worst bands of the 2000s

Vote now in our 2015 Best of L.A. Readers Choice poll. Coldplay jokes aside, Disturbed sucked and will always suck, provided they apparently still have a pulse. , somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. : Somewhere, Vanessa Carlton is still perched on a travelling piano, playing the blissful notes of . 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. Need we go on? But at some point, founders Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope sort of lost their way and now this is all that's left of them: If music on the radio in the early 1990s all sounded the same, that's because it was All Hootie & The Blowfish, All The Time. What made made it so bad:Pop musics often simple and repetitive, and that is absolutely fine. 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. 10. 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. 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. 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. 50. In theory, Bad Day is a touching, uplifting number to raise the spirits, a reminder that everyone feels down in the dumps sometimes. One True Voice - Proof that reality TV pop stars are not invincible. 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. Doesnt make it funny, though, does it? Last but not leastwell maybe actually this is the least. 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. , 300px wide Oh god, the song. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press But the song. As with our top 20 greatest musicians of all time and top 20 hair metal albums of all time lists, we take this shit very seriously, even enlisting objective third party analysts to review our findings for accuracy. What made it so bad: This might the laziest song to become a bonafide hit (it reached number three in the UK singles chart). Whats worse is that, while good bands struggle to make decent money, Hootie seemingly siphoned off all of it in their 90s heyday, going more platinum than Sandra Dee. The 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. Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. Unlike Weetabix, however, theres not a shred of evidence suggesting Fleet Foxes prevent colorectal cancer. 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. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. 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. 7 and No. 19. 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. What was he hiding? From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. WebStill, as of today, Maroon 5 is one of the most successful bands in the entire world, having sold more than 75 million records. 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. Oh god, the song. He sang songs such as The A team and Shape of You. 4. 1. 8. Their most recent album, Away from the World, was released in 2012, and also debuted at number one on the Billboard chart. : Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. What made it so bad: He delivers the song with the enthusiasm of a man signing a contractual agreement to see Simon Cowell in the flesh every single day for the foreseeable future. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. Nobodys done it since, and not because folk duo Nizlopi are boundary-pushing innovators. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. Fancy a trip down Indie Memory Lane? , Spotify, the iPhone. My dads totally had a bloody hard day / But hes been good fun and bubblin and jokin away. Oi oi, guvnor! No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. 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. -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. This song is so wet that its given me swimmers ear, which makes the narrators self-regarding message stand by myself while I take over the world with my forgettable, dreary acoustic guitar song even more egregious. We didnt see Chico coming. Like Piers Morgan. Using the spoils of the Beatles, Wings built a castle out of cheese. Getting back to terrible pop-punk Simple Plan has ranked high on our list of hated musicians of the 2000s. 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. British rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met. The current members are Chris Barron (vocals), Eric Schenkman (guitar and vocals), Aaron Comess (drums and percussion), and Mark White (bass guitar). 16. Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. Sometimes we just need to call out the musical monstrosities that actually happened and why the 2000s themselves were such a tragedy. 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. 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. As of July 2010, the band had charted sixteen singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded five studio albums; and their 1994 debut album, Cracked Rear View, was the 16th-best-selling album of all time in the US, having been certified platinum 16 times. 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). Okay, guys. Content copyright Journal Media Ltd. 2023 Registered in Dublin, registration number: 10 Worst Hard Rock Lyrics Of The 2000s. Because they combine simple composition with over-the-top production and pretentious length. These guys always seemed to be for people who were like, into ART and LITERATURE. 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. 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. The Madden brothers were so edgy, too, with their guyliner and all. Even their most well-known musical insult "Down With The Sickness" literally reenacts a mom's whipping of her child. 483623. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. The 00s gave us brilliant things: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire, Spotify, the iPhone. WebChris Gerard of Metro Weekly ranked it as Duran Duran's worst album. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic. We had nothing to do with the results. That name, man. But then this happened. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. Send a Message. -Kai Flanders, Boring, tepid, rehashed classic rock with a thin veneer of alt. 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. Just an FYI, though? Worst bit:The lyric: Shes flirty / Turned 30 / Aint that the age a girl gets really dirty? No for you, my lyrically challenged friend. 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. What made it so bad: That opening bassline kicks in and for a few sweet seconds you think youre listening to A Town Called Malice by The Jam. -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. Dave is a jam act with no jams. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! Yes, lazier than The Blobby Song. . 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. 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. We did some digging around and this is what we came up with. : How did this happen? Here are the top 10 bands that defined the 2000s Kerrang era. You know, that little decade of time from 2000 to 2010 that basically killed everything that was decent and listenable about mainstream alt-rock? American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. 18. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire And misogyny. -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. 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. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. Here are 20 of the worst: : 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. The kind of thing youd find yourself singing along to on the radio, then recoil and go Ew. EMPICS Entertainment Nirvana's sudden success widely popularized alternative rock as a whole, and the band's frontman Cobain found himself referred to in the media as the "spokesman of a generation", with Nirvana being considered the "flagship band" of Generation X.Nirvana's third studio album, In Utero (1993), featured an abrasive, less-mainstream sound and challenged the group's audience. Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. Ouch. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. The Living End. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. 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 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. 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In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. at the Disco, which makes this entire decade of music suck just a little bit harder than it did before. But she was briefly waylaid by evil, earnest-types Counting Crows when they convinced her to help slaughter a Joni Mitchell song. 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. 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. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations. August 9, 2013 It is not an exaggeration to call this one of the defining albums for 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall And so stylish! Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. MEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS!. Web10. 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? 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. Make of that what you will. policy. 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. Oh, its another flash-in-the-pan indie band. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis? 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. CUT MY KNIFE INTO PIZZA! Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Because their backstage altercations always boiled down to sibling rivalry. -Ben Westhoff, Funk metal is a bad idea. We always appreciate the feedback. Bet you just said Ah The REVS! didnt you? Yo, echoes Theodore. The new line-up released The Golden Ratio in September 2010. Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide. If ever there proof that British pop music was in a dire state in the first half of the noughties then it's this. Whats so bad about it: Its an 80s power ballad dressed up like a mid-noughties indie rock, and aint nobody got time for that. 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. Worst bit: The post-Coldplay minor key pianos, which were absolutely everywhere around 2005. The uber successful act are so clean cut they make Cliff Richard look like Marilyn Manson. Are Hootie & the Blowish breaking up? If only. Deryck Whibley led this Canadian 4 piece 'rock' group that somehow pushed their way to the top, for a bit at least. Worst bit: Its not even the worst Black Eyed Peas song. We very much doubt it! Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. We like best things, too. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums. : Its chipmunks singing about sex. Silverchair. Favorite. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. However with each progressive year, this blueprint became more and more diluted until we get to The Pigeon Detectives, essentially The Strokes do Emmerdale. Because Liam Gallagher only plays tambourine and possesses the single most nasal voice in pop. -Jeff Weiss. 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. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. What made it so bad: In which The Hoff who, lest we forget, should not be hassled winds down the car window and leers at passersby over an exquisitely uninventive rockabilly riff. If you take offense, then you Feb 23, 2017. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian -Kai Flanders, You realize that Jason Segels characters obsession with Rush in I Love You Man is tongue in cheek, right? Cringiest Lines of the New Millennium. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. 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. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. They had an umlaut in their name! Exactly. Their second album was called Konk, which is quite fitting, in retrospect. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. services and Worst bit: The rolling piano refrain is actually quite good, which throws the whole song into stark relief. View Reports-/5-RATE QUIZ. unless otherwise stated. Really, guys. submissions or preferences. The final nail in the dodgy cock-rockers' career, however, was this atrocity Hot Leg. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. We didnt see Chico coming. Good Charlotte Again we have the same problem. If you have any questions or concerns or just want to drop us a line, don't hesitate to contact us! And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. 15. It wasn't even close. Its sexual politics are questionable at best Fergie sings about shaking her moneymakers to get ahead in life and the song relies on fairly pitiful rhymes (They say Im really sexy /The boys they wanna sex me) to make its dubious point. The 90's was a time filled with music growth, seeing many rock bands coming up, from No Doubt to Nickleback. 9. Worse, the band members went on to respectively spawn the equally turgid McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar. 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. 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. So-ng. I don't think I need to remind everyone about how terrible frosted tips on whine-singing dudes were, right? It was a mistake. Anyone who appears to be striving to become the next Sting needs saving from us and indeed himself. Across their three studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such nightmarish songs as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' upon our poor ears. Worst bit: When you stop to think about the number of people involved in the making of this song and its accompanying video. You thought I was done with dumping on Coldplay, did you? Ah, Johnny Borrell. Worst bit: Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. 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. 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. 10:00AM. Copyright 2023 RebelsMarket Inc. All rights reserved. Its cruel, really. 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. Avril Lavigne. Ill probably never get past it. We don't need any more to come trailin' on in behind them. Dave Parsons joined Bush shortly after leaving the band Transvision Vamp. This was the first single from the bands comeback album Beautiful World, and that comeback has brought nothing good to the universe (except the song Shine, which is admittedly quite likeable). Now suck my dick. From pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. WebCLICK HERE to see The 50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s. 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. These results are sure to anger many people, but remember that this is a readers' poll. 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. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. 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. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. Its original lineup consisted of Fred Durst (vocals), Wes Borland (guitars), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal (turntables, samples and programming). 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. In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. YOU. Ward was crowned the winner ofThe X Factor before releasing this radically uninventive ballad, which sounds like every single X Factor winners song ever. Li-ike. All Rights reserved. But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. 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).

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