I'll give you 20 reasons why 90's music was good.

[slj0101]

Then you give me your 20. My list is not definitive.

1. Jesus Lizard
2. Mudhoney
3. Nirvana
4. Kyuss
5. My Bloody Valentine
6. Ride
7. Curve
8. Soundgarden
9. Melivns
10. Old Roadiohead (everything prior to and including OK Computer)
11. Pixies (technically they were pretty much over by the early 90's, but their influence was strong)
12. Soul Coughing (underrated band, IMO)
13. Monster Magnet
14. Shudder to Think
15. Morphine
16. Tad
17. Sleep
18. Fu Manchu
19. Lard
20. Wesley Willis (rock over Chicago!)

[PVnRT]

1. Score another one for Oasis!

Noel Gallagher is my personal lord and savior. Just kidding. But not really. Or am I?

[LynneSin]

8. Did you forget to take your medication this morning

:shrug:

[PVnRT]

14. Laugh all you want

Noel Gallagher is stronger than The Hulk AND Superman COMBINED.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Refused, At The Drive-In

[Goblinmonger]

3. My top 20 would have to include Sonic Youth

Definately. What a kick ass sound. Nothing compared to American Idol of course, but still. :sarcasm: <--in case you are stupid

[slj0101]

4. I left SY out, because I thought they did their best work

in the 80's and 00's. I think they tried too hard to get a hit record in the 90's, especially with "Goo" and "Dirty."

[Goblinmonger]

5. Probably a good argument

but they so stick in my mind as a 90s band.

[asthmaticeog]

6. 20 more...

1. Hammerhead
2. Refused
3. Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Hum
5. Tar
6. Massive Attack
7. The Wedding Present
8. Drive Like Jehu
9. Lungfish
10. Don Caballero
11. Tortoise
12. Huggy Bear
13. Calvin Krime
14. Cows
15. Killdozer
16. Helmet (first two albums)
17. Zeke
18. Flying Luttenbachers
19. Trans Am
20. The Monorchid

[Little Wing]

7. Pantera - specifically - the non-80's version

[flamingyouth]

9. Kudos for your high placement of Mudhoney

:patriot:

[slj0101]

13. Thank you!

Actually, they're in no real order, but Mudhoney is definitely up there anyway.

[idgiehkt]

10. The REAL reasons the 90's rocked

1. Polly Jean Harvey
2. L7
3. Babes in Toyland
4. Lunachicks
5. Hole
6. Throwing Muses
7. Liz Phair
8. Ani Di Franco
9. Natalie Merchant
10. Bikini Kill
11. Alanis Morrisette
12. Lil Kim
13. Foxy Brown
14. TLC
15. Missy Elliot
16. Concrete Blonde
17. Tori Amos
18. Joan Osbourne


edit: Primus is definitely in there somewhere too.

This to me is the difference in the decades...where are all the stronge female presences in music today? They've been replaced with the human franchise like Hilton and Lohan. Shakira is about the strongest thing going right now and back then there was such an abundance of women with really tough images that were self-directed and real, not investing their body in spirit in the maintenance of a facade of hyperfemininity



and to add some men
19. Blues Traveler
20. f*cking Pearl Jam, come on, man

[Beer Snob-50]

11. My God do I feel old!

Many of the bands mentioned in this thread I have never heard of and many that the name registers I have never heard!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. Shudder to Think - indeed!

[Midlodemocrat]

15. YES!!! An OP whose words don't make any sense at all to me!!!!

:bounce:

I'm officially over the hill!!

Yippee!!!

[jakefrep]

16. I went to college in the 90's...

...and I've never heard of most of the bands listed. Is that a problem?

[sundog]

17. curve

:thumbsup:




as much as i love goldfrapp, alison wouldn't exist without what toni did

[SKKY]

19. Toni Halliday. Yummy!

It's good to know more people like Curve as much as I do.

[RedStateShame]

18. 20 reasons, one band

1. Sandbox
2. Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
3. Sandbox
4. Devil Between My Toes
5. Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
6. King Shit and the Golden Boys
7. Tonics and Twisted Chasers
8. Fast Japanese Spin Cycle
9. Sunfish Holy Breakfast
10. Get Out of My Stations
11. Propeller
12. Bee Thousand
13. Alien Lanes
14. Mag Earwhig
15. Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
16. Do the Collapse
17. Jellyfish Reflector
18. Vampire on Titus
19. Waved Out (Bob Pollard solo)
20. Kid Marine (Bob Pollard solo)

Gee Bee effin' Vee, man!!!!!