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

Oh God.

Are we voting for redeeming features, heartfelt loathing or comedy value?

heartfelt loathing or comedy value

thankfully haven't knowingly heard anything by at least half of these.

The Automatic seems like an important omission. They had that song.

i am now actively trying to remember a song that i despise and would rather not give any more headroom to, just to figure out which of these fuckers is responsible

I always thought The Hoosiers were American for some reason.

Scouting For Girls are the shittiest band here, by a long way.

The Automatic seems like an important omission. They had that song.

― Pisle of dogs (seandalai), Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think I might like that song more than any song from any of these jokers.

I always thought The Hoosiers were American for some reason.

almost got ^these guys confused with Hooters who are not at all the worst thing ever...

http://exlaodicea.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/michael-gove-460_1109643a.jpg

Actually Kaiser chiefs had a couple of decent choruses.

The Hoosiers are such a bunch of twats.

Hang on, are we voting for the worst? That's kind of impossible.

^^^
Scouting for Girls make me forget doors exist. By the second chorus of "She's So Lovely", I'm generally found whipping around the room looking for a small table to throw through a window so I can escape.

At least the Automatic were good enough to ensure they remained a simple novelty band by releasing just one silly song and never bothering anyone again.

wtf are the Futureheads doing here? Their first album was awesome from start to finish.

The View had a really good song on their second album called 5Rebecccas or something.

It's quite impressive that even on a list containing Toploader, The Kooks and The View, Scouting For Girls are still the worst.

Florence & The Machine do not belong here, should be no girls in this poll unless they're playing bass.

athlete - CONTENDERS. Coldplay without the musical and lyrical savagery

babyshambles - couple of decent singles imo, clearly horrible people and fans but hey that's indie rock and roll

biffy clyro - CONTENDERS. I have never knowingly heard a Biffy Clyro song yet I can still smell them from here

florence and the machine - fucking horrible but hey sexism

hard-fi - don't really hate these much but remember I never read any music press or watch interviews ever

hundred reasons - don't remember much about them, some kind of comedy fake Metal band yeah?

joe lean and the jing jang jong - probably the biggest individual cunt on this cunt-packed list but fortunately never lived to inflict music on me. may have been some kind of LJ-ish performance art joke?

kaiser chiefs - CONTENDERS. Scum de la Scum, the sound of a service station convenience store on the M62 stamping on a human ear, forever

kasabian - CONTENDERS. Just enormous wonky tools, a cross between everything that's terrible about the Doors, Primal Scream and Oasis bafflingly adored by blokes with indie haircuts who turned thirty last year

keane - soft target soft scoop shite, too pop and occasionally pleasant to win this thing

mumford and sons - CONTENDERS. I honestly thought at the time that I wd never see anything worse than the Levellers while I lived

noah and the whale - jesus who are these gobshites?

pigeon detectives - got nothing, assume they're shit, I've probably heard something by them on account of the fucking terrible indie disco in the Piper on a Friday

razorlight - I quite like that "Trouble in America" song for some reason, clearly nothing to do with the horribleness of these Ikea no-marks

scouting for girls - CONTENDERS. I honestly have mutilation fantasies about these. Angry, angry fans for some reason

snow patrol - I liked that one about standing up but the one about lying down is the worst "give me a cuddle and a mug of soup" pandering shite I've ever heard in all my life

starsailor - quite funny. in retrospect. it hurt at the time

the courteeners - great band name, great lads, hope to fuck I never hear what they sound like

the cribs - fuck knows

the enemy - I honestly really like "We'll Live and Die etc etc" sorry

the feeling - I honestly really like that fill my little teacup up song except the lyrics, sweet tune and arrangement imo

the fratellis - CONTENDERS. the cunt's cunts

the futureheads - yeah cheers for the Kate Bush cover you useless sub-XTC-when-they-was-shit twats

the hoosiers - in many ways I hate these more than Scatting for Girls but they are sort of too risible plus their fans are less angry. they should drown in slurry tho

the kooks - is this the buskers band? EVIL BEYOND FUCKING BELIEF if so

the magic numbers - pleasant sub-Beautiful South middle-aged couple music iirc, can't place them here

the ordinary boys - I think the dude's suffered enough

the others - fuck knows

the rakes - hey hey it's the Strokees

the stereophonics - CONTENDERS. honoured too many times for their services to the cause of evil to get my vote here. don't think the dude's suffered enough

the twang - fuck knows. assume they're no Blak Twang

the view - or are these the buskers twats? fuck knows tbh

the wombats - are some of these made up?

the zutons - fucking shit but at least they had a sax which means hey they're not the worst fucking shit

toploader - ONE HIT CONTENDERS. clearly need to die, but the ex has suffered enough imo

I've got to vote Scouting for Girls in the end, but there's a special circle of hell where this whole gang is the playlist and I regret all the mean things I've said and done

HArd to argue with SfG, but Chelsea Dagger is the shitehawk national anthem & may swing me to ver frats.

glad I have never heard most of these bands.

i don't know why i'm doing this to myself... but maybe someone here can help me remember the terrible awful no-good song that was by one of these bands or someone like them. an xfm favourite a year or two ago, lyrical themes: don't be sad, you're still young, remember that time we took a record player somewhere and played some tunes, oh yeah that was top.

xps - I think the band that has annoyed me most often is actually The Fratellis.

the stereophonics - CONTENDERS. honoured too many times for their services to the cause of evil to get my vote here. don't think the dude's suffered enough

he did kill himself to be fair

I was aware of that.

Holloways, Music Generator?

(an answer to ledge, that)

WHERE IS THE SCRIPT

xp that was it. thanks. "thanks". actually the name has not yet triggered any memory of the music, thank fuck.

xp - The Script are Irish iirc.

i have never heard scouting for girls or read anything about them. can someone explain why they are the worst please?

Oh.

God I hate the Script though.

I'd forgotten all about The Zutons! (I guess that's probably for the best.)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLqo7C-WwA

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

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.

bands on this list i have knowingly heard:

babyshambles - horrible
florence and the machine - not my thing, but she doesn't belong in a UK indie landfill poll
kaiser chiefs - horrible, but not as bad as several of the others
kasabian - horrible
keane - horrible
mumford and sons - what the fucking fuck
snow patrol - horrible
the cribs - lol johnny marr
the futureheads - not actively offensive
the magic numbers - not actively offensive
the stereophonics - horrible

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

the wombats & the courteneers really bring me back to the time in high school where i used to read nme irl

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.

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, View
Like a whole album by: Babyshambles, Rakes, Kaiser Chiefs

Voted Toploader.

Yeah, Magic Numbers don't bother me at all, they're sweet overweight aging hippies who like to sing pleasant vocal harmonies.

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

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 here
JOE LEAN AND THE JING JANG JONG - 7/10 - obviously woeful but everybody knew it
KAISER CHIEFS - 10/10 genuine contenders
KASABIAN - 10/10 genuine contenders, also worst fans ever
KEANE - 2/10 basically too inoffensive
MUMFORD & CUNTS - 20/10
NOAH AND THE WHALE - 5/10 - no one can seriously vote for them when Mumford & Sons exist
PIGEON DETECTIVES - 10/10 worst shit ever
RAZORLIGHT - 10/10 also maybe more for Johnny Borrell factor
SCOUTING 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 luvverly
SNOW PATROL - 9/10 - they get a point knocked off for making DJ Martian so angry
STARSAILOR - 8/10 - obviously terrible but also kind of easy to ignore to matter how big they were
THE COURTEENERS - 6/10 - some Oasis shit, right?
THE CRIBS - 9/10, dude has one of the worst voices ever
THE ENEMY - can't even remember what they sounded like but I'll assume they were terrible so a straight 8/10
THE 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 doubt
THE FRATELLIS - 30/10 - Chelsea Dagger might be the worst thing that any of these bands have put out
THE FUTUREHEADS - 5/10 - feel a bit too credible to be here
THE HOOSIERS - 9/10, stupid name
THE KOOKS - 4/10 - hating on the Kooks feels a bit like hating on Keane, kneejerk "girls like this so it must be shit" hate
THE MAGIC NUMBERS - 5/10 - hilarious strop on Top of the Pops gives them a bit of leeway, also everyone's forgotten about them
THE 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 10/10
THE RAKES - even Lethal Bizzle is probably embarassed about this lot now 8/10
THE STEREOPHONICS - okay they might actually rival Mumford & Sons 30/10
THE TWANG - 8/10 - fuck knows
THE VIEW - 9/10 - Cast more like
THE WOMBATS - 8/10 but at least they seem funny in retrospect
THE 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

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.

