25 Best Alternative Rock Bands of the 90s
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http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/55358/the-25-best-alternative-rock-bands-of-the-1990s
This is laughable.
No AIC?
No Soundgarden?
No STP?
No NIN?
No ......... PEARL JAM???
The writer is such a fucking snob it makes me sick... he apparently thinks that any band that appealed to a mass audience isn't worth a damn.
This is laughable.
No AIC?
No Soundgarden?
No STP?
No NIN?
No ......... PEARL JAM???
The writer is such a fucking snob it makes me sick... he apparently thinks that any band that appealed to a mass audience isn't worth a damn.
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Yeah, probably because Cobain killed himself so they didn't have years of "irrelevancy" like Pearl Jam and the others... sad but true.
Green Day? (even though they aren't my favorite by any means)
Oasis?
Blind Melon?
Call me a "conformist" but I haven't even heard of about half of the bands on this stupid list.
He's tryin' to be an artsy music critic.
EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
How would you feel if somebody laughed at your opinion???
That list isn't half bad.. Sure it doesn't have Pearl Jam, but it's not my list.
Its laughable because it doesn't include commonly agreed upon "shoe ins" like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, AIC, Radiohead, NIN, etc etc. Without these bands, absolutely, the list is laughable.
Yes, I know it's his "fucking opinion."
yea. But it's another diss for our band. Leaves them out cuz they sold 10 million copies. Yet puts Nirvana in even though they sold the same.
Top anything lists always make me gag because they alienate everyone except the person whom conjured the list.
It really makes no difference in our lives so it's nothing to fret over..
WHOA..... everyone just calm down.
and its title is "best BANDS" and he puts PJ Harvey, Beck, etc. in it... as far as I know, PJ Harvey is not a band...
2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
Is it really that important that everyone has to like Pearl Jam or realise their (supposed) significance? They're an important band but outside this message board, they're not some sort of musical god.
Are you Fucking Kidding Me?
This guy must write for Pitchfork. Add Radiohead to the list and you've pretty much got Pitchforks boner list.
I despise these Too Cool For School Indie Hack Writers. They rip anything that sells over 500,000 records and praise every gone in 60 seconds Indie Band.
Don't pay any mind to this idiot.
its some guys opinion
just be open to the fact that he put some different bandsi n there
i mean where were nirvana like 10th?
least it was different
8/7/08, 6/9/09
The "list" accomplished what any list really, IMO, sets out to do: gets people talking about it and arguing and commenting on it. Do I disagree with some of the selections on it? Absolutely... I think Tom Waits might be the most overrated artist of my lifetime... I think Julian Cope stinks... the Red House Painters are terrible... but they all fit. Did the writer seem to take a "Indie Rock-er Than Thou" approach? Definitely... but I think that's what he was going for. And the fact that many people here and people commenting on the blog had no clue who many of the artists were confirms that, and the inclusion of many of the non-mainstream stuff (which the aforementioned PJ/STP/etc. groups are not part of, much as we may not want to admit it) fits.
You're in for a fucking treat with Sebadoh... one of my favorite bands.
Radiohead is the true defintion of alternative and they transcend Alt. music itself. You would find them on top 25 lists for 90's music in general, not just alt.
What I dont get is that he is not against putting big alt bands on the list (weezer) but then leave out the good ones like Radiohead,RHCP,Beasties,Oasis,Blur,Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins. He did put Pavement in which is cool, but such an inconsistent piece of trash list.
I wouldn't admit that to anyone, though I do agree leaving out Pj, NIN, AIC, Soundgarden etc out is ridulous. Although quoting Bruce Dickinson from the Maiden show in Washington the other night "Soundgarden's a fucking metal band".
Well, he's right if you ask me. Think back to how they (and Alice in Chains) were both promoted prior to the Seattle blow-up... they were both "metal" bands. Facelift was pushed as nothing else BUT a metal album by a metal band. Then, Nirvana blew up, every band in Seattle got signed because nobody wanted to miss out on the "next big thing", and suddenly Soundgarden and AIC were "alterna-grunge" bands, just like every other band with guitars and bass and drums that happened to come out of the Northwest.
"Pearl Jam may have sounded like Blood, Sweat and Tears on "the clear" but their business practices and general outlook on life once they'd sold 10 million copies of their first album was pretty much a "leave us be" kind of approach."
Methinks he really doesn't care for the band anyway. He is just trying to be unique and show that he is hip. Just one persons opinion, don't have a problem with it or any other list (including the RS one). They are basically just one persons opinion meant to stir discussion. It already worked I see since we are already on page 2 of this thread.
How did he get on to talking about Soundgarden?
i always like to show those people just how heavy SG can get!
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yes its a guys opinion, but he is really trying to cater to the "anti mainstream"
im more frustrated guys like this gets articles or "blogs" on the net and piss people off enough thats the only reason why anyone would read his article
Beck??? are you kidding me??