Razorlight - In fairness the hatred directed at Razorlight is not actually for the three members of the band not called Johnny Borrell is it? WebTop 10 Worst Bands of Al Time. 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'. 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. Deryck Whibley led this Canadian 4 piece 'rock' group that somehow pushed their way to the top, for a bit at least. He always wore sunglasses. All Rights reserved. Since their demise the members of One True Voice have failed to scale the heights of success and Daniel was recently seen failing to get to the final stages of this years X Factor in front of one time contemporary Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud, now a multi-millionaire X Factor judge. 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'. Another band that just call to mind video games. God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. It was a mistake. 1. For that, Fratellis, I can never forgive you. Boy bands from the late 90s to early 2000s. Following the formal departure of singer Linn in 2007, the band performed a series of concerts as a trio in Europe and Asia from 2007 through 2009, before Jenny revealed in November 2009 that she would be taking indefinite leave from the band to focus on her own solo career.Jonas and Ulf have since recruited two new female vocalists, Clara Hagman and Julia Williamson. Please note that The Journal uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide Yo wat up, goes Alvin Chipmunk as the song kicks off. 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. 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. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. 13. 'This Love' was the band's most significant hit alongside the slightly scary 'She Will Be Liked'. Email 25 forgotten indie bands of the 2000s, ranked from worst to best. MILES. Nickelback. 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 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. 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. Still, no dice. submissions or preferences. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Like actually, they aren't even a band anymore. Well, too bad. And the guy Ting Ting, what was his deal? WebThese are the worst musicians 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. Billboard ranked Creed as the 18th best artist of the 2000s. 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. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. We did some digging around and this is what we came up with. 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. But it also lead to the scourge of landfill indie as the decade wore on. Last Updated. No thanks. You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site. The Madden brothers were so edgy, too, with their guyliner and all. ' On the plus side, however, we do thoroughly back the legit bromance between Messrs. Kiedis and Flea. But everything after that was just eh. It was an actual, living hell. 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. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." American rock band, formed in 1995 in Tallahassee, Florida. 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. Axel F was one of those irreversible mistakes, the kind that spirals out of control before you realise whats actually happening. MORE INFO. How and ever, their gentle lovesongs were the ideal accompaniment to burgeoning teenage romances. 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. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. Its an instant fix, like downing a couple of fizzy drinks in one go. MEEEEEEENS NEEEEEEDS!. You got it. In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. 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. 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. Worst bit: The lyric: Hey there, Delilah, you be good and dont you miss me / Two more years and youll be done with school / And Ill making history like I do. Oh, you sweet, deluded fool. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Also, Eddie Vedder thinks this is a lyric: Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo oooooooowhoaaaaaaaaooooooooo ohhhhhhh ohhhhhhh ohhhhhhh oooooooowhoaaaaaaaaooooooooo hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiyiiiiyiiiiyiiiiiiiiii yeah uhhh huh uhhh huh uhhh huh yeahah uhhh huh uhhh huh uhhh huh uhhhhh huh. -Nicholas Pell, The common rap on Black Eyed Peas is that they deteriorated after adding Fergie on 2003s Elephunk, trading their funky soul for kitschy dance-pop. The band has won numerous awards and they have won 12 Juno Awards among 28 nominations.The band is based in Vancouver, Canada. 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. Of course, white people arent like most listeners, and will tolerate almost anything theyre told is good for them; hence the groups popularity. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire These guys always seemed to be for people who were like, into ART and LITERATURE. The band is composed of 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. We know this now. That's right, the '00s. So let's apologise in advance to Bjorn, Carl and whoever is currently playing drums and keep the vitriol centralised. The Killers. 16. 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. -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. for the content of external websites. Exactly. 14. Why you start a pop punk band who can't see past Fall Out Boy for influences of course! You get infected at a young age when you dont know any better. 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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. This makes them make the list. 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. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. At least with those, you can sometimes get a laugh out of them. 