Music: What are your ten favorite bands/artists of the 90's?

[Central PA Hawk Fan]

90s are not really up there as my favorite decade of music but there's definitely still some great stuff. It was pretty easy to separate the cream of the crop, lots of my other favorite 90s stuff is generally only 1 fantastic album with the rest of the meat of the band coming in another decade

This was the big problem I had, as a lot of my favorites from the 90's were late 90's, where their peaks ran from 1995-2005 and such. You listed Converge in your list, and I kept them off just because their 90s output while good, doesn't compare to their 2000s output, and IMO a lot of hardcore bands put out better stuff in the 90s than 90s era Converge.

 

[Central PA Hawk Fan]

Lot's of rap-rock is good (like RATM for example). I don't like painting it with a sweeping brush.

Yeah, Downset and Candiria were both great bands that do the rap-rock or rap-metal thing. I can probably think of several more that did it good.

 

[tony d]

No particular order:

1. No Doubt
2. KORN
3. Savage Garden
4. Matchbox 20
5. Green Day
6. Third Eye Blind
7. Christina Aguilera
8. Collective Soul
9. REM
10. Backstreet Boys

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

No. It's so, so bad. Oddly enough though, Korn just released an album last year and they have a concert at the Toyota Center on Saturday night. Figured they would've dropped off by now.

Has your music tastes changed dramatically like mine as well?

 

[third man in]

Yeah, Downset and Candiria were both great bands that do the rap-rock or rap-metal thing. I can probably think of several more that did it good.

Never saw Downset, though I loved them but I saw Inhuman, Next Step Up, Dying Fetus, and Candiria in Baltimore maybe around 2001-02. Was a sick show.

 

[kook10]

Although there were a couple mentions, I'm surpised by the general lack of hip hop. There was so much great stuff in the 90s.

Outkast
ATCQ
De La Soul
Gang Starr
Wu Tang
Brand Nubian
Ice Cube
Cypress Hill

can go on and on and on

 

[Supermassive]

Has your music tastes changed dramatically like mine as well?

Not to butt in where I'm not welcome, but I was going through my late-90s CDs the past few days, and I find almost all of it unlistenable, save for some exercise tunes. My heavy preference has migrated to classic metal, and lighter preference has moved to classic folk. Maybe I just burned out on nu-metal and post-grunge when I had it on constant repeat before the days of mp3s. I find I don't get tired of any particular genre since then because I have an unlimited selection of music to explore.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

I have a hard time thinking of a worst era in music than late 90s-early 00s top 40 hits. Just heaps and heaps of despicable and worthless music.

 

[tacogeoff]

Off the top of my head, got carried away...so many more to list ha

Korn
Funkdoobiest
Our Lady Peace
Cypress Hill
Snoop
Dre
2pac
Biggie
Bone Thugs
Big Pun
Nas
Smashing Pumpkins
Foo Fighters
Rage ATM
The Tea Party
Nirvana

 

[x Tame Impala]

Has your music tastes changed dramatically like mine as well?

Absolutely. I can't relate to most of it anymore. Same with the early-mid 2000's music I listened to.

 

[Riggins]

This is mostly what I listened to in my early teenage years in the mid-late 90s:

Metallica
Our Lady Peace
I Mother Earth
Rage Against the Machine
Offspring
Collective Soul
Deftones
Bush
Finger Eleven

Most of them aren't really straight 90s bands at all. I can go back and listen to a lot of it, but some of it not so much.

 

[Langdon Alger]

This is mostly what I listened to in my early teenage years in the mid-late 90s:

Metallica
Our Lady Peace
I Mother Earth
Rage Against the Machine
Offspring
Collective Soul
Deftones
Bush
Finger Eleven

Most of them aren't really straight 90s bands at all. I can go back and listen to a lot of it, but some of it not so much.

I was really into Bush and Silverchair from 95-98 or so, but stopped listening to them after that.

 

[third man in]

In Flames
Rancid
Social Distortion
Sick of it All
Toadies
Soundgarden
The Slackers
Alice in Chains
Hepcat
AFI

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Although there were a couple mentions, I'm surpised by the general lack of hip hop. There was so much great stuff in the 90s.

Outkast
ATCQ
De La Soul
Gang Starr
Wu Tang
Brand Nubian
Ice Cube
Cypress Hill

can go on and on and on

That was almost all I listened to until like 1996.

Brand Nubian
Showbiz & AG
Lord Finesse
Ultramagnetic MCs
De La Soul
A Tribe Called Quest
BDP/KRS One
Big L
Genius/GZA

 

[Babe Ruth]

Green Day is only listed in one person's list, is a travesty..

Yeah, and I'm kinda surprised Helmet & Smashing Pumpkins aren't showing up more. But the thread is young.

Kyuss was another 9os band I liked.. forerunner to Queens of the Stone Age. Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun (1992) is a damn good album.

 

[Eisen]

New Model Army
Toy Dolls
Bad Religion
Babes in Toyland
Die Toten Hosen
Deftones
Kyuss
Fields of the Nephilim
Offspring
Tocotronic
Bush

..to keep diversity. I actually couldn't pick ten the longer I think about it. I just really loved a lot of 90s music. And I still listen to it.

 

[Oxbow Lakes]

Basic Channel
Digable Planets
DJ Shadow
Drive Like Jehu
Modest Mouse
Organized Konfusion
OutKast
Talk Talk
The Roots
Unwound

In alphabetical order.

Most HMs would be hip hop.

 

[Tuggy]

No order and I'm sure I missed some:

311
Blind Melon
Bush
Cake
Candlebox
Filter
Green Day
Incubus
Our Lady Peace
The Smashing Pumpkins
Stone Temple Pilots
Sponge
Weezer
Silverchair

The list is too long, and I still listen to it all today.

I feel like Blind Melon was one of the most underrated bands of the 90's. Everyone knows No Rain but they had so many great songs. It was too bad Shannon Hoon (lead singer) died so young.

 

[Central PA Hawk Fan]

Yeah, and I'm kinda surprised Helmet & Smashing Pumpkins aren't showing up more. But the thread is young.

Kyuss was another 9os band I liked.. forerunner to Queens of the Stone Age. Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun (1992) is a damn good album.

I figured I forgot a band, I would include Helmet on my list, 3 great albums during the 90s.

 

[Skip Bayless]

Daft Punk
Dr.Dre
Shakira (in spanish)
Moby
90's MJ
Incubus
Backstreet Boys
Britney
Spice Girls
Oasis
Robbie Williams

 

[Voight]

Mase
Notorious BIG
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Offspring
Tupac
Nas
RHCP (based on their albums released during the 90s)
Daft Punk
REM

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

No particular order except for #1

1. Pantera (although I do like their album from 2000 "Reinventing The Steel.")
2. Cannibal Corpse (with Chris Barnes on vocals)
3. Alice in Chains
4. L7
5. Eyehategod
6. Darkthrone (the early/mid 90's easily produced their best albums)
7. Crowbar
8. Melvins
9. Burzum
10. Down (their debut album from '95 is easily their magnum opus.)

 

[12ozPapa]

Toad the Wet Sprocket
Gin Blossoms
Spin Doctors
Oasis
Matchbox 20
Alice in Chains
Pearl Jam

 

[TF97]

In no particular order:

Nirvana
The Tragically Hip
Alice In Chains
Pearl Jam
Offspring
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Green Day
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Soundgarden

 

[Langdon Alger]

Who the **** is helmet?