WHERE IS THE SCRIPT
― Evan, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xp that was it. thanks. "thanks". actually the name has not yet triggered any memory of the music, thank fuck.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - The Script are Irish iirc.
― Pisle of dogs (seandalai), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i have never heard scouting for girls or read anything about them. can someone explain why they are the worst please?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
God I hate the Script though.
I'd forgotten all about The Zutons! (I guess that's probably for the best.)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmmm
i think both the first futureheads album and the first rakes album are classics (haven't listened to the latter in years tbh but i fucked heavy w/ it when i was 17)
i've enjoyed a number of songs by snow patrol, the cribs, and, yes, razorlight
they had that song: the zutons, the magic numbers, kaiser chiefs, keane & hard-fi (i used to bang that one joint that was on fifa 06, maybe it was "cash machine"?)
the band on here that i've heard the most shitty music by is kasabian, and i'd be tempted to vote for them but really i can vote for no one besides joe lean and the jing jang jong, from the shitty name right on down to the fact that they made the cover of NME and still never made an album
pigeon detectives & scouting for girls are runners up
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLqo7C-WwA
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlMfV7A3V00
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oaOQ1cQwt4
Somehow, for me, The Killers made the song that even more than "Chelsea Dagger" sums up everything that this tremendous movement stands for.
It's a black hole of shite and terror.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
bands on this list i have knowingly heard:
babyshambles - horribleflorence and the machine - not my thing, but she doesn't belong in a UK indie landfill pollkaiser chiefs - horrible, but not as bad as several of the otherskasabian - horriblekeane - horriblemumford and sons - what the fucking fucksnow patrol - horriblethe cribs - lol johnny marrthe futureheads - not actively offensivethe magic numbers - not actively offensivethe stereophonics - horrible
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
voted mumford & sons
wow i had no idea the killers had a song called "indie rock & roll" -- thank god i'm at work and have no way of listening to it
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
the wombats & the courteneers really bring me back to the time in high school where i used to read nme irl
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I first heard the Killers track in a friend's car on a landfill compilation and assumed it was by one of the tossers on the list until I looked it up.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Being completely candid, even though seeing the names listed like this makes my heart feel heavy and grey:
Like one song by: Athlete (1st album), Florence, Hard-Fi, Kasabian, Keane, Starsailor, Futureheads, Magic Numbers, Twang, ViewLike a whole album by: Babyshambles, Rakes, Kaiser Chiefs
Voted Toploader.
― DL, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Magic Numbers don't bother me at all, they're sweet overweight aging hippies who like to sing pleasant vocal harmonies.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
you know who belonged on here even tho I liked a couple of their songs? Maximo Park
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Shiteness rating out of 10
ATHLETE - 9/10: really this is the point where post-Coldplay bands just started taking the piss. Also I think they were technically Christian rock.BABYSHAMBLES - 7/10: Probably the worst live band I have ever seen but they get a couple of points taking off for car crash/amusement value.BIFFY CLYRO - 7/10: Would probably be higher if I'd had more exposure to their fans and/or been to Reading in 10 years.FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - 4/10 - bit too much in the star quality stakes, also a couple of alright songs.HARD-FI - 6/10 - awful clumsy shit but they get a couple of points knocked off because Hard To Beat was quite a good song, and they weren't the Ordinary Boys.HUNDRED REASONS - 5/10 - too past-it and lol to be serious contenders hereJOE LEAN AND THE JING JANG JONG - 7/10 - obviously woeful but everybody knew itKAISER CHIEFS - 10/10 genuine contendersKASABIAN - 10/10 genuine contenders, also worst fans everKEANE - 2/10 basically too inoffensiveMUMFORD & CUNTS - 20/10NOAH AND THE WHALE - 5/10 - no one can seriously vote for them when Mumford & Sons existPIGEON DETECTIVES - 10/10 worst shit everRAZORLIGHT - 10/10 also maybe more for Johnny Borrell factorSCOUTING FOR GIRLS - 11/10 she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverlySNOW PATROL - 9/10 - they get a point knocked off for making DJ Martian so angrySTARSAILOR - 8/10 - obviously terrible but also kind of easy to ignore to matter how big they wereTHE COURTEENERS - 6/10 - some Oasis shit, right?THE CRIBS - 9/10, dude has one of the worst voices everTHE ENEMY - can't even remember what they sounded like but I'll assume they were terrible so a straight 8/10THE FEELING - I don't think I've actually knowingly heard one of their songs, 8/10 as I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubtTHE FRATELLIS - 30/10 - Chelsea Dagger might be the worst thing that any of these bands have put outTHE FUTUREHEADS - 5/10 - feel a bit too credible to be hereTHE HOOSIERS - 9/10, stupid nameTHE KOOKS - 4/10 - hating on the Kooks