NOT a '90s artist!
The list of 1990s bands (mostly alt-rock) that were still out there workin’ for a livin’ was an easy target for bashing—at least for me. When y’all jumped in and turned it into a pile on of alterna-bashing, I started to have second thoughts about this fine group of young musicians that just wanted to let their hair down and fly thier flannel flag (or union jack).
I propose another look at the 1990s.
Let’s create the RTH Top 25 CDs of the 1990s from bands that are considered ’90s bands (as in I would count Jane’s Addiction, although their debut came out in ’88 or ’89 [I had it in high school, so it had to have been out prior to spring 1989]). This is not a place to list REM‘s Automatic For the People or a ’90s Tom Waits record; this is for ’90s bands.
Please consider the following criteria/limitations when posting your thoughts on the matter:
- One record per band, 13 albums per Townsperson (an alternative band number if there ever was one)
- Loose definition of “alternative”: CD would have been played on Alternative Rock Radio (or should have been) or at least college radio.
I’ll start with my own:
