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

the others are the worst band to have ever existed imo

was thinking about you when nakh was moaning about saxes tbh :D

xp I remember reading a lot about the Others, but I don't tihnk I heard anything by them. Sub Libertines shite, yes?

thread reminds me of that time in 2004 when I had enough money to read Mojo, Q, Uncut every month and read about a lot of these bands.

the interchangeable lead singer observation OTM

And I think I've only heard Mumford and Songs once. Can someone please link to their most notable offense to the human cochlea and the sensibilities of every good person?

Sub Libertines shite, yes?

extremely generous

was thinking about you when nakh was moaning about saxes tbh :D

hahaa

they have a time and a place

I keep wanting to vote for SfG but then I get fucking Chelsea Dagger lurching round and round my head and it makes me want to vote for Fratellis but then I think at least that song is approaching a 'LOL shit indie football anthem' status and is therefore useful as a running gag/signifier of sorts while SfG aren't even interesting enough to manage that so maybe they are worse but OH SWEET CHRIST WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME FUCKING THINK ABOUT THIS.

"l'enfer c'est the others"
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I still hear so many of these bands in terrible bars I get dragged to - a lot of people my age seem to think this really is the cream of the last decade of music, I don't know, it just makes me miserable being in a room full of people shouting along to 'Chelsea Dagger' or whatever.

Having said that, I've never ever heard Scouting For Girls in any sort of social setting and they're easily the worst thing here. Their chorus hooks are just so irritating, I really can't get my head around the total inability to come up with a single pleasing melody.

Oh yeah, the Others were the ones who 'invented' 'guerilla gigs'.

My main memory of The Others is of the singer being interviewed by Simon Amstell on Popworld and inventing the word 'spontanuity'.

"we've just been performing a guerilla gig/in the middle of another group's guerilla gig/surely that's the ultimate guerilla gig/but still they cried like girls"

Flash-Forward: Black Wire

Black Wire are a gang of glam-punks with a taste for synth-stomping disco and a knack for causing chaos. Emma Warren admires the racket

* Emma Warren
* Observer Music Monthly, Sunday 17 October 2004 15.09 BST
* Article history

LEEDS'S GLAM-PUNK pretenders like to gig. Their love of sweat and the stage, though, does not extend to the newly fashionable practise of guerilla gigging, where bands play impromptu acoustic sets on public transport or in car parks. 'Just playing your guitar on a bus and annoying people is not a gig,' announces 22-year-old bass player Tom Greatorex, who is making very little fuss about a huge welt on his back, acquired while fighting with sticks in the woods during the OMM photoshoot. 'At gigs, you've got 25 minutes to convert people, to make them understand why they should love your band. We like messing around in flats but we've done it now and it's out of our system.'

that's the first ref in guardian archives strangely

guys the killers had a top 40 hit w/ their last album & brandon flowers' solo album went gold, there's many, many other bands that are more forgotten than them

like, the bravery sure, or hot hot heat

I really don't think The Kooks are getting enough hate. Even their name is a contrived, artificial and bland signifier of "exciting".

Being a Glasgow native I got a lot of stick for thinking The View and The Fratellis were one and the same, but how was I supposed to tell? This period of music (which was concurrent with my period as a university student and therefore a major reason why I'm so glad to be free of that horrible Carlsberg&Topman culture) makes me now actively avoid bands with names beginning "The".

it makes me feel v. old to know that student life is now synonymous with Carlsberg & Top Man

I once got accused of not being "into" music by a girl who loves all this stuff. "How can you say you love gigs, you've never even been to the 02 or SECC or anything like that?"

xp used to be Tennant's Extra and C&A

used to be Diesel and Oxfam back in the day obv

which was equally reprehensible in its own sweet way

I also remember getting serious lols at Starsailor's "check out our new dance direction" then hearing Four To The Floor and realising it was more of the same turgid dreck.

Let's not even talk about Kasabian's whole back catalogue seems to consist of one breakbeat-style drum loop over a flat vocal going "aaaaah aaaaaah aaaaaah aaaaaah"

Snakebite & yer grandad's cast-off's ftw

xp tbf they also have that one which sounds like a really shit indie band doing a really shit cover of a really shit song by the fucking doors.

