worst bands of the 2000s

Give Orange. Yet theres a difference between simple pleasure and mind-numbingly dumb. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. Content copyright Journal Media Ltd. 2023 Registered in Dublin, registration number: -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. Copyright 2023 RebelsMarket Inc. All rights reserved. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time touring members of the band. What made it so bad: That lumpen power chord riff is bad enough, but when the lead guitar does nothing more than imitate it, it becomes all too clear that were looking at a music hate crime. Send a Message. Dave is a jam act with no jams. Using the spoils of the Beatles, Wings built a castle out of cheese. 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'. 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. Oh, and also, Nickelback sucks. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. 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 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. If football chants gave royalties, The Automatic would be millionaires. Razorlight - In fairness the hatred directed at Razorlight is not actually for the three members of the band not called Johnny Borrell is it? / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. However, we aren't going to let them off the hook for being responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! 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.". 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. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. They subsequently obtained an American deal with global distribution via Roadrunner Records. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. Well, too bad. Sit in the back of an SUV with off-key sorority house members singing along to Dave Matthews Band. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. 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. In practice, it is not. Oh god, the song. He as a character is unforgettable, but the music of Razorlight? PA Archive / PA Images 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. 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. Oh, its another flash-in-the-pan indie band. We don't mean that in a good way. Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums. They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide. 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. What made it so bad: Mainly the chorus, which sees Gary Barlow wailing like hes just opened a tax return. 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. Last but not leastwell maybe actually this is the least. What made it so bad: In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. They call themselves a new band made from old friends, but its more accurate to call them slumming dudes attempting to trick fans of the White Stripes into liking their boring, awful, music. Track Consoler of the Lonely repeats the phrase I am bored to tears six times, which is only a small fraction of how often everyone else was saying it. Bang of random Playstation 2 sports game music off Jet. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. Dishonorable Mentions not on this list: Kid Rock, Linkin Park, real Matchbox 20, Spin Doctors and Blues Traveler rest assured you are all hated, as well. We had nothing to do with the results. Basically the Goo Goo Dolls of the next millennium. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. 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. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Coldplay jokes aside, Disturbed sucked and will always suck, provided they apparently still have a pulse. Put on Dont Steal Our Sun there and pretend youre in The OC. It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. Again we have the same problem. The group was moved to Island Def Jam Music Group, which they eventually left after conflict with the label about creative input. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Probably the worst band musically of the decade this group of peroxide punks have gained notoriety for a series of publicity stunts. 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. In order for something to be hated, it must first be loved; that love is what gives the hatred its roots. Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, and RollingNews.ie unless otherwise stated. Granted, they along with Green Day and Offspring actually did produce some pretty great music, and they certainly defined a niche that people responded to. Limp Bizkit is one of the rare band names that could not be made any more ridiculous if it were spelled "LiMp b!ZKiT," an observation that makes the band's unchecked anger so hard to take seriously. Nothing gets worse. 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. Zzzz. 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. Borland left the group in 2001, but Durst, Rivers, Otto and Lethal continued to record and tour with guitarist Mike Smith. Interchangeable with Matchbox 20, but technically not Matchbox 20. It is not an exaggeration to call this one of the defining albums for Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre, What makes a terrible band? at the Disco. They're generic, they're insultingly unintelligent, they do not have absolutely the slightest modicum of self-awareness, and they're about as "extreme" as Coldplay is exciting. If you take offense, then you -Kai Flanders, What do white people have to complain about, George Carlin once posited. Listen to it! Because nobody will stand for this ever again. They definitely are not as timeless or genuine as Rage Against the Machine however I still do think they deserve to be considered one of the better rap metal bands. The 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. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. 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. 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). By this time Westlife were six albums deep into a career built upon dull, saccharine ballads and the formula was very tired indeed. Hating Nickelback used to be cool, but it's so easy that it's kind of just a fact, now. What made it so bad: The fact that its the sound of slipping into a coma. 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. 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. works. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." But the song. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. So let's apologise in advance to Bjorn, Carl and whoever is currently playing drums and keep the vitriol centralised. -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. Need we go on? These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. : When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian four piece achieved astonishing success this decade. Literally it was a toss-up for us, since both sound like whiny, uninteresting barely catchy songs to us. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. But it American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. 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. -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? Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? 