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Patches

02-08-2006, 09:09 PM

What is your favorite rock band from the decade most of us know the most?Whether you choose by favorite, most influential, or some other reason, post it up...And if you pick other, say why, and don't bitch too much- I only had 10 slots.  And no, picking 'other' does not make you cool.

Patches

02-08-2006, 09:11 PM

Oh, and I picked Pearl Jam- there longevity and how awesome they are/were, especially live, seals it.

PapaBear

02-08-2006, 09:14 PM

I picked Nirvana. I would have said "other", as I'm sure there is something I like more. I'm just lazy too use my memory right now. I did a lot of coke in the 90's.

Patches

02-08-2006, 09:19 PM

meh.10 years ago when some schmuck post this question about this decade, i'll have the same excuse.   Of course, my choices will be Linkin Park, and Something Even Crappier, so who gives a shit...

PaulF

02-08-2006, 10:01 PM

Voted Alice in Chains because I prefer their whole body of work and it transcended grunge. Death of Layne Staley aside, personalities didn't overshadow music.Radiohead was a close second, especially for OK ComputerWith a lot of the other bands, personalities overshadowed the music. If Nirvana gets a much-deserved nod for their influence, then so should Soundgarden.

Sheeplovr

02-09-2006, 03:56 AM

why is u2 on the list they stunk up the 90s so much with Popmart and that Batman songwheres Hanson?

Dougie Brootal

02-09-2006, 05:21 AM

<img height="253" src="http://martysplace.itgo.com/pantera/bandflame.jpg" width="300" border="0" />again

JimBeam

02-09-2006, 07:00 AM

I voted Alice In Chains although I also love both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.I think Nirvana gets too much credit for that grunge era because they had the first catchy song that attratced attention.That didnt make them the best.With that said it did allow the other groups to get more airtime.I think Soundgarden was the first of the " Grunge " bands to have a major record label and AIC was the first to have a video on MTV.Alice In Chains was the best musically and kinda like somebody said previoulsy they didnt bring their politics/nonsense ( other than Staley's drug use ) into their medai image.Soundgarden was awesome and was more like AIC in the media atmosphere whereas PJ ( with their Ticketmaster nonsense ) and Nirvana ( with Cobain's suicide ) got a lot of ink.I actually started liking Nirvana more after Cobain died. That MTV Unplugged album was awesome.All of that " Grunge " music rocked.STP had some hits and misses by Weiland was a great singer I think.

furie

02-09-2006, 07:35 AM

Sheeplovr wrote: why is u2 on the list they stunk up the 90s so much with Popmart and that Batman song

good point.

i guess it's a toss up between pearl jam or nirvana

fezident

02-09-2006, 07:40 AM

I would like to thank each and every one of you for NOT putting that shithouse of a band COUNTING CROWS in this thread.I hate them.  I hate them with all my being.  I hate them and the people who love them.  They make me angry.  Jesus Christ do they suck!

Greggie44

02-09-2006, 08:01 AM

fezident wrote: I would like to thank each and every one of you for NOT putting that shithouse of a band COUNTING CROWS in this thread.I hate them.  I hate them with all my being.  I hate them and the people who love them.  They make me angry.  Jesus Christ do they suck!I loved when they let Elmer Fudd do the vocals on that Mr. Jones song.

FUNKMAN

02-09-2006, 08:03 AM

STP - felt they had the best frontman vocal wise and not as many hits as the others but several of the songs are my favorites

JimBeam

02-09-2006, 08:18 AM

I think Chris Cornell might have been the best singer of any of them but the AIC mix between Staley and Cantrell was a good one.Another grunge guy who had a good voice, although his band wasnt nearly as popular as these others, was Mark Arm of Screaming Trees

Dougie Brootal

02-09-2006, 08:37 AM

JimBeam wrote: I think Chris Cornell might have been the best singer of any of them but the AIC mix between Staley and Cantrell was a good one.Another grunge guy who had a good voice, although his band wasnt nearly as popular as these others, was Mark Arm of Screaming Treesmark arm was in mudhoneymark lanegen was in the screaming trees

Patches

02-09-2006, 09:01 AM

I  was thinking of including Soundgarden, but with Nirvana, PJ and AIC, I thought the Seattle scene was represented...As for U2, they did get a vote, so I guess they do belong, but I admit that was a stretch.

JimBeam

02-09-2006, 10:42 AM

Doug good cathc.My bad.I knew it didnt seem right when I was typing it.Lannegan was ther guy I was reffering to though.

