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 8th October 2022, 07:09 AM
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 BuzzJack Legend
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we were playing this with some friends,
who would be your top 20 artists of the 90s? not an easy task since there's so many great artists around and from so many different genres, britpop, grunge, alt_queens, dance my top 20 would be: 1 Tori Amos 2 Cranberries 3 Radiohead 4 Bjork 5 Alanis Morissette 6 Oasis 7 Massive Attack 8 Pulp 9 Nirvana 10 Pearl Jam 11 Suede 12 Manic Street Preachers 13 Blur 14 Portishead 15 Chemical Brothers 16 Placebo 17 Counting Crows 18 Smashing Pumpkins 19 REM 20 Garbage really interested in seeing other peoples lists! This post has been edited by Bjork: 26th October 2022, 11:21 AM |
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8th October 2022, 07:28 AM
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 Right in front of my salad?!
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I’ll have a think and do this later
 Expect Britpop 
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8th October 2022, 07:49 AM
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^I kinda can imagine, wonder who'll be your #1
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8th October 2022, 08:24 AM
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Right in front of my salad?!
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QUOTE(Bjork @ Oct 8 2022, 08:49 AM)  ^I kinda can imagine, wonder who'll be your #1 Well, it’s not Robson & Jerome!
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8th October 2022, 08:41 AM
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I guess it depends on whether it's artists to emerge in the 90's or artists who were active during the 90's or for releases only during the 90's as for me it would be a very different list depending on the criteria.....
Pet Shop Boys, Madonna and others were great in the 90's but are regarded as 80's acts, Texas were fab but emerged in the 80's and were still doing great stuff in the 00's, Robbie Williams emerged in the 90's but his career is split across 2 decades really. But KLF, Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Spice Girls, Alanis Morrissette, Garbage would all feature whatever the criteria.. |
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8th October 2022, 09:00 AM
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I mean, judging only 90s material
even if the artist continued in the 00s or already started earlier all in my list are acts I associate with the 90s |
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8th October 2022, 09:57 AM
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Sounds like fun - I;ll have a think
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8th October 2022, 12:00 PM
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01 Manic Street Preachers
02 Nirvana 03 Garbage 04 Creaming Jesus 05 Pulp 06 L7 07 Killing Joke 08 Hole 09 Nine Inch Nails 10 Levellers 11 Pixies 12 KLF 13 Oasis 14 R.E.M. 15 Carcass 16 Suede 17 Korn 18 The Prodigy 19 Marilyn Manson 20 Rage Against The Machine |
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17th October 2022, 10:16 PM
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In 1993 me and my friends were forever writing down our Top 10 which changed almost every week. My memory is a bit hazy now but my Top 10 earlier on in the year looked something like this:
1. Guns n Roses 2. INXS 3. Bon Jovi 4. Nirvana 5. Metallica 6. Faith No More 7. Lenny Kravitz (Based purely on "Are You Gonna Go My Way") 8. Sisters of Mercy 9. New Model Army 10. Spin Doctors (Based purely on "Two Princes") As the year went on we became more purists in alternative rock and metal and some of these fell out of favour. INXS didn't really fit the mold anymore, Bon Jovi became the enemy for being too namby pamby, Lenny Kravitz released a couple more songs that weren't rock at all, Sister of Mercy and New Model Army seemed too 80s (both did have hits in 1993 though) and Spin Doctors released a couple more songs that weren't that good. As a result the Top 10 by the end of the year looked something like this: 1. Guns n Roses 2. Nirvana 3. Metallica 4. The Almighty 5. Rage Against the Machine 6. Red Hot Chili Peppers 7. Therapy? 8. Alice In Chains 9. Megadeth 10. Lemonheads By the end of 1994 I'd got into rave music and stopped listening to all of those eventually. My Top 10 would have been along the lines of 10 DJs who were playing in the main arena at the next Dreamscape. On reflection I was never overly keen on Nirvana, Sisters of Mercy, New Model Army or Megadeth but think the rest are all decent. Not sure which of those would make my Top 20 though. A few more names you could throw into the mix based on some of my favourite albums are Massive Attack, Portishead, DJ Shadow, Air, Snoop Dogg, Jurassic 5, Propellerheads. I'd also say my favourite Underworld album is their 92-02 greatest hits as this captures all the best bits in my opinion. |
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17th October 2022, 11:10 PM
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Huge Sisters fan here, but the 90s was where it finally fell apart as a commercial proposition. '82-'85 were the glory years, '87 & '88 the pop star years and '90-'93 was the time everyone slowly got sick of Eldritch's ego.
