Top 5 Best Rock Bands of the 90's

[The Ugly]

Blind Melon

Hell yeah! Forgot em.

[dr.chimps]

Come on man.

Agree. I hate all that Counting Crows MOTR crap. 

[Thin Lizzy]

The 90's were an abysmal decade for rock/metal in North America.

The quality music was being made in Europe.

Evergrey
In Flames
Hypocrisy
Stratovarious
Arch Enemy

Why didn't any of these bands make it big in the States?  It's not as though Americans are prejudiced when it comes to music.

The reason is that this overly technical music lacks heart and soul and the songs are even very good.

The reality is that there was a stretch in the 90s when Tool was easily the best hard rock band in the world.

[leadhead]

The majority of bands listed so far are not worth a hand job. The 80s produced some of the best bands and best music ever. The 90s sucked that's why there are no longer hardly any bands still around from that era

Nah, heroin is why there aren't many bands left from the 90s .

[rccs]

Pearl Jam
Faith No More
Alice
STP
Black Crows
Metallica
Rage Against the Machine



...though not a band......Stevie Ray Vaughn

Metallica started in the 80's. I think he meant only bands that begun in the 90's... So my vote is Rammstein!

[TacoBell]

They started in late eighties but Guns n Roses all the way.

[JimmyJam1974]

1 - Tool
2 - Alice in Chains
3 - Black Crowes
4 - Rage Againt the Machine
5 - Soundgarden

[njflex]

first 3 stone temple cd's were good,then the break ,then 4 was back to hard roots.pearl jam and vs were great then vitology sucked but every song on that cd had airplay and popular i personally can't listen to it.alice in chains dirt is a classic.it was a strange decade started grunge/heavy finished pop/gay backstreet/britney boy band craze.

[Danimal77]

Rancid
 Pantera
 Red Hot Chili Peppers
 311
 Alice In Chains

Dude, you totally ripped off my VERY successful thread!!!! I mean WTF! Does it hurt you that much that someone else has the spotlight for a second. Seriously, you've now proven yourself to be an EXTREME ATTENTION WHORE.

Anyway, on to the topic (MY TOPIC) at hand, here is the BEST HARD ROCK LIST of the 1990's:

1. AC/DC (Razor's Edge - 1990)
2. Van Halen (Balance - 1995) or For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991)
3. Rage Against The Machine (Self-Titled - 1992)
4. Metallica (Black Album - 1991)
5. REM - (Automatic for the People - 1992)
6. Rush - Counterparts (1993)
7. Scorpions - Face the Heat (1993)
8. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss (1990)
9. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991)
10. Stone Temple Pilots - Core (1992)
11. Silverchair - Frogstomp (1995)
12. The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight (1995) or Transmission (1997)
13. Tool - Undertow (1993) or Aenima (1996)
14. U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)
15. Def Leppard - Retroactive (1993)
16. Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)
17. The Cult - Ceremony (1991)
18. Faith No More - Album of the Year (1997)
19. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (1998)
20. Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990)
21. Kiss - Revenge (1992)
22. Korn - Korn (1994)
23. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993)
24. Live - Throwing Copper (1994)
25. Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990) or Countdown to Extinction (1992)
26. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
27. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (1992)
28. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
29. Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
30. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (1994)
31. Queensryche - Empire (1990)
32. Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
33. Danzig - IV (1994)

[chaos]

Thank you Calvin...Rage Against the Machine should have been mentioned way earlier in this thread.

Rage against the white man can suck it.

[MP]

Slayer.

[YngiweRhoads]

Why didn't any of these bands make it big in the States?  It's not as though Americans are prejudiced when it comes to music.

The reason is that this overly technical music lacks heart and soul and the songs are even very good.

The reality is that there was a stretch in the 90s when Tool was easily the best hard rock band in the world.

The music I posted isn't exactly technical, nor does popularity equate with quality.

