The Best band in the world.
Best bands of the 90s?
G and efing R
You just rezzed a random five year old thread.
Like really?
Why?
Modest Mouse
Built To Spill
Sleater-Kinney
Pavement
Blur
NIN
Smashing Pumpkins
Elliott Smith
Red House Painters
Nirvana
Dinosaur JR
Sonic Youth
Weezer
Faith No More
Husker Du
Rage Against The Machine
Wu-Tang Clan
The Flaming Lips
Yes really, because Guns & Roses is just that good.
Here are a dozen albums from bands I didn't see mentioned, or didn't see mentioned much:
- 1990 - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic - The Sundays
- 1991 - Blue Lines - Massive Attack
- 1992 - Orbital 2 – Orbital
- 1993 - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - The Cranberries
- 1994 - Chocolate and Cheese – Ween
- 1994 - Dummy – Portishead
- 1994 - Throwing Copper – Live
- 1995 - Life - The Cardigans
- 1996 - Crash - Dave Matthews Band (yeah, I'll admit it!)
- 1997 - Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
- 1997 - Vanishing Point - Primal Scream
- 1998 - If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
If we're talking bands that really were at their biggest in the 90's, rather than just still being active, I'd say:
- Portishead
- µ-Ziq
- Squarepusher
- Aphex Twin
- The Prodigy
- Massive Attack
- Fluke
- Nine Inch Nails (his first big album was in the late 80's, but the peak of his career surely was the mid 90's)
- Eat Static
- Orbital (originally put MFG here, but, yeah, I'd rank Orbital above them.)
- My Bloody Valentine (Loveless is a truly original block of music beamed in from another universe)
- Nirvana ("Smells Like Teen Spirit" got on MTV and instantly scorched all hair metal from the face of the Earth in cleansing fire)
- Radiohead (when Kurt died, The Bends and OK Computer came along to help depressive teenagers make some sense of this world)
- Atari Teenage Riot (in my Hardcore Dave years, I was totally convinced "digital hardcore" was the next punk rock and would change the world. It kind of should have.)
- Pulp (British kids fight over whether Blur or Oasis was the best. The answer was always Pulp)
- The Flaming Lips (they made so many great albums in the 90's, culminating in The Soft Bulletin)
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Absolutely electrifying live show. Two guitars and drums with a front man hopping around the place with the spirit of James Brown. Constantly giving shout-outs to his own awesomeness and reminding you that "Your girlfriend still loves me!")
- Tool ( Aenima will always be there to get impressionable youth into spirituality, numerology, psychotropics, and Bill Hicks)
- The Jesus Lizard (the world's tightest post-punk power trio, paired with a drunken, class-clown front man. Epic live shows)
- Wu Tang Clan (for the children. I'm the Osiris of this shit!)
- Aphex Twin (not a band, but an authentic musical genius of the last quarter century. So future. So future. Legend has it he has amassed hours of music that humanity is not yet equipped to hear.)
Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine, A Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Modest Mouse, Blur, Lifetime, Massive Attack, Weezer, Cap'n Jazz / American Football, Pulp, De La Soul, Jawbreaker, Pavement, Refused, The Roots(I'd never call them a 90s group though), and The Stones Roses.
There are bands mentioned here I would DEFINITELY define as an "80s band" like Sonic Youth, Guns n' Roses, Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du, etc.
Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine, A Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Modest Mouse, Blur, Lifetime, Massive Attack, Weezer, Cap'n Jazz / American Football, Pulp, De La Soul, Jawbreaker, Pavement, Refused, The Roots(I'd never call them a 90s group though), and The Stones Roses.
There are bands mentioned here I would DEFINITELY define as an "80s band" like Sonic Youth, Guns n' Roses, Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du, etc.
Yeah, several of the bands listed above I'd call 80's bands, but there are a few I'd who straddle the line between the decades and I'd accept being labeled 90's bands...begrudgingly.
Having said this, I'll add The Fugees to the list of exceptional bands from the 90's.
Everyone's got it all wrong.
Limp Bizkit is by far the best and most important band of the 90s.
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...seriously though i really liked Significant Other when i was 16.
Really seriously now, Nirvana. Technically started in the 80s but Nevermind is when they really took the world by storm.
Stone Temple Pilots
Foo-Fighters
Garbage
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Tool
Alice in Chains
I gave it some more thought, and here's my top 10 in no order (based on what I listened/listen to, and based on "at their peak in the 90s" as opposed to "formed in the 90s", not "best ever" by any means):
1. Marilyn Manson (the "triptych" is one of industrial's greatest achievements... I'm sure plenty of people strongly disagree, though :P)
2. NIN (speaking of greatest achievements...)
3. Portishead (just... Portishead)
4. Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie, Adore. Just nailed it again and again)
5. Green Day (Most people cite Dookie, but Smoothed Out Slappy Hours remains my favorite)
6. Fiona Apple (still amazing as ever, and not a band, but When The Pawn... was '99, and that remains her absolute best work)
7. Type O Negative (The 90s were made for TON's sarcasm and gloom)
8. RHCP (I like their new stuff quite a bit, but that was their heyday)
9. Snoop Dogg (again not a band, but Snoop was a goddamn legend in the 90s... I wish I could throw in Eminem as well, but MMLP was 2000)
10. Garbage (if the 90s were made for TON, Garbage was made for the 90s)
Furnaceface, Just Buy It was my favorite thing to listen to for pretty much the entire 90s.
Doughboys, All, RHCP and NIN were the bands that I bought anything they put out at the time without even listening to it, Nirvana too.
Modest Mouse, Blur, Nirvana, Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, Wu-Tang, Tool.
EDIT: And yeah, they didn't release an album until early 2000, but they formed in '99 so I'm going to include A Perfect Circle.
Nowhere near enough Jeff Buckley on this list.
There we are. Also; Liz Phair, Lucious Jackson, PJ Harvey, The Arsonists, DangerMouse...There's a lot more I'm...OH!!!! THE SEATBELTS!!!!!!!!
Gangstarr (and his Partner Guru R.I.P. :'( ) and Beck
Gang Starr was the name of the group. It consisted of Guru (R.I.P. indeed) and DJ Premier. And since we're talking about rap, how about: Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Outkast, The Coup, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
1. COLDPLAY
2. Radiohead
3. Oasis
4. RHCP
5. (Want to post Poets of the Fall here but I guess they'd be 2000s)
Besides the obvious contenders already mentioned here, there's also Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, R.E.M. (past their prime, but still good in the early nineties) and some slightly more obscure Canadian bands I really enjoyed: The Tragically Hip, Thrush Hermit, The Tea Party, Barenaked Ladies (their only good album was their first).
Fuck yeah 90s!!!
Gangstarr (and his Partner Guru R.I.P. :'( ) and Beck
Gang Starr was the name of the group. It consisted of Guru (R.I.P. indeed) and DJ Premier. And since we're talking about rap, how about: Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Outkast, The Coup, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
Thanks for the correction, i always forget.
While i'm at it The Brand New Heavies, Digable Planets, Screaming Trees, Ugly Kid Joe (you all like'em) and Sugar Ray.
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