WebThe 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years Perhaps the only time you'll see Limp Bizkit, Lana Del Rey and Insane Clown Posse on the same list By Prachi Gupta Published Feedback on 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. Another vaguely comedy hair metal band Hot Leg also incorporated glam rock into songs like 'Gay In The 80's' and 'Cocktails'. WebHere, we take a look at 33 of the best 2000s rock bands that helped push the genre into new and exciting directions: 1. MILES. If ever there proof that British pop music was in a dire state in the first half of the noughties then it's this. -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. Dave is a jam act with no jams. Worst bit: The rolling piano refrain is actually quite good, which throws the whole song into stark relief. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. 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. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. Web9. 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. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. The Living End. If only Hootie were Sandra Dee. WebThese are the worst musicians of the 2000s. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. At least with those, you can sometimes get a laugh out of them. The Killers. 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. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. Oh, The Thrills! Dave Matthews croons like Kermit with a hangover, for a presumed intended audience of trustafarians and frat bros bonding via hacky sack and horseshoes. I would take being pepper-sprayed dead in my eye over listening to these guys any day. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. 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. 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. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. What made it so bad: Mainly the chorus, which sees Gary Barlow wailing like hes just opened a tax return. In practice, it is not. 8. What followed, however, was nothing short of disastrous. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. local news and culture, Angelica Leicht The band's biggest hit came with the aforementioned 'Hate My Life' where Connelly rallies against (besides the homeless) his wife, his lack of money, his friends and not being able to sleep with young girls- honestly. There's one band here that will anger and shock many people. 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. Oasis: 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants' (2000) - It may contain fan favourite 'Fuckin' In The Bushes', but WebCLICK HERE to see The 50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s. -Anna Westhoff, See also: Liam Gallagher On His Brother Noel: Id Rather Eat My Own Shit Than Be In A Band With Him Again, Phish is supposed to be the next generations Grateful Dead, right? If you take offense, then you unless otherwise stated. WebTop 10 Alternative Bands of the 2000s WatchMojo.com 25M subscribers Join Subscribe 15K 1.1M views 8 years ago Find links in the description below to buy the music featured in this video! Dave Matthews Band. And what about Anthony Kiediss rapping? What made it so bad: This might the laziest song to become a bonafide hit (it reached number three in the UK singles chart). But the larger point of why this band is on the list is the entire pop-punk fad they inspired. 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. Towers Of London - Well where to start? Tremonti, Phillips and Marshall went on to found Alter Bridge while Stapp followed a solo career. -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. The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. works. The new line-up released The Golden Ratio in September 2010. But everything after that was just eh. Cheesy, yes, but harmless nonetheless. Will happily stomp and screech along to Standing In The Way Of Control for the rest of my life. 50. 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. 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. Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. How did five lads from grey, rainy Dublin make songs so evocative of sunny California? 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. Because they combine simple composition with over-the-top production and pretentious length. : First of all, the world is a better place with Out of Your Mind in it. Real music didnt win, on this occasion. Waiting For A Girl Like You? What made it so bad: How did this happen? Wire service provided by AFP and Press Association. -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. 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. Why am I singing along to Hard-Fi.. We didnt see Chico coming. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. 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I Set My Friends On Fire - This pair of electro-emo tits released their first album in 2008 entitled 'You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter' which includes the single 'Things That Rhyme With Orange'. I was born too late into a world that doesnt care,, when accountants didnt have control / And when media couldnt buy your soul.. You know, that little decade of time from 2000 to 2010 that basically killed everything that was decent and listenable about mainstream alt-rock? That said, fuck Walmart. Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. Thi-is. WebThe Australian alternative scene of the 2000s was also notable for its diversity. Ah, Johnny Borrell. 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. 16. 1 One Direction One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) were a British-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall 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. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. Grab your copy of the Gigwise print magazine here. 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. To learn more see our, HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SOOOOOO *goal is scored*. 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. 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. 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. 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. Tokio Hotel - Hugely popular in Europe, Tokio Hotel have yet to replicate their success in Britain or the USA. ' On the plus side, however, we do thoroughly back the legit bromance between Messrs. Kiedis and Flea. Worst bit: Its not even the worst Black Eyed Peas song. You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site. 1. advertising. In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. policy. 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. See if you agree with Rolling Stone readers top-10 list of the worst90s bands. God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. So thanks for that, lads. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own ------------------------------------------. 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. 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? 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. In a musical genre already dominated by the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, Nick Lachey's ersatz boy band never really had a chance. Bet you just said Ah The REVS! didnt you? Feb 23, 2017. What made it so bad: Its a song about a tractor, for starters. Tis all they were good for. Across their 3 studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such horrible tunes as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' on us. 1. Hot Leg - A second appearance here for Justin Hawkins (formerly of The Darkness). Of course, white people arent like most listeners, and will tolerate almost anything theyre told is good for them; hence the groups popularity. Need we go on? Tenacious D. This may not be the greatest and best song in the world, but it is a damn good one nonetheless. We wondered which recent bands we might all be fighting about in 20 years. Enough with the nostalgia shows already. 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? These are the worst musicians of the 2000s. The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. Scouting For Girls - What can we say about this band that hasn't already been said? The point here is seduction, but its hard to be seduced when youre nauseous. Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Well, too bad. Yet theres a difference between simple pleasure and mind-numbingly dumb. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. , 300px wide The band is composed of 19. It wasn't even close. -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. 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. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. . In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. 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. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. The final nail in the dodgy cock-rockers' career, however, was this atrocity Hot Leg. 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. I think any musician and anyone with a brain will agree with at least most of these. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! 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. 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. What made it so bad: The fact that its the sound of slipping into a coma. But the song. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis? They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 30 million copies worldwide. They can barely play guitar and barely hold a tune. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. American alternative rock band formed in New York City, best known for their early 1990s hits, "Two Princes", and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", which peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. Their most recent album, Away from the World, was released in 2012, and also debuted at number one on the Billboard chart. No, they deserve special mention for the critical crusade to pass James Murphy off as indie rocks preeminent male role model in spite of, nay, because of his worldview which remains as rigid and obnoxious as Toby Keiths. However with each progressive year, this blueprint became more and more diluted until we get to The Pigeon Detectives, essentially The Strokes do Emmerdale. WebGogo_is_Adlai 12 yr. ago. 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. 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. She's another reminder that we live in a post-Black Eyed Peas era. A work of art, and enough to cement them on the latter half of this list. But she was briefly waylaid by evil, earnest-types Counting Crows when they convinced her to help slaughter a Joni Mitchell song. The group was moved to Island Def Jam Music Group, which they eventually left after conflict with the label about creative input. American rock band, formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, Florida. MEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS!. : Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. 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 But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. Known for their squeaky clean looks 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. Again we have the same problem. 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! 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. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. CUT MY KNIFE INTO PIZZA! Copyright 2023 RebelsMarket Inc. All rights reserved. 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. For the release of their seventh album, the band parted from EMI Canada and signed a new Canadian domestic distribution deal with Universal Music Canada. Nick, Joe and Kevin are met by hordes of screaming girls wherever they go, but they make us scream for altogether different reasons. 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. Its original lineup consisted of Fred Durst (vocals), Wes Borland (guitars), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal (turntables, samples and programming). Last but not leastwell maybe actually this is the least. Bang of random Playstation 2 sports game music off Jet. And, lastly, I want to clarify that not all of the bands pointed out on this list existed simply throughout the 2000s, but they are remembered as '2000s musicians'. WebTHE 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. See if you can pick out which one we're talking about. 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.
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