Wd also save Lawrence and the Machine for a different poll for the same reason.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Should the Wombats be here? Or a little too late? The inheritors of the tradition.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
In a perfect world we'd be able to vote for Kasabian as one Platonic ideal of twattery and Scatting for Girls as the other.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Also in a perfect world The Sex is on Fires and the Killers wd belong in this list.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- The Anacrapsis
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Kasabian's pretension make them non-platonic imo: if it's a fault, it's an unusual fault in lummox rock. (but obvs no argument that they must be in the poll)
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, Kasabian are part of the noble tradition of Primal Scream-esque would-be space rockers were pretension = "have read a big word in a comic". It doesn't reach to they music or anything.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Talking of Coventry, there's The Enemy
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:36 (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ahh that's who I meant - The Twang are Brummies iirc
― Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Will admit to liking "We'll Live and Die in These Towns" but I am a sucker for a horn tbh
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
can we add dirty pretty things?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
also: the last shadow puppets
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the fratellis
Don't think foreigners shd be allowed to vote in case they're misled by the veneer of glamour hanging over exotic Britishes locations like Cov and Chorley.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Dearest Dog Latin: 'never had a girlfriend have you?'
― Stephen Booth, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
so icey
― Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
fratellis is a v gd call
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
already on the list.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd argue against the Wobmats. They put all their good/decent stuff on album 1, and have spent at least 4 years trying to write new stuff!
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
They didn't have any good stuff in the first place. The Wombats totally belong here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
'chelsea dagger' has probably the most obnoxious hook of all time
still going SFG
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlKqbYwZVbo
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Think Florence & The Machine have a bit too much presence and star quality and not enough stodginess to qualify for this. I vote for replacing them with The Subways.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
xposts NV, agreed on Kasabian in the Primal Scream tradition (they're even into doltish revolutionary gestures, think they have a Corsican liberation thing?), just think that makes them a bit odd in the landfill indie world.
1-10 of about 81 results for "Primark Scream".
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
No the funny thing about Kasabian is that they constantly bang on about being into Can and Detroit techno and whatever but they're still firmly in the landfill. Idiocy of fans is a key factor here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Makers and a revcerenced.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
so the poll's up
the landfill that time forgot: crap uk bands of 00s/10s
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
There's also the school of 'naming your band after mediocre district of London (plural)' landfill indie, cf:
The HollowaysThe Paddingtons
Probably The Canonburys and The Newingtons and The Walworths as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think fire (or Empire) was a typical landfill single, and there are a few other bits and bobs but yeah ok 90% of the time it's suspiciously close to Hard Fi for a group of philosopher-kings.
I guess I will continue my doomed defence of Kasabian as 'bad and mildly unusual, not ultra-bad and identikit' on the poll.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Bombay Bicycle ClubDetroit Social ClubCajun Dance PartyBritish Sea PowerTeam Water PoloEastern Conference ChampionsThe Manchester OrchestraPete & The PiratesNaked And The Boys
Glasvegas
dunno if all these bands is British as I'm a yank who downloads the XFM London Alternative Top 40 every month. funny how it all went electro last year
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Brother.
― Danzig, with tears in my eyes (DavidM), Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I understand that Mumfords is now a band that's fun to hate - but really, they're not that bad. They've got some potential - they can write a decent melody and their harmonies are pretty nice. The singer needs to take himself a bit less seriously though, and the rhythm section needs to loosen up a bit - it seems they basically only have two speeds: a fast trot and a slow dirge. Still, they're fairly bearable as background music.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Lies
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
ban this monster
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
How did we forget Glasvegas?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link
easily
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
there's prob a separate discussion to be had about elbow/editors/glasvegas glumpen inanity
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
add one doves
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Add one Coldplay.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
so huge they block out the sun
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh christ, i these two guys the other day who were arguing about buying touted tickets for elbow @ £100. one was saying it was ethically wrong to buy from touts, the other that hell, someone will do it if i don't. elbow. jesus.
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
met
was hoping the missing verb would be "punched"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
that must be what passes for moral philosophy in asphodel
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
sooooo who can find the glummest band picture
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://247magazine.co.uk/wp-content/themes/247magazine-images/2010/09/alg_elbow.jpg
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/editors_24.jpg
conventiom for bereaved charity muggers
n/m
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2009/01/doves-jetstream.jpg
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/866/low2u.jpg
Lowline are not to be confused with the bands Lowgold or Lowlife or the album Lowlife by another Manchester group you may have heard of called New Order. They are an unsigned act from Britain's premier rock city with some fairly heavyweight support from the likes of The Enemy's Tom Clarke ("the best new band in the country") and The Verve's Nick McCabe ("Lowline make timeless music like no one can at the moment. Music with balls.")
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Should have called themselves "Lowballs" then.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 10:32 (thirteen years ago) link