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

^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.