OK - Top 10 Music Artists from 1990-today

Let's just take both decades together. They kind of fit together like the 60's and 70's did (at least to me)

So here's mine:

1 - Radiohead
2 - Elliott Smith
3 - Phish
4 - Belle and Sebastian
5 - Screaming Trees
6 - Rage Against the Machine
7 - The White Stripes
8 - Ween
9 - Nirvana
10 - Amy Winehouse (sorry haters, she DOES have an amazing voice)

Go ahead and put down your inferior artists :P

Radiohead
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins
Weezer
Pearl Jam
Beck
Nine Inch Nails
Foo Fighters
Green Day
OutKast

of mine. Blind Melon, too.

:thmbsup:

He's great.

But from 1990 to now, I have liked:

Counting Crows
Pearl Jam
Coheed and Cambria
Porcupine Tree
My Chemical Romance
Rage Against the Machine
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Alice in Chains



Yeah, there are others.

Nickelback
Creed
Britney Spears
Katy Perry
The Jonas Brothers
Hansen
Miley Cyrus
Clay Aiken
P. Diddy (or whatever the hell he calls himself these days)
CHUGGO

:cry:

Also, Rush was sadly left off of this list. In the end, Miley Cyrus rocked just a tad harder than they do.

1. Nirvana
2. Widespread Panic
3. Greenday
4. Radiohead
5. Oasis
6. Tool
7. Pearl Jam
8. Dave Matthews
9. Wallflowers
10. Counting Crows

Edited to add:
11. Goo Goo Dolls. Sorry, he's just so cute.

But one really great album doesn't make her in the top 10

In no particular order:

Green Day
Radiohead
U2
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
NIN
Madonna
Bruce Springsteen
Soundgarden
The Beastie Boys

Both are amazing

But yeah, it was a tough choice

U2, for me, will always be an "Eighties" band, even though some of their best stuff came out in the 90's

NIN never did it for me. Sure, Trent Reznor is good, and I'd list him in a top 25

The one I felt bad leaving off was Green Day

when she has the career that Madonna has had then perhaps she can be on the list.

And you defined it as the best music since the 90s+ so U2 is very very viable for that list. Technically many of these bands you listed were founded in the late 80s

Madonna? OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

:hi:

and some of that music is pretty damn good too

2 - Madonna sucks. What range of vocals? What music? It's all pre-fab pop out of some boardroom.

If so, then:

U2
Foo Fighters
Bon Jovi
Tom Petty
Green Day
The Killers
Gin Blossoms
The Racantours (sp?)
Barenaked Ladies
Pearl Jam

:grr:

Every one of their tunes sounds the same to me

Green Day, on the other hand, finds new ways to interpret punk every album

Fugazi
Slint
Drive Like Jehu
Dinosaur Jr.
Radiohead
Refused
Bloc Party
Arcade Fire
Isis
TV on the Radio

That's strictly rock music though, I might do a hip-hop one later.

Since my favorite stuff of theirs is from the 80s, but their more commercially successful stuff was in the 90s (the stuff post-Lou, Green Mind onward). Either way they should be included.

It was quintessential '90s alternative rock, I think. So many imitators, but fools can't touch Mascis.

I left out sonic youth because they started in 1980, but Pixies is a glaring oversite for sure. My bloody Valentine were also quite awesome.

will never rock as much as this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JFrAgElbI8

(not a RickRoll)

This one was *serious*.

:hi:

:scared:

It involves Trent Reznor and Peter Murphy--how bad can it be?

:hi:

isn't he? Excuse me while I wipe the drool a bit. :hi:

Still as sexy as ever. Check this one out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amMztp1y4i4

But I didn't catch the first name.

Murphy's voice is amazing. I like this better than the IP version. :hide:

That is one sound check I wish I could have been there for!

Not bad . . .

:headbang:

Primus
Janes Addiction
Faith No More
They Might Be Giants
Bjork
Wendy James solo
At The Drive In
Pixies
Beck
Beastie Boys

I know some date back into the 80's but so do I.

