Top 10 Bands of The 90’s

Top 10 Bands of The 90’s

Written by Zeromage 53 Comments
Last Updated:: May 9, 2008

When one reads or watches a “traditional” best bands of all time list, the assumptions get unquestioned. What happens is that people who profess to be “music listeners” accept these lists without ever asking themselves “Why the fuck should I listen to anything VH1 says”. When one list “argues” for its content, others will follow suit without ever questioning the quality of the bands on the list. This being utterly lost and absorbed in the publicness of the “they” solidifies the image of bands and best bands for decades and maybe even centuries to come. For example, you will get a “traditional” barrage of answers on what the best bands from the 90’s are from people who don’t realize they are simply restating what they saw or read on the most public of public media.

Certain bands get ingrained in people’s heads as “clearly the best band of the 90’s”, even without these people realizing that they themselves, NEVER LISTEN TO THESE BANDS! Another unctuous platitude comes in the way of “well, you have to include ’such and such’ when doing a greatest bands of the 90’s list” striking an imperative command that is far and away from anything that’s actually happening in the music. It’s with this in mind that Old-Wizard has decided to explore the greatest bands of the 90’s without ANY “help” from outside sources.

As avid music listeners ourselves, we trust our instincts over and above the people who will get angry at not including a certain band on the list because it doesn’t unconsciously remind them of the latest list in a hackneyed “Rolling Stone” issue. It’s important for the reader to realize this before they jump into any vexation regarding this list. It’s also important for the reader to realize, that they should get angry at a list because it doesn’t include a band they actually LISTEN to, not because it doesn’t follow suit with “traditional” lists. Let’s get started.

10. The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma in 1983 and accrued some decent albums in the late 80’s with “Here it is” and “Telepathic Surgery”, although they were sometimes over-the-top with their psychedelic Syd Barettesque musings. It was their 90’s output that garnered the Flaming lips both their commercial and critical reverence. “Transmissions from the Satellite Heart” was filled with the obvious single that became a staple on modern rock radio and even on “Beavis and Butthead”. The album acquiesced its early love for oblique psychedelic with more modern pop themes creating a pert mix of each that was easy on the ears. However, with all the success that came The Flaming Lips way with their mid 90’s work, it was their 1999 opus entitled “The Soft Bulletin” that took them from amateur psychedelic popsters into one of the more sophisticated and dovetailing pop bands in the world. “The Soft Bulletin” would clearly be heard as their best album to date and probably their best album they would ever create. With the Soft Bulletin, the Lips would continue the same sonic palette on their albums afterward, especially “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”. It was the employing of David Fridmann on the production boards that turned this more Lo-Fi sounding band into a majestic, sprawling beast in the likes of a “Mercury Rev”. “Race for the Prize” and “Spiderbite Song” were soaked in large reverb with Wayne Coyne taking on philosophical themes as aggrandized as 19th century German Idealism. The style of The Lips afterwards would be sustained in its large chamber pop modes, all the better for them, because it was this unique style in the Soft Bulletin that clearly broaches them into the best of the 90’s.

9. Belle and Sebastion

Belle and Sebastion released their first album in 1996 entitled “Tiger Milk” that was recorded in three short days. What the public procured was perfect pop music challenging the Smiths best baroque moments. Clean production and precise playing added to Stuart Murdoch’s floating songwriting that swooned and laid back ubiquitously. “If you’re feeling sinister” followed suit with more of a dark emotional palette invoking the best of Syd Barret’s solo work amalgamated with modern production techniques. Over the course of all of B and S’s work is standard great songwriting touching the listener in an always romantic place, but never overly romantic to the point of coquettishness. The honesty in Murdoch’s approach to songwriting has established B and S with an extremely loyal fan base and placed them in the upper ranks of the best bands of the 90’s. As we have watched them grow from the expansive chamber pop of “Boy with the Arab Strap” to the 70’s boogie/glam rock of “The Life Pursuit”, they have continually perfected their songwriting craft with always infectious chorus’s and witty aphorisms. Anyone at this point in music listening who hasn’t heard “The State I’m In” or “White Collar Boy”, are missing out on some of the best moments in modern pop that are always conspicuous when one looks beneath the surface. Belle and Sebastian are often and appropriately referred to as “ear candy”, that which great music should always aspire to.

