Readers Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. What made it so bad: How did this happen? Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide Thirty-something adults who now now roll their eyes at Drake's "YOLO" are no better: Chances are good that they used to follow around the cultish Dave Matthews Band 10 years ago, imparting profound, oft-quoted wisdom like "eat, drink and be merry" and "life is short but sweet for certain" while living it up in the suburbs and broadening their worldview by sneaking in SoCo and taking road trips to the Jersey Shore. Send a Message. Crashed Out: The Blog: Top 10 Worst Bands of the 2000s They are currently recording their seventh studio album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants. 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. In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. 75 Best Rock Bands of the 2000s - middermusic.com Towers Of London - Well where to start? Worst bit:The lyric: Shes flirty / Turned 30 / Aint that the age a girl gets really dirty? No for you, my lyrically challenged friend. 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. Johnny Borrell is possibly the biggest ego centric to walk the planet, pull on white skinny jeans and inflict complete bollocks like 'America' on us in a long long time. Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. Why am I singing along to Hard-Fi.. Born the year after the death of the Beatles, the group consisting of Paul McCartney, his wife Linda and a revolving door of drummers and guitar players solidified every argument that John was better than Paul. They also have the worst band name of the decade to boot. It was a mistake. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! 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. We know you've noticed it, the sudden influx of '90s nostalgia bands that have made their way back on tour. The band has won numerous awards and they have won 12 Juno Awards among 28 nominations.The band is based in Vancouver, Canada. -Kai Flanders, What do white people have to complain about, George Carlin once posited. Because Liam Gallagher only plays tambourine and possesses the single most nasal voice in pop. We very much doubt it! Of course, white people arent like most listeners, and will tolerate almost anything theyre told is good for them; hence the groups popularity. WebHere are 20 of the worst: Sandi Thom, I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair), 2006 What made it so bad: Cast your mind back to 2006, when you had to ask Just because there is still some joy to be obtained from hearing Ryan Jarman howl MEEEEEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS! What made it so bad: Spurred on by Crazy Frogs chart heroics, convinced that literally anything could be released as a single, its Get Munkds parody of hip-hop culture which really burns. 483623. My dads totally had a bloody hard day / But hes been good fun and bubblin and jokin away. Oi oi, guvnor! We would have hoped that Whitley's split with Avril Lavigne, (the other Canadian rock star who just barely missed this list) would have inspired him to write some better songs of heartbreak? Tremonti, Phillips and Marshall went on to found Alter Bridge while Stapp followed a solo career. 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. Why you start a pop punk band who can't see past Fall Out Boy for influences of course! Comments. The Jonas Brothers - This Disney approved threesome provoke extreme anger amongst their haters for being so damn squeaky clean. And so stylish! Their second album was called Konk, which is quite fitting, in retrospect. Known for their squeaky clean looks Every Glastonbury poster and line-up since 1970, Soundtrack Of My Life: Ted Lasso star Phil Dunster, J-hope fulfils another fantasy with his J. Cole collab On The Street, Daisy Jones & The Six: backstage with the TV band everyones going to be watching, Final Fantasy 16 is a lavish RPG twist on Bayonetta and its all the better for it. Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide. 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. We can be thankful that 4 Non Blondes only made one album 1992s Bigger, Better, Faster, More! Because Wonderwall is pure nonsense. Probably the worst band musically of the decade this group of peroxide punks have gained notoriety for a series of publicity stunts. 1. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. 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. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. 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. 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. In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? 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. Like Piers Morgan. There's one band here that will anger and shock many people. Houston's independent source of Dave Parsons joined Bush shortly after leaving the band Transvision Vamp. 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). Because, even if youre composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneously pretentious and dopey, derivative and uniquely craptastic. Yes, lazier than The Blobby Song. Make of that what you will. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. 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". MEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS!. Forget Chris Barrons scraggly beard; the real problem with the Spin Doctors is their enduring lightweight retro jam song legacy on crappy corporate radio. 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. Nothing gets worse. 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. One True Voice were the boy band created by Popstars: The Rivals. We don't mean that in a good way. That said, fuck Walmart. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. The new line-up released The Golden Ratio in September 2010. 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. . Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. They make Perrier seem vibrant and ethnic. 10:00AM. 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. 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. Whats next, hair-pulling and time-outs? As a petite woman, I know when Chelsea Dagger comes on it is time to leave the dancefloor lest I want to spend three uncomfortable minutes wedged under a lads sweaty armpit. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. However, we aren't going to let them off the hook for being responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! What was he hiding? Happy Nation / The Sign is one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, and was certified nine times platinum in the United States. 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. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. That name, man. See also: Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish? -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. What made it so bad: This might the laziest song to become a bonafide hit (it reached number three in the UK singles chart). 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. Tis all they were good for. 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. And, lastly, I want to clarify that not all of the bands pointed out on this list existed simply throughout the 2000s, but they are remembered as '2000s musicians'. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. I think any musician and anyone with a brain will agree with at least most of these. "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. 6. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. Unlike Weetabix, however, theres not a shred of evidence suggesting Fleet Foxes prevent colorectal cancer. Okay, guys. The band's bland music had no real edge and just enough melody to have comfortably become background noise, except then the booming baritone voice of Darius Rucker came on and bore into your skull like a drill. That's right, the '00s. The band achieved mainstream success with their second and third studio albums, Significant Other (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000), although this success was marred by a series of controversies surrounding their performances at Woodstock '99 and the 2001 Big Day Out festival. What made it so bad: Its 2017 and were wise to how The X Factor works. The View had one song. Hard-Fi - A 'proper' band who sing about real things like having no money, going out on a Friday night, soldiers in Afghanistan and Feltham Young Offenders Prison. 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. Using the spoils of the Beatles, Wings built a castle out of cheese. As Spin magazine put it, they're like "Nickelback before there was Nickelback.". Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. 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. They subsequently obtained an American deal with global distribution via Roadrunner Records. The 90's was a time filled with music growth, seeing many rock bands coming up, from No Doubt to Nickleback. 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. 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. Bands of the 2000s ' On the plus side, however, we do thoroughly back the legit bromance between Messrs. Kiedis and Flea. The 50 Worst Albums Of The 2000s! | Gigwise 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. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. -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? It takes courage to admit that, for whatever reason, you managed to be duped into thinking this phony ear sludge could be called music. Like actually, they aren't even a band anymore. I don't think I need to remind everyone about how terrible frosted tips on whine-singing dudes were, right? 7. 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. However with each progressive year, this blueprint became more and more diluted until we get to The Pigeon Detectives, essentially The Strokes do Emmerdale. 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. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. 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. 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. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. 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. and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. 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. Oh god, the song. Email 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. They had an umlaut in their name! 17. Worst bit: Its chipmunks singing about sex. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. 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. 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). A grubby little band who don't deserve 1% of their success. 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. Nick, Joe, and Kevinthe perfect brothers that were all cute and talented. Across their three studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such nightmarish songs as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' upon our poor ears. This song isnt really so bad in of itself its more the fact that it introduced the trend of over-produced pop guff purporting to be massive indie bangers. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. While these 3 genres originally started in the 1990s, they wouldn't hit the mainstream until a decade later. 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. 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. 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. We don't mean that in a good way. (When, by the way, they'll still be terrible.). WebIt's not that they're the worst bands ever, but the fact that they're so fucking boring makes them worse than some of the actual worst bands. Cringiest Lines of the New Millennium. : First of all, the world is a better place with Out of Your Mind in it. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. And try not to dance. The band went through a number of configurations between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current form when Adair replaced drummer Ryan Vikedal. Weve all happily hollered along to Dreaming Of You in Whelans or wherever else, but how many people would actually say theyre a fan of The Coral? Here are the top 10 bands that defined the 2000s Kerrang era. But wasnt this good? A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. See More by this Creator. We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian Worst Bands of the 2000s / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. : Somewhere, Vanessa Carlton is still perched on a travelling piano, playing the blissful notes of . , somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. 10 Worst Hard Rock Lyrics Of The 2000s. The 20 Worst Bands of the 2000s | Gigwise Then again, maybe Whibley's split with Avril Lavigne will inspire him to write some inspired songs of heartbreak? The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys. 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. We didnt see Chico coming. The 20 worst songs of the '00s - NME He as a character is unforgettable, but the music of Razorlight? Inexplicably popular, the band continue to break peoples ears and will to live the world over. Theres their reality show and various line-up shifts, of course, but the details of those are too depressing to go into. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. 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. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. Good Charlotte And this an ideal something to make me even sadder breakup song? Tenacious D. This may not be the greatest and best song in the world, but it is a damn good one nonetheless. , Spotify, the iPhone. When you think its finally gone, it rears its ugly head again. Plus, how much of a dick is Lydon, allegedly punching women in the face, running around with racist goons and slamming Duffy against a wall? 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. Jason Roberts Keeps the Music of Bob Wills Swinging, Brooks & Dunn Boot Scoot Through 21st RodeoHouston Performance, Apes of the State Is Here to Defend Folk Punk, Become a member to support the independent voice of Houston The Killers came in hot with their 2005 album Hot Fuss . Naive was genuinely great! August 9, 2013 The band has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards and have sold around 40 million records worldwide. I'm serious even the 1970s with its strange clothing and dime-a-dozen disco can't compete. 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. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall It happened. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Cheesy, yes, but harmless nonetheless. Sort of like anchovies; in fact, its quite fair to call Rush the anchovies of rock music. Enough with the nostalgia shows already. 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. 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. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. 17 respectively. 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. 9. blink-182 Why take our chances? MDQL is preparing to belt! Reddit, who is the worst band ever -Jeff Weiss. American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. ------------------------------------------. Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian four piece achieved astonishing success this decade. But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. Smash Mouth is what would have happened if Limp Bizkit made love to a Lisa Frank poster. 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! Its original lineup consisted of Fred Durst (vocals), Wes Borland (guitars), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal (turntables, samples and programming). Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs. 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. These results are sure to anger many people, but remember that this is a readers' poll. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. 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. Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. One True Voice - Proof that reality TV pop stars are not invincible.