I agree with Beck, Pixies, Bjork and Jane's Addiction, but would have to add Sonic Youth, The Offspring, Green Day, then Radiohead, Dave Matthews and probably Coldplay (as much as they are disliked by some folks they have a distinctive sound and are very well-liked by the larger world.)


My own non-commercial list of favorites from that time would probably have more obscure bands on it.


on edit, it's very hard to only pick 10 bands from any period...

add better than ezra and the cranberries...

These are additions.

he died.

His post-mortem album is dedicated to his daughter, Nico. It is outstanding. The first song is a cover of 'pusherman' with some lyrics exchanged (the bible pushin man); he warns his daughter against drugs and religion right at the start...

I am not a fanboy or anything, but Blind Melon is so overlooked, yet have some of the best songs of the decade.

Now I'm gonna put some Melon on my Ipod today. It's been way too long since I've listened.

:hi:

And I'll defend that to the death as an objective, and not just subjective, position. Of all the mainstream rock acts of the 1990s, The Smashing Pumpkins put more inginuity and soul into their music and lyrics than any other band. Siamese Dream is a freaking masterpiece from its first drum roll to its last note. Same goes for Mellon Collie. Yes, Nirvana helped move the rock industry out of the doldrums of the 1980s and credit should be given to them for that fact. But as sheer art and genius, nobody beat the Pumpkins. Nobody.

Although Radiohead definitely deserves to be up near the top of that list, too.

I'd put Nine Inch Nails and Tori Amos in that list. I like Garbage, but not sure if it objectively meets Top 10 material.

Add the Pumpkins to my list!

Also, can't believe I overlooked Green Day. 'Dookie' in the 90's and 'American Idiot' post-turn...
True classics in two consecutive decades.


I limited my picks to bands that either first appeard in the 90's or, at the very least, did not break through until the 90's

is probably the best rock band of the last 25 years, at least IMO.

Porcupine Tree is on my list

My 8 year old son thinks Steven Wilson is the absolute god of all things musical.

:hi: :blush:

That's what I get for not reading the thread. :spank:

And Steven Wilson is a musical god.

I fuckin' love Porcupine Tree. I just got Steven Wilson's new solo album Insurgentes. Best album of 2009 so far.

it was AWESOME!

robert fripp opened up for them.

Rancid has to be on the list, along with Arcade Fire, and maybe Soul Asylum too...also saw Gaslight Anthem on TV recently and was very impressed.

I've listened to their stuff, and it was OK - but it just didn't click with me.

Belle and Sebastian, on the other hand...

One of the best new bands to come out recently, although when I saw them live at Coachella I was drunk as shit, but hey, its all good.

And not a single rapper or African American artist to be seen (Ok I included one but you know)

To bad no African Americans contributed to popular music in the last 19 years????

I just don't know Snoop from Dr Dre...

That's the best I can do until African Americans start making Black Metal or Punk. :shrug:

And had this about the 80's the Bad Brains would be high on my list. If we went back further I'd include Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker as well. Dalek is doing some really cool stuff, but it's too soon to rank him with the greats.

I know there are tons of African Americans who have contributed to popular music, but that's the trouble for me. I hate popular music. :evilgrin:

:shrug::hide:

Because you occasionally will find artists who, while not innovating new genres, do their genre better than those who came before them.

But I think the latter began in the '80s.

1. Björk
2. Radiohead
3. Smashing Pumpkins
4. Tupac
5. Shania Twain
6. Nirvana
7. Mariah Carey
8. Garth Brooks
9. Celine Dion
10. Alanis Morrisette (sp?)

Very influential in the indie scene.

Not sure why.

I love em' and all the rest of the Elephant 6 Collective.

The Stone Roses
Jeff Buckley
My Bloody Valentine
Alice in Chains
Notorious B.I.G. ('Ready to Die' is my favorite rap album - not necessarily the best, but my favorite)
Jane's Addiction
Sugar (Bob Mould post-Husker Du)
Nirvana
Slint (for 'Spiderland' alone)
Morrissey (as a solo artist)

I guess I cheated a little on the years ('88 instead of '90), and MBV actually had a large number (at least half a dozen) of singles and EP's before they came out with 'Isn't Anything,' but so what? It's my list!

