In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. The Jonas Brothers. Listen to it! Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. Myspace updates are like the bat signal of an '00s artists, you know. You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. The band eventually came to develop a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. Juke Box Hero is no Pinball Wizard; I Want To Know What Love Is will make you wish you didnt; Feels Like The First Time will hopefully be your last; Head Games is not about oral sex; Urgent is not that; Hot Blooded,Double Vision and Cold As Ice will send you to the doctor. 16. Basically the Goo Goo Dolls of the next millennium. , 300px wide 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). Swedish pop group, originally consisting of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren. They probably think it's very clever and sticking it to the man, we just think it makes them look lazy. 1. A collection of the worst bands to emerge and inflict woeful music upon us this decade. 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. By siouxsie Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic. , 400px wide 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 worse is just how seedy it all is, way too post-watershed for rodents. Again we have the same problem. Houston's independent source of Nobodys done it since, and not because folk duo Nizlopi are boundary-pushing innovators. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own -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? By marrying the two genres, brokeNCDYDE hit upon a hidden level of rubbish, a bonus round of tawdry shit. 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. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! Check the thread! WebHere is my list of the Top Ten Worst Rock Bands of the 2000s. only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail.. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com. 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. It was a mistake. 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. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. A number two single on your first go is not bad though is it? 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. Nothing gets worse. That may explain why a Spin Doctors song is a bit like herpes. Like actually, they aren't even a band anymore. 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. How and ever, their gentle lovesongs were the ideal accompaniment to burgeoning teenage romances. -Gabrielle Canon, Why is Oasis among the worst? 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. 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We can't have them training a whole new legion of horrible pop-punk bands, can we? : The faux-cockney tone of Luke Concannons vocals, as he sings, . They can barely play guitar and barely hold a tune. 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. 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. They had an umlaut in their name! Cheesy, yes, but harmless nonetheless. 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. 13. The perfect soundtrack to being a brat. 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. It happened. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. There's one band here that will anger and shock many people. Bang of random Playstation 2 sports game music off Jet. Comments. Limp Bizkit. : One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. 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. Naive was genuinely great! Creed released two studio albums, My Own Prison in 1997 and Human Clay in 1999, before Marshall left the band in 2000 to be replaced by touring bassist Brett Hestla. 1. That along with the band (apart from the drummer) are just terrible musicians. 15 3 Doors Down In the early '00s, this rock band Bands like The Living End and The Vines brought a punk rock edge to the genre, while bands like Wolfmother and Eskimo Joe leaned more towards classic rock. Because Wonderwall is pure nonsense. But it also lead to the scourge of landfill indie as the decade wore on. 10. The point being: had this song not existed within a viral fad, literally nobody would care. At least with those, you can sometimes get a laugh out of them. Make of that what you will. Really, guys. But the song. The Give It Away video could be called Anthony and the Hand Jive, and its even more ridiculous when he starts doing duck lips. The band has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards and have sold around 40 million records worldwide. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. But it No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. 18. Theory of a Deadman Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. Three lads from Donegal who made sprightly tunes about manic pixie dream girls and Louis Walsh. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. 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). The kind of thing youd find yourself singing along to on the radio, then recoil and go Ew. 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. No Spice Girl was better placed to rule the charts than Victoria Beckham. 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 problem is that Animal Collective are a special kind of unlistenable; their albums dont reward active engagement, but they dont make good background music, either. Thats Not My Name was lead singer Katie White ranting about her frustrations with being a woman in the music industry, which is fair but Jesus, if I ever hear it again Ill scream. 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. See also: Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish? 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? 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. 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'. Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? What made it so bad: How did this happen? But then this happened. Because their backstage altercations always boiled down to sibling rivalry. 7 and No. Are Hootie & the Blowish breaking up? If only. By this time Westlife were six albums deep into a career built upon dull, saccharine ballads and the formula was very tired indeed. If the Black Eyed Peas, the creators of nonsensical hits like "Boom Boom Pow" and "My Humps," qualify as music, then any kid with a Barbie Mix It Up DJ Turntable is Mozart. 5. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. So thanks for that, lads. Also worth noting is that Blink drummer Travis Barkerhas made another one of our lists that's worth checking out. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. Josh Homme might pop up and read a kids bedtime story every so often, but its a by-and-large mind-numbing existence. American nu metal band. Avril Lavigne. We like best things, too. MILES. 8. The Living End. Why am I singing along to Hard-Fi.. 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? What made it so bad: First of all, the world is a better place with Out of Your Mind in it. 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). Initially, this band appears inoffensive however in time their tunes become so deeply ingrained in your memory that you begin to question whether you have ever even heard any other music. 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. I don't think I need to remind everyone about how terrible frosted tips on whine-singing dudes were, right? 10:00AM. 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. Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide 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. Tis all they were good for. 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'. No thanks. Will happily stomp and screech along to Standing In The Way Of Control for the rest of my life. He always wore sunglasses. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. Busted Incredibly, the 'orrible three piece sold a massive 3million albums in their four year career as well as scooping two BRIT Awards. It's no surprise that Creed won this poll. 11. We don't mean that in a good way. Whether they're singing songs about wishing to cheat on their existing girlfriend with their ex or- actually, you understand I should not even need to continue that sentence. -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." Grab your copy of the Gigwise print magazine here. 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'. GRAMMY Award-winner Jeff Coffin of Bla Fleck and the Flecktones has since filled Moore's spot as the band's saxophonist. I'm serious even the 1970s with its strange clothing and dime-a-dozen disco can't compete. If you take offense, then you Thi-is. (When, by the way, they'll still be terrible.). Their second album was called Konk, which is quite fitting, in retrospect. Afterwards, the band put out their biggest album to date, All The Right Reasons which produced 3 top 10 singles and 5 top 20 singles, on the Billboard Hot 100 example of songs like "Photograph", "Far Away", and "Rockstar". Email 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. Worst bit: The way the singer wears his hat in the video. 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. But the song. We know this now. Truthfully it was a tough call regarding whether or not to choose Simple Plan or Good Charlotte to appear on this list. Sometimes we just need to call out the musical monstrosities that actually happened and why the 2000s themselves were such a tragedy. But she was briefly waylaid by evil, earnest-types Counting Crows when they convinced her to help slaughter a Joni Mitchell song. 483623. WebThese are the worst musicians of the 2000s. EMPICS Entertainment. 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. In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. Worst bit: Its chipmunks singing about sex. We didnt see Chico coming. Powter sings in generalisations (Youre faking a smile with the coffee to go, You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost), somehow sounding like hes never actually been sad in his entire life quite the achievement, in hindsight. 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. One True Voice were the boy band created by Popstars: The Rivals. Put on Dont Steal Our Sun there and pretend youre in The OC. And what about Anthony Kiediss rapping? [29] 2000s2010s Playing with Fire, Kevin Federline (2006) The only album recorded by Kevin Federline, ex-husband of Britney Spears, Playing with Fire is review aggregator Metacritic 's lowest-scoring album with a rating of 15. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories.