The one great thing about landfill indie is, you don't ever have to hear it to know it's shite.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
a few songs I actually like here, this is the driftnet definition of landfill indie though, like calling any UK band with guitars from the 90s "britpop"
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
Carcass and Bolt Thrower killed the britpop game.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
was going to make jokes about thrash metal bands slaughtering b-list britpoppers, thought better of it
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
From the list I'd stand up for the two Maximo Park picks (Our Velocity should have been their farewell single), Two Doors Down by Mystery Jets (Young Love with Laura Marling from that same album is also great) and the Guillemots single (although Trains To Brazil was their best moment by a long way). Not sure Guillemots really belong here. They were more varied and ambitious than any of the other bands on this list.
Surprised Art Brut weren't featured. Definitely the band I'd still rep for from this entire scene.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
i too was expecting Art Brut to feature.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
I will rep for a bunch of Guillemots and Maximo Park tracks, though between them they probably cut 5-6 albums I will never listen to.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
The second Guillemots album was pure commercial suicide. Not sure what they were going for at all. They never really recovered from it making a really bland apologetic third album that nobody was interested in.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
I seem to know a good amount of people who will try to convince me The Cribs were actually really good (and still are). I just don't get it. Maybe it's because I'm from Leeds and I couldn't escape them for a while?
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
ha.i know its a small scale thing, but weren't they a wakefield band as opposed to proper leeds ?
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
Oh yes, you're right. They were certainly extremely prominent around Leeds though. I remember my brother (who posts on here) getting asked if he was in The Cribs a few times. Speaking of bands who actually were from Leeds, no sign of Kaiser Chiefs on this list is surprising.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
franz ferdinand are definitely landfill despite what that article says
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
First album and FFS put them several miles above landfill.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Speaking of bands who actually were from Leeds, no sign of Kaiser Chiefs on this list is surprising.
no it's not.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
sub-landfill!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
I'm more curious about the landfill before time.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
I'd like to stand on the landfill event horizon, where two minutes is a like a million years when you get cornered by some wearisome rock-band guy who just keeps repeating: this isn't fair - i don't even belong here!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
franz ferdinand, maximo park, art brit, the future heads... these are all the same band, right? man I hate that stuff.
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
the cribs, the kooks, everybody has their one “no actually this one was good”
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
andrew harrison takes the blame in his twitter bio (and correctly, bcz he did indeed invent this term)
― mark s, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
He did indeed
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
He says it will probably end up on his headstone
He says he was as surprised as anyone that it took off
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
I'm sure I heard landfill television (and loads of t'other landfill elements) used before i heard it in a musical context, but this isn't a mound above a gigantic gravy-yard of rotting black binliner trash i want to die on right now. And this journo doesn't particularly sound like he's busting a gut to take credit either!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
23: “Face for the Radio” – The View
lol i looked at this list just to see if the view placed. would've picked "superstar tradesman"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
Surprised nobody's started a poll tbh
― imago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
95% sure I remember TV landfill used as a term to describe late night ITV schedules from about 1996 on
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
Why is it always landfill indie tho and not, say, landfill folk or whatever.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
Landfill classical is definitely real.
ah Laserlight
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
maybe Laserlight is good? Idk
man, this list made the rounds on music twitter today
anyway ... i love that Vaccines song
― alpine static, Friday, 28 August 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
Yeah, lots of very angry and upset thirty and forty somethings on Twitter
The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Kooks, Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Bloc Party, Razorlight, The View, Glasvegas, Jamie T, Foals etc aren’t landfill indie + are responsible for some of the best music during their times. The rest are despite some good songs.— - (@CammyLockdown) August 27, 2020
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Friday, 28 August 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
if I were to make a list of "not landfill" bands on there, that would not be the list.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:05 (three years ago) link
FF and Bloc Party aren't even on the list, are they?
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 August 2020 09:09 (three years ago) link
https://alpha-audio.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mumford-sons.jpg
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 August 2020 09:11 (three years ago) link
Oh God, the replies to this. So if a band are earnest and hard working they should be above criticism?
That @vice feature on ‘Landfill indie’ - lots of tweets about it. Sneery jibes about bands and kids that wanted to make music. Loads of youngsters liked those bands and it was their entry point into loving albums and gigs. I stand with the kids who made the music. Cheap shots— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) August 27, 2020
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:20 (three years ago) link
folk was not clogging up the near-entirety of uncritical pop radio broadcast output is why
― mark s, Friday, 28 August 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
weird hate for this everywhere today. the article is obviously a love letter! for the music but also for the time and place. most of the capsule reviews are raves!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
mix of not clicking thru to the article and beyhive equivalency
― mark s, Friday, 28 August 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
also (more reasonably maybe now that the war is long won): fans disliking the nailed-on dismissiveness of the generic term for their chosen love object
― mark s, Friday, 28 August 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
the article does a fair job of making a case for this terrible reactionary music, luckily its terrible reactionary fans are filling the gaps
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
my favourites are the "Band X from this list are completely different to all the other bands" but somebody says it about *every band on the list*
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:36 (three years ago) link
No denying the greatness of The Kooks
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link
wondering about hypnotherapy to conduct an experiment on whether a bunch of these records would be less bad if i could forget what the artistes look like
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
― mark s, Friday, August 28, 2020 4:24 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
it was in the u.s. circa 2012
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
oh no
― mark s, Friday, 28 August 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
2007, which is surely the peak of the landfill era, had a LOT of massive radio hits that had nothing to do with landfill indie, it isn't really true that pop radio was entirely clogged up with the Fratellis or the Kaiser Chiefs or whoever.
(There's also a lot of provincial high street rock music that even now gets heavily played on Radio 1 and exists outside of critical narratives altogether.)
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 August 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
During the next couple days I am going to listen to every single one of these songs. My goal is to find one that I like. Just one. My hopes are not very high.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 27 August 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Why would you do this to yourself. I listened to about 50 albums/tracks from a list recently and I knew I was going to enjoy most of it. How much do you need a song?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
I’ d like to stand on the landfill event horizon, where two minutes is a like a million years when you get cornered by some wearisome rock-band guy who just keeps repeating: this isn't fair - i don't even belong here!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Why did I read this to the tune of Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link