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

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!

every time I see this thread I think it is going to be an actual discussion about a landfill in particular or landfills in general. I open it, see that it is not, and leave.

even Ferg checked in for this!

I know!! Been trying to contact him for about 6 months. Now we all know what the batsignal is.

The bands are characterised by a softer, less aggressive sound than earlier bands (compare with The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys

landfill indie is new wave to britpops punk?

not really. this stuff is from squiggly line almost a decade later squiggly line.

true

i definitely remember it being labelled Britpop 2.0 though.

well yeah it's fair enough for the kaiser chiefs and the ordinary boys especially, but there was a bigger gap between them in time is all, and while in the grand scheme of things both this stuff and britpop was basically two variations on 'unimaginative guitar pop', the discourse changed around it? idk, it wasn't a watered down version of britpop in the way new wave was (they tell us) of punk.

yeah I know what you're saying and I don't disagree with you.

Arguably, I'd say Kaiser Chiefs and The Kooks are actually harder edged than most Britpop bands were. The softer side of Britpop is represented today in the guise of the likes of Coldplay and Snow Patrol though.

oh yeah i guess i meant to say that this landfill business is the rebirth of arse-end, 1k995-7 era britpop. bands i can't even remember the names of. the supernaturals. not the more defensible earlier stuff.

Also noted were the band’s growing similarities in musical direction to The Fratellis’ and the Arctic Monkeys.[38] The band commented on the album’s style, "I think we've made a dynamic album," Pritchard said. "Every song has its own character. It's a good pop album."[27]

They also are influenced byThe Velvet Underground and covered "Sweet Jane".

not sure i've heard the kooks band

you will have, they had a couple of pretty horrible ubiquitous hits

The band were watching a video recording of themselves playing a gig, and misheard the ending refrain ‘Its alright, it’s alright’ from the song ‘In The City’ as ‘razor-light, razor-light’ which was then chosen as the band name.

I Killed Razorlight With My Big Fucking Dick

^^ 'i made this'

not really sure why i chose a sonic youth title to do it with. ah, youth.

During their first tour of 2008, Roy Stride lost his voice en route to a gig in Birmingham and was diagnosed with laryngitis, forcing the band to reschedule a series of dates on the tour.

John Aizlewood of Q. May 2010. gave the album 4 stars, commenting:

"There are no curveballs, no experimental digressions, nothing other than 10 of Roy Stride's focused slabs of honed guitar pop, summed up by the first 26 seconds of opening track This Ain't A Love Song, where soaring keyboards explode into a chanted "na na na".

Roy Stride's focused slabs

http://www.google.co.uk/images/yellow_warning.gif No results found for "the kooks aren't very kooky".

Scouting For Girls are playing Midlands Music Festival 2010 alongside acts like The Saturdays, Chipmunk (rapper), Westlife, Olly Murs and Everybody Looks Famous in Tamworth, England.

Everybody Looks Famous in Tamworth are playing Midlands Music Festival 2011 alongside acts like Roy Stride (rapper), Westlife, and John Aizlewood of Q.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/yfqegoGn4tk/Brit+Awards+2011+Sony+Afterparty/4g0m4bF0SmT/Greg+Churchouse

Many bands classed in this genre have only released one studio album[3].

Again with the perms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDa07ChH6Tc

wait who is ferg?

/n00b

Generally, Britpop/indie is better the catchier choruses, the more twee, the happier, the less offensive, the more derivative, the less provoking. So many of these bands are great.

are you sure?

Wouldn't waste a shit on this pile of turgid bollocks.

Exceptions to Snow Patrol (pre you know what, although did enjoy their recentish '...City...' song and some of their earleir songs were fine- 'Little Hide' and 'An Olive Grove...'.and the Futureheads were Ok once. I also don't quite get the hate for Biff C. What I've heard, I quite like some of their chordage.

100 reasons looked like Slade or somebody, but weren't quite worthy of hate?

The remainder is so despicable. That fucking TopLoader song.... I can't even...

Razorlight or Scouting for Girls?

Die scum. Die, you scummy cunts

re. Snow Patrol, Absolute Gravity's a tune and a half it is.

what was that thing they did with mogwai? reindeer section? that was rubbish too

they used to be a kinda six by seven / electrelane fan sort of band didn't they?

no, they were never in the same lleague as six by seven. Anyone i knew who liked Snow Patrol were damn twee huggers

i remem someone whose ftp i used to use when i was 15 or so was into those kinda bands (and slint/fugazi/us maple etc) and had some snow patrol albums

then a few years later they were some huge MOR atrocity

idk, can't remem any of their music from either phase

sums up their mediocrity

like I alluded to in my longass post upthread, they started off being a winsome bite of Sebadoh with the wonky bits stripped out... the transition into MOR atrocity was kinda odd but hardly like they were depriving the ~indie universe~ of future greatness

the first 3 or 4 snow patrol singles are quite good imo

reindeer section had that one song i like 'you are my joy' but the rest of their oeuvre was neither here nor there