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.

Never forget this atrocity. Watch this before voting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-oMHPZgKJc

Futureheads wld sit more comfortably in some kind of tru-indie thing with The Young Knives, Mystery Jets etc. Minor mid-decade successes.

You people are all giving The Rakes and The Cribs too much credit.

THE KOOKS - 4/10

way too lenient.

"Well uh oh, oh I love her because she moves in her own way
Well uh oh, oh she ame oo my oh ust oo hear aout eye ay"

kill kill kill

Toploader and Stereophonics are well out-of-time for this poll.

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.

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, February 17, 2011 9:59 AM (16 minutes ago)

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

Though I would take Menswe@r over every band here

Quite.

listening to the hoosiers, im thinking, why the fuck did i not form a band? could've been making serious scrilla if i'd spent just half my ilx time on trying to sound like these muppets.

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

― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:36 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark

loool

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.

Why i could never go to a big football match in scotland ever again. One of many reasons to avoid Hampden internationals is that they play this after goals and before and after the games.

Singles from 'Drink Me' were fab, can't remember the album. It's on spotify so will have to check it out in the name of research.

You'll be playing Salad next, woof.

last.fm played "Drink the Elixir" at me just today! I still kinda like it. And still refuse to acknowledge that they had any other songs. (Did they?)

Similarly for Silver Sun and "Lava", except last.fm has never played that at me, I just get drunk enough to youtube it sometimes. (Don't actually watch the video tho, or they'll seem as punchable as everyone on this list.)

a Britpop landfill poll is gonna be tarnished with accusations of sexism simply because there were a bunch of terrible fucking bands with women in them

Who was the band responsible for that "what's that coming over the hill is it a monster?" song? That is one vile inescapable song almost as bad as that fratellis/dodgy/toploader shit

Toploader - I can't imagine any of these other bands causing my bile to rise so quickly just at the mention of their name 12 years after their biggest hit.

I think there may need to be a separate thread for 'unusual details from wikipedia' about all these bands. Thus for the Fratellis:

They played their first show on 4 March 2005 in the O'Henry's bar in Glasgow across the road from the famous Horseshoe bar.

...

Mince has joined a heavy metal band called Throne o' Diablo and is regularly performing with them and recording material

monster = Automatic.

Roffle:

http://www.throneodiablo.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x3B_m-r-9M

Right then. I'm going to make every effort to find redeeming features. If I find one, they're out.

athlete - Genuinely liked the third album, plus one of them gave me an excellent interview.

babyshambles - CONTENDERS
biffy clyro - CONTENDERS

florence and the machine - Good XX remix of "You Got The Love". Hate everything else she's done, and not remotely convinced by her live show. I'm not a big one for actual HATING, but I absolutely HATE this. CONTENDERS.

hard-fi - LOVE "Hard To Beat".
hundred reasons - never heard

joe lean and the jing jang jong - Redeemed by comedy value/so-bad-it's-entertaining-ness, but they are quite possibly the worst band of the 2000s. Then again, good drummer. Could never understand why he stuck with them.

kaiser chiefs - I've seen them live. They entertained, after a fashion. But then again, HATE HATE HATE "Ruby" beyond all reason. CONTENDERS.

kasabian - Quite liked "Empire" and "Fire".

keane - Actually LOVE a couple of their singles.

mumford and sons - I've moved from indifference to HATE in the past few weeks. Not sure how much of it is their fault, as opposed to what they have come to represent, which is largely out of their control.

noah and the whale - Don't mind them in small doses.

pigeon detectives - Accidentally saw them at a festival, didn't hate them. They were last minute stand-ins, playing to the wrong crowd, but they did an OK job in winning people over.

razorlight - There was one song that I didn't mind. Ludicrous front man, obv.

scouting for girls - I once spent an evening "hanging out" with the singer. He was thoroughly pleasant company, so I can't hate.

snow patrol - Grudging respect, up to a point. They shouldn't be on here, though. HELLO, THEY ARE IRISH.

starsailor - Indifference rather than hate.
the courteeners - never heard
the cribs - See Starsailor.
the enemy - never heard

the feeling - Moderately fond. Actually very enjoyable live. Fancied Dan something rotten.

the fratellis - I *like* "Chelsea Dagger"!

the futureheads - Started great, got boring. But they *were* great, for a while.

the hoosiers - I can live with them. My nieces loved them, and so I associate them with happy family gatherings.

the kooks - Awful, but the guitarist has his moments. See also: drummer out of the Jing Jang Jong.

the magic numbers - Car-crash of a live show, just over a year ago. Really took a dislike to Romeo. But the odd serviceable tune, for all that.

the ordinary boys - Quite fun live. Phill Jupitus sang "Boys Will Be Boys". Then BB happened. Almost contenders, but not quite.

the others - Utterly utterly shit, but commercial failures, so they have been punished enough.

the rakes - never heard
the stereophonics - HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE. But I think of them more of a 90s band.
the twang - never heard

the view - Quiet liked the one about jeans.
the wombats - never heard
the zutons - dull dull dull, almost contenders, but others are more deserving.

toploader - Our former next door neighbours' daughter's boyfriend ran the studio where they tried (and failed) to follow up the first album. So we are like brothers, really. It wouldn't be fair.

Contenders: Babyshambles, Biffy Clyro, Florence & the Machine, Kaiser Chiefs.

Voting for... BABYSHAMBLES!

it seems like an especially cruel fate that this crap is popular at your sporting events

at least we get stuck w/ the black eyed peas -- slightly less cruel imo

Ludicrous front man, obv.

^this might be the best one sentence summation of british indie rock 05-08 for various reasons

Most of the female-fronted Britpop bands were at least passable though, except Sleeper obviously.

That Automatic song has at least inspired some good football chants, especially one particularly delightful one for Steven Gerrard.

surprised that this shit is played at football matches coz it all seems kind of studenty to me? is this a symptom of 'football's hijack by the middle classes'?

Ludicrous front man, obv.

^this might be the best one sentence summation of british indie rock 05-08 for various reasons

I dunno, one thing that's apparent when you look at this list is the interchangeability of most of the singers.

surprised that this shit is played at football matches coz it all seems kind of studenty to me? is this a symptom of 'football's hijack by the middle classes'?

In one word, yes. But in several words, also the upper working classification of this strain of landfill indie from Britpop on.

First result for GIS of 'ludicrous front man':

http://www.burninglodge.com/images/BL-Buffalo.jpg

Chris Martin was third, Billy Corgan tenth.

wtf are the Futureheads doing here? Their first album was awesome from start to finish.

― nate woolls, Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^^ & second album was unjustly ignored. The Futureheads: secretly the best of the early-to-mid 00s post-punk revivalists.

Chelsea Dagger's "Badarap - badarap - badabadabadarap" seems to cut drunkenly across all divisions of class and gender.

Not race tho.

NO WAY do The Futureheads belong on here, the first album is brilliant. Much of the horsecrap on here is faux-indie careerist bollocks and there's plenty that still sounds great on there.

Toploader really are in a class of their own, which is saying a lot, considering the competition. They failed at being the UK equivalent of Smash Mouth, which is just..

I really cant not vote for toploader

Of this list, I only own the first few albums from Snow Patrol, and I really liked them until they found a flaccid formula and decided to go for the dosh. Bully for them. I still dig the first two albums particularly, got to see them in a small club in Boston and they were great.

Always associate Toploader with Jamie Oliver for some reason, which doesn't help their cause.

Much of the horsecrap on here is faux-indie careerist bollocks and there's plenty that still sounds great on there.

PRO TIP: this mayn't be the thread for you

Another Futureheads fan here. First album is unfuckwithable. I saw them at the ICA in London the year that came out and it was incredible. Acutally saw them last year and while the newer stuff isn't nearly as good, they're still a fun live band.

Also The Rakes. Fuck the haters. I still listen to the first album on the reg and I absolutely love it.

I dunno, one thing that's apparent when you look at this list is the interchangeability of most of the singers.

― Matt DC, Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:46 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

that's def intertwined w/ the ludicrousness tho imo

shd send out the southall bat-signal to get a snow patrol defence

swag enbb out

I spent a couple years b/w the UK & Ireland at the very beginning of the decade. Of literally EVERY song I remember that was popular at the time, I consider the Toploader cover of 'Dancing in the Moonlight' to be the absolute worst. By a significant margin, even.

Southy's the Embrace defence league. But they're not on this,.

