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

[Babe Ruth]

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

Very good output in the 9os..
My opinion, Betty was their best album.. even tho I don't remember it producing a hit like Unsung..(?)

I'll submit another band that got big in the 9os, the Toadies. Not in my top 10, but Possum Kingdom was in heavy rotation for a while; & I played the Hell out of that Rubberneck album..

 

[Eisen]

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.)

Crowbar was one of my favourites, too. So heavy without being fast. I love their life-affirming titles. Existence is Punishment, Glass full of Liquid Pain, Time heals nothing, etc. pp.

 

[Porn*]

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

very nice list...

My top 10: (in no order)

Incubus
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Rage Against the Machine
Outkast
The Roots
Our Lady Peace
Notorious BIG
Matthew Good Band / Smashing Pumpkins / Deftones / NAS

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

No Order....


Tool
Alice in Chains
NIN
Nirvana
Tribe
2Pac
Biggy
Blink 182
Radiohead
Wu Tang

 

[Augscura]

Demilich
Immolation
Gorguts
Vader
Death had some of their best releases in the 90's
Timeghoul
Morbid Angel
Incantation
Suffocation

 

[beowulf]

In no particular order

Nirvana - Amazing body of work in such a short period.
Pearl Jam - Along with Nirvana, the faces of Seatlle sound at the time and continue to rock today.
Soundgarden - A heavier sound from Seattle with an amazing vocalist.
Metallica - The black album alone with 16M+ sold and saw them 4 times live during that decade and worth it every time, even the 45 minute set that was cut because of James getting burned.
Joe Satriani - remains my favorite guitarist with some great alums in the 90s and the start of the G3 series.
Kyuss - Love this stoner rock and sucks that they broke up.
Tool - Tool's first decade on the scene with two amazing full LPs and an EP.
Guns n Roses - even if they did perform poorly at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal where I was in attendance and caused one crazy riot. I still like much of the Use your Illusion Albums.
Nine Inch Nails - Broken and Fixed EPs, Downward Spiral one of my all time favorite albums, The ambitious Fragile, etc. Huge fan of Trent.
Alice In Chains - Some solid heavier rock that I still listen to.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Tool- Tool's first decade on the scene with two amazing full LPs and an EP..

Beowulf, I also thought Tool had the best video of the 9os, with Prison Sex.

I used like when 9os bands would occasionally shoot Black&White videos, seemed like a trend in the early 9os (Rancid, Hammerbox, Soundgarden's Louder than Live concert, etc). good times.

 

[Beef Invictus]

My Top 5:

NIN
Tool
RHCP
Offspring
Smashing Pumpkins
Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Energy Orchard
Sublime
RATM
Pearl Jam
Primus

 

[les Habs]

I'm interpreting this as more bands/artists that started putting out albums then, hence no Dylan or Neil Young. A few may be slightly off like the Stone Roses, but the 90s would be the decade where the bulk of their early material came out. In no particular order:

Belle and Sebastian
Nirvana
Elliott Smith
Radiohead
Portishead
Pearl Jam
Stone Roses
Beck
Bjork

I'm going to leave it at nine. Some bands I'd want to listen to more of (Breeders, Frank Black, early Wilco) and some I'm not sure how they've aged for me on top of being difficult to choose from (Blur, Oasis, Pulp, maybe Massive Attack).

 

[x Tame Impala]

The Foo Fighters did most of their stuff in the 2000's but "The Colour and Shape" and "There is Nothing Left to Lose" were excellent work

 

[Terry Yake]

nice to see a good number of tool fans on here

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Pantera
Corrosion of Conformity
Tool
Alice In Chains
Danzig
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Kyuss
Monster Magnet

 

[Kensu]

My Bloody Valentine
Aphex Twin
Boards of Canada
Kyuss
Fishmans
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Autechre
Talk Talk
A Tribe Called Quest

between
Tortoise, Slowdive, and Biosphere

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Crowbar was one of my favourites, too. So heavy without being fast. I love their life-affirming titles. Existence is Punishment, Glass full of Liquid Pain, Time heals nothing, etc. pp.

Tune low...play slow.

 

[Crocoduck]

Strung Out
No Use For A Name
Hot Water Music
Millencolin
NoFX
Bad Religion
Pulley
Big Wig
Lucky Number Seven
Dance Hall Crashers
Jersey (before generation genocide)
T.O.E

 

[aufheben]

MBV
Suede
Built to Spill
Nirvana
Pavement

BJM
Boards of Canada
Don Caballero
Belle & Sebastian
Bardo Pond

HM: Garbage

What a time.

 

[PennDanzig]

hmmm, no order

Outkast
UGK
Danzig
Melvins
Entombed
Sonic Youth
Modest Mouse
Converge
Ringworm/Integrity
Seal

 

[2CHAINZ]

Nsync
Bsb
Len
Chumbawamba
Sclub7
Spice girls
O town
98 degrees
Smash mouth
Soul decision

 

[kook10]

Nsync
Bsb
Len
Chumbawamba
Sclub7
Spice girls
O town
98 degrees
Smash mouth
Soul decision

Interesting list from someone with your screen name

No Take That?

 

[CHGoalie27]

Metallica
Pantera
GwAR
Marilyn Manson
AC/DC
Alice In Chains
Cannibal Corpse
Megadeth
Sepultura
Slayer
Type O Negative
KoRn
Tool
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Death

 

[CHGoalie27]

Demilich
Immolation
Gorguts
Vader
Death had some of their best releases in the 90's
Timeghoul
Morbid Angel
Incantation
Suffocation

I started liking all these bands when I found out about them in 2000, when I went to HS and finally found other kids who liked heavy music.

WSOU didn't always announce who a band was...though I remember a lot of those names.

 

[Roo Returns]

Who the **** is helmet?

History is funny. Helmet now would probably be best known as being "the band the drummer from Battles used to be in." They were an alt metal band that was commercially big from late 92-about 97 and had some hits. One of the bands like White Zombie that Beavis and Butthead helped commercially promote. Page Hamilton was the leader, he was in Band of Susans, a noise rock band in the late 80s/early 90s. Frank Bello from Anthrax, John Tempesta from Exodus and White Zombie, and Chris Traynor who is kind of an alt-metal mercenary have all played with them at various points.

They had a song Milquetoast from The Crow soundtrack that was pretty big.

 

[Roo Returns]

Does this list mean bands that started in the 90s or just made it big?

I'll go with the later:

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nirvana
Metallica
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
Megadeth
Fear Factory
A Tribe Called Quest
Fugazi
Stereolab


I'll give an honorable mention to Pantera, Fishbone, Sublime, NoFX and Sepultura among many others.


Incubus is a funny one. After their second release I've been pretty underwhelmed by them but those first two are classics (Fungus and S.C.I.E.N.C.E.)

 

[TheAngryHank]

Jesus no STP?

 

[cupcrazyman]

most of my fav bands from the 70's,80's were still playing in the 90's doest that count ?