Sophisticated. Worst bit: When you stop to think about the number of people involved in the making of this song and its accompanying video. We don't mean that in a good way. It was an actual, living hell. This makes them make the list. The Top Ten. (When, by the way, they'll still be terrible.). Champagne Supernova, anyone? What was he hiding? The band has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards and have sold around 40 million records worldwide. Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. 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. Are Hootie & the Blowish breaking up? If only. Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. 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). And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. Who needs vocals when you've got auto-tune? 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. However with each progressive year, this blueprint became more and more diluted until we get to The Pigeon Detectives, essentially The Strokes do Emmerdale. What made it so bad: First of all, the world is a better place with Out of Your Mind in it. Avril Lavigne. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. 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). But that would be to ignore just how difficult 2005 was, when this cartoon frog became synonymous with back-of-the-bus ringtones, before becoming a UK #1 single. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. 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. By this time Westlife were six albums deep into a career built upon dull, saccharine ballads and the formula was very tired indeed. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Here are 20 of the worst: What made it so bad: 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. 75 Best Rock Bands of the 2000s - middermusic.com 12. 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". 2. brokeNCYDE - Given their name which is meant to be play on words of 'Broken Inside', unsurprisingly brokeNCYDE are an emo band, but this isn't emo as we know it, oh no. Like Piers Morgan. As of 2010, the Dave Matthews Band has sold over 30 million records worldwide. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. He as a character is unforgettable, but the music of Razorlight? 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. Oh god, the song. What made it so bad: One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. Tokio Hotel - Hugely popular in Europe, Tokio Hotel have yet to replicate their success in Britain or the USA. We like best things, too. And try not to dance. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press 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. WebChris Gerard of Metro Weekly ranked it as Duran Duran's worst album. British rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met. 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. Just in case you need a good, strong dose of suck to wake you up to the cruel, cruel noise that was the '00s, we've made a list to remind you of what bands could be in your future if this nostalgia path continues to sludge its way across the nation. If you have any questions or concerns or just want to drop us a line, don't hesitate to contact us! Journal Media does not control and is not responsible And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. Unfortunately, they were so clean-cut they made Santa Clause seem like Jack the Ripper and made us wish that old Jack would go rip their smirky smiles off their faces. Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums. The band is composed of 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. , Spotify, the iPhone. Make of that what you will. Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre, What makes a terrible band? 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. Bands of the 2000s Be Your Own Pet were probably not as well known as some of the bands in this list, but they were bags more fun than most of them. Listen to it! and RollingNews.ie unless otherwise stated. I Set My Friends On Fire - This pair of electro-emo tits released their first album in 2008 entitled 'You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter' which includes the single 'Things That Rhyme With Orange'. In fact, it downright sucks. , 300px wide Thanks to the success of these '90s nostalgia tours, '00s alt-rock bands are jumping on that bandwagon and booking tours together as bad-music collectives, and they're resurrecting all that was awful about that period of music in the first place. Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! There will always be those unfathomably popular bands and singers that get an inordinate amount of airtime, and are loved by obsessed, cultish fans, only intensifying the hatred of those who realize one objective truth: that when you get down to it, the music isn't even good. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really did headline the Reading and Leeds festivals with The Darkness. 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. Listening to even one song by Creed invokes a sea of nausea, as if your brain is fried from watching "Two and a Half Men" reruns for 24 hours. All Rights reserved. So do you agree ? 10 Worst Hard Rock Lyrics Of The 2000s. Forget Chris Barrons scraggly beard; the real problem with the Spin Doctors is their enduring lightweight retro jam song legacy on crappy corporate radio. Sitting somewhere between The Streets and Ocean Colour Scene, The Twang were hailed as the next big thing by the NME upon their emergence and topped numerous critics tips including a #2 spot in the influential BBC Sound of 2007 poll. Oh god, the song. Anyone who appears to be striving to become the next Sting needs saving from us and indeed himself. Worst bit: The key change nobody asked for. Sit in the back of an SUV with off-key sorority house members singing along to Dave Matthews Band. The perfect soundtrack to being a brat. posts, comments and submissions available. And misogyny. The mere mention of tracks like Two Princes create an earworm so powerful that youre going to need to see an ENT doctor. 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. In a musical genre already dominated by the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, Nick Lachey's ersatz boy band never really had a chance. However, there were some forgetful bands that do not make most of our top lists. [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. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. 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. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. 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. 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Top 10 Worst Rock Bands of All Time - TheTopTens 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. Unlike his sister who would never do anything rebellious or naughty, Trace is covered in tattoos including the phrase 'Songs Of Victory' on his chest and a coffin on his throat. : One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. . From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. PA Archive / PA Images / PA Images. They make Perrier seem vibrant and ethnic. The View had one song. -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. What made it so bad: Its 2017 and were wise to how The X Factor works. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. Because, even if youre composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneously pretentious and dopey, derivative and uniquely craptastic. Go-oes. 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. 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. Nothing gets worse. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? 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. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. We want to hear it. View Reports-/5-RATE QUIZ. 1. American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. -Ben Westhoff, Did you know that Blues Travelers John Popper used to be a member of this damn group? By marrying the two genres, brokeNCDYDE hit upon a hidden level of rubbish, a bonus round of tawdry shit. The Killers. 6. But nothing excuses a throwaway, novelty kids TV song about a builder fixing things, managing to shift over a million copies, becoming the highest-selling song of 2000 and the first Christmas number one of the 00s. Getting angry with the Pussycat Dolls is like getting angry with Bank of America or Walmart. