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

The top 50 greatest landfill indie songs of all time

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the subhed immediately addresses NV's concerns, and there are some decent gags in the mini-essay before the list.

Did the term "landfill indie" originate here?

Andrew Harrison takes the blame according to the piece.

i read bits and pieces, the actual writing was ok

i don't think the term originated on ilm

I heard landfill adjoined to all sorts of things other than music years before I heard it used in this context. at least I think I did!

swagger overload i can't take it

the list is good imo, I like that it takes pains to explain that while the movement/period was shit overall some of the music was fun, and I also like the idea that non-landfill acts were capable of putting out landfill indie

and how some Petey D bands are landfill and some aren't

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.

As I said elsewhere, the very first one (#50) is a good song. Can't vouch for much of the rest except Maximo Park who are still quite good

yeah, i'll still ride for those two maximo park songs. idk if they really fit into landfill genre, they were a bit weirder than the rest of the ilk.

The one great thing about landfill indie is, you don't ever have to hear it to know it's shite.

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"

Carcass and Bolt Thrower killed the britpop game.

was going to make jokes about thrash metal bands slaughtering b-list britpoppers, thought better of it

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.

i too was expecting Art Brut to feature.

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.

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.

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?

ha.
i know its a small scale thing, but weren't they a wakefield band as opposed to proper leeds ?

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.

franz ferdinand are definitely landfill despite what that article says

First album and FFS put them several miles above landfill.

Speaking of bands who actually were from Leeds, no sign of Kaiser Chiefs on this list is surprising.

no it's not.

sub-landfill!

I'm more curious about the landfill before time.

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!

franz ferdinand, maximo park, art brit, the future heads... these are all the same band, right? man I hate that stuff.

the cribs, the kooks, everybody has their one “no actually this one was good”

andrew harrison takes the blame in his twitter bio (and correctly, bcz he did indeed invent this term)

He did indeed

He says it will probably end up on his headstone

He says he was as surprised as anyone that it took off

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!

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"

Surprised nobody's started a poll tbh

95% sure I remember TV landfill used as a term to describe late night ITV schedules from about 1996 on

Why is it always landfill indie tho and not, say, landfill folk or whatever.

Landfill classical is definitely real.

ah Laserlight

maybe Laserlight is good? Idk

man, this list made the rounds on music twitter today

anyway ... i love that Vaccines song

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

if I were to make a list of "not landfill" bands on there, that would not be the list.

FF and Bloc Party aren't even on the list, are they?

Why is it always landfill indie tho and not, say, landfill folk or whatever.

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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