Best band of the 90’s…

[Feral Feline]

Big Sugar
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
Tragically Hip
BNL
OLP
54-40
KD Lang
Sloan
Blue Rodeo
Radiohead
MMW
Sugarcubes


Yeah, bit of carry-over from the 80s, but those were even stronger in the 90s.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

So many good bands from back then, so many... Veruca Salt, REM, Soul Asylum, Garbage, Blind Melon, Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, Fastball, Oasis...

One that I've only recently started to appreciate is the Presidents of the United States of America. Yeah they're goofy, but man, they rock and their guitar tones are insane.

The presidents live at mount rushmore was an excellent gig.

Growing up in the UK in the 90s I was a big fan of Oasis, The Verve, Suede, Radio head and Therapy?

There will always be a special play in my heart for STP and Nirvana though.

 

[andare]

Hard to choose one but Soundgarden stand above the rest for me for sheer originality and musicianship.

I know they started before but the 90s is when they blew up.

The other day at the gym I decided to punish myself and let YouTube music hit me with a barrage of corny 90s bands from the US. Creed and their ilk. Almost took a dumbbell to the face when this song came on

 

[PunchySunshine]

My first concert I got dropped off @ 12 years old to go see the Indigo Girls open up for REM....but that was in '86.
90's was Pearl Jam and STP. I did video for an STP show last fall and I'm happy to report they absolutely killed it!

 

[cliffs_trip]

I was into a lot of local music in the 90's in addition to all the alternative/grunge groups who started breaking out then.

One band that really caught my soul was Slint. Didn't get to see them Live until they did their one of their first reunion shows around 2005ish.
Louisville was an awesome city for music in the early to mid 90's.

 

[Fizz]

Facelift was 90 I think. Dirt 92, jar of flies 94. For sure a 90’s band.

I think I didn't notice the change in music until the mid to late 90s.. that's when it started to sound different to me.

I'll throw in Creed too.

 

[kristopher]

Thank you Feral Feline for adding in the Canadian 90’s bands. Specifically Big Sugar, the Hip, and Our Lady Peace.
Day for Night, by the Tragically Hip was the most important CD I owned, at the time.
And STP are still a favourite of mine. The self titled 2010 album, and shangri-la-de-da get played often, usually early in the morning when it’s time for some relaxing yoga.

But when I think of the 90’s, Rage Against the Machine, and the Beastie Boys jump to the foreground, as being quintessential 90’s.

 

[kristopher]

Oh and before I forget.
Change of Heart from Toronto Ontario
Solid band from that time.

 

[spi]

To all the people mentioning REM, I always thought of them as an 80s band. I guess I stopped listening after Green came out. I should probably give their 90s stuff a try.

 

[jimilee]

To all the people mentioning REM, I always thought of them as an 80s band. I guess I stopped listening after Green came out. I should probably give their 90s stuff a try.

The 80s stuff was their best. Fables and life’s rich pageant were great.

 

[Robert]

Thank you Feral Feline for adding in the Canadian 90’s bands. Specifically Big Sugar, the Hip, and Our Lady Peace.

Loved Our Lady Peace.

And Big Wreck too, while we're talking about Canadian bands.

 

[Gordo]

Big one for me, although he was starting to fizzle by the 90's, was Kim Mitchell.

 

[kristopher]

REM is both an 80’s and a 90’s band. I have only listened to the 90’s albums. I re-purchased Monster on CD a few months ago for $3. Worth it just to sing along to Strange Currencies.
U2 have a similar division in their catalog. To me at least.

And high five to Big Wreck and the song Albatross (not a 90’s song, but still)

 

[peccary]

It's hard to think about great 90's bands without thinking about ATCQ. I loved this one as a kid.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

To all the people mentioning REM, I always thought of them as an 80s band. I guess I stopped listening after Green came out. I should probably give their 90s stuff a try.

Get this - I just asked the DJ what R.E.M. albums he has. He's got "Monster", but not "Automatic for the People". It's like, "What is this, a mid-90s party?" No, it's an early-90s party.


Seriously tho, While they're more an 80s band, AFTP is their peak imo. Monster and New Adventures in Hifi are great too

 

[peccary]

Get this - I just asked the DJ what R.E.M. albums he has. He's got "Monster", but not "Automatic for the People". It's like, "What is this, a mid-90s party?" No, it's an early-90s party.


Seriously tho, While they're more an 80s band, AFTP is their peak imo. Monster and New Adventures in Hifi are great too

I've been looking for a gif/meme of that for like 20 minutes

 

[xefned]

The music I listened to in the 90s is not the same as the music from the 90s that I listen to now

I'd love to hear who you listen to now. The 90s didn't age well for me.

 

[Harry Klippton]

I'd love to hear who you listen to now. The 90s didn't age well for me.

Not "90s bands" in the sense that the thread is about I guess. Bands I was really into in the 90s were 25 ta life, sick of it all, ensign, fastbreak, right brigade, trial, shelter, and other youth crew revival stuff. I don't really listen to any of those bands anymore except out of nostalgia. Bands from the 90s I listen to now are disrupt, extinction of mankind, warcollapse, assuck, phobia, Paradise Lost, anathema, my dying bride, and demilich to name a few. Basically a lot of crust, grindcore, death metal, and doom death bands I didn't know about in the 90s cuz they weren't in my local scene

 

[xefned]

The first 3 bands that popped into my head when I saw the thread title:
Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair. I guess I have a thing for Chicago.

Other 90s favorites: Self, Ultra Vivid Scene, Stars, Vigilantes of Love, Aimee Mann, The Coup, The Negro Problem, Semisonic.

And a lot of 80s artists who continued making music into the 90s: The Fall, ALL, Throwing Muses, Bad Religion, These Immortal Souls, Wire (70s and 80s), Momus.

 

[peccary]

I'd love to hear who you listen to now. The 90s didn't age well for me.

I'm in a similar boat as @Harry Klippton in that I still listen to some bands like STP but more out of nostalgia. I do listen to a lot of music from the 90's now, though. Most of it I didn't discover till college and grad school (I graduated HS in 1999) and it's almost all indie rock. Bands like Pavement, Apples in Stereo, Silver Jews, Stereolab, Halo Benders, Built to Spill, Guided by Voices, Yo la Tango, Grandaddy, Luna, Beat Happening. That kinda thing.

Most of these I discovered through starting with Pavement and then digging in over the last 20 years to see what stuck.