worst bands of the 2000s

The band has won numerous awards and they have won 12 Juno Awards among 28 nominations.The band is based in Vancouver, Canada. -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. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, 10:00AM. 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? Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. So do you agree ? Share with Friends Add To Playlist. Powter sings in generalisations, (Youre faking a smile with the coffee to go, You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost). Treat yourself. They are currently recording their seventh studio album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants. 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. One True Voice - Proof that reality TV pop stars are not invincible. Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. Nick, Joe, and Kevinthe perfect brothers that were all cute and talented. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide That name, man. Worst bit: When he sings Im here to win your heart and soul and you think, Just let me stop you there, Shane. We'll give it to them, their biggest smash 'In Too Deep' wasn't that bad, but the group have been ploughing the same one-dimensional furrow for far too long now. 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. It's not that Lana Del Rey is bad, per se, it's that her music seems fraudulent when compared to the '60s-era musical acts she's invoking. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. 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. What made it so bad: The fact that its the sound of slipping into a coma. 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. I would take being pepper-sprayed dead in my eye over listening to these guys any day. They are permanently beige, the sonic instantiation of Ambercrombie & Fitch cargo shorts, South Carolina Gamecocks hats, and flip-flops flailing. 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. While these 3 genres originally started in the 1990s, they wouldn't hit the mainstream until a decade later. Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre, What makes a terrible band? Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. All Rights reserved. Myspace updates are like the bat signal of an '00s artists, you know. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. Tell us in the comments below. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz Bookmark. Beth Ditto was and remains a goddess. I don't know the worst band ever, but this is who I do not like: Lady Gaga, Rush, Genesis, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Dave Matthews, The Eagles, Lynerd Skynerd, Bob Marley, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. It wasn't even close. 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. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. A grubby little band who don't deserve 1% of their success. The Killers came in hot with their 2005 album Hot Fuss . But the larger point of why this band is on the list is the entire pop-punk fad they inspired. Fancy a trip down Indie Memory Lane? Though their leader Darius Rucker is black, Hootie could not be more vanilla. In fact, it downright sucks. 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. Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. What followed, however, was nothing short of disastrous. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. Good Charlotte Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian You know, that little decade of time from 2000 to 2010 that basically killed everything that was decent and listenable about mainstream alt-rock? 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. We can't have them training a whole new legion of horrible pop-punk bands, can we? 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. But everything after that was just eh. But wasnt this good? Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. The 2000s embraced bands so terrible that their ability to haunt and torture us seemed to have emerged from the fantasy of horror master Stephen King: Maroon 5. Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide. And so stylish! And this an ideal something to make me even sadder breakup song? Theory of a Deadman's lead singer Tyler Connelly is sort of like a slicker version of Nickelback's Chad Kroeger which is ironic given that the pair duetted on 'Hero' taken from the Spiderman soundtrack. Yo, echoes Theodore. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography Anyone who appears to be striving to become the next Sting needs saving from us and indeed himself. Naive was genuinely great! Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. He as a character is unforgettable, but the music of Razorlight? 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. 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. Three lads from Donegal who made sprightly tunes about manic pixie dream girls and Louis Walsh. He sang songs such as The A team and Shape of You. This list could have gone on for miles. Dave Parsons joined Bush shortly after leaving the band Transvision Vamp. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. What made it so bad: Its 2017 and were wise to how The X Factor works. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. Limp Bizkit. You thought I was done with dumping on Coldplay, did you? Oh, its another flash-in-the-pan indie band. And Then There Was David Lindley, See the Beths Deliver Refreshing 'Expert in a Dying Field' Mini-Set on 'CBS Mornings', The YSL Case Is Stretching Fulton County's Justice System to Its Breaking Point, The National Stay Up Late to Perform 'Tropic Morning News' on Fallon, NBA 'Investigating,' Team Suspends Ja Morant After Allegedly Flashing Gun on Social Media, Netflixs Sex/Life Is Back to Satisfy Your Softcore Desires. We want to hear it. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. 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. -Jeff Weiss. Still, no dice. Of course, white people arent like most listeners, and will tolerate almost anything theyre told is good for them; hence the groups popularity. 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. What made it so bad: Mainly the chorus, which sees Gary Barlow wailing like hes just opened a tax return. and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, 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. 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. Why am I singing along to Hard-Fi.. Where would the world of sporting montages be without The Hives? This Because their backstage altercations always boiled down to sibling rivalry. 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. In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. The point here is seduction, but its hard to be seduced when youre nauseous. ------------------------------------------. Nickelback. : Its chipmunks singing about sex. That along with the band (apart from the drummer) are just terrible musicians. 7 and No. Dave is a jam act with no jams. But their musical sensibilities are questionable; someone in the group seems to have decided that New Jack Swing was too subtle. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. They wore suits and hats! Go on! 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. , somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. See if you can pick out which one we're talking about. 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. 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". 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. These results are sure to anger many people, but remember that this is a readers' poll. You got it. They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide. As with our top 20 greatest musicians of all time and top 20 hair metal albums of all time lists, we take this shit very seriously, even enlisting objective third party analysts to review our findings for accuracy. Worst bit: When she reminisces about how the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail. Banksy rang, he wants his money back. 