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

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

He says he was as surprised as anyone that it took off

I'm sure I heard landfill television (and loads of t'other landfill elements) used before i heard it in a musical context, but this isn't a mound above a gigantic gravy-yard of rotting black binliner trash i want to die on right now. And this journo doesn't particularly sound like he's busting a gut to take credit either!

23: “Face for the Radio” – The View

lol i looked at this list just to see if the view placed. would've picked "superstar tradesman"

Surprised nobody's started a poll tbh

95% sure I remember TV landfill used as a term to describe late night ITV schedules from about 1996 on

Why is it always landfill indie tho and not, say, landfill folk or whatever.

Landfill classical is definitely real.

ah Laserlight

maybe Laserlight is good? Idk

man, this list made the rounds on music twitter today

anyway ... i love that Vaccines song

Yeah, lots of very angry and upset thirty and forty somethings on Twitter

The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Kooks, Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Bloc Party, Razorlight, The View, Glasvegas, Jamie T, Foals etc aren’t landfill indie + are responsible for some of the best music during their times. The rest are despite some good songs.

— - (@CammyLockdown) August 27, 2020

if I were to make a list of "not landfill" bands on there, that would not be the list.

FF and Bloc Party aren't even on the list, are they?

Why is it always landfill indie tho and not, say, landfill folk or whatever.

https://alpha-audio.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mumford-sons.jpg

Oh God, the replies to this. So if a band are earnest and hard working they should be above criticism?

That @vice feature on ‘Landfill indie’ - lots of tweets about it. Sneery jibes about bands and kids that wanted to make music. Loads of youngsters liked those bands and it was their entry point into loving albums and gigs. I stand with the kids who made the music. Cheap shots

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) August 27, 2020

folk was not clogging up the near-entirety of uncritical pop radio broadcast output is why

weird hate for this everywhere today. the article is obviously a love letter! for the music but also for the time and place. most of the capsule reviews are raves!

mix of not clicking thru to the article and beyhive equivalency

also (more reasonably maybe now that the war is long won): fans disliking the nailed-on dismissiveness of the generic term for their chosen love object

the article does a fair job of making a case for this terrible reactionary music, luckily its terrible reactionary fans are filling the gaps

my favourites are the "Band X from this list are completely different to all the other bands" but somebody says it about *every band on the list*

No denying the greatness of The Kooks

wondering about hypnotherapy to conduct an experiment on whether a bunch of these records would be less bad if i could forget what the artistes look like

folk was not clogging up the near-entirety of uncritical pop radio broadcast output is why

― mark s, Friday, August 28, 2020 4:24 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was in the u.s. circa 2012

oh no

2007, which is surely the peak of the landfill era, had a LOT of massive radio hits that had nothing to do with landfill indie, it isn't really true that pop radio was entirely clogged up with the Fratellis or the Kaiser Chiefs or whoever.

(There's also a lot of provincial high street rock music that even now gets heavily played on Radio 1 and exists outside of critical narratives altogether.)

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.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 27 August 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Why would you do this to yourself. I listened to about 50 albums/tracks from a list recently and I knew I was going to enjoy most of it. How much do you need a song?

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!

― calzino, Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Why did I read this to the tune of Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads

imagine thinking that Kooks, Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Razorlight, The View and Glasvegas are all "above" landfill

tbh some reluctant respect for writing this article just as we hit 20 years since early 00s 'The' bands rock resugence and trying to distract from that

Hey wait we're still in the nu-metal revival era. Don't jump the gun.

If you were being charitable the Kaiser Chiefs might be a tiny sliver above landfill status on the basis that they were huge, and I Predict A Riot is pretty solidly embedded into the national consciousness, but none of the others are.

An act beloved of 6 Music are returning after 15 years.

Can you guess who it is?

Join @steve_lamacq on Tuesday from 4pm to find out. pic.twitter.com/2gHHmUFOHT

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) August 28, 2020

it's Arab Strap, wish they weren't doing this on this fucking show.

in the interests of science I am going to listen to this top 50 landfill classics playlist today. I think I know about 7 or 8 of these songs and of those I kind of like 1 of them, so my hopes are not particularly high

someone is not happy :

https://www.nme.com/features/landfill-indie-snobbery-2741199

oh wow Mark Beaumont still has a "job"