STRING SLINGERS NIX LIMP BIX

The readers of Guitar World magazine have spoken, and they don’t like Limp Bizkit:

Limp Bizkit, which suffered sales of its long-awaited new album, has been named worst band of the year by readers of Guitar World magazine.

Creed, another act that draws sharp reactions, came in at No. 2 even though the Christian combo took the year off. New York rockers the Strokes were No. 3, followed by “all pop-punk bands” at No. 4 and pop-punk band Good Charlotte at No. 5.

It’s hard to argue with this list, except that giving the thumbs-down to all these bands is the equivalent to talking smack against the Alabama Crimson Tide: Everybody knows they’re all having a down year. Limp Bizkit has all but ceded its fans to Eminem, hating Creed has become the new “All your base are belong to us,” and pop-punk is a dead genre now that everybody who ever liked Blink 182 has a driver’s license. As for the Strokes, I’m pretty sure the White Stripes weren’t on their Christmas-card list.

The article goes on to note that Guitar World readers considered the absence of a new Guns ‘N Roses album one of the year’s biggest disappointments. Well, at least somebody thinks so.