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

there's endless american shit too but it doesn't coalesce as easily around a single all-consuming landfill goatse like the uk stuff

isn't one of them shagging sophie ellis bexter? kudos to that guy

take notes p4k feebs, this is reviewing

wdn't have included the klaxons even if someone nominated them cuz they are the only uk indie band of the last decade i didn't hate

Yes, remixes are cheating I guess. Would happily sub Kasabian's Empire and Florence's Rabbit Heart. (Don't know why Florence is on the list TBH)

xp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubw5N8iVDHI

there are a few outliers in the nominations but the coherence is still impressive imo

athlete - kinda copped Coldplay's shtick mid career, right? Pretty shit. Saw them support Mansun as an idiot youth and they had a theremin freakout bit
babyshambles - we paid for blood imo
biffy clyro - funny shit, man
florence and the machine - tasteful but private school hhmmm
hard-fi - drunkenly pissing on a shop is really poignant when you think about it
hundred reasons - haha
joe lean and the jing jang jong - don't think this band existed?
kaiser chiefs - don't think I've ever heard this band
kasabian - that picture of all those old Oasis fans with haircuts their drooping faces could not support - should by rights be from Birmingham, but near enough I guess
keane - I think Southall wrote some good, possibly libelous shit about how this band's singer is a pisshead because he hates his own band so much?
mumford and sons - still haven't heard these but I think they are from private school and I trust y'all's judgement
noah and the whale - " "
pigeon detectives - ? This is a stupid name
razorlight - don't how get how dudes can get egomaniacal about writing songs which have so few characteristics
scouting for girls - Yes OK you have an accent, maybe put these kind of guys in a room with Jamie T and see if they manage to conjure up a glottal stop so large it destroys them all
snow patrol - credit to their endurance for staying awake long enough to finish recording that one song; think blueski once said this band's lead singer has a swimming pool in the shape of a swimming pool - I bet he loves to sensibly dive into it with his best friend, Stewart Downing
starsailor - funnily wimpy, got a half-decent JLC remix
the courteeners - ?
the cribs - I kind of imagine these guys being really heroically unintelligent in their daily lives, but in an entertaining, Terry Fuckwitt kinda way, you just keep doing your thing the Cribs
the enemy - don't think this band existed
the feeling - seemed to be really proud of themselves, but by rights the only people who should ever have paid any attention to them is members of their own family, filming their opening slot gig on a middle of the range camcorder in an otherwise deserted function room. Kind remind me of a guy at Uni who told me his band were "going in kind of a rock-y direction"
the fratellis - friend who worked at a HMV they did a signing at said they had minders to look after them, one of whom came up to him and warned him to make sure none of the staff pestered the Fratellis for autographs while they were having a pre-opening Fratellis-only shopping session; reportedly none of the staff had planned to do so because the Fratellis are shit twats
the futureheads - good bunch of lads imo
the hoosiers - the adverts where these guys were all like "apparently nobody's heard of us!!!" actually did make me want to kick their heads in
the kooks - think this band has curly hair? [a Google Image Search suggests that one of them actually has an unshowered boy version of Mira from Ladytron's haircut]
the magic numbers - [fat joke]
the ordinary boys - guy I went to school with did the reggae toast bit on one of their songs so not them
the others - chalk one up for the public on this one
the rakes - boring
the stereophonics - funny shit, man
the twang - Oh Bir-ming-ham! (Oh Bir-ming-ham!) Is full of fun!!! (is full of fun!!!)
the view - Probably just formed because they realised the name was still available?
the wombats - me neither
the zutons - ?
toploader - WHAT ABOUT RAVEN?

Starsailor - Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke Mix)

Hahah this -- Futureheads excepted in that I need to relisten and see what I think -- was the one song I was thinking I might save from all these clods. Though Matt DC's point applies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgGItLYyBQ0

<3

those were the days when indie was open to new influences, new thinking, new colours

is that the one that goes "I'm a skinny white limey but I like tings grimey"

meshug! wir haben die siemlich landfillishe TING TINGS in dem poll vergessen ;_;

nah the tingers are something else rly

"Bomb New Cross."
"But sir, Hadouken! aren't actually originally fr-"
"Do as I say."

tings were like landfill lectro kinda ting iirc

If I could nominate one american band for this, i would nominate ORSON

ok go

About 75% of these bands would be top of a worst band ever poll individually, for me, but seeing them altogether is making me realise just how impressive Scouting For Girls actually are at being beyond shit.
Stereophonics were always the worst, until Toploader came along, then Starsailor (have a feeling their disgustingness is being overlooked amongst the strong competition - give that one about 'daddy was an alcoholic' another 'spin' because they are def. contenders), then the Feeling (the day PopJustice started acting as though they were 'just great pop music actually' is the day I stopped reading PJ), then Scouting for Girls have somehow managed to perfect the formula.

Voted SFG in the end. Would like to see them go on from here to win the world cup of terrible.

artic monkeys had something to say, man. about, like, how people who enjoy dancing and having fun are disgusting savages, yeah?

Not what their lyrics are saying at all. You must be thinking of the Arctic Strawmen.

― DL, Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:18 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

i know it was supposed to be more "complex" than that or w/e... but i dunno, can't stand the guys.

ya apologists for that lot r p much scum

there is no good landfill

yeah my america comment was for general landfill, whether nu metal or post-strokes p4k indie or etc.

def think it's worth a american landfill metapoll tho

surely if there was a US landfill equivalent it would be the mall emo bands

Memo

American waste:

Kings of Leon
Maroon 5
Orson
The Fray
Train
Lifehouse
The Calling
Nickelback
3 Doors Down
Matchbox 20
Hinder
The Killers
The Bravery
Hot Hot Heat

Killers don't deserve to be there imo. And where is the numetal? Staind?

Hey, add what you like, I don't really know about this stuff.

that's a good start

ppl will want to vote for the killers

Jing Jang Jongs of Leon and the Killers don't count cos nobody in their home nation gives a fuck about them?

WHICH IS WHY REALLY THEY BELONGED IN THIS LIST

uhm p sure they are more popular in america than most of this lot are in england

kings of leon and killers had hits over here

they're our problem i'm afraid

both bands have a couple decent songs. KOLs had burned thru all of their good material in 2 EPs which was a shame for them.

Kings of Leon are like the most popular landfill band in the UK no question don't let's bust out the tribute band pics again

think blueski once said this band's lead singer has a swimming pool in the shape of a swimming pool

lmao this rules

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aNTsUIQhmf0/SfsV4pgk99I/AAAAAAAACgg/iaqJkI9EhJ4/s320/Rooney+-+Calling+The+World+-+2007.jpg

nu metal had a kind of fifth form impropriety and goonishness to save it from total mediocrity. naff, yes... but not dull, really.

ya i see what u mean nv but still, if we can't even make our own landfill indie we might as well rename ourselves malawi #gaunty

numetal for american poll shd be staind, mudvayne kinda stuff rather than the proto-goon clownstep stuff

i think killers shouldn't count because they are kinda distinctive? whereas i heard the name death cab for cutie 4000 times in my life and still if i heard them on the radio i genuinely would not know it was them.

can remem reading nme circa 2k2 wherein death cab were invoked as an 'obscure american band' placeholder

might have been in a jimmy eat world review

let's take the top 4 from this poll and then send them forward to the World Cup

Australia looks like a tough opponent tbh.

Got faith in SfG's ability at the highest level

australia produces a lot of deplorable shite yes, but not in these kind of volumes.

Jet and the Vines make a hell of a pair upfront though. Both potential matchwinners imo.

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

kinda reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMRq1Z_WyTc

;_;

Now I'm going to have to listen to "James Bond" :(

That was revolting. But I know what u mean!