I have a lot more favorite 90s bands and it's harder to narrow them down because I was in high school in the 90s, so much more aware of and into music. In no particular order: Green Day, No Doubt, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Nirvana, Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLaughlin, Jewel, Tori Amos, Poe, The Offspring, Garbage....

My absolute favs: Green Day and Nine Inch Nails

Industrial/goth favs: KMFDM, Nitzer Ebb, Tool, Southern Death Cult/The Cult, Ministry

Jeff Buckley (I am IN LOVE with his voice)

And I can't leave out the grunge guys: Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots (hard to rank, although I'd give Alice in Chains a slight edge)

Pearl Jam, definitely!

I know they started in the 80s, but next up is REM.

And the Indigo Girls... Swamp Ophelia was a brilliant album.

Nirvana
Radiohead
Dinosaur Jr

I am tempted to add REM as well--I loved albums from both decades. Even if I prefer the '80s stuff a bit, some of their best stuff was from the '90s.

Oh my god, this was my era and I can hardly begin to scratch the surface!
Dave Matthews Band and Radiohead may be tied for first. Both put on absolutely unbelievable live shows!
Soundgarden comes ahead of Pearl Jam, but Ten is one of my favourite albums of all time.
The Tea Party (fabulous Canadian band)
Jeff Buckley
Sarah McLachlan
I adore Tori Amos now but didn't realize it until this decade
And don't get me started on 90's dance music and what fun it was! :)
Or some (not all) 90's r&b! Ack I loved high school. :)

One of my favorites bridges 80's and 90's - U2. First big airplay in 80's though so I should have posted there. At a certain age, things get fuzzy lol.

Other 90's bands:
Nirvana. I lived in Olympia during beginning of grunge era when they were just one of many similar bands.
Pearl Jam (although I appreciate more now than then)
I did like Soundgarden too.

Dave Matthews
Blues Traveller
The Spin Doctors

Many of the "80's" bands stayed strong in next decade - REM, U2, etc.

Did you know that Dave Mathews is South African. Hah!

Cathy – LOVE Rush! Such musicians. (I’m answering you on this thread).

I love hard rock. I find that type of music very relaxing. I do not like soft, calm music at all. Music like that winds me up in an anxious way. Odd, but true.

Red Hot Chili Peppers is #4 . Would LOVE to see them in concert.

The 90's was my decade music-wise. So many bands to love. I used to sit near the radio tuned to k-rock and tape songs as they came on. Oddly, I don't love too many of them anymore, though I was wildly obsessed with Bush and Nirvana at various points in time. Also loved 311 (not the greatest band in the world but it was just nice to hear something happy and positive for a change). Weezer and Foo Fighters are among bands the few bands I continue to love. What else...Everclear, Garbage, No Doubt, Sugar Ray, Radiohead, Eels, Hole, Blind Melon, Gin Blossoms, Hum, Meat Puppets, Rage Against the Machine, STP...

...and Ace of Base. I bought "The Sign" as little as 5 years ago from the $0.01 bin at the local record shop. It was a great day!

Did anyone else like to watch Matt Pinfield on 120 minutes? I loved that show. I found so much great music that way, back when MTV was actually worth watching.

Now we're talking, I loved 90's music and turned 21 in 1999. University represented liberation for me and the music I listened to then still resonates today. my favourite three would be:
1) The Stone Roses - although technically the album was released in 1989.
2) Nirvana
3) Blur -the britpop of the 90 was such a fun time for the British music industry.

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This may or not be in the same order for me tomorrow!
Bands:
Nirvana
Metallica (formed in the 80s but I feel they hit their stride in the late 80s, early 90s) / Apocalyptica
Coldplay
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Green Day
Prodigy
Smashing Pumpkins
Fatboy Slim
No Doubt
Radiohead
Oasis
Goo Goo Dolls
Massive Attack
Morcheeba

Solo Artists:
George Michael
Michael Jackson
Sarah MacLachlan
Alanis Morisette
Sting (80s?)
Jamiroquai

OMG! I just realized I did not mention Eric Clapton in the 80s thread! Maybe if we do a 70s thread then.

Angie, Cathy, I'm embarrassed to say I had not heard about Rush till last night (they were in concert in the movie I Love You, Man). I really liked their sound. Must pursue more.

Michelle, I love The Tea Party! I didn't know they were a Canadian band. I discovered them thanks to Radio Paradise. I love RP.

Angie, I love hard rock too. It is to me what classical music is supposed to be to many. If I made a playlist for my life and every activity in it, it would be all hard rock. Except of course when dancing is involved. Unless it is headbanging :-D. I kid, of course.

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Angie - something I didn't know about you! Now I have to get used to the image of you relaxing to hard rock :-)

I'm having trouble keeping my decades straight! Of the names mentioned, top of my list: Nirvana, Tori Amos, Indigo Girls, some Radiohead and Pearl Jam.

