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

It was terrible when Sting done it, what chance have those cunts got?

You haven't pressed play yet have you?

i might be depressed but i'm not suicidal

Can't see the YT embeds, but The Automatic's cover of "Gold Digger" should not be forgotten.

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

Fucking hell

The words "high quality" have no place on that clip.

the vocals on that are sooooooooooooo crap

There's no way back from that. They'd have had more chance if they'd been caught kiddy-fiddling.

omfg zane lowe rapping. possibly the most cringe inducing thing on the whole thread.

i had erased this from my mind ;_;

re: razorlight/sting, as tom ewing wrote at the time: Pop scientists have searched long and heard for an individual less vocally and spiritually capable of singing reggae than Sting and finally he has appeared: well done all concerned.

Poor Rastalight. Such tragic lack of self-awareness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEYODN8g2Qw

"we've chosen this song because we're sexual beings at heart"

brb need to scrub myself clean for 3 hours

oh god the backing grunts in the chorus

this is so grim

lol don't do it to yourself man

fucking hell that automatic "gold digger" cover is OFF THE DEEP END. the rapping oh god please make it stop

what is he DOING on the chorus? why?

OH GOD THE SECOND VERSE IT GETS WORSE WHAT IS THIS YELPING HE IS DOING

almost like what he does here. in the chorus anyway.

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

There's no way back from that. They'd have had more chance if they'd been caught kiddy-fiddling.

― DL, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 11:06 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ahem

that's weird, he doesn't look like a paedo

Bowen, who runs Probation Management, was released on bail on the condition he resides at his home address, reports to Rumney police station twice a week and has no contact with anyone under the age of 18 unless it is supervised by an adult aged over 18.

The Automatic, who were formed in Cowbridge, are best known for their hit song Monster.

"Probation Management"

"Monster"

It's too easy. It's just too easy.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Notacceptedanywhere.jpg

next album's called "CRB Check" iirc

big lols @ "that's weird, he doesn't look like a paedo"

had to go Fratellis in the end, paying strict attention to the criteria they are surely the ultimate landfill indie band.

The Automatic (also known as The Automatic Automatic in the U.S.)

the use of the word "known" there is misleading

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i ain't saying he a child fucker, but he aint going wit no konnie huq-ah

you ever wonder about people whose physical circumstances ought to make them think "the afro's a shade too far"?

Only just dared look in here. Florence Machine and Noah Whale I can deal with; let's set them free. The rest are horrible, by and large, with maybe the odd OK song. But some of the horrors perpetrated here, oh lordy.

Toploader would win, I suspect, if their biggest hit wasn't in 1999. So let's say Scouting For Girls.

Toploader's (s)hit was re-released twice IIRC

they were def at the uhm height of their careers in 2001/01ish, same with the stereophonics

this is mumfords vs scouting tho

Should belong to SFG by rights, but fearing a strong US-backed challenge from Milquetoast & Sons

I'm sure it's gonna be SFG.

Has a poll result been so keenly anticipated for since a long time?

there is a lo of utter filth in this poll that isn't even going to be a contender cuz the field is so toxically strong

/lot

you have managed to construct a poll in which mumford and sons is my favorite option

i don't know what to say

thinking that unpleasantness of borrell may lift razorlight to top 3 finish

are we voting for best or worst, btw?

i think mine's between futureheads, for having achieved a level of critical respect that few of the other landfills did - and specifically for their most disgusting work, the kate bush cover, too; what is WRONG with people who say they like that shit - and scouting for girls, who seem to somehow still be going years after the others expired

worst lex

although id be interested to see your best.

I'm voting for this Honey and Banana Yoghurt. Write-in vote.

Oh. Worst. Right...

babyshambles easily least worst, occasionally even reaching the dizzying heights of mediocrity

needed to be at least one doherty band itp tho

I'm slowly coming round to the painful conclusion that Florence & The Machine are the best band here. Maybe Keane.

We forgot the Dirty Pretty Things incidentally.

i think dirty pretty things forgot dirty pretty things

cannot abide Florence et al but that's partly down to mistakenly reading three lines of an interview with her and partly cos I really dislike the song "You've Got the Love" and y'know they made a dirge dirgier. wd probably rep for that one Enemy single above everything on here but the Rakes' first album is decent fun too.

never heard florence

she looks like a 44 yr old victorian governess, was rly amazed to find out she was so young

indie chancers always knock 5 years off their real age and female indie chancers often 10 because it's a sexist old game innit

nah p sure she is her stated age