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. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. 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. I mean, really, was the "he-said-she-said bullshit" that rage-inducing, Fred Durst? 10 Worst Hard Rock Lyrics Of The 2000s. We don't need any more to come trailin' on in behind them. Fancy a trip down Indie Memory Lane? When you think its finally gone, it rears its ugly head again. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. at the Disco, which makes this entire decade of music suck just a little bit harder than it did before. 12. All rights reserved. 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. Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records. See if you agree with Rolling Stone readers top-10 list of the worst90s bands. 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. Dave is a jam act with no jams. Scouting For Girls write songs a child might make in a primary school music class. 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. Hot Leg - A second appearance here for Justin Hawkins (formerly of The Darkness). Journal Media does not control and is not responsible PA Archive / PA Images 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. Nirvana's sudden success widely popularized alternative rock as a whole, and the band's frontman Cobain found himself referred to in the media as the "spokesman of a generation", with Nirvana being considered the "flagship band" of Generation X.Nirvana's third studio album, In Utero (1993), featured an abrasive, less-mainstream sound and challenged the group's audience. The band's third record, Weathered, was released in 2001 with Mark Tremonti handling bass before the band disbanded in 2004 due to increasing tension between members. Sitting somewhere between The Streets and Ocean Colour Scene, The Twang were hailed as the next big thing by the NME upon their emergence and topped numerous critics tips including a #2 spot in the influential BBC Sound of 2007 poll. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. We don't mean that in a good way. 1. Them, and folks whose favorite book is The Da Vinci Code and favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette. That and a pair of testicles. 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. WebGogo_is_Adlai 12 yr. ago. 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. She's another reminder that we live in a post-Black Eyed Peas era. Added to the mix is an unhealthy dose of 'crunk'- a highly processed and auto-tuned form of hip hop with added nauseating screams. Theres their reality show and various line-up shifts, of course, but the details of those are too depressing to go into. Though their leader Darius Rucker is black, Hootie could not be more vanilla. Goodbye, cruel world. WebStill, as of today, Maroon 5 is one of the most successful bands in the entire world, having sold more than 75 million records. They're so earnest and 'real' that they just come across as luddite's cashing in on a post-Streets world where talking about modern life in a non-patronising way is somehow worthwhile and interesting. Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. Nobodys done it since, and not because folk duo Nizlopi are boundary-pushing innovators. Ward was crowned the winner ofThe X Factor before releasing this radically uninventive ballad, which sounds like every single X Factor winners song ever. Just have a little patience while I bang my head against this wall and wait for the pain to eclipse the misery of this song. Following the release of their album, Results May Vary (2003), Borland rejoined the band and recorded The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (2005) with Durst, Rivers, Lethal and drummer Sammy Siegler before entering a hiatus. YOU. Give Orange. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. This time, car video games. But then this happened. Essentially joke mock-rockers who benefited by a temporary loss of irony awareness, this band from Lowestoft pillaged the deepest atrocities of 80's hair metal and regurgitated them over a series of tongue in cheek songs like 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' and 'Growing On Me'. Naive was genuinely great! : Its chipmunks singing about sex. However, there were some forgetful bands that do not make most of our top lists. 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. Worst bit: The way it builds to the chorus with grim inevitability. Whats that coming over the hill? 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. Worst bit: The key change nobody asked for. Famous purely through association the bands biggest hit is the catchy but infuriating 'Shake It'. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. 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! We didnt see Chico coming. 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. 10. Okay, it was written by Andy Burrows, but we still can't forgive him. But with the Dead, one at least enjoyed a fighting chance of enjoying them sober. It's sort of like hating Jonah Lehrer, partially because, like Lehrer, Nickelbackplagiarizes itselfand somehow still has fans. Did Banana Republic run out of khakis? So do you agree ? Getting angry with the Pussycat Dolls is like getting angry with Bank of America or Walmart. What made it so bad: One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. If ever there proof that British pop music was in a dire state in the first half of the noughties then it's this. In 2011, Nickelback released their latest studio album, Here and Now which again topped the charts,] with a supporting tour that began in April 2012. What made it so bad: Its earnest, self-indulgent pap of the highest order. The uber successful act are so clean cut they make Cliff Richard look like Marilyn Manson. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. 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.