And FWIW, Fugazi and Radiohead *almost* made the cut. It kills me to put Perry Farrell's obnoxious ass on a list above these two, but how many bands in recent decades have managed two albums in a row as good as 'Nothing's Shocking' and 'Ritual de lo Habitual'? Gotta give credit where credit's due, and all that...

No particular order:

Megadeth

RATM

RHCP

NIN

AIC

Nirvana

Pearl Jam

STP

TOOL

Soundgarden

Smashing Pumpkins

Honorable Mention 20:

Offspring

Garbage

Live

Pantera

Oasis

Metallica

Radiohead

Marilyn Manson

Filter

Ministry

Foo Fighters

Skinny Puppy

White Zombie

Bush

Danzig

Sugar Ray

Orbital

Radiohead

The Crystal Method

Moby

Marilyn Manson

1. Mr. Bungle
2. Neurosis
3. High on Fire
4. Aphex Twin
5. Mastodon
6. Isis
7. godspeed you! black emperor
8. Fu Manchu
9. Dillinger Escape Plan
10. Explosions in the Sky

True, Neurosis, AT and Bungle are borderline groups in this category since they started in the 80s, but they were demo/small time releasers until 1990, when the majority of their best work comes through.

1 Dew Scented
2 The Haunted
3 Evile
4 Fear Factory
5 Carnal Forge

I'm drawing a blank here...

Marilyn Manson can be in there I guess.
Rob Zombie

That's about all I have.

is Modest Mouse.

(As far as subtractions go, I think Green Day is almost singlehandedly responsible for punk turning into a genre for 13-year-old girls.)

They haven't had a really good idea since '94. Dookie was a super fun pop punk album. It's been steadily downhill ever since. (American Idiot is quite possibly the most overrated album since 1990, outranking Nirvana's "Nevermind" on the overrated scale without being nearly as kickass.)

Not as young as the kiddies think. Several band members have been knocking around the Boston punk/garage scene since the late 1980s.

10. Flogging Molly
9. Rage Against The Machine
8. Muse
7. Queens Of The Stone Age
6. Radiohead
5. Porcupine Tree
4. Opeth
3. Tool
2. Beck
1. Nine Inch Nails

Honorable mentions: Gogol Bordello, The Pixies, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, Neurosis

Their sound is distinctive. They're great musicians. The music is great. And what a fantastic voice he has.

Really, there's nothing that can accurately recreate it. It's something that must be experienced.

Great singer/songwriter.


"Snow is Gone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJZiojEGuy0&feature=related

"Kathleen"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm3lWq4s5-U&feature=related

"Wolves"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVU7S9TKe8E&feature=related

NIN, Stabbing Westward, Alanis, Bif Naked and Limp Bizkit.

Yeah, I said Limp Bizkit (they're a good chunk of my gym music, so I kind of have to).

Mike Patton is one of my favorite musicians, and King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime is a personal favorite album of mine.

But then, you knew I would say that, haha.

I remember hearing Brass Monkey when I was at Cal in 86-87.

What a pathetic 19 years it's been.

Bring back the 80s!!!

Yeah, overbearing synthesizers, discordant whining, and a bunch of classic rockers that suddenly decided to suck is EXACTLY what we need. pppttthhh

The worst part of this decade of music is the 80's revival when whiny boy music and ugly clothes came back in.

Neither do you, apparently. :o)

even the so-called heavy metal bands had pretty long hair, spandex pants and lots of make up. 99% of the decent music in the 80's never made it into the mainstream. It's a decade full of bad hit songs that became punch lines that people only admit to liking ironically.
And how does this not hurt your ears?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7VjrW5zgqQ

DD were never my favorite, but I'd take them over all the emo crap we have today, plus all the angst-ridden grunge garbage of the 90s. Ugh.

Way more than meets the eye.

Thing is, I hated them at first. I was a 16 year old metal head when they first broke in America, so I loathed them on principal.

