Wow - how bad of a band do you have to be to have a petition circulating to ban you from playing publicly? That's the case for home-grown group Nickelback, who were scheduled to perform at halftime of a Detroit and Green Bat match-up on November 24th and now have local football fans vying for them to be nixed.
It's not the first time they've come under fire - since hitting radars Nickelback has irked music fans and no one quite knows why.
So let's take a look at the top 10 worst Canadian bands.
Simple Plan
OK, so they've won a Juno and been nominated for a few MTV Video Music Awards as well as took home a Teen Choice Award in '05, but that's our whole point - they won a teen choice award. And besides, any band that is described as "pop punk" is annoying... that's an oxymoron.
Hedley
Why does lead singer Jacob Hoggard, third-place runner-up on season 2 of "Canadian Idol," seem to rub everyone the wrong way? Oh yeah, that's right - because he was the third-place runner-up on "Canadian Idol."
Avril Lavigne
She may have been a sensation when she first hit the music scene in 2002 when she was a budding 17-year-old, but flash ahead another decade, at 27 and with one divorce under her belt, and that rebellious rocker-chick thing seems to lose its cool factor.
Three Days Grace
We wanna love this Toronto-based rock band, even though they've undergone break-ups, band member changes, and released three somewhat successful albums. However, even on a Facebook page called "Least Favourite Canadian Bands" this group gets several nominations to make the black list.
Theory of a Deadman
Hailing from British Columbia but boasting no number-one tracks after four studio album releases, this band hasn't seemed to ever be anyone's favourite.
Broken Social Scene
How many band members can one group have? Broken Social Scene is an indie rock band that fluctuates between having six to as many as 19 members, which is enough to irritate anyone. They were also nominated for two Polaris Prizes and didn't win either. Hmph!
Finger Eleven
First off it's a strange name for a band (although their original name, Rainbow Butt Monkeys, would have definitely put them at the very tippy-top of this list). Secondly, other than winning the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2008, they've really only been good for supplying some cool tunes to some video games.
Faber Drive
Another pop punk band (ugh!) this time bred in Mission, BC, Faber Drive was discovered by Nickelback's very own Chad Kroeger - need we say more?
I Mother Earth
We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief that the band members of I Mother Earth have moved on to other projects (they disbanded in 2003), but even in their 1990s' heyday with five albums, they only earned two number-one song spots.
Sam Roberts
A Juno-winning musician who also holds the title of being one of the bestselling independent artists in the country is on a myriad of worst Canadian bands lists. What can we say about this one - maybe people are just jealous of success!