8. Suede

In 1993, when pop music was seemingly in the mud with cacophonous personality, Suede came along and wrote a new age glam rock album so heavy on bolanesque riffs and enjoined with lascivious themes, that it felt like the glam rock era of the early 70’s had been perfectly justifiable and not “decadent”. What Suede accentuated with style, they equaled with their songwriting. “Animal Nitrate” had the slinkiest of hooks, throwing an audience into a wild frenzy of loose grooves and hip moves. “So Young”, would hit at the type of music that would define much of Suede’s greatness being lost in “being young”, “chasing dragons”, and “tigers eyes”. Their conspicuousness in dreaming large and epitomizing the glory of youth was a refreshing rejoinder to those other bands who glorified being miserable who wouldn’t know a groove if it hit them straight in the ears VIA “Queen Bitch”. Suede would go on to write the epic forlorn “Dog Man Star” in 1995 striking a mood so sophisticated yet so dirty, it was as if Marc Bolan himself had entered into the spirit of the band as they were recording the album in the broken down church where the sessions took place. In 1997, “Coming Up” would prove to be hugely successful as every song on that album could have been released as a single. What Brett Anderson famously stated about wanting to “make an album to do your hair to” was accomplished in this hook heavy monster of a pop album. Those who listen to music with their ears and their hips will understand the greatness of Suede in reinvigorating the 90’s. Those who listen to music for other reasons that usually have nothing to do with music, may not understand the grace and slide in which a band like Suede can move you.

7. The Happy Mondays

While some could consider the Mondays an 80’s band because of the success of their early material, especially “Bummed”, it was their 1990 release “Pills Thrills and Bellyaches”, that established them as the most wild coming of age band the music world had ever seen until that point. Part dance, part hip hop, and all thick Manchurian accents would establish the Happy Mondays as the premiere “Madchester” band efflorescing ecstasy based raves that would go on to the early hours of the morning. The groove of the 90’s starts with the Happy Mondays who made no bones of their love for funk base lines and Wah-Wah effected guitar lines. Shaun Ryder would become the poster boy for 90’s rock star excess being reported as having his stomach pumped 12 times for a variegated amount substances, often being cited as the “human doctor bag”. Rock star excess withstanding; “Pills Thrills and Bellyaches” was an untold accomplishment creating the utmost sense of looseness in the listener who took on the album. From the affable groove of “Step On”, to the purposely extraneous musings of “Holiday”, The Happy Mondays would dominate the bands of the early 90’s who were overtly concerned with themselves in their smarmy modesty and who were afraid to have a good time, or at least fooled themselves into thinking it wasn’t possible. While those little adolescent boys were sulking in corners, Shawn Ryder and Co were stranded on islands having the time of their life even while having no money to get back to where they actually lived. This non-self-concerned lifestyle is perfectly embodied in “Pills Thrills and Bellyaches”. The groove, the rave, and the much often cited absurdity of this band absolutely places them in the best of the 90’s.

6. Radiohead

Radiohead in the 90’s matched mellifluous melodies with overtly lugubrious personality, paving the way for bands who could write pop music in a more “dismal” setting. “The Bends” and “Ok Computer” were clearly their crowing achievements released in 95′ and 97′ respectively. The Bends is often perceived as a “dark rock album”, but what is often ignored is how strong of a pop songwriter Thom Yorke is which is most conspicuous when listening to “Black Star”, and even “Just”. “Street Spirit” would establish Radiohead perennially for their moodiness that was never short in perfect execution and assiduousness. Radiohead were perfectionists and the way they may have saw the world never got in the way from their realization that music can always sound great. “Ok Computer” would go on to garner enormous success both commercially and critically, dominating peoples play lists for years to come. It’s protention into a bleak future of salesmen and merchant class “middle men” scared the listener into listening to his inner gut on what was really genuine in his life. The quality of songwriting never suffered in the band’s image and thought about the world they lived in. Songs like “Paranoid Android” and “No Surprises” were first and foremost focused on strong melodies rather than philosophical thought. The later becomes justified in the former, and Radiohead is one of the few bands in the 90’s who understood this and could execute their craft well because of this. Radiohead would go onto more baroque and oblique directions in the new century, but it was these two albums in the 90’s that made them one of the most formidable bands of the decade.