SatCam

02-09-2006, 10:49 AM

Pearl Jam, especially their early work... I also considered Dave Matthews Band and even Collective Soul

JimBeam

02-09-2006, 10:53 AM

Collective Soul was pretty good.That new song they had out, a few months ago, was pretty cool.Last summer they played in Danbury CT with the Gin Blossoms.

Snoogans

02-09-2006, 11:15 AM

Id rather listen to Smashing Pumpkins then any of those bands on the vote. Best rock band of the 90's I'd say based on what "rock" stations played, its Eminem for that too

landarch

02-09-2006, 11:21 AM

Dougie Brootal

02-09-2006, 11:27 AM

JimBeam wrote: Doug good cathc.My bad.I knew it didnt seem right when I was typing it.Lannegan was ther guy I was reffering to though.all in a days work, my fellow supporter of underrated 90's bands!

landarch

02-09-2006, 11:32 AM

Snoogans this is the second time lately I recall you preferring Smashing Pumpkins to other cool bands.Kudos, I say!  I was going to include them too, hence my vote for "other".  Reading the thread made me remember Mudhoney and Screaming Trees, which I also like.  Picking the best 90's band is quite the quandary.  I can never settle on just one (The other reason for my "other" vote).Zwan never did it for me, but they did have one song named "Candy Came Calling" that I've only been able to find live and in poor quality.  Sure would like to find this at CD quality.

Patches

02-09-2006, 11:37 AM

Snoogans wrote: Id rather listen to Smashing Pumpkins then any of those bands on the vote. Best rock band of the 90's I'd say based on what "rock" stations played, its Eminem for that too Dammit, forgot the Pumpkins...  Wouldn't have changed my vote from PJ, but I would make them top 4 anyway along w/ Nirvana and AIC.

JimBeam

02-09-2006, 11:41 AM

Much lamer than the bands listed, but still some good tunes were the previoulsy mentioned Gin Blossoms, Candlebox and Meat Puppets.

TheMojoPin

02-09-2006, 11:58 AM

This is a pretty subjective thread...I mean, yeah, it's obviously "rock only," so that cuts a ton of stuff that made the music in the early and mid 90's so damn good...plus, what's the criteria for a band "in the 90's?"  Are we talking bands that formed or became big in the 90's specifically?  Otherwise you could technically pick ANY band as long they just "existed" in the 90's.  So would U2 even count in the first place?  Granted, I pretty much hate that band with a beautiful, sexy passion, but I'll admit Achtung Baby is a monster of an album...though that was, what, '91?  Within a couple years people were VERY fed up with them, and even the most diehard of U2 fans have to admit that any other music they put out the rest of the decade was medicore at best (and the new stuff is even worse, but apparently tons of people aren't listening to me.  Weird).  But, long way around to my actual point...U2 were at their height in the 80's  I think U2, I think 80's band.  So, in my opinion, they shouldn't even be on this list.  I've called the Music Gestapo, and those Irish bastards will be sent to the camps.And this'll probably brand me as a "music snob" yet again (you should care about what you put into your body, right?  Why should music be any different?  Aerosmith sucks massive amounts of diseased dick and are only out-dicked by people that actually like them.  So there.), but I never really "got" grunge.  Being overseas at the time, I got much more exposure (didn't really have a choice, actually.  Outside of Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, grunge didn't really carry over the oceans) to the Britpop/Madchester/shoegazer/power pop/dance/hip-hop (the one form of American music that really exploded around the world) of the 90's.  Some of the co-called "grunge" acts were awesome, but I never understood why they were all lumped together.  Alice in Chains sounded almost metal.  Soundgarden sounded like classic Sabbath or even a little Motorhead-y.  Nirvana seemed punk.  STP and Screaming Trees and Mudhoney owed far more to classic garage rock and early metal than any kind of "new" sound.  Smashing Pumpkins were a shoegazer/psychedalia rock band more than anything else on their first two albums (the good ones, yeah?).  Pearl Jam is the only band that scream "grunge" to me, and that's mostly because they're so fucking boring.On a whole, music between 1989 and 1997 really seemed more about variety than anything else, and it frustrates the fuck out of me when so much of it just gets boiled into broad, meaningless labels like "grunge" or "electronica" or "Britpop."  All in all, it was a kickass time to grow up and be exposed to music for the first time...for a few years it seemed like anything goes, and damn, I miss it.So, yeah, that was musically snobbish out the ying-yang, but whatever.  I love talking about music.  Sorry.

