There was a time when Embrace would have been top ten...

Anthony Thornton's Serande This has conducted a survey* and drawn up a list of the ten most hated bands in the world.

What it throws into relief is how, once a band is hated, it can take a lot longer for that bile to disappear than it does for the love to evaporate: Hard-Fi, Athlete and Keane all appear to still make people rummage about for sharp objects and loose cobbles to hurl, whereas you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who used to love them desperate to build a case on their behalf these days. Likewise, although Kula Shaker aren't there, it's probably only in the last eighteen months or so they've started to stop haunting people's nightmares.

* - Settle down, Ben Goldacre, he makes no claim to scientific methodology.