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

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.