Futureheads still decent imo - Heartbeat Song prob my favourite bit of xfm-friendly indie-pop from last year.

'dancing in the moonlight' has passed into 'harmless' territory, maybe that's a post-'four lions' thing. lotta these bands kind of oscillate between wet-blanketism and rapyeness. don't like either of those looks.

I SMELL A TAKING SIDES THREAD

Proof we associate stereophonics with the 90s
WORST SONG Of These Mid To Late 90s UK Bands

I think if someone redid the poll now they would still win it.

No Elbow, no credibility-less-ness.

> Are we voting for redeeming features, heartfelt loathing or comedy value?
> ― Pisle of dogs (seandalai), Thursday, February 17, 2011 3:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Dunno, I haven't heard them (badum-tish).

Wow, I'd thought Scouting for Girls were indie landfill, not Buggles x Vengaboys. Also, what's indie landfill about Toploader? Van Morrison-lite American funk-soul-pop landfill cover version (Counting Crows et al).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8

thought this would be mumford easily, even tho the fratellis song is the worst of any of this shit, like i don't think i've knowlingly heard 60% of them but that reprehensible thing hs got everywere [via memetic facility of DUH DUH DUH]

i'm gonna vote for hundreds reasons cos i think one of my friends shagged one of them. coulda been some other kingston emo band tho..still

xpost Ugh, Mr Writer and Place Your Hands. Saddened by the 3 people who voted for Dubstar in that poll though. Savages.

ver phonics were both late 90s and early 00s really. 'dakota' got to number one in 2005. but most of these bands are kinda post-new rock revolution so they don't really fit.

I'm not sure I've heard Mumford & Sons knowingly btw. Post a youtube of their best known song please

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

this is a good song

taking your word for it

Fire by Kasabian has just come on the office stereo. I am enjoying it, fu haterz

WOOO OOOO OOO OOOOOO OOO OOOO OOO OOO OOOOOOOOOOO

snow patrol are from northern ireland arent they? so they still fit in this poll.

con-tro-ver-sy

either way they are Scotland based iirc so that'll do

probably still lying on the M90 somewhere waiting for a cuggle

impressive geographical distribution of mid00s lumpen crap compared to say the recent cajun-penate-florence-mumfordwave london private school shit

Southy's the Embrace defence league. But they're not on this,.

Embrace were OG Radiohead-Lite & should not be here in the absence of Colplay & Travis.

Shouldn't Terris be on the roster tho?

Southy's the Embrace defence league.

Better not try marching through his town with EDL banners

impressive geographical distribution of mid00s lumpen crap compared to say the recent cajun-penate-florence-mumfordwave london private school shit

last hoorah of labels being able to afford to send A&Rs around the country rather than just contact their ex-schoolmates on Facebook

guess u could do regional heats

w scotland - fratellis
e scotland - the view
ne - futureheads?
nw - the zutons
midlands - the twang
london - joe lean etc
home counties - hard-fi
sw - ???

Embrace were OG Radiohead-Lite & should not be here in the absence of Colplay & Travis.

not exactly -- embrace were solidly post-oasis anthemic northern rock. coldplay and travis were designated post-radiohead... post-'high and dry' radiohead i guess.

Hoosiers sw iirc

shit that should be

east mids - kasabian
west mids - the twang

Terris don't really belong here, they really sit alongside My Vitriol and JJ72 and the likes when it comes to failed 2000 attempts to guess the future of rock.

couple of missing entries : tiny dancers, the maccabees

TD being one of the last bands that EMI spunked a wad of cash on (v. nice promos/pacakaging etc) prior to the labels fall from grace-n-favour, only for no-one to give a shit, as the album bombed out of sight (but at least it got released unlike joe jing jang wrong)

what about editors?

Editors are too tasteful, not landfill enough. Ditto Elbow. Both are dull as hell obviously.

I used to see people I knew wearing Editors tshirts but I cant remember a single song by them.

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" was their big hit I think

can someone post a youtube of mumford & sons biggest song to see if i know it please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT54Er0a7nQ

Oops, wrong Mumford. Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E

That guy's got this really annoying David Gray way of singing those verses.

The whole enterprise is like 4 David Grays in search of a kicking

especially one particularly delightful one for Steven Gerrard

don't think I know this. Will hazard a guess at "who's that coming over your wife, it's Krissy Commons".

Top of the many detestable things in that video is the face pulled by King Mumford at 1:28. He looks like he's trying to scare a small child with his monster face.

What reads to their fans as passion seems like pure ham to me.

anyone who makes it to 1:28 deserves whatever they get

NB: I don't hate Scumford and Co because they're not "real" enough. It's because they're shite.

Oh sure, but a hammy idea of "real" is what they're selling and part of what makes them shite.

xxxxxxxxp it's like that bit from Black Books where Fran asks Bernard to sing an Irish song and he says "no, sing it yourself", so she improvises some cod faux-Irish bollocks.

don't think I know this. Will hazard a guess at "who's that coming over your wife, it's Krissy Commons".

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 17 February 2011 17:40 (4 minutes ago)

i never even knew the tune was by a landfill staple, in any case it's

who's that coming over your girlfriend, is it a gangster, is it a gangster?

iirc

couple of missing entries : tiny dancers, the maccabees

Maccabees are gr8, u mad

the zutons - fucking shit but at least they had a sax which means hey they're not the worst fucking shit

u mad

can't imagine how bad landfill AND saxophones together could be

sax is great you fule

not heard that mumford song at all, but i had expected them to have a fiddle player.

They do look like a bunch of fiddlers, 'tis true.

nae fuckin way it's the worst thing ever

there are records by the stooges and anton webern ruined by the presence of saxophones

xxp To compensate they have a banjo player and a keyboard player who only seems to know one chord.

lol sax haters are crazy *tap tap tap*

thought it was basically known at this point that liking sax is a side effect of those court ordered chemical castration injections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeeLLuFK09I

thought it was basically known at this point that liking sax is a side effect of those court ordered chemical castration injections

― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is a really 90s meme man

kate bush even has a 'saxophone song'. qed.

aw youmeatsix changed their name, my hilarious you meat six jokes are obsolete.

talk of Terris reminded me of seeing them play 1.5 songs, have horrible sound problems, get into a bit of handbags, and then apparently split up, at this Reading Festival:

http://i51.tinypic.com/j9a45y.jpg

these festival posters are fascinating because they are a great reminder of all of the dross that your mind has let you forget, but it is crazy looking back at the bands that were actually there that i have no recollection of.

e.g. black eyes peas headlining 3rd stage at 2000. who knew?

just going through the xfm playlist, idk what genre that chiddy is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXwYJyrKK5A

sort of wonder if foals should have been itp even tho they weren't that landfill

LOFIDELITY ALLSTARS
THE LIVING END

Like the Futureheads, Foals are way too smart for this list.

KING ADORA + THE STROKES

Mumford & Sons remind me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrWLIW4eyM

If you'd put Foals in, you'd need Bloc Party too.

Strokes bumped to the main stage @ that festival in timely wave of NME hype you may/may not recall.

Lo-Fi Allstars were p good, and were good on that occasion too.

yeah foals aren't a great fit with the view etc, but still pretty bad

they're a great example of earnest young musical types who can't think outside of thudding gtr indie tramlines

YEAH IT'S NOT ACTUALLY INDIE, IT'S MNML TECHNO WITH REAL INSTRUMENTS

Scouting for Girls are the worst, but don't belong among this lot - they're still popular, for a start.

this thread is rapidly turning into "Innocuous crap uk bands that make you irrationally angry (a poll thread)"

also, foals are gr8 too, fuiud

thought it was basically known at this point that liking sax is a side effect of those court ordered chemical castration injections

― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 17:57 (1 minute ago

RONG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq85HXxrYrc

Kind of sad to contemplate the diff between this 5th on the bill at 1971 Reading brit band with the 5th on the bill @ reading landfill listed above. (maybe I'm only going to convince NV w/this argument, IDK)

who can say what's true any more in this crazy mixed up "Foals are great" world, Pash?