Sheeplovr

02-09-2006, 01:15 PM

I pretty much hate that band with a beautiful, sexy passionyou hate U2 so much you jack it to them? thats hot i mean um gross yeahisn't
this really based on what 90s band with 90s albums has enough songs on
that album that in 40 yeas some kid will buy a copy of it and rock out
to ita best band should have a full solid album front to back so
now i think i want to know the best (rock or alt whatever) Album period
of the 90s and would that equal to the best band? what does music even matter anymore it's all personal no matter whatyou
know what be a good thread 5 albums to give your Child when they turn
14 would that be the same list of 5 that you would give on a desert
island

TheMojoPin

02-09-2006, 01:57 PM

Hmmmm...Sheepy's definition of "sexy" is me jerkin' it...interesting...YOOOOO-HOOOOOOO!!!

Patches

02-09-2006, 04:39 PM

TheMojoPin wrote: This is a pretty subjective thread...I mean, yeah, it's obviously "rock only," so that cuts a ton of stuff that made the music in the early and mid 90's so damn good...plus, what's the criteria for a band "in the 90's?"  Are we talking bands that formed or became big in the 90's specifically?  Otherwise you could technically pick ANY band as long they just "existed" in the 90's.  So would U2 even count in the first place?  Granted, I pretty much hate that band with a beautiful, sexy passion, but I'll admit Achtung Baby is a monster of an album...though that was, what, '91?  Within a couple years people were VERY fed up with them, and even the most diehard of U2 fans have to admit that any other music they put out the rest of the decade was medicore at best (and the new stuff is even worse, but apparently tons of people aren't listening to me.  Weird).  But, long way around to my actual point...U2 were at their height in the 80's  I think U2, I think 80's band.  So, in my opinion, they shouldn't even be on this list.  I've called the Music Gestapo, and those Irish bastards will be sent to the camps.And this'll probably brand me as a "music snob" yet again (you should care about what you put into your body, right?  Why should music be any different?  Aerosmith sucks massive amounts of diseased dick and are only out-dicked by people that actually like them.  So there.), but I never really "got" grunge.  Being overseas at the time, I got much more exposure (didn't really have a choice, actually.  Outside of Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, grunge didn't really carry over the oceans) to the Britpop/Madchester/shoegazer/power pop/dance/hip-hop (the one form of American music that really exploded around the world) of the 90's.  Some of the co-called "grunge" acts were awesome, but I never understood why they were all lumped together.  Alice in Chains sounded almost metal.  Soundgarden sounded like classic Sabbath or even a little Motorhead-y.  Nirvana seemed punk.  STP and Screaming Trees and Mudhoney owed far more to classic garage rock and early metal than any kind of "new" sound.  Smashing Pumpkins were a shoegazer/psychedalia rock band more than anything else on their first two albums (the good ones, yeah?).  Pearl Jam is the only band that scream "grunge" to me, and that's mostly because they're so fucking boring.On a whole, music between 1989 and 1997 really seemed more about variety than anything else, and it frustrates the fuck out of me when so much of it just gets boiled into broad, meaningless labels like "grunge" or "electronica" or "Britpop."  All in all, it was a kickass time to grow up and be exposed to music for the first time...for a few years it seemed like anything goes, and damn, I miss it.So, yeah, that was musically snobbish out the ying-yang, but whatever.  I love talking about music.  Sorry.Yeah, I thought of most of this when i posted, so I figured I would fill up 9 of the 10 slots with commercially successful, various sounding, influential ROCK bands.  And I admitted I might have made a mistake including U2, but I think its a decent list all in all.I said in the original post, use whatever criteria you want...  the idea for this started with drunken arguments with friends about the "Best Band of the 90s"-- I was PJ and he was STP... everytime we tried to settle this by having someone be the tie-breaker, they would throw another band in the mix- opinions varied from Radiohead to Wilco to U2 to Blind Melon...

Patches

02-09-2006, 04:48 PM

Pearl Jam is the only band that scream "grunge" to me, and that's mostly because they're so fucking boringEach his own, but I got to defend the boys here...  Ten through Vitalogy while amazing albums (imho), were aimed to be commercially successful, and could be classified as 'boring' by the time Vitalogy rolled around... The albums after, tanked commercially but explored a HUGE variety of sounds (including eastern influences) and were anything but boring especially No Code and Binaural.  In addition to the studio albums, they have dozens upon dozens of material which also incredibly varied, hidden on b-sides and soundtracks..Also, their live act is amazing- very little boring about a wine fueled Eddie Vedder rambling and improvising through everything from straight up rock, acoustic to strangely inspired covers...

