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

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.

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.

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.

singles off first rakes album were great. next couple singles after were good too but then they ran out.

Kings of Leon really should be on this poll, it's what they would've wanted.

Like a lot of their work:
futureheads

Like one or two songs:
hard-fi
kaiser chiefs
kasabian
keane
razorlight
snow patrol
the feeling
the magic numbers
the zutons

Ho hum:
athlete
babyshambles
florence and the machine
starsailor
the cribs
the hoosiers
toploader

10th circle of hell:
biffy clyro
scouting for girls
the fratellis
the kooks
the ordinary boys
the stereophonics

Never knowingly heard:
hundred reasons
joe lean and the jing jang jong
mumford and sons
noah and the whale
pigeon detectives
the courteeners
the enemy
the others
the rakes
the twang
the view
the wombats

Voted Biffy Clyro.

listening to 'she's so lovely'... fuck

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.

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

biffy clyro are really really awful and a(nother) stain on my country.

Do you know what's sad? Enter Shikari are better than all of these.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlMfV7A3V00

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.

If it was definitely one or the other I wd become a big-time god botherer tbh

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.

the answer is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7Zkkucos8

'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.

were these bands worse than the 2nd & 3rd rate britpop bands of the 90s?

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.

this poll is making me rifle thru my bottle stash, but it's not nostalgia

you know who belonged on here even tho I liked a couple of their songs? Maximo Park

― 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

matt's rundown is killing me, A+

can someone please unban dom for this thread only

were these bands worse than the 2nd & 3rd rate britpop bands of the 90s?

Yeah come on, Cast and Shed Seven and Kula Shaker and the like had too many hilarious self-clowning moments. They were shit but I was glad they existed.

Rooster's debut single, "Come Get Some," reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart in November 2004. Live shows saw the band improvising and extending songs; Neale often performed a four-minute-long drum solo during "Drag The Sunrise Down." Rooster were known to incorporate covers, such as, Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," Free's "All Right Now," Jamiroquai's "Deeper Underground," Blackstreet's "No Diggity" and The Rolling Stone's "Satisfaction" into their live sets.

I bet that cover of No Diggity was... something.

Worst SFG song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9e7z9y5r2g

OH FUCK ROOSTER

Re-poll

oh god, from the first two bars of that song you know it's going to suck ass.

example of a 2nd and 3rd rate britpop band plz.

'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.

actually i withdraw this comment. the #1 is just blander. you could probably ignore it, despite the stakeriness.

xp

lol i was going to mention rooster earlier but somehow had em pegged as a bustedwave tween act?

Wd like to draw the jury's attention to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuwnzv9FzwM

xposts are KILLING here.

The Hoosier's lead dwarf's face is very stabby

oh, and:

Apparently, the Hoosiers are going to release the world's longest single, at 43 mins...

OH FUCK ROOSTER

How many 'a load of old cock' jokes were made at the time?

I am looking forward to polling The Family Cat, The Senseless Things and the Mega City 4 in a couple of weeks.

where is WBS

were these bands worse than the 2nd & 3rd rate britpop bands of the 90s?

Can't judge tbh. Last random 2nd-tierer i heard was Great Things by Echobelly, about a week ago. Sounded fine, cheered me a little to hear it but I am of that age now yknow. + at least there were some women were in the britpop bands.

You'll be playing Salad next, woof.

there's an American country song about reality TV stars etc. that reminds me of that SFG track but I'm luckily having trouble remembering the title or performer.

Say what you like about 2011's music scene but at least we only have one Mumford & Sons whereas from 2005-2008 at least half of these would be in the charts at any one time.

toploader guy is a really terrible vocalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9mpDAJOPac

k I've just made some fantastic cocktail of Bell's, Disaronno and Ginger Beer - let the memories commence

example of a 2nd and 3rd rate britpop band plz.

― Mark G,

Powder, though they may be 5th rate. Northern Uproar? Ocean Colour Scene?

THE FRATELLIS - 30/10 - Chelsea Dagger might be the worst thing that any of these bands have put out

OTM. Ubiquity is a strong factor here - everyone stopped caring about The Enemy etc. very quickly, but The Fratelli pollution lingers.

Though I would take Menswe@r over every band here

xps

haha cannot remember a note of their music, but am able to spell and picture Marijne van der Vlugt very easily.

Fuck I've just seen the Pigeon Detectives. Why were bubble perms suddenly an acceptable fashion statement for this scene?

Northern Uproar made a couple of singles, I bought one, can't remember it.

OCS woe. never did