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

those nicknames, so evocative

What the fuck are The Futureheads doing here?

mumford and sons 11

this band was around three years ago? ugh.

Longer than that. Saw them open for Laura Marling back in 2008. (They were also her backing band.)

This is the rest of the bill for the Libertines at Hyde Park: Maximo Park, The Enemy, Reverend And The Makers, The View, The Twang, The Rifles.

Imagine paying money to see that.

Hopefully 'The Rifles' aren't actually a band.

Spiritualized and The Pogues are on this as well, but they have some degree of critical respect so it's less of a sitting target for social media yuksters if they're listed as well

as well, as well

spiritualized and the pogues make it no better

ladies and gentlemen we are floating in waste

I don't actually mind Maximo Park. As for the rest of the bill, I'd rather listen to Cast and Ocean Colour Scene. In fact, I'd rather listen to Cast and Ocean Colour Scene that 95% of the bands in this poll, which says a lot about the level of quality we're dealing with here.

*than

Premier League predictions: Lawro v Biffy Clyro singer Simon Neil

BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.

His opponent for the weekend's Premier League fixtures is Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil.

Neil is backing all of the Premier League's top three of Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City to win this weekend, but thinks the title race is now a foregone conclusion.

Forgot Elbow.

http://www.nme.com/photos/46-quality-indie-bands-of-the-2000s-you-completely-forgot-about/345815/1/1

quality

nme overestimates my ability to forget to a tragic extent

familiar with 56% of those names, perhaps a third to a half of those could remember something else about them, a song name or a racism furore or suchlike

what does it mean that joe lean and the jing jang jong couldnt even get on this list? their wikipedia page still links to their official website http://www.jingjangjong.com/

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)

The Rakes holds up for me, in the same way the new We Are Scientists is great, if you're a fan. Checking now, looks like the follow-up, Ten New Messages, escaped my radar. Will snag that soon.

Milburn Formed in Sheffield in 2001, Milburn’s cheeky chappy tunes (check out the rattling clatter of ‘Lipstick Lickin’) might not have stood the test of time, but they can at least claim their place in the indie history books for helping to inspire mates and local peers Arctic Monkeys to crack on with it. One for the team then, eh boys?

"Crack on with the cheeky chappy tunes boys, we need to create a self-sacrificing cheeky chappy wind for The Artic Monkeys success!"

it is because I've got adblock on or is the photo for no. 11 the most 'couldnt be arsed' GIS ever?

i know a bunch of people like rattling good cheeky chappy tunes but i have no fucking idea why

was thinking this on the Kasabian thread, there are whole moods or vibes in music that are wholly alien and ugly to me

Poor Mooney Suzuki (#13 although these numbers appear to be entirely meaningless). I liked you, you do not belong on this list. Although I think you've entirely merged with The Modey Lemon in my head so maybe I didn't like you after all.

White Rose Movement (#22): not very good, but I liked this one single by their probably even more forgotten 90s incarnation Arturo

Aw, I loved Arturo. I, too, own like one single by them, but it was a bloody great single.

Wow, that is actually a completely different Arturo single than the one I had! And it's amazing! It's that "your lips are just like mine, tripped out on the Circle Line" one that I could never find. Loved that song.

I remember 100% of the bands in that article. Even possibly more worrying is that I probably own records by 80% of em. Transgressive seemed like a really exciting label for a moment there

arturo still sound great to me, both singles are ace. I found a promo with a couple of extra tracks a few years ago, shame they never finished an lp

fuck the hate.
i still love the departure album.
that said, i had not heard interpol or editors by that time.
most of the rest can swing.
and yes, that's from someone who owns well over 60% of the list.
ok, i paid for none of it as i had a crappy website, and labels threw stuff at me.
i care not, it was a glorious time to be a cheapskate online presence ..
just a shame most of the music was so shyte.

The Grates have made three albums, actually, contrary to that article's suggestion. The third one was pretty decent as well.

I finally made it to the end of the list, and it does seem genuinely unfair lumping in The Long Blondes and Pipettes with the rest of that crap. But if they hadn't, there would have been no women at all. (OK, exactly 2.) I don't even know if that's good or bad!

i still listen to pull tiger tail, chalets & dogs on the reg, they each had a couple of really good tracks (stop laughing)

dogs die in hot cars album is great too

"Now [The Chalets] make up two thirds of buzzy garage band The September Girls" - have thus learned something mildly interesting from this list, aside from wondering how you have two thirds of a five-piece band

i fucking hate that dogs die in hot cars album, and i normally love c.langer and winstanley productions.

re the grates .. i have an album in the archive, no idea if album #1 or #3, all i hear is second rate grunge.

also, the long blondes/pipettes should not be on this list.

note :
my blocking s/w stopped me from seeing most of the list ..
i got about 20 in and then the number left to view went down with each album.
so, i have no idea re the late entries ..

same here...the Chalets and Pipettes were a lot better than the bands I did see listed

(#13 although these numbers appear to be entirely meaningless)

the opening paragraph says "Here’s our favourite 50", i guess the poor sap writing it fell apart before his stream of consciousness splurge was quite over.

Pipettes were good (at least before Rose left). Love her solo album.

Grates' early stuff was pretty trashy punkpop but the most recent album iirc was more restrained and delicate.

"Now [The Chalets] make up two thirds of buzzy garage band The September Girls" - have thus learned something mildly interesting from this list, aside from wondering how you have two thirds of a five-piece band

― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's just the vocalists. also the album is somewhat disappointing

every time there's one of these polls of a load of lol landfill acts people pop up to say things like "powder don;t belong on this list" or "symposium's first 2 singles were actually quite good" and I just know without checking that this isn't true

― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:45 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I like the September Girls album fwiw

note :
my blocking s/w stopped me from seeing most of the list ..
i got about 20 in and then the number left to view went down with each album.
so, i have no idea re the late entries ..

Oh, I had this too. That was why I thought the numbering was meaningless, it would show me non-consecutive numbers and finally crapped out after about 24.

Now wading through the other half without ad-blocking, and that's a lot of ads.

bloody hell .. switched off add blocking ..
that is one seriously painful website to look at.
ok - the rest of the list - truly dreadful (though i still have a soft spot for the clor album).
love how the whole premise of the listicle is that this is supposed to be about decent bands of the era, and yet, in many of the blurbs they slag the band off.
even they cant keep up the pretence.

I grew up listening to a lot of compilations, and things like "forgotten Nuggets of the 60s" which would be 10 utterly shit tracks, a couple of quite good ones and one so amazing it made the whole rest of the album worthwhile. (And if you were smart, you'd make a C90 of the various amazing ones from other comps.)

So when I see a list of 50 random bands - and especially if I see people I know from other ILX threads, and whose tastes I generally trust, coming along and saying "actually X had this really good single" and "Y doesn't belong on this list!" - especially if I see 3 or 4 people in a row name the same bands. You know, I trust their opinion that that one band might be really really good more than I trust some cynic who can't even bother checking because they have already pre-decided that everything is shit.

So still: Arturo were really good, and Long Blondes really really do not fucking belong on this list.

My cynicism is born of hard-won experience of bothering to check things out

Lol ok it isn't really

This was an era/genre of music that I was by-and-large repelled by at the time, but TBF I would probably listen to an ILM-compiled 'best of' this list.

one for the rock stars who went back work. thread

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/what-s-on/gigs-music/the-futureheads-s-barry-hyde-swaps-music-for-cooking-as-he-trains-to-be-a-chef-in-sunderland-1-6251329

does this signal the first wave of landfill revivalism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GuUbziASwE