Vote now in our 2015 Best of L.A. Readers Choice poll. You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* We very much doubt it! With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. Scouting For Girls - What can we say about this band that hasn't already been said? Sophisticated. Exactly. 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best, Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment. The White Stripes The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. 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. 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. Readers Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties We don't mean that in a good way. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Listen to it! 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. You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site. He probably likes Dane Cook. The 2000s embraced bands so terrible that their ability to haunt and torture us seemed to have emerged from the fantasy of horror master Stephen King: Maroon 5. Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide. 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. 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. Nu-rave may not have aged well as a scene, but Myths of the New Future still holds up, surprisingly. : When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. Future generations will not look at Same Jeans as a masterpiece of composition. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. Hot body, rock the party / Give me some of that sugarland! 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. GRAMMY Award-winner Jeff Coffin of Bla Fleck and the Flecktones has since filled Moore's spot as the band's saxophonist. You can obtain a copy of the Who needs vocals when you've got auto-tune? The final nail in the dodgy cock-rockers' career, however, was this atrocity Hot Leg. What made it so bad: When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. American rock band, formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, Florida. 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. 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. Ah, Johnny Borrell. Where would the world of sporting montages be without The Hives? By this time Westlife were six albums deep into a career built upon dull, saccharine ballads and the formula was very tired indeed. Anyone who appears to be striving to become the next Sting needs saving from us and indeed himself. In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. 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. : 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. : One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. 13. Cringiest Lines of the New Millennium. 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. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. 10. Another vaguely comedy hair metal band Hot Leg also incorporated glam rock into songs like 'Gay In The 80's' and 'Cocktails'. He sang songs such as The A team and Shape of You. WebTop 10 Worst Rock Bands of All Time The Top Ten 1 Nickelback Nickelback is a Canadian post-grunge band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. 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. The band's musical output is nothing compared to the album artwork however. Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. 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. American nu metal band. 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. Last years Super Bowl halftime show where they sung out of sync and trampled Sweet Child O Mine made Madonnas version look brilliant. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. 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. 18. Also worth noting is that Blink drummer Travis Barkerhas made another one of our lists that's worth checking out. 9. blink-182 But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. The Worst Rock Bands of All Time - Ranker The 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years | Salon.com Because, even if youre composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneously pretentious and dopey, derivative and uniquely craptastic. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really did headline the Reading and Leeds festivals with The Darkness. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. See More by this Creator. Last Updated. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies 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. 11. 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. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography -Ben Westhoff, Where Journey was a hit factory, Foreigner are the sweatshop equivalent, churning out shoddy products full of lead paint. However, we aren't going to let them off the hook for being responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. WebThe Australian alternative scene of the 2000s was also notable for its diversity. As Spin magazine put it, they're like "Nickelback before there was Nickelback.". We don't need a collective group of '00s musicians making their way through the country, with their tour vans all full of manscaping products and scenesters. 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. -Jeff Weiss. Truthfully it was a tough call regarding whether or not to choose Simple Plan or Good Charlotte to appear on this list. Oh, its another flash-in-the-pan indie band. Ill probably never get past it. 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. 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. They probably think it's very clever and sticking it to the man, we just think it makes them look lazy. Last but not leastwell maybe actually this is the least. 'This Love' was the bands biggest hit alongside the vaguely creepy 'She Will Be Loved'. We don't need any more to come trailin' on in behind them. Bands of the 2000s 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. 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. 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'. 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. If we open that door, it may not be one we can close, folks, and it's way too soon for anyone to be pining away for the days when George W. Bush was head bitch in charge and Paris Hilton had a show on network television. worst -Nicholas Pell, If LCD Soundsystem were only responsible for three albums that are half-filler and a workout mix made by people who clearly dont go to the gym for people who dont go to the gym themselves they wouldnt be on this list. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. 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. 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. Which was a good tactic on his part, because they were crap. Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. 6. So-ng. The 50 Worst Albums Of The 2000s! | Gigwise This pic just screams "Radio Disney." I think any musician and anyone with a brain will agree with at least most of these. Bet you just said Ah The REVS! didnt you?