From whence you came, Plain White Ts. 18. -Ben Westhoff, With the exception of the song Band On the Run which sounds like a forgotten White Album b-side and the bass breakdown on Live and Let Die, there are no greater offenders of 70s schlock than Wings. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. Instead we get three-and-a-half minutes of highly derivative pop-rock that evokes memories of a hundred shit mid-noughties indie nights in damp provincial towns. In practice, it is not. It happened. Yet theres a difference between simple pleasure and mind-numbingly dumb. MDQL is preparing to belt! If only Hootie were Sandra Dee. local news and culture, Angelica Leicht SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Following them we had a British version in The Libertines, a romantic and literate younger brother to The Strokes who gave the whole British music scene a kick up the backside. Their second album was called Konk, which is quite fitting, in retrospect. Ev-ery. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. We always appreciate the feedback. But at some point, founders Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope sort of lost their way and now this is all that's left of them: If music on the radio in the early 1990s all sounded the same, that's because it was All Hootie & The Blowfish, All The Time. American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. One True Voice - Proof that reality TV pop stars are not invincible. He'll suck the humor out of a joke and ruin the punch line every time, but no one else seems to care, because he's a shirtless bro with a guitar. Okay, guys. In order for something to be hated, it must first be loved; that love is what gives the hatred its roots. The point here is seduction, but its hard to be seduced when youre nauseous. These include a fly on the wall TV show including totally not faked (raises eyebrows) scenes of the band fighting people in the streets and sending excrement to a writer who gave them a bad review. Swedish pop group, originally consisting of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. Oh, and also, Nickelback sucks. Well how about they're the single worst, most soul-sapping, boring band of office workers ever to inflict their awful sub-Keane warblings on an already depressed nation's ears. -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. Goodbye, cruel world. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. Granted, they along with Green Day and Offspring actually did produce some pretty great music, and they certainly defined a niche that people responded to. 4. The mere mention of tracks like Two Princes create an earworm so powerful that youre going to need to see an ENT doctor. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. Li-ike. : Spurred on by Crazy Frogs chart heroics, convinced that literally anything could be released as a single, its Get Munkds parody of hip-hop culture which really burns. The Twang - The Brummie Baggie revivalists infected the music scene towards the latter end of the decade with a tedious mix of beery lad anthems and gushing sentiment. Despite a short period of success things never really took off for the band and they are now cited as one of the reasons people grew so tired of guitar music. What followed, however, was nothing short of disastrous. They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide. WebAs noted in our piece on how Pearl Jam are the most boring band in 20 years, grunting, dumb hats and Z-grade attempts at Whos Next do not a great rock and roll band make. Worst bit: The lyric: Hey there, Delilah, you be good and dont you miss me / Two more years and youll be done with school / And Ill making history like I do. Oh, you sweet, deluded fool. By this time Westlife were six albums deep into a career built upon dull, saccharine ballads and the formula was very tired indeed. . This makes them make the list. Dave is a jam act with no jams. Becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, one of which has been certified diamond and has sold over 28 million records in the United States, and over 40 million albums worldwide,becoming the ninth best-selling artist of the 2000s.Creed is often recognized as one of the prominent acts of the post-grunge movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s and is one of the most commercially successful rock bands of all time. The perfect soundtrack to being a brat. WebHere they are: the absolute worst rock bands in history, ranked from the most awful bands to the kind of okay, but still pretty bad, by the Ranker community and real rock purists. WebChris Gerard of Metro Weekly ranked it as Duran Duran's worst album. They were listed number seven on the Billboard top artist of the decade, with four albums listed on the Billboard top albums of the decade. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best, Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. WebHere is my list of the Top Ten Worst Rock Bands of the 2000s. And this an ideal something to make me even sadder breakup song? , 400px wide They are allegedly a different, other hated band. WebCLICK HERE to see The 50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s. Simple to the point of insulting lyrics about Elvis, James Bond and 'lovely girls' sung by a bloke called Roy is not the musical vision of the future we were promised. Worst bit: Its not even the worst Black Eyed Peas song. -Jeff Weiss. Literally it was a toss-up for us, since both sound like whiny, uninteresting barely catchy songs to us. EMPICS Entertainment. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. I don't know if I made this list out of frustration or a desire to understand just how some of these groups had a career in the first place. The Leeds lads started out as a promising prospect but with repetitive songs, unintelligent lyrics and a tenancy to start wet t-shirt competitions at their gigs people soon began to rightfully dislike The Pigeon Detectives. We very much doubt it! MEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS!. The Give It Away video could be called Anthony and the Hand Jive, and its even more ridiculous when he starts doing duck lips. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. 7 and No. The band's third record, Weathered, was released in 2001 with Mark Tremonti handling bass before the band disbanded in 2004 due to increasing tension between members. Billboard ranks them the top rock group of the decade, and their hit song "How You Remind Me" was listed as the top rock song of the decade and the fourth song of the decade. Since their demise the members of One True Voice have failed to scale the heights of success and Daniel was recently seen failing to get to the final stages of this years X Factor in front of one time contemporary Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud, now a multi-millionaire X Factor judge. American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. It was an actual, living hell. They also won two BRIT Awards (who cares!). -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. They're so earnest and 'real' that they just come across as luddite's cashing in on a post-Streets world where talking about modern life in a non-patronising way is somehow worthwhile and interesting. 15 3 Doors Down In the early '00s, this rock band He as a character is unforgettable, but the music of Razorlight? The group was moved to Island Def Jam Music Group, which they eventually left after conflict with the label about creative input. Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. 10. Worse, the band members went on to respectively spawn the equally turgid McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar. What a rebel. Initially, this band appears inoffensive however in time their tunes become so deeply ingrained in your memory that you begin to question whether you have ever even heard any other music. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. Whats worse is that, while good bands struggle to make decent money, Hootie seemingly siphoned off all of it in their 90s heyday, going more platinum than Sandra Dee. We can be thankful that 4 Non Blondes only made one album 1992s Bigger, Better, Faster, More! In the late 1980s Nirvana established itself as part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing its first album Bleach for the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989. Thats Not My Name was lead singer Katie White ranting about her frustrations with being a woman in the music industry, which is fair but Jesus, if I ever hear it again Ill scream. It is, roughly, that music achieved perfection in 1977, no one outside of New York City is important, and your interaction with credibility and its overseers is a bigger concern than learning how not to be an insufferable, self-obsessed jerk. Thi-is. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz Bookmark. Then again, maybe Whibley's split with Avril Lavigne will inspire him to write some inspired songs of heartbreak? Together with the similarity Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback, Papa Roach truly stuck out in the mid-2000s like a sore Porta-Potty when it pertained to the "Butt Rock" sect of Nu Metal and Post-Grunge. Because theyve been caught ripping off other artists songs, including Stevie Wonder, The New Seekers, and Neil Innes. As of July 2010, the band had charted sixteen singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded five studio albums; and their 1994 debut album, Cracked Rear View, was the 16th-best-selling album of all time in the US, having been certified platinum 16 times. What made it so bad: Its 2017 and were wise to how The X Factor works. I was born too late into a world that doesnt care, she sings, dreaming of a time when music really mattered (vom), when accountants didnt have control / And when media couldnt buy your soul. Real music didnt win, on this occasion. The current members are Chris Barron (vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar and vocals), Aaron Comess (drums and percussion), and Mark White (bass guitar). posts, comments and submissions available. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire 11. Probably the worst band musically of the decade this group of peroxide punks have gained notoriety for a series of publicity stunts. Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. They're generic, they're insultingly unintelligent, they do not have absolutely the slightest modicum of self-awareness, and they're about as "extreme" as Coldplay is exciting. It was the first debut album to produce three number 1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart: "All That She Wants", "The Sign" and "Don't Turn Around". They make Perrier seem vibrant and ethnic. They call themselves a new band made from old friends, but its more accurate to call them slumming dudes attempting to trick fans of the White Stripes into liking their boring, awful, music. Track Consoler of the Lonely repeats the phrase I am bored to tears six times, which is only a small fraction of how often everyone else was saying it. What made it so bad: Spurred on by Crazy Frogs chart heroics, convinced that literally anything could be released as a single, its Get Munkds parody of hip-hop culture which really burns. Maybe not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes. We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. Worst bit: Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. for the content of external websites. And that one song is grand, and then it turns into Brimful of Asha. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. Smash Mouth is what would have happened if Limp Bizkit made love to a Lisa Frank poster. Inexplicably popular, the band continue to break peoples ears and will to live the world over. See More by this Creator. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. In 2011, Nickelback released their latest studio album, Here and Now which again topped the charts,] with a supporting tour that began in April 2012. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Scouting For Girls write songs a child might make in a primary school music class. Were aware of how a novelty act can be ridiculed by Simon Cowell in the first round, before finding unlikely success as the show progresses, before releasing a chart-bound single via Cowells label Syco. Worst bit: The way the singer wears his hat in the video. See also: Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish? This song isnt really so bad in of itself its more the fact that it introduced the trend of over-produced pop guff purporting to be massive indie bangers. What was he hiding? He always wore sunglasses. Nothing gets worse. The band has won numerous awards and they have won 12 Juno Awards among 28 nominations.The band is based in Vancouver, Canada. They probably think it's very clever and sticking it to the man, we just think it makes them look lazy. What made it so bad: In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. They can barely play guitar and barely hold a tune. We like best things, too. For that, Fratellis, I can never forgive you. PA Archive / PA Images Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. -Kai Flanders, Boring, tepid, rehashed classic rock with a thin veneer of alt. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. -Ian Cohen, The all-mighty arbiter of SoCal cool, Jeffrey The Dude Lebowski was famously willing to be thrown out of a cab because he hated the fucking Eagles, and you should be too. The band achieved mainstream success with their second and third studio albums, Significant Other (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000), although this success was marred by a series of controversies surrounding their performances at Woodstock '99 and the 2001 Big Day Out festival. I would like to point out that the members of The Maccabees are called things like Orlando, Hugo, Felix, and Rupert. Worst bit: The faux-cockney tone of Luke Concannons vocals, as he sings, My dads totally had a bloody hard day / But hes been good fun and bubblin and jokin away. Oi oi, guvnor! You got it. Following the formal departure of singer Linn in 2007, the band performed a series of concerts as a trio in Europe and Asia from 2007 through 2009, before Jenny revealed in November 2009 that she would be taking indefinite leave from the band to focus on her own solo career.Jonas and Ulf have since recruited two new female vocalists, Clara Hagman and Julia Williamson. But mainly because courting comparisons to the Beatles is always lame, no exceptions. Tell us in the comments below. Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre, What makes a terrible band? The White Stripes The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army The band's original domestic signing was with EMI Canada. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. By siouxsie. Silverchair. Go on! Need we go on? -Ben Westhoff, Touted as the originators of punk, the Sex Pistols were really just a third-rate Faces rip off with a low-rent Richard Hell on vocals. Also, Eddie Vedder thinks this is a lyric: Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo oooooooowhoaaaaaaaaooooooooo ohhhhhhh ohhhhhhh ohhhhhhh oooooooowhoaaaaaaaaooooooooo hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiyiiiiyiiiiyiiiiiiiiii yeah uhhh huh uhhh huh uhhh huh yeahah uhhh huh uhhh huh uhhh huh uhhhhh huh. -Nicholas Pell, The common rap on Black Eyed Peas is that they deteriorated after adding Fergie on 2003s Elephunk, trading their funky soul for kitschy dance-pop. -Elano Pizzicarola, I really wanted to like Merriweather Post Pavilion, even going far out of my way to appreciate the record as it was surely intended: super-stoned, miles from civilization in the northern California woods. Worst bit: When he sings Im here to win your heart and soul and you think, Just let me stop you there, Shane. Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic. If football chants gave royalties, The Automatic would be millionaires. Last years Super Bowl halftime show where they sung out of sync and trampled Sweet Child O Mine made Madonnas version look brilliant. But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. Fleet Foxes, unfortunately, are more like Weetabix, a healthful, bowel-movement-inducing breakfast option that skimps on taste. Waiting For A Girl Like You? As with our top 20 greatest musicians of all time and top 20 hair metal albums of all time lists, we take this shit very seriously, even enlisting objective third party analysts to review our findings for accuracy. It was an actual, living hell. The band went through a number of configurations between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current form when Adair replaced drummer Ryan Vikedal. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. Ill probably never get past it. We don't need a collective group of '00s musicians making their way through the country, with their tour vans all full of manscaping products and scenesters. The video is something special too, a mad vision of the future from the mind of someone who put too much faith in the plot for The Matrix. 13. Nickelback. and RollingNews.ie unless otherwise stated. This list could have gone on for miles. Their work is marked by Durst's abrasive, angry lyrics and Borland's sonic experimentation and elaborate visual appearance, which includes face and body paint, masks and uniforms, as well as the band's elaborate live shows. What made it so bad: Its a song about a tractor, for starters. And besides, they still go on world tours, have their own podcasts and continue to release musicso we can't feel too bad for them. They had an umlaut in their name! Three lads from Donegal who made sprightly tunes about manic pixie dream girls and Louis Walsh. Myspace updates are like the bat signal of an '00s artists, you know. -Gabrielle Canon, Why is Oasis among the worst? Yeah, that one. Sometimes we just need to call out the musical monstrosities that actually happened and why the 2000s themselves were such a tragedy. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. Who needs vocals when you've got auto-tune? Check the thread! 6. WebFather of All Motherfuckers, Green Day (2020) In 2022, Loudwire published that Father of All Motherfuckers was the highest ranked rock album on a list of the worst albums of the They subsequently obtained an American deal with global distribution via Roadrunner Records. But wasnt this good? Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. This was the first single from the bands comeback album Beautiful World, and that comeback has brought nothing good to the universe (except the song Shine, which is admittedly quite likeable). You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Give Orange. THE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to name but a few. 9. Borland left the group in 2001, but Durst, Rivers, Otto and Lethal continued to record and tour with guitarist Mike Smith. What made it so bad: In which The Hoff who, lest we forget, should not be hassled winds down the car window and leers at passersby over an exquisitely uninventive rockabilly riff. WebTop 10 Alternative Bands of the 2000s WatchMojo.com 25M subscribers Join Subscribe 15K 1.1M views 8 years ago Find links in the description below to buy the music featured in this video! By marrying the two genres, brokeNCDYDE hit upon a hidden level of rubbish, a bonus round of tawdry shit. But then this happened. I'm gonna go right on ahead and say that most pop-punk from this time period was a big fat ball of suck, but Good Charlotte's pop-punk was mixed in with a hearty dose of some emo shit, which only made that concoction stink worse than normal. at the Disco. Web20 Worst Bands of the 2000s Can you name the 20 Worst Bands? Let me make this clear right now: if you're a fan of Post-Grunge, Nu Metal, or Pop Punk, we salute you. Now suck my dick. The band consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. If ever there proof that British popular song was in a dire state in the very first half of the noughties then it's this. Vote now in our 2015 Best of L.A. Readers Choice poll. 1. : Its chipmunks singing about sex. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. 483623. Cringiest Lines of the New Millennium. Limp Bizkit are a very easy band to hate, I do admit, however even if they are pretty much asking for the hate it is still undeserved. The act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. Creed released two studio albums, My Own Prison in 1997 and Human Clay in 1999, before Marshall left the band in 2000 to be replaced by touring bassist Brett Hestla. services and WebThe 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years Perhaps the only time you'll see Limp Bizkit, Lana Del Rey and Insane Clown Posse on the same list By Prachi Gupta Published And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? That's right, the '00s. The 90's was a time filled with music growth, seeing many rock bands coming up, from No Doubt to Nickleback. Plus, how much of a dick is Lydon, allegedly punching women in the face, running around with racist goons and slamming Duffy against a wall? They are permanently beige, the sonic instantiation of Ambercrombie & Fitch cargo shorts, South Carolina Gamecocks hats, and flip-flops flailing. Hot Leg - A second appearance here for Justin Hawkins (formerly of The Darkness). Get Free is still fine? 14. And, lastly, I want to clarify that not all of the bands pointed out on this list existed simply throughout the 2000s, but they are remembered as '2000s musicians'. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. Theres undoubtedly genuine musicianship behind this Seattle outfit, its just wholly unpalatable, lacking even the most basic hooks and melodies necessary to sustain most listeners. Even their most well-known musical insult "Down With The Sickness" literally reenacts a mom's whipping of her child. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. All rights reserved. August 9, 2013 Web5. I am not too proud to admit that I almost lost my mind when this Hounds of Love cover came on in a pub recently. Anyone who appears to be striving to become the next Sting needs saving from us and indeed himself. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own To give you an example, 'Year 3000' is about what life is like in the future, and they talk about how. Follow. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian The band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and re-released their once-independent album The State.The band achieved commercial success with the release of their 2000 album The State and then they achieved mainstream success with the release of their 2001 album Silver Side Up.Following the release of Silver Side Up the band released their biggest and most known hit today, "How You Remind Me" which peaked number 1 on the American and Canadian charts at the same time.Then, the band's 4th album The Long Road spawned 5 singles and continued the band's mainstream success with their hit single "Someday" which peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 at the Canadian Singles Chart. We didnt see Chico coming. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. There's one band here that will anger and shock many people. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. Metro Station - What do you do if Billy Ray Cyrus is your Dad and tween sensation Miley Cyrus is your sister? Worst bit: The key change nobody asked for. They're filled to the brim with misogynistic, self-important suckage, model themselves after Nickleback, and one song has them professing that they're "so sick of the hobos." We love funk, we love metal, but we also love peanut butter and veggie burgers, just not together. Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. Luckily the band have split now with Justin Hawkins going on to try various ventures such as entering Eurovision (Beaten by the car crash that was Scooch). : Somewhere, Vanessa Carlton is still perched on a travelling piano, playing the blissful notes of . Dave Matthews Band. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. British rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met. Limp Bizkit. The final nail in the dodgy cock-rockers' career, however, was this atrocity Hot Leg. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. So-ng. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. However, we aren't going to let them off the hook for being responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! The group was especially popular in Canada, having three number-one singles in the country.