11-09-2009, 09:57
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.