5. Wilco
For a time, it looked like American bands simply forgot how to write songs, when they traded in their craft for some ostensible “emotional urgency” or “esoteric” guitar noise. Wilco would go onto reestablish what good songwriting was for those who forgot with 2 albums specifically in the 90’s, “Being There” and “Summerteeth”. “Being There” was acute with all the best moments of 70’s rock while “Summerteeth” took Wilco into their own place as a band who had innumerous great ideas that never overtook the quality of the songwriting itself. “She’s a Jar” was one of the most epic relaxed slow grooves of the 90’s showing off Jeff Tweddy’s skill at sounding passionately somnolent. The album’s first track “I can’t stand it” is all great pop music beleaguered by a corky instrumentation on par with the best of The Kinks. “Nothing’s Ever Gonna Stand In My Way Again”, delivers a perfectly contagious hook soaked in handclaps, tambourine, and hook instrumentation that proves this band knows how to deliver where it counts in the creation of a pop song. After “Summerteeth”, Wilco would go on to write the monumental “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”, that was more of a grower than their previous past two albums, but when listened too thoroughly, created huge dividends for the listener, who would hear all the strong melodies underlying Tweedy’s personality. Wilco continue to make great albums throughout the new century. Wilco’s consistency is owed to their love for timeless pop music that they know will last for time to come, not by appealing to what they see in their eyes or read in their head, but what they hear in their ears, into their body.

4. The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses could be considered an 80’s band, but their debut album that was released between the 89′ and 90′ was so important for 90’s music and great listening in general that it’s imperative they are considered within the best of the 90’s. The Stone Roses came out of nowhere with a sound unlike anything that was going on at the time. While the 80’s continued its pallid interest in austere robot rock, the roses created a groove so heavy, and so infectious, you were left wondering “Where have this band been hiding for the part 5 years”? The Stone Roses were imbued with a sense of enormous confidence, seeing themselves as a logical step from 60’s psychedelia to a new 90’s form inculcated with bigger beats. Their early demos would show the raw potential that they enveloped, but it was with their self-titled debut album that was the fruition of all their talents into perfect pop music. “Bye Bye Badman” shuffled like something from Detroit in the 60’s with a peculiar calypso lead line played by John Squire that sounded oddly emotionally broaching. “Elephant Stone” was an outright “E-Inspired” dance song qualifying “madchester” as one of the most formidable musical movements in the history of pop music. Ian Brown was the king monkey of the music world dancing like a tribal chimp at the hint of a sound of the bongos. Their “island” sound was something that came out of nowhere for 4 kids from northern England. Those who understand the power of this band will try to trace their influences to the likes of The Byrds and other palpable 60’s staples, but when one listens to the roses, one understands that they were too focused on transitive grooves to be limited the chiming guitar pop of the Byrds. The Roses would go on in 94′ to create “Second Coming” which was part early roses, part glam, and a whole lot of Zeppelin, often coming across as slightly derivative, although never at the sake of the quality of the songs which are innumerous on that album. It’s with their debut though, that they created arguably the best summer album in pop music and made it okay for music to move again.

3. R.E.M.

REM formed in Athens Georgia in 1980. Their first album “Murmur (1983), was a strong precursor to what “alternative rock” would become in the 90’s. While REM’s 80’s albums were full of ingenious ideas and maturing songwriting, it was the REM of the 90’s that would defend the decade as enkindled and uniquely substantial. 1991’s “Out of Time” was a locus of consistent “heart on sleeve” songwriting that dominated the radio with songs imbued with more serious themes. It was the album they released after “Out of Time” though that would place REM as clearly one of the greatest bands of the 90’s. “Automatic for the People” was remarkably consistent in its strength for creating substantial “thinking” songs that never lacked endearment or hookyness. “Drive” was as somber as any pop song could be, yet was full of the type of songcraft needed in pop melodicism to dominate the radio for months to come. “Nightswimming” embodied the earnestness in Michael Stipes approach not seen throughout all the decadent musings of 80’s underground rock. The albums final track “Find the River” is arguably their best song ever created employing simple country tendencies into modernity’s want for conspicuous choruses. After the monumental “Automatic for the People”, REM hit their stride releasing the enormously popular “Monster” that held a handful of singles that other bands could only dream of having throughout their own career. “Up” showed a band that could continually write un-abashing catchy songs regardless of age. The power of REM, like Radiohead, lied in their ability to match eruditic lyrics with rococo music. REM hit this nexus more than any other band in the 90’s and to this day still write music with the same sense of ambition and class that epitomized their best music in the 90’s.

