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

xp that was it. thanks. "thanks". actually the name has not yet triggered any memory of the music, thank fuck.

xp - The Script are Irish iirc.

i have never heard scouting for girls or read anything about them. can someone explain why they are the worst please?

Oh.

God I hate the Script though.

I'd forgotten all about The Zutons! (I guess that's probably for the best.)

hmmmm

i think both the first futureheads album and the first rakes album are classics (haven't listened to the latter in years tbh but i fucked heavy w/ it when i was 17)

i've enjoyed a number of songs by snow patrol, the cribs, and, yes, razorlight

they had that song: the zutons, the magic numbers, kaiser chiefs, keane & hard-fi (i used to bang that one joint that was on fifa 06, maybe it was "cash machine"?)

the band on here that i've heard the most shitty music by is kasabian, and i'd be tempted to vote for them but really i can vote for no one besides joe lean and the jing jang jong, from the shitty name right on down to the fact that they made the cover of NME and still never made an album

pigeon detectives & scouting for girls are runners up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLqo7C-WwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlMfV7A3V00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oaOQ1cQwt4

Somehow, for me, The Killers made the song that even more than "Chelsea Dagger" sums up everything that this tremendous movement stands for.

It's a black hole of shite and terror.

bands on this list i have knowingly heard:

babyshambles - horrible
florence and the machine - not my thing, but she doesn't belong in a UK indie landfill poll
kaiser chiefs - horrible, but not as bad as several of the others
kasabian - horrible
keane - horrible
mumford and sons - what the fucking fuck
snow patrol - horrible
the cribs - lol johnny marr
the futureheads - not actively offensive
the magic numbers - not actively offensive
the stereophonics - horrible

voted mumford & sons

wow i had no idea the killers had a song called "indie rock & roll" -- thank god i'm at work and have no way of listening to it

the wombats & the courteneers really bring me back to the time in high school where i used to read nme irl

I first heard the Killers track in a friend's car on a landfill compilation and assumed it was by one of the tossers on the list until I looked it up.

Being completely candid, even though seeing the names listed like this makes my heart feel heavy and grey:

Like one song by: Athlete (1st album), Florence, Hard-Fi, Kasabian, Keane, Starsailor, Futureheads, Magic Numbers, Twang, View
Like a whole album by: Babyshambles, Rakes, Kaiser Chiefs

Voted Toploader.

Yeah, Magic Numbers don't bother me at all, they're sweet overweight aging hippies who like to sing pleasant vocal harmonies.

you know who belonged on here even tho I liked a couple of their songs? Maximo Park

Shiteness rating out of 10

ATHLETE - 9/10: really this is the point where post-Coldplay bands just started taking the piss. Also I think they were technically Christian rock.
BABYSHAMBLES - 7/10: Probably the worst live band I have ever seen but they get a couple of points taking off for car crash/amusement value.
BIFFY CLYRO - 7/10: Would probably be higher if I'd had more exposure to their fans and/or been to Reading in 10 years.
FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE - 4/10 - bit too much in the star quality stakes, also a couple of alright songs.
HARD-FI - 6/10 - awful clumsy shit but they get a couple of points knocked off because Hard To Beat was quite a good song, and they weren't the Ordinary Boys.
HUNDRED REASONS - 5/10 - too past-it and lol to be serious contenders here
JOE LEAN AND THE JING JANG JONG - 7/10 - obviously woeful but everybody knew it
KAISER CHIEFS - 10/10 genuine contenders
KASABIAN - 10/10 genuine contenders, also worst fans ever
KEANE - 2/10 basically too inoffensive
MUMFORD & CUNTS - 20/10
NOAH AND THE WHALE - 5/10 - no one can seriously vote for them when Mumford & Sons exist
PIGEON DETECTIVES - 10/10 worst shit ever
RAZORLIGHT - 10/10 also maybe more for Johnny Borrell factor
SCOUTING FOR GIRLS - 11/10 she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly, she's so luvverly
SNOW PATROL - 9/10 - they get a point knocked off for making DJ Martian so angry
STARSAILOR - 8/10 - obviously terrible but also kind of easy to ignore to matter how big they were
THE COURTEENERS - 6/10 - some Oasis shit, right?
THE CRIBS - 9/10, dude has one of the worst voices ever
THE ENEMY - can't even remember what they sounded like but I'll assume they were terrible so a straight 8/10
THE FEELING - I don't think I've actually knowingly heard one of their songs, 8/10 as I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt
THE FRATELLIS - 30/10 - Chelsea Dagger might be the worst thing that any of these bands have put out
THE FUTUREHEADS - 5/10 - feel a bit too credible to be here
THE HOOSIERS - 9/10, stupid name
THE KOOKS - 4/10 - hating on the Kooks feels a bit like hating on Keane, kneejerk "girls like this so it must be shit" hate
THE MAGIC NUMBERS - 5/10 - hilarious strop on Top of the Pops gives them a bit of leeway, also everyone's forgotten about them
THE ORDINARY BOYS - 10/10 - surely they were to 'ska' what Mumford & Sons are to 'folk'
THE OTHERS - honestly I have no idea what they sounded like but the sheer lack of ambition indicated by giving yourselves a name with absolutely no connotations whatsoever gets them a straight 10/10
THE RAKES - even Lethal Bizzle is probably embarassed about this lot now 8/10
THE STEREOPHONICS - okay they might actually rival Mumford & Sons 30/10
THE TWANG - 8/10 - fuck knows
THE VIEW - 9/10 - Cast more like
THE WOMBATS - 8/10 but at least they seem funny in retrospect
THE ZUTONS - 10/10 - die.
TOPLOADER - should fit in the Kooks/Keane mould except for the fact that Dancing In The Moonlight is one of the worst records ever made. 10/10

i have the biffy clyro album with the woman masturbating on the front. i do not recall the name of the record but the image stuck. the singles off that were v good and i suspect continue to be so.

xp re Maximo Park, yeah I'd put em around Cribs level, fine enough in themselves, but too close to the vortex not to get sucked in.

I was gonna vote for someone who may get a bit overlooked (suspect that there won't be too many hundred votes for the fucking Fratellis), but really I want this to be a Scouting for Girls landslide.

Never forget this atrocity. Watch this before voting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-oMHPZgKJc

Futureheads wld sit more comfortably in some kind of tru-indie thing with The Young Knives, Mystery Jets etc. Minor mid-decade successes.

You people are all giving The Rakes and The Cribs too much credit.

THE KOOKS - 4/10

way too lenient.

"Well uh oh, oh I love her because she moves in her own way
Well uh oh, oh she ame oo my oh ust oo hear aout eye ay"

kill kill kill

Toploader and Stereophonics are well out-of-time for this poll.

I believe the singer from Maximo park wore/wears a bowler hat, which is enough to ratchet up their score a few points. One of their songs wasn't too bad though, it had a jittery energy to it.

i have never heard scouting for girls or read anything about them. can someone explain why they are the worst please?

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:59 AM (16 minutes ago)

Both Toploader and the Shitophonics had significant 2000 albums out, I reckon they qualify, and they're not synonymous with the previous decade in the way that, say, Oasis were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6coqAoDC0

^^^ Simultaneous nadir of two separate genres, which is quite an achievement.

Rakes' first album also had a lot of jittery energy and enough opacity to get them let off here, if you want to be For Real horrible you've gotta wear them hearts on your sleeves.

We should judge this scientifically by sending the list as a questionnaire to Nick Clegg and asking him to tick off which ones he likes the best. Scouting For Girls would probably win due to repping for him.

singles off first rakes album were great. next couple singles after were good too but then they ran out.

Kings of Leon really should be on this poll, it's what they would've wanted.

