The History Of: 90's Rock Music

The Nineties continued to see the expansion of alternative rock, both artistically and commercially. The general trend of the era was towards more and more abstract music, music that had lost its original label of dance/party music.
First and foremost, the Nineties were the decade of singer songwriters who play ever more intellectual compositions: female composers such as Robin Holcomb, Tori Amos, Lisa Germano and Juliana Hatfield, male composers such as Matthew Sweet, Magnetic Field, Smog, Beck. Canada had Jane Siberry and Loreena McKennitt, two of the most conceptual musicians of their time, until Alanis Morissette emerged as a leader of the female folksinger movement. Ireland had two of the most unique voices, Sinead O'Connor and Enya, soon joined by Iceland's Bjork. In England, only Polly Jean Harvey ranked with these masters.

"Foxcore" was a brief fad propelled by West Coast all-girl punk bands such as Hole, Babes In Toyland, L7 and Seven Year Bitch.

Industrial music staged a dramatic comeback in Chicago with two of the most visible acts of the decade: Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, inspired by older European bands like KMFDM. New York followed suit with Cop Shoot Cop and Type O Negative, San Francisco with Neurosis, Steel Pole Bath Tub, Thinking Fellers Union. Texas with a florid industrial/psychedelic school that included the Pain Teensm Bedhead, and the Vas Deferens Organization.

Gothic rock came from the sun belt (Lycia, Black Tape For A Blue Girl) and was never as popular as the northern variant of industrial music.

Hard sounds still ruled in the aftermath of grunge, and New York (Unsane, Helmet, Surgery, Monster Magnet) and Los Angeles (Tool, Stone Temple Pilots, Kyuss, Korn) had their share of the pie.

Techno was the new trend in dance music. Invented in the Eighties in Detroit by the triad of disc jockeys Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May, techno crossed the Atlantic and established itself in England and in the continent (Front 242), marching hand in hand with the rave scene. America was left behind (Moby and not much else).

Britain was the place for psychedelic music. It started with the Liverpool revival of Echo And The Bunnymen and Julian Cope, then it picked up speed with dream-pop (Cocteau Twins, the Australian Dead Can Dance, the Norwegian Bel Canto, and later the formidable triad of Slowdive, Bark Psychosis and Tindersticks) and with the Scottish noise-pop bands (Jesus And Mary Chain and Primal Scream ) and finally reached a climax with the shoegazers (My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Loop, Spiritualized, Catherine Wheel), before folding into a new form of ambient music.

By the end of the decade, Britain was awash in Brit-pop, a media-induced trance of super-melodic pop that spawned countless "next big things", from Verve to Oasis to Blur to Suede to Radiohead, the band that finally disposed of it. But the best in the melodic genre came from humbler groups, led by girls, like Primitives and Heavenly.

The 1990s were also the decade of heavy metal, that peaked in Los Angeles with Metallica, Jane's Addiction, Guns And Roses, and that soon split into a myriad subgenres (doom metal, grind-core, death metal, etc) and funk-metal (Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against The Machine in Los Angeles, Primus and Faith No More in San Francisco). Marilyn Manson was the late phenomenon that recharged the genre.

Details On The Golden Age Of Heavy Metal

Punk-pop was born in Los Angeles in the Eighties, but somehow peaked in the Nineties elsewhere (Green Day in San Francisco, Screeching Weasel and Pegboy in Chicago).

The Nineties were the decade of intellectual rock, when no song could be just a melody and a rhythm but had to be all twisted and deranged. New York leaned towards rhythm and blues (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Soul Coughing, Royal Trux) and psychedelia (Yo La Tengo ), Boston towards psychedelia (Galaxie 500, Morphine) and pop (Breeders, Belly), Seattle towards psychedelia (Sky Cries Mary, Built To Spill), Los Angeles towards psychedelia (Mazzy Star, Red Temple Spirits, Medicine, Grant Lee Buffalo), San Francisco towards folk and country (American Music Club, Red House Painters), Washington towards punk-rock (Unrest, Girls Against Boys), Chicago towards punk-rock (Jesus Lizard) psychedelia (Codeine, Eleventh Dream Day), pop (Green, Smashing Pumpkins) and country (Uncle Tupelo). All of them owed something to the humble school of Kentucky, led by Slint and peaked with Tortoise.

Remnants of punk-rock in Texas (Ed Hall), Minneapolis (Cows), Tennessee (Today Is The Day) kept sending shock-waves around the nation.