2. The Verve

The Verve were a beast of a band and there may have not been a group of four musicians who were ubiquitously so skilled, passionate, and self-defining as The Verve in the 90’s. From their early EP’s in the early 90’s to the magnum opus that was “Urban Hymns”, The Verve traduced the 90’s with the ardor and intensity not seen in any band before. Richard Ashcroft gifted with a perfectly sonorous voice and lyrics to challenge the best of The Smiths catalogue, became somewhat of a spiritual character for the public eye often claiming his band was the best of all time. This confidence is not just an impudent canard, but the self-belief in what ones own self has brought to the table in any form of creativity. Anyone who watches The Verve live from Wigan in 1997 will understand the power of this band. Anyone who takes a deep listen to their ardent 1995 album entitled “A Northern Soul” will hear some of the best rock music that is specifically defined by the 90’s. “A New Decade” smashes in like a ship agrounding on a new territory for war. “This is Music” is endowed with so much fire that hands will burn when touching the cd after. “I stand accused just like you, for being born without a silver spoon”; it’s with these lyrics that The Verve established themselves as nobody’s band but their own. In 1997 they would release their most successful album in “Urban Hymns”, that was part rock behemoth, part sophisticated balladry, and all great songwriting. It’s not hard to argue that both “Rolling People” and “Lucky Man” are the two best songs from the 90’s, all from the same album. Like all great bands, one could write about them for ages, but one can only understand them by enmeshing themselves in their music. The Verve often are overlooked because they were not massively popular in the states besides the obvious single, “Bittersweet Symphony”. Old-Wizard insists that you make it a moral imperative to pick up “Urban Hymns” and “Northern Soul” to see how quality rock music can be, even at as old of an age as it is.

1. Oasis
If a band is being judged and understood within the limits of the actual music and songwriting strength, which should obviously be the standards when judging a band, then Oasis is clearly of superlative rank in the history of pop music. Circumscribed with the 90’s itself, there was no songwriter that held the power of song the way Noel Gallagher did. There was no singer that held the vocal power of Liam Gallagher. There was no band that could be considered as “timeless” in the 90’s as Oasis.

The amount of good to great songs that lie in Oasis’s 90’s output is enormous to say the least, so enormous, that some of their good songs seem average compared to their best, and those songs opined as “average” are in most cases, the A-sides of all the lesser bands in the 90’s. How do you define music in the 90’s to an alien that flew down to earth and wanted to know about current modes of music? You play “What’s the Story Morning Glory” with its massive wall-of-sound guitar space backing vocals so raw yet so mellifluous. You then go and play “Live Forever” to inculcate the alien with Oasis’s ease at defining the 90’s with anthemic anodyne, and these are just two great songs within 20-30 more great songs in the Oasis 90’s catalogue, and then there are their B-Sides. What Oasis pass off as “B-sides” would be the best songs for other bands struggling to broach the pop market medium. That a song like “The Masterplan” is a B-side is obfuscating. That songs like “Underneath the Sky” and “Let’s all Make Believe” are left off official albums is astonishing until you’re reminded of how great their album songs are too. Oasis are the most justified band to release a B-Sides record in this history of pop music. Many an Oasis fan would become converted by their B-side album, and all the subsequent B-sides released on new singles.

When Oasis is considered in a typical setting, what is usually covered most is drug interests and in-band fighting which has nothing to do with the music and quality of songwriting. These accidents while interesting in the moment, will fade away with the aging of a band, and any form of creativity in general. When these “accidents” fade, all that will be left is the band’s creative output, and when new generations uncover this goldmine of songs, Oasis will be fully considered as one of the hallmark bands in this history of pop music. If the best band of the 90’s is to be solely considered by how many great songs are in their repertoire, then Oasis is clearly the greatest band of the 90’s.

53 Comments

#1 Tristan says:
March 17th, 2010 at 12:08 am

Didn’t the Stone Roses release their album in 1989?

Thinking back to the 90’s, Weezer comes to mind as poster-childs for 90’s irony and later proto-emo music. Beck is also a central figure of the era. Nirvana remain icons of the era.

#2 The REAl zeromage says:
March 17th, 2010 at 1:51 am

This is the worst list ever, The Stone Roses, Wilco, Oasis, please. What are we a bunch of college frat boys! OW this is lame.

#3 Jamie says:
March 17th, 2010 at 7:16 pm

I agree with all but the top two, which I would only include on a list of “most pretentious and overrated.”

#4 MountainMaverick says:
March 17th, 2010 at 8:39 pm

Oasis is the greatest band of all time. Cmon now

#5 Chad says:
March 17th, 2010 at 2:48 pm

man you like a lot of shitty music.

