Your Most Important Artists Of The 1990's

Based simply upon the albums in your collection who are your most important artists of the 1990's? Mine are:

• Bill Frisell
• Charlie Haden
• Cowboy Junkies
• Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
• Patricia Barber
• Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
• Van Morrison

 

Tindersticks
Slowdive
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Massive Attack

 

Just off the top of my head and thinking of my collection:
PJ Harvey
Liz Phair
L7
Tori Amos
Pet Shop Boys
Maria McKee
Hole
Nine Inch Nails
Sinead O’Connor
Kylie Minogue
The Church

I know there are a lot more, but that’s all I have for now.

 

Radiohead
Pavement
Flaming Lips
Dinosaur Jr
Ween
Primus
Nine Inch Nails
R.E.M
Beck

 

Selecting Music Artists, who either started in the '90s, or their Best Albums were in the '90s if they started out in the '80s(like the RHCP & PULP).

Radiohead
Suede
Spiritualized
BLUR
PULP
Manic Street Preachers
Afghan Whigs
James
NIN
Smashing Pumpkins
Morrissey
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Mansun
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gene
Supergrass
The Charlatans
Placebo
Stereophonics
Mogwai
Ben Folds Five
Spacehog
The Eels
Beck

 

01 R.E.M.
02 U2
03 Tori Amos
04 Underworld
05 Radiohead

 

Oasis
Nirvana
Van Morrison

 

Pavement, Morrissey, Yo La Tengo.

 

cathedral
naked city
kyuss
Fu Manchu
Soundgarden
Earth
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
R.L. Burnside
the Cramps
junior brown


Man, that was good stuff (sips Monster energy)

 

Easy. To me the most important band, topping even Nirvana were Hedningarna and their album Trä. It's a furious combination of Swedish Folk music, Finnish folk singing and a massive rock production of the same creating a brooding, driving, energetic mixture that is unparalleled as far as I am concerned.
They have never repeated this style of an album, a really interesting band. But this is by far my personal album of the 90s. And therefore this band was the most influencial. And while I still love Nirvana very much, this album still speaks to me much more.

 

For me, that would be:

Radiohead
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Beastie Boys
Massive Attack
Faith No More
Kyuss

 

Radiohead
Nirvana
Drive By Truckers
Wilco
REM
Oasis
Cowboy Junkies
Petty
Pearl Jam
Green Day
Foo Fighters
Weezer
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Matchbox 20
Smashing Pumpkins
Counting Crows
Beck
Dave Matthews
Blink 182

 

Prince
Neil Young
David Bowie
Iggy Pop
Lou Reed
The Allman Brothers Band
The Cramps
Brian Setzer
The Cure
George Clinton
Aerosmith
Supergrass

 

Nirvana
Yo La Tengo
Pavement
Perry Farrell
Beastie Boys
Radiohead
The Chemical Brothers
Green Day
Tool

 

I forgot to include Nirvana, TOOL and Green Day to my list.
I should have also added Basement Jaxx.

 

The Seattle Grand Slam:

Soundgarden
Nirvana
Alice In Chains
Pearl Jam

 

Nirvana
Hole
Soundgarden
Suede
Neil Young
Dinosaur Jr
Juliana Hatfield
L7
Lou Reed
Kyuss
Liz Phair
Veruca Salt
Pumpkins

Helluva lot of talented females in that era.
Miss that.

 

REM
Nirvana
Radiohead
NIN
Sonic Youth
Green Day
Hole
Fugazi
The Breeders
Beastie Boys
Wu Tang Clan
Eels

those are the big ones. I was a teenager in the 90s so a lot of what ended up shaping my tastes came out then and a lot of those bands stuck with me

 

Pavement
Sleater-Kinney
Nirvana

 

C U R V E

 

My 90s faves, in no particular order:

-Pearl Jam
-Garbage
-Spice Girls

Those are easily the biggies for me! There are plenty of other 90s acts I like, but none that compete with those 3 for my long-lasting affection...

 

Based on the albums in my collection...humm...

I'm limiting this to bands that hit their stride in the 1990s, not ones that continued to do great work started in the '80s or earlier.

Uncle Tupelo/Wilco
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Blues Traveler
Phish

 

Van Morrison a 90s artist? Interesting

 

#1. Tori Amos
Pearl Jam
Fiona Apple
PJ Harvey
Bjork
Liz Phair
Hole
Alanis Morissette
Sheryl Crow
R.E.M.
U2
Lucinda Williams
Cranberries
Natalie Merchant
Wilco
Aimee Mann
Sarah McLachlan
Black Crowes
Jewel
Alice In Chains
Garbage
Oasis
Radiohead
Weezer

One of my absolute favorite decades for music and an era I love. Also the single greatest decade overall for female artists, in my opinion.

 

Yo La Tengo
The Olivia Tremor Control
Uncle Tupelo
Jason Falkner
Built to Spill
Medicine
Chris Whitley
Radiohead
The Boo Radleys
Pavement
The Jayhawks
Chapterhouse
Slowdive
Danny Gatton
World Party
The Folk Implosion
The Bevis Frond
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