Favorite Artists of the 90s

[eccentric man]

for the first half of the decade it would have been the red hot chili peppers but for the second half it was most definitely soundgarden by a very long shot.

[slash7]

I think Nirvana is the best band of 90's. Also good are Oasis, Rdiohead...

[Zombeels]

eels
Radiohead
Built To Spill
Flaming Lips
Wilco
Blur
Modest Mouse
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Pavement
Apples In Stereo
Underground Lovers
Ween
Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Beck
Tripping Daisy
Grandaddy

[DarkWishWall]

Nirvana were the last truly great band for me, and everything has sounded quite pale to me since. Still, the nineties were a helluvan (see what I did there?) improvement on the eighties:

Oasis - Definately Maybe
Pearl Jam - Ten
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills And Bellyaches
and
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
were all classic albums. there are mire that I haven't heard such as Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against The Machine that I plan to buy. Nirvana are far and away the best, but there was great music made last decade.

[Martin Q. Blank]

The Divine Comedy
The Magnetic Fields
Beck
Eels
Weezer
Ben Folds Five
Bjork
Nirvana
Future Bible Heroes

I could probably say They Might Be Giants too, even though they started in the '80s.

Jeff Buckley
Vertical Horizon
Stone temple pilots
jackopierce
Incubus
Goo Goo Dolls

[Drummer Chris]

My favorites seemed to be the more harder rocking bands like Soundgarden and Alice In Chains though Oasis had some great tunes as well as Smashing Pumpkins and Bush.

[energydude]

Metallica
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Alice in Chains
Smashing Pumpkins
Soundgarden

[JN21]

Some of my favorites:

311
Foo Fighters
Goo Goo Dolls
Green Day
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Incubus
Our Lady Peace
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Third Eye Blind

[Big Generator]

The Kings of 90s music have to be...Sasha and Digweed.

[Riordan]

Jeff Buckley
Chili Peppers
& Nirvana

Would be my top 3.

[Reverend Rock]

Originally Posted by Music Wench I remember Jars of Clay. I really liked them. K.D. Lang was pretty popular with me too. Love her voice!

Yes. Good call.

Jars of Clay in particular have shown a greater-than-I-expected capacity for artistic growth. I guess because they came from the "contemporary Christian music" sub-genre (which I consider pretty much an artistic ghetto--and I know first hand what I'm talking about here), I had really low expectations. They surprised me, and most pleasantly so. They're a great studio band, a great album band.

Sixpence None The Richer is another 90s band from the "CCM ghetto" that has shown strong creativity and capacity for growth. I think their Divine Discontent project is just shy of a masterpiece.

[Reverend Rock]

My own "best bands of the 90s" list would need to include Ben Folds Five and the High Llamas (am I the only one around here who knows of this band's existience?)...

If we can count Phish and the Dave Matthews Band as mainly 90s artists (I think that would be fair enough), they both make my list as well.

[Music Wench]

I've heard of the High Llamas but I haven't heard anything by them as of yet.

[eccentric man]

Originally Posted by Reverend Rock the High Llamas (am I the only one around here who knows of this band's existience?)...

i seem to remember recommending them to you once upon a time