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Rebirth of the uncool: why landfill indie should finally get its dues As the Cribs and the View return to celebrate early albums, …

Rebirth of the uncool: why landfill indie should finally get its dues. As the Cribs and the View return to celebrate early albums, ...

"Landfill indie" was one of the decade's great memes. Coined by Andrew Harrison of The Word magazine, it captured that sense of alarming overproduction, the gross excess of supply over demand....

“Landfill indie was always bands who unflinchingly magpied all the cliched bits of The Kinks, The Smiths and Oasis,” says Sean Adams, social ...

“ Landfill indie ” spoke to the glut of blokey indie outfits and the sometimes lamentable quality of their music. Soon the words would conjure a chill wherever two or more slouching rockers...

UK phrase referring to the amount of generic guitar based bands. It is characterised by: * complete lack of rhythmic invention * weedy vocals * utter self-absorption * million of songs about nothing but how *weird* the world is * having gone on about …

Thoughts on the Vice 'Landfill Indie' list · 50.Pete and the Pirates · 49.The Rifles · 48.Little Man Tate · 47.Guillemots · 46.Les Incompétents · 45.Good Shoes · 44.

Amid the leather jackets and lank hair – key ingredients of what would come to be known as “ landfill indie ” – The Long Blondes cut a fantastical dash. That was partly down to their music, which...

The attachment to the genre is secondary to the music itself, and is better described as an attachment to a past which contained the mere presence of landfill indie as something commercially and...

Jul 28, 2019 · “ Landfill indie ” spoke to the glut of blokey indie outfits and the sometimes lamentable quality of their music. Soon the words would conjure a chill wherever two or more slouching rockers...

The throwaway phrase 'landfill indie' was picked up by commentators of a certain age, likely bored of guitar bands since about Catatonia and ...

WebLandfill indie populated almost every early FIFA playlist as well (thinking FIFA 06 was the peak for this with Dogs, The Departure, The Rakes just to name a few). The fact Hard Fi don't even have one entry in this top 50 just shows how landfill their indie was!

Jan 4, 2010 · Simon Reynolds. Mon 4 Jan 2010 07.46 EST. "Landfill indie" was one of the decade's great memes. Coined by Andrew Harrison of The Word magazine, it captured that sense of alarming overproduction ...

Landfill indie populated almost every early FIFA playlist as well (thinking FIFA 06 was the peak for this with Dogs, The Departure, The Rakes just to name a few). The fact Hard Fi don't even have one entry in this top 50 just shows how landfill their indie was!

Sep 12, 2008 · UK phrase referring to the amount of generic guitar based bands. It is characterised by: * complete lack of rhythmic invention * weedy vocals * utter self-absorption * million of songs about nothing but how *weird* the world is * having gone on about twenty five years too long.

The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time · 50: “Mr Understanding” – Pete and the Pirates · 49: “Local Boy” – The Rifles · 48: “House ...

Mar 3, 2017 · Rebirth of the uncool: why landfill indie should finally get its dues As the Cribs and the View return to celebrate early albums, perhaps its time this mid-00s scene was re-evaluated. Should we...

The words ‘landfill indie’ roll off the tongue with the malicious wheeze of a garden fork puncturing a football. And they are repeated, ad …

Landfill indie is more straight rock without flair and every song kind of sounds the same - I'm taking The View, The Enemy, Milburn, Hard Fi, ...

There was an onslaught of forgettable bands like The Pigeon Detectives and The Wombats. Aptly termed 'landfill' indie, they buried some actually ...

Sep 1, 2020 · The throwaway phrase ‘landfill indie’ was picked up by commentators of a certain age, likely bored of guitar bands since about Catatonia and feeling lost, confused and out-of-touch amid the rock...

'Landfill indie' is a catch-all for derivative garage rock à la the Strokes or the Libertines that's particularly nostalgic for people who grew up with Skins. There's not a huge value judgement in the phrase; though the word "landfill" suggests otherwise, in this context it simply signifies there was a lot of fucking music like that, and it ...

The Top 15 Modern Landfill Indie Songs ; 15. “Six Days in June” – The Fratellis (2020) ; 14. “Burn, Camden, Burn” – Razorlight (2020) ; 13. “Drunk ...

Aug 28, 2020 · Aug 28, 2020 -- Photo by Jared Lisack on Unsplash If you’re anything like me, by which I mean if you were at a British university at any point between 2005 and 2010, your Thursday morning will have...

By the end of the decade, the proliferation of indie bands was being referred to as an "indie landfill", with the term "landfill indie" becoming used by ...

Dec 12, 2021 · “Landfill indie” was the pejorative term that came to be applied to the dregs of the British guitar scene in the mid-2000s, when the “movement” defined by angular guitars, tight jeans ...