feels a bit like hating on Keane, kneejerk "girls like this so it must be shit" hateTHE MAGIC NUMBERS - 5/10 - hilarious strop on Top of the Pops gives them a bit of leeway, also everyone's forgotten about themTHE ORDINARY BOYS - 10/10 - surely they were to 'ska' what Mumford & Sons are to 'folk'THE OTHERS - honestly I have no idea what they sounded like but the sheer lack of ambition indicated by giving yourselves a name with absolutely no connotations whatsoever gets them a straight 10/10THE RAKES - even Lethal Bizzle is probably embarassed about this lot now 8/10THE STEREOPHONICS - okay they might actually rival Mumford & Sons 30/10THE TWANG - 8/10 - fuck knowsTHE VIEW - 9/10 - Cast more likeTHE WOMBATS - 8/10 but at least they seem funny in retrospectTHE ZUTONS - 10/10 - die.TOPLOADER - should fit in the Kooks/Keane mould except for the fact that Dancing In The Moonlight is one of the worst records ever made. 10/10
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i have the biffy clyro album with the woman masturbating on the front. i do not recall the name of the record but the image stuck. the singles off that were v good and i suspect continue to be so.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
xp re Maximo Park, yeah I'd put em around Cribs level, fine enough in themselves, but too close to the vortex not to get sucked in.
I was gonna vote for someone who may get a bit overlooked (suspect that there won't be too many hundred votes for the fucking Fratellis), but really I want this to be a Scouting for Girls landslide.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Never forget this atrocity. Watch this before voting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-oMHPZgKJc
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Futureheads wld sit more comfortably in some kind of tru-indie thing with The Young Knives, Mystery Jets etc. Minor mid-decade successes.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
You people are all giving The Rakes and The Cribs too much credit.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
THE KOOKS - 4/10
way too lenient.
"Well uh oh, oh I love her because she moves in her own wayWell uh oh, oh she ame oo my oh ust oo hear aout eye ay"
kill kill kill
― ledge, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Toploader and Stereophonics are well out-of-time for this poll.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I believe the singer from Maximo park wore/wears a bowler hat, which is enough to ratchet up their score a few points. One of their songs wasn't too bad though, it had a jittery energy to it.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:59 AM (16 minutes ago)
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Both Toploader and the Shitophonics had significant 2000 albums out, I reckon they qualify, and they're not synonymous with the previous decade in the way that, say, Oasis were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6coqAoDC0
^^^ Simultaneous nadir of two separate genres, which is quite an achievement.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Rakes' first album also had a lot of jittery energy and enough opacity to get them let off here, if you want to be For Real horrible you've gotta wear them hearts on your sleeves.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
We should judge this scientifically by sending the list as a questionnaire to Nick Clegg and asking him to tick off which ones he likes the best. Scouting For Girls would probably win due to repping for him.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
singles off first rakes album were great. next couple singles after were good too but then they ran out.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Kings of Leon really should be on this poll, it's what they would've wanted.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Like a lot of their work:futureheads
Like one or two songs:hard-fikaiser chiefskasabiankeanerazorlightsnow patrolthe feelingthe magic numbersthe zutons
Ho hum:athletebabyshamblesflorence and the machinestarsailorthe cribsthe hoosierstoploader
10th circle of hell:biffy clyroscouting for girlsthe fratellisthe kooksthe ordinary boysthe stereophonics
Never knowingly heard:hundred reasonsjoe lean and the jing jang jongmumford and sonsnoah and the whalepigeon detectivesthe courteenersthe enemythe othersthe rakesthe twangthe viewthe wombats
Voted Biffy Clyro.
― Obese Pony-hating Liberal (Billy Dods), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to 'she's so lovely'... fuck
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Yes, the first Rakes album is so much better than most of the stuff here. They were at least trying to be clever and interesting. Though grindie was obviously a regrettable episode in this proud nation's history.
― DL, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
We should judge this scientifically by sending the list as a questionnaire to Nick Clegg and asking him to tick off which ones he likes the best.
Polls on ILM are fucked up enough without introducing AV cheers
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
biffy clyro are really really awful and a(nother) stain on my country.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you know what's sad? Enter Shikari are better than all of these.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
There's definitely a difference between bands where I was lured in by one good single and then loss interest and ones (like the Kooks and Scouting for Girls) where I clearly remember encountering them for the first time and thinking, fuck this for a game of soldiers.