athlete: Pro: nothing. Con: vocalist v v irritating, bad slack playing on the rekkids I heard on radio back in the day
babyshambles: Pro: nothing. Con: total sinkhole of shitness w no redeeming qualities whatsoever CONTENDER
biffy clyro: have heard this but cannot remember a single thing, not even what it sounded like
florence and the machine: Pro: find singer attractive. Con: totally unmemorable, watched several youtubes, no memory at all of even what it sounded like
hard-fi: Pro: did actually rock, one of their singles was 1/2 decent IIRC. Con: not very memorable
hundred reasons: never heard them or can't remember then anyway
joe lean and the jing jang jong: have heard them but left no mark on my memory whatsoever.
kaiser chiefs: Pro: kind of liked the single or at least until heavy rotation made me sick of it. Con: none really, they weren't THAT bad.
kasabian: No memory of what these sounded like
keane: Pro: sounded pleasant on the radio once ior twice. Con: cannot remember any of their tunes, despite hearing at least one of them enough times.
mumford and sons: Pro: nothing. Con: Awful, awful music, CONTENDER.
noah and the whale: Pro: nothing Con: irritating sounding band IIRC. can barely remember them.
pigeon detectives: Who?
razorlight: Remember these getting some heavy airplay, cannot even remember what they sounded like.
scouting for girls: Pro: Nothing. Con: Shit, clunky music, shit tunes, creepy lyrics delivered by creepy singer, ugh WINNER
snow patrol: Passed through leaving no impression whatsoever.
starsailor: No memory of what this band even sounded like.
the courteeners: Vaguely remember the name, never heard the band.
the cribs: who?
the enemy: Who?
the feeling: Pro: can actually remember what their single went like. Con: I didn't like it, it was sappy.
the fratellis: Pro: nothing. Con: annoying sounding band CONTENDER
the futureheads: Never actually heard these.
the hoosiers: Pro: nothing. Con: Record was shit, only memorable bit was nicked off ELO anyway.
the kooks: Never heard these
the magic numbers: Pro: one of their singles was pleasant enough, find female member w long hair attractive. Con: nothing really, they were not all that bad I suppose.
the ordinary boys: Who?
the others: Who?
the rakes: Who?
the stereophonics: Band from an older gen? Don't feel like they belong here somehow. Awful, anyway.
the twang: Heard of these today, watched clip on youtube, have forgotten what it sounded like already.
the view: who?
the wombats: there used to ne a local pub blues band up here w/this name, I doubt this is them. Never heard of them.
the zutons: Never heard them
toploader: likewise stereophonics

If one of these bands had written or performed on tune that I can remember in it's entirety I would have more time for them even if I didn't like the tune. A lot of these bands get props for their songwriting skillz in their publicity doggerel IIRC? Should be prosecuted under the trades description act. If I were managing a 00's/10's landfill act I would tell them to fuck off with writing anything and get them to cover Harry Warren tunes.

I was expecting real crappy uk bands. Almost all of these bands have one or two singles which I would deem decent or good. Nothing particulary groundbreaking and can't vouch for any of their albums tho so...

Are we voting the best one or the worst one?

the ordinary boys: Who?

They were the band that Preston from Celeb Big Brother was in.

the following bands i can't bring to mind a single note, even in cases where i know i've heard song or songs by them dozens of times: hundred reasons, joe lean and the jing jang jong, starsailor, the courteeners, the others

ey that's less than i thought it would be. god bless my excellent use of memory. the only one that seems unreasonable is starsailor, but all i remember of how they sounded is MEW MEW MEW MEW MEW.

Favorite ones in here would probably be: hard-fi (the few songs I've heard sounded influenced by The Clash which is good in my book), the magic numbers, kasabian, the zutons and kaiser chiefs.

Worst ones for me would be: mumford and sons, keane and scouting for girls.

xp oh right, having looked at single releases, now i remember them. MEW MEW MEW MEW MEW was correct, though.

Wait... band that actually sounded influenced by The Clash was Harrisons. Only song I've heard of Hard-fi is 'hard to beat' which was good but not good enough to get me interested in them.

moka do u like the fratellis

moka do u like the fratellis

― nulty dread (nakhchivan)

They've got a couple of songs which bring back great memories (particulary 'chelsea dagger') of the year I was living in France. That song was played every now and then on rock clubs and parties around Montpellier and Barcelona in 2007. Not sure if I'd have enjoyed them by listening to them on my own...

lol that Reading poster Spiralli posted was the last one I, v probably ever, went to

I had a 'freakout' during Mercury Rev, not at all a voluntary one :(

yerself is lmstrm

yerself is lmstrm

― nulty dread (nakhchivan)

is that a comment for me? Don't know what the lmstrm acronym means.

no that was a mercury rev reference ;_;

athlete - this poll needs Delirious? imo
babyshambles - can't hate cos can't care
biffy clyro - one of them tried to crack on to my gf circa 2002
florence and the machine - doesn't know how to work an ipod iirc
hard-fi - my friend's brother's friend was friends with Hard-Fi, I think he is an aspie or something though
hundred reasons - bleh but shouldn't be here rly
joe lean and the jing jang jong - I am about two (2) ft away from a copy of their unreleased album as I type!!!!!
kaiser chiefs - the ILX thread about them hating poor ppl and women is good
kasabian - when they started they were marketed as these post-Boys Own kinda indie hippies who lived in the country and listened to Neu! - no-one but me remembers this tho
keane - I have another friend that looks like Tom Chaplin
mumford and sons - "this song's for Jemima who's about to go backpacking in India"
noah and the whale - are these guys 'big'?
pigeon detectives - Petridish going in on these might be his finest hour
razorlight - lol
scouting for girls - I gave their last album minus infinity out of five in the mag I work at
snow patrol - Ulster's finest Sebadoh tribute band iirc
starsailor - ...
the courteeners - am not from Manchester so have no opinion
the cribs - see Hundred Reasons
the enemy - Jon 'Gaunty' Gaunt
the feeling - Sophie 'Ellis' Bextor
the fratellis - is Chelsea Dagger really ubiquitous? I have never *knowingly* heard it
the futureheads - only in this cos of Hounds of Love right?
the hoosiers - couldn't name a song
the kooks - even Drowned in Sound scored points off these
the magic numbers - Meh-gic Numeh-bers morelike
the ordinary boys - wish I'd not started this now
the others - love that HMHB lyric about guerilla gigs
the rakes - I know ppl of ~refined taste~ who like these, w/e
the stereophonics - stay strong Mabel Cable
the twang - not endorsed by John Gaunt
the view - their last album was called 'Which Bitch?', feel like this needs to be noted
the wombats - these guys are actually rly popular on the quiet
the zutons - think I sold their first single for a decent sum
toploader - stay strong Gail Porter

kaiser chiefs - the ILX thread about them hating poor ppl and women is good

I'd forgotten about this, it was funny, yeh.

scouting for girls - I gave their last album minus infinity out of five in the mag I work at

Chortle.

wow I have never heard a note from any of these bands

well, that's not true I guess I've heard that Mumford and Sons single recently

looked up the dan hipgrave domestic journalism stuff earlier, gail porter now says that he categorically did not hit her and he does travel journalism for the daily mail

lol that was supposed to be domestic violence

can't reconcile those two statements tbh

even Drowned in Sound scored points off these

burn

kaiser chiefs - the ILX thread about them hating poor ppl and women is good

wd read

Here:

Defend The Indefensible: The Lyrics to 'I Predict A Riot'

thx

The Futureheads and the Rakes are NOT crap, miles better than the other names on this list.

back in the day we could have attracted loads of random butthurt googlers, not just gone in-house

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_424s1zf4sJM/S9roHNvE4HI/AAAAAAAAA6U/clui6i6vw8M/s400/DR+ZEUS+-+BACK+UNDA+DA+INFLUENCE.jpg

The Automatic / Gerrard chant I was familiar with is the utterly brutal "what's that coming out of your wife / is it a bastard, is it a bastard"

I had never heard Scouting For Girls until just now.

They are truly more annoying than the most annoying thing i've ever heard, like unstoppable-urge-to-kill-rising-inside-me fucking aaggggh god make it stop

Rooster - I am not going to listen to them ever again to find out, although I think I possibly once reviewed one of their singles by threatening to stab them, but they were like if Reef were less intelligent, rite?

As I recall it yes, or like the primordial ooze that Jet crawled out of?

