A pal sent me the line up from Leeds Festival 2005, which I was at. I saw so many landfill indie bands instead of watching acts like LCD Soundsystem, The National or Sleater-Kinney. For shame!
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I enjoyed that article, so there.
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I’d agree with this, not read the article but most these bands would have 1 or 2 good, fun indie-pop songs (probably what got them signed). The real dregs would be the other 8 or so tracks on their albums
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The nostalgia was quite fun tbf
The music was not
Oasis
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The Strokes
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Very amusing thinking of how defensive some people here are gonna be of the Cribs
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Russel Brand presenting that Big Brother Little Brother spin off show in 07
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The Mighty Boosh
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this post has justifed the thread imo
cheers ruffers
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In a hundred years time we’ll speak in hushed tones about how the ting tings innovated calling people by their correct name
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65 million views on youtube 
“That’s not fair, they weren’t landfill!” means “I quite liked some of their stuff”. I mean i’m no different i don’t think Mystery Jets belong in this category either but VICE has spoken.
I’ve even seen some people saying Maximo don’t belong in this list which is hilarious.
I baulk at The Guillemots being in it though. Officially Not Landfill.
Pretty sure it was invented shortly after The Pigeon Detectives emerged on the scene
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Oft said that it was Andrew Harrison who coined the term. Was he editing Q at the time? Or working at WORD maybe.
every scene has a landfill aspect when the labels realise they can cash in by giving deals to all the copycat bands
but I think indie was one of the first where a lot of the landfill bands had actually gone to Rock Music School in order to learn the art of Being In A Band Who Labels Sign
maybe all the cribs fans have tracked me down from my tweeting at vice haha
to expand on this
the music business changed a lot in the noughties
one was that the pop scene changed because the process of selecting someone to be a pop star was put on tv via xfactor etc.
another was what I was on about here, that the route of being in a band got commercialised by all those rock music schools
y’know, they taught 19 year olds how to be in a band and market themselves to a label
rather than nurturing talent to actually write interesting music
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it’s funny isn’t it
for years, if you want to be a classical musician you go to music college and make connections and practise
but now if you want to be a pop musician you can follow almost the same route!
tbf I know some fucking great talents who’ve gone that route as session musicians
but the two people I can think of are just playing drums for other people, they’re not the song writers they’re just (very good) musicians for hire
I thought it was Peter Robinson of Popjustice who came up with the term in an article for The Guide.
remember when Johnny Marr joined the cribs for a bit
I like it when he just fancies being in a band for six months, like modest mouse
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