― DL, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
This is just the worst. If I had the choice between being forced to listen to this on repeat for eternity in hell and listening to She's So Lovely on repeat for eternity in hell I think I would probably plump for Scouting For Girls.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
If it was definitely one or the other I wd become a big-time god botherer tbh
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
she's so lovely vs dancing in the moonlight vs good enough (dodgy) which one would be the winner for worst song? Im guessing shes so lovely as its the most recent but those other 2 were the equivalent of their day.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the answer is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7Zkkucos8
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
'she's so luvverly' isn't even the worst SFG song, of the two i can remember. that one that got to #1 was even worse. about to give it a spin [via anachronistic phrases for playing music on spotify].
'dancing in the moonlight' pwns the fuck out of most of the songs named so far imo. could be a fucked up kneejerk nostalgia thing.
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
were these bands worse than the 2nd & 3rd rate britpop bands of the 90s?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I found a copy of the original "Dancing in the moonlight", it's OK.
Good Enough has a couple of good bits in.
Leaving "She's so lovely", doesn't really enlarge on why except for "I think that she is beau-ti-fl"
Which is not exactly shakespear this.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this poll is making me rifle thru my bottle stash, but it's not nostalgia
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:08 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
i love love love this first album & also the first single from album 2
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
funny to see athlete at the bottom. the keyboardist went to my school - he gave a presentation about how the band got started, their influences etc
what was really funny was him talking about how their main influence was, of all things, grandaddy - they were apparently really keen on getting the same kind of decayed, lo--fi vibe as you get on songs like AM 180. i've listened to a few athlete tracks, scouring them for the remotest sign of that influence, and i've never been able to find anything. just another mediocre britpop band
for what it's worth, mornings eleven by the magic numbers still rockshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwobxaEoVaM
― tremolo, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 11:10 (six months ago) link
I interviewed that Athlete guy - Tim W - just before the release of their third album and he was super excited about some of the subtle production tricks on it; they’d just built their own studio and were self producing for the first time. I haven’t revisited it, but we talked about The Outsiders and Flying Over Bus Stops in particular. https://mikeatkinson.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/interview-tim-wanstall-of-athlete/
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 19:24 (six months ago) link
congratulations to Toploader for their very late challenge for the title
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 07:52 (five months ago) link
When the revolution comes they can be put on the queue for the guillotine
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 09:28 (five months ago) link
No queuing for Toploader, I'll open a new guillotine especially
― kinder, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 18:20 (five months ago) link
I think in the name of a fairer, non-partisan class enemy cull, it would be quite equitable and justified to execute any bands that play at the Labour conference as well.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
i'm pretty sure anybody that performs at a Lab or Tory conference was already on my gulag list on aesthetic grounds alone
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 19:45 (five months ago) link
I thought you liked The Strawbs?
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 19:56 (five months ago) link
Ok, saw a tweet saying Toploader are playing at the Lab conference and...it's sort of perfect?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:27 (five months ago) link
No matter who you vote for, Toploader always get in.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 22:41 (five months ago) link
isn't truss on record as liking Onka's Big Moka?
― koogs, Thursday, 5 October 2023 02:16 (five months ago) link
her legacy was more Magic Hotel
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 5 October 2023 02:38 (five months ago) link
this twitter account that posts old photos from getty images is doing a weekend dedicated to 00's UK indie , and it's quite something
https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics
― soref, Sunday, 22 October 2023 13:14 (five months ago) link
wow.until now, i have never ever seen a picture of clor before.
― mark e, Sunday, 22 October 2023 18:07 (five months ago) link
ha that Kevin Bridges pic
― StanM, Sunday, 22 October 2023 18:35 (five months ago) link
I'd totally forgotten about the landfill-ized version of the Hollyoaks theme music
If you aren’t sure what any of these bands sound like, then just put this on as it could be 90% of them https://t.co/rTnLZO1AoP— Great British 00s Indie Images (@shitbritishpics) October 22, 2023
― soref, Sunday, 22 October 2023 22:15 (five months ago) link
You mean they haven't been using that theme for the entire 21st century?
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 October 2023 03:20 (five months ago) link
Symposium are back together, end times
― MaresNest, Saturday, 18 November 2023 12:09 (four months ago) link
I'm sad I missed this original poll
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 18 November 2023 13:17 (four months ago) link
The right (i.e. worst) two bands came out tops though
But I feel like I have opinions on almost every single of these bands and histories with a great deal of them also.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 18 November 2023 13:19 (four months ago) link