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-punk craze during the '00s, and are therefore responsible for the birth of bands like Simple Plan and Panic! Even their most well-known musical insult "Down With The Sickness" literally reenacts a mom's whipping of her child. EMPICS Entertainment / PA Wire The group was especially popular in Canada, having three number-one singles in the country. If football chants gave royalties, The Automatic would be millionaires. Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. Because nobody will stand for this ever again. Worst bit: The post-Coldplay minor key pianos, which were absolutely everywhere around 2005. Consider yourself lucky if you dont remember lyrics like Oh please Mr. President, will you lend me a future. Their hit Whats Up? meanwhile combines the worst of what Ani DiFranco and grunge had to offer, all of it dressed up in thrift store clothing that probably smelled funny. 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. But people kept referring them to these labels which diluted the music genres so much its now just a big. The boyband became a manband, encouraged countless 90s reformations that we did not ask for or need, and ushered in the inexplicable revitalisation of Gary Barlows career. 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. That along with the band (apart from the drummer) are just terrible musicians. It was not long before they recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and later drummer Robin Goodridge, and started writing. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the band released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, one of which has been certified diamond and has sold over 28 million records in the United States, and over 40 million albums worldwide,becoming the ninth best-selling artist of the 2000s.Creed is often recognized as one of the prominent acts of the post-grunge movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s and is one of the most commercially successful rock bands of all time. We know this now. You thought I was done with dumping on Coldplay, did you? But we were naive in 2006. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. Ouch. 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. Tis all they were good for. 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 Oh god, the song. Here are the top 10 bands that defined the 2000s Kerrang era. Get Free is still fine? 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. / Get it crackin / Dont stop, get it get it. This was for a kids movie. Worst bit: The way the singer wears his hat in the video. Hot Leg - A second appearance here for Justin Hawkins (formerly of The Darkness). 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. Theres their reality show and various line-up shifts, of course, but the details of those are too depressing to go into. Dave Parsons joined Bush shortly after leaving the band Transvision Vamp. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian four piece achieved astonishing success this decade. American rock band that formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, Sloppy, derivative and obsessed with shock value for its own sake, the Pistols set the template for British punk rock bands trying too hard. We did some digging around and this is what we came up with. I'll Be Your Mirror: Primavera Sound On Building a Truly Inclusive Festival, Every The 1975 song ranked from worst to best, Loving The Unchangeable: Madison Beer In Conversation, Dance Yourself Clean: Tove Lo In Conversation, Let's Eat Grandma at KOKO, London, 19/10/22, Milky Chance Give Us Atmospheric Disco On Their New Single Living In A Haze, CloseUp Festival Announce Second Wave of Artists Including Sunday Headliner, Speedy Wunderground Are Celebrating Their 10th Anniversary in Style, Album Review: The Lathums - From Nothing To A Little Bit More, We've Progressed Beyond Needing Another Cookie-Cutter Ed Sheeran Album. 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. 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). Maroon 5 - Initially this band seem inoffensive but over time their songs become so deeply ingrained in your memory that you begin to question whether you have ever even heard any other music. 17 respectively. 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. Let me make this clear right now: if you're a fan of Post-Grunge, Nu Metal, or Pop Punk, we salute you. Truthfully it was a tough call regarding whether or not to choose Simple Plan or Good Charlotte to appear on this list. What made it so bad: In which The Hoff who, lest we forget, should not be hassled winds down the car window and leers at passersby over an exquisitely uninventive rockabilly riff. Favorite. It takes courage to admit that, for whatever reason, you managed to be duped into thinking this phony ear sludge could be called music. Worst bit: Chicos inability to explain why exactly it was Chico time. Across their 3 studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such horrible tunes as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' on us. They had an umlaut in their name! 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. If you have any questions or concerns or just want to drop us a line, don't hesitate to contact us! : How did this happen? 13. We can't have them training a whole new legion of horrible pop-punk bands, can we? Nothing gets worse. And there comes a point in Hey Baby when it threatens to never end. policy. Okay, it was written by Andy Burrows, but we still can't forgive him. 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. But mainly because courting comparisons to the Beatles is always lame, no exceptions. The Jonas Brothers This pic just screams "Radio Disney." The kind of thing youd find yourself singing along to on the radio, then recoil and go Ew. No 00s hit has been so purpose-built to wind up as many people as possible. 