Submitted by Counting-Trains t3_z8gdje in Music
For me it’s gotta be:
-As goes for everything, this list is highly subjective, as I believe that anyone’s list is as much a personal truth as my own is for me.
Smashing Pumpkins
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rage Against The Machine
Soundgarden
Tool
Sublime
Nirvana
Nine Inch Nails
Weezer
i respect your eclecticism but i will not near matchbox 20 anywhere near a stereo that also plays gods like nirvana and rem
NIN
Tori Amos
Garbage
Seemed worth adding to the list.
Garbage was/is great. Tori's on my list too. NIN should be, specially that whole genre Reznor basically invented.
Pearl Jam
Radiohead
Stone Temple Pilots
The Cranberries
Supergrass
OutKast
Oasis
No Doubt
Fugees
Moby
I'm just gonna do artists, because most of them had great bands. In no particular order, completely incomplete.
Radiohead, Tori Amos, Smashing Pumpkins/Corgan, REM, Sinead, Tool, Aerosmith Cornball Revival, Savage Garden, Jah Wobble, Alanis.
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Pearl Jam
Ani Difranco
Tori Amos
Counting Crows
Fiona Apple
Radiohead
Alanis
Smashing Pumpkins
U2
Matchbox 20
My choices are based on their respective impacts and contributions to the genres as opposed to popularity.
Portishead - trip hop as a genre was defined by this group, a less commercial take then other alt rockers and there live at the Roseland ball room record may be the greatest downtempo/rock/orchestral recording collaboration of all time. A must listen if you like synths and strings.
Failure- I just like them. It seems when conversations come up about nirvana and grunge as a whole this group is strangely absent. Nirvana is exceptional and should replace them on this list but it's my list and I pick failure.
Karate- if you only showed a bunch of highschool kids Midwest emo and steely Dan you would get karate. Nobody knows this band and they fuckin rule. Jazz voicings and voice leading in a rock context. Technically a 2000 record but start with unsolved.
Sneaker pimps- more trip hop but I think sets the stage for what modern alt sounds like today. Groundbreaking and ahead of their time when it comes to arrangement and sound staging. The album bloodsport is irreplaceable.
Cursive- art is hard. A band for bands and as a proud member of team rock viola having a cellist in their group who rips so hard was great. Great lyrics great sound. 10/10 for me. start with the ugly organ.
Neutral milk hotel- I feel like this record speaks for itself in a lot of ways but Jeff mangum is an exceptional song writer and his performance is raw and visceral. I do not believe something like mount Erie or similar projects could exist in a world without him. Aeroplane over the sea is where to start.
Naked city (John Zorn) the next is a jazz artists group who was active in earlier times but these nineties projects are specifically what I am mentioning. Naked city is an ultra juxtaposition of what jazz can should, shouldn't and could be. I have hung out with Wayne horvitz and talked to him about his experience as the organist. It was a wild time a wild project with a wild purpose. If you like jazz and things like ween or Zappa this is a dope group to check out.
A tribe called quest- the amount of hip hop artists and groups that can site a tribe called quest as an influence is so long that the genre would be very different today had they not hit the scene. Low end theory is where I would start.
All my runner ups are: nirvana (oops), diggable planets, bjork (not really a group?), J-dilla, it's not 90s but go listen to madvillainy, dinosaur junior, no doubt, incubus, nerve (JoJo Meyer), green day and my group depth charger! (we're not nineties but if you agreed with my top ten you'd probably dig a few of our tracks)
Alice in Chains
Fear Factory
The Prodigy
Beastie Boys
Flaming Lips
Soundgarden
Faith No More
Portishead
Janes Addiction
Pavement
Finally a janes fan !
RHCP DMB STP PJ CC
REM Nirvana Radiohead Galaxie 500 NIN Smashing Pumpkins Clutch Monster Magnet NOFX Bad Eeligion
Nirvana
Aerosmith
MLTR
RHCP
CC
PJ
You say top 10 then list five...
oh shit mb i forgor the other 5
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Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Alice In Chains
PJ Harvey
Concrete Blonde
Belly
Breeders
Smashing Pumpkins
Liz Phair
How’d I forget PJ Harvey. She’s up there for me too.
Mr. BUNGLE
Faith No More
I Mother Earth
Primus
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Incubus
311
Toadies
Deftones
Stp
Mother earth , loved ‘you have been watching’
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2-10....Uh. I'll get back to you
But how do you feel about NIN?
Best 80s band ever.
Tool, Alice in Chains, Beck, STP, RATM, Snoop, Dre, Beastie Boys, Sublime, Soul Coughing
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I don't know if Matchbox 20 is really as much a 90s band as it is an early 2000s band.
The peak of their success was really 99 and 2000. so they are literally on the fence.
Most of their music was in the 2000s. And they may have more of a 2000 style than classic 90s.
To me, they're more the signature music of the beginning of the millennium.
They started in the late 90s, but only started to be known at the end of 97 with Push and 3AM. Their first songs topping the charts.
Then topped the charts in 99 with "Back 2 Good" and Rob Thomas' song with Santana "Smooth".
And they continued to have big success in 2000, with "Bent" and "If you're gone".
They had a few more big hits like in 2003 with Unwell, then Rob Thomas in 2005 with "Lonely no more".
The ones that come to mind quickly:
Alice in Chains Collective Soul Stone Temple Pilots Live Goo Goo Dolls Matchbox Twenty Third Eye Blind Jimmy Eat World No Doubt Oasis
A Tribe Called Quest
Nirvana
Local H
Alice In Chains
Beastie Boys
Gangstarr
The Breeders
The Cranberries
Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
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Beck
Radiohead
Nine inch Nails
Cake
Sloan
The Flaming Lips
Modest Mouse
The Tea Party
Foo Fighters
Oasis
Radiohead Red Hot Chili Peppers Sublime Dave Matthews band Stone temple pilots Nirvana Foo fighters Deftones Incubus Soundgarden
Dmb Sublime No Doubt Green Day Foo Fighters Mighty Mighty Bosstones Garbage ….
Teenage Fanclub
Jellyfish
Garbage
Skunk Anansie
REM
The Cardigans
The Cranberries
Pearl Jam
Tori Amos
Sheryl Crow
Lenny Kravitz
Madonna
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Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Social Distortion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mad Season, Jane's Addiction.
That's tough. Jane's Addiction would be high on the list, and REM a lot higher if this were top bands of the 80's. Blur just cracking the top 10 because I've got tickets to see them in Dublin next June and I'm getting psyched up. Also, Radiohead wouldn't even make my list of top 10 for the 2000's, but their 90's shit was strong.
The Verve
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