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

"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)

who can say what's true any more in this crazy mixed up "Foals are great" world, Pash?

athlete: Pro: nothing. Con: vocalist v v irritating, bad slack playing on the rekkids I heard on radio back in the day
babyshambles: Pro: nothing. Con: total sinkhole of shitness w no redeeming qualities whatsoever CONTENDER
biffy clyro: have heard this but cannot remember a single thing, not even what it sounded like
florence and the machine: Pro: find singer attractive. Con: totally unmemorable, watched several youtubes, no memory at all of even what it sounded like
hard-fi: Pro: did actually rock, one of their singles was 1/2 decent IIRC. Con: not very memorable
hundred reasons: never heard them or can't remember then anyway
joe lean and the jing jang jong: have heard them but left no mark on my memory whatsoever.
kaiser chiefs: Pro: kind of liked the single or at least until heavy rotation made me sick of it. Con: none really, they weren't THAT bad.
kasabian: No memory of what these sounded like
keane: Pro: sounded pleasant on the radio once ior twice. Con: cannot remember any of their tunes, despite hearing at least one of them enough times.
mumford and sons: Pro: nothing. Con: Awful, awful music, CONTENDER.
noah and the whale: Pro: nothing Con: irritating sounding band IIRC. can barely remember them.
pigeon detectives: Who?
razorlight: Remember these getting some heavy airplay, cannot even remember what they sounded like.
scouting for girls: Pro: Nothing. Con: Shit, clunky music, shit tunes, creepy lyrics delivered by creepy singer, ugh WINNER
snow patrol: Passed through leaving no impression whatsoever.
starsailor: No memory of what this band even sounded like.
the courteeners: Vaguely remember the name, never heard the band.
the cribs: who?
the enemy: Who?
the feeling: Pro: can actually remember what their single went like. Con: I didn't like it, it was sappy.
the fratellis: Pro: nothing. Con: annoying sounding band CONTENDER
the futureheads: Never actually heard these.
the hoosiers: Pro: nothing. Con: Record was shit, only memorable bit was nicked off ELO anyway.
the kooks: Never heard these
the magic numbers: Pro: one of their singles was pleasant enough, find female member w long hair attractive. Con: nothing really, they were not all that bad I suppose.
the ordinary boys: Who?
the others: Who?
the rakes: Who?
the stereophonics: Band from an older gen? Don't feel like they belong here somehow. Awful, anyway.
the twang: Heard of these today, watched clip on youtube, have forgotten what it sounded like already.
the view: who?
the wombats: there used to ne a local pub blues band up here w/this name, I doubt this is them. Never heard of them.
the zutons: Never heard them
toploader: likewise stereophonics

If one of these bands had written or performed on tune that I can remember in it's entirety I would have more time for them even if I didn't like the tune. A lot of these bands get props for their songwriting skillz in their publicity doggerel IIRC? Should be prosecuted under the trades description act. If I were managing a 00's/10's landfill act I would tell them to fuck off with writing anything and get them to cover Harry Warren tunes.

I was expecting real crappy uk bands. Almost all of these bands have one or two singles which I would deem decent or good. Nothing particulary groundbreaking and can't vouch for any of their albums tho so...

Are we voting the best one or the worst one?

the ordinary boys: Who?

They were the band that Preston from Celeb Big Brother was in.

the following bands i can't bring to mind a single note, even in cases where i know i've heard song or songs by them dozens of times: hundred reasons, joe lean and the jing jang jong, starsailor, the courteeners, the others

ey that's less than i thought it would be. god bless my excellent use of memory. the only one that seems unreasonable is starsailor, but all i remember of how they sounded is MEW MEW MEW MEW MEW.

Favorite ones in here would probably be: hard-fi (the few songs I've heard sounded influenced by The Clash which is good in my book), the magic numbers, kasabian, the zutons and kaiser chiefs.

Worst ones for me would be: mumford and sons, keane and scouting for girls.

xp oh right, having looked at single releases, now i remember them. MEW MEW MEW MEW MEW was correct, though.

Wait... band that actually sounded influenced by The Clash was Harrisons. Only song I've heard of Hard-fi is 'hard to beat' which was good but not good enough to get me interested in them.

moka do u like the fratellis