My shit rural American town has Ke$ha playing a coupla hours away in a few weeks so the local top 40 station is playing her nonstop & last night I was exasperated at the "desperate clubbing" themes of every song but having read that blurb on The Enemy I take back everything I said Ke$ha, you are loved again.
― Euler, Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Also SNORE PATROL you bunch of fucking amateurs.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cribs had a few moments and I feel like Towers of London were stupid, harmless fun and not taking themselves very seriously so they can't be lumped in with gobshites like Mumford and Razorlight.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
You know I already had some mass pity for all you folks thanks to Cameron, but this is now approaching catharsis.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
But I am American so my exposure to both was limited.
(xpost)
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Joe lean and jing and a jang and a jong...
Had the good grace to fall off the pavement rather than from a height.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh god forgot about them.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Biffy Clyro
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Right, they suck
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I would disqualify Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong due to them being so shit no one would even release their album. They were sort of the Gay Dad tipping point where the music industry realised they were just taking the piss now.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cooper Temple Clause on the other hand.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
A Hundred Reasons why Hundred Reasons are shite
^^^ Classic ILM.
just type 'v festival 2007' into yr favourite search engine for inspiration
shittest uk band of 00s/10s poll = "Festval" bands poll
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
There's still a roadsign in Reading that has "home of the Cooper Temple Clause" 'grafitti'd' onto it, (i.e. it almost looks official)
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
We will need to run this poll 50 times so they all have a chance of winning.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure if gorillaz belong on this poll....even if u h8 them they're still pretty different to the landfill mnstrm
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i agree
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Absolutement. Think we shd have restrictions on number of chords deployed plus shitness of rhythm section.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Wd also save Lawrence and the Machine for a different poll for the same reason.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Should the Wombats be here? Or a little too late? The inheritors of the tradition.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
In a perfect world we'd be able to vote for Kasabian as one Platonic ideal of twattery and Scatting for Girls as the other.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Also in a perfect world The Sex is on Fires and the Killers wd belong in this list.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- The Anacrapsis
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Kasabian's pretension make them non-platonic imo: if it's a fault, it's an unusual fault in lummox rock. (but obvs no argument that they must be in the poll)
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, Kasabian are part of the noble tradition of Primal Scream-esque would-be space rockers were pretension = "have read a big word in a comic". It doesn't reach to they music or anything.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Talking of Coventry, there's The Enemy
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:36 (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ahh that's who I meant - The Twang are Brummies iirc
― Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Will admit to liking "We'll Live and Die in These Towns" but I am a sucker for a horn tbh
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
can we add dirty pretty things?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
also: the last shadow puppets
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the fratellis
Don't think foreigners shd be allowed to vote in case they're misled by the veneer of glamour hanging over exotic Britishes locations like Cov and Chorley.
― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Dearest Dog Latin: 'never had a girlfriend have you?'
― Stephen Booth, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
so icey
― Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
fratellis is a v gd call
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
already on the list.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd argue against the Wobmats. They put all their good/decent stuff on album 1, and have spent at least 4 years trying to write new stuff!
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
They didn't have any good stuff in the first place. The Wombats totally belong here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
'chelsea dagger' has probably the most obnoxious hook of all time
still going SFG
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlKqbYwZVbo
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Think Florence & The Machine have a bit too much presence and star quality and not enough stodginess to qualify for this. I vote for replacing them with The Subways.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
xposts NV, agreed on Kasabian in the Primal Scream tradition (they're even into doltish revolutionary gestures, think they have a Corsican liberation thing?), just think that makes them a bit odd in the landfill indie world.
1-10 of about 81 results for "Primark Scream".
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
No the funny thing about Kasabian is that they constantly bang on about being into Can and Detroit techno and whatever but they're still firmly in the landfill. Idiocy of fans is a key factor here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Makers and a revcerenced.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
so the poll's up
the landfill that time forgot: crap uk bands of 00s/10s
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
There's also the school of 'naming your band after mediocre district of London (plural)' landfill indie, cf:
The HollowaysThe Paddingtons
Probably The Canonburys and The Newingtons and The Walworths as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think fire (or Empire) was a typical landfill single, and there are a few other bits and bobs but yeah ok 90% of the time it's suspiciously close to Hard Fi for a group of philosopher-kings.
I guess I will continue my doomed defence of Kasabian as 'bad and mildly unusual, not ultra-bad and identikit' on the poll.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Bombay Bicycle ClubDetroit Social ClubCajun Dance PartyBritish Sea PowerTeam Water PoloEastern Conference ChampionsThe Manchester OrchestraPete & The PiratesNaked And The Boys
Glasvegas
dunno if all these bands is British as I'm a yank who downloads the XFM London Alternative Top 40 every month. funny how it all went electro last year
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Brother.
― Danzig, with tears in my eyes (DavidM), Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I understand that Mumfords is now a band that's fun to hate - but really, they're not that bad. They've got some potential - they can write a decent melody and their harmonies are pretty nice. The singer needs to take himself a bit less seriously though, and the rhythm section needs to loosen up a bit - it seems they basically only have two speeds: a fast trot and a slow dirge. Still, they're fairly bearable as background music.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Lies
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
ban this monster
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link