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The 20 worst bands of the 2000s
Posted by David Rothon on 21 October 2009 - 4:02pm.
According to Gigwise, at any rate. Some pertinent selections here, plus a few I've never heard of. Any glaring omissions? I'd have put Vampire Weekend in there, for starters...
http://www.gigwise.com/photos/53029/The-20-Worst-Bands-of-the-2000s
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It's a great list
And you're spot on about Vampire Weekend.
Maroon 5 are straight from the 7th circle of hell.
But where are Nickelback and Toploader?
Indeed…
… one of those two should probably have replaced the hapless One True Voice - who barely managed to be a 'band' at all.
Whither The Fratelli's?
Although to be fair quite a lot of that list haven't scraped their way into my consciousness before. Isn't brokeNCYDE the single stupidist band name you have ever come across though? Honestly I can't think of a dafter name for an existing band...
And...
Editors
It kicks like a sleep twitch
is surely the most irritating songline of 2009.
This
is probably the kind of thing Eliot had in mind when he spoke of the "intolerable wrestle with words and meanings"
Or maybe not
I'm pleased to say
that with the exception of Busted, The Darkness and Hard-Fi, I've not heard a single song by any of the nominated bands. It doesn't appear that I've missed anything
loads missing
whither?
McFly
Klaxons
Tubelord
Little Man Tate
The View
Bowling For Soup
but the winner surely has to be the atrocity that is 3OH!3
a combination of all the worst music ever
watch at own peril
Mcfly?
What's wrong with mcfly? Quality pop tunes for pre-adolescents by a quartet of young fella' me lads who don't think they are "Artists". Rather them than westlife surely? Always think of them as stabilisers for those just getting on this crazy musical bike we call Rock n Roll.
Horses for Courses
I actually really like Vampire Weekend - their debut album was witty, catchy and clever. I have a whole bunch of friends who bought it upon hearing my copy so am pretty sure it's not just me.
However Glasvegas would go on the list without question. Probably so would Bombay Cycle club - bought their album on back of hearing one track. Big mistake. Rule of thumb:if they are British, aged between 18 and say 22 and have more than one guitar in the band they are probably a pile of cack. If they also have a synth they are definitely a pile of cack.
Vampire Weekend
Spot on Steve, Vampire Weekend would go in my top 30 bands of the noughties, even on just one album.
In the sin bin would go Evanesence, The Ordinary Boys, and Kaiser Chiefs.
Odd subject
I think that creating a list like this is an odd thing to do. There are doubtless lots more bands that are worse than the ones selected that nobody has ever heard of) although there are a few in the list that may come into that category!
What is interesting however is that two people have nominated Vampire Weekend whose debut I like a lot and one person has had the nerve to select Little Man Tate who not only made some fabulous records but were very good live.
Why someone would create that list
It's designed to bring in traffic from other sites and get people talking about it, and I suspect it's probably worked quite well - like a lot of web content, especially of the "list" variety, it's driven by the desire for page impressions rather than brilliant editorial (which is why it's split over 20 pages instead of just one), and the selections probably won't have had an enormous amount of thought applied to them.
Yes
their selections are hardly controversial are they. Artists like Westlife, Darkness, James Blunt etc are unlikely to get many people jumping to their defence, whereas Babyshambles, Editors and others mentioned on this thread would be more likely to get a bit of debate going.
Each to their own, of course...
...but Little Man Tate are one of the worst bands I've ever heard or seen live.
I gotta say
I never appreciated the talent in The Libertines, Babyshambles or any other offshoot.
And a 'me too' for Glasvegas and a word for (against) The Cribs; can't see it.
have we
met, you sound like a fine upstanding human bean?
I never 'got'
The Libertines either; a third rate crap garage band as far as I was concerned. The corollary of which is. of course, the oxygen thief Pete Docherty. Is this man the single most overrated 'artist' of the last decade?
No Snow Patrol?
And against my better judgement...er, I actually like The Darkness. There was a nice space for a pop AC/DC, I'll never understand why they blew it in the way they did. But they did.
er, and me too
Well, the first album anyway. Some great hook laden rock. Sneered at unfairly in my view of the recent Word podcast.
here's 20 more
Coldplay
and 19 bands who imitate them
that website is stupid
what's the point of a list if it isn't listed!?!?
I haven't time to click on each arrow and wait for the bloomin page to upload each time.
As to bands mentioned by people on this thread I fully DISAGREE with being even considered for such a list are:
Vampire Weekend - a great band with some really fine percussion lending the music a different feel, some great and unusual lyrics and some really nice arrangements. Oxford Comma is a wonderful song as are Walcott and I Stand Corrected.
The Klaxons - these are a fine and also again an innovative band, which whilst having some strange and oblique lyrics, reminiscent occasionally of the best prog rock lyrics (not the awful ones) and a stimulating combination of indie and rave music.
Babyshambles/The Libertines - these are not the worst bands at all and both have shown some very fine potential, though for me Doherty still has his greatest work to do in the future if he survives long enough to coax it out.
Westlife/James Blunt - yes they are God awful... but they aren't a band! (and that shows how dumb the website is because I believe that one is on there.)
Coldplay - had one good album and whilst they have become so awful its hard to remember that we should try to.
I'd agree with The Darkness, Nickelback and Toploader and would like to add Muse.
Add these...
Kasabian
The Killers
I'd rather eat my own ears than be subjected to either ever again.
I agree that Vampire Weekend need to be near the top of any worst bands list, too.
I understand
the need to define a list if you must but surely favourite / least favourite is preferable to best / worst. To create a Killers, Kasabian, Darkness, Snow Patrol etc. etc album is an achievement most of us can only dream of and cannot be called better or worse than something more "worthy" just because of the listeners taste. So while I can accept an album band is your least favourite due to taste or opinion to define as the worst or best is really quite meaningless. Oh and while I think of it are U2 in this list? They really are my least favourite, oh what the hell, they really are the WORST band of the last 25 years, never mind the last 10.
Best/worst
I seem to recall there's a magazine some of us might have read that, every month, runs a two-page best/worst (whatever) feature… I always rather enjoy that, myself.
Has no-one noticed something odd?
Twenty bands.
A total of three black faces. Two of which are in One True Voice so they don't count because they aren't a proper band.
One. ONE! In sodding Blazin' Squad!!
I was concerned. This list is racist, I thought. Think of a good black band of the noughties, I thought.
Couldn't. I got worried. I'm ignorant. I'm racist. Off to look at the MOBO awards listings..
Interesting. Music Of Black Origin seems not to be interested in bands now - it's all named artists with a huge production crew behind them.
Why is this?
Nope..
this is rubbish an' all
What I found interesting...
was that if this had been a 'Name These Bands From Just The Photo Quiz' I might have just about guessed The Darkness and, er that's about it.
Probably says more about me than it does about the bands.
First I was annoyed by The Darkness. Then, just as I was thinking - you know what, they're quite good fun - they broke up. D'oh.
Finger on the pulse, as always.
Anyone fancy doing a Spotify list to reflect the choices?
(Thought not...)