#6 Kurasuke says:
March 17th, 2010 at 5:34 am

Lol, Oasis is awful.

#7 Bobby says:
March 17th, 2010 at 7:55 pm

I thought R.E.M. was a 80’s band.

#8 Noel's Nose says:
March 17th, 2010 at 11:35 pm

Kurasuke, are you one of the many unfortunate people in this world that has only heard Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova?

You do not know the power of Oasis until you see them live. The only way anyone can dismiss Oasis is if they haven’t actually listened to all of their stuff, especially the first two entire albums and b-sides. Greatest b-sides ever!

#9 Bobby says:
March 17th, 2010 at 11:37 pm

The true meaning of the 90’s were:

1. A Mulatto
2. An Albino
3. A Mosquito
4. My Libido

#10 Felix the Furry Tree says:
March 17th, 2010 at 11:47 pm

Only if you were born senseless and scentless.

#11 emo bloodz says:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:39 am

i really love emo bands!!!!!!!!!!

bLess tHe fall is the best emo band eveR!!!!!!!

#12 nuclearrabbit33 says:
March 17th, 2010 at 10:38 pm

Funny how Built to Spill didn’t make it, yet they’re in the top-10 American bands of all time? Get your shit together here dude.

#13 Mr. Vorhias says:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:49 am

- R.E.M. is a band who got their start in the 80s.
- So are the Flaming Lips.
- Radiohead are way better than Oasis.
- Suede is vastly overrated.

#14 Mike says:
March 17th, 2010 at 10:20 pm

I don’t quite agree with Oasis as the greatest band of the 90s, mostly for this reason:

“Definitely Maybe” was a phenomenal debut album by the Brothers Gallagher, and definitely put the world on notice about them. “What’s The Story (Morning Glory)?” broke the trend of British rock stardom (hit album, then massive failure for a follow-up which leads to obscurity) and did the unthinkable: it TOPPED “Definitely Maybe” and showed that the Brothers Gallagher were WAY ahead of everyone else.

Unfortunately, those are their only two good albums. Most everything else is crap, primarily because the band got hooked on drugs and in the process lost the ability to make music up to a high standard.

#15 old-wizard.com says:
March 17th, 2010 at 10:29 pm

Be Here Now had “Stand By Me”, “Do Go Away” and “All Around the World”. I’d hardly call that a failure.

#16 old-wizard.com says:
March 17th, 2010 at 10:29 pm

Not only that, but its the fastest selling album of all time.

#17 s says:
March 17th, 2010 at 1:09 pm

no my bloody valentine? wtf?

#18 ken says:
March 17th, 2010 at 5:59 pm

nirvana’s not even included in this list..wtf

#19 Michael says:
March 17th, 2010 at 6:01 pm

Oasis should be No. 1

#20 Alpha says:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:02 am

Where the Fuck is System of a Down!

#21 stfulolerskayes says:
March 17th, 2010 at 12:16 pm

someone needs to get off british band’s nut sacks.

#22 stfulolerskayes says:
March 17th, 2010 at 12:19 pm

Oh, and where the fuck are the Smashing Pumpkins & Nirvana?

#23 matt.musician says:
March 17th, 2010 at 1:33 pm

Rage Against the Machine

#24 Ledhead says:
March 17th, 2010 at 6:26 am

NIN

#25 sean says:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:50 am

GET THE FUCK OFF OASIS’ dick

they suck

however, Wilco is fucking phenominal, although they got better after the turn of the century

#26 TrixRabbi says:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:19 am

I always thought of R.E.M. as an 80s band that stuck around. Same as the Stone Roses.

Bands you missed:

Nirvana (Seriously?)
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Neutral Milk Hotel
Cake
Sublime
Beck
Weezer
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails

#27 Jabba says:
March 17th, 2010 at 2:36 pm

Someone needs to read some music history.

#28 ThisListSucks says:
March 17th, 2010 at 6:02 pm

Radiohead should be 1. OASIS FUCKING SUCKS!! Where are Soundgarden and Nirvana?

#29 Relayer71 says:
March 17th, 2010 at 1:26 am

“I always thought of R.E.M. as an 80s band that stuck around. Same as the Stone Roses.”

Well I wouldn’t say “stuck around”. More like the 90s is when they became huge megastars.

Sadly, their best work was in the 80s.

#30 JeZeP says:
March 17th, 2010 at 2:17 pm

All these bands suck balls, you guys are morons.

