This music will not allow you to perform brain surgery. It will not do your laundry. It -is- repetitive, kind of like... pop music. But it's fun, a bit off kilter, a touch geeky, and did I mention fun? It's got a beat, you can dance to it. Or drive to it. Or bop your head to it. There isn't a song on the album I don't like, which I'm sure is in part because they do all sound a touch alike, I will grant whoever said that, but so do most things. It's just fun. Buy it.

I first heard "Elvis Ain't Dead" on a Virgin Radio stream and immediately felt the need to own it. The vocals are engaging, the sentiments are wonderful and the hook is unbelievably perfect. I wound up buying the single, and then the single of "She's So Lovely" and the single of "It's Not About You". I did NOT buy the complete cd initially because it was way more expensive than it is now...but when I saw the price of the followup single "Heartbeat" I decided to fork out the big bucks and put all of my eggs in one basket. The result is one of the most satisfying musical experiences I've had in a decade. Scouting For Girls are very British and very upbeat. They have some noun/tense problems in their lyrics that drive me mad (e.g.: "she's so extraordinary/she left last January/and that's the reason I miss you so"), but apart from that they have the most amazing hooks which get me up and positive and singing on the top of my lungs. In my car and in my house I find myself singing "Heartbeat" more than any other song...what a breath of fresh air these guys are...I can hardly wait for them to release something else. IF you are afraid to take a chance on bands you don't know much about this is the one to relax and get your feet wet with...RUN to to the end of the diving board and jump off without a care in the world. I promise you that you will have a smile on your face from the moment this cd hits the deck.

This CD is just clean music that is fun to listen to. You can actually sing along, easy lyrics...and understandable at that (Hard to find in this day and age). Yuppers. Had to order from UK because they don't have it here in america.

This album is really nice, To make it clear for the American audience it would be kind of a mixture between Ben Folds and the Gin Blossoms on their own Indie style.

Most songs are really happy and optimistic and releases a very nice vibe with every chord. Compositions are very nice and well arranged. For the audiophiles, you will really enjoy the mixing and mastering in this album cause everything sounds right in place.

This album has been doing great in the U.K. and its considered among the best albums of 2007.

My girlfriend recommend me this album since she is English and she was totally right. If you want something easy to listen, contemporary and very interesting don't miss this one. You will be very pleased.

My favorite songs are:

Keep on Walking

The airplane song

I need a holiday

Heartbeat

She is so lovely

Other recommended albums from the best U.K. Releases lately:

The hoosiers "the trick to life"

The Pigeon Detectives "Wait for me"

Musical historians in the year 3000, when tunes are beamed directly into our heads and we all drive rocket cars to the moon at weekends, will one day pour over our collective listening tastes, nodding wisely at the likes of Prince and Bowie, wondering exactly what the hell turned hip-hop from the genuine voice of the streets into the bling-obsessed mumblings of morons, and when they finally come across this album, even though they're now devoid of primitive rage and anger, will instantly crush it under their bootheels and go out and commit mass murder. Such is the effect of Scouting For Girls.

Want to know a secret? I'm actually a bit of a sucker for piano-based pop songs. A sweet melody, a catchy chorus and a decent bit of ivory tickling and The Curmudgeon's usually hard heart will melt in his chest. And yet this album, complete with "catchy" (in the same way that AIDS is catchy) choruses and a barrage of piano throughout, doesn't melt my heart. Instead it makes me want to stick a pick-axe into the pudgy, smug face of the lead singer, who's name I couldn't even be bothered to look up for this review.

That's how bland and pointless this band are. It doesn't even matter who's singing when the songs are as inoffensive, bland and lightweight as this. "Girls are nice. I like girls" - that's pretty much it for the entire album, which would be OK if any of the songs had actually anything to SAY, even if they were just playing it for laughs. But there's no wit, imagination or depth to any of these lyrics.

Scouting For Girls have created a record seemingly designed for an alternate, backwards universe; sweet becomes cloying and saccharine, catchy becomes irritating, fun becomes the aural equivalent of drinking cement.

So what is it that's so offensive about this innofensive music? Well, for starters, there's about four or five songs here that sound EXACTLY the same. Not just "similar" - you could cut and paste the lyrics from each song into one another and you wouldn't notice the difference. This, from a one-hit novelty dance act keen to cash in on their success is expected; from a supposedly "genuine" band it shows a frightening lack of invention and effort, a real "yeah, that worked last time" approach.

"Elvis Ain't Dead, (But You'll Wish You Were After This") is an appalling stain of a song; mirthless and beyond trite, yet even that isn't the worst offender here. It's not even "I Wish I Was James Bond", a song even more empty headed than its title. It is, of course, their biggest (I'll go out on a limb here and say ever) hit, "She's So Lovely." No song in the world should be so wretchedly shallow and banal without some due punishment, and no band in the world should repeat the words "I Think That You Are Lovely" without a stake being driven through their black hearts.

There's a scene in the Simpson's that mocks the cosy, vomit-inducing world of Rom-Com's, with a film called "Love Is Nice." Scouting For Girls have just created the soundtrack to that film.

Scouting For Girls is, of course, Music For Girls. Talk about being short changed. I dunno; pregnancy, periods, rape and now a Scouting For Girls album. Is there no end to your suffering?