Like a lot of their work:
futureheads

Like one or two songs:
hard-fi
kaiser chiefs
kasabian
keane
razorlight
snow patrol
the feeling
the magic numbers
the zutons

Ho hum:
athlete
babyshambles
florence and the machine
starsailor
the cribs
the hoosiers
toploader

10th circle of hell:
biffy clyro
scouting for girls
the fratellis
the kooks
the ordinary boys
the stereophonics

Never knowingly heard:
hundred reasons
joe lean and the jing jang jong
mumford and sons
noah and the whale
pigeon detectives
the courteeners
the enemy
the others
the rakes
the twang
the view
the wombats

Voted Biffy Clyro.

listening to 'she's so lovely'... fuck

xpost Yes, the first Rakes album is so much better than most of the stuff here. They were at least trying to be clever and interesting. Though grindie was obviously a regrettable episode in this proud nation's history.

We should judge this scientifically by sending the list as a questionnaire to Nick Clegg and asking him to tick off which ones he likes the best.

Polls on ILM are fucked up enough without introducing AV cheers

biffy clyro are really really awful and a(nother) stain on my country.

Do you know what's sad? Enter Shikari are better than all of these.

There's definitely a difference between bands where I was lured in by one good single and then loss interest and ones (like the Kooks and Scouting for Girls) where I clearly remember encountering them for the first time and thinking, fuck this for a game of soldiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlMfV7A3V00

This is just the worst. If I had the choice between being forced to listen to this on repeat for eternity in hell and listening to She's So Lovely on repeat for eternity in hell I think I would probably plump for Scouting For Girls.

If it was definitely one or the other I wd become a big-time god botherer tbh

she's so lovely vs dancing in the moonlight vs good enough (dodgy) which one would be the winner for worst song? Im guessing shes so lovely as its the most recent but those other 2 were the equivalent of their day.

the answer is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7Zkkucos8

'she's so luvverly' isn't even the worst SFG song, of the two i can remember. that one that got to #1 was even worse. about to give it a spin [via anachronistic phrases for playing music on spotify].

'dancing in the moonlight' pwns the fuck out of most of the songs named so far imo. could be a fucked up kneejerk nostalgia thing.

were these bands worse than the 2nd & 3rd rate britpop bands of the 90s?

I found a copy of the original "Dancing in the moonlight", it's OK.

Good Enough has a couple of good bits in.

Leaving "She's so lovely", doesn't really enlarge on why except for "I think that she is beau-ti-fl"

Which is not exactly shakespear this.

this poll is making me rifle thru my bottle stash, but it's not nostalgia

you know who belonged on here even tho I liked a couple of their songs? Maximo Park

― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:08 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

i love love love this first album & also the first single from album 2

matt's rundown is killing me, A+

I interviewed that Athlete guy - Tim W - just before the release of their third album and he was super excited about some of the subtle production tricks on it; they’d just built their own studio and were self producing for the first time. I haven’t revisited it, but we talked about The Outsiders and Flying Over Bus Stops in particular. https://mikeatkinson.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/interview-tim-wanstall-of-athlete/

congratulations to Toploader for their very late challenge for the title

When the revolution comes they can be put on the queue for the guillotine

No queuing for Toploader, I'll open a new guillotine especially

I think in the name of a fairer, non-partisan class enemy cull, it would be quite equitable and justified to execute any bands that play at the Labour conference as well.

i'm pretty sure anybody that performs at a Lab or Tory conference was already on my gulag list on aesthetic grounds alone

I thought you liked The Strawbs?

Ok, saw a tweet saying Toploader are playing at the Lab conference and...it's sort of perfect?

No matter who you vote for, Toploader always get in.

isn't truss on record as liking Onka's Big Moka?

her legacy was more Magic Hotel

this twitter account that posts old photos from getty images is doing a weekend dedicated to 00's UK indie , and it's quite something

https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics

wow.
until now, i have never ever seen a picture of clor before.

ha that Kevin Bridges pic

I'd totally forgotten about the landfill-ized version of the Hollyoaks theme music

If you aren’t sure what any of these bands sound like, then just put this on as it could be 90% of them https://t.co/rTnLZO1AoP

— Great British 00s Indie Images (@shitbritishpics) October 22, 2023

You mean they haven't been using that theme for the entire 21st century?

Symposium are back together, end times

I'm sad I missed this original poll

The right (i.e. worst) two bands came out tops though

But I feel like I have opinions on almost every single of these bands and histories with a great deal of them also.