San Francisco started the vogue for lo-fi pop with Pavement, which then begat Sebadoh, Guided By Voices, etc.

The Southeastern states came up strong with more and more intelligent sounds (Bitch Magnet, Blind Idiot God, Don Caballero, Grifters) that eventually peaked in the North Carolina school (Polvo, Seam).

Analog synthesizers staged a comeback with Jessamine, Magnog, Labradford.

But new styles kept coming literally from everywhere: Rhode Island (Six Finger Satellite), Arizona ( Calexico), Ohio ( Brainiac), Montana (Silkworm), Michigan (Windy & Carl).

England kept mutating its variant of psychedelia, that now began bordering on dissonant avantgarde (Stereolab, Ozric Tentacles, Pram, Flying Saucer Attack, Porcupine Tree).

The Nineties were the age of electronic music, whether in dance, ambient or noise format. Electronic musicians and ensembles spread to Belgium (Vidna Obmana), France (Air, Deep Forest, Lightwave), Germany (Sven Vath, Mo Boma, Oval, Mouse On Mars, Air Liquide), Canada (Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Delerium, Vampire Rodents, Trance Mission), Scandinavia, and especially Japan (Zeni Geva, Boredoms, Merzbow, the triad of noise). Britain's revitalized ambient scene yielded Orb, Main, Rapoon, Autechre.

Britain's dance music was far more successful (creatively speaking) than its rock bands: Madchester (Stone Roses), rave (Saint Etienne), transglobal dance (Banco De Gaia, Loop Guru, Transglobal Underground, TUU) ambient house (Orbital, Future Sound Of London, Aphex Twins, Mu-ziq), jungle (Goldie, Squarepusher, Propellerheads), trip-hop (Portishead, Tricky), and plain techno (Meat Beat Manifesto, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers) artists redefined compositional processes and cross-bred countless genres.

Industrial music and grindcore somehow merged and spawned terrifying sounds in the albums of Techno Animal and Godflesh.

The Irish Cranberries and the Scottish Belle And Sebastian are among the revelations of the end of the decade.

Australia still boasts impressive ensembles, and in particular one of the most important instrumental bands, Dirty 3.

The 1990s' boom of singer songwriters will continue throughout the decade. Among the leaders of influential bands, several will continue offering serious music on their own: Natalie Merchant, Kristin Hersh, Bob Mould, Frank Black, Paul Westerberg, Mark Eitzel, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, and, greatest of them all, Mark Lanegan.

Freedy Johnston, Vic Chesnutt, Peter Himmelman, My Dad Is Dead, Mountain Goats are among the new voices of the decade, each eccentric in his own way.

And the ranks seemed to increase towards the turn of the century: Jeff Buckley, Sparklehorse, Elliott Smith, Richard Buckner, Ben Harper, Joe Henry, Songs:Ohia, Damien Jurado, Pedro The Lion, etc.

Among female artists, Jarboe, Azalia Snail and Lida Husik were heavily influenced by psychedelia.

Cat Power, Beth Hart, Neko Case, Amy Denio, Heather Duby, Edith Frost, Shannon Wright are among the experimental artists to emerge in the late 1990s.

Liz Phair, Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple, Lili Haydn represent the commercial aspect of the movement, which peaked with Mariah Carey's innumerable hits.

Comments

[Rhythm__Guitar]

Never understood the whole "first to post thing".
But now I understand why people do it.

[Rhinosaur Bones]

Kyuss are from California, but I don't think Los Angeles.

[_TheWorst]

Nothing about Nirvana at all? Whatttt?

(Also RHCP as "funk metal!" Hahaha...)

[RosT3n]

NIRVANA!

[bmac85]

i thought this was kind of bland...being a huge fan of 90s popular rock i thought you could have elaborated more on the heavy hitters like oasis, green day, or smashing pumpkins let alone mention nirvana, pearl jam, and third eye blind...maybe that's a bit too mainstream for you, but that is 90s rock to me

[El_Bozo]

And no Word about Pantera... Wierd because the 90's were the pin-point where they started to be the best....

[magefredrik]

You wrote nothing about grunge?... Where is Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains in this article? And yeah, RHCP isnt' "funk-metal", there's not much metal about them.

