Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

Good Lord, Britain: I generally love, respect and admire your musical taste. But what is with this bizarre love you as a nation seem to have for The Darkness? They sound like a bad parody of Spinal Tap. How wretched. [Of course, I suppose every nation deserves their own Creed - the Darkness just have louder guitars and wardrobes seemingly stolen from Mud by way of Stryper.]