Agree that the Futureheads are too good to be here, don't really understand the same being said about the Rakes though

I kinda feel like the Arctic Monkeys are the stupid-regional-accented elephant shitting the room up here

FUCK

how come nobody thought of them

think there's an obvious reason

[Unnamed Editor] once asked me if I would be able to very quickly write 500 words about the manufactured nature of the Monkeys' rise to fame and whether or not that tied in with football hooliganism in any way

My answer was "probably not", and I will always regret that

the munkehs should at least have been nominated

i thought i might like at least one song by one band on this list... but no. all terrible, good work!

athlete - iirc their second album cover looks like a hoover and that makes me think of lj and that makes me giggle.
babyshambles - POTENTIALLY THE BEST first album had some killer jams on it. dhoerty is a dick but at least a panto-dick.
biffy clyro - POTENTIALLY THE WORST lol smelly and welsh.
florence and the machine - broad can't sing, saved by that remix which is a cover of their cover iirc.
hard-fi - arrogant tuneless dickheads who thought they were gonna save music or something.
hundred reasons - you know if hundred reasons make it, other kerrang fodder like A should. A was a useful band name when wanting to google someone, I guess.
joe lean and the jing jang jong - A name to bring me out in lex pretend esque hives.
kaiser chiefs - saved by tv panel show chumminess, i guess, but their music is wank, ey.
kasabian - THE ACTUAL WORST not because of the Oasis fan base or the shit songs but because of the ridiculous pretentiousness that means nothing and somehow getting away with it, like wtf? why weren't you dropped for releasing something called... give me a second to wiki it... West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum with *this* as the cover? http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51VVTBiHXKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
keane - eh. kinda pleasant for people in their 50s; would be like having michael buble in the poll.
mumford and sons - afaik i've successfully not heard this band, not at uni anymore i guess. one of them is shagging laura marling tho, so she may have a good influence in the future?
noah and the whale - lol what?
pigeon detectives - hey guys its the libertines! oh wait no it isn't
razorlight - POTENTIALLY THE WORST although saved by being almost comatose at Reading Festival after like an ounce of weed, stumbling back to my tent with a friend, giggling insently at how loud the chants of *RAZORSHITE RAZORSHITE RAZORetc* were getting, only to not end until their set did. We were in the furthest away tenting area and still heard the whole thing :D
scouting for girls - POTENTIALLY THE WORST scott mills pop
snow patrol - I started buying Q before I bought the NME as a teenager. I think they happened to go through a run of cover stars who I liked (Em, Radiohead, Libertines, PJ Harvey although maybe not in that order or exactly 4 months in a row iirc). It was incredibly shit to read.
starsailor - Drawing a blank.
the courteeners - hey guys its the libertines! oh wait no it isn't
the cribs - THE BEST these guys are awesome, even if one of them stuck his dick inside the fanny of kate nash.
the enemy - drawing a blank
the feeling - isn't one of them shagging sophie ellis bexter? kudos to that guy and maybe she had a decent enough influence for some album tracks here or there?
the fratellis - POTENTIALLY THE WORST ARGH THE WANT TO BREAK THINGS. Only not the worst because they seem to have been forgotten in time.
the futureheads - POTENTIALLY THE BEST Hounds of Love could be my #1 of the decade, proper sound of my university education was that.
the hoosiers - more like whoosiers, amirite? i once saw a Hollyoaks storyline based around going to buy their first album on the day it came out - FACT. Dunno what they sound like though.
the kooks - the kooks more like the shit.
the magic numbers - fat people get offended when you call them fat, fyi.
the ordinary boys - reggae done by white boys in this day and age always NAGL
the others - remember being sat in sixth form with my friend paul weeing ourselves at an nme article based around the main dude in this talking about how subversive he is because he likes obscure BOOKS by osbcure writers like GEORGE ORWELL and how he loved to bang TRANNIES. years later I stopped having a crush on a girl I knew, not because of her massive coke problem or thick brummie accent but because she was wearing an others t-shirt. they were shit, obv.
the rakes - i know this band existed and i know i've heard them before but
the stereophonics - of the 00s?
the twang - anything to do with Blak Twang? Cos he was dope once upon a time. Responsible for Estelle, too.
the view - scottish, iirc?
the wombats - POTENTIALLY THE BEST these guys had some jams iirc. Moving To New York, Lets Dance To Joy Division, Kill The Director - all legitimate late 00s indie club classics.
the zutons - lol ws the girl.
toploader - of the 00s?

Agree that the Futureheads are too good to be here, don't really understand the same being said about the Rakes though

I kinda feel like the Arctic Monkeys are the stupid-regional-accented elephant shitting the room up here

― MPx4A, Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

those guys are just landfill indie with a "heritage art-school" twist. mmmhhh, just like in ye olde post-punke days.

Arctics first album was wank but the second and third had some stuff worth saving. Once the unreasonable and hilarious hype died, they turned out to be alright.

let's celebrate this thread with a nice plastic pint pot of

http://www.duffyrafferty.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/carling-logo.jpg

Are Kasabian really that bad? I thought of them as ok because I love the bass on this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76so3XRdgOU

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2650/3685747550_ccf45f1cc9.jpg

as i've yet to hear M&S and there seems to be a lot of general hate on here, anyone want to tell me whats up?

also toploader saved by Four Lions imo. could not do the same with Scouting For Girls or whoever.

Arctic Monkeys feel too big league to be on this poll, same reason the Libertines aren't here. Would probably have left Keane off as well.

artic monkeys had something to say, man. about, like, how people who enjoy dancing and having fun are disgusting savages, yeah?

<3 this thread imo

mencap is invaluable -- lol'd at a hoy hoy

the arctic monkeys are at least still making albums that some ppl care about + they kinda left this sound behind for the josh homme thing or w/e

plus their first album >>>>>>>>> any album by anyone on this list, still probably one of the 30 best records of the decade IMO -- also they were cool live

also that reading poster is so lo_Ol -- mostly still contemplating the comedy tent at a british music festival, need to let that one marinate for a while

2001s Reading Festival line-up looks like it could have been fun as hell - you'd see Malkmus followed by Roots Manuva? Fuck Yesh.

also D12?

Making the Best of a Bad Job: a tolerable landfill playlist

Futureheads - Hounds of Love
Hard-Fi - Hard to Beat
The View - Superstar Tradesman
The Rakes - Retreat
Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way
Kasabian - Me Plus One (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Starsailor - Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke Mix)
Florence & the Machine - You Got the Love (xx Remix)
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Babyshambles - Albion

even Drowned in Sound scored points off these

burn

― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:22 (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

would love to see an american equiv list just for lols. would actually be worse imo.

2001 Reading was the first festival I went to. The only things I can remember seeing are PJ Harvey and Moldy Peaches.

artic monkeys had something to say, man. about, like, how people who enjoy dancing and having fun are disgusting savages, yeah?

Not what their lyrics are saying at all. You must be thinking of the Arctic Strawmen.

can do noms for an american versh itt if u like but

KINGS OF LEON

probably enough

America doesn't quite work in the same way, it's had other dodgy trends (nu-metal, Nickelback, virtually every guitar band Pitchfork has repped for in a decade) but not quite the same all-pervasive uselessness.

For some utterly bizarre reason I opted to go to the Saturday of that Reading festival. Can't even remember why given that Mogwai are the only band on that bill I'd have been particularly arsed about.

You can't put remixes on your compilation, what unites most of these bands is a deep-set Luddism, either with the band or their fans. Presumably the reason the Klaxons aren't here.

there's endless american shit too but it doesn't coalesce as easily around a single all-consuming landfill goatse like the uk stuff

isn't one of them shagging sophie ellis bexter? kudos to that guy

take notes p4k feebs, this is reviewing

wdn't have included the klaxons even if someone nominated them cuz they are the only uk indie band of the last decade i didn't hate

