Scouting For Girls

FledNanders

Anyone actually like these? I'd been hearing a lot about them in papers, on the radio etc but hadn't heard them properly until the other night on one of those live performances on channel 4, and I have to say I was mouth-open in shock at how bad they are! How did this band ever make it/get signed etc?? My God!!

No timing, sh!te songs, and their overall sound is cr@p. Made me angry watching them :mad:

p.s. Lightspeed Champion was also performing on same show and he was CLASS

GrahamThomas

Couldn't agree with you more mate, I can't get my head around why they are so popular.

They are just churning out more bland, lazy guitar pop for easily excitable 15 year old girls, as if there aren't enough bands doing it already (The Hoosiers, The Coronas, I could go on and on). And plus the lead singer looks like one of those smarmy b*stards you wouldn't mind working over with a nail-studded baseball bat :mad:

Sorry rant over. On a more positive note, I'm really liking the few Lightspeed Champion tracks that I've heard

Dudess

There seems to be a real resurrection of middle-of-the-road 70s pop inspired by the likes of ELO and Supertramp - e.g. Scouting For Girls, The Hoosiers, The Feeling and a plethora of American acts.
When The Feeling first arrived, there were all these "trendy" journalists falling over themselves to worship them for how "unpretentious" and "uncool therefore cool" these guys were. But you know yourself, that stuff's become commonplace now: look at Urban Outfitters with its tacky retro stuff you'd find in your nana's house, and a certain café on Dublin's Dame Street which has really shabby decor and a statue of the virgin Mary etc - oh how frightfully postmodern, charmingly kitsch, evocative of that delightful working-class culture etc! And of course the "love" people claim to have for Dolly Parton - irony, how clever!

And yet this intrigue with all things unpretentious is actually rather... um... pretentious. Because we all know it's... sh1t.

Stompbox

It defies belief really! His face is quite punchable

Amazotheamazing

I see we've finally turned against people who can write catchy pop choruses, reckon we should shoot him for the terrible Elvis puns in his Elvis ain't dead song, surely the worst things to happen to music since Brian Wilson dropped too much acid and checked out.

strawberryb0y

God I hate this band.
Does anyone else find it difficult to tell thier songs apart

lordgoat

A-holes.

ZakAttak

They really are terrible. I heard the elvis song and thought they were probably a 'busted'/'blink 182' outfit- they're actually worse than that.

ChipLdr

I'm gonna get slated for this but I actually love this band. Went to see them in Whelans with a few of the lads not expecting anything,but I was proved wrong.

I always judge a band on how good they are live because anybody can sound amazing given the right studio equipment/producers blah blah blah but put them on a stage and they either blossom or wilt. These guys were really up for it and got the crowd totally rocking.

I agree they're not everybodys taste and i'll admit i wasnt too keen on them at first until I heard their album. Their songs are simple,fun and quirky and are not meant to be viewed as anything different.

Just my two cents of course