[latinosuperstud]

bmac85 wrote:

i thought this was kind of bland...being a huge fan of 90s popular rock i thought you could have elaborated more on the heavy hitters like oasis, green day, or smashing pumpkins let alone mention nirvana, pearl jam, and third eye blind...maybe that's a bit too mainstream for you, but that is 90s rock to me

exactly... cant forget barenaked ladies... they were huge

[Caustic]

This article is, I'm afraid, absolutely terrible. Endless wrong statements, getting the origins of bands and genres wrong, ignoring several huge movements in 90's rock. I thought they checked these things?

Absolutely awful.

[PumpkinPieces]

No nirvana, no smashing pumpkins, and no pantera. You fail sir.

[Mitchy_Ramone]

Metallica in the 90's?


LOL!

[Ramco]

magefredrik wrote:

You wrote nothing about grunge?... Where is Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains in this article? And yeah, RHCP isnt' "funk-metal", there's not much metal about them.

There was music in the 90s that wasn't part of grunge. This is the first UG article to highlight the rest of it, instead of doing nothing but talking about how Nirvana and Pearl Jam "saved music".

[Mihyaeru]

No Mention of Dream Theater :S who r pretty much the biggest prog-metal band now thanks to all the albums they released in the 90's!!!

[orion284]

Ramco wrote:

magefredrik wrote:

You wrote nothing about grunge?... Where is Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains in this article? And yeah, RHCP isnt' "funk-metal", there's not much metal about them.

There was music in the 90s that wasn't part of grunge. This is the first UG article to highlight the rest of it, instead of doing nothing but talking about how Nirvana and Pearl Jam "saved music".

i get wut ur sayin about the rest of the 90's music but they didn't even mention grunge(unless u consider pumpkins grunge which most ppl don't)

[Gee-Tar1]

yeah i normally don't complain but 90s was one of the best periods of music ever and this column didn't do any justice. No Nirvana or Pearl Jam? RHCP?

[Sixpack5001]

grunge?

[causomeguy35]

wat about blink 182 who was really famous in the 90s!they were 1 of the most popular bands!

[tamargoguitar]

Where the **** is foo fighters?

[dgme92]

manic street preachers?? forgive me if they're in there, but i sure as hell didn't see them. and WTF ABOUT STP?!?

[Stealthtastic]

Nu metal?

[Rooster666]

Nirvana? Alice In Chains? Pantera? RHCP?

I thought this was about 90s ROCK music. Tori Amos and Alanis Morissette are not rockers. The bands mentioned above are.

[aleckillscobra]

wat about blink 182 who was really famous in the 90s!they were 1 of the most popular bands!

well they got big in 99 after enema, so they werent really part of the 90s scene. also, why is janes addiction undermetal? i dont listen to them a lot, but what i have heard sure a shell isnt metal. and the problem with this article is it lists all the minor short lived fads no one remembers. when i think nineties, nirvana is the first band that comes to mind. also, im not sure, but wasnt courtney the only girl in hole? atleast i thought she was.

[Eruption_Rocker]

No, there was a female bassist in Hole, who later joined the Pumpkins. But dude, I ****ing loved the Nineties. That was my favorite period of rock n' roll, AND MUSIC IN GENERAL! This article did not pay it's dues.

Also, there's something I MUST address. METALLICA HAD BEEN FORMED IN 1981! THEIR FUCKING GOLDEN AGE WAS IN THE 80s! They were, if anything, INFAMOUS in the Nineties. For example, underselling albums (except possibly the Black Album), and the whole Napster trial! Metallica had a very small role in the Nineties!

[Toaster Pastry]

It's Aphex Twin, not "Aphex Twins".

[G-Wiz]

No Nirvana? Sure they were early 90's but they still had a good part in it. The 90's were a great age of music. Not that I have a problem with it but most of the so called "Alternative/Punk" aired on the radio around my town these days is Pop music.

[guitarshark2099]

as UG'ers (who take time in the middle of the night to read these articles because the satelite is out and just got done playing guitar for several hours) we must unite and boycott (although i don't really know how we could go about this... maybe refrain from clicking the article titles?) these pitifully written articles...

i mean what the ****? making up a genre for RHCP (that doesn't suit them), no mention of nirvana, lack of information on Pantera and Alice in Chains, saying Metallica was big in the nineties (i happen to like 1991-present but most prefer the eighties..)

this is one piss poor article but i will cut it slight slack and say that it isnt the ONLY terrible article. these need to be proofread. i can't say im the most avid UG'er in making the site a greater place, but jesus christ i need something decent to read on here than in the van on comeback road.

