This is a band so hated that their own fans 2. Last Updated. local news and culture, Angelica Leicht Its often said that people either love Rush or hate them, but a more accurate statement is that most people hate Rush, while a scattered few really love them. American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. 7. 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. Beth Ditto was and remains a goddess. services and Empics Entertainment Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz Bookmark. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* He probably likes Dane Cook. 'This Love' was the bands biggest hit alongside the vaguely creepy 'She Will Be Loved'. The Madden brothers were so edgy, too, with their guyliner and all. We know this now. EMPICS Entertainment. I don't think I need to remind everyone about how terrible frosted tips on whine-singing dudes were, right? 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. 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. Of course, white people arent like most listeners, and will tolerate almost anything theyre told is good for them; hence the groups popularity. We love funk, we love metal, but we also love peanut butter and veggie burgers, just not together. Here are 20 of the worst: What made it so bad: 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 band has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards and have sold around 40 million records worldwide. What was he hiding? These results are sure to anger many people, but remember that this is a readers' poll. MDQL is preparing to belt! Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. But everything after that was just eh. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! It was the first debut album to produce three number 1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart: "All That She Wants", "The Sign" and "Don't Turn Around". We don't mean that in a good way. 8. 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. PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie. 1. 18. 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. 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. Billboard ranks them the top rock group of the decade, and their hit song "How You Remind Me" was listed as the top rock song of the decade and the fourth song of the decade. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. They make Perrier seem vibrant and ethnic. It's no surprise that Creed won this poll. In a musical genre already dominated by the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, Nick Lachey's ersatz boy band never really had a chance. 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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. We'll give it to them, their biggest smash 'In Too Deep' wasn't that bad, but the group have been ploughing the same one-dimensional furrow for far too long now. Like actually, they aren't even a band anymore. blink-182 Perhaps not the worst of the '00s offenders as far as their musical quality goes, and Travis Barker is a fuckin' beast on the drums, but blink helped further that whole pop This Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. 14. 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. Yes, lazier than The Blobby Song. 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? Together with the similarity Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback, Papa Roach truly stuck out in the mid-2000s like a sore Porta-Potty when it pertained to the "Butt Rock" sect of Nu Metal and Post-Grunge. But mainly because courting comparisons to the Beatles is always lame, no exceptions. Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. Web9. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. We very much doubt it! 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. Yo, echoes Theodore. It was an actual, living hell. Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. 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. The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. 9. blink-182 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. Dishonorable Mentions not on this list: Kid Rock, Linkin Park, real Matchbox 20, Spin Doctors and Blues Traveler rest assured you are all hated, as well. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. WebReaders Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties 1. Fancy a trip down Indie Memory Lane? Worst bit: When you stop to think about the number of people involved in the making of this song and its accompanying video. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Sloppy, derivative and obsessed with shock value for its own sake, the Pistols set the template for British punk rock bands trying too hard. 8. As Spin magazine put it, they're like "Nickelback before there was Nickelback.". Sports 20 Worst Bands of the 2000s Stats Can you name the 20 Worst Bands? 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 The Matrix. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. The point here is seduction, but its hard to be seduced when youre nauseous. The band's 2009 album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (the first album since Moore's death) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earning the band their fifth consecutive number-one debut making them the second band behind Metallica to do so. This band is neither rock, nor grunge, nor emo, nor metal. 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. The Pigeon Detectives - In 2001 we got The Strokes, an impossibly cool band from New York who wore their jackets tight and their hair unkempt. Feedback on 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." British rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met. The album did not match the sales figures of Nevermind but was still a critical and commercial success. Theory of a Deadman's lead singer Tyler Connelly is sort of like a slicker version of Nickelback's Chad Kroeger which is ironic given that the pair duetted on 'Hero' taken from the Spiderman soundtrack. We want to hear it. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. 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. Now suck my dick. The group was moved to Island Def Jam Music Group, which they eventually left after conflict with the label about creative input. We like best things, too. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. 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. 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. 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. 50. WebIt's not that they're the worst bands ever, but the fact that they're so fucking boring makes them worse than some of the actual worst bands. In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. The Killers came in hot with their 2005 album Hot Fuss . 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. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. Truthfully it was a tough call regarding whether or not to choose Simple Plan or Good Charlotte to appear on this list. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. 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. You can obtain a copy of the Nickelback. Worst bit: The faux-cockney tone of Luke Concannons vocals, as he sings, My dads totally had a bloody hard day / But hes been good fun and bubblin and jokin away. Oi oi, guvnor! American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. 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. The Give It Away video could be called Anthony and the Hand Jive, and its even more ridiculous when he starts doing duck lips. That said, fuck Walmart. Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. 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. It happened. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography Nick, Joe, and Kevinthe perfect brothers that were all cute and talented. Tenacious Ds Tribute was a staple of early 2000s Kerrang and helped take the band to new levels of popularity. Then theres the fact that drummer Neil Peart generally consents only to speak to the drum press, a pantheon that includes in its entirety Modern Drummer and Not So Modern Drummer, if were not mistaken. Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. Though their leader Darius Rucker is black, Hootie could not be more vanilla. WebGogo_is_Adlai 12 yr. ago. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. 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. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Literally it was a toss-up for us, since both sound like whiny, uninteresting barely catchy songs to us. And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. 12. We don't mean that in a good way. Whats next, hair-pulling and time-outs? God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. 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). 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. Champagne Supernova, anyone? Ill probably never get past it. This makes them make the list. The White Stripes The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 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. We had nothing to do with the results. 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.