' On the plus side, however, we do thoroughly back the legit bromance between Messrs. Kiedis and Flea. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. We can't have them training a whole new legion of horrible pop-punk bands, can we? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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 One True Voice were the boy band created by Popstars: The Rivals. 3. 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. Theres their reality show and various line-up shifts, of course, but the details of those are too depressing to go into. Enough with the nostalgia shows already. 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. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. Please, no '00s nostalgia, or these fools may find their way onto the bill. Yeah, that one. Give Orange. Okay, guys. 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best, Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys. What made it so bad: When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. Because theyve been caught ripping off other artists songs, including Stevie Wonder, The New Seekers, and Neil Innes. 1. 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. 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. 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. WebStill, as of today, Maroon 5 is one of the most successful bands in the entire world, having sold more than 75 million records. They subsequently obtained an American deal with global distribution via Roadrunner Records. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. Carrots help us see much better in the dark/ Dont talk to girls, theyll break your heart. Just an example of a Wombats lyric for you. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. Worst bit: When you think the song has faded out but, oh no, heres another chorus this time with overblown gospel choir! Good Charlotte Here are 20 of the worst: What made it so bad: Cast your mind back to 2006, when you had to ask your parents to stop using the phone so you could connect to dial-up, and a time when webcams were a relatively new invention. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. If football chants gave royalties, The Automatic would be millionaires. And try not to dance. Yo, echoes Theodore. By marrying the two genres, brokeNCDYDE hit upon a hidden level of rubbish, a bonus round of tawdry shit. We don't need any more to come trailin' on in behind them. While these 3 genres originally started in the 1990s, they wouldn't hit the mainstream until a decade later. 18. -Kai Flanders, What do white people have to complain about, George Carlin once posited. 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. 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. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. Worst bit: When you stop to think about the number of people involved in the making of this song and its accompanying video. Sophisticated. Last years Super Bowl halftime show where they sung out of sync and trampled Sweet Child O Mine made Madonnas version look brilliant. Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. 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. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. The group was moved to Island Def Jam Music Group, which they eventually left after conflict with the label about creative input. 17 respectively. It is not an exaggeration to call this one of the defining albums for It wasn't even close. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. That said, fuck Walmart. 1. See More by this Creator. We always appreciate the feedback. American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. They are permanently beige, the sonic instantiation of Ambercrombie & Fitch cargo shorts, South Carolina Gamecocks hats, and flip-flops flailing. No thanks. 7 and No. 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! Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. 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. . Again we have the same problem. -Ben Westhoff, Where Journey was a hit factory, Foreigner are the sweatshop equivalent, churning out shoddy products full of lead paint. Still, no dice. Worst bit: Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. 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. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com. for the content of external websites. 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. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? Oh, The Thrills! Treat yourself. Report. Bet you just said Ah The REVS! didnt you? 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. blink-182 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 -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. The band consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. -Jeff Weiss, See also: The Eagles Hotel California: Why This Song Sucks, Once upon a time/When the world was just a pancake/Fears would arise/That if you went too far youd fall/But with the passage of time/It all became more of a ball. -Some Dave Matthews lyrics, You want a real American Horror story? Getting angry with the Pussycat Dolls is like getting angry with Bank of America or Walmart. 15. To give you an example, 'Year 3000' is about what life is like in the future, and they talk about how. Will happily stomp and screech along to Standing In The Way Of Control for the rest of my life. 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'. 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. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian Here are the top 10 bands that defined the 2000s Kerrang era. Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic. Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. 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. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. And so stylish! Worst bit: When he sings Im here to win your heart and soul and you think, Just let me stop you there, Shane. -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. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant WebThese are the worst musicians of the 2000s. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. 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. 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. 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. 4. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre, What makes a terrible band? But wasnt this good? The White Stripes The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army Waiting For A Girl Like You? Worst bit: The key change nobody asked for. -Ian Cohen, The all-mighty arbiter of SoCal cool, Jeffrey The Dude Lebowski was famously willing to be thrown out of a cab because he hated the fucking Eagles, and you should be too. advertising. The Killers. Favorite. We didnt see Chico coming. Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. Because Wonderwall is pure nonsense. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. Its original lineup consisted of Fred Durst (vocals), Wes Borland (guitars), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal (turntables, samples and programming). Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. It was a mistake. Now suck my dick. It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. American nu metal band. This Follow. Ill probably never get past it. -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? 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. Whats that coming over the hill? 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. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. , 300px wide Journal Media does not control and is not responsible Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? This is a band so hated that their own fans 2. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* Reflecting on Phishs 30 years of music, Grantlands Steven Hyden puts the problem best: "In order to like Phish, you must consciously decide to like Phish.". 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. The point here is seduction, but its hard to be seduced when youre nauseous. Scouting For Girls write songs a child might make in a primary school music class. Well, in this case the common rap happens to be true. 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. We didnt see Chico coming. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time touring members of the band. 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. 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. Where would the world of sporting montages be without The Hives? 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I would take being pepper-sprayed dead in my eye over listening to these guys any day. 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. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. MEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS!. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Vote now in our 2015 Best of L.A. Readers Choice poll. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. The current members are Chris Barron (vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar and vocals), Aaron Comess (drums and percussion), and Mark White (bass guitar). 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. August 9, 2013 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? : 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. 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. These guys always seemed to be for people who were like, into ART and LITERATURE. WebFather of All Motherfuckers, Green Day (2020) In 2022, Loudwire published that Father of All Motherfuckers was the highest ranked rock album on a list of the worst albums of the They wore suits and hats! 12. 10. 'This Love' was the band's most significant hit alongside the slightly scary 'She Will Be Liked'. 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). The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. 16. But everything after that was just eh. Oh god, the song. 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. We had nothing to do with the results. Famous purely through association the bands biggest hit is the catchy but infuriating 'Shake It'. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. It was a mistake. All rights reserved. -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. He always wore sunglasses. 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. Three lads from Donegal who made sprightly tunes about manic pixie dream girls and Louis Walsh. Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. And misogyny. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. We wondered which recent bands we might all be fighting about in 20 years. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. Nothing gets worse. 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. You thought I was done with dumping on Coldplay, did you? Inexplicably popular, the band continue to break peoples ears and will to live the world over. Empics Entertainment -Kai Flanders, Boring, tepid, rehashed classic rock with a thin veneer of alt. Sort of like anchovies; in fact, its quite fair to call Rush the anchovies of rock music. Which was a good tactic on his part, because they were crap. Nobodys done it since, and not because folk duo Nizlopi are boundary-pushing innovators. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. 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. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! Whats worse is just how seedy it all is, way too post-watershed for rodents. 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Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. Scouting For Girls - What can we say about this band that hasn't already been said? Sit in the back of an SUV with off-key sorority house members singing along to Dave Matthews Band. Are Hootie & the Blowish breaking up? If only. 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. As you can imagine, this one got people fired up, and votes poured in. 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. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! Worst bit:The lyric: Shes flirty / Turned 30 / Aint that the age a girl gets really dirty? No for you, my lyrically challenged friend. 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. The album did not match the sales figures of Nevermind but was still a critical and commercial success. Future generations will not look at Same Jeans as a masterpiece of composition. Maybe not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes. 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. 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. policy. In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. Well, too bad. 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. Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. 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. 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. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. 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). Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Goodbye, cruel world. The band's musical output is nothing compared to the album artwork however. For that, Fratellis, I can never forgive you. Getting back to terrible pop-punk Simple Plan has ranked high on our list of hated musicians of the 2000s. Nirvana's brief run ended following the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994, but various posthumous releases have been issued since, overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobain's widow Courtney Love. Feedback on 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. 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. 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. 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. Its excellent that theyve got great abs, and they certainly have the right to wear their shiny jackets wide open. Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. Like Piers Morgan. 15 3 Doors Down In the early '00s, this rock band Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really did headline the Reading and Leeds festivals with The Darkness. 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 Fleet Foxes, unfortunately, are more like Weetabix, a healthful, bowel-movement-inducing breakfast option that skimps on taste. As Spin magazine put it, they're like "Nickelback before there was Nickelback.". They can barely play guitar and barely hold a tune. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. 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. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to name but a few. So-ng. I mean, really, was the "he-said-she-said bullshit" that rage-inducing, Fred Durst? This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. In a musical genre already dominated by the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, Nick Lachey's ersatz boy band never really had a chance. Though their leader Darius Rucker is black, Hootie could not be more vanilla. Just because there is still some joy to be obtained from hearing Ryan Jarman howl MEEEEEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS! 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?