Admit It: You Loved These Hated Bands

For every great band the 1990s gave us, there are dozens more we're embarrassed to admit we once loved.

While the '90s will no doubt be remembered -- at least in music terms -- for the emergence of Nirvana and its no-frills grunge rock that spawned a million imitators, the decade wasn't only about the Seattle scene and Kurt Cobain's tragic life and death.

We witnessed the further emergence of carefully manufactured bland pop acts, the success of which drove pop culture toward the music talent(less) shows that now infect our TV sets and made stars of people who would otherwise have been nobodies.

But enough about Simon Cowell.

Instead, let's look back at some of the rock and pop bands that we all were listening to in the '90s, thought were quite good at the time, but now consider to be quite cringe worthy ... even if we do jam to Ace of Base when nobody's looking.

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