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Scouting For Girls | 
| Artist: Scouting For Girls
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 84
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 886971551921
EAN: 8869715519212
ASIN: B000UDQRKO
Release Date: September 17, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Keep On Walking | | • | She's So Lovely | | • | It's Not About You | | • | Airplane SOng | | • | Heartbeat | | • | Elvis Ain't Dead | | • | I'm Not Over You | | • | I Need A Holiday | | • | Mountains Of Navaho | | • | James Bond |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 83 more reviews...
 Oh Dear November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was a fan of scouting for girls until I got this album then I realised how annoying and similar every song is. Not good.
 Party Poopers October 26, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
There's a kind of grim, depressing inevitability about this.
It's like the stone thrown up by a lorry that hits YOUR windscreen, or you agonisingly realising that brown lump under your shoe isn't a dropped Mars bar or some clogged up leaves....
'SFG' works like this; something hurtles towards you, you're terrified it's gonna be really painful and bad......and it is.
Apart from giving me the raving needle, there is SO much fundamentally wrong with 'SFG'. It doesn't work on ANY level, it can't be sympathetically reviewed in any context.
It's a flat, eggy pancake of an album. It's a desperate worry as to what kind of rhino-headed cabbage would consider that this in any way resembles good music. It scores nought on the melody scale, nought in the lyrical stakes, but wins handsomely the plankton-would-find-it-insulting league!
They've tried desperately to produce it to decency, but underneath the surface shininess the cracks are showing all over the place.
The workings of this particular trick are wonderfully/horribly visible, involving that heady and ghastly notion that endurance and hard work are in some way substitutes for talent and colour.
'SFG' are grey and dour. Maladjusted socially inadequate noodles, who, are touring the country as I type, under the grotesque disillusion that they are in some way a pop group. Their debut album indicates otherwise.
'She's So Lovely' is a disgrace of a song. 'James Bond' has lyrics a sub-literate loonie could better, and probably worst of all (an accolade I suspect it knows it deserves) 'Elvis Ain't Dead', a despicable runt of a tune, operose and overweening, twitches to death right at the albums heart.
Enough. 'SFG' is a somnifacient disaster. It has an air of resigned failure akin to that of a one-legged grasshopper in a field full of crows.
The Amazon night vista is despairingly star-less for this one, and that's why I really wanted to like it - blow a contrary wind and all that, but not even in a satirical sense could you award this desperation anything other than one appalling star.
And that's the worst name for a pop group since Heloise and the Savoir Faire.
why? October 24, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I remember hearing about police using heavy metal songs to get possible terror suspects to spill their guts. But FINALLY something has come along that could work even better, though I suppose if the suspect was wearing a belt he would have hung himself by the time he got to hearing the second verse (is there a second verse?) of 'SHE'S SO LUVVERLY'. I honestly cannot believe that something this bad could be commercially released without fearing for a huge wave of suicides or murders in reaction to said product. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but after hearing SFG songs over and over and over etc., I feel I am justified to think that they should all be pushed off a cliff.
A very tall cliff.
With spiky rocks at the bottom.
And alligators.
Alligators that sing 'elvis isn't dead' while they are mauling each 'band' member.
Maybe then SFG will realize just how unbelievably God-awful their existence is.
 EXCELLENT =D September 20, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This album is by one of the bands that are definatly one of the best around today. This isnt the type f music i listen to but i thought it was amazing when i heard and it gets better every time. Much much better than other bands of this type like mcfly. BUY IT !!!! You wont regret it !!!=D
Think of the children!! September 11, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This band is THE perfect example of the Law of diminishing returns.When I first heard these guys some months back,I though they weren't bad.But as I heard "shes so lovely" and subsequent songs I have to say enough is enough.
I don't know what it is about them.Is it the fact that they wrap their unbelievably banal lyrics around a melody that barely changes from song to song? Is it that they're so mind-numbingly bland and inoffensive? Or is it that,as one reviewer mentioned previously,supposed "teenybopper" bands like McFly and Busted did this sort of thing much better years ago?
I'm no musical snob.I like anything from The Beatles to Mowtown,The Smiths to Kylie.But this I can't stand.
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