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. American nu metal band. Instead we get three-and-a-half minutes of highly derivative pop-rock that evokes memories of a hundred shit mid-noughties indie nights in damp provincial towns. Good Charlotte Go-oes. And on closer inspection, Thoms debut is a nauseating hark back to the oh-so-glorious olden days, with several factual flaws, the most notable being that Johnny Rotten wouldnt be seen dead with flowers in his hair. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Future generations will not look at Same Jeans as a masterpiece of composition. So-ng. What made it so bad: The fact that its the sound of slipping into a coma. Well how about they're the single worst, most soul-sapping, boring band of office workers ever to inflict their awful sub-Keane warblings on an already depressed nation's ears. at the Disco, which makes this entire decade of music suck just a little bit harder than it did before. Three lads from Donegal who made sprightly tunes about manic pixie dream girls and Louis Walsh. 17. In all fairness though, they were responsible for some tunes. 19. PA Archive / PA Images / PA Images. 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. Bang of random Playstation 2 sports game music off Jet. Interchangeable with Matchbox 20, but technically not Matchbox 20. Worst bit:The lyric: Shes flirty / Turned 30 / Aint that the age a girl gets really dirty? No for you, my lyrically challenged friend. Content copyright Journal Media Ltd. 2023 Registered in Dublin, registration number: Tractors and saccharine folk should not mix. 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. -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. After signing to major label DGC Records, Nirvana found unexpected success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the first single from the band's second album Nevermind (1991). Like Piers Morgan. He'll suck the humor out of a joke and ruin the punch line every time, but no one else seems to care, because he's a shirtless bro with a guitar. We didnt see Chico coming. Sort of like anchovies; in fact, its quite fair to call Rush the anchovies of rock music. But Austrian disc-spinner DJ Otzi doesnt know too much of a good thing. Houston's independent source of ------------------------------------------. By siouxsie Here are the Top 10 suckiest bands of the '00s. Worst bit: When you think the song has faded out but, oh no, heres another chorus this time with overblown gospel choir! But the song. Worst bit: Can We Fix It?s constant, cheap garage beat, the audio equivalent of someone drilling a hole in your conscience. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This time, car video games. 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'. 1. Naive was genuinely great! Formed in 1994, Limp Bizkit became popular playing in the Jacksonville, Florida underground music scene in the late 1990s, and signed with Flip Records, a subsidiary of Interscope, which released their dbut album, Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ (1997). Probably the worst band musically of the decade this group of peroxide punks have gained notoriety for a series of publicity stunts. Real music didnt win, on this occasion. If you take offense, then you -Nicholas Pell, The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but theyre actually a quite difficult one, considering theyre less band than brand. Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. Oh, and also, Nickelback sucks. What made made it so bad:Pop musics often simple and repetitive, and that is absolutely fine. So let's apologise in advance to Bjorn, Carl and whoever is currently playing drums and keep the vitriol centralised. : Its a song about a tractor, for starters. That said, fuck Walmart. 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. Oh, The Thrills! Blink 182 began as an attempt to wean tweens off of boy bands, except they soon turned into self-parody when teenagers began to like them in earnest, ushering in an unforgivable era of wannabe-pop-punk rockers like Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne and Jimmy Eat World. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. We don't need any more to come trailin' on in behind them. Registered office: 3rd floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. WebThe Australian alternative scene of the 2000s was also notable for its diversity. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations. Scouting For Girls write songs a child might make in a primary school music class. 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. However with each progressive year, this blueprint became more and more diluted until we get to The Pigeon Detectives, essentially The Strokes do Emmerdale. The Jonas Brothers - This Disney approved threesome provoke extreme anger amongst their haters for being so damn squeaky clean. -Nicholas Pell, Formed in the late aughts, The Raconteurs consist of Jack White and some other guys. 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. WebWorst band of all time 24 Ed Sheeran Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter and musician. works. Powter sings in generalisations, (Youre faking a smile with the coffee to go, You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost). Scouting For Girls, you crossed the line about eight choruses ago. We asked our readers to vote for their least favorite bands of the Nineties last week. Justin Hawkins, he of tight catsuits and rebellious teeth fame, really did headline the Reading and Leeds festivals with The Darkness. What made it so bad: When you become a parent, you tacitly sign up to watch an endless amount of childrens TV. The band is composed of This is a band so hated that their own fans 2. As of 2010, the Dave Matthews Band has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Feb 23, 2017. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time touring members of the band. American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1991. No thanks. : Counting Crows singer Adam Duritzs purring la la la la chants. They wore suits and hats! 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. 5. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. Whats worse is that, while good bands struggle to make decent money, Hootie seemingly siphoned off all of it in their 90s heyday, going more platinum than Sandra Dee. However, there were some forgetful bands that do not make most of our top lists. at the Disco. -Kai Flanders, You realize that Jason Segels characters obsession with Rush in I Love You Man is tongue in cheek, right? (When, by the way, they'll still be terrible.). The Madden brothers were so edgy, too, with their guyliner and all. 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. You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site. Busted Incredibly, the 'orrible three piece sold a massive 3million albums in their four year career as well as scooping two BRIT Awards. Sum 41 - Fronted by Deryck Whibley, the Canadian YOU. advertising. Lets not neglect how wonderful it was to witness a puffa jacket-wearing Dane Bowers singlehandedly stinking out Posh Spices big solo move. And so stylish! Smash Mouth is what would have happened if Limp Bizkit made love to a Lisa Frank poster. The band now records under its own label, 3CG Records. THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK! Wire service provided by AFP and Press Association. So when something half decent comes along, its easy to get carried away. 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. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* It's no surprise that Creed won this poll. but its a doozy, a mess of classic rock wails and faux bluesiness. 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. We like best things, too. CUT MY KNIFE INTO PIZZA! 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. They are currently recording their seventh studio album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants. We don't mean that in a good way. The actual band took a backseat to frontman Prestons antics on Celebrity Big Brother and later, Never Mind The Buzzcocks. They are allegedly a different, other hated band. It happened. : Its chipmunks singing about sex. 4. But it also gave us some truly, unforgettably horrible songs. The point here is seduction, but its hard to be seduced when youre nauseous. The Living End. American pop-rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma formed by brothers Isaac (guitar, piano, vocals), Taylor (keyboards, piano, guitar, drums, vocals), and Zac Hanson (drums, piano, guitar, vocals). Tokio Hotel - Hugely popular in Europe, Tokio Hotel have yet to replicate their success in Britain or the USA. It is not an exaggeration to call this one of the defining albums for 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. This pic just screams "Radio Disney." The Top Ten. In short:a song so inane and dumb that electroclash legend Peaches felt compelled to write a parodic riposte, the bracingly gross My Dumps. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. WebTHE 2000S WAS a landmark decade for indie music, producing acts that are still huge today. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave 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. WebThese are the worst musicians of the 2000s. In practice, it is not. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. Twenty years later and chances are that you can still hear Rucker rattling around there in your brain. The act took moronic-faux-concern-trolling to heights even U2 couldnt achieve. Swedish pop group, originally consisting of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren. Web20 Worst Bands of the 2000s Can you name the 20 Worst Bands? 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. Across their three studio albums, James, Charlie and Matt inflicted such nightmarish songs as 'Year 3000', 'Air Hostess' and 'Thunderbirds' upon our poor ears. Trace Cyrus is the lead in this group of wannabe punks and his equine features gallop their way through everything Metro Station do. "The Most Hated Band in the World" gave birth to the most obnoxious fans in the world, the Juggalos, who are virtually a gang at this point. Like Piers Morgan. Worst bit: The key change nobody asked for. 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. We would have hoped that Whitley's split with Avril Lavigne, (the other Canadian rock star who just barely missed this list) would have inspired him to write some better songs of heartbreak? 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. Quizzes; Events; Quiz Creation; Community; Videos; SporcleCon; Remove Ads; Sign In; Quiz Categories. From whence you came, Plain White Ts. Tell us in the comments below. 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. But in practice, its a soulless, sappy ghost of the past. So thanks for that, lads. WebFrom pop crap to screamo to ridiculously dull indie, see who makes number one below: 20. In the last week, Rush and the Eagles have been reappraised and argued about on Salon. EMPICS Entertainment. Nothing gets worse. MILES. Sophisticated. Following them we had a British version in The Libertines, a romantic and literate younger brother to The Strokes who gave the whole British music scene a kick up the backside. EMPICS Entertainment Who needs vocals when you've got auto-tune? Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. Web10. He sang songs such as The A team and Shape of You. [30] , Spotify, the iPhone. 