Scouting For Girls – Greatest Hits

It’s weird to think that Scouting For Girls burst onto the scene in 2007 with their self titled debut album went on to release their second studio album ‘Everybody Wants to Be on TV’ in 2010 and then released their third studio album ‘The Light Between Us’ only last year and have now just released their ‘Greatest Hits’, for a band that have been on the scene for 6 years, dominated the charts from day one with their poppy summer anthems and completed various sold out tours across the UK as well as playing various festivals and forest shows across the country I kind of feel like it is too soon to be dropping a greatest hits as they have so much more to give as a band.

The Scouting For Girls ‘Greatest Hits’ has been released in two formats there is the standard format for £7.00 which features 1 disc and 15 tracks and then there is the Deluxe edition for £13 which features 2 disc and 30 tracks which features the 15 tracks from the main ‘Greatest Hits’ release and various rare b-sides and previously unreleased tracks so for the extra £5 the deluxe version is well worth a purchase especially if you are a hardcore fan of the band.

‘Greatest Hits’ features 13 classic Scouting For Girls songs spanning their 3 albums and I have to say that it is good having the likes of ‘She’s So Lovely’, ‘Elvis Ain’t Dead’, ‘This Ain’t A Love Song’, ‘Famous’, ‘Silly Song’, ‘Love How It Hurts’ and ‘Summertime In The City’ all bundled together on one album and also when listening to the ‘Greatest Hits’ it’s good to see that Scouting For Girls have been true to themselves and their fans from day one as it is clear to see that their music and style has not changed much throughout the years as the ‘Greatest Hits’ is pretty much a big album full of summer anthems.

Two new tracks complete the ‘Greatest Hits’ with ‘Millionaire’ and ‘Make That Girl Mine’ being bundled right at the end of the album, ‘Millionaire’ is more of a toned down offering from previous Scouting For Girls material and in my eyes is the weakest song they have ever released, don’t get me wrong the song does get going towards the end and becomes quite fun but if you compare it to their previous singles this really has nothing on them. which makes me wonder if they are quickly running out of ideas and releasing this ‘Greatest Hits’ whilst they have time to think about the future of the band.

I have liked Scouting For Girls right from the start and really hope this release does not spell the end of the band but we all know that they nearly split up a couple of years ago due to the pressure of creating album number 3 so I am really hoping that this is just a crafty label move to give the band some much needed time with album number 4.

As ‘Greatest Hits’ go this is up there with the best as Scouting For Girls are a band all about catchy singles however I do feel that the timing for this release could not of come at a worse time.

4/5

Review by Trigger