Yes, remixes are cheating I guess. Would happily sub Kasabian's Empire and Florence's Rabbit Heart. (Don't know why Florence is on the list TBH)

xp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubw5N8iVDHI

there are a few outliers in the nominations but the coherence is still impressive imo

athlete - kinda copped Coldplay's shtick mid career, right? Pretty shit. Saw them support Mansun as an idiot youth and they had a theremin freakout bit
babyshambles - we paid for blood imo
biffy clyro - funny shit, man
florence and the machine - tasteful but private school hhmmm
hard-fi - drunkenly pissing on a shop is really poignant when you think about it
hundred reasons - haha
joe lean and the jing jang jong - don't think this band existed?
kaiser chiefs - don't think I've ever heard this band
kasabian - that picture of all those old Oasis fans with haircuts their drooping faces could not support - should by rights be from Birmingham, but near enough I guess
keane - I think Southall wrote some good, possibly libelous shit about how this band's singer is a pisshead because he hates his own band so much?
mumford and sons - still haven't heard these but I think they are from private school and I trust y'all's judgement
noah and the whale - " "
pigeon detectives - ? This is a stupid name
razorlight - don't how get how dudes can get egomaniacal about writing songs which have so few characteristics
scouting for girls - Yes OK you have an accent, maybe put these kind of guys in a room with Jamie T and see if they manage to conjure up a glottal stop so large it destroys them all
snow patrol - credit to their endurance for staying awake long enough to finish recording that one song; think blueski once said this band's lead singer has a swimming pool in the shape of a swimming pool - I bet he loves to sensibly dive into it with his best friend, Stewart Downing
starsailor - funnily wimpy, got a half-decent JLC remix
the courteeners - ?
the cribs - I kind of imagine these guys being really heroically unintelligent in their daily lives, but in an entertaining, Terry Fuckwitt kinda way, you just keep doing your thing the Cribs
the enemy - don't think this band existed
the feeling - seemed to be really proud of themselves, but by rights the only people who should ever have paid any attention to them is members of their own family, filming their opening slot gig on a middle of the range camcorder in an otherwise deserted function room. Kind remind me of a guy at Uni who told me his band were "going in kind of a rock-y direction"
the fratellis - friend who worked at a HMV they did a signing at said they had minders to look after them, one of whom came up to him and warned him to make sure none of the staff pestered the Fratellis for autographs while they were having a pre-opening Fratellis-only shopping session; reportedly none of the staff had planned to do so because the Fratellis are shit twats
the futureheads - good bunch of lads imo
the hoosiers - the adverts where these guys were all like "apparently nobody's heard of us!!!" actually did make me want to kick their heads in
the kooks - think this band has curly hair? [a Google Image Search suggests that one of them actually has an unshowered boy version of Mira from Ladytron's haircut]
the magic numbers - [fat joke]
the ordinary boys - guy I went to school with did the reggae toast bit on one of their songs so not them
the others - chalk one up for the public on this one
the rakes - boring
the stereophonics - funny shit, man
the twang - Oh Bir-ming-ham! (Oh Bir-ming-ham!) Is full of fun!!! (is full of fun!!!)
the view - Probably just formed because they realised the name was still available?
the wombats - me neither
the zutons - ?
toploader - WHAT ABOUT RAVEN?

Starsailor - Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke Mix)

Hahah this -- Futureheads excepted in that I need to relisten and see what I think -- was the one song I was thinking I might save from all these clods. Though Matt DC's point applies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgGItLYyBQ0

<3

those were the days when indie was open to new influences, new thinking, new colours

is that the one that goes "I'm a skinny white limey but I like tings grimey"

meshug! wir haben die siemlich landfillishe TING TINGS in dem poll vergessen ;_;

nah the tingers are something else rly

"Bomb New Cross."
"But sir, Hadouken! aren't actually originally fr-"
"Do as I say."

tings were like landfill lectro kinda ting iirc

If I could nominate one american band for this, i would nominate ORSON

ok go

About 75% of these bands would be top of a worst band ever poll individually, for me, but seeing them altogether is making me realise just how impressive Scouting For Girls actually are at being beyond shit.
Stereophonics were always the worst, until Toploader came along, then Starsailor (have a feeling their disgustingness is being overlooked amongst the strong competition - give that one about 'daddy was an alcoholic' another 'spin' because they are def. contenders), then the Feeling (the day PopJustice started acting as though they were 'just great pop music actually' is the day I stopped reading PJ), then Scouting for Girls have somehow managed to perfect the formula.

Voted SFG in the end. Would like to see them go on from here to win the world cup of terrible.

artic monkeys had something to say, man. about, like, how people who enjoy dancing and having fun are disgusting savages, yeah?

Not what their lyrics are saying at all. You must be thinking of the Arctic Strawmen.

― DL, Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:18 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

i know it was supposed to be more "complex" than that or w/e... but i dunno, can't stand the guys.

ya apologists for that lot r p much scum

there is no good landfill

yeah my america comment was for general landfill, whether nu metal or post-strokes p4k indie or etc.

def think it's worth a american landfill metapoll tho

surely if there was a US landfill equivalent it would be the mall emo bands

Memo

American waste:

Kings of Leon
Maroon 5
Orson
The Fray
Train
Lifehouse
The Calling
Nickelback
3 Doors Down
Matchbox 20
Hinder
The Killers
The Bravery
Hot Hot Heat

Killers don't deserve to be there imo. And where is the numetal? Staind?

Hey, add what you like, I don't really know about this stuff.

that's a good start

ppl will want to vote for the killers

Jing Jang Jongs of Leon and the Killers don't count cos nobody in their home nation gives a fuck about them?

WHICH IS WHY REALLY THEY BELONGED IN THIS LIST

uhm p sure they are more popular in america than most of this lot are in england

kings of leon and killers had hits over here

they're our problem i'm afraid

both bands have a couple decent songs. KOLs had burned thru all of their good material in 2 EPs which was a shame for them.

Kings of Leon are like the most popular landfill band in the UK no question don't let's bust out the tribute band pics again

think blueski once said this band's lead singer has a swimming pool in the shape of a swimming pool

lmao this rules

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aNTsUIQhmf0/SfsV4pgk99I/AAAAAAAACgg/iaqJkI9EhJ4/s320/Rooney+-+Calling+The+World+-+2007.jpg

nu metal had a kind of fifth form impropriety and goonishness to save it from total mediocrity. naff, yes... but not dull, really.

ya i see what u mean nv but still, if we can't even make our own landfill indie we might as well rename ourselves malawi #gaunty

numetal for american poll shd be staind, mudvayne kinda stuff rather than the proto-goon clownstep stuff

i think killers shouldn't count because they are kinda distinctive? whereas i heard the name death cab for cutie 4000 times in my life and still if i heard them on the radio i genuinely would not know it was them.

can remem reading nme circa 2k2 wherein death cab were invoked as an 'obscure american band' placeholder

might have been in a jimmy eat world review

let's take the top 4 from this poll and then send them forward to the World Cup

Australia looks like a tough opponent tbh.

Got faith in SfG's ability at the highest level

australia produces a lot of deplorable shite yes, but not in these kind of volumes.

Jet and the Vines make a hell of a pair upfront though. Both potential matchwinners imo.

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

kinda reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMRq1Z_WyTc

;_;

Now I'm going to have to listen to "James Bond" :(

That was revolting. But I know what u mean!

Bloody hell.

Van Morrison-lite American funk-soul-pop landfill cover version (Counting Crows et al).

<3 this

disappointed to get to this thread so late :(

the others are the worst band to have ever existed imo

was thinking about you when nakh was moaning about saxes tbh :D

xp I remember reading a lot about the Others, but I don't tihnk I heard anything by them. Sub Libertines shite, yes?

thread reminds me of that time in 2004 when I had enough money to read Mojo, Q, Uncut every month and read about a lot of these bands.

the interchangeable lead singer observation OTM

And I think I've only heard Mumford and Songs once. Can someone please link to their most notable offense to the human cochlea and the sensibilities of every good person?

Sub Libertines shite, yes?

extremely generous

was thinking about you when nakh was moaning about saxes tbh :D

hahaa

they have a time and a place

I keep wanting to vote for SfG but then I get fucking Chelsea Dagger lurching round and round my head and it makes me want to vote for Fratellis but then I think at least that song is approaching a 'LOL shit indie football anthem' status and is therefore useful as a running gag/signifier of sorts while SfG aren't even interesting enough to manage that so maybe they are worse but OH SWEET CHRIST WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME FUCKING THINK ABOUT THIS.

"l'enfer c'est the others"
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I still hear so many of these bands in terrible bars I get dragged to - a lot of people my age seem to think this really is the cream of the last decade of music, I don't know, it just makes me miserable being in a room full of people shouting along to 'Chelsea Dagger' or whatever.

Having said that, I've never ever heard Scouting For Girls in any sort of social setting and they're easily the worst thing here. Their chorus hooks are just so irritating, I really can't get my head around the total inability to come up with a single pleasing melody.

Oh yeah, the Others were the ones who 'invented' 'guerilla gigs'.

My main memory of The Others is of the singer being interviewed by Simon Amstell on Popworld and inventing the word 'spontanuity'.

