Worst Band Ever

This...this is the way.

It needed said.

 

Korn
Limp Bizkit
RHCP

 

Come on now.

This is a Hall of Fame song.

 

Quiet Riot

 

This is an excellent answer. Even Frankie Banali's presence behind the kit can't redeem them.

 

The heel turn on Creed is a little puzzling to me. They sold 17 million copies of three albums, and had seven or eight No. 1 singles. Three or four of those songs were widely considered good, for lack of a better technical term, and still get a decent amount of airplay 20 years later. "With Arms Wide Open" is a timeless song about parenthood that holds up well.

I get that Scott Stapp quickly turned into a drunken, pill-popping, egomaniacal asshole and melted down the band. But somebody bought those albums. And the core of the band formed another band (Alter Bridge) that has been around for a long time and been pretty well-received, so they have some talent. Creed didn't seem to get a ton of hate when they were red hot around the turn of the millennium.
So what changed to push them to the top of a lot of "worst ever" lists instead of being merely a cautionary tale about letting fame and success go to your head?

 

I'm instantly skeptical of anyone who loves the Doors who is older than like 14. Morrison's songwriting is just cringey adolescent poetry and the songs are boring as fuck. Dark Music For Dumb People.

Triumph was awful.

 

I do remember people mocking them for sounding "more like Pearl Jam than Pearl Jam does" in the late 1990s. And let's face it, their quasi-Christian rock overtones didn't sit well with many (not a factor for me. I couldn't stand Scott Stapp's voice).

Thought of another one: Coldplay. Snooze-enducing music, and Chris Martin's another lead singer whose voice grates on me.

He was married to Gwyneth Paltrow, though ... I'll give him credit for that.

 

Did I just witness child abuse?

Don't ever work in any office in Nashville that has the slimmest of ties to the music industry. I may have heard every tween with delusions of Leeann in North America of a period of a few years that felt like a handful of decades.

 

Two things that keep Hansen off the list for me:
1) They did play their own instruments, not just sing over a track like Bieber and some of the boy bands of that era
2) I've heard a couple of interviews with them in recent years and they seem to have grown up to be pretty cool dudes.

 

I always thought the best way to kill someone would be to beat them halfway to death then put “Jukebox Hero” on a loop because the victim would finish themselves off.