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

I was '88 to '92 over here, we all just thought you were Manchester bands or shoegazers.

I went during the Wonderstuff/James/Inspirals dogshit era.

Sultans of Ping FFS

I saw the Frank and Walters live, man

my uni years were the nu-metal era, so indie was sort of dead in the water as a commercial force at that point. a few people liked coldplay... strokes started getting a buzz in third year. easy to forget how people were writing this stuff off around 1999/2000.

I keep trying to remember it as being not as awful as it sounds, but then I remember having worm my way out of attending a Milburn gig and pretending to be a smoker to escape dancefloors at indie discos playing Marmaduke Duke

these guys all had at least one song i really dug, more often than not it was their first or second single though

babyshambles
biffy clyro
hundred reasons
keane
pigeon detectives
the courteeners
the cribs
the futureheads
the magic numbers
the rakes
the wombats

i'll rep for the first rakes and cribs albums, i'd still happily give em a listen

I haven't heard any of these bands and I think I've only heard of maybe two or three. Are they all real?

cribs are probably the best thing on this list really

oh god. oh fucking hell. listening to SFG's '... james bond'. nothing is worse than this, perhaps ever.

The Futureheads were ace and I will defend them voraciously.

The Cribs I never liked but at least use their position to help out awesome DIY bands and thus have the 'keeping it reals 4 lyfe' seal of approval from me.

Pretty much everyone else can die horribly. Or preferably be maimed in such a way that they can never pick up another instrument yet have to live for years in continual agony.

I'm regretting my Toploader vote now. Every SFG single sounds like the worst thing ever until you hear another SFG single.

gotta admire consistency

didn't think james bond was that bad compared to mumf, the view etc

the other sfg tracks were more rapey

it makes me feel v. old to know that student life is now synonymous with Carlsberg & Top Man

― Elmer Fuiud (Noodle Vague), Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

otm!

I saw the Frank and Walters live, man

I bought the t-shirt.

this list is very amazing. also makes sense of the otherwise nonsensical success of the arctic monkeys

athlete - successfully forgot this band
babyshambles - pretentious tramp mumbling
biffy clyro - feel they are of a slightly different set
florence and the machine - landfill is a lad thing
hard-fi - lead singer has an incredibly evil face
hundred reasons - v energetic hair
joe lean and the jing jang jong - get very patriotic feelings thinking about this band
kaiser chiefs - too big to be here, frontman's jowels are really regretable
kasabian - not going to start thinking about them now
keane - all their fans weeping w/ silent self-pity watching their claymation video, what wld your grandfathers think
mumford and sons - haven't heard laura marling but fucking this is inexcusable. creepy desperate evangelical vibe, mumf will def get crazier/have a breakdown
noah and the whale - for guys who were too shy for local theatre
pigeon detectives lol
razorlight - historic live8 performance
scouting for girls
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/cordenhorneBBC_450x300.jpg
welcome to england
snow patrol - ripped off by take that, my brother got a letter from them circa 2002. paradigm example of a major strain of coldplay-derived drivel
starsailor < look at this word
the courteeners, the cribs VOID
the enemy - remarkably grotesque band
the feeling - the champions. life is meaningless when listening to this band.
the fratellis - a colossal turd you can take peculiar pleasure seeing through
the futureheads - shouldn't dirty pretty things be on this list because they are def shit enough
the hoosiers, the wombats - useful lazy punchlines
the kooks - recall only a song called "jackie big tits"
the magic numbers - seem slightly distinct.
the ordinary boys - least ugly?
the others, rakes, twang, view - impossible to care about
the stereophonics - stopped listening v quickly so what i know of this band doesn't fit
the zutons - that girl looked interesting for one video
toploader - that song has transcended to another plane, actually memorable

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44787000/jpg/_44787852_thefeeling_oa.jpg

jowels?

aaaaand now i am imagining the list in a james murphy voice

whoever is the 2020s James Murphy will do this

a fat guy in a tshirt

altho we will be living in makeshift yurts and fighting each other for precious supplies of coal in an arid wasteland that used to be Doncaster by then so ho hum

unthinkable terror of a parallel world lcd soundsystem that namechecked the hoosiers

^do you see?!

"tha HOO-syuhs, tha HOOS-yuhs"

I don't know what the Futureheads are doing on this list

BLENDING RIGHT IN

http://www.mattfoto.com/blog/images/LCD.jpg

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00316/16Brigstocke_316923t.jpg

unthinkable terror of a parallel world lcd soundsystem that namechecked the hoosiers

It'd be the James Murphy that never left the Barfly.

cambridge corn exchange surely

wheres franz ferdinand?

(sorry nv dont sb me, i just couldnt resist)

> hard-fi - lead singer has an incredibly evil face

http://s7.directupload.net/images/110218/temp/w2hgc6el.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2810013497_92c4ef4dfb.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6_68Px79PIg/SJZFQkXpphI/AAAAAAAAAO0/hNaOJFw2gPM/s400/Flute-Demon.jpghttp://s7.directupload.net/images/110218/temp/w2hgc6el.jpghttp://www.collectibles-articles.com/antique/collectible-image-large/female-winged-devil-ornament-playing-flute-made-in-peru_120654341031.jpg

ff do't really belong w/ the landfill, they were more a sort of 'wry' 'affecting' 'quirky' ish thing like british sea power that just sold a lot of records

Funnily enough Laura Marling broke up with head-Mumford and is now dating the non-Corden one out of Gavin & Stacey. The woman has taste.

not sure which part of the first sentence justifies the second one.

The implication she's done it all for lulz.

The second sentence is sarcastic?

I think that the Ordinary Boys are the band that live closest to me. If they win this poll, I hereby promise to print out this thread and deliver it to them by hand.

make sure you get a Big Issue in return

I suspect Kasabian's only goal in life was to have a song used as background music in a Top Gear episode. Now that this is done, they can go away quietly.

Really want to vote for The Coral

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

― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:03 (Yesterday)

once they take the music world crown i'm pretty confident they could go beyond that even.

*scouting for girls
*fascism
*the twilight saga
*dysentery

I think that the Ordinary Boys are the band that live closest to me. If they win this poll, I hereby promise to print out this thread and deliver it to them by hand.

^ok i voted

"work, work, work (pub, club, sleep)" is still dope as long as you don't really pay attention the lyrics

i quite like the lyrics tbh

and it is a tune

haha, i am charmed by earnest US-adopters of this shit, yes, but also filled w/ pity

You know the cunts who are like puppeteers for all of this shit and yet somehow going unmentioned? MUSE. FUCK MUSE.

true but along with coldplay and munkehs they are too big and 'global' for this poll

I can't hate Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong because a) I've never heard a single thing by them and b) the singer was the best thing in the worst series of Peep Show.

I hope to fucking god that Scouting For Girls google themselves and find this thread.