Maroon 5 - Initially this band seem inoffensive but over time their songs become so deeply ingrained in your memory that you begin to question whether you have ever even heard any other music. We don't mean that in a good way. Truthfully it was a tough call regarding whether or not to choose Simple Plan or Good Charlotte to appear on this list. ' On the plus side, however, we do thoroughly back the legit bromance between Messrs. Kiedis and Flea. 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. 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. Enough with the nostalgia shows already. Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. Feb 23, 2017. 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. -Nikki Darling, See also: Top Three Beatles Who Got a Star on the Walk of Fame Before Paul McCartney, A good band should be like Frosted Mini-Wheats, a substantive cereal loaded with fiber and whole grains made edible by delicious sugary coating. Twenty years later and chances are that you can still hear Rucker rattling around there in your brain. 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. In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. Report. And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? Avril Lavigne. 1. We always appreciate the feedback. 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." You know, that little decade of time from 2000 to 2010 that basically killed everything that was decent and listenable about mainstream alt-rock? Listen to it! THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! -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. The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. The current members are Chris Barron (vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar and vocals), Aaron Comess (drums and percussion), and Mark White (bass guitar). Tell us in the comments below. We like best things, too. [30] Li-ike. 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. -Kai Flanders, You realize that Jason Segels characters obsession with Rush in I Love You Man is tongue in cheek, right? Juke Box Hero is no Pinball Wizard; I Want To Know What Love Is will make you wish you didnt; Feels Like The First Time will hopefully be your last; Head Games is not about oral sex; Urgent is not that; Hot Blooded,Double Vision and Cold As Ice will send you to the doctor. 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. Vote now in our 2015 Best of L.A. Readers Choice poll. Because, even if youre composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneously pretentious and dopey, derivative and uniquely craptastic. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? This makes them make the list. Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. Worst bit: Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. 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. 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. And what about Anthony Kiediss rapping? Unlike Weetabix, however, theres not a shred of evidence suggesting Fleet Foxes prevent colorectal cancer. As you can imagine, this one got people fired up, and votes poured in. 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. The 10 Suckiest Bands of the '00s | Rocks Off - Houston Press Treat yourself. Nu-rave may not have aged well as a scene, but Myths of the New Future still holds up, surprisingly. Though their leader Darius Rucker is black, Hootie could not be more vanilla. He as a character is unforgettable, but the music of Razorlight? 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. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. 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. I'm serious even the 1970s with its strange clothing and dime-a-dozen disco can't compete. 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. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. Then again, maybe Whibley's split with Avril Lavigne will inspire him to write some inspired songs of heartbreak? It's no surprise that Creed won this poll. Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. I would like to point out that the members of The Maccabees are called things like Orlando, Hugo, Felix, and Rupert. Across their 3 studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such horrible tunes as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' on us. Let me make this clear right now: if you're a fan of Post-Grunge, Nu Metal, or Pop Punk, we salute you. 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. 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. Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. -Gabrielle Canon, Why is Oasis among the worst? 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. and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. 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. Anyone who appears to be striving to become the next Sting needs saving from us and indeed himself. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. 9. Web10. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. Champagne Supernova, anyone? Led by human breathalyzer test Wes Scantlin, Puddle of Mudd successfully sold millions of copies of Come Clean, an album flooded with songs that nasally whimpered their way through a deluge of generic guitar strumming and relentless symbol-bashing. 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. I would take being pepper-sprayed dead in my eye over listening to these guys any day. 11. Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs. 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. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. It is not an exaggeration to call this one of the defining albums for Zzzz. 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. -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. In fact, it downright sucks. If you have any questions or concerns or just want to drop us a line, don't hesitate to contact us! Coldplay jokes aside, Disturbed sucked and will always suck, provided they apparently still have a pulse. By siouxsie. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. Like Piers Morgan. The 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years | Salon.com Towers Of London - Well where to start? Grab your copy of the Gigwise print magazine here. 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. What made it so bad: He delivers the song with the enthusiasm of a man signing a contractual agreement to see Simon Cowell in the flesh every single day for the foreseeable future. Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre, What makes a terrible band? 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. 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. 10. 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! But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums. The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. List of music considered the worst 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. 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. There's one band here that will anger and shock many people. Soporific Laurel Canyon coke rock whose chief existential lament seems to be What toppings should I get on my burrito? the Eagles are the quintessential band for a decade whose favorite barbiturate was the Quaalude. 'This Love' was the band's most significant hit alongside the slightly scary 'She Will Be Liked'. But we were naive in 2006. To further plummet any scrap of credibility the band might have had lead singer Donny Tourette (Real name: Pat) appeared on Celebrity Big Brother alongside Leo Sayer and Jermaine Jackson. 