4. They also have the worst band name of the decade to boot. Worst bit:The lyric: Shes flirty / Turned 30 / Aint that the age a girl gets really dirty? No for you, my lyrically challenged friend. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. In other words, LCD Soundsystem fans are the type of people who think buying their 10-year old kid a Public Image Ltd. record for his birthday is an example of good parenting. Thi-is. At least with those, you can sometimes get a laugh out of them. 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. 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. [29] 2000s2010s Playing with Fire, Kevin Federline (2006) The only album recorded by Kevin Federline, ex-husband of Britney Spears, Playing with Fire is review aggregator Metacritic 's lowest-scoring album with a rating of 15. Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. If ever there proof that British pop music was in a dire state in the first half of the noughties then it's this. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. They probably think it's very clever and sticking it to the man, we just think it makes them look lazy. Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. Yo, echoes Theodore. Famous purely through association the bands biggest hit is the catchy but infuriating 'Shake It'. Blink 182 began as an attempt to wean tweens off of boy bands, except they soon turned into self-parody when teenagers began to like them in earnest, ushering in an unforgivable era of wannabe-pop-punk rockers like Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne and Jimmy Eat World. Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? It happened. 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! 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. American alternative rock band formed in New York City, best known for their early 1990s hits, "Two Princes", and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", which peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 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. 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. It's not that Lana Del Rey is bad, per se, it's that her music seems fraudulent when compared to the '60s-era musical acts she's invoking. 10. Oh, its another flash-in-the-pan indie band. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. I would take being pepper-sprayed dead in my eye over listening to these guys any day. The Jonas Brothers. Worse, the band members went on to respectively spawn the equally turgid McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. Yo, echoes Theodore. -Anna Westhoff, See also: Liam Gallagher On His Brother Noel: Id Rather Eat My Own Shit Than Be In A Band With Him Again, Phish is supposed to be the next generations Grateful Dead, right? From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. They had an umlaut in their name! The Living End. If the Black Eyed Peas, the creators of nonsensical hits like "Boom Boom Pow" and "My Humps," qualify as music, then any kid with a Barbie Mix It Up DJ Turntable is Mozart. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. So thanks for that, lads. They are permanently beige, the sonic instantiation of Ambercrombie & Fitch cargo shorts, South Carolina Gamecocks hats, and flip-flops flailing. Despite being deeply boring, there is something particularly distasteful about Maroon 5 and their smooth pop aimed squarely at the girls who swoon over singer Adam Levine's good looks. John Mayer is that insufferable bro -- you know, the one who wears a pukka bead necklace, is always shirtless, toting around a guitar at that house party you didn't want to go to, anyway. Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant 14. What made it so bad: Somewhere, Vanessa Carlton is still perched on a travelling piano, playing the blissful notes of A Thousand Miles as she navigates the Sahara. EMPICS Entertainment. American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. We didnt see Chico coming. All rights reserved. And on closer inspection, Thoms debut is a nauseating hark back to the oh-so-glorious olden days, with several factual flaws, the most notable being that Johnny Rotten wouldnt be seen dead with flowers in his hair. Perhaps this is down to a belief that a band from Germany could never be as good as one from New York or London. Pretty Rickys rap-R&B hybrid is so tasteless and tacky, even, that it could make Mariah Carey blush. Just one more single was released in six months before band member Daniel Pearce quit the band leaving them no choice but to split the following day. -Ben Westhoff, Did you know that Blues Travelers John Popper used to be a member of this damn group? To learn more see our, HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SOOOOOO *goal is scored*. 15. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. In practice, it is not. You got it. Here are 20 of the worst: : Cast your mind back to 2006, when you had to ask your parents to stop using the phone so you could connect to dial-up, and a time when webcams were a relatively new invention. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. Limp Bizkit is one of the rare band names that could not be made any more ridiculous if it were spelled "LiMp b!ZKiT," an observation that makes the band's unchecked anger so hard to take seriously. , 300px wide Give Orange. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. They make Perrier seem vibrant and ethnic. After years of speculation, Creed reunited in 2009 for a tour and new album called Full Circle, and in early 2012 the band reconvened to tour and work on a fifth album. And what about Anthony Kiediss rapping? Powter sings in generalisations (Youre faking a smile with the coffee to go, You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost), somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. WebThe Australian alternative scene of the 2000s was also notable for its diversity. Coldplay jokes aside, Disturbed sucked and will always suck, provided they apparently still have a pulse. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Bollocks. 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. See if you can pick out which one we're talking about. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. The Pigeon Detectives - In 2001 we got The Strokes, an impossibly cool band from New York who wore their jackets tight and their hair unkempt. Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. -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. It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. Tremonti, Phillips and Marshall went on to found Alter Bridge while Stapp followed a solo career. We know this now. If you aren't familiar with English bands in the 2000s this may be news to you but this terrible three-piece sold an enormous 3million albums in their 4-year career. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian Truthfully it was a tough call regarding whether or not to choose Simple Plan or Good Charlotte to appear on this list. Hating Nickelback used to be cool, but it's so easy that it's kind of just a fact, now. What were saying is: One Night Only are directly responsible for Thats What Makes You Beautiful, a 2011 song were inclined to erroneously include in this list just in order to give it a kicking. 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. 11. Basically the Goo Goo Dolls of the next millennium. -Kai Flanders, You realize that Jason Segels characters obsession with Rush in I Love You Man is tongue in cheek, right? The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. MORE INFO. 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. We can be thankful that 4 Non Blondes only made one album 1992s Bigger, Better, Faster, More! The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. WebWorst band of all time 24 Ed Sheeran Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter and musician. The perfect soundtrack to being a brat. , 400px wide Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. 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. In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. What a rebel. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. No, they deserve special mention for the critical crusade to pass James Murphy off as indie rocks preeminent male role model in spite of, nay, because of his worldview which remains as rigid and obnoxious as Toby Keiths. But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. 6. Just try. Empics Entertainment Comments. Whether they're singing songs about wishing to cheat on their existing girlfriend with their ex or- actually, you understand I should not even need to continue that sentence. Worst bit: When she reminisces about how the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail. Banksy rang, he wants his money back. 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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. It was a novelty at the time, honest. Nick, Joe, and Kevinthe perfect brothers that were all cute and talented. services and The rankings of the worst musicians are suggested and voted on based on a variety of metrics, including popular bands least deserving of their fame and fortune, artists who shamelessly ripped off other, superior acts and just bands that don't know how to play their instruments or write songs. As 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. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. Or perhaps the reason nobody knows who Tokio Hotel are is that they are a painfully bad band aimed at the kind of people who find Good Charlotte too extreme. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. 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! The band's 2009 album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (the first album since Moore's death) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earning the band their fifth consecutive number-one debut making them the second band behind Metallica to do so. 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. In order for something to be hated, it must first be loved; that love is what gives the hatred its roots. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. 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. WebTop 10 Worst Rock Bands of All Time The Top Ten 1 Nickelback Nickelback is a Canadian post-grunge band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. 1. Scouting For Girls - What can we say about this band that hasn't already been said? and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. Dave is a jam act with no jams. Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. And Then There Was David Lindley, See the Beths Deliver Refreshing 'Expert in a Dying Field' Mini-Set on 'CBS Mornings', The YSL Case Is Stretching Fulton County's Justice System to Its Breaking Point, The National Stay Up Late to Perform 'Tropic Morning News' on Fallon, NBA 'Investigating,' Team Suspends Ja Morant After Allegedly Flashing Gun on Social Media, Netflixs Sex/Life Is Back to Satisfy Your Softcore Desires. Oh god, the song. We like best things, too. Tell us in the comments below. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Except they were actually a bunch of auto-tuned, spoiled little brats whose fame has more to do with luck than any sort of measure of talent. Worst bit: When he sings Im here to win your heart and soul and you think, Just let me stop you there, Shane. A grubby little band who don't deserve 1% of their success. The Jam Addict team is a revolving door of writers who care about music, its effects on culture, and giving aspiring artists tools and knowledge to be inspired and keep on creating. Nickelback. This makes them make the list. Whats worse is just how seedy it all is, way too post-watershed for rodents. PA Archive / PA Images And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. He probably likes Dane Cook. 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. Technically this band rose to fame in the 1990s but their hit album 'Silver Side Up' was released in 2001 and it gave all the douchy people a reason to congregate. 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. Copyright 2023 RebelsMarket Inc. All rights reserved. Literally it was a toss-up for us, since both sound like whiny, uninteresting barely catchy songs to us. MDQL is preparing to belt! 17 respectively. You can obtain a copy of the Houston's independent source of 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. 9. But it also lead to the scourge of landfill indie as the decade wore on. 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. Just because there is still some joy to be obtained from hearing Ryan Jarman howl MEEEEEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS! 7. Don't even get us started on singer Bill's Native American headdress hair and his guitarist brother Tom who appears to dress in clothes an obese basketball player has given to him. for the content of external websites. Really, guys. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. B-. Scouting For Girls write songs a child might make in a primary school music class. After the demise of his first band, then releasing an awful cover of Sparks 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Two Of Us' and before going on to unsuccessfully audition for Eurovision in 2007. Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. American pop-rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma formed by brothers Isaac (guitar, piano, vocals), Taylor (keyboards, piano, guitar, drums, vocals), and Zac Hanson (drums, piano, guitar, vocals). Known for their squeaky clean looks Probably the worst band musically of the decade this group of peroxide punks have gained notoriety for a series of publicity stunts. Who needs vocals when you've got auto-tune? Enough with the nostalgia shows already. Worst bit: When you think the song has faded out but, oh no, heres another chorus this time with overblown gospel choir! 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. What was he hiding? Forget Chris Barrons scraggly beard; the real problem with the Spin Doctors is their enduring lightweight retro jam song legacy on crappy corporate radio. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide 17. What made it so bad: Its a song about a tractor, for starters. Now suck my dick. Here are the top 10 bands that defined the 2000s Kerrang era. 1. CUT MY KNIFE INTO PIZZA! However, we aren't going to let them off the hook for being responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! British rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met. We always appreciate the feedback. But with the Dead, one at least enjoyed a fighting chance of enjoying them sober. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Waiting For A Girl Like You? Carrots help us see much better in the dark/ Dont talk to girls, theyll break your heart. Just an example of a Wombats lyric for you. The 2000s embraced bands so terrible that their ability to haunt and torture us seemed to have emerged from the fantasy of horror master Stephen King: Maroon 5. Yes, lazier than The Blobby Song. The act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. Put on Dont Steal Our Sun there and pretend youre in The OC. The band went through a number of configurations between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current form when Adair replaced drummer Ryan Vikedal. Okay, their big hit, 'In Too Deep' wasn't that bad, however, the group has been chipping away at the same couple of chords now for too long. But it Theory Of A Deadman - Anyone who opens a song with the line So sick of the hobos and then chastises them for 'sitting around' while he has to work for money is a special kind of idiot. American rock band, formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, Florida. Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. Paul Cook and Steve Jones are great, but were held back by the larger-than-life personalities of Sid Vicious and John Lydon (or Rotten or whatever). blink-182 Perhaps not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes, and Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums, but blink helped further that whole pop Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian four piece achieved astonishing success this decade. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. Yeah, that one. The View had one song. Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. As you can imagine, this one got people fired up, and votes poured in. local news and culture, Angelica Leicht The problem is that Animal Collective are a special kind of unlistenable; their albums dont reward active engagement, but they dont make good background music, either. This is a band so hated that their own fans 2. 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. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. Its often said that people either love Rush or hate them, but a more accurate statement is that most people hate Rush, while a scattered few really love them. The Script - OK, Mums need something to listen to - nobody wants to find their Radiohead CD's in the kitchen on a Sunday afternoon, but surely the women who brought us into this world deserve better than rubbish like The Script they are served? Cheesy, yes, but harmless nonetheless. Twenty years later and chances are that you can still hear Rucker rattling around there in your brain. However, there were some forgetful bands that do not make most of our top lists. The sex rhymes on Bloodsugarsexmagik would be forgettable if they werent so awful She stuck my butt with her big black stick / I said Whats up? WebTop 10 Worst Bands of Al Time. : Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. But the larger point of why this band is on the list is the entire pop-punk fad they inspired. Treat yourself. Because, even if youre composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneously pretentious and dopey, derivative and uniquely craptastic. The group hit number one with their first ever single, a cover of the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony hit 'Tha Crossroads' and went on to further success with 'Flip Reverse' in 2003. Having cleverly adopted the CCTV sign seen everywhere for their first album the band went post structuralist on us in 2007 with the cover for 'Once Upon A Time In The West' which simply says in block capitals 'NO COVER ART'. Nothing gets worse. This And this an ideal something to make me even sadder breakup song? However, at some point during all of this '90s hysteria, no one noticed that there was a change a-comin', and that change is one we'd all be better off without: the '00s. Oasis: 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants' (2000) - It may contain fan favourite 'Fuckin' In The Bushes', but A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? 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. Worst bit: Its not even the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide[ and ranking as the eleventh best-selling music act, and the second best-selling foreign act in the U.S. behind the Beatles, of the 2000s.
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