[G-Wiz]

guitarshark2099 wrote:

as UG'ers (who take time in the middle of the night to read these articles because the satelite is out and just got done playing guitar for several hours) we must unite and boycott (although i don't really know how we could go about this... maybe refrain from clicking the article titles?) these pitifully written articles...

i mean what the ****? making up a genre for RHCP (that doesn't suit them), no mention of nirvana, lack of information on Pantera and Alice in Chains, saying Metallica was big in the nineties (i happen to like 1991-present but most prefer the eighties..)

this is one piss poor article but i will cut it slight slack and say that it isnt the ONLY terrible article. these need to be proofread. i can't say im the most avid UG'er in making the site a greater place, but jesus christ i need something decent to read on here than in the van on comeback road.

AYE! I'll drink to the no Nirvana part! PROOF-READERS UNITE!

[telepath14]

This article is mostly just a big list of bands, not very informative at all. It also contains many opinions, most of which I disagree with. My biggest complaint: Radiohead shouldn't just be lumped in with Britpop. They were kind of diffferent.

[what_the_bleep?]

The 1990s' boom of singer songwriters will continue throughout the decade. Among the leaders of influential bands, several will continue offering serious music on their own: Natalie Merchant, Kristin Hersh, Bob Mould, Frank Black, Paul Westerberg, Mark Eitzel, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, and, greatest of them all, Mark Lanegan.

Wow, someone really likes the Screaming Trees. While I think Mark is a great songwriter with one of the greatest and most unique voices I've heard, I don't know if I'd say he's the greatest one on or off that list. Also I am pretty sure the movement is known as Riot Grrl, not Foxcore. If they had said it was a brief overview of 90s techno music and a few offerings of others I wouldn't be as disappointed in theis article as I am. And yes, it is missing nirvana, pantera, and about a million other bands. Just listing the lead singers of bands (like Black and Weiland) proves how little research this guy did, because Dean and Robert Deleo did just as much songwriting as weiland and Frank didn't do everything in the pixies. But good job mentioning pj harvey.

[MetalliRage]

ppl don't realize it but metal and hard rock really dominated the 90s. all the hits were coming from AIC STP Pearl Jam Pantera Black/Load/Reload Metallica soundgarden and RATM. Grunge is more of a time period than a genre b/c the only really alternative band of that era was really nirvana. so come on, glam was dead but there was such awesome hard rock and metal from that time period and it shall never be forgotten.

[Ingsoc]

You wrote a summary of 90's rock music without any mention of Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, or Nirvana. That qualifies as a fail.

[zerodeck]

wtf Red Hot Chili Peppers: funk-metal???,
nothing about Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Mudhoney, The Melvins or any other decent grunge band? and also no metal bands? they didn't exist for you or what?

and far too many sub-genres, it's as if every band has it's own genre, let's keep it: pop, techno, punk, rock, metal thats fine for me

[zerodeck]

btw: why is the title 'The History Of: 90's Rock Music' while most of the article is about pop and techno?

[Dylanis]

Nirvana was 90s rock music.

[flea5906]

rhcp are NOT funk metal. maybe they had some funk metal type stuff on their earlier albums in the 80s but in the 90s they were mostly just rock with some funk on the side

[MyAxe]

This article didnt help me out at all to understand the 90's.
First off there is no mention of nirvana, foo fighters, and pearl jam at all. Which they were the founding fathers of the grunge genre. Yet this article gives no mention to it.

Second, What happened to pantera?? they spoke of some heavy metal groups but if you are speaking about the general metal scene I say around 95% of all heavy metal artist have either been influenced or worship pantera.

Third RHCP are not funk metal. there just plain funk rock. By saying that im not denoting rhcp. trust me they kick ass. But they need to learn to find there sources right.

Finishing off half of this article talked about genres such as techno and such. WHY???
this is ultimate guitar not ultimate techno.

OK Im done with my ramble

[T3hShortness]

Me i think Nirvana is WAY TOO OVERRATED

[dm_86]

Where's Alice in Chains

[GuitaPlaya]

Where the **** is the Jesus Lizard or Nirvana? They are the best two bands of all time.

[what_the_bleep?]

First off there is no mention of nirvana, foo fighters, and pearl jam at all. Which they were the founding fathers of the grunge genre.

Sorry dude, but the foo fighters were most certainly not a founding father of the grunge genre. Dave Grohl is the man, but the first foo album didn't even come out until 1995.

