It's tough for me, but Alice in Chains is just too unique and just fudgeing good to not get my vote  ;D

The Smashing Pumpkins

Also REM, Nirvana, and Green Day

This is a very weird list.  I don't know why REM is even on it.

Anyhow, while I do love Nirvana (and other bands on this list), I chose Soundgarden.

This is a very weird list.  I don't know why REM is even on it.


REM was one of the first alt rock bands, is it weird because they were pretty well known in the 80's too?  ???

I'll admit that a lot of these bands have little in common, but they all fall under the umbrella of alternative.

Weird list, considering that some bands started in the 80s (REM). I selected Pearl Jam.

REM was one of the first alt rock bands, is it weird because they were pretty well known in the 80's too?   ???

I'll admit that a lot of these bands have little in common, but they all fall under the umbrella of alternative.
The term "alternative" encompases more than one decade.  REM encompases more than one decade.  The term "grunge" can really only be 90's (as a movement).

Maybe it would've better to do 2 separate polls.

I can't choose because there is no other option

grunge/alternative was never my thing, but looking back, I sort of liked Our Lady Peace and Artificial Joy Club

Weird list, considering that some bands started in the 80s (REM). I selected Pearl Jam.


Really odd... Mother Love Bone was essentially pre-Pearl Jam and only released one CD, and Temple of The Dog (basically Chris Cornell w/ Pearl Jam) had one CD as well. Jane's Addiction did most of their work in the 80s, having only one commercially successful CD in the 90s with their 1990 release "Ritual de lo Habitual". They broke up the following year.

If we're including one album supergroups, Mad Season should have been on this list ("Above", 1995). Why not include Hole, STP or Faith No More?

I voted for Alice in Chains.

Ant

Nirvana plus Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam

Hard to pick, because I like pretty much everybody on this list, but I went with Soundgarden.

Of the ones on the list, I would say Nirvana for grunge and Smashing Pumpkins for alternative. 

I love 80s REM but not 90s REM so that disqualifies REM for me.

AIC and Soundgarden were probably the best grunge bands, though I love Nirvana and Pearl Jam as well. Where is RHCP?  :o They definitely should be on a list like this. I would also include Garbage as one of my favorite alternative rock bands from the '90s.

On this poll I'll vote Alice In Chains for the overall power and depth of their music.

Have you noticed all the grunge and alternative bands had something distinguishing about them? That's what really sets the 1991-'98 rock apart from knockoff clowns like Nickelback now. ;D

I guess my favorite on that list is the Offspring. It's cool with them because they tend to have angry themes, but the feel of the music is funny and lighthearted.

Where is RHCP?


Oh nos I completely forgot about them...and I should have put Mad Season in too...oh well, I usually make these polls hastily anyway  :-\\

Have you noticed all the grunge and alternative bands had something distinguishing about them? That's what really sets the 1991-'98 rock apart from knockoff clowns like Nickelback now. ;D

I guess my favorite on that list is the Offspring. It's cool with them because they tend to have angry themes, but the feel of the music is funny and lighthearted.

That is the exact reason I consider them pousers; sorry.  :P

Gotta go with Alice In Chains.

Layne Staley was perhaps the greatest rock vocalist of the last 25 years.


Have you noticed all the grunge and alternative bands had something distinguishing about them? That's what really sets the 1991-'98 rock apart from knockoff clowns like Nickelback now. ;D

I guess my favorite on that list is the Offspring. It's cool with them because they tend to have angry themes, but the feel of the music is funny and lighthearted.


You know it's funny, but I think the Offspring are one of the weirdest bands ever. It seems that half of their songs I like so much that I crank up my radio and the other half I find so irritating that I have to change the station..

Gotta go with Alice In Chains.

Layne Staley was perhaps the greatest rock vocalist of the last 25 years.



Karma!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnb5bCtJzFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG8afG2Eerc

Ant

Karma!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnb5bCtJzFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG8afG2Eerc

Ant



Karma backatcha for the videos!  ;)

This one really does it for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL0cK4gaEuM

(God I wish I could pull this one off on karaoke night.  ::))

Was the whole 'britpop' movement of the mid nineties not so popular in America? I may has asked this before, but my memmory is hazy. Seems almost every thread in the 1990s section about music refers to "grunge" & "alternative" as being the major dominant rock movements of the decade. I guess being from New Zealand, British bands quite often do well here, sometimes better than most American bands. For example, Blur & Oasis probably did just as well as the likes of Soundgarden and Nirvana.

Anyhow, I picked Soundgarden.

Karma backatcha for the videos!  ;)

This one really does it for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL0cK4gaEuM

(God I wish I could pull this one off on karaoke night.  ::))


Down In A Hole is hard to pull off solo - Layne and Jerry are singing most of song together.

Man in the Box is one that I never could hit the high notes.


Was the whole 'britpop' movement of the mid nineties not so popular in America? I may has asked this before, but my memmory is hazy. Seems almost every thread in the 1990s section about music refers to "grunge" & "alternative" as being the major dominant rock movements of the decade. I guess being from New Zealand, British bands quite often do well here, sometimes better than most American bands. For example, Blur & Oasis probably did just as well as the likes of Soundgarden and Nirvana.

Anyhow, I picked Soundgarden.


Blur wasn't really big here when grunge was: "Song 2" made its climb up the charts after grunge was basically dead, and it's more punk than alternative or grunge IMO.

Oasis did good here, but came about a little too late to be considered first generation grunge/alternative.

Bush did the best of all with their debut album going 6x platinum in the US. Their later albums did poorly in comparison, partly because by the time they were released grunge/alternative was fading out, and partly because of the techno and electronica aspects incorporated into their music.

It's a shame Drain STH wasn't around in 1991/1992 - they would have been huge. Think Alice in Chains meets Black Sabbath with 4 smokin' hot women:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUHrVn-To7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7thNPgvU6M&feature=related

And a bit of rap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkmmg64dREM&feature=related

Ant

What no Wilson Philips!  :D


"Hooooooooo-OOO-oooooooo-OOO-oooooooold on for one more day!"

Wilson Phillips is probably the only band in history to have its debut CD go diamond (10 million copies sold) then basically implode and never be heard from again.

Ant

"Hooooooooo-OOO-oooooooo-OOO-oooooooold on for one more day!"

Wilson Phillips is probably the only band in history to have its debut CD go diamond (10 million copies sold) then basically implode and never be heard from again.

Ant

Is that such a bad thing though, really? :D

Not a huge fan of grunge as if nothing else it was the death knell of my beloved bubblegum rock.  ;D  Loved The Offspring and Nirvana though and Bush were awesome.

Nirvana 8)