"we've just been performing a guerilla gig/in the middle of another group's guerilla gig/surely that's the ultimate guerilla gig/but still they cried like girls"

Flash-Forward: Black Wire

Black Wire are a gang of glam-punks with a taste for synth-stomping disco and a knack for causing chaos. Emma Warren admires the racket

* Emma Warren
* Observer Music Monthly, Sunday 17 October 2004 15.09 BST
* Article history

LEEDS'S GLAM-PUNK pretenders like to gig. Their love of sweat and the stage, though, does not extend to the newly fashionable practise of guerilla gigging, where bands play impromptu acoustic sets on public transport or in car parks. 'Just playing your guitar on a bus and annoying people is not a gig,' announces 22-year-old bass player Tom Greatorex, who is making very little fuss about a huge welt on his back, acquired while fighting with sticks in the woods during the OMM photoshoot. 'At gigs, you've got 25 minutes to convert people, to make them understand why they should love your band. We like messing around in flats but we've done it now and it's out of our system.'

that's the first ref in guardian archives strangely

guys the killers had a top 40 hit w/ their last album & brandon flowers' solo album went gold, there's many, many other bands that are more forgotten than them

like, the bravery sure, or hot hot heat

I really don't think The Kooks are getting enough hate. Even their name is a contrived, artificial and bland signifier of "exciting".

Being a Glasgow native I got a lot of stick for thinking The View and The Fratellis were one and the same, but how was I supposed to tell? This period of music (which was concurrent with my period as a university student and therefore a major reason why I'm so glad to be free of that horrible Carlsberg&Topman culture) makes me now actively avoid bands with names beginning "The".

it makes me feel v. old to know that student life is now synonymous with Carlsberg & Top Man

I once got accused of not being "into" music by a girl who loves all this stuff. "How can you say you love gigs, you've never even been to the 02 or SECC or anything like that?"

xp used to be Tennant's Extra and C&A

used to be Diesel and Oxfam back in the day obv

which was equally reprehensible in its own sweet way

I also remember getting serious lols at Starsailor's "check out our new dance direction" then hearing Four To The Floor and realising it was more of the same turgid dreck.

Let's not even talk about Kasabian's whole back catalogue seems to consist of one breakbeat-style drum loop over a flat vocal going "aaaaah aaaaaah aaaaaah aaaaaah"

Snakebite & yer grandad's cast-off's ftw

xp tbf they also have that one which sounds like a really shit indie band doing a really shit cover of a really shit song by the fucking doors.

My university years coincided with the popularity of proto-Landfill artists such as Travis, Ian Brown (solo), Richard Ashcroft (solo) and Feeder.

feeder were the worst of that kinda 2k1 era iirc

the worst was that they didn't seem like terrible ppl so it felt wrong hating them as much they deserved to be hated

didn't suffer enough imo

didn't one of the die?

/RE E WIND

My university years were '92-'96, so basically all the shite bands ushered in by Oasis and Britpop.

I was '88 to '92 over here, we all just thought you were Manchester bands or shoegazers.

I went during the Wonderstuff/James/Inspirals dogshit era.

Sultans of Ping FFS

I saw the Frank and Walters live, man

my uni years were the nu-metal era, so indie was sort of dead in the water as a commercial force at that point. a few people liked coldplay... strokes started getting a buzz in third year. easy to forget how people were writing this stuff off around 1999/2000.

I keep trying to remember it as being not as awful as it sounds, but then I remember having worm my way out of attending a Milburn gig and pretending to be a smoker to escape dancefloors at indie discos playing Marmaduke Duke

these guys all had at least one song i really dug, more often than not it was their first or second single though

babyshambles
biffy clyro
hundred reasons
keane
pigeon detectives
the courteeners
the cribs
the futureheads
the magic numbers
the rakes
the wombats

i'll rep for the first rakes and cribs albums, i'd still happily give em a listen

I haven't heard any of these bands and I think I've only heard of maybe two or three. Are they all real?

cribs are probably the best thing on this list really

oh god. oh fucking hell. listening to SFG's '... james bond'. nothing is worse than this, perhaps ever.

The Futureheads were ace and I will defend them voraciously.

The Cribs I never liked but at least use their position to help out awesome DIY bands and thus have the 'keeping it reals 4 lyfe' seal of approval from me.

Pretty much everyone else can die horribly. Or preferably be maimed in such a way that they can never pick up another instrument yet have to live for years in continual agony.

I'm regretting my Toploader vote now. Every SFG single sounds like the worst thing ever until you hear another SFG single.

gotta admire consistency

didn't think james bond was that bad compared to mumf, the view etc

the other sfg tracks were more rapey

it makes me feel v. old to know that student life is now synonymous with Carlsberg & Top Man

― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

otm!

I saw the Frank and Walters live, man

I bought the t-shirt.

this list is very amazing. also makes sense of the otherwise nonsensical success of the arctic monkeys

athlete - successfully forgot this band
babyshambles - pretentious tramp mumbling
biffy clyro - feel they are of a slightly different set
florence and the machine - landfill is a lad thing
hard-fi - lead singer has an incredibly evil face
hundred reasons - v energetic hair
joe lean and the jing jang jong - get very patriotic feelings thinking about this band
kaiser chiefs - too big to be here, frontman's jowels are really regretable
kasabian - not going to start thinking about them now
keane - all their fans weeping w/ silent self-pity watching their claymation video, what wld your grandfathers think
mumford and sons - haven't heard laura marling but fucking this is inexcusable. creepy desperate evangelical vibe, mumf will def get crazier/have a breakdown
noah and the whale - for guys who were too shy for local theatre
pigeon detectives lol
razorlight - historic live8 performance
scouting for girls
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/cordenhorneBBC_450x300.jpg
welcome to england
snow patrol - ripped off by take that, my brother got a letter from them circa 2002. paradigm example of a major strain of coldplay-derived drivel
starsailor < look at this word
the courteeners, the cribs VOID
the enemy - remarkably grotesque band
the feeling - the champions. life is meaningless when listening to this band.
the fratellis - a colossal turd you can take peculiar pleasure seeing through
the futureheads - shouldn't dirty pretty things be on this list because they are def shit enough
the hoosiers, the wombats - useful lazy punchlines
the kooks - recall only a song called "jackie big tits"
the magic numbers - seem slightly distinct.
the ordinary boys - least ugly?
the others, rakes, twang, view - impossible to care about
the stereophonics - stopped listening v quickly so what i know of this band doesn't fit
the zutons - that girl looked interesting for one video
toploader - that song has transcended to another plane, actually memorable

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44787000/jpg/_44787852_thefeeling_oa.jpg

jowels?

aaaaand now i am imagining the list in a james murphy voice

whoever is the 2020s James Murphy will do this

a fat guy in a tshirt

altho we will be living in makeshift yurts and fighting each other for precious supplies of coal in an arid wasteland that used to be Doncaster by then so ho hum

unthinkable terror of a parallel world lcd soundsystem that namechecked the hoosiers

^do you see?!

"tha HOO-syuhs, tha HOOS-yuhs"

I don't know what the Futureheads are doing on this list

BLENDING RIGHT IN

http://www.mattfoto.com/blog/images/LCD.jpg

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00316/16Brigstocke_316923t.jpg

unthinkable terror of a parallel world lcd soundsystem that namechecked the hoosiers

It'd be the James Murphy that never left the Barfly.

cambridge corn exchange surely

wheres franz ferdinand?

(sorry nv dont sb me, i just couldnt resist)

> hard-fi - lead singer has an incredibly evil face

http://s7.directupload.net/images/110218/temp/w2hgc6el.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2810013497_92c4ef4dfb.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6_68Px79PIg/SJZFQkXpphI/AAAAAAAAAO0/hNaOJFw2gPM/s400/Flute-Demon.jpghttp://s7.directupload.net/images/110218/temp/w2hgc6el.jpghttp://www.collectibles-articles.com/antique/collectible-image-large/female-winged-devil-ornament-playing-flute-made-in-peru_120654341031.jpg

ff do't really belong w/ the landfill, they were more a sort of 'wry' 'affecting' 'quirky' ish thing like british sea power that just sold a lot of records

Funnily enough Laura Marling broke up with head-Mumford and is now dating the non-Corden one out of Gavin & Stacey. The woman has taste.

not sure which part of the first sentence justifies the second one.

The implication she's done it all for lulz.

The second sentence is sarcastic?

I think that the Ordinary Boys are the band that live closest to me. If they win this poll, I hereby promise to print out this thread and deliver it to them by hand.

make sure you get a Big Issue in return

I suspect Kasabian's only goal in life was to have a song used as background music in a Top Gear episode. Now that this is done, they can go away quietly.

Really want to vote for The Coral

Voted SFG in the end. Would like to see them go on from here to win the world cup of terrible.

― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:03 (Yesterday)

once they take the music world crown i'm pretty confident they could go beyond that even.

*scouting for girls
*fascism
*the twilight saga
*dysentery

I think that the Ordinary Boys are the band that live closest to me. If they win this poll, I hereby promise to print out this thread and deliver it to them by hand.