I say around 95% of all heavy metal artist have either been influenced or worship pantera.

But this made me laugh. Not because I think it's untrue, but because I have this mental image of a bunch of guys wearing Vulgar Display of Power tshirts bowing before an altar with a picture of Dimebag Darrell

[ghostofhendrix]

Grunge was a big thing in the early 90's but its barely mentioned and what happened to Pantera and the Foos?

Checked.

[Jondy]

Went over the history of... foxcore? but not grunge. smash mouth? nirvana? pantera? nope, lets talk about metallica in the 90's. and type o negative. wtf!

it doesn't matter if you hated grunge or loved grunge, in a history of 90's article to exclude grunge is... downright stupid.

[johnstoner666]

this is so retarded! NO Nirvana,No Pearl Jam, Labeling RHCP as Funk Metal??? these people are wrong far wrong...O and Korn as Grunge...hmmm stupid!

[easthatred]

I love to read all these bands that no one listens to anymore. I also love how they forgot NIRVANA of all the bands stated. Our Lady Peace kicked ass too and they are better known than half of the bands missed and stated in this article. wheres CHUMBA WUMBA or w/e they had the biggest hit everyone knows it. No Savage Garden either kekekekeke

[newyorknitemare]

I know it's been said before, but you can't have an article about 90's music and not dedicate a significant portion to Seattle Grunge rock. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, and Sound garden were some of the most successful acts of the decade and had it not been for the Seattle sound becoming popular than many if not most of these bands would not have even seen the light of day. Grunge is also responsible for finally killig that awful 80's "Hair-Metal". I mean you mention Chris Cornell and Mark Lanegan as great "Singer/ Songwriters" but less we forget that Lanegan is the voice of the Screaming Trees, and Cornell is the banshee howl that fuled Soung Garden.

[rondonna]

yeah whatever

hey primus was good!

not to mention the highly underrated firehose

but not to mention nirvana?

someone just was not there i think the person who wrote this article is envious of that success

what about sonic youth?

basically the 90's saw the rise of underground music to mass marketing

as far as even mentioning the rave craze, you should give props to the djs as the 'bands' were nothing but computer operators passing as musicians.

peace,

Rondonna

[user42]

smashing pumpkins barely mentioned as pop. lol!

[powerage225]

bad article, no real direction other than naming bands, their genre and where they came from

[timkick]

_TheWorst wrote:

Nothing about Nirvana at all? Whatttt?

(Also RHCP as "funk metal!" Hahaha...)

You'd think since he mentioned Hole, this person would mention one of the better grunge bands.

[Me2NiK]

Grunge dominated the first half of the 1990's and Nirvana's influence on music as a whole cannot be denied. This article would be a decent article if it weren't for the fact that it might as well have been an article on the seventies that didn't mention Led Zeppelin, or an article on the sixties that didn't mention the Beatles.

[guitarist_9018]

if there were to be an article about band that no body really remembers from the nineties, buddy ud be spot on i think. and saying that metallica was a big part of the nineties mae my list of dumb things ive heard today, good job

[Major Seventh]

this is basically an incomplete list of bands that were around in the 90s... not really an article

[new_decade]

^ seconded.
way too much information, too small an article.

[Skam127]

hmmm sumthing is missing couldn't be NIVARNA.

Check #2

[E V H 5150]

The 90's totally killed music. After the Berlin Wall fell, I think that the world just started dying, and music would not be the same.

I thought Nirvana was gonna be mentioned. And how grunge killed metal, and music.

There really was nothing cool in the 90's. But there's some cool stuff in this decade.

[cocky_rooster]

pavement? pixies?

[kirkadolph]

the first thing that came to my mind when i saw this article was Nirvana...and it doesnt say a dam thing about them haha

[yawn]

A pretty ambitious article, no doubt.


Anyways, I'm glad that this article wasn't inundated with the typical UG bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains. So much more happened in the 90s music scene than just rock. Though, I noticed you completely left out rap. o.O

Though, author, you might want to check your title. It doesn't really coincide with the article's content, and obviously this would upset lots of whiny UGers.

[Obelisk]

This article makes me so happy. I love it.

Not because it's good.

Because it's pissing so many of you dumb ****ers off, because it doesn't have Nirvana or Pearl Jam mentioned or highlighted in it.

Oh, this is hysterical.

When will you people figure out that half of the articles that go up here aren't even really articles? This is just a list of bands pigeon-holed into loose fitting genres!

