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| Scouting For Girls | 
 enlarge | Artist: Scouting For Girls
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
Buy New: £7.98
You Save: £4.01 (33%)
New (46) from £7.31
Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 34
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 886971551921
EAN: 0886971551921
ASIN: B000UDQRKO
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 THE WORST POSSIBLE BAND IN THE WORLD EVER, AND THEY SHOULD ALL DIE FOR IT. June 18, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have never heard the album. I have however heard the terrible two singles. The first (I am guessing it's called 'She's So Lovely') is EXACTLY the same chords as another song that's charted recently. Don't ask me what it was called or who it is by, I have no idea, I just heard it at work. Then I heard the Godawful 'Elvis Ain't Dead' and wanted to spew my own pelvic bone out of my own mouth, because I knew instantly I had heard the same song a week earlier. And that's the AMAZING thing- the new song by Scouting For Girls is THE SAME SONG AS THEIR LAST SONG....
Let's just run that back and replay it in case someone missed it....
IT'S THE SAME SONG! THE SAME! NO DIFFERENCE? NO SIRREE. IT IS ACTUALLY THE SAME SONG FROM START TO FINISH - THEY'VE JUST ADDED SOME NEW LYRICS BECAUSE THE LAST ONES WERE NOT BAD ENOUGH APPARENTLY.
JESUS WEPT.
NO STARS.
If you like Scouting For Girls, you are an idiot.
 Listen to the album, not the reviewers June 6, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good album ,and for me the first track (Keep on walking) is the best song on it. Most of the rest are pretty good. Easily worth the money compared to many other recent releases - including the Hoosiers.
Not sure how or why so many people here have panned it, but to the person who works in HMV... working in HMV doesn't qualify you as a spokeperson for good taste.
It's Not About You (see what I did there?) June 2, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Remember how your local church or hostel arranges a Christmas concert and it's entirely written, arranged and played by the mentally handicapped? And remember how, because it's the season to be jolly and you've just spent 25 quid on a mug of mouth-blisteringly hot mulled wine and a colon-ravaging sausage at the inevitable festive German market, you're now feeling so smug and super-charitable that you buy yourself and your loved ones a ticket. Now remember that feeling you get when you're sitting at said concert (about halfway through the first number) and you're thinking "This is Rubbish!" and all you want to do is launch into an expletive-laden tirade about how virtue and piss-poor quality are not the same thing and will never be. But you don't: you applaud politely afterwards because everyone would think you were some kind of revolting monster if you didn't?
That, my friends, is the same feeling I get listening to Scouting For Girls. I'm troubled by this confusion over poor quality as virtue that a lot of people seem to have about pop music. The P-word, so casually and consistently misused, is often tossed about to hide a multitude of music sins but this, like the Feeling and the Hoosiers and their Radio 2-friendly ilk, is just unforgivable. SFG are not even good enough to justify being called pop music - that actually requires ideas, talent, cunning and a ridiculous haircut to say the least - these guys are just in-one-ear-and-out-the-other rubbish. Bland and offensively so. Good pop is never bland, that's why it's POP, see? Bad music isn't pop music and vice versa, so please don't use it to guiltily justify your appalling MOR tastes.
Pop as it could be. May 26, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can understand to an extent why some reviewers have taken a negative view of this record. It's not terribly original - the hooks and arrangements have seen service on countless other songs. Neither are the words all that stretching - you sense that they were knocked off on the bus on the way to the studio.
On the other hand, this is probably the best collection of pure pop this year. What it may lack in depth, it makes up for in sheer exuberance. It's a bit of a throwback to the Undertones, Joe Jackson or any number of those old New Wave groups - different sound but similar energy and measured naivety. Ignore the gloom-mongers - treat yourself to a bit of a grin.
 Pleased... and can't see why not May 23, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I got this album because i heard the singles and quite enjoyed them.
I don't think their the best band in the world, but i'd put them on for a listen when i feel in the mood for their type of style.
The reason alot of people don't like this is bacause this has very different sound then alot of other things, and you either like it or hate it in my opinion. I personally like it.
I also agree that why would you buy this album if you don't like it.
If some people go around buying CD's randomely, and without hearing any first, then they must either be quite rich, or quite stupid.
Speaking for myself.. I prefer to hear at least two songs that i really liked before buying a CD.
All in all, this is a good album and my personal favourite songs would be 'Heartbeat' 'It's not about you' and 'The Mountains of Navaho'.
If you heard one song and liked it... I'd urge you to buy this. If you heard one song and hated it.. I'd reccomend not getting this.
However the only reason i gave this album a four star was bacause despite everything, I have to admit the songs are all a bit samey. So if you like this kind of music it's a good thing. If not, then well it's not such a good thing is it
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