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

brb, giving myself a huge floppy bumpart like Jon Ronson’s back-page byline photo

Most of these bands may be forgotten. But so is Nelly too, and Nelly was much worse than anything on this list.

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:45 AM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Telling that they either couldn't or didn't try to drag one single woman into the Indie Allstars.

"Not daft"

nelly’s “uh’s” in the beginning of “hot in here” are worth the smoking ashes of all these British bands combined

Nice to see an appearance from Pete Doherty at 4.27

― all things must pasteurize (Matt #2), Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:04 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

LOL

Somebody make a Spotify or YouTube playlist of all this stuff. I’m curious to see if it really is as bad as ILM says it is.

oldest stuff on there is The Farm, guess there are new bands on there too, don't think a single playlist will reasonably encompass all of this... stuff.

Somebody make a Spotify or YouTube playlist of all this stuff. I’m curious to see if it really is as bad as ILM says it is.

why don't you make a youtube or spotify playlist of this stuff, and then listen to it?

I’m lazy.

Hahaha there were some defensive comments made by the admin of that “indie all stars” account (Alan maybe?) to every spiteful comment in the video that have since been erased.

I doubt McGee had much to do with it given his articulate and meticulously worded introduction. Mind you he is desperate for something to do these days.

I’m lazy.

I'll spend 4 hours researching and compiling for $100.

Gay Dad?

did not bother the 2010s overmuch tbf

The top 50 greatest landfill indie songs of all time

oxymoronic

the subhed immediately addresses NV's concerns, and there are some decent gags in the mini-essay before the list.

Did the term "landfill indie" originate here?

Andrew Harrison takes the blame according to the piece.

i read bits and pieces, the actual writing was ok

i don't think the term originated on ilm

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!

swagger overload i can't take it

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

and how some Petey D bands are landfill and some aren't

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.

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

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.

The one great thing about landfill indie is, you don't ever have to hear it to know it's shite.

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"

Carcass and Bolt Thrower killed the britpop game.

was going to make jokes about thrash metal bands slaughtering b-list britpoppers, thought better of it

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.

i too was expecting Art Brut to feature.

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.

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.

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?

ha.
i know its a small scale thing, but weren't they a wakefield band as opposed to proper leeds ?

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.

franz ferdinand are definitely landfill despite what that article says

First album and FFS put them several miles above landfill.

Speaking of bands who actually were from Leeds, no sign of Kaiser Chiefs on this list is surprising.

no it's not.

sub-landfill!

I'm more curious about the landfill before time.

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!

franz ferdinand, maximo park, art brit, the future heads... these are all the same band, right? man I hate that stuff.

the cribs, the kooks, everybody has their one “no actually this one was good”

andrew harrison takes the blame in his twitter bio (and correctly, bcz he did indeed invent this term)

He did indeed

He says it will probably end up on his headstone