^ok i voted

"work, work, work (pub, club, sleep)" is still dope as long as you don't really pay attention the lyrics

i quite like the lyrics tbh

and it is a tune

haha, i am charmed by earnest US-adopters of this shit, yes, but also filled w/ pity

You know the cunts who are like puppeteers for all of this shit and yet somehow going unmentioned? MUSE. FUCK MUSE.

true but along with coldplay and munkehs they are too big and 'global' for this poll

I can't hate Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong because a) I've never heard a single thing by them and b) the singer was the best thing in the worst series of Peep Show.

I hope to fucking god that Scouting For Girls google themselves and find this thread.

listening to JL&TJJJ for first time now

pretty shit tbh

not clear how this generated "considerable expectation" per wikipedia

It generated "considerable expectation" because there was considerable evidence that the British public would lap this shit up no matter how half-arsed and derivative it was. Except at some point around 2007 they suddenly stopped and no one noticed until it was too late and they had a load of coked-up bands with stupid names on their books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PNxvXZjoI

not too bad rly

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2677333632_d9d89f9377_b.jpg

there they are in stoke japan

Are they secretly Gene's bastard offspring?

How could they call the band that (xp, joe)

which part dont u like

joe
lean
and
the
jing
jang
jong

"joe lean and the" is pretty offensive on its own, but the rest is mind-boggling

joe limb and the king kang kong

geordie jang and the ming mang mong

wait i fucked that up

'sok, the ten people who would've got it laughed anyway (well I did)

It's a Spike Milligan reference.

"Dear Sirs,

This band is terrible,

Sincerely,
Spike Milligan"

I don't know how record deals work, is it possible that these bands (and their even less long-term successful and possibly more appalling cousins) were signed to, say, three-album contracts, with the labels desperately hoping the bands split up before they find themselves in the position of having to fund the recording of an album by The Others in 2013?

Three album, with "options" usually only available to the label.

So, album one may do alright, or may tank.
Either way, album two may break them, keep them on the same level, or may also tank.

By album three, label goes "oh alright, make another album, here's £56"

At which point band cannot nick off, so usually split as they are label-tied.

The Others are an English rock band, signed to Poptones in July 2004 and their eponymous debut album was released on 31 January 2005.

..........

The band are currently writing and recording songs for their third album expected in 2010.

Am vaguely amused that SFG started out under the name 'Cape'.

xp seems that their second album was released on 'Lime Records' whatever that is, tho. No wonder Poptones went down, letting surefire hits like that go.

Whenever I complain about the dominance of privately educated, well-connected indie bands I worry about sounding like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQWyImkkU0

Some bands you forgot about: The Departure, Boy Kill Boy, The 22-20s, The Dead 60s. Now they are completely forgotten.

The 22-20s have already split up and reformed. Weren't they more of a fake White Stripes/Von Bondies type act?

The Departure were astonishly bad though.

xp that was it. thanks. "thanks". actually the name has not yet triggered any memory of the music, thank fuck.

No need to "thank" me: my "kindness" had its own "reward" bcz I have now had that holloways song stuck in my head for a day.

i will not suffer alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2M612Xj8cU

Matt DC: yes, 22-20s were some kind of tradrock/dadrock thing.

One more name: Dogs Die In Hot Cars. Though split up 2 or 3 years ago I think.

I like that Holloways song, I had no idea who sang it until now.

Do the Subways belong here? I have managed to avoid hearing them (but have seen their name everywhere repeatedly) on the assumption that they do.

The Subways definitely belong here.

watched the holloways on mute. exactly as despicable as the song - which i still haven't recalled, i can feel it knocking around in there but i've managed to hold it off so far.

If you're including The Departure then White Lies are the same but even worse, though somehow turned up after all this was over and still did well.

White Lies actually had the UK's biggest selling rock/guitar-oriented single for a couple of weeks in January, but it didn't even go Top 40.

biffy clyro - POTENTIALLY THE WORST lol smelly and welsh.

Yes, they are Welsh. Fuckin' Wales.

the zutons - fucking shit but at least they had a sax which means hey they're not the worst fucking shit

... aye, a sax which she couldn't fucking play! <bgcolor=andygray>Still, nice legs tho.

ya I recall Zutons sax as being the odd single parp on the first note of the bar. Contrary to the consensus I thought her legs were too thin and kinda gnarly too. </keysy>

had forgotten about White Lies more than I had anyone here. The clustering of these fellas makes the series of associations come easier.

Yeah, they're definitely from Kilmarnock, Wales. xp

Think you'll find that's spelled Llymarnych

ey now if there's one thing we do well up here it's shite and smelly, let's take credit where credit's due.

:D at /gray and /keysy dialogue now fully formed meme btw

richard keys is a rapist /gray
and gray is a rapist /keysy

athlete - who the fuck are these guys
babyshambles - lol heroin
biffy clyro - this scottish guy has a beard SO GO BACK TO THE SEVENTIES, CHIEF
florence and the machine - firecrotch doesn't know how to work an iPod but she knows how to work my iCock amirite
hard-fi - what is this shit
hundred reasons - iirc Kerrang! Award Winners are much like tard kids that get a ribbon for successfully completing a 50 meter walk without falling down
joe lean and the jing jang jong - not anywhere near as good as the fake band, "Put Your Hands Up For l0u1s jagg3r, He Likes The Nazis"
kaiser chiefs - u fat, fatty
kasabian - yeah the last thing the world needs right now is a band that looks like a bunch of dope smoking vikings
keane - roy keane should sue these cunts or kick them in the nads or something
mumford and sons - they should bring back the holocaust and go after folk musicians this time
noah and the whale - kill yrselfs
pigeon detectives - shit
razorlight - shit
scouting for girls - stop being so fucking english
snow patrol - insipid shit
starsailor - even worse than the shitty album they're named after!!
the courteeners - shit
the cribs - shit
the enemy - shit
the feeling - the gay has good dress sense, I'll give them that
the fratellis - worst people to pretend they're italian since fat dom passantino
the futureheads - not even kate bush's magical vagina can save you now
the hoosiers - these fagz are not even as good as middle ranking ILX poster BIG HOOS aka the steendriver
the kooks - shit
the magic numbers - shit
the ordinary boys - oh man imagine if you were a national joke, you'd fucking neck yourself. you should kill yourself if you were in a shit band like this too.
the others - shit
the rakes - shit
the stereophonics - shit
the twang - more like they suck (t)wang
the view - shit
the wombats - gay shit for anglophiles that have paid MONEY to see josie long do stand up comedy
the zutons - shit
toploader - shit

^appropriately nostalgia-inducing post amirite

a band that looks like a bunch of dope smoking vikings

love how this is still the biggest compliment paid to Kasabian itt by a mile

fuck's sake i listened to a pigeon detectives song for reference's sake yesterday and it's still in my head. the price one pays to be a lower tier ilx contributor.

i'm sure there are a lot of ugly sorts among these bands, but i'd be very surprised if any outugly the pigeon detectives singer:

http://www.tourdates.co.uk/resources/GetImage-DN-11765-1.jpg

maybe worth redoing as a picture thread if someone can spare the time.....

could probably identify about 10 of them

http://i.imgur.com/slvZ5.jpg

Snow Patrol, who I know better as "Those sad Chasing Cars people".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2007/12/05/031207_wombats_01_450x300.jpg

That Pidg Dect photo makes them look like a crap Cast tribute band.

if someone with good photoshop skills was feeling devious with that pic xp....

http://i53.tinypic.com/xn4vhj.jpg

class. who are those tits btw?

'the wombats' sez the url

that's not nearly as devious as i was envisaging

people keep leaving/i keep breathing

xp can't imagine what else you had in mind. how about this:

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7548/andref.jpg

Many of those are not crap and not forgotten.

Like, Kaiser Chiefs and The Feeling are both among the best new UK bands of the past 5-10 years or so. Athlete also had their moments.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2008/07/20/CandlelightVigil-boy.jpg

But going for Toploader, who didn't even really have good catchy tunes.

Like, Kaiser Chiefs and The Feeling are both among the best new UK bands of the past 5-10 years or so.

Tragically, this may be true.

They're still crap though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClcwKgxu2wk

finding out that you like the feeling is the first time you have truly disappointed me, geir

Sometimes I forget that ILM is mostly a British thing, until I see this thread and its 450 posts.

It used to be but not anymore. But hatred of britpop and its successors pulls everyone together in times of need

even Ferg checked in for this!