Best album on NME Albums of 2004 List (Peak Landfill Era?)

Peak landfill was surely 2006-2007?

The Fratellis, The Pigeon Detectives, Kate Nash, The Wombats, The View, Reverend and the Makers, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong etc.

― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Friday, 19 August 2016 16:45 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup
I'd count Ordinary Boys too but they're in this poll
Poor the Dears, they were ok iirc

I think you meant to say: poor dears

I take it they realized nobody gave a shit about no-name British indie bands and stopped hyping them around 2010 or so?

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, August 20, 2016 12:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Basically, a synthpop revival happened.

But I'm not surprised at all that alternative rock/"guitar music" or whatever you want to call it basically died in the UK circa 2007-2008, because by that point record companies were just signing shit bands in large quantities. If the bands were all putting out records of the calibre of Silent Alarm or Franz Ferdinand or A Certain Trigger, then it wouldn't be a problem, but they just weren't. They weren't good enough. It was just an oversaturation of drivel and people naturally got fed up. It seemed like most of the bands involved in that wave of 2002-2005 were struggling to follow-up their debut records, CD's were out on their arse, and record companies got desperate.

There's a whole arc to that last era of UK alternative rock/"guitar music" which begins with The Libertines' Up The Bracket in 2002, peaks around 2004-2005, and ends dying on its arse with Scouting For Girls, The Pigeon Detectives and the fucking Hoosiers.

Wasn't the synthpop revival already there in the early 00s?

It was a bit of a slow-build throughout the decade. I guess at the very beginning of the decade there was Ladytron and Mesh, later joined by Client and The Knife by '03 (as well as Goldfrapp in their Black Cherry-era) ... but by '09 synthpop was back in a way it hadn't been for long, long time.

seem to recall the ordinary boys (and the killers too) were somewhat derided by srs ~guitar music~ types for being a bit too pop, a critical tendency which had signficantly diminished by the landfill era, so i guess that makes the ordinary boys proto-landfill

and the guy from the ordinary boys went on big brother or some other shitty tv show like that.

he was on the celebrity version of that channel 4 First Dates show the other week! apparently he now writes songs for Cher and Olly Murs

Gavin & Stacey seemed to help the career of landfill indie bands. They were always being played on it

Yeah, Preston was on Celebrity Big Brother. The thing was, at the time that he was on Celebrity Big Brother I had not heard one single note of The Ordinary Boys' music. I don't recall any Ordinary Boys tracks being played on nights out, and I don't remember their videos really getting any airplay on MTV2 or whatever. I don't remember much about them, apart from seeing their CD in a rack in a record shop while I was buying something else. I always assumed that Preston having to go on Celebrity Big Brother meant he'd either do anything for five minutes of fame or his band was wank, therefore I needn't bother. When I finally heard an Ordinary Boys track many, many years later, it turned out I was right on both counts. I hadn't missed anything. If Preston hadn't gone on Celebrity Big Brother, his band would have been so incredibly easy to ignore.

The Ordinary Boys had some airplay & hits before CBB . They supported Paul Weller before CBB.

Yeah, but they were being 'shown the door' pretty much, but "Boys will be boys" got back in the chart while he was in, and they got a bit longer to live.

was that a cover of the hit by 'A Bunch Of Wally's' ? ;)

I since found out that The Ordinary Boys were one of those bands that deliberately changed their name/sound/image in order to jump on the bandwagon. They were a hardcore band called Next In Line beforehand.

See also: The Bravery.
See also also: Kaiser Chiefs (formerly Parva)

Also "Modern Romance", three style changes at least.

See also also: Kill The Arcade/Wolf Am I/Brother/Viva Brother/Lovelife

I think a lot of britpop bands had started off in another life too. Like Travis and that Scottish band who did that terrible "smile" song that was a huge hit but started off as a grunge band.

Morrissey was a supporter of The Ordinary Boys for a while (they were named after one of his songs), put them on a compilation he made but after Big Brother he seemed to change his mind.

Gavin & Stacey seemed to help the career of landfill indie bands. They were always being played on it

Benchmark set in very first episode

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007j8w4/segments

Landfill comedy with landfill actors