Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian four piece achieved astonishing success this decade. Across their 3 studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such horrible tunes as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' on us. -Ben Westhoff, Touted as the originators of punk, the Sex Pistols were really just a third-rate Faces rip off with a low-rent Richard Hell on vocals. 'This Love' was the bands biggest hit alongside the vaguely creepy 'She Will Be Loved'. And try not to dance. But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Like Piers Morgan. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. -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? The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. 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. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. 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. , Spotify, the iPhone. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Yo, echoes Theodore. 483623. YOU. So let's apologise in advance to Bjorn, Carl and whoever is currently playing drums and keep the vitriol centralised. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire / PA Wire, Indie for the ladsladslads. and help keep the future of the Houston Press, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. Dave Matthews Band. 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. Where would the world of sporting montages be without The Hives? I was born too late into a world that doesnt care,, when accountants didnt have control / And when media couldnt buy your soul.. The Killers came in hot with their 2005 album Hot Fuss . : Its a song about a tractor, for starters. But the song. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. 11. The band achieved mainstream success with their second and third studio albums, Significant Other (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000), although this success was marred by a series of controversies surrounding their performances at Woodstock '99 and the 2001 Big Day Out festival. Hating Nickelback used to be cool, but it's so easy that it's kind of just a fact, now. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. Are Hootie & the Blowish breaking up? If only. It is not an exaggeration to call this one of the defining albums for Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? Last Updated. 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. No thanks. We wondered which recent bands we might all be fighting about in 20 years. 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. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide These results are sure to anger many people, but remember that this is a readers' poll. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. My Humps was bad, but who would have figured the group could get worse? Empics Entertainment 1. 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: Somewhere, Vanessa Carlton is still perched on a travelling piano, playing the blissful notes of A Thousand Miles as she navigates the Sahara. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. EMPICS Entertainment. WebThese are the worst musicians of the 2000s. Its excellent that theyve got great abs, and they certainly have the right to wear their shiny jackets wide open. 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. GRAMMY Award-winner Jeff Coffin of Bla Fleck and the Flecktones has since filled Moore's spot as the band's saxophonist. That name, man. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. Fleet Foxes, unfortunately, are more like Weetabix, a healthful, bowel-movement-inducing breakfast option that skimps on taste. They probably think it's very clever and sticking it to the man, we just think it makes them look lazy. Cheesy, yes, but harmless nonetheless. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! That may explain why a Spin Doctors song is a bit like herpes. 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. Feedback on 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. You got it. Good Charlotte -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. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? Maybe, but if youve got Foreigner on the playlist, she wont be waiting for you. 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. Literally it was a toss-up for us, since both sound like whiny, uninteresting barely catchy songs to us. : First of all, the world is a better place with Out of Your Mind in it. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. 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. policy. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* Comments. Myspace updates are like the bat signal of an '00s artists, you know. WebTop 10 Worst Bands of Al Time. 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. -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. Real music didnt win, on this occasion. You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site. 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. Becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, one of which has been certified diamond and has sold over 28 million records in the United States, and over 40 million albums worldwide,becoming the ninth best-selling artist of the 2000s.Creed is often recognized as one of the prominent acts of the post-grunge movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s and is one of the most commercially successful rock bands of all time. Empics Entertainment. The Script - OK, Mums need something to listen to - nobody wants to find their Radiohead CD's in the kitchen on a Sunday afternoon, but surely the women who brought us into this world deserve better than rubbish like The Script they are served? -Kai Flanders, What do white people have to complain about, George Carlin once posited. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. The kind of thing youd find yourself singing along to on the radio, then recoil and go Ew. What a rebel. 17 respectively. Worst bit: The post-Coldplay minor key pianos, which were absolutely everywhere around 2005. The band has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards and have sold around 40 million records worldwide. It was a novelty at the time, honest. unless otherwise stated. What made made it so bad:Pop musics often simple and repetitive, and that is absolutely fine. 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. 10 Worst Hard Rock Lyrics Of The 2000s. 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. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. By siouxsie The Give It Away video could be called Anthony and the Hand Jive, and its even more ridiculous when he starts doing duck lips. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. Web10. 14. Don't even get us started on singer Bill's Native American headdress hair and his guitarist brother Tom who appears to dress in clothes an obese basketball player has given to him. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. 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. Future generations will not look at Same Jeans as a masterpiece of composition. The Top Ten. The Madden brothers were so edgy, too, with their guyliner and all. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall 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! / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. The album did not match the sales figures of Nevermind but was still a critical and commercial success. And that one song is grand, and then it turns into Brimful of Asha. Known for their squeaky clean looks Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. Powter sings in generalisations (Youre faking a smile with the coffee to go, You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost), somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. 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. Interchangeable with Matchbox 20, but technically not Matchbox 20. That along with the band (apart from the drummer) are just terrible musicians. 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. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, All Rights reserved. Anyone who appears to be striving to become the next Sting needs saving from us and indeed himself. Ward was crowned the winner ofThe X Factor before releasing this radically uninventive ballad, which sounds like every single X Factor winners song ever. However, there were some forgetful bands that do not make most of our top lists. We had nothing to do with the results. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. Its original lineup consisted of Fred Durst (vocals), Wes Borland (guitars), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal (turntables, samples and programming). Web2000s Rock Bands Final Thoughts. It happened. