Your top 5 90s grunge/alt rock/metal bands

[SterileEyes1]

This thread is inspiring me to check out more Soul Asylum. Misery is one of my favorite songs ever, I play it all the time, but haven’t really checked out their other stuff besides Runaway Train and Just Like Anyone. If anyone has a few suggestions, TIA!

Gravedancer's Union. Every song.

Listening now. This is great. Thank you!

[DemonFilth2001]

This thread is inspiring me to check out more Soul Asylum. Misery is one of my favorite songs ever, I play it all the time, but haven’t really checked out their other stuff besides Runaway Train and Just Like Anyone. If anyone has a few suggestions, TIA!

Gravedancer's Union. Every song.

Listening now. This is great. Thank you!

You're welcome. Each listen...it gets better.

The stuff before is absolutely terrible. Don't expect ANYTHING from their prior releases.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Urge Overkill. Saturation was a great album.

[alexleehooker]

Not in any order BUT...

Nirvana
Screaming Trees
Alice in Chains
Blind Melon
Pearl Jam (first album)

Bubbling under:

Mudhoney
Tad
RATM (first album)
Some Soundgarden was amazing, some grating
Some Type O Negative was very good and very funny, maybe genius, quite a lot of it just boring or half developed filler
Janes Addiction

[Bono Nettencourt]

Was Jane's really a 90s band? They straddled the decade line, kinda like Living Colour.

[Chip Z'Hoy]

Urge Overkill. Saturation was a great album.

I agree. Terrible band though. Just dogshit.

Top 5 90's bands? Yikes. Let me think

1. The Jesus Lizard: Otherworldly in their greatness. Nirvana bowed at their feet.
2. Smashing Pumpkins: Kinda the anti-Jesus Lizard. Terrible live band; very uncool, even then. But Siamese Dream is a perfect 10/10 album.
3. Alice in Chains: Totally changed rock music. I don't think they get near enough credit.
4. Jawbreaker: I saw them open for Nirvana in 1993 and thought they were cool but never really pursued their music after that. In the last couple years, I've been going nuts for them. Amazing pop-punk songwriting; great lyrics. 24 Hour Revenge Therapy might be the best punk album of the 90's.
5. White Zombie: I was leaning towards Screaming Trees or the Breeders but I gotta give it up to Zombie, specifically the La Sexorcisto album. For a minute there, they were AWESOME. (Next album blew.)

[Gibsonite]

This thread is inspiring me to check out more Soul Asylum. Misery is one of my favorite songs ever, I play it all the time, but haven’t really checked out their other stuff besides Runaway Train and Just Like Anyone. If anyone has a few suggestions, TIA!

Gravedancer's Union. Every song.

Listening now. This is great. Thank you!

Hang Time is full of great songs as well, with an "edgier" sound more akin to the other Minneapolis alt-rock bands than what came afterwards. Its probably my favorite SA record

[Chip Z'Hoy]

Grave Dancers Union is another 10/10 album. Let the Dim Light Shine is almost as good, maybe 8/10.

[EyeDocOfRock]

Alice In Chains

Soundgarden

STP

[DemonFilth2001]

Grave Dancers Union is another 10/10 album. Let the Dim Light Shine is almost as good, maybe 8/10.

Agree with both of your ratings. Yep.

[Tommy2Tone84]

Was Jane's really a 90s band? They straddled the decade line, kinda like Living Colour.

You can say the same about Soundgarden. Nirvana, Chili Peppers and even Alice In Chains

[HoldenSSV]

Alice in Chains
Stone Pimple Toilets

These are the only two bands that I purchased multiple releases from. The rest are all "a decent song or two".

[WentEast]

[You believed all the bullshit they fed you or you were too high or too young to remember. The 80s was very political. You must be too young to remember the PMRC Hearings. Ozzy getting sued, Priest getting sued by shitty assed psycho parents over their lyrics. KISS, who were not that popular at the time, got picketed by religious nuts on their 1983 tour

Then there was Live Aid, Farm Aid, We Are The World. I’ll even throw in the Moscow Music Peace Festival, August 1989. The Berlin Wall fell a couple months later. It had been a slow burn but I have no doubt that festival helped. I couldn’t imagine something like that happening now.]

I too was there (I'm 53), and what you are missing was that while the times were political, the artists mostly were not. Dee Snider was largely alone metal-wise at the PMRC hearings. Ozzy and Priest didn't talk that much about the lawsuits (they left it to the lawyers). KISS? Nah. Live Aid was a chance to play before a global audience remember the political speeches from the stage that day? Neither do I. And Doc McGee did the MMPF as a plea deal for a drug bust.

[Tommy2Tone84]

King’s X
Jellyfish
Kik Tracee
Big Head Todd
Living Colour

[Bono Nettencourt]

Urge Overkill. Saturation was a great album.

I agree. Terrible band though. Just dogshit.

Yeah after the Pulp Fiction cover they didn't know what to do with themselves.

Agree w/ you on Zombie. They were heavy, funky, and original... and then they started repeating themselves ad nauseam. Does Rob know any key other than E?

[thunderdan]

great call on urge overkill "saturation". haven't listened for years, love it in high school. will listen to it again.

[DemonFilth2001]

great call on urge overkill "saturation". haven't listened for years, love it in high school. will listen to it again.

Yeah. Shit band. Listening to Sister Havana now. Super generic. How was this a hit?

[exitflagger]

great call on urge overkill "saturation". haven't listened for years, love it in high school. will listen to it again.

Yeah. Shit band. Listening to Sister Havana now. Super generic. How was this a hit?

Dude, for the millionth time, we get it. You love crap and dislike anything good. No need to reconfirm it over and over. STFU.

[exitflagger]

I'll stick to "alt-metal" because I always thought that was an interesting style. Neither real grunge nor later faux grunge really have much to do with that.

1. The Genitorturers
2. White Zombie
3. Still Rain
4. Clutch
5. Turbonegro

[Kerry67]

Mother Love Bone
Alice in Chains
Veruca Salt
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden

[The Sacred Cowman]

Collective Soul
Live
Better Than Ezra
Blind Melon
Alice In Chains