the landfill that time forgot: crap uk bands of 00s/10s

guess u could do regional heats

w scotland - fratellis
e scotland - the view
ne - futureheads?
nw - the zutons
midlands - the twang
london - joe lean etc
home counties - hard-fi
sw - ???

Embrace were OG Radiohead-Lite & should not be here in the absence of Colplay & Travis.

not exactly -- embrace were solidly post-oasis anthemic northern rock. coldplay and travis were designated post-radiohead... post-'high and dry' radiohead i guess.

Hoosiers sw iirc

shit that should be

east mids - kasabian
west mids - the twang

Terris don't really belong here, they really sit alongside My Vitriol and JJ72 and the likes when it comes to failed 2000 attempts to guess the future of rock.

couple of missing entries : tiny dancers, the maccabees

TD being one of the last bands that EMI spunked a wad of cash on (v. nice promos/pacakaging etc) prior to the labels fall from grace-n-favour, only for no-one to give a shit, as the album bombed out of sight (but at least it got released unlike joe jing jang wrong)

what about editors?

Editors are too tasteful, not landfill enough. Ditto Elbow. Both are dull as hell obviously.

I used to see people I knew wearing Editors tshirts but I cant remember a single song by them.

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" was their big hit I think

can someone post a youtube of mumford & sons biggest song to see if i know it please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT54Er0a7nQ

Oops, wrong Mumford. Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E

That guy's got this really annoying David Gray way of singing those verses.

The whole enterprise is like 4 David Grays in search of a kicking

especially one particularly delightful one for Steven Gerrard

don't think I know this. Will hazard a guess at "who's that coming over your wife, it's Krissy Commons".

Top of the many detestable things in that video is the face pulled by King Mumford at 1:28. He looks like he's trying to scare a small child with his monster face.

What reads to their fans as passion seems like pure ham to me.

anyone who makes it to 1:28 deserves whatever they get

NB: I don't hate Scumford and Co because they're not "real" enough. It's because they're shite.

Oh sure, but a hammy idea of "real" is what they're selling and part of what makes them shite.

xxxxxxxxp it's like that bit from Black Books where Fran asks Bernard to sing an Irish song and he says "no, sing it yourself", so she improvises some cod faux-Irish bollocks.

don't think I know this. Will hazard a guess at "who's that coming over your wife, it's Krissy Commons".

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 17 February 2011 17:40 (4 minutes ago)

i never even knew the tune was by a landfill staple, in any case it's

who's that coming over your girlfriend, is it a gangster, is it a gangster?

iirc

couple of missing entries : tiny dancers, the maccabees

Maccabees are gr8, u mad

the zutons - fucking shit but at least they had a sax which means hey they're not the worst fucking shit

u mad

can't imagine how bad landfill AND saxophones together could be

sax is great you fule

not heard that mumford song at all, but i had expected them to have a fiddle player.

They do look like a bunch of fiddlers, 'tis true.

nae fuckin way it's the worst thing ever

there are records by the stooges and anton webern ruined by the presence of saxophones

xxp To compensate they have a banjo player and a keyboard player who only seems to know one chord.

lol sax haters are crazy *tap tap tap*

thought it was basically known at this point that liking sax is a side effect of those court ordered chemical castration injections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeeLLuFK09I

thought it was basically known at this point that liking sax is a side effect of those court ordered chemical castration injections

― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is a really 90s meme man

kate bush even has a 'saxophone song'. qed.

aw youmeatsix changed their name, my hilarious you meat six jokes are obsolete.

talk of Terris reminded me of seeing them play 1.5 songs, have horrible sound problems, get into a bit of handbags, and then apparently split up, at this Reading Festival:

http://i51.tinypic.com/j9a45y.jpg

these festival posters are fascinating because they are a great reminder of all of the dross that your mind has let you forget, but it is crazy looking back at the bands that were actually there that i have no recollection of.

e.g. black eyes peas headlining 3rd stage at 2000. who knew?

just going through the xfm playlist, idk what genre that chiddy is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXwYJyrKK5A

sort of wonder if foals should have been itp even tho they weren't that landfill

LOFIDELITY ALLSTARS
THE LIVING END

Like the Futureheads, Foals are way too smart for this list.

KING ADORA + THE STROKES

Mumford & Sons remind me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrWLIW4eyM

If you'd put Foals in, you'd need Bloc Party too.

Strokes bumped to the main stage @ that festival in timely wave of NME hype you may/may not recall.

Lo-Fi Allstars were p good, and were good on that occasion too.

yeah foals aren't a great fit with the view etc, but still pretty bad

they're a great example of earnest young musical types who can't think outside of thudding gtr indie tramlines

YEAH IT'S NOT ACTUALLY INDIE, IT'S MNML TECHNO WITH REAL INSTRUMENTS

Scouting for Girls are the worst, but don't belong among this lot - they're still popular, for a start.

this thread is rapidly turning into "Innocuous crap uk bands that make you irrationally angry (a poll thread)"

also, foals are gr8 too, fuiud

thought it was basically known at this point that liking sax is a side effect of those court ordered chemical castration injections

― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 17:57 (1 minute ago

RONG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq85HXxrYrc

Kind of sad to contemplate the diff between this 5th on the bill at 1971 Reading brit band with the 5th on the bill @ reading landfill listed above. (maybe I'm only going to convince NV w/this argument, IDK)