90's Alternative Rock

[yerin]

Always wondered where the Vaselines were from. He did" Jesus dont want me for a sunbeam " on Unplugged because of them..

[underclass hero]

i also like the goo goo dolls alot from that era

[sapre4]

I like The Pixies, The Smashing Pumpkins are awesome, Soundgarden is a really gud band too, and Kyuss, Josh Homme is a legend

[davidxtlr]

Modest Mouse and Radiohead. Very trippy well composed music with really good lyrics and two very unique voices that are hard not to like.

[bryce]

i really like most of the bands listed.. but some have really sold out ex: nickleback. pearljam has always been pretty good. and sound gardens single black hole sun was pretty amazing.. i know a jazz alternative band that did an amazing cover of it... xenatra i think? anyways i like um all. :biggrin:

[jwee5467]

To be honest, I'm still finding it hard to say bands are alternative as it is such an umbrella term, but i guess my favourite bands of the 90s and the years leading up to the 90s would be Nirvana, The White Stripes and Jane's Addiction. Pearl Jam just doesn't do it for me even though they had many great hits especially off Ten but i think commercialism got to their heads and when I saw them in Oz (2006) it was good but relative to when I saw The Cure in 2007 and the original line-up of Jane's Addiction about 2 months ago, then I saw what great music was nowadays. I don't classify The Cure as alt-rock purely because every record they release has a different feel and genre and truly they cannot be tagged under one concrete genre... The Cure is a genre itself.

[Music Head]

Pretty much agree with this (jwee's post). Once you get into rock, I just find it so hard to categorize. The lines are so thinly drawn. If someone/group has a "hit", some can no longer consider them alternative. After all the term was started to indicate that the music was an alternative to what was "popular". When what was alternative becomes popular it becomes necessary to to reclassify what was alternative. Thus that line will forever be a moving target. When I joined the site that was the one thing I didn't like was all the different types. Not complaining. I am getting used to it. I understand the need to do that. My taste is so varied, I just call it all music.

[jwee5467]

Yes, i do think that the modern day music audience is wrong in its misconception with the categories of music genres. I mean, looking at a perfect example that is Nirvana, initially In Bleach as a great record and Nevermind was their breakthrough and essentially their demise. It is one of the greatest rock albums of the 90s but here we their transformation from Grunge and Garage Rock, as well as Cobain's hugely punk rock influence, to popular music as Nirvana succumb to commercialism although they attempted to regain some sort of authenticity and respect in the Grunge industry with the MTV Unplugged performance but of course its MTV so their never got out of the "pop" hole.