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. Which was a good tactic on his part, because they were crap. It was a mistake. Because Liam Gallagher only plays tambourine and possesses the single most nasal voice in pop. Pretty Rickys rap-R&B hybrid is so tasteless and tacky, even, that it could make Mariah Carey blush. We know you've noticed it, the sudden influx of '90s nostalgia bands that have made their way back on tour. [30] Blazin' Squad - Like the mutated spawn of East 17 this group of Essex chavs ransacked the charts earlier in the decade with their Burberry style brand of pop-hip-hop raps and commercial r'n'b choruses. Also worth noting is that Blink drummer Travis Barkerhas made another one of our lists that's worth checking out. "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. Worst bit: The post-Coldplay minor key pianos, which were absolutely everywhere around 2005. After the demise of his first band, then releasing an awful cover of Sparks 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Two Of Us' and before going on to unsuccessfully audition for Eurovision in 2007. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Empics Entertainment B-. , 400px wide With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. 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. 11. WebTop 10 Alternative Bands of the 2000s WatchMojo.com 25M subscribers Join Subscribe 15K 1.1M views 8 years ago Find links in the description below to buy the music featured in this video! Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. Scouting For Girls write songs a child might make in a primary school music class. Beth Ditto was and remains a goddess. And so in that spirit we present the worst bands of all time. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. Yo, echoes Theodore. 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! MEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS!. for the content of external websites. All rights reserved. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys. 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. 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. YOU. The group hit number one with their first ever single, a cover of the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony hit 'Tha Crossroads' and went on to further success with 'Flip Reverse' in 2003. 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. 50. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* And misogyny. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? Its original lineup consisted of Fred Durst (vocals), Wes Borland (guitars), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal (turntables, samples and programming). Cringiest Lines of the New Millennium. Worst bit: Its chipmunks singing about sex. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. For the release of their seventh album, the band parted from EMI Canada and signed a new Canadian domestic distribution deal with Universal Music Canada. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. American nu metal band. We don't mean that in a good way. After earning enough money to keep them in Nike Air Max and McDonalds for the rest of time, the band split in 2005 much to the relief of the British public. Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? We very much doubt it! Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. What was he hiding? 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. 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. Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. We love funk, we love metal, but we also love peanut butter and veggie burgers, just not together. Now suck my dick. Creed. Champagne Supernova, anyone? Also, theres the fact that the Dead never composed these lyrics: Down with disease/ Up before the dawn/ A thousand barefoot children outside dancing on my lawn. -Elano Pizzicarola. 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. 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 don't want to hate on them too much because now its pretty 'hip' to hate Nickelbackbut hey it's still kind of fun. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. You can obtain a copy of the Really, guys. WebCan you name the 20 Worst Bands? WebTop 10 Worst Bands of Al Time. 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. -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's 2009 album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (the first album since Moore's death) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earning the band their fifth consecutive number-one debut making them the second band behind Metallica to do so. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. A grubby little band who don't deserve 1% of their success. 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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Together with the similarity Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback, Papa Roach truly stuck out in the mid-2000s like a sore Porta-Potty when it pertained to the "Butt Rock" sect of Nu Metal and Post-Grunge. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. WebWorst band of all time 24 Ed Sheeran Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter and musician. This band is neither rock, nor grunge, nor emo, nor metal. Comments. As Spin magazine put it, they're like "Nickelback before there was Nickelback.". 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. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. But then this happened. 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. We want to hear it. only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail.. Like actually, they aren't even a band anymore. The Top Ten. Ev-ery. We didnt see Chico coming. 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." , 300px wide The act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. 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'. Go on! 1. 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. Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. Naive was genuinely great! I mean, really, was the "he-said-she-said bullshit" that rage-inducing, Fred Durst? Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. Maybe, but if youve got Foreigner on the playlist, she wont be waiting for you. Vote now in our 2015 Best of L.A. Readers Choice poll. 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. Comments. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs. 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. These results are sure to anger many people, but remember that this is a readers' poll. We always appreciate the feedback. It wasn't even close. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. WebReaders Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties 1. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. But wasnt this good? -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. 14. 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. Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. Treat yourself. 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. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible 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. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis?

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