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. Whats worse is just how seedy it all is, way too post-watershed for rodents. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. Their brand of twee is cloying and grating like an attention-starved, sugar-crashing eight-year-old who wants you to admire his finger painting, while youre trying to wash the dishes. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. Sloppy, derivative and obsessed with shock value for its own sake, the Pistols set the template for British punk rock bands trying too hard. My Humps was bad, but who would have figured the group could get worse? Journal Media does not control and is not responsible Nirvana's sudden success widely popularized alternative rock as a whole, and the band's frontman Cobain found himself referred to in the media as the "spokesman of a generation", with Nirvana being considered the "flagship band" of Generation X.Nirvana's third studio album, In Utero (1993), featured an abrasive, less-mainstream sound and challenged the group's audience. 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. : How did this happen? Just try. Theres their reality show and various line-up shifts, of course, but the details of those are too depressing to go into. The act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. American nu metal band. Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis? 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. To embed this post, copy the code below on your site, 600px wide Yo, echoes Theodore. The 2000s gave us lots of interesting phenomena: George Bush, International war, Facebook, Zoey 101, excellent New Jersey Devils groups, best of all it provided us a few very, uh,"unique"styles of music: Post-Grunge, Nu Metal, and Pop Punk. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. All rights reserved. This list could have gone on for miles. Dave is a jam act with no jams. By far the finest thing to ever come from this group is allure cover of "Down With The Sickness" from Richard Cheese that makes a look in Dawn of the Dead. 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. : One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Swedish pop group, originally consisting of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren. Using the spoils of the Beatles, Wings built a castle out of cheese. Why am I singing along to Hard-Fi.. Formed in 1994, Limp Bizkit became popular playing in the Jacksonville, Florida underground music scene in the late 1990s, and signed with Flip Records, a subsidiary of Interscope, which released their dbut album, Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ (1997). 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. and help keep the future of the Houston Press, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. We've already got bands like Hoobastank and Alien Ant Farm set to traipse through the city on tour. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. 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. Why take our chances? Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. Comments. 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'. WebWorst band of all time 24 Ed Sheeran Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter and musician. 1. 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. Their Pete Waterman created, insipid single 'Sacred Trust' failed to hit the number one spot and was pipped to the post by 'Sound Of The Underground' by their TV competitors Girls Aloud. 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. And misogyny. Maybe not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes. My dads totally had a bloody hard day / But hes been good fun and bubblin and jokin away. Oi oi, guvnor! 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. The band's original domestic signing was with EMI Canada. It was a novelty at the time, honest. Deryck Whibley led this Canadian 4 piece 'rock' group that somehow pushed their way to the top, for a bit at least. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. The mere mention of tracks like Two Princes create an earworm so powerful that youre going to need to see an ENT doctor. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. 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. Nothing gets worse. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. 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. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. 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. and RollingNews.ie unless otherwise stated. unless otherwise stated. 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. "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. And this an ideal something to make me even sadder breakup song? 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Add to that their anodyne, soulless music and their eminently slappable faces and you begin to see why The Jonas Brothers are on this list. If you still need us to explain why this band are awful with that information in your brain then the chances are you might just be stupid enough to enjoy their dreadful music. 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best, Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. -Kai Flanders, What do white people have to complain about, George Carlin once posited. Top 10 Worst Bands of Al Time - TheTopTens Nick, Joe, and Kevinthe perfect brothers that were all cute and talented. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press The Killers came in hot with their 2005 album Hot Fuss . It was an actual, living hell. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. What made it so bad: When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. -Kai Flanders, Boring, tepid, rehashed classic rock with a thin veneer of alt. 14. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. services and Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. 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. Truthfully the best part of Papa Roach's presence is that at this moment, they have actually basically ended up being a meme. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. The Living End. God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. They also won two BRIT Awards (who cares!). But then this happened. Are Hootie & the Blowish breaking up? If only. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* 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. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. Worst bit: The key change nobody asked for. In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. Nothing gets worse. Three lads from Donegal who made sprightly tunes about manic pixie dream girls and Louis Walsh. This band is neither rock, nor grunge, nor emo, nor metal. Worst bit: Its not even the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Pretty Rickys rap-R&B hybrid is so tasteless and tacky, even, that it could make Mariah Carey blush. Razorlight - In fairness the hatred directed at Razorlight is not actually for the three members of the band not called Johnny Borrell is it? Here are the top 10 bands that defined the 2000s Kerrang era. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? 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. Worst bit: Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. Worst bit: When you stop to think about the number of people involved in the making of this song and its accompanying video.