Linkin Park

The first two albums were much better, and they were still terrible. Objectively remarkable in their passage through the most fashionable genres: from the worst of late '90s nu metal to the whiny, plasticky Coldplay-esque pop-rock that's so popular now; it's odd they didn't have a pop-punk phase. If they had been born in 1988, we would have seen them transition from hair metal to grunge.