls,
― dociah t. azzahole (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
young enough to be your grandson tbf
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSalway
Hobbies: Wanking off to war porn, listening to Scouting for Girls
― dociah t. azzahole (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
‘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.”
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Monday, 16 July 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
dammit i was hoping at least one of these was dead
― Tartar Mouantcheoux (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 July 2012 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
burping brass
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Monday, 16 July 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
two great train metaphors
― nakhchivan, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
Blur-like bass
Blur like cheese.
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
hooky demand that it doesn’t rain.
Hooky demand that it rain on Hyde Park New Order gig.
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
a hooky demand that it doesn't rain (16 yr old girls any more)
― nakhchivan, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2012 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
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..."
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link