In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. What made it so bad: That lumpen power chord riff is bad enough, but when the lead guitar does nothing more than imitate it, it becomes all too clear that were looking at a music hate crime. 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." 15 3 Doors Down In the early '00s, this rock band 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. 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 key change nobody asked for. Future generations will not look at Same Jeans as a masterpiece of composition. 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. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. Worst bit: The way the singer wears his hat in the video. British rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met. , somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. Worst bit: When you think the song has faded out but, oh no, heres another chorus this time with overblown gospel choir! Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. 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. The Top Ten. Worst bit: Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. Naive was genuinely great! What followed, however, was nothing short of disastrous. WebTop 10 Worst Bands of Al Time. An Honest Mistake is OK for what it is, which is a blatant attempt by a record label at emulating the success of The Killers. Yes, lazier than The Blobby Song. In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. 17 respectively. The current members are Chris Barron (vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar and vocals), Aaron Comess (drums and percussion), and Mark White (bass guitar). Let me make this clear right now: if you're a fan of Post-Grunge, Nu Metal, or Pop Punk, we salute you. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. It was a novelty at the time, honest. 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. We know this now. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. It was a novelty at the time, honest. 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. However, we aren't going to let them off the hook for being responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! Ouch. Because they combine simple composition with over-the-top production and pretentious length. 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. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire / PA Wire, Indie for the ladsladslads. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. 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. 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. 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. : Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. 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). WebReaders Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties 1. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. The final nail in the dodgy cock-rockers' career, however, was this atrocity Hot Leg. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Its not even the proper Westlife line-up, as this version of a traditional hymn was released the year after Brian McFadden left the band, so Shane Filan and the gang are left to the do the heavy lifting between them. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. See if you agree with Rolling Stone readers top-10 list of the worst90s bands. 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. Because Liam Gallagher only plays tambourine and possesses the single most nasal voice in pop. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. 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. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. Yo, echoes Theodore. Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. You thought I was done with dumping on Coldplay, did you? It happened. 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. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? 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? The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. "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. The band consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. They wore suits and hats! Whats so bad about it: Its an 80s power ballad dressed up like a mid-noughties indie rock, and aint nobody got time for that. I think any musician and anyone with a brain will agree with at least most of these. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. 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. Drummers such as Sacha Gervasi, Amir, and Spencer Cobrin had all filled in as Bush drummers before Robin Goodridge was made the permanent fit and thus completing the Bush lineup. Whats that coming over the hill? Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. 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. Empics Entertainment Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. Ah, Johnny Borrell. 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. : First of all, the world is a better place with Out of Your Mind in it. Though their leader Darius Rucker is black, Hootie could not be more vanilla. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. Web20 Worst Bands of the 2000s Can you name the 20 Worst Bands? Exactly. Because their backstage altercations always boiled down to sibling rivalry. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! 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. 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. Go on! This American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. August 9, 2013 And what about Anthony Kiediss rapping? You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. unless otherwise stated. 10 Worst Hard Rock Lyrics 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. WebHere is my list of the Top Ten Worst Rock Bands of the 2000s. What a rebel. This time, car video games. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? Ev-ery. 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. 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. You can obtain a copy of the 'This Love' was the bands biggest hit alongside the vaguely creepy 'She Will Be Loved'. This list could have gone on for miles. Getting angry with the Pussycat Dolls is like getting angry with Bank of America or Walmart. And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? 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. Worse, the band members went on to respectively spawn the equally turgid McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar. PA Archive / PA Images / PA Images. created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant 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. 10. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies They definitely are not as timeless or genuine as Rage Against the Machine however I still do think they deserve to be considered one of the better rap metal bands. 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. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Because, even if youre composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneously pretentious and dopey, derivative and uniquely craptastic. 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. 1. We always appreciate the feedback. 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. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. The band has won numerous awards and they have won 12 Juno Awards among 28 nominations.The band is based in Vancouver, Canada. Content copyright Journal Media Ltd. 2023 Registered in Dublin, registration number: 4. Nothing gets worse. Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." The uber successful act are so clean cut they make Cliff Richard look like Marilyn Manson. The Give It Away video could be called Anthony and the Hand Jive, and its even more ridiculous when he starts doing duck lips. services and The quartet has disappeared, but the bands dubious legacy lives on through member Linda Perry, writer and producer of some of the most boring radio songs imaginable, including Christina Aguileras Beautiful and Pinks Get the Party Started. -Liz Ohanesian, Emerging with their mid-aughts hit Grind With Me, Pretty Ricky somehow managed to lower the bar when it came to heartthrob groups with baby-oil-smeared chests. Follow. Admittedly the song is a cover of the 1975 song by the Ted Mulry Gang, and Hasselhoff, when hassled about the song, claimed his video was self-parody. 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. Whats worse is just how seedy it all is, way too post-watershed for rodents. -Kai Flanders, What do white people have to complain about, George Carlin once posited. This band is neither rock, nor grunge, nor emo, nor metal. The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. Initially a chart failure, Punk Rocker found unexpected success when free spirit Sandi Thom did a virtual tour, whereby she performed gigs via webcam and streamed them online. Champagne Supernova, anyone? It is not an exaggeration to call this one of the defining albums for 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. Famous purely through association the bands biggest hit is the catchy but infuriating 'Shake It'. Okay, guys. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. 10:00AM. Web10. 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. That may explain why a Spin Doctors song is a bit like herpes. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian four piece achieved astonishing success this decade. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Check the thread! We want to hear it. You got it. Oh god, the song. 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. -Nicholas Pell, If LCD Soundsystem were only responsible for three albums that are half-filler and a workout mix made by people who clearly dont go to the gym for people who dont go to the gym themselves they wouldnt be on this list. Up until this point, it was fine to dig up a few musical memories while listening to an aging band play their radio hits, because the '90s were an awesome time for music, especially alternative rock, and therefore these nostalgia shows are relatively harmless. -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. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. 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. 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. We had nothing to do with the results. In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. That name, man. WebStill, as of today, Maroon 5 is one of the most successful bands in the entire world, having sold more than 75 million records. This group of Nirvana/Pearl Jam wannabes' popularity, fortunately, died out by the mid-2000s, nevertheless, the lyrically immature and musically repeated and underdeveloped stylings of Puddle of Mudd were certainly an indication of things to come in the early 2000s, for this reason, their addition on this list. We love funk, we love metal, but we also love peanut butter and veggie burgers, just not together. -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. 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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. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. Theory of a Deadman 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. 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". Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. Well, too bad. B-. Wire service provided by AFP and Press Association. We can't have them training a whole new legion of horrible pop-punk bands, can we? and help keep the future of the Houston Press, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. 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. Unlike Weetabix, however, theres not a shred of evidence suggesting Fleet Foxes prevent colorectal cancer. 8. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. 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. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. 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. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. Web2000s Rock Bands Final Thoughts. So-ng. This song is so wet that its given me swimmers ear, which makes the narrators self-regarding message stand by myself while I take over the world with my forgettable, dreary acoustic guitar song even more egregious. 16. That and a pair of testicles. Nobodys done it since, and not because folk duo Nizlopi are boundary-pushing innovators. 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). The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. I don't think I need to remind everyone about how terrible frosted tips on whine-singing dudes were, right? Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide The group was especially popular in Canada, having three number-one singles in the country. Also worth noting is that Blink drummer Travis Barkerhas made another one of our lists that's worth checking out. I would like to point out that the members of The Maccabees are called things like Orlando, Hugo, Felix, and Rupert. Beth Ditto was and remains a goddess. Hating Nickelback used to be cool, but it's so easy that it's kind of just a fact, now. 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. Comments. 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. Their most recent album, Away from the World, was released in 2012, and also debuted at number one on the Billboard chart. 17. The group was moved to Island Def Jam Music Group, which they eventually left after conflict with the label about creative input. Let me fill you in on this weird theory that I have: I'll bet every penny in my savings account that I can prove the 2000s spawned some of the lamest and straight-up embarrassing musicians the world has ever seen. Metro Station - What do you do if Billy Ray Cyrus is your Dad and tween sensation Miley Cyrus is your sister? And this an ideal something to make me even sadder breakup song? Sometimes we just need to call out the musical monstrosities that actually happened and why the 2000s themselves were such a tragedy. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. They also won two BRIT Awards (who cares!). Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. Go-oes. We didnt see Chico coming. What made it so bad: One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. Another vaguely comedy hair metal band Hot Leg also incorporated glam rock into songs like 'Gay In The 80's' and 'Cocktails'. Li-ike. 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. Essentially joke mock-rockers who benefited by a temporary loss of irony awareness, this band from Lowestoft pillaged the deepest atrocities of 80's hair metal and regurgitated them over a series of tongue in cheek songs like 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' and 'Growing On Me'.
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