After being exposed to them repeatedly, I started to see beyond the surface (pretty boys playing synth-heavy music) and was drawn to the darkness at the heart of it all.

Check out 'The Chauffeur,' a favorite of many Durannies, but relatively unknown by the general public.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvwoh-Y1y-Y

of makeup. He has the sweetest smile.

Wilco
Rage Against the Machine
Spoon
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
White Stripes
Garbage
Black Keys
The Coup


That will do for now. Ask me again tomorrow and it will change slightly.

:loveya:

amazing in concert. i needed at least one female lead singer in the list.

In spring of '00. But Gwen had a vocal chord thingy.


Had to settle for Black Eyed Peas/No Doubt later that year.




Shirley!

:loveya:

She should have some songs played, just for their quality, without association to lessers. :)

Twilight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpUBATX6bOo

A Thousand Miles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnkvhi1XOR8

Heroes & Thieves is her best album yet - want to mention it in case you haven't heard it.

1 Pixies
2 Catherine Wheel
3 U2
4 Garbage
5 James
6 The Waterboys
7 The Cult
8 Alice in Chains
9 Judybats
10 The Mavericks

Honorable mentions: INXS, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode

Ten of my favorites are:

U2 (Love No Line On The Horizon, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)
R.E.M. (deserve a place just for Automatic For The People, but Accelerate is also excellent)
Bruce Springsteen (The Rising, Magic, Devils and Dust, and Working On A Dream all have Bruce going strong)
Kay Hanley
The Dixie Chicks
A Fine Frenzy
The Corrs
Michelle Branch
The New Pornographers
Sarah McLachlan

But then I'd be leaving out Chris Isaak, Josh Ritter, Kelly Clarkson, Amy Winehouse, Pearl Jam, Indigo Girls, Garth Brooks, Patty Loveless, Alanis Morissette, Aimee Mann, Sheryl Crow, The Pierces, Brandi Carlile, Garbage, Rilo Kiley, Radiohead, Alicia Keys, Alison Krauss, Eisley, Steve Earle, Liz Phair, Hole, Weezer (don't like the most recent stuff, though,) Madonna, En Vogue, Toni Braxton, Stone Temple Pilots, etc...

I've already heard 10 cool new things this year . :D

It's even harder to narrow down when I like so many styles of music.. :hi:

pretty much.

Then probably nine flavors of rap/hip-hop shit.

George is definitely one of the best country artists.

Diercks Bentley and Trace Adkins

The Man Comes Around ... Hurt ... Cash reinvented himself. And it was good.

Bake

How anyone can think she has an amazing voice is really odd. She makes Bob Dylan sound like Bono from U2.

Ten is too few.

Also, my hip-hop list:

The Roots
Wu-Tang Clan
Mos Def
Hieroglyphics
Kanye West
Atmosphere
Sage Francis
Sweatshop Union
El-P
Aesop Rock

Numbered, but in no particular order:

1. Kenny Chesney
2. Rihanna
3. Toby Keith
4. Jennifer Lopez
5. Dave Matthews
6. Shanaia Twain
7. ColdPlay
8. Black Eyed Peas/ Fergie/ Will I Am
9. Beyonce / Destiny's Child
10.Eminem

This is purely subjective, and tries to cross genres. I think it's harder than you think to lump the two decades together, just as I'm not sure the 60/70s music thing works that well. Music has a very different sound from 1960 until the release of Revolver and Seargent Pepper. I'll agree that most of what people think of as the 70's sound starts areound '67 and goes to 77-78, at which time Punk, Disco, and the so-called "New Wave" were all exhibiting their conflicting influences. Also, I'll be the first to concede my list has issues (again, it's subjective); why not Jay-Z, or Dre? Why Kenny Chesney and not ALan Jackson or Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines? Why not Robert Plant & Alison Kraus... or Bonnie Raitt? Why not the Foo Fighters or Five for Fighting? Where the Hell is Natalie Merchant? Does U2 (a quintessentially 80's band) belong on the list?

On edit -- and what about Green Day?

