Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. We always appreciate the feedback. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. -Kai Flanders, Boring, tepid, rehashed classic rock with a thin veneer of alt. Hot Leg - A second appearance here for Justin Hawkins (formerly of The Darkness). Tenacious D. This may not be the greatest and best song in the world, but it is a damn good one nonetheless. In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. THE 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. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire / PA Wire, Indie for the ladsladslads. They probably think it's very clever and sticking it to the man, we just think it makes them look lazy. Listen to it! Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. 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. B-. We wondered which recent bands we might all be fighting about in 20 years. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really did headline the Reading and Leeds festivals with The Darkness. local news and culture, Angelica Leicht Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. And that one song is grand, and then it turns into Brimful of Asha. Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. The band has won numerous awards and they have won 12 Juno Awards among 28 nominations.The band is based in Vancouver, Canada. Email 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. Interchangeable with Matchbox 20, but technically not Matchbox 20. 19. 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. Cheesy, yes, but harmless nonetheless. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis? Yes, lazier than The Blobby Song. 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. 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. 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. Put on Dont Steal Our Sun there and pretend youre in The OC. -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. -Ben Westhoff, Where Journey was a hit factory, Foreigner are the sweatshop equivalent, churning out shoddy products full of lead paint. 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. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. Myspace updates are like the bat signal of an '00s artists, you know. This band is neither rock, nor grunge, nor emo, nor metal. Theory Of A Deadman - Anyone who opens a song with the line So sick of the hobos and then chastises them for 'sitting around' while he has to work for money is a special kind of idiot. 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. 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. American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. It happened. 8. 18. Creed. 1. Just an FYI, though? works. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. 3. Just try. Ev-ery. 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. But it Houston's independent source of So thanks for that, lads. It was a mistake. Basically the Goo Goo Dolls of the next millennium. 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. But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. 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. 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. The band's Dark Horse album was a success which produced eight singles, one of which peaked on the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and two of which peaked on the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. 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. 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. Because they combine simple composition with over-the-top production and pretentious length. The quartet has disappeared, but the bands dubious legacy lives on through member Linda Perry, writer and producer of some of the most boring radio songs imaginable, including Christina Aguileras Beautiful and Pinks Get the Party Started. -Liz Ohanesian, Emerging with their mid-aughts hit Grind With Me, Pretty Ricky somehow managed to lower the bar when it came to heartthrob groups with baby-oil-smeared chests. 50. Worst bit: When you stop to think about the number of people involved in the making of this song and its accompanying video. Ah, Johnny Borrell. 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. 14. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. Tremonti, Phillips and Marshall went on to found Alter Bridge while Stapp followed a solo career. It happened. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. The Killers came in hot with their 2005 album Hot Fuss . 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. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible This makes them make the list. Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums. , Spotify, the iPhone. policy. And try not to dance. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. -Ben Westhoff, Did you know that Blues Travelers John Popper used to be a member of this damn group? View Reports-/5-RATE QUIZ. Web5. What was he hiding? Using the spoils of the Beatles, Wings built a castle out of cheese. How and ever, their gentle lovesongs were the ideal accompaniment to burgeoning teenage romances. 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 act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. It was an actual, living hell. 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. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. 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 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. Unlike Weetabix, however, theres not a shred of evidence suggesting Fleet Foxes prevent colorectal cancer. At least with those, you can sometimes get a laugh out of them. WebThese are the worst musicians of the 2000s. Here are the Top 10 suckiest bands of the '00s. Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre, What makes a terrible band? Now suck my dick. We've already got bands like Hoobastank and Alien Ant Farm set to traipse through the city on tour. services and They had an umlaut in their name! Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. By marrying the two genres, brokeNCDYDE hit upon a hidden level of rubbish, a bonus round of tawdry shit. But the song. 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. You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. 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. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. Web2000s Rock Bands Final Thoughts. Powter sings in generalisations, (Youre faking a smile with the coffee to go, You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost). 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. . Perhaps not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes, and Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums, but blink helped further that whole pop-punk craze during the '00s, and are therefore responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! Another band that just call to mind video games. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. 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 Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography August 9, 2013 EMPICS Entertainment It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. Exactly. Send a Message. 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. Worst bit: Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. 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. I was born too late into a world that doesnt care,, when accountants didnt have control / And when media couldnt buy your soul.. The point here is seduction, but its hard to be seduced when youre nauseous. and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, The View had one song. Sports 20 Worst Bands of the 2000s Stats Can you name the 20 Worst Bands? If you take offense, then you : Its a song about a tractor, for starters. "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. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. They wore suits and hats! Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Here are the top 10 bands that defined the 2000s Kerrang era. Goodbye, cruel world. Even their most well-known musical insult "Down With The Sickness" literally reenacts a mom's whipping of her child. 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. CUT MY KNIFE INTO PIZZA! Favorite. Across their 3 studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such horrible tunes as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' on us. Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. at the Disco. Scouting For Girls write songs a child might make in a primary school music class. And so stylish! 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. Forget Chris Barrons scraggly beard; the real problem with the Spin Doctors is their enduring lightweight retro jam song legacy on crappy corporate radio. Nu-rave may not have aged well as a scene, but Myths of the New Future still holds up, surprisingly. The new line-up released The Golden Ratio in September 2010. Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. Limp Bizkit are a very easy band to hate, I do admit, however even if they are pretty much asking for the hate it is still undeserved. They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide. But mainly because courting comparisons to the Beatles is always lame, no exceptions. You thought I was done with dumping on Coldplay, did you? Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? The kind of thing youd find yourself singing along to on the radio, then recoil and go Ew. We did some digging around and this is what we came up with. 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. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. What made it so bad: How did this happen? , 400px wide Real music didnt win, on this occasion. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. submissions or preferences. 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. We can be thankful that 4 Non Blondes only made one album 1992s Bigger, Better, Faster, More! If football chants gave royalties, The Automatic would be millionaires. We don't mean that in a good way. 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. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. Of course, white people arent like most listeners, and will tolerate almost anything theyre told is good for them; hence the groups popularity. That may explain why a Spin Doctors song is a bit like herpes. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. 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. 16. The Top Ten. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. But with the Dead, one at least enjoyed a fighting chance of enjoying them sober. 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. They can barely play guitar and barely hold a tune. 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. Beth Ditto was and remains a goddess. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. : Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. -Jeff Weiss. , somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. 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.". 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. In other words, LCD Soundsystem fans are the type of people who think buying their 10-year old kid a Public Image Ltd. record for his birthday is an example of good parenting. Worst bit: Its chipmunks singing about sex. 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. Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. He sang songs such as The A team and Shape of You. In 2009, the band's original lineup reunited and began touring, culminating with the recording of the album Gold Cobra (2011), after which they left Interscope and later signed with Cash Money Records, but DJ Lethal was asked to leave the band soon after. 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. They also have the worst band name of the decade to boot. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories.