Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. What made it so bad: The fact that its the sound of slipping into a coma. YOU. -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? What followed, however, was nothing short of disastrous. 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. 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. WebWorst band of all time 24 Ed Sheeran Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter and musician. 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. 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. . Grab your copy of the Gigwise print magazine here. Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. 10. American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. 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. But we were naive in 2006. The Living End. WebCan you name the 20 Worst Bands? The band now records under its own label, 3CG Records. But wasnt this good? Bet you just said Ah The REVS! didnt you? What made it so bad: Its 2017 and were wise to how The X Factor works. But the larger point of why this band is on the list is the entire pop-punk fad they inspired. Picks include Creed, Limp Bizkit, Hanson - and one big surprise, Readers Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties, J-Hope, Boygenius, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week, Karol G & Shakira, The Kid Laroi, Halsey, And All The Songs You Need To Know This Week, Janelle Mone, Lana Del Rey, and All the Songs You Need To Know, Glastonbury Co-Organizer Promises Female Headliners in 2024 After All-Male Top Billing This Year, There Were Sidemen. Okay, it was written by Andy Burrows, but we still can't forgive him. The act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. Web5. 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. Having cleverly adopted the CCTV sign seen everywhere for their first album the band went post structuralist on us in 2007 with the cover for 'Once Upon A Time In The West' which simply says in block capitals 'NO COVER ART'. 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. So let's apologise in advance to Bjorn, Carl and whoever is currently playing drums and keep the vitriol centralised. created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant What made it so bad: One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. Interchangeable with Matchbox 20, but technically not Matchbox 20. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. Three lads from Donegal who made sprightly tunes about manic pixie dream girls and Louis Walsh. 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Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Please, no '00s nostalgia, or these fools may find their way onto the bill. GRAMMY Award-winner Jeff Coffin of Bla Fleck and the Flecktones has since filled Moore's spot as the band's saxophonist. 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. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com. 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. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. Silverchair. Oh, its another flash-in-the-pan indie band. Just because there is still some joy to be obtained from hearing Ryan Jarman howl MEEEEEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS! Yet theres a difference between simple pleasure and mind-numbingly dumb. 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: That opening bassline kicks in and for a few sweet seconds you think youre listening to A Town Called Malice by The Jam. We don't want to hate on them too much because now its pretty 'hip' to hate Nickelbackbut hey it's still kind of fun. and RollingNews.ie unless otherwise stated. See also: Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Or perhaps the reason nobody knows who Tokio Hotel are is that they are a painfully bad band aimed at the kind of people who find Good Charlotte too extreme. Champagne Supernova, anyone? 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. If you take offense, then you And try not to dance. What made it so bad: Spurred on by Crazy Frogs chart heroics, convinced that literally anything could be released as a single, its Get Munkds parody of hip-hop culture which really burns. Worst bit: When you stop to think about the number of people involved in the making of this song and its accompanying video. But it also lead to the scourge of landfill indie as the decade wore on. services and Empics Entertainment. He probably likes Dane Cook. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies Boy bands from the late 90s to early 2000s. 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. 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. Limp Bizkit is one of the rare band names that could not be made any more ridiculous if it were spelled "LiMp b!ZKiT," an observation that makes the band's unchecked anger so hard to take seriously. 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. 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. Web9. To embed this post, copy the code below on your site, 600px wide 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. Basically the Goo Goo Dolls of the next millennium. 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. : How did this happen? And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. Zzzz. Weve all happily hollered along to Dreaming Of You in Whelans or wherever else, but how many people would actually say theyre a fan of The Coral? The White Stripes The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army Here are the Top 10 suckiest bands of the '00s. 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. It's no surprise that Creed won this poll. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. We want to hear it. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. The group was moved to Island Def Jam Music Group, which they eventually left after conflict with the label about creative input. All Rights reserved. The band is composed of What made it so bad: That lumpen power chord riff is bad enough, but when the lead guitar does nothing more than imitate it, it becomes all too clear that were looking at a music hate crime. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Ouch. 15 3 Doors Down In the early '00s, this rock band They also have the worst band name of the decade to boot. I'm serious even the 1970s with its strange clothing and dime-a-dozen disco can't compete. WebReaders Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties 1. These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. Despite a short period of success things never really took off for the band and they are now cited as one of the reasons people grew so tired of guitar music. We would have hoped that Whitley's split with Avril Lavigne, (the other Canadian rock star who just barely missed this list) would have inspired him to write some better songs of heartbreak? The Twang - The Brummie Baggie revivalists infected the music scene towards the latter end of the decade with a tedious mix of beery lad anthems and gushing sentiment. 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. Forget Chris Barrons scraggly beard; the real problem with the Spin Doctors is their enduring lightweight retro jam song legacy on crappy corporate radio. This Scouting For Girls - What can we say about this band that hasn't already been said? 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. Hating Nickelback used to be cool, but it's so easy that it's kind of just a fact, now. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. Tell us in the comments below. We love funk, we love metal, but we also love peanut butter and veggie burgers, just not together. The Killers. Smash Mouth is what would have happened if Limp Bizkit made love to a Lisa Frank poster. 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. But the song. posts, comments and submissions available. Get Free is still fine? SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. 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. 15. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. An Honest Mistake is OK for what it is, which is a blatant attempt by a record label at emulating the success of The Killers. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. PA Archive / PA Images / PA Images. 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. Theres innocent fun, and then theres ruining a new millennium before its barely begun. Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. The band has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards and have sold around 40 million records worldwide. Worst bit: The way the singer wears his hat in the video. Even their most well-known musical insult "Down With The Sickness" literally reenacts a mom's whipping of her child. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. Oh god, the song. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. Again we have the same problem. -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. And misogyny. He always wore sunglasses. Worst bit: The key change nobody asked for. : Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. Carrots help us see much better in the dark/ Dont talk to girls, theyll break your heart. Just an example of a Wombats lyric for you. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." 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. 19. 10:00AM. 1. But the song. This makes them make the list. So thanks for that, lads. Web10. I was born too late into a world that doesnt care,, when accountants didnt have control / And when media couldnt buy your soul.. 10. 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. 2. brokeNCYDE - Given their name which is meant to be play on words of 'Broken Inside', unsurprisingly brokeNCYDE are an emo band, but this isn't emo as we know it, oh no. 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). 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. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide. But we were naive in 2006. Listen to it! Busted Incredibly, the 'orrible three piece sold a massive 3million albums in their four year career as well as scooping two BRIT Awards. Okay, guys. Sit in the back of an SUV with off-key sorority house members singing along to Dave Matthews Band. : Somewhere, Vanessa Carlton is still perched on a travelling piano, playing the blissful notes of . Its excellent that theyve got great abs, and they certainly have the right to wear their shiny jackets wide open. In order for something to be hated, it must first be loved; that love is what gives the hatred its roots. How and ever, their gentle lovesongs were the ideal accompaniment to burgeoning teenage romances. 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). The perfect soundtrack to being a brat. 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. A grubby little band who don't deserve 1% of their success. 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. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations. 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. See if you agree with Rolling Stone readers top-10 list of the worst90s bands. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. Metro Station - What do you do if Billy Ray Cyrus is your Dad and tween sensation Miley Cyrus is your sister? But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall You know, that little decade of time from 2000 to 2010 that basically killed everything that was decent and listenable about mainstream alt-rock? We very much doubt it! Li-ike. It happened. They are allegedly a different, other hated band. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. News images provided by Press Association You got it. Unlike his sister who would never do anything rebellious or naughty, Trace is covered in tattoos including the phrase 'Songs Of Victory' on his chest and a coffin on his throat. 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. 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. Worst bit: When you think the song has faded out but, oh no, heres another chorus this time with overblown gospel choir! 16. The Top Ten. 8. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. 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. 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). WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. Famous purely through association the bands biggest hit is the catchy but infuriating 'Shake It'. 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. Worst bit: The rolling piano refrain is actually quite good, which throws the whole song into stark relief. You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. 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. By marrying the two genres, brokeNCDYDE hit upon a hidden level of rubbish, a bonus round of tawdry shit. And what about Anthony Kiediss rapping? The View had one song. Hot Leg - A second appearance here for Justin Hawkins (formerly of The Darkness). Last years Super Bowl halftime show where they sung out of sync and trampled Sweet Child O Mine made Madonnas version look brilliant. We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. You can obtain a copy of the Like actually, they aren't even a band anymore. -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. So do you agree ? Plus, how much of a dick is Lydon, allegedly punching women in the face, running around with racist goons and slamming Duffy against a wall? That and a pair of testicles. Tokio Hotel - Hugely popular in Europe, Tokio Hotel have yet to replicate their success in Britain or the USA. 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. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. 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. Admittedly the song is a cover of the 1975 song by the Ted Mulry Gang, and Hasselhoff, when hassled about the song, claimed his video was self-parody. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. 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 He as a character is unforgettable, but the music of Razorlight? 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. It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. 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. In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. Just an FYI, though? Across their three studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such nightmarish songs as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' upon our poor ears. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? 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. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. 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.