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

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

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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

afaicr snow patrol started out as polar bear and did a thingy on that electric honey label that tigermilk was also on

"Starfighter Pilot" was an early single, right? I vaguely recall that having indie rock guitar moves but still sucking.

Snow Patrol were the band who, in 2000-2001 seemingly sent a single a week into our student magazine office and we couldn't give them away. 5 years later they were the biggest band in Britain. Pretty sure every generation has its equivalent.

bet you would be gutted now if one of those singles was worth 500 quid now

speaking as someone in a similar role at the same time, they were probably punting out the damn things in four-figure numbers, and I suspect you'd be lucky to get 500 pence

the cottage industry versh of landfill

Most of these bands may be forgotten. But so is Nelly too, and Nelly was much worse than anything on this list.

pffftt...

"country grammar" is still a jam

what does nelly have to do with this thread?

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

the toy dolls version was a hit when i started secondary school

thats great btw, its like andrew wk doing donk sea shanties

p fucking melodic in other words

i lied before, i actually kinda enjoy "spitting games" by snow patrol. the cod-mbv production and goofy lyrics are a guilty pleasure.

i would never admit this, irl.

voted Biffy Clyro because I was an undergraduate in Scotland when they were 'blowing up' and loads of my classmates thought they were fucking indie as shit because they saw them at Fresher's Week or whatever. would prob have voted the Fratellis otherwise, but I was doing my honours stuff around that time and had little contact with their fans.

good man

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12505772

http://www.euinfrastructure.com/media/media-news/news-thumb/100211/Freshkills.jpg

glad jilly's rock world has shut down, that was some corny bullshit. hopefully the krazyhouse goes the same way, went to uni at liverpool and h8ed being dragged to that dump.

what does nelly have to do with this thread?

Forgotten 00s crap.

im voting mumford, surely u don't like them geir?

Actually never heard of them.

There are some truly crap bands in the list though. Was never big on Starsailor and Stereophonics. Basically, Britpop and this kind of indie were all about tunes, and those two bands didn't have much to offer in terms of actual tunes that would build up and end up in catchy anthemic singalong choruses. They simply just didn't have the songwriting skills to write good old-fashioned pop tunes. And just playing guitar without having good tunes becomes pretty boring in the end.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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