After Nirvana hit in the early 90's, rock bands were dropped from virtually every record label around. Grunge and alt-rock were the only bands being signed. Only the major bands like Metallica and Pantera (which hit number 1 in 94 with Far Beyond Driven) were still kicking. Big business killed music in the 90's. Local music didn't fare much better with rock bands going from playing week long gigs to single set a week, if they were lucky.

North American television and radio dictated what the public listened to and watched. If one band hit it big, 20 clones of said band were then signed. There was very little outlet for other music to be heard as this was prior to the explosion of music on the internet and file sharing.

[YngiweRhoads]

19. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (1998)
20. Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990)

Cool.

My current band slays Painkiller. My drummer loves it.

[ThaRealist]

True 90's:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nirvana
Sublime
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthews Band
R.E.M.
R. Kelly
Guns N' Roses
Prince

[dj181]

Can't stand pearl jam :-E

[mar10s]

The majority of bands listed so far are not worth a hand job. The 80s produced some of the best bands and best music ever. The 90s sucked that's why there are no longer hardly any bands still around from that era but many bands from the 80s are still going strong today and are as good as ever like this band for example:

Screw 90s music.

Well put.  Half the bands aren't even around anymore....Danimall has a good list up there, but again some of those bands are from the 80's and 70's..where great QUALITY solid rock came from.  Not this screaming, distorted, death metal bulls*t.

[njflex]

Well put.  Half the bands aren't even around anymore....Danimall has a good list up there, but again some of those bands are from the 80's and 70's..where great QUALITY solid rock came from.  Not this screaming, distorted, death metal bulls*t.

ur right as cheesy as it is u could see poison/great white/and say warrant on a bill now,the 90's bands today u wouldn't see soundgarden/p jam/stp ,they all broke up or trying new things.

[RamJam]

Rage against the white man can suck it.

hahaha, I didn't say they had the best politics of the 90's...I just like their tunes. I'm a pretty simple minded dude. I don't know what the efff they are singing about in half of their songs, I just like Tom Morello's riffs.

Rage and Tool are definitely my top 2 bands from the 90's

[RamJam]

Rage against the white man can suck it.

hahaha, I didn't say they had the best politics of the 90's...I just like their tunes. I'm a pretty simple minded dude. I don't know what the efff they are singing about in half of their songs, I just like Tom Morello's riffs.

Rage and Tool are definitely my top 2 bands from the 90's

[RamJam]

Rage against the white man can suck it.

hahaha, I didn't say they had the best politics of the 90's...I just like their tunes. I'm a pretty simple minded dude. I don't know what the efff they are singing about in half of their songs, I just like Tom Morello's riffs.

Rage and Tool are definitely my top 2 bands from the 90's

[RamJam]

Rage against the white man can suck it.

hahaha, I didn't say they had the best politics of the 90's...I just like their tunes. I'm a pretty simple minded dude. I don't know what the efff they are singing about in half of their songs, I just like Tom Morello's riffs.

Rage and Tool are definitely my top 2 bands from the 90's

[CalvinH]

ur right as cheesy as it is u could see poison/great white/and say warrant on a bill now,the 90's bands today u wouldn't see soundgarden/p jam/stp ,they all broke up or trying new things.

All three are around again and Pearl Jam never broke up.

[The Ugly]

hahaha, I didn't say they had the best politics of the 90's...I just like their tunes. I'm a pretty simple minded dude. I don't know what the efff they are singing about in half of their songs, I just like Tom Morello's riffs.

Rage and Tool are definitely my top 2 bands from the 90's

You can say that again!

(And again ...)

[njflex]

All three are around again and Pearl Jam never broke up.

never said pearl jam broke up,i said in short u wouldn't see those 3 90's bands stuck together as a package tour as say styx,reo,kansas or the 80's 3 i mentioned,like nostalgia tour.

[JOHN MATRIX]

Oasis and dave matthews band