#scouting for girls

[wiiildflowerrr]

BBC: 6 degrees of 5 Seconds of Summer

Published 3rd November 2015

'The success of 5 Seconds of Summer - most recently with their second album, Sounds Good Feels Good, which went to No.1 - has been the result of a fair amount of inspiration and support from some very unexpected sources along the way.

So, to mark their appearance at the Radio 1 Teen Awards on 8 November - and in the spirit of the game six degrees of separation - here are just a few of the artists who are connected to the band by the loan of a song, a helping hand or just an encouraging tweet.'

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#this day in 5sos history #5sos #5 seconds of summer #calum hood #ashton irwin #luke hemmings #michael clifford #bbc #2015 #3 november #adele #scouting for girls #blink 182 #katy perry #kaiser chiefs #one direction #1direction #songwriting #bonnie mckee #bring me the horizon #sum 41 #good charlotte

[wisdomofwinter]

Please laugh at my silly little joke

#wwdits #good omens #scouting for girls #I like to pretend I'm funny

[backintimeforstuff]

shout-out to Scouting for Girls for writing a song about a man who's convinced Elvis isn't dead but is also severely depressed after being walked out on by the love of his life ?? incredible Fox Mulder vibes. god bless

#Honestly #Such a bop #Elvis Isn't Dead #Fox Mulder #Txf #I am having some THOUGHTS #Whilst listening to my questionable British pop #scouting for girls

[bethaven]

If you want me, you can call me

Nobody's calling the line

No reception in heaven

But maybe we go back in time

6 months without grandpa. It doesn't get easier.

#scouting for girls #the place we used to meet #sfg #grandpa #missing #loss

[celebsssss]

And I'm a little bit lost without you

And I'm a bloody big mess inside

And I'm a little bit lost without you

This ain't a love song, this is goodbye☁️

Scouting for Girls, This Ain’t A Love Song

#scouting for girls #this ain’t a love song #everybody wants to be on tv #celebrities

[hollowphobia-casual]

Hey, Gen Z?

Do you guys not know about hidden tracks on albums? I was talking to my Non-Binary Gen Z friend during a twitch stream and they started singing My Chemical Romances Black Parade, to which I asked them if they knew about the song ‘Blood’. And they told me they didn’t. For anyone who doesn’t know, a hidden track is usually a song hidden on an album, usually set on the last song, which only plays if you leave the song to plays after a bit, usually around a minute or two minutes long. Scouting for Girls, had one for after the Song “I wish I was James Bond”, with the hidden track, "Michaela Strachan You Broke My Heart (When I Was 12)" So, I’m actually curious, do you guys know about these? Or is this something that’s been lost with the new age of digital media and spotify?

#Gen Z #Generational differences #Hidden Tracks #My Chemical Romance #millenials #Scouting for Girls

[hastalahamon]

Yeah yeah yeah

henry cavil's cool and all, but I still think roy stride should be the new james bond

#james bond #henry cavil #roy stride #scouting for girls

[tapedecking]

MIXTAPE #6 (12/09/22)

I Wish I Was James Bond - Scouting for Girls

Album: Scouting for Girls

Year: 2008

Track: Single (Post-Release: 2008)

Me and girlfriend share music a lot, and in fact, it’s how we first got talking. On her recommendation, I listened to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - a fantastic album - and on mine, she listened to Skylarking by XTC - my all time favourite album. Every now and then, we’ll put together a collaborative playlist to listen to whilst we play games together - the most recent of which I dubbed the “Sumeru mix”, in honour of the new region that was recently added to Genshin Impact - my girlfriend is a rather big fan of the game, and so I play along with her. This track, which she added, has been stuck in my head recently, entirely because it is just so damn catchy. The vocals are very enjoyable, and very Wombats-y, and I feel it just really captures the feeling of wanting to escape the realities of life, and to become a cool pop-culture hero. For Roy Stride, that’s clearly 007, but for me, I’d probably go with The Flash.

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Kick Out the Jams - MC5

Album: Kick Out the Jams

Year: 1969

Track: Single (Post-Release: 1969)

It’s funny how people always think of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols as the originators of punk, when you’ve got acts like The Stooges and tracks like this one embodying that energy back in the sixties, and sounding way ahead of their time whilst doing so. Proto-punk is the name apparently, although nothing about this song sounds like a prototype - despite being a live album, the production on this track sounds so clean and sharp, and the attitude of vocalist Rob Tyner feels palpable - no wonder it was first track ever played on XFM. If you were unaware, XFM was a British alternative radio station, the former moniker of Radio X, and home to talent such as Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. A documentary about the station’s early days was recently released, and you’ll never guess what song they named it after…

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Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives

Album: Veni Vidi Vicious

Year: 2000

Track: Single (Post-Release: 2000)

Speaking of Gervais and Merchant, I’ve previously mentioned my affection for their landmark sitcom The Office, which I would entirely consider to be a 10/10 bit of content. And despite my enjoyment of their other work, particularly Extras and the HBO-animated Ricky Gervais Show, the only other item in their body of work I’d consider to be a 10/10 is their radio show on XFM. Joined by the round-headed buffoon that is Karl Pilkington, Gervais and Merchant show an open contempt for both the station and its audience as they discuss all manner of content, which nearly always tends to loop back to one of either A) Chinese fellas, B) gay fellas, or C) little monkey fellas. All the episodes are up on Spotify, and I’d recommend them to anyone and everyone, even if you’re not a fan of Gervais’ recent work or attitude, which I assure you, I also am not. But this track was played quite a few times on their show, which was how I discovered it - it was a popular single at the time, and so presumably in regular rotation on the XFM playlist.