[jshizznit]

WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH YOU PEOPLE AND NIRVANA...sure they were a good band...not the best...i do love pearl jam...and alice in chains is my favorite band...but someone needs to spotlight these bands that never got much of a chance...

[pucci6d6]

jshizznit wrote:

WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH YOU PEOPLE AND NIRVANA...sure they were a good band...not the best...i do love pearl jam...and alice in chains is my favorite band...but someone needs to spotlight these bands that never got much of a chance...

umm yeah i kinda agree except that, umm did u read the title The History Of: 90's Rock Music
th ereason why everyone is hissy-fitting over nirvana, is oh say, they were probably one of the most influentual bands in that decade, or perhaps ever
even if you dont like them that much, their affect on music is undeniable, and the fact theyre not mentioned in this article, at all, i find appaling

[alucardmik]

add me to the people going "NIRVANA"
add tool

[SocKo?]

half u guys sound like u didnt even read the article, just regurgitating what the last couple guys said.

smashing pumpkins is in there, alice in chains is in there (however abbreviated).

as for rhcp, their 90's stuff is more accurately described as funkcore. there is alot of metal elements, especially during navarro's time with the band (see coffee shop, that sure sounds like funk metal to me).

a band doesnt have to play in drop C with heavy palm muted distorted guitars and scream about satan to be considered metal.

i'd love to continue this debate but im afraid i might hear 4 different UG'ers flame me on one fact in a row.

[Qazo]

I think you lost your way a little here. I think next time it would be better to focus on a few bands and how they were influenced by or influenced the 90's. Obvious example Nirvana. Second small point; RHCP - in 1991 they released their 5th Album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, while this is arguably their best album they did not start in the 90s - they started in 1983! Oh and another thing - Funk Metal?

[Qazo]

Oh another thing - I'm from the UK - I somehow missed out on the Psychadelic Rock craze that was apparently going on? Sorry to say this but the fact is - You can accurately call my generation the Nirvana Generation - Why? Because Nirvana were one of the defining characteristics of 90s Rock Music.

[_zac_]

THERE WERE OTHER BANDS IN THE NINETIES OUTSIDE OF SHITTY GRUNGE, GET OVER IT WHEN SOMEONE FAILS TO MENTION YOUR FAVOURITE BAND.

And to them moron who said Nirvana were one of the most influential bands ever: they were nothing special, sure they influenced the huge influx of shitty generic "alt-rock" bands we are having to deal with now, but I think it is safe to say Iron Maiden and Pink Floyd had a bigger influence on music then every band in the nineties combined.

Also why does everyone on UG whine so much?

[JD Blue Venom]

prodigy dominated techno in britian one i am british two i remember them being uber popular, plus pantera were ruling heavy metal coz they were as heavy as **** at the time, hes underated RAGE here im offended lol all this talk about innovation and fails to mention the legend of guitaring innovation tom morello!!!!! WANKER (sorry hes high up in my gutiar idol list) GRR

[JD Blue Venom]

T3hShortness wrote:

Me i think Nirvana is WAY TOO OVERRATED

i'd drink to that

[dgme92]

JD Blue Venom wrote:

T3hShortness wrote:

Me i think Nirvana is WAY TOO OVERRATED


i'd drink to that

but they WERE and still are massively influential on a lot of bands then and now.

[banter]

radiohead mention?

[Blind Messiah]

I appreciate the effort, but god damn, innaccuracy and missing information everywhere. For one thing RHCP are NOT metal, like at all. Also, nothing on grunge, which wether people like it or not, was the most important music of the 90s. For another thing calling it the "golden age of metal" is very arguable. For one thing, the 90s didn't have a definitive metal genre really. WHile it did offer improvements on thrash, and a beginning for other sub-genres, there wasn't any revolution to be had for metal, or as many influential bands as like the 80s (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Angelwitch, Celtic Frost, so forth). Also, in the first part you say 'the 90s was apart from dance music' or some odd thing. But then you talk about techno.

[martyr1130]

dude the only really good metal band, imo, to come out of the 90's, is pantera!!!! sure metallica and all the other big names were decently big, but i mean jeez, its just so inaccurate to say the golden age of metal.

