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

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.

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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"