High five, Vani! Hard rock music for me is what soothing R&B or classical is to others. The only other person I've met who feels the same way as we do is Greg. If we want to really relax, we put on hard rock music as loud as we can stand it so that we can take a breath and zone out. Does that make sense to you too?

Hmm I am not like you Angie and Vani. I did enjoy the Indigo Girls. I also really like a song by the Lemonheads "I lied about being the outdoor type" - thought it was really funny.

Maya, I loved 120 Minutes!

hands down: foo fighters.

closely followed by: no doubt, oasis (did you hear that noel quit? SAD), coldplay, goo goo dolls, weezer, the eels. a lot of the pop-punk stuff that was "rebellious" for me at the time -- something corporate, fall out boy (before they blew up and got so huge), blink 182, the get up kids, etc. and (true confessions and because the boyband craze was such a huge part of the 90s) -- THE BACKSTREET BOYS.

oh come on, i can't be alone. right...??

Don't feel too bad Hanna. It doesn't seem like anyone else is fessing up to Ace of Base, although I refuse to believe no one else loved and still loves them :p

I forgot Oasis on my list. I think What's the Story Morning Glory was my first CD purchase, actually.

We are Foo Fighters twins. And Weezer too.

I haven't seen anyone mention Enigma.

Right Said Fred :)

Angie, High five! Absolutely the same for me. When I have to focus and totally block everything else out at work, I crank up the rock Gods. Which reminds me I need some good headphones, the whole world doesn't need to know I am rocking out to "Dude Looks Like a Lady" :-D

Hanna, Maya, LOL I loved Ace of Base, years ago. I still feel good whenever I hear AoB playing somewhere. I also adored The Corrs. I just no longer voluntarily play their songs anymore, I've kind of branched into Instrumental Rock and Techno as a substitute for light hearted pop music. Doesn't mean I don't jam to the occasional Calle Ocho :-D I listen to everything.

And there was also a time when I LOVED BSB. 10 yrs ago I thought they were frickin' awesome. I knew the words to almost all their songs, my all time favourite being "We've got it goin' on".

More fessing up? I always thought the Brit band Boyzone were better musicians, singers and songwriters than BSB. And then was Take That with the HOT Gary Barlow and the awesome Robbie Williams. Gary Barlow is beautiful, sigh...

Ok, I've got to stop. I really can keep going on and on and on :-D Oh, and I forgot Foo Fighters, completely. Never got into Weezer somehow.

oh no, niva, boyzone?? now i don't know if we can still be friends!

LOL, just kidding -- if you'd said n'sync then we would really have been in trouble ;).

maya, i do like ace of base and will belt out 'the sign' with the best of them -- they're just not quite a fav! although niva brought up the corrs and i remember LOVING them -- the sister who played the violin, whatever her name was, just seemed so elegant to me!

also, i'm just gonna put it out there -- i never got into nirvana. like them, didn't go crazy over them the way everyone else seemed to. LOVE dave grohl as a foo fighter. can't think of him any other way...

oh, and i forgot the stone temple pilots. and everclear.

I have many fun memories reading these lists! Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Greenday, Metallica ... remind me of college and meeting my husband since I had not listened to that genre before then.

I was a bit of a boyband freak in the 90's so top of the list would be Take That and backstreet boys and does anyone remember new kids on the block! i was a huge fan or were they the 80's!

Without any doubt.. my favorite is Evanescence,
then.. Green Day and Likin park

Nice to know I’m in good company, Vani. Others think I’m odd.

Evanescense! High Five, Rute! They make my #5 for the 90’s era. Also would like to add that the 80’s bands I love still make music today and I am STILL all over their new albums – apart from Sting who went too jazzy–fied for my tastes. Much preferred him in The Police.

It’s so interesting hearing your music preferences. Thanks for indulging me, ladies! The 70’s thread is on its way – for those of you who are old enough to remember :0)

Oooh I remember the 90s! I don't remember anything of the 80s seeing as I was born in 1988.

Favourite bands (from memory):

Spice Girls! (I was 7 when they released their first single, I was entitled to bad taste then!)
Backstreet Boys
Boyzone (niva, they were Irish)
Goo Goo Dolls
Alanis Morrisette
The Corrs
Evanescense

Favourite bands (now that I have some taste :-P)

Radiohead
Jeff Buckley
Aimee Mann
Soundgarden
Blur
Oasis

Other than the ones that have been mentioned, I really enjoyed listening to Toad the Wet Sprocket and They Might Be Giants. Pearl Jam would be my top choice and then Dave Mathews Band...the rest gets too intertwined with different memories for me to pick out favorites but Toad and TMBG were with me during my freshman year of college and were always in my CD player.