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 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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'
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"actually, we were just taking the piss. sorry!"
― tissp, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
That promo text does contain the concept of disillusionment twice, maybe that's the writer's way to let us know the real truth?
― StanM, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Was this really necessary? This song nearly ruined my day.
― Øystein, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, did i iamgine the michaela strachan song?
*checks*
oh! they've cut if from the final album. wonder why...
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
would be *genuinely* impressed with a michaela tabb tribute song
― Just got offed, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 31 August 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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
-- acrobat, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:02 (Friday, 31 August 2007 14:02) Bookmark Link
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
By logic, if there is a genre there will also be a percieved abuse of that genre's parameters
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy hell this album is all the flavours of awful available
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL my comment got 11 thumbs downs, and I even got a response:
GlamorousCandyLady (4 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam 0 Poor comment Good comment (Reply) (Spam) Yeahh yur right english are farr better than americans!!!! Lol they up emselfs *Tehe*
LOLOLOooL kiddie street teamers.
― Pashmina, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"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
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
and what a surprise treat it'll be for everyone!
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
should i disown my aformentioned lifelong friend over this? i don't think i can
― blueski, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.)
― Rombald, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
So James Bond ISN'T 6:59 ? :-(((
― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― acrobat, Monday, 3 September 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
no, that's pretty much otm (the anglo-dross bit anyway... couldn't really comment on the paedo angle tbh)
― tissp, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Thread could do with max r's view.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Elliot Minor are actually the worst shit ever, SfG are just the second worst shit ever
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Dom, you should move to the U.S.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTlT7wBBw0
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pashmina, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, NO TUNE. I'd defy anyone so sing or whistle it.
― Pashmina, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
It is whineable, possibly
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh there are "Girl Scouts" btw.
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
KILLALAlad (16 hours ago) Show Hide Marked as spam 0 Good comment Poor comment Reply better than the kooks and razorlight ,,, wat a band and savage tuneeEE!!
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
savage tunee?
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
tuna marketed as salmon maybe.
Did someone think there wasn't?
xpost now that's damning with faint praise
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 January 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Amazingly, every single is shitter than the one that came before.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I like how this thread title is axiomatic.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Good tunes, played with a smile. What's not to like?
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that a press release quote or have I got to start a BAN thread?
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link
You've been listening to too much Radcliffe and Maconie (xpost).
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
You goota start a BAN thread.
I like the cheeky irrepressability of theswe scanmps.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:23 (fifteen years ago) link
good lord on the razz at 10.30 am
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I've sounded more cheeky and irrepresible than these cunts on a wet Monday morning in February with a 3-day hangover.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Raw Challops
― yungblut, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
is yungblut NRQ?
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― VeronaInTheClub, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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
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
How?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
How have I missed them? Dunno, are they actually popular in the US? I'm pretty oblivious to most indie rock.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
Especially indie rock that sounds like this. If it was on my radio I'd hit the button pretty quickly.
― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
since when is it indie? They are a pop band loud and proud. Pop can be just as shit as shit indie!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
and they are the shittest of the shit!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
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― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 20 July 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 20 July 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
can't sign into Youtube to post death threats on these guys vids :(
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
yay back in :)
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
I've just seen an advert on TV for a Scouting For Girls greatest hits... fucking hell.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
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..."?
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
sadly, yes
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Just in time for Christmas too!
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
Looks like they've packaged their new album with the greatest hits, too. Christ.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 12 October 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 October 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
to me they are a lot like a lot of other terrible shit that many people who deride them are well into so yes
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 October 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link
Show your working.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link