What do SAVAGE GARDEN, RAZORLIGHT and MAROON 5 have in common? Not much, none of them are the worst band in the world.
Instead, that distinction belongs to NICKELBACK, according to readers of the U.K.’s ‘Word Magazine’.
In a recent poll, nearly 20 per cent of Word Magazine’s voters elected the pride (or shame) of the prairies as the worst band in the world. Only LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY, a long-forgotten British shit-pop duo, came close, garnering 14 per cent of the vote.
Here’s the rest of Word’s hit list:
1. Nickelback – 19.8%
2. Lighthouse Family – 14.3%
3. Toploader – 11.8%
4. Razorlight – 9.8%
5. Savage Garden – 8.4%
6. M People – 7.5%
7. Maroon 5 – 6.6%
8. 4 Non Blondes – 5.5%
9. Snow Patrol – 5.2%
10. Spin Doctors – 3.6%
11. Beautiful South – 2.0%
11. Sleeper – 2.0%
12. New Radicals – 1.1%
14. Lighting Seeds – 0.9%
14. The Troggs – 0.9%
15. Crowded House – 0.5%