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. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Web10. Maybe not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes. The band's original domestic signing was with EMI Canada. Because they combine simple composition with over-the-top production and pretentious length. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. 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. Except they were actually a bunch of auto-tuned, spoiled little brats whose fame has more to do with luck than any sort of measure of talent. 10. He sang songs such as The A team and Shape of You. local news and culture, Angelica Leicht 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. I don't think I need to remind everyone about how terrible frosted tips on whine-singing dudes were, right? 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. The Living End. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really did headline the Reading and Leeds festivals with The Darkness. Whats that coming over the hill? 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. Another vaguely comedy hair metal band Hot Leg also incorporated glam rock into songs like 'Gay In The 80's' and 'Cocktails'. From whence you came, Plain White Ts. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. By marrying the two genres, brokeNCDYDE hit upon a hidden level of rubbish, a bonus round of tawdry shit. We can be thankful that 4 Non Blondes only made one album 1992s Bigger, Better, Faster, More! So let's apologise in advance to Bjorn, Carl and whoever is currently playing drums and keep the vitriol centralised. Go-oes. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. It happened. That's right, the '00s. If ever there proof that British popular song was in a dire state in the very first half of the noughties then it's this. What made it so bad: When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. We know this now. Instead we get three-and-a-half minutes of highly derivative pop-rock that evokes memories of a hundred shit mid-noughties indie nights in damp provincial towns. 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. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. It was a mistake. 8. But it Worst bit: Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Pretty Rickys rap-R&B hybrid is so tasteless and tacky, even, that it could make Mariah Carey blush. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. Ward was crowned the winner ofThe X Factor before releasing this radically uninventive ballad, which sounds like every single X Factor winners song ever. 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. Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire Limp Bizkit. He always wore sunglasses. The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. However, there were some forgetful bands that do not make most of our top lists. 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. Real music didnt win, on this occasion. 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. Now suck my dick. The uber successful act are so clean cut they make Cliff Richard look like Marilyn Manson. She's another reminder that we live in a post-Black Eyed Peas era. Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. The 90's was a time filled with music growth, seeing many rock bands coming up, from No Doubt to Nickleback. It was a novelty at the time, honest. 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. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. 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. 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. Nothing gets worse. 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. Tell us in the comments below. 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, it was written by Andy Burrows, but we still can't forgive him. To embed this post, copy the code below on your site, 600px wide If ever there proof that British pop music was in a dire state in the first half of the noughties then it's this. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. -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. 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. : First of all, the world is a better place with Out of Your Mind in it. YOU. The Jonas Brothers. 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. It's no surprise that Creed won this poll. 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. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire / PA Wire, Indie for the ladsladslads. The band consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. They subsequently obtained an American deal with global distribution via Roadrunner Records. 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. 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. What made it so bad: Mainly the chorus, which sees Gary Barlow wailing like hes just opened a tax return. 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). It wasn't even close. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. Forget Chris Barrons scraggly beard; the real problem with the Spin Doctors is their enduring lightweight retro jam song legacy on crappy corporate radio. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. WebCan you name the 20 Worst Bands? B-. MILES. Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. 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. Afterwards, the band put out their biggest album to date, All The Right Reasons which produced 3 top 10 singles and 5 top 20 singles, on the Billboard Hot 100 example of songs like "Photograph", "Far Away", and "Rockstar". Waiting For A Girl Like You? We don't mean that in a good way. Get Free is still fine? As you can imagine, this one got people fired up, and votes poured in. WebHere they are: the absolute worst rock bands in history, ranked from the most awful bands to the kind of okay, but still pretty bad, by the Ranker community and real rock purists. Tremonti, Phillips and Marshall went on to found Alter Bridge while Stapp followed a solo career. unless otherwise stated. Consider yourself lucky if you dont remember lyrics like Oh please Mr. President, will you lend me a future. Their hit Whats Up? meanwhile combines the worst of what Ani DiFranco and grunge had to offer, all of it dressed up in thrift store clothing that probably smelled funny. Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? What was he hiding? Exactly. policy. Sometimes we just need to call out the musical monstrosities that actually happened and why the 2000s themselves were such a tragedy. 13. Sit in the back of an SUV with off-key sorority house members singing along to Dave Matthews Band. I'm serious even the 1970s with its strange clothing and dime-a-dozen disco can't compete. The rankings of the worst musicians are suggested and voted on based on a variety of metrics, including popular bands least deserving of their fame and fortune, artists who shamelessly ripped off other, superior acts and just bands that don't know how to play their instruments or write songs. -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. We don't need a collective group of '00s musicians making their way through the country, with their tour vans all full of manscaping products and scenesters. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. 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. In 2011, Nickelback released their latest studio album, Here and Now which again topped the charts,] with a supporting tour that began in April 2012. But 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. Naive was genuinely great! 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. They are allegedly a different, other hated band. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. 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. 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 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. 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. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time touring members of the band. The mere mention of tracks like Two Princes create an earworm so powerful that youre going to need to see an ENT doctor. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. Literally it was a toss-up for us, since both sound like whiny, uninteresting barely catchy songs to us. It was a mistake. Yet theres a difference between simple pleasure and mind-numbingly dumb. So-ng. 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. Their second album was called Konk, which is quite fitting, in retrospect. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. Truthfully the best part of Papa Roach's presence is that at this moment, they have actually basically ended up being a meme. Need we go on? 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. Comments. Oh god, the song. These include a fly on the wall TV show including totally not faked (raises eyebrows) scenes of the band fighting people in the streets and sending excrement to a writer who gave them a bad review. Well how about they're the single worst, most soul-sapping, boring band of office workers ever to inflict their awful sub-Keane warblings on an already depressed nation's ears. You got it. You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. Zzzz. My Humps was bad, but who would have figured the group could get worse? A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. 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. Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. I would take being pepper-sprayed dead in my eye over listening to these guys any day. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. You know, that little decade of time from 2000 to 2010 that basically killed everything that was decent and listenable about mainstream alt-rock? 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. They were listed number seven on the Billboard top artist of the decade, with four albums listed on the Billboard top albums of the decade. GRAMMY Award-winner Jeff Coffin of Bla Fleck and the Flecktones has since filled Moore's spot as the band's saxophonist. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. Enough with the nostalgia shows already. 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. Worst bit: Its not even the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography They also have the worst band name of the decade to boot. : The faux-cockney tone of Luke Concannons vocals, as he sings, . Dave Matthews Band. Ah, Johnny Borrell. submissions or preferences. for the content of external websites. 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 The current members are Chris Barron (vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar and vocals), Aaron Comess (drums and percussion), and Mark White (bass guitar). The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. 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. 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. 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). 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. WebTop 10 Worst Bands of Al Time. 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. 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. Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. 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. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com. Their most recent album, Away from the World, was released in 2012, and also debuted at number one on the Billboard chart. 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. Twenty years later and chances are that you can still hear Rucker rattling around there in your brain. Again we have the same problem. Create an email alert based on the current article, This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising. Favorite. Across their three studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such nightmarish songs as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' upon our poor ears. Boy bands from the late 90s to early 2000s. 15. But then this happened. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. View Reports-/5-RATE QUIZ. The band went through a number of configurations between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current form when Adair replaced drummer Ryan Vikedal. The boyband became a manband, encouraged countless 90s reformations that we did not ask for or need, and ushered in the inexplicable revitalisation of Gary Barlows career. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. 15 3 Doors Down In the early '00s, this rock band 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. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. We very much doubt it! Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. At least with those, you can sometimes get a laugh out of them. 4. Web5. These guys always seemed to be for people who were like, into ART and LITERATURE. Grab your copy of the Gigwise print magazine here. All rights reserved. Swedish pop group, originally consisting of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren. 'This Love' was the band's most significant hit alongside the slightly scary 'She Will Be Liked'. Worse, the band members went on to respectively spawn the equally turgid McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar. Feb 23, 2017. The perfect soundtrack to being a brat. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 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. 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'. , Spotify, the iPhone. 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. Interview: Imogen Ray, Merchandising Manager Extraordinaire, The Unconventional Music of Antonio Ibrahine: How His Big Band Sound and Sound Design Elements Elevated The Audience to New Heights, Noa Bar Talks Influences and Collaborators - A Jam Addict Interview, Making Connections Through Live Music - An Interview with Karen Shiraishi, This is How to Prepare for a Concert Performance, Guitarist Jason Ji Talks Instruments, Shows, and Film Work. Oh god, the song. Getting angry with the Pussycat Dolls is like getting angry with Bank of America or Walmart. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. We've already got bands like Hoobastank and Alien Ant Farm set to traipse through the city on tour. 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 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. Will happily stomp and screech along to Standing In The Way Of Control for the rest of my life. Yes, lazier than The Blobby Song. Empics Entertainment. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. But everything after that was just eh. 483623. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. 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. Cringiest Lines of the New Millennium. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. 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. These results are sure to anger many people, but remember that this is a readers' poll. 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. You can obtain a copy of the 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". WebStill, as of today, Maroon 5 is one of the most successful bands in the entire world, having sold more than 75 million records. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. 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. Razorlight - In fairness the hatred directed at Razorlight is not actually for the three members of the band not called Johnny Borrell is it? Oasis: 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants' (2000) - It may contain fan favourite 'Fuckin' In The Bushes', but 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. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. : One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. 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. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really 19. Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. Worst bit: The faux-cockney tone of Luke Concannons vocals, as he sings, My dads totally had a bloody hard day / But hes been good fun and bubblin and jokin away. Oi oi, guvnor! Just try. 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. Worst bit: The post-Coldplay minor key pianos, which were absolutely everywhere around 2005.
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