You Guys Are Girls
Lonely at the Bottom
© 2003 You Guys Are Girls (094922562647)
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Sisters Erin and Megan front this four-peice with guitars and vocals singing pop-inspired, light-hearted yet somewhat melancholy songs that are sure to get stuck in your head.
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You Guys are Girls: Sisters Erin and Megan Scolaro are backed on drums and bass by Kevin Willoughby and Steve Miller. We released our first album, Lonely at the Bottom, in February, and we're pleased to see that people are really enjoying it, because we put a lot of care into it. It's our first album and some of the songs have been brewing for a while. We wrote most of them on acoustic guitar but always heard them with drums, electric guitar and bass, so it's very satisfying to finally hear them the way they sounded in our heads.
Our songs involve a lot of harmonizing and rounds, and have a pop feel in the sense that they're straightforward melodies that may get stuck in your head. We're influenced primarily by the Beach Boys and Weezer and we love U2, Blur, the Shins, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, etc., but we wouldn't claim that our music sounds like any of the them. We just write songs as they come and find that they have a very natural flow and cadence.
The name "You Guys Are Girls" is kind of tongue-in-cheek because when we used to play acoustically, we would occasionally get requests along the lines of "You guys are girls, so you must know some (insert popular female songstress here)." So we thought we'd beat them to the punch next time, like, "Hello. Yes, we're girls. Now that we have that established, we have some songs to play for you." We feel the fact that we're girls should be irrelevant, not impressive. Hopefully the music will impress and people will enjoy what we do, because we love playing it.
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Like pop on morphine
author: AaronCIn a time where anybody can drop tracks and get rep'd by myspace, 'You Guys are Girls' sets a new standard with this independently produced album. Innovative but familiar - The Cardigans meets Sixpence meets a slow and steady trickle through the layers of the mind, very much like a morphine drip. It'll get you. I love it.
You Guys Are Girls offer to the listener what so many of todays musical juggerna
author: KatiePerhaps the most compelling aspect of You Guys Are Girls debut album Lonely At the Bottom is its simplicity. Shunning the opulent pageantry of mainstream rock, the quartet from Richmond, VA take a more traditional approach to their craft, relying upon their solid songwriting abilities and the soft, elegant vocals of sister-singers Megan and Erin Scolaro. Each song glows with glassy guitar textures and colorful vocal harmonies reminiscent of such indie starlets as Juliana Hatfield and the Sundays Harriet Wheeler. The combined product is an ingenious collection of tunes that signifies the beginning of a long and prosperous career. You Guys Are Girls offer to the listener what so many of todays musical juggernauts have inexplicably abandoned: sincerity. The album is concise, intelligent, and above all, remarkably enjoyable.
ROCK!
author: marblesmusicians dig chicks chicks dig musicians and i dig these musician chicks thanks for the great music ladies(and the dudes that helped to )
Yeah...kick ass.
author: TippermanYeah I love this album, even though its not my style...mostly because they are my cousins....yeah.