How about the Guns and Roses, aerosmith, Acdc….

#31 Mimi says:
March 17th, 2010 at 8:22 pm

Seriously where’s U2? For god’s sake their lyrics are unforgettable and so as their marvelous tunes!

#32 Luke says:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:22 pm

Come on jesus, is this the worst list ever made, Nirvana? Where? whether you like them or not you have to acknowledge what they did and how good they were.

#33 Sinfre says:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:44 pm

SILVERCHAIR!!!!!!!!!! DAMN IT!!!

#34 Dragomir says:
March 17th, 2010 at 3:33 pm

How is Oasis on this list ahead of bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana? And who the fuck is Wilco?

#35 Leroi says:
March 17th, 2010 at 4:28 pm

hey, you know what’s in your ass? no? i thought so. well, let me tell you. pitchfork.

#36 Luskar says:
March 17th, 2010 at 4:02 pm

Not the worst from Zeromage. Most are great band from the 90’s.

But it fail big time with Oasis. Most of all when you read the intro by Zeromage. Oasis is THE archetype of band that people like just because other people tell them so…

As for R.E.M. and some other older bands, I think that even if their debut where in the 80’s, their most popular and remanber work are from the 90’s.

With band like Nirvana, RATM and NIN missing, the list should be rename ‘Best 90’s indi-rock band’.

#37 Zach says:
March 17th, 2010 at 8:38 am

Hey, all you Wilco haters go listen to Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1 & 2 and then tell me they suck. They were chosen to write the music to some of Woodie Guthrie’s unfinished lyrics. That is one of the highest honors in American music that I can imagine.

#38 Felix says:
March 17th, 2010 at 12:34 am

That list is utter shit. I suggest Zeromage listen to Oasis more closely, songwriting-wise they’re not very good at all and musically and creatively weak compared to the better bands. The intro was also a contradiction, this is a band who’re endlessly forced down your throat either by the media, fans or themselves as the greatest thing ever.

1. Smashing Pumpkins
2. REadiohead
3. Tool

#39 Troll 4 Life says:
March 17th, 2010 at 5:18 pm

Thank you, Felix, Oasis is about as creative as Dane Cook, and the only reason anyone would think they’re great would be because of the non-stop shit barrage that we’ve endured this past decade.

And The Second Coming wasn’t just a steaming pile of shit, it was the most dissapointing thing to come on the music scene since The Rolling Stones released Goats Head Soup. How can you follow up such an amazing release with such a turd?

#40 avi says:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:10 pm

1.Nirvana
2.Oasis
3.Pearl Jam
4.NIN

#41 avi says:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:11 pm

5.Nirvana
6.Oasis
7.Pearl Jam
8.NIN
9.Nirvana
10.Oasis

#42 avi says:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:12 pm

oh yeah, Alice In Chains! they can be 5 and 10.

#43 avi says:
March 17th, 2010 at 9:14 pm

oh and U2, GNR, Aerosmith and AC/DC are 80’s bands.

#44 TheWarfreak says:
March 17th, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Not a terrible list or anything, but I believe there are some oversights (likely purposefully). I’ll agree with everyone else that Nirvana almost has to make the list.

#45 JP says:
March 17th, 2010 at 6:47 am

shit list WHERE THE FUCK IS PAVEMENT???

#46 Jake says:
March 17th, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Get rid of The Verve.

Gormless Yanks comin of here saying Guns n Roses, Alice in Chains, System of the Down etc…

Worst taste ever.

American rock music compared to British, is like an Ant going up against a Lion.
You listen to wonderwall and say crap like ‘one hit wonders!’.
MOST IGNORANT NATION ON EARTH.

#47 luc says:
March 17th, 2010 at 1:34 am

_________________________________________

*~come on guys what about the following~*
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1.Fuel(1989->2006 with brett scallions and kevin miller)
2.Foo Fighters(1995->Present)
3.Sponge(1991–>present)
4.Nirvana(1987–1994)
5.Stone Temple Pilots(1986->present)
6.Collective Soul(1993–>present)
7.Sound Garden(1984->present)
8.Pearl Jam(1990–>present)
9.Alice In Chains(1987->present)
10.The Nixons(1990->2000)

On a end note:Zeromage pull your head out your ass and listen to some half decent music at least if your going to listen to any music from the 1990s-_-;

#48 Joe says:
March 17th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Luc-All those bands are American, pull your head out of your ass and get a passport.

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