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. Shane now stars in Coronation Street,which seems fitting, considering the emotions conveyed here seem every bit as genuine as pint from The Rovers Return. See also: Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish? Naive was genuinely great! Just because there is still some joy to be obtained from hearing Ryan Jarman howl MEEEEEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS! -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? I was born too late into a world that doesnt care,, when accountants didnt have control / And when media couldnt buy your soul.. Interchangeable with Matchbox 20, but technically not Matchbox 20. Coldplay jokes aside, Disturbed sucked and will always suck, provided they apparently still have a pulse. Well, too bad. The band's Dark Horse album was a success which produced eight singles, one of which peaked on the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and two of which peaked on the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. The Killers came in hot with their 2005 album Hot Fuss . Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. She's another reminder that we live in a post-Black Eyed Peas era. 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. -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. "The Most Hated Band in the World" gave birth to the most obnoxious fans in the world, the Juggalos, who are virtually a gang at this point. 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. 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. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. : How did this happen? Myspace updates are like the bat signal of an '00s artists, you know. Famous purely through association the bands biggest hit is the catchy but infuriating 'Shake It'. Bang of random Playstation 2 sports game music off Jet. Basically the Goo Goo Dolls of the next millennium. Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List - LA Weekly But wasnt this good? Crashed Out: The Blog: Top 10 Worst Bands of the 2000s 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. Worst bit: When he sings Im here to win your heart and soul and you think, Just let me stop you there, Shane. WebTHE 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. Last but not leastwell maybe actually this is the least. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. 5. Nobodys done it since, and not because folk duo Nizlopi are boundary-pushing innovators. Nickelback. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian In 2009, the band's original lineup reunited and began touring, culminating with the recording of the album Gold Cobra (2011), after which they left Interscope and later signed with Cash Money Records, but DJ Lethal was asked to leave the band soon after. -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. That along with the band (apart from the drummer) are just terrible musicians. works. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. Treat yourself. But she was briefly waylaid by evil, earnest-types Counting Crows when they convinced her to help slaughter a Joni Mitchell song. As Spin magazine put it, they're like "Nickelback before there was Nickelback.". Just have a little patience while I bang my head against this wall and wait for the pain to eclipse the misery of this song. You can obtain a copy of the So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs. 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. Hanson has sold over 16 million records worldwide and have had eight top 40 singles in the UK and six top 40 singles in the US. Bands that Defined the 2000s Kerrang Era 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! Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. And this an ideal something to make me even sadder breakup song? 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The band now records under its own label, 3CG Records. and help keep the future of the Houston Press, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. The band consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. However, we aren't going to let them off the hook for being responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! B-. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." The 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years | Salon.com Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. If football chants gave royalties, The Automatic would be millionaires. Its excellent that theyve got great abs, and they certainly have the right to wear their shiny jackets wide open. 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-punk craze during the '00s, and are therefore responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic. Unlike Weetabix, however, theres not a shred of evidence suggesting Fleet Foxes prevent colorectal cancer. Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. policy. Bands like The Living End and The Vines brought a punk rock edge to the genre, while bands like Wolfmother and Eskimo Joe leaned more towards classic rock. Worst bit: Its chipmunks singing about sex. Until these '00s shows stop, I'll be reminding everyone of not only how terrible frosted tips are, but how awful music from the '00s was, because I'm afraid for our nation. But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. I mean, really, was the "he-said-she-said bullshit" that rage-inducing, Fred Durst? local news and culture, Angelica Leicht , somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. Empics Entertainment. 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 Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment Enough with the nostalgia shows already. 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. at the Disco, which makes this entire decade of music suck just a little bit harder than it did before. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. That's right, the '00s. 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. 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. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. 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. Top 10 Worst Bands of Al Time - TheTopTens Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? That said, fuck Walmart. 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! These guys always seemed to be for people who were like, into ART and LITERATURE. 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. Web5. Tenacious D. This may not be the greatest and best song in the world, but it is a damn good one nonetheless. Favorite. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. 7. We know you've noticed it, the sudden influx of '90s nostalgia bands that have made their way back on tour. 16. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really 19. : Somewhere, Vanessa Carlton is still perched on a travelling piano, playing the blissful notes of . What made it so bad: Its a song about a tractor, for starters. WebCan you name the 20 Worst Bands? What made it so bad: How did this happen? The band is composed of lead guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. 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. Inexplicably popular, the band continue to break peoples ears and will to live the world over. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. Dave is a jam act with no jams. If only Hootie were Sandra Dee. But that would be to ignore just how difficult 2005 was, when this cartoon frog became synonymous with back-of-the-bus ringtones, before becoming a UK #1 single. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. 17 respectively. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. Worst Bands of the 2000s American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. -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. What made it so bad: This might the laziest song to become a bonafide hit (it reached number three in the UK singles chart). What followed, however, was nothing short of disastrous. That may explain why a Spin Doctors song is a bit like herpes. To give you an example, 'Year 3000' is about what life is like in the future, and they talk about how. Truthfully the best part of Papa Roach's presence is that at this moment, they have actually basically ended up being a meme. Report. Put on Dont Steal Our Sun there and pretend youre in The OC. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. The White Stripes The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian four piece achieved astonishing success this decade. What band do you hate the most The band's biggest hit came with the aforementioned 'Hate My Life' where Connelly rallies against (besides the homeless) his wife, his lack of money, his friends and not being able to sleep with young girls- honestly.