R.I.P Dimebag Darrel

[heartagram256]

DUDE, where are PANTERA, SlipknoT, and Linkin Park. I mean i can understand not sayin anything about Limp Bizkit but i mean come on!!. And you need the stuff from other countries like H.I.M (They're from Finland if you didnt know)

[urdad]

lmao i dont understand why people are flaming nirvana. i think they deserve be on the list they CHANGED ROCK HISTORY. nirvana is really influential, hell their songs are so easy to play yet so catchy and good. you cant say they were shit for that. and wth wheres the other grunge bands? soundgarden, alice in chains they were a crapload influential too

[Grönis]

90's music, from a guy born in 92...

[slash6464]

_TheWorst wrote:

Nothing about Nirvana at all? Whatttt?

(Also RHCP as "funk metal!" Hahaha...)

dude as if some stuff off mothers milk, isn't thrashy

[rebreh]

Ok idiots rhcp was funk metal. They mixed a heavire sound to funk like the songs don't foreget me or dani california. And where was kid rock mentioned in the articel. He only sold 11 million copies on devil and recharged the rock scene

[jmh886]

This article is crap. The 90s as the golden age of heavy metal?!! Half the bands they listed under metal arent metal.

[jmh886]

rebreh wrote:

Ok idiots rhcp was funk metal. They mixed a heavire sound to funk like the songs don't foreget me or dani california. And where was kid rock mentioned in the articel. He only sold 11 million copies on devil and recharged the rock scene

haha kidrock recharged the rock scene? just because he sold 11 million albums doesnt mean that. and those two songs are terrible examples for ur justification of rhcp as funk metal. i dont believe they are funk metal, but if you were to claim that better examples would be theyre stuff from the 80s and maybe the greeting song.

[wolfmother256]

PEARL JAM? NIRVANA? where are they?

[Teufel]

Music from the 90s was laughable.

[dickie_kak]

All you tried to do is tell everyone what genre you think some bands are in. This article is not a history of 90's music.

And how can you have an article about 90s music, or any music after April 20th, 1994 and not Mention Kurt Cobain. Dude, a weak article.

[screamingtadpol]

Lacking, but it was nice to see the awesome sebadoh up there.

[i_eat_souls]

Lets Kill Behringer Man and string him up as an example to never again write shitty articles that are full of lies and deceit!!!

[urdad]

Teufel wrote:

Music from the 80s was laughable.

correction for you ty for stopping by you now go back to your hair metal queers xD

[inmana]

What about Sublime? 311? Two very influencial bands that were big in the 90's...

[Teufel]

urdad wrote:

Teufel wrote:

Music from the 80s was laughable.

correction for you ty for stopping by you now go back to your hair metal queers xD

Let's see, when I compare the 80s and 90s what do I see? I see a MAJOR decline in music overall, specifically the guitar. The 90s didn't have any great guitarists except those that were around in the 80s and progressed on thru the 90s into today. Hair metal possessed a hell of a lot of skill as opposed to the shite of the 90s.

Now, as for imperative corrections, I find your grammar skills and punctuation skills requiring a vast improvement, therefore I recommend you head back to elementary school.

[Five Magics]

I agree Nirvana was influential, but not THE influential band of the 90's. There were other important bands of the 90's, not just grunge orientated bands. What about the emergence of Stoner Rock for example,from the Masters of Reality and Kyuss - and let's not forget QOTSA in 1997. The "article", if you can call it that, is accurate in that it describes the music scene in Britain during the 90's as mostly techno, dance and pop orientated, which is certainly what I can remember hearing during the time.

[BGM>YOU]

What the hell? This is terrible. You talk about almost all of the crappy music in the 90's, you didn't even mention Grunge. I did, however like how you listed Scott Wieland, Chris Cornell, and Mark Lanegan as great songwriters...But you did forget some good writers...Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, I mean c'mon. And there wasn't anything about Sean Kinney in this arcitle, thus, its blasphamus.

[GNR's Fan]

Jeff Buckley

Lets not forget one of the legend, he was not only an exceptional singer also a amzing guitarist, even Jimi Page said so, Grace was one of his favourite albums of the decade.

[gyzer_8970]

"England kept mutating its variant of psychedelia, that now began bordering on dissonant avantgarde (Stereolab, Ozric Tentacles, Pram, Flying Saucer Attack, Porcupine Tree)."

Whoa, do you live in a thesaurus?

[gyzer_8970]

GNR's Fan wrote:

Jeff Buckley

Lets not forget one of the legend, he was not only an exceptional singer also a amzing guitarist, even Jimi Page said so, Grace was one of his favourite albums of the decade.

JIMI Page?