My university years coincided with the popularity of proto-Landfill artists such as Travis, Ian Brown (solo), Richard Ashcroft (solo) and Feeder.

feeder were the worst of that kinda 2k1 era iirc

the worst was that they didn't seem like terrible ppl so it felt wrong hating them as much they deserved to be hated

didn't suffer enough imo

didn't one of the die?

/RE E WIND

My university years were '92-'96, so basically all the shite bands ushered in by Oasis and Britpop.

I was '88 to '92 over here, we all just thought you were Manchester bands or shoegazers.

I went during the Wonderstuff/James/Inspirals dogshit era.

Sultans of Ping FFS

I saw the Frank and Walters live, man

my uni years were the nu-metal era, so indie was sort of dead in the water as a commercial force at that point. a few people liked coldplay... strokes started getting a buzz in third year. easy to forget how people were writing this stuff off around 1999/2000.

I keep trying to remember it as being not as awful as it sounds, but then I remember having worm my way out of attending a Milburn gig and pretending to be a smoker to escape dancefloors at indie discos playing Marmaduke Duke

these guys all had at least one song i really dug, more often than not it was their first or second single though

babyshambles
biffy clyro
hundred reasons
keane
pigeon detectives
the courteeners
the cribs
the futureheads
the magic numbers
the rakes
the wombats

i'll rep for the first rakes and cribs albums, i'd still happily give em a listen

I haven't heard any of these bands and I think I've only heard of maybe two or three. Are they all real?

cribs are probably the best thing on this list really

oh god. oh fucking hell. listening to SFG's '... james bond'. nothing is worse than this, perhaps ever.

The Futureheads were ace and I will defend them voraciously.

The Cribs I never liked but at least use their position to help out awesome DIY bands and thus have the 'keeping it reals 4 lyfe' seal of approval from me.

Pretty much everyone else can die horribly. Or preferably be maimed in such a way that they can never pick up another instrument yet have to live for years in continual agony.

I'm regretting my Toploader vote now. Every SFG single sounds like the worst thing ever until you hear another SFG single.

gotta admire consistency

didn't think james bond was that bad compared to mumf, the view etc

the other sfg tracks were more rapey

it makes me feel v. old to know that student life is now synonymous with Carlsberg & Top Man

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otm!

I saw the Frank and Walters live, man

I bought the t-shirt.

this list is very amazing. also makes sense of the otherwise nonsensical success of the arctic monkeys

athlete - successfully forgot this band
babyshambles - pretentious tramp mumbling
biffy clyro - feel they are of a slightly different set
florence and the machine - landfill is a lad thing
hard-fi - lead singer has an incredibly evil face
hundred reasons - v energetic hair
joe lean and the jing jang jong - get very patriotic feelings thinking about this band
kaiser chiefs - too big to be here, frontman's jowels are really regretable
kasabian - not going to start thinking about them now
keane - all their fans weeping w/ silent self-pity watching their claymation video, what wld your grandfathers think
mumford and sons - haven't heard laura marling but fucking this is inexcusable. creepy desperate evangelical vibe, mumf will def get crazier/have a breakdown
noah and the whale - for guys who were too shy for local theatre
pigeon detectives lol
razorlight - historic live8 performance
scouting for girls
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/cordenhorneBBC_450x300.jpg
welcome to england
snow patrol - ripped off by take that, my brother got a letter from them circa 2002. paradigm example of a major strain of coldplay-derived drivel
starsailor < look at this word
the courteeners, the cribs VOID
the enemy - remarkably grotesque band
the feeling - the champions. life is meaningless when listening to this band.
the fratellis - a colossal turd you can take peculiar pleasure seeing through
the futureheads - shouldn't dirty pretty things be on this list because they are def shit enough
the hoosiers, the wombats - useful lazy punchlines
the kooks - recall only a song called "jackie big tits"
the magic numbers - seem slightly distinct.
the ordinary boys - least ugly?
the others, rakes, twang, view - impossible to care about
the stereophonics - stopped listening v quickly so what i know of this band doesn't fit
the zutons - that girl looked interesting for one video
toploader - that song has transcended to another plane, actually memorable

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44787000/jpg/_44787852_thefeeling_oa.jpg

jowels?

aaaaand now i am imagining the list in a james murphy voice

whoever is the 2020s James Murphy will do this