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Be Sweet - Japanese Breakfast

Album: Jubilee

Year: 2021

Track: Single (Pre-Release: 2021)

Japanese Breakfast seem to have become quite a popular band, as every track off of this album has at least two million listens, but I regret to inform you that I am merely a Japanese Breakfast novice. I discovered the band through a Yoko Ono tribute album - Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono. Veteran David Byrne delivered a fantastic cover of Who Has Seen the Wind? with indie legends Yo La Tengo as his backing band, whilst Death Cab For Cutie contributed my favourite track, covering Waiting For the Sunrise. But alongside the two of them, standing out front he crowd, was Japanese Breakfast, and their beautiful rendition of Nobody Sees Me Like You Do, which then lead me to this, admittedly their most popular track, but with good reason. It’s fun, it has a funky backing track, and Michelle Zauner’s vocals are absolutely stunning.

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Our House - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Album: Déjà Vu

Year: 1970

Track: Single (Post-Release: 1970)

Not to be confused with the Madness song, which is rather different, although still quite brilliant. Thanks to being a track recorded with folk supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, this is one of a handful of Neil Young tracks still on Spotify, after Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their libraries from the service for not deplatforming Joe Rogan. This song was in one of those Spotify playlists - “my life is a movie” I think was the one - and upon hearing I instantly recognised it. I’m not sure exactly where from - it could have been How I Met Your Mother, it could have been The Simpsons, it could even have been some advert from days gone by. But like the titular house our supergroup sings of, this song is cosy and comfortable, and one that finds me fantasising of the future, of the house that I’ll - hopefully - someday share with my girlfriend, our children, and two cats in the yard.

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Pain - Jimmy Eat World

Album: Futures

Year: 2004

Track: Single (Pre-Release: 2004)

My girlfriend and I recently got into a conversation about The X-Files (her favourite show, I’ve only seen the pilot), and she was telling me - I think - about an episode which featured a ship out of time, and everyone on board resembled someone important in Mulder’s life, for example, Mitch Pileggi, who normally plays Walter Skinner, played an SS Sturmbannführer. I’m not exactly sure of the rank, but I’m certain that’s just a high-ranking Nazi officer. But she told me how much she enjoys episodes of TV shows where actors in the main cast get an episode to try their hand at a different character, and it got me thinking back to one of my favourite examples of this - Transference, a fourth season episode of Smallville wherein Clark Kent switches bodies with the incarcerated and terminally ill supervillain Lionel Luther. Tom Welling does fantastic work replicating John Glover’s performance and mannerisms, and the episode is genuinely tense, thanks to Lionel discovering Clark’s well-kept Kryptonian secret. Granted, Lionel has forgotten by the episode’s end, so that the show’s status quo can be maintained, but before we get to that, we get a thrilling showdown between Clark and Lionel - still in each other’s bodies - in the midst of a prison riot, all set to this catchy pop punk number.

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The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Album: The Queen Is Dead

Year: 1986

Track: Album Track

And finally, we arrive at the part where I talk about all any Brit has had to talk about the past few days - the Queen is dead, boys. The discussion in my group chat did not take the situation as seriously as most outlets did, as in the hours leading up to her death, we discussed how if she died, she wouldn’t have the chance to play Fortnite Chapter 4, how wikipedia keeps reverting my edits on the Better Call Saul cast list despite their information being entirely incorrect, and how radio stations were preparing to ban punk music and anything by Queen. However, we noted that they did not say anything about The Smiths, and so we began a listening party, wherein this song, the title track from the band’s best album, played on a continuous loop. And then she died. And so whenever someone asks me what I was doing when the news broke of the Queen’s death, I can honestly say that I was listening to The Queen Is Dead. People may see that as disrespectful, but in my opinion, what was much more disrespectful was my friend David’s response to the news - “sadge”.

#music #spotify #playlist #scouting for girls #mc5 #the hives #japanese breakfast #crosby stills nash and young #jimmy eat world #the smiths #ricky gervais #stephen merchant #smallville #the queen

[theamericantrash]

Anyway, here’s wonderwall.

#wonderwall #scouting for girls #spotify

[7thleveldown]

Did you know that night? When you said goodbye, That it was the last time, That it was the last time.

Black and Blue in love, still with you I was, Black and Blue in love.

Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight

#scouting for girls #thank you and goodnight #still thinking about you #Spotify

[dailyquotes6563]

I love the way she bites her lip

Scouting For Girls, She's So Lovely

#Scouting For Girls #She's So Lovely #Quote #quote of the day #quotes

[n-paws]

My photos for this concert was shit ngl 😭

#scouting for girls #concert #music #photograhy #Spotify

[sayruq]

A Girl Scout troop leader in Missouri was threatened with legal action by the organization after her troop tried to sell bracelets to raise money for Gaza, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Nawal Abuhamdeh said that it had been the children’s idea to sell bracelets to raise money for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. She said that the members of her troop, including her own 10 year-old daughter, had been deeply emotionally impacted by Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza, which has killed more than 29,000 people, and at least 10,000 children. “I’m grieving. We are all grieving. We literally couldn’t muster the energy to sell cookies,” Abuhamdeh said. Soon after making a post about the fundraiser, Abuhamdeh said she received an email from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri organization, alerting her that her troop could not support “partisan politics,” and needed to “stay neutral.” The email said that the fundraiser had violated the organization’s governing documents, and that if the troop went forward with their plan, the organization would engage legal counsel to “protect the intellectual property and other rights of the organization.”

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #girl scouts

[bethaven]

Growing up and growing old with your music

I've been listening to Scouting For Girls a lot since the new album dropped about a week ago and it made me think about the music that shaped me as a young adult. I've already written a few posts about The Ark so I'll leave it for the moment.

Me finding Scouting For Girls is another story about coincidences. I was flying to South Africa with my school choir at age 17. We had an overlay at Heathrow and during our wait I stepped into HMV and flipped through the cd:s. My eyes jumped at a beige cover with the words Scouting For Girls in thin brown letters. I was a very active scout back then and found it very amusing that a band actually named themselves that. I bought it, win or loose. I had no idea what kind of music it was and I had no way to find out until I came home 10 days later. The cd followed me to South Africa and back, unopened. This was before smartphones and Spotify, I should add.

It turned out I loved the music and it became a favourite on my mp3 player, and later phone. The quirky, cocky lyrics and the upbeat british pop spoke to me.

Time passed by and the music stayed with me. The year after their second album was released. This aint a love song became the soundtrack of unrequited love stories and trashed friendships for years after. I moved to Barcelona for six months and sang Scouting For Girls songs at karaoke-nights and healed lonely nights with Take a chance on us.

Still young and constantly unhappily in love, the third album came as a gift from up above. Love how it hurts was just another great description for my aching heart. Summertime in the city described the freedom of summer holidays.

Album four dropped when I was in the middle of a will-we-won't-we with my current boyfriend. Home and Still thinking about you was bouth hopefull and painfull to hear.

By the time album five came I'd been in a relationship for almost four years and lived with him for almost three. I was no longer the young, heartbroken, lonely girl that once started listening to them. But neither was their music. We grew up together. Suddenly, songs like This is a love song and Grown up were the ones that spoke to me.

Counting out a cover-album and a couple of live/special albums, album no six was the one that was released last week. Coming from a year where I've questioned most things in life, dealing with sadness, loss and a lot of anxiety, I was yet again in another phase in life. And, of course, there were songs on the album for this too. The place we used to meet hit me hard, dealing with the loss of loved ones and not being able to call them again. But also, The luckiest boy in the world describes my everyday life with my love.

What do I want to say with this? Probably just that sometimes the reason you don't get tired of some music is because it grows up with you. Like that cozy, worn out sweater that always seem to fit, no matter how many years have passed by. I have a few of these in my life and I'm so happy for them.

In March, I celebrate 15 years with Scouting For Girls and my goal is to celebrate with my first live show.

#Spotify #scouting for girls #the place we used to meet #british music #british pop #mental health

[neil-gaiman]

Where to get your Girl Scout Cookies:

Just a reminder that if you are someone who wants to eat Girl Scout Cookies, and you don't have local Girl Scouts to buy them from, and you are realising you can just go online and get them from the Internet, Troop 6000 is...

"...a first-of-its-kind program designed to serve families living in temporary housing in the New York City shelter system.

"Each week, Girl Scouts meet in shelters across the city to take part in activities that help them make new friends, earn badges, and learn to see themselves as leaders. All fees, uniforms, trips, and program materials are provided at no cost.

"As a permanent fixture of the program, we also established the Troop 6000 Transition Initiative, which supports Girl Scouts and their families as they transition to permanent housing. The average stay for a family in a city shelter is 18 months. Remaining connected to the community and opportunities introduced to them through Troop 6000 can help facilitate a successful transition for girls and young people, and it is essential they continue to receive the financial support that allows them to do so."

Click on the link to learn about it and order cookies.

#Girl Scout troop 6000

[cncuddle-party]

Also I'm very much relating to the I wish I was James Bond song by Scouting for Girls - a girl in every port - kinda had a certain appeal that I don't want to elaborate on 😌

#🎙️// mic'd #james bond #scouting for girls #martini in your hand #and that eyebrow that you move #i wish i was james bond #I've a license to thrill #just let me be your whimsical plaything #and disappear for 4 months