[Seymore190]

I like the Ozric Tentacles reference

[slash2005]

lol the authors name is like behringer man, no wonder this article is gay

[daehlatem_22]

DUDE!!
You need to do some more studying about or according to rock/metal your knowledge. First off the 90's was a total scene of depression or depressed rock! By this i'm refuring to two kick ass bands Nirvana and Alice n' chains. These two bands were a major scene of the 90's and during their time they did a BOSS unplug.
You have no idea about metal dude where's PANTERA most of the bands now days refur that pantera was their reason for starting a band. You also left out MEGADETH and SLAYER these three bands including METALLICA were the gods of metal during this time!

[saad_nirvana]

WHAT HAPPENED TO GRUNGE?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?

[punkrockdude2]

Who cares about nirvana and Grunge? it was all overrated and sounded the same.

[BGM>YOU]

Who cares about nirvana and Grunge? it was all overrated and sounded the same.

Nirvana was the worst grunge band by far. And in no way did any Grunge sound the same...Judging by your biased opinion I'd assume that you've listened to very little grunge.

[punkrockdude2]

yeah ur right..I apogize. I do like some Alice in chains and Soundgarden but there was like only 3 grunge bands.

[BGM>YOU]

yeah ur right..I apogize. I do like some Alice in chains and Soundgarden but there was like only 3 grunge bands.

Three? Ahem...
Alice in Chains
Mother Love Bone
Mudhoney
Stone Temple Pilots
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Candelbox
Green River
Mad Season
The Screaming Trees
Temple of the Dog
...Yeah, there are more than three.

[rhcp_freak]

magefredrik wrote:

You wrote nothing about grunge?... Where is Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains in this article? And yeah, RHCP isnt' "funk-metal", there's not much metal about them.

Listen to their 80's stuff.

[BGM>YOU]

Listen to their 80's stuff.

I only listen to their 80's stuff...It isn't metal.

[bassetrox]

I've never understood the whole "funk-metal" label either. But he's not the first person to use it.

Not bad as a reference, but felt quite like a list rather than an article:|

Im surprised at the lack of Nirvana and Pumpkins tbh.

[WeAreTheNormal]

lol nothing about goo goo dolls

[shoolocomous]

loll radiohead arent britpop thankyou very much, and rhcp are definately not metal, and metallicas golden age was definately not the 90's and slowdrive was more shoegaze than my bloody valentine, who were earlier and more of an influence on the scene than part of it, and also i have this to say to the guys saying that metal died in the 90's; it didnt, we just lost the completely ridiculous hair metal style stuff which was all about image over substance, which is never good.

[Melonhead2]

Blind melon? Please? Maybe just a little...

[Behringer Man]

I copied and pasted every bit of that shit SO GET OF MY ASS!!!!! i was just board as **** one night and plus i didnt even read it. DAMN!!!!!

[emery01]

Please, if you're going to write an article on a very very broad genre of music make sure you DON'T MAKE SH*T UP.

Trust and believe, these people are unforgiving.

And if you didn't proof read it, you probably shouldn't have posted it.

You've successfully made an arse of yourself.

=]

[redstrat8]

NIRVANA-1967 BAND FROM OREGON

[redstrat8]

THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH MUSIC NOW.TOO MANY BANDS.GO BACK TO THE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S TO LISTEN TO SOME GOOD BANDS.

[DroptheBomb]

i tihnk this is fyukin shaweet.
its very in depth on all the underground and grassroots and DIY bands that sprung up in the 90's instead of concentrating on all the commercially successful and mainstream bands.

very nice article

[DroptheBomb]

Let's see, when I compare the 80s and 90s what do I see? I see a MAJOR decline in music overall, specifically the guitar. The 90s didn't have any great guitarists except those that were around in the 80s and progressed on thru the 90s into today. Hair metal possessed a hell of a lot of skill as opposed to the shite of the 90s.

actuallly there vaery many great guitarists in the 90's

Dimebag
Petrucci
Morello
John 5[manson]

Wes Borland[ya fre ddurst was a faggot but if u actualy to some better bizkit tracks u will hear all sorts of cool things like 2-hand tapping, and all sorts of shit]

Chuck Shuldiner[death didnt become progressive metal till the 90's]
Michael Romeo[Symphony x formed in 94]

and Judas priest didnt get really into technically proficent type songas more till the 90's when they realeased "Painkiller"

Jerry Cantrell

Larry Lalonde