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. WebThe 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years Perhaps the only time you'll see Limp Bizkit, Lana Del Rey and Insane Clown Posse on the same list By Prachi Gupta Published 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. The Leeds lads started out as a promising prospect but with repetitive songs, unintelligent lyrics and a tenancy to start wet t-shirt competitions at their gigs people soon began to rightfully dislike The Pigeon Detectives. It was a mistake. unless otherwise stated. -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. 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. This band is neither rock, nor grunge, nor emo, nor metal. 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. 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. 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 That said, fuck Walmart. In order for something to be hated, it must first be loved; that love is what gives the hatred its roots. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! Yeah, that one. 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. It was an actual, living hell. No thanks. YOU. In practice, it is not. American nu metal band. Okay, it was written by Andy Burrows, but we still can't forgive him. Which was a good tactic on his part, because they were crap. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. Getting back to terrible pop-punk Simple Plan has ranked high on our list of hated musicians of the 2000s. 15. Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. MILES. 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. 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. Grab your copy of the Gigwise print magazine here. Tokio Hotel - Hugely popular in Europe, Tokio Hotel have yet to replicate their success in Britain or the USA. 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. Because, even if youre composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneously pretentious and dopey, derivative and uniquely craptastic. Last but not leastwell maybe actually this is the least. advertising. 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. Like Piers Morgan. Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis? Maybe, but if youve got Foreigner on the playlist, she wont be waiting for you. Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic. This makes them make the list. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. 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. Again we have the same problem. The band's original domestic signing was with EMI Canada. In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. 9. blink-182 No, they deserve special mention for the critical crusade to pass James Murphy off as indie rocks preeminent male role model in spite of, nay, because of his worldview which remains as rigid and obnoxious as Toby Keiths. for the content of external websites. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. Also worth noting is that Blink drummer Travis Barkerhas made another one of our lists that's worth checking out. Sports 20 Worst Bands of the 2000s Stats Can you name the 20 Worst Bands? 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall American rock band, formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, Florida. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really 19. MORE INFO. Because Liam Gallagher only plays tambourine and possesses the single most nasal voice in pop. WebChris Gerard of Metro Weekly ranked it as Duran Duran's worst album. Then theres the fact that drummer Neil Peart generally consents only to speak to the drum press, a pantheon that includes in its entirety Modern Drummer and Not So Modern Drummer, if were not mistaken. 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. 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. Are Hootie & the Blowish breaking up? If only. God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. We didnt see Chico coming. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. Just an FYI, though? Across their 3 studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such horrible tunes as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' on us. Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? , Spotify, the iPhone. But then this happened. Oasis: 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants' (2000) - It may contain fan favourite 'Fuckin' In The Bushes', but Another vaguely comedy hair metal band Hot Leg also incorporated glam rock into songs like 'Gay In The 80's' and 'Cocktails'. If we open that door, it may not be one we can close, folks, and it's way too soon for anyone to be pining away for the days when George W. Bush was head bitch in charge and Paris Hilton had a show on network television. 19. Yo, echoes Theodore. What a rebel. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. The kind of thing youd find yourself singing along to on the radio, then recoil and go Ew. Wire service provided by AFP and Press Association. Goodbye, cruel world. The mere mention of tracks like Two Princes create an earworm so powerful that youre going to need to see an ENT doctor. Feedback on 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. -Ben Westhoff, Where Journey was a hit factory, Foreigner are the sweatshop equivalent, churning out shoddy products full of lead paint. But it also lead to the scourge of landfill indie as the decade wore on. . , 300px wide 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'. Ev-ery. Go-oes. Twenty years later and chances are that you can still hear Rucker rattling around there in your brain. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! This was the first single from the bands comeback album Beautiful World, and that comeback has brought nothing good to the universe (except the song Shine, which is admittedly quite likeable). 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? The Jam Addict team is a revolving door of writers who care about music, its effects on culture, and giving aspiring artists tools and knowledge to be inspired and keep on creating. 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! Across their three studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such nightmarish songs as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' upon our poor ears. If only Hootie were Sandra Dee. Just because there is still some joy to be obtained from hearing Ryan Jarman howl MEEEEEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS! Nobodys done it since, and not because folk duo Nizlopi are boundary-pushing innovators. 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Oh, you sweet, deluded fool. Its cruel, really. Smash Mouth is what would have happened if Limp Bizkit made love to a Lisa Frank poster. The current members are Chris Barron (vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar and vocals), Aaron Comess (drums and percussion), and Mark White (bass guitar). See More by this Creator. 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. 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 Killers. For that, Fratellis, I can never forgive you. 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. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. works. at the Disco, which makes this entire decade of music suck just a little bit harder than it did before. Sophisticated. 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. 12. August 9, 2013 Razorlight - In fairness the hatred directed at Razorlight is not actually for the three members of the band not called Johnny Borrell is it? See also: Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish? 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. CUT MY KNIFE INTO PIZZA! 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. 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. 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. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. They also won two BRIT Awards (who cares!). 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? Like Piers Morgan. 17. News images provided by Press Association 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. The 90's was a time filled with music growth, seeing many rock bands coming up, from No Doubt to Nickleback. Ah, Johnny Borrell. Email 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. Maybe not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes. While people seemed to have particular scorn for one particular late Nineties rap-rock band and one post-grunge band whose lead singer sounds a bit like Eddie Vedder, bands ranging from Smashing Pumpkins to the Goo Goo Dolls got votes.