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The Top 100 Artists of the 90s


1 Nirvana

2 R.E.M.

3 Radiohead

4 Beck

5 Oasis

6 Blur

7 Massive Attack

8 P J Harvey

9 Pavement

10 Björk

11 Pulp

12 Beastie Boys

13 The Smashing Pumpkins

14 Pearl Jam

15 Primal Scream

16 The Chemical Brothers

17 U2

18 The Verve

19 Dr. Dre

20 Manic Street Preachers

21 Portishead

22 A Tribe Called Quest

23 The Prodigy

24 Suede

25 Nick Cave

26 Underworld

27 Red Hot Chili Peppers

28 Public Enemy

29 My Bloody Valentine

30 Notorious B.I.G.

31 Madonna

32 Soundgarden

33 Tricky

34 TLC

35 Aphex Twin

36 Weezer

37 Rage Against the Machine

38 Lauryn Hill

39 Fatboy Slim

40 Neil Young

41 Bob Dylan

42 Pet Shop Boys

43 Jeff Buckley

44 Fugees

45 Belle and Sebastian

46 Happy Mondays

47 Sinéad O'Connor

48 Metallica

49 Sonic Youth

50 Wu-Tang Clan

51 Nine Inch Nails

52 Air

53 Hole

54 The Flaming Lips

55 The Breeders

56 Supergrass

57 Moby

58 DJ Shadow

59 Wilco

60 Daft Punk

61 Teenage Fanclub

62 Elliott Smith

63 Orbital

64 Yo La Tengo

65 Cypress Hill

66 Spiritualized

67 The Orb

68 Green Day

69 Mercury Rev

70 Eminem

71 Ice Cube

72 Alanis Morissette

73 Stereolab

74 Liz Phair

75 Snoop Doggy Dogg

76 Tom Waits

77 The LA's

78 Basement Jaxx

79 Tori Amos

80 Built to Spill

81 Foo Fighters

82 2Pac

83 Tortoise

84 The KLF

85 Arrested Development

86 Jane's Addiction

87 Cornershop

88 LL Cool J

89 Garbage

90 Fugazi

91 Leftfield

92 Goldie

93 OutKast

94 Pixies

95 Magnetic Fields

96 Sigur Ros

97 Missy Misdemeanor Elliott

98 Lucinda Williams

99 Nas

100 Depeche Mode

R.E.M. should really be #1 as nobody can touch their insanely brilliant string of 90's albums.

Nirvana were a great band, but all they really did was start a trend and inspire shit like Bush, Candlebox and the Vines.

Whereas R.E.M. are far more diverse and inspired Nirvana, Radiohead and countless other bands.

A lot of great bands there (yay at the mention of Suede without "The London" attached as a prefix), I don't know if I would've put Nirvana at #1 though. If Kurt Cobain hadn't died, they would be somewhere in the 30s probably.

The Pixies at 94? kUtz

Seriously, I cannot fucking stand the Red Hot Chili Peppers

I assume they did that because the Pixies released their best work in the 80s, and broke up in 1993......but yeah.....good call.