Stankfoot

02-09-2006, 04:59 PM

<img src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/BJM.jpg" border="0" />  Some of their best stuff came out in the 90's .........

Mr.Pants

02-09-2006, 05:18 PM

The ballad of Jim Jones is an awesome song.Some possible omissions are Guns and Roses and Jane's Addiction. Not my very favorites, but huge in the early 90's.

angrymissy

02-09-2006, 05:39 PM

mark lanegan had the best voice.  Chris Cornell may sound good in the studio, but I saw Soundgarden live a few times and his voice SUCKS live.  Saw Screaming Trees and Mark Lanegan sounded awesome.Best Rock band of the 90's for me has gotta be Archers of Loaf or Superchunk.

angrymissy

02-09-2006, 05:42 PM

JimBeam wrote: Much lamer than the bands listed, but still some good tunes were the previoulsy mentioned Gin Blossoms, Candlebox and Meat Puppets. gay!  Actually,  I'm guilty of being a closet Gin Blossoms fan.  Whenmy sister and I used to go to concerts every weekend in the 90's, I remember seeing Rancid one night, then Gin Blossoms the next.  I distinctly recall her turning to me and saying "Don't ever speak of this to anyone".This inspired me to listen to my old 90's bands!!! You know who was underrated?  Buffalo Tom.

This message was edited by angrymissy on 2-9-06 @ 9:46 PM

BoondockSaint

02-09-2006, 05:54 PM

Same as it was in the 80's: Slayer.

Death Metal Moe

02-09-2006, 06:01 PM

BoondockSaint wrote: Same as it was in the 80's: Slayer. <img height="260" src="http://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/mths/ClassActivities/Gilbraith/RMAC/Slayer%20Logo.jpg" width="297" border="0" />

BoondockSaint

02-09-2006, 06:05 PM

I always liked the one wit the eagle<img height="399" src="http://www.flagline.com/images/lpg/slayer(eagle).JPG" width="266" border="0" />

suggums

02-09-2006, 07:38 PM

i had a friend that mispelled radiohead as raidohead on a burned cd so im voting for them

Marc with a c

02-09-2006, 07:45 PM

Pearl Jam is just as good now as they were then. go see them. go see them

Hagar

02-10-2006, 08:32 AM

PJ always and forever<img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a45/JLehane/BigHagarSigpic2Reduced.jpg" border="0" />

TheMojoPin

02-10-2006, 08:35 AM

I keep seeing all those "PJ's" and get excited thinking everyone is talking about PJ Harvey.But then I remember and get sad.  And fall asleep.

JimBeam

02-10-2006, 08:59 AM

Angrymissy,   It'll sound even gayer when I admit that I dig Toa The Wet Sprockett and Tonic.    Oh the early 90's were great.    On a side note VH1 Classiscs always shows these " reunion " kinda concerts like recently they did one with Cyndi Lauper ( joined by Shaggy and Train ) and they are doing one with Heart coming up in the future. The cool part is that the remaining people from Alice In Chains will be playing some songs.    Unfortunately that pig Gretchen Wilso got herself in there somehow too.

Freakshow

02-10-2006, 11:27 AM

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

tele7

02-10-2006, 03:40 PM

For me, the Singles soundtrack about sums up the 90's.

Hottub

02-10-2006, 05:44 PM

For the 90's, Gotta go with the Dirty Boys of the Underground" Nobody Worked harder, Rocked harder, and played as well as any of the stuff coming out of L.A.,Phily, Jersey, Sf. etc. They were #1 on MTV for almost 2 months(not Headbanger"s Ball, but overall videos)My renewed Boner comes after a good friend of mine sent me a DVD of a concert they just did a couple of months back. And that video brought me back to Studio One, Asbury Park Convention Center, John Harms, And guess what? The boys still kick serious ass! Hopefully I can be there this year, since it is only an annual, short run tour. There Ain't No Angels Here!!!<img height="373" src="http://myspace-834.vo.llnwd.net/00275/43/85/275375834_l.jpg" width="600" border="0" />

This message was edited by Hottub on 2-10-06 @ 9:59 PM

WhistlePig

02-10-2006, 05:47 PM

I agree with Hottub!!

Hottub

02-10-2006, 06:36 PM

OK, I'm out!I'm going to watch the DVD again. If I keep this up, I'm going to wind up with brian damage.

Mr.Pants

02-10-2006, 06:56 PM

Who's Brian Damage?

Hottub

02-10-2006, 07:10 PM

WP, do you want this one, or do you want me to take it?<a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=27655624">http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=276 55624</a>