I loved them till about their 5th disc, lately it sounds like they're phoning it in.

Also: No Tonic?
Offspring?

For me its also:

Oasis
Green Day
NIN
Pearl Jam
Radiohead

But what the hell do I know? I'm an old lady, one of the few who doesn't think 70s music has it over all other decades. I LOVED the 90s, probably my fave time for what's now become "alternative".

I don't necessarily disagree - I'm just surprised.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik came out in '91. I think that fact alone makes people think of them as a "90s" band.

In no particular order...

1. Tab Benoit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSEXCF_X7mY&feature=related

2. Joe Bonamassa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn09Xn9JF5s&feature=related

3. Govt Mule http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMSRP3kpVMs&feature=related

4. Chris Duarte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkuxC6NKaPE&feature=related

5. The Derek Trucks Band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBDkFcwmAuY&feature=related

6. Sue Foley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnZ73KC2rk&feature=related

7. Tommy Castro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HLOS2fi2Vo

8. Jonny Lang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1idFJiudDC8&feature=PlayList&p=004CBED0B38FABE6&index=0&playnext=1

9. Kenny Wayne Shepherd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cHQTcdPDTk&feature=related

10. Susan Tedeschi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xigwtXcrXBA&feature=related

Widespread Panic, Leftover Salmon, String Cheese Incident, keller Williams, Yonder Mountain, Moe, Keller Williams,Hot Buttered Rum, My Morning Jacket,Galactic,Blues Traveler,Dave Matthews band...so many great bands..

1 Dolly Parton
2 Alice in Chains
3 Metallica
4 Genitorturers
5 Nirvana
6 Cookie (local band)
7 Gruntruk
8 Clay Aikin (mark my words, he will be the next Barry Manilow) (I am no fan of Barry Manilow btw)
9 OZZIE
10 Dolly Parton

Dolly deserves to be listed twice because she is, (imo of course) one of the greatest person's on the planet! No I do not own even a single album by her-don't care much for her style of music but that doesn't change how I feel about her as an artist and as a humanitarian. She's done right by leaving this world a far better place than it was when she first entered it and she ain't even left it yet!!! God Bless You Dolly Parton.

and extremely easy on the eyes!

Wowing at the 1999 Grammys:

Slint


Uncle Tupelo


Richmond Fontaine


Godspeed You! Black Emperor


American Music Club


Joy Lynn White


Bob Wiseman


Helmet (orginal version)


Richard Buckner


Alejandro Escovedo

Everyone knows there were no good music artists after the early to mid 80's, sheesh.

let's see if i can limit it to 10... nope can't. let's see if i can even approach it limited to 2 genres...

quintessential Brit Pop/Rock of late:
Muse
The London Suede
Radiohead (seemingly a prerequisite)
Pulp
Blur
Morrissey
Oasis
Ride
Dubstar
The Verve

quintessential electronic, dance, underground music:
The Chemical Brothers (oh my raver days...)
Orbital (... they were such good days)
Crystal Waters (IMO, quintessential 90s dance club, NRG music)
Enigma (just about everyone has some of this for make out or chill out music)
Lords of Acid (mmm, delish!)
Laeather Strip
Juno Reactor
Covenant
Apoptygma Bezerk
VNV Nation
Moby
Moenia

no, i can't do this. not even in a subgenre by nation or even vague grouping of electronica. there's too much.

i need better parameters.

this is just far too hard to do. i mean for some people yes, they don't know much about what went on during this time, or they don't care that much about music, but for me this is ridiculously hard.

if this was "what 10 acts, which started major chart success (circuit popularity for indies) in 1990s and may continue even til today, would you take their discography to a deserted part of the world with you -- knowing you cannot get anymore music." that could be more doable. especially because the limit of major chart success in 90s tends to cut out great methuselah acts which are wonderful, but have huge discographies and chart success (or circuit popularity, for indies) well outside of the '90's and today'. i mean, yeah, i'd take Queen with me, but just because Bohemian Rhapsody had a resurgence after Wayne's World and charted again in the 90s doesn't make it a "90s and today" band.