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. Ev-ery. Listen to it! By this time Westlife were six albums deep into a career built upon dull, saccharine ballads and the formula was very tired indeed. You can obtain a copy of the Muse, Evanescence Bring Big Goth Energy to Toyota Center. . Copyright 2023 RebelsMarket Inc. All rights reserved. and RollingNews.ie unless otherwise stated. Worse, the band members went on to respectively spawn the equally turgid McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar. View Reports-/5-RATE QUIZ. She's another reminder that we live in a post-Black Eyed Peas era. They'll update their freakin' Myspace pages and it'll cause a snowball effect of other crappy '00s musicians to follow suit. Despite being deeply boring, there is something particularly distasteful about Maroon 5 and their smooth pop aimed squarely at the girls who swoon over singer Adam Levine's good looks. Where would the world of sporting montages be without The Hives? You know, that little decade of time from 2000 to 2010 that basically killed everything that was decent and listenable about mainstream alt-rock? Another band that just call to mind video games. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com. Just in case you need a good, strong dose of suck to wake you up to the cruel, cruel noise that was the '00s, we've made a list to remind you of what bands could be in your future if this nostalgia path continues to sludge its way across the nation. Then again, maybe Whibley's split with Avril Lavigne will inspire him to write some inspired songs of heartbreak? The Leeds lads started out as a promising prospect but with repetitive songs, unintelligent lyrics and a tenancy to start wet t-shirt competitions at their gigs people soon began to rightfully dislike The Pigeon Detectives. Because theyve been caught ripping off other artists songs, including Stevie Wonder, The New Seekers, and Neil Innes. 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 As Spin magazine put it, they're like "Nickelback before there was Nickelback.". God, Im aggravated just thinking about Scouting For Girls. Which was a good tactic on his part, because they were crap. for the content of external websites. local news and culture, Angelica Leicht -Kai Flanders, Boring, tepid, rehashed classic rock with a thin veneer of alt. 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. Need we go on? 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. 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. The band has won numerous awards and they have won 12 Juno Awards among 28 nominations.The band is based in Vancouver, Canada. News images provided by Press Association 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. The perfect soundtrack to being a brat. 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. Known for their squeaky clean looks and attitudes, this boy band had more than their fifteen minutes of fame. The term landfill-indie was made for a band like The Twang. The album did not match the sales figures of Nevermind but was still a critical and commercial success. 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. 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. WebHere they are: the absolute worst rock bands in history, ranked from the most awful bands to the kind of okay, but still pretty bad, by the Ranker community and real rock purists. 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. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies Because Liam Gallagher only plays tambourine and possesses the single most nasal voice in pop. Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Okay, guys. That name, man. Bet you just said Ah The REVS! didnt you? -Gabrielle Canon, Why is Oasis among the worst? And that one song is grand, and then it turns into Brimful of Asha. 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". The Darkness - No, it wasn't a bad nightmare. How and ever, their gentle lovesongs were the ideal accompaniment to burgeoning teenage romances. 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. Literally it was a toss-up for us, since both sound like whiny, uninteresting barely catchy songs to us. I don't know the worst band ever, but this is who I do not like: Lady Gaga, Rush, Genesis, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Dave Matthews, The Eagles, Lynerd Skynerd, Bob Marley, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide[ and ranking as the eleventh best-selling music act, and the second best-selling foreign act in the U.S. behind the Beatles, of the 2000s. Using the spoils of the Beatles, Wings built a castle out of cheese. 3. The Killers. With that in mind, you could actually claim that Crazy Frog was punk. Share with Friends Add To Playlist. He needs that sugar hit again, and again, and again. Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. That's right, the '00s. What made it so bad: How did this happen? 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. Fancy a trip down Indie Memory Lane? Well, in this case the common rap happens to be true. 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. Treat yourself. -Ben Westhoff, With the exception of the song Band On the Run which sounds like a forgotten White Album b-side and the bass breakdown on Live and Let Die, there are no greater offenders of 70s schlock than Wings. Her emotionless performance on "SNL" cemented her reputation as robotic, the product of overly manufactured pop perfection. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from injuries sustained in an ATV accident. 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". Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, Famous purely through association the bands biggest hit is the catchy but infuriating 'Shake It'. What made it so bad: One happy clappy singalong of Hey Babys chorus is nice, harmless fun. Worst bit: The rolling piano refrain is actually quite good, which throws the whole song into stark relief. What made it so bad: Mainly the chorus, which sees Gary Barlow wailing like hes just opened a tax return. 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