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. 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. 9. blink-182 Twenty years later and chances are that you can still hear Rucker rattling around there in your brain. The group was especially popular in Canada, having three number-one singles in the country. You can obtain a copy of the ------------------------------------------. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. It was a mistake. 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. Listening to even one song by Creed invokes a sea of nausea, as if your brain is fried from watching "Two and a Half Men" reruns for 24 hours. MDQL is preparing to belt! The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press If ever there proof that British pop music was in a dire state in the first half of the noughties then it's this. 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. In order for something to be hated, it must first be loved; that love is what gives the hatred its roots. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. 8. 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. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. We can be thankful that 4 Non Blondes only made one album 1992s Bigger, Better, Faster, More! 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. But then this happened. Fancy a trip down Indie Memory Lane? -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. The Living End. Theory of a Deadman Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com. Tell us in the comments below. 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. Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? 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. Hot Leg - A second appearance here for Justin Hawkins (formerly of The Darkness). 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. Which was a good tactic on his part, because they were crap. American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis? 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. 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. The Killers. At least with those, you can sometimes get a laugh out of them. Limp Bizkit. 50. What was he hiding? The View had one song. Sports 20 Worst Bands of the 2000s Stats Can you name the 20 Worst Bands? 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. He sang songs such as The A team and Shape of You. Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. 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. Getting back to terrible pop-punk Simple Plan has ranked high on our list of hated musicians of the 2000s. Silverchair. 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". After signing to major label DGC Records, Nirvana found unexpected success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the first single from the band's second album Nevermind (1991). By this time Westlife were six albums deep into a career built upon dull, saccharine ballads and the formula was very tired indeed. Perhaps this is down to a belief that a band from Germany could never be as good as one from New York or London. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. It was a mistake. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. Scouting For Girls - What can we say about this band that hasn't already been said? In practice, it is not. The band consists of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? 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 Even in the 1990s, there were only so many mock turtlenecks and cargo pants the front cover of Tiger Beat could handle before fans revolted against the fashion. Worse, the band members went on to respectively spawn the equally turgid McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar. 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. Tis all they were good for. Ev-ery. : When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. They make Perrier seem vibrant and ethnic. God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. Whats worse is just how seedy it all is, way too post-watershed for rodents. Web9. They are currently recording their seventh studio album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants. WebCLICK HERE to see The 50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s. , 300px wide created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant 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. Be Your Own Pet were probably not as well known as some of the bands in this list, but they were bags more fun than most of them. Because their backstage altercations always boiled down to sibling rivalry. Of course, white people arent like most listeners, and will tolerate almost anything theyre told is good for them; hence the groups popularity. However with each progressive year, this blueprint became more and more diluted until we get to The Pigeon Detectives, essentially The Strokes do Emmerdale. Following the release of their album, Results May Vary (2003), Borland rejoined the band and recorded The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (2005) with Durst, Rivers, Lethal and drummer Sammy Siegler before entering a hiatus. Need we go on? 5. Feb 23, 2017. 8. 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. Getting angry with the Pussycat Dolls is like getting angry with Bank of America or Walmart. 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. From whence you came, Plain White Ts. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. News images provided by Press Association The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave The act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. I'm serious even the 1970s with its strange clothing and dime-a-dozen disco can't compete. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. The Jonas Brothers - This Disney approved threesome provoke extreme anger amongst their haters for being so damn squeaky clean. We always appreciate the feedback. Also worth noting is that Blink drummer Travis Barkerhas made another one of our lists that's worth checking out. As a petite woman, I know when Chelsea Dagger comes on it is time to leave the dancefloor lest I want to spend three uncomfortable minutes wedged under a lads sweaty armpit. Another vaguely comedy hair metal band Hot Leg also incorporated glam rock into songs like 'Gay In The 80's' and 'Cocktails'. : How did this happen? What made it so bad: One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. Their work is marked by Durst's abrasive, angry lyrics and Borland's sonic experimentation and elaborate visual appearance, which includes face and body paint, masks and uniforms, as well as the band's elaborate live shows. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations. Sometimes we just need to call out the musical monstrosities that actually happened and why the 2000s themselves were such a tragedy. Their Pete Waterman created, insipid single 'Sacred Trust' failed to hit the number one spot and was pipped to the post by 'Sound Of The Underground' by their TV competitors Girls Aloud. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. Theres undoubtedly genuine musicianship behind this Seattle outfit, its just wholly unpalatable, lacking even the most basic hooks and melodies necessary to sustain most listeners. It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. WebAs 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. Soporific Laurel Canyon coke rock whose chief existential lament seems to be What toppings should I get on my burrito? the Eagles are the quintessential band for a decade whose favorite barbiturate was the Quaalude. : One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. I would take being pepper-sprayed dead in my eye over listening to these guys any day. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. I'm gonna go right on ahead and say that most pop-punk from this time period was a big fat ball of suck, but Good Charlotte's pop-punk was mixed in with a hearty dose of some emo shit, which only made that concoction stink worse than normal. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. I mean, really, was the "he-said-she-said bullshit" that rage-inducing, Fred Durst? 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. But it August 9, 2013 1. What made it so bad: Its a song about a tractor, for starters. Luckily the band have split now with Justin Hawkins going on to try various ventures such as entering Eurovision (Beaten by the car crash that was Scooch). 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. 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. -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. They wore suits and hats! 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.
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