I’m lazy.
I'll spend 4 hours researching and compiling for $100.
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:57 (four years ago) link
Gay Dad?
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
did not bother the 2010s overmuch tbf
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
The top 50 greatest landfill indie songs of all time
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 27 August 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
oxymoronic
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 August 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
the subhed immediately addresses NV's concerns, and there are some decent gags in the mini-essay before the list.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 27 August 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
Did the term "landfill indie" originate here?
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 August 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Andrew Harrison takes the blame according to the piece.
― piscesx, Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
i read bits and pieces, the actual writing was ok
i don't think the term originated on ilm
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
I heard landfill adjoined to all sorts of things other than music years before I heard it used in this context. at least I think I did!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
swagger overload i can't take it
― life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
the list is good imo, I like that it takes pains to explain that while the movement/period was shit overall some of the music was fun, and I also like the idea that non-landfill acts were capable of putting out landfill indie
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
and how some Petey D bands are landfill and some aren't
― life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
During the next couple days I am going to listen to every single one of these songs. My goal is to find one that I like. Just one. My hopes are not very high.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
As I said elsewhere, the very first one (#50) is a good song. Can't vouch for much of the rest except Maximo Park who are still quite good
― imago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
yeah, i'll still ride for those two maximo park songs. idk if they really fit into landfill genre, they were a bit weirder than the rest of the ilk.
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
The one great thing about landfill indie is, you don't ever have to hear it to know it's shite.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
a few songs I actually like here, this is the driftnet definition of landfill indie though, like calling any UK band with guitars from the 90s "britpop"
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
Carcass and Bolt Thrower killed the britpop game.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
was going to make jokes about thrash metal bands slaughtering b-list britpoppers, thought better of it
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
From the list I'd stand up for the two Maximo Park picks (Our Velocity should have been their farewell single), Two Doors Down by Mystery Jets (Young Love with Laura Marling from that same album is also great) and the Guillemots single (although Trains To Brazil was their best moment by a long way). Not sure Guillemots really belong here. They were more varied and ambitious than any of the other bands on this list.
Surprised Art Brut weren't featured. Definitely the band I'd still rep for from this entire scene.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
i too was expecting Art Brut to feature.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
I will rep for a bunch of Guillemots and Maximo Park tracks, though between them they probably cut 5-6 albums I will never listen to.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
The second Guillemots album was pure commercial suicide. Not sure what they were going for at all. They never really recovered from it making a really bland apologetic third album that nobody was interested in.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
I seem to know a good amount of people who will try to convince me The Cribs were actually really good (and still are). I just don't get it. Maybe it's because I'm from Leeds and I couldn't escape them for a while?
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
ha.i know its a small scale thing, but weren't they a wakefield band as opposed to proper leeds ?
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Oh yes, you're right. They were certainly extremely prominent around Leeds though. I remember my brother (who posts on here) getting asked if he was in The Cribs a few times. Speaking of bands who actually were from Leeds, no sign of Kaiser Chiefs on this list is surprising.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
franz ferdinand are definitely landfill despite what that article says
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
First album and FFS put them several miles above landfill.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
Speaking of bands who actually were from Leeds, no sign of Kaiser Chiefs on this list is surprising.
no it's not.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
sub-landfill!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
I'm more curious about the landfill before time.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
I'd like to stand on the landfill event horizon, where two minutes is a like a million years when you get cornered by some wearisome rock-band guy who just keeps repeating: this isn't fair - i don't even belong here!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
franz ferdinand, maximo park, art brit, the future heads... these are all the same band, right? man I hate that stuff.
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
the cribs, the kooks, everybody has their one “no actually this one was good”
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
andrew harrison takes the blame in his twitter bio (and correctly, bcz he did indeed invent this term)
― mark s, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
He did indeed
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
He says it will probably end up on his headstone
He says he was as surprised as anyone that it took off
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
I'm sure I heard landfill television (and loads of t'other landfill elements) used before i heard it in a musical context, but this isn't a mound above a gigantic gravy-yard of rotting black binliner trash i want to die on right now. And this journo doesn't particularly sound like he's busting a gut to take credit either!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
23: “Face for the Radio” – The View
lol i looked at this list just to see if the view placed. would've picked "superstar tradesman"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Surprised nobody's started a poll tbh
― imago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
95% sure I remember TV landfill used as a term to describe late night ITV schedules from about 1996 on
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
Why is it always landfill indie tho and not, say, landfill folk or whatever.
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
Landfill classical is definitely real.
ah Laserlight
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
maybe Laserlight is good? Idk
man, this list made the rounds on music twitter today
anyway ... i love that Vaccines song
― alpine static, Friday, 28 August 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
Yeah, lots of very angry and upset thirty and forty somethings on Twitter
The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Kooks, Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Bloc Party, Razorlight, The View, Glasvegas, Jamie T, Foals etc aren’t landfill indie + are responsible for some of the best music during their times. The rest are despite some good songs.— - (@CammyLockdown) August 27, 2020
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Friday, 28 August 2020 08:58 (four years ago) link
if I were to make a list of "not landfill" bands on there, that would not be the list.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 28 August 2020 09:05 (four years ago) link