Most of us agree that we are largely stuck in the 80s with the music from that era. However, life does go on (obla di obla da... no wait, wrong decade), so I want your top 5 performers of recent years. Here are mine, in no particular order.

1. Collective Soul

2. Big Head Todd and the Monsters (technically they are 80s, since their debut was released in '89, but it was their own label with limited circulation - Giant picked them up and reissed it later)

3. Natalie Merchant (as a soloist post 10k Maniacs)

4. Third Eye Blind

5. Sheryl Crow

Okay, lob your brickbats at will

: Most of us agree that we are largely stuck in
: the 80s with the music from that era.
: However, life does go on (obla di obla da...
: no wait, wrong decade), so I want your top 5
: performers of recent years. Here are mine,
: in no particular order.

: 1. Collective Soul

: 2. Big Head Todd and the Monsters (technically
: they are 80s, since their debut was released
: in '89, but it was their own label with
: limited circulation - Giant picked them up
: and reissed it later)

: 3. Natalie Merchant (as a soloist post 10k
: Maniacs)

: 4. Third Eye Blind

: 5. Sheryl Crow

: Okay, lob your brickbats at will

Has anyone mentioned Oasis, Seal, or The Wallflowers? Placebo and Sugar? Sonic Youth? Urge Overkill, Nada Surf, Mono, Alice In Chains, Liz Phair, Luscious Jackson, Belly, The Lemonheads, The Cardigans, Sunny Day Real Estate, Indigo Girls, Mazzy Starr, Enigma, Deep Forest, Frente!, Semisonic, Helmet, The Butthole Surfers, Weezer (awesome band), Soundgarden, The Screaming Trees, The Meat Puppets, The Afghan Whigs, Paul Westerberg, and many more. Anyone? Come on you guys - a whole decade passed and nobody remembers?

Tarzan Boy

: Has anyone mentioned Oasis, Seal, or The
: Wallflowers? Placebo and Sugar? Sonic Youth?
: Urge Overkill, Nada Surf, Mono, Alice In
: Chains, Liz Phair, Luscious Jackson, Belly,
: The Lemonheads, The Cardigans, Sunny Day
: Real Estate, Indigo Girls, Mazzy Starr,
: Enigma, Deep Forest, Frente!, Semisonic,
: Helmet, The Butthole Surfers, Weezer
: (awesome band), Soundgarden, The Screaming
: Trees, The Meat Puppets, The Afghan Whigs,
: Paul Westerberg, and many more. Anyone? Come
: on you guys - a whole decade passed and
: nobody remembers?

: Tarzan Boy

I don't think they've not been mentioned necessarily because we've FORGOTTEN about them, but because it asked for our five favorites. I am a fan of quite a few of the bands you listed, and like I say, it's not as though they've gone entirely un-noticed the past 10 years, just.. they've not been in the top 5 in the opinions of anyone who's responded thus far.

Dear Boy of Corn
Again, I see some 80s bands tossed into the list. But, ok, you found one...Seal. I kinda dig Seal, but most of the others from the 90s, I dont know who they are. So to ME...they must not have been that good. I dont think I am missing much not listening to sounds from the 90s...I guess a whole 10 years DID go by and I wasnt listening. (I am sure if a band came out that I thought was really good, I would have heard it)
I think its safe to say: 90s bands dont have the staying power that a lot of 80s bands did. Do you think anybody will be requesting "Nada Surf" 10 years from now??? (I dont know who they are today.) Think about bands like:The Cure/Fixx/Depeche/New order/Tears for Fears...I think we will still hear them into the 2010s.( IMO)

exairman

: Has anyone mentioned Oasis, Seal, or The
: Wallflowers? Placebo and Sugar? Sonic Youth?
: Urge Overkill, Nada Surf, Mono, Alice In
: Chains, Liz Phair, Luscious Jackson, Belly,
: The Lemonheads, The Cardigans, Sunny Day
: Real Estate, Indigo Girls, Mazzy Starr,
: Enigma, Deep Forest, Frente!, Semisonic,
: Helmet, The Butthole Surfers, Weezer
: (awesome band), Soundgarden, The Screaming
: Trees, The Meat Puppets, The Afghan Whigs,
: Paul Westerberg, and many more. Anyone? Come
: on you guys - a whole decade passed and
: nobody remembers?

: Tarzan Boy

...the vast majority of 90s bands don't have the "staying power" of a lot 70s and 80s bands (the popular ones, of course). But, hey, I do request Nada Surf whenever I get a chance to, just as I request music by T. Rex, The New York Dolls, Husker Du, The Alan Parsons Project, The The, The Pixies, Bauhaus, Kraftwerk, Roxy Music, and a bunch of other bands/singers that get, virtually, no radio play whatsoever here (some stations just flat out will not play music by certain bands). This doesn't mean that their music is particularly bad or anything - it just doesn't get radio play at all. Yes, in ten years, at least I will be requesting music by The Gin Blossoms, PJ Harvey, and Mary Lou Lord - they sound great to me...

Tarzan Boy