Bland indie rock boy bands that say nothing at all

[Prince Rhyus]

Alex James, Stephen "Tintin" Duffy and Justin Elastica got together to give us this little ditty.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nIqqgToMEPI

People say "what do you do all day?"
I don't know
Grunging around.​

 

[Augie March]

Alex James, Stephen "Tintin" Duffy and Justin Elastica got together to give us this little ditty.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nIqqgToMEPI

People say "what do you do all day?"
I don't know
Grunging around.​

Good lord. I've never heard that before, it's fucking awful. Britpop at the height of it's self-loving wankiness.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

bland indie rock boy bands will be the first against the wall.

 

[skunkboy69]

Good.I'm bored to tears with them.

 

[Augie March]

Just a quick bump to say that The Fratellis new song is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. It's predictable, goes nowhere, sounds like it was recorded about 10 years ago, and is utter, utter bland pointless shite. Also, Mistress Mabel sounds like a Stereophoncs song title, who were of course one of the original purveyors of bland indie guitar music in the late 20th century.

That is all.

 

[N_igma]

Some of Sterophonics early stuff was great though. I'm sick of all the bland indie shite these days, we need a new musical revolution...haven't had one since Britpop ffs.

 

[Roadkill]

Some of Sterophonics early stuff was great though.

One or two songs at most IMO. They were never that good, and after the first album they turned straight into a blandly unlistenable indie-by-numbers band whose only asset was that everyone inexplicably seemed to fancy the singer.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Razorlight - This girl asked me my name and I told her (next update Johnny Borrel's heroic mental struggle with the ticket machine on his way home)

I like the way his lyrics are all such obvious bollocks yet he still believes he is on a par with Lennon and gets all huffy when nobody picks up on this.

 

[revol68]

these teeeeeeeeerwats.

foals...

shite,kitsch pop wankers with that "i like cut my own hair yah" style that the kids love right now..

ill cut there hair for free.

or

lol

Foals actually rock.

 

[The Groke]

Courteeners

 

[twistedAM]

lol

Foals actually rock.

Like Clor Lite but two years too late

 

[The_Reverend_M]

... considering their success it would seem Clor were two years too early

 

[twistedAM]

... considering their success it would seem Clor were two years too early

Clor were big in my world, but yes.

But here come the torchbearers:

www.myspace.com/panamakings

Listen to Your Children Are Screaming - sound like Clor fucking up Steely Dan.

 

[rekil]

Like Clor Lite but two years too late

Foals are the new surely?

 

[rikwakefield]

"Bland indie rock boy bands that say nothing at all"

Sounds like the title to a song

 

[Fez909]

we need a new musical revolution...haven't had one since Britpop ffs.

Dubstep.

 

[revol68]

we need a new musical revolution...haven't had one since Britpop ffs.

Dubstep.

 

[Fez909]

Can't check that as I'm at work. What is it?

 

[revol68]

Dubstep.

Can't check that as I'm at work. What is it?

it's my girlfriends band.

 

[Silva]

we need a new musical revolution...haven't had one since Britpop ffs.

For that, you'd need marketable frontmen (or women) in bands capable of delivering the goods. I know the ones of Brett Anderson and Dan Abnormal are mostly disliked around here, but any of them have more talent or charisma than the regular NME bands right now. The concept of "indie" is a joke, too: the whole definition turned from My Bloody Valentine to Suede to Saint Etienne in 1993 to mostly post-punk or garage rock revivalists with floppy hair.

Not to mention any attempt to create a buzz around anything is immediately shot down for either being a NME or a bloggers invention.

 

[stavros]

The concept of "indie" is a joke, too: the whole definition turned from My Bloody Valentine to Suede to Saint Etienne in 1993 to mostly post-punk or garage rock revivalists with floppy hair.

"Indie" is so ambiguous. It's like "Music of Black Origin", what the fuck is that? I'm not sure any of the bands mentioned in this thread would be here without Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino et al.

 

[alexjames]

as a certain NME journalist mamorably (and depressingly) said to me in 2003"we're not interested in finding 'exciting new bands' - we're just interested in finding 'the new Libertines'. that's what sells"

that is all true. now i associate the tag 'indie' with 'boring'

 

[legz]

that is all true. now i associate the tag 'indie' with 'boring'

you're not alone

 

[SpookyFrank]

lol

Foals actually rock.

No, no they don't. I've never heard a note they've played but you can tell from that picture that they suck mind-boggling vast quantities of balls. Check out "short guy trying to look hard" and "guy who is probably supposed to be the fit one but actually just looks like another self-regarding art student cuntsock of whom there are far too many to get up against the wall in one go come the revolution and who will thus require either multiple walls or a tripod-mounted minigun to dispose of with the necessary rapidity". And don't get me started on "guy who got the inspiration for his haircut from what his nan looked like in the open casket"

Kids these days The manics might have been pretty shit but at least they looked fucking fantastic, and without a stylist in sight.