Your Favorite ALTERNATIVE Music From the 90s

[Thalassa]

I'm hoping here to be reminded of a great song I haven't listened to in years, grunge, rap-metal, or folk...maybe even left over industrial goth from the 80s, or what was probably the most optimistic - electronic.

Please don't post Ace of Base, Third Eye Blind or Bare Naked Ladies. That's 90s pop.

I've taken a lot less control with 90s music as a genre, in some way virtually overlooked it for personal reasons, but it deserves as much exploration as the 80s...except that the 80s was good at pop, and the 90s wasn't.

I mostly remember the 90s for awesome period horror and historical drama, but we will move away from FILM today, and talk about music.

Real music. The first person who plays Sugar Ray gets banned. I hate 90s mainstream pop likely more than anything on earth.

 

[Reborn Relic]

Ooooooh Local H. Never listened to them much, but what I have listened to is really good.

Anyhow, most of my music is from the 2000s, but...there's some crossover.

Also, is 2000s stuff from 90s bands acceptable? Veruca Salt's best stuff is late.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

The 80s was also shit at pop, IMO. Unless you consider bands like Talking Heads and Genesis pop, but their music was, respectively, new wave and progressive rock merely appropriating some 80s pop elements.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

 

[Flâneuse]

I got so excited when I saw this thread. Much of my all-time favorite music is from the early and mid-’90s, though there is some really atrocious shit from that decade too, especially all the blander-than-cardboard pop-rock like Hootie and the Blowfish.

 

[Qlip]

 

[Flâneuse]

How could I forget shoegaze

 

[Masokissed]

This is the only thread, we, as a community, need.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Trip-hop, shoegaze, industrial, grunge, britpop...it really was a mini golden age and I realize a lot of these genres originated before the 90s but the best examples of each were in the 90s.

 

[Starry]

Now I'm going to get lost in YouTube again. This is not good.

 

[anticlimatic]

 

[Lia_kat]

^Lovee STP and Alice in Chains!! <3

This one is a favorite:

 

[highlander]

 

[93JC]

 

[Thalassa]

 

[Thalassa]

 

[Gypsy-Flux]

 

[Thalassa]

Now I'm going to get lost in YouTube again. This is not good.

The problem I have with YouTube now is that they've seemingly become more corporate with really aggressive commercials for mainstream products like Tide, or whatever. If they took on smaller or less disgusting companies, like Planet or Ecos detergent, or Tom's of Maine or even lesser known smaller business, I'd totally get that they need to advertise so the site isn't completely free. But it sucks, they play long commercials you can't skip through in front of some videos, and in videos which aren't music, they even interrupt the middle of the video. It's too much like watching TV I don't like it as much as I once did.

 

[highlander]