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18th October 2022, 03:42 PM
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Beastie Boys
Bjork Dr Dre PJ Harvey Manic Street Preachers Massive Attack Nas Notorious BIG Orlando Pavement Pixies Prince Pulp Radiohead Red Hot Chili Peppers Sonic Youth Spice Girls Suede TLC Robbie Williams Impossible to rank them This post has been edited by chartjack2: 18th October 2022, 03:43 PM |
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23rd October 2022, 03:08 PM
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QUOTE(Severin @ Oct 18 2022, 12:10 AM) Huge Sisters fan here, but the 90s was where it finally fell apart as a commercial proposition. '82-'85 were the glory years, '87 & '88 the pop star years and '90-'93 was the time everyone slowly got sick of Eldritch's ego. We were too young to remember the early 80s, but what you say sounds logical. The 1992 re-issue of "Temple of Love" was what got us into them but I don't think any of us realised it was an old song at the time. By the time we discovered how old they were plus they had a hit with "Under The Gun" which none of us liked they fell from favour. On reflection it wasn't really my cup of tea, I was just following the crowd like you do at that age. |
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23rd October 2022, 04:09 PM
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QUOTE(chartjack2 @ Oct 18 2022, 04:42 PM) Beastie Boys Bjork Dr Dre PJ Harvey Manic Street Preachers Massive Attack Nas Notorious BIG Orlando Pavement Pixies Prince Pulp Radiohead Red Hot Chili Peppers Sonic Youth Spice Girls Suede TLC Robbie Williams Impossible to rank them It's unusual to see Spice Girls and Pixies in the same list. |
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23rd October 2022, 04:26 PM
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Mine:
1. Pulp 2. Blur 3. Oasis 4. Radiohead 5. Portishead 6. Suede 7. Supergrass 8. Massive Attack 9. Manic Street Preachers 10. Sleeper 11. Elastica 12. Stone Roses 13. Tricky 14. R.E.M. 15. Prodigy 16. Kula Shaker 17. Bluetones 18. Placebo 19. Cranberries 20. Air |
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23rd October 2022, 04:26 PM
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This is a really tough ask and I'm certain I can't order them but here are twenty in alphabetical order...
Beautiful South Björk Chemical Brothers Depeche Mode Enigma Erasure Madonna Massive Attack Orbital Portishead Prince Prodigy Pulp Radiohead REM Saint Etienne Smashing Pumpkins Suede Tori Amos Underworld That feels like an awfully generic list :/ |
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25th October 2022, 09:10 PM
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I only lived through 3 years of the 90s so there is still a loooot of digging that I need to do, but from what I have explored to date, in alphabetical order:
- Aphex Twin - Basement Jaxx - The Chemical Brothers - The Cure - Depeche Mode - Fiona Apple - Janet Jackson - The KLF - Madonna - Manic Street Preachers - Mariah Carey - Massive Attack - Nirvana - Oasis - Portishead - Primal Scream - The Prodigy - Radiohead - Robbie Williams - Spice Girls (I put my favourite 90s song from each of these artists into a Spotify playlist and the suggested artists off the back of my taste are Björk, Pulp and Tori Amos, noted  )
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25th October 2022, 09:40 PM
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These 16 of my nominations for the Best Groups rate a few years ago had some hits in the 90s, although a few of these groups peaked in a different decade for me:
R.E.M. Red Hot Chili Peppers U2 Green Day New Order Blondie [basically one song in the 90s ]Pixies Oasis Depeche Mode Radiohead Pogues Massive Attack Queen Cure Pet Shop Boys Crowded House To bring it up to 20, just missing the rate for me were: Chemical Brothers Manic Street Preachers Stone Roses Verve If basing it just on the 90s, I'd definitely remove Blondie, Pogues and Queen, and possibly others, but not sure who I'd replace them with - Leftfield, Portishead and The Prodigy maybe, although I haven't even considered solo artists or anyone whose singles didn't chart... |
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26th October 2022, 03:02 PM
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I ended up spamming the playlist that I made off the back of this thread three times in the background this morning
 I should make compact playlists more often, my imagination usually runs away with me and turns them into hundreds of songs (the single releases of 'Pictures Of You' and 'Black Cat' spilled over into the 90s so thought they'd be okay here) |
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26th October 2022, 05:56 PM
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1 Tori Amos (Hotel)
2 Manic Street Preachers (A Design for Life) 3 Suede (The Asphalt World) 4 Blur (Caramel) 5 REM (Leave) 6 The Prodigy (Break and Enter) 7 Depeche Mode (Enjoy the Silence) 8 Mansun (Being a Girl) 9 Orbital (The Box parts 1&2) 10 Radiohead (Climbing Up the Walls) 11 Massive Attack (Mezzanine) 12 Garbage (Vow) 13 Crowded House (Private Universe) 14 Erasure (Fingers and Thumbs) 15 Electronic (Some Distant Memory) 16 KLF (It's Grim Up North - parts 1&2) 17 Björk (Hyperballad album version) 18 U2 (The Fly) 19 Chemical Brothers (Hey Boy, Hey Girl) 20 Aphex Twin (Windowlicker) This post has been edited by Colm: 26th October 2022, 08:54 PM |
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31st October 2022, 08:55 PM
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These lists so far have really been far too respectable
Let's introduce some housewife BLANDNESS 01. The Corrs 02. Alanis Morissette 03. Garbage 04. Texas 05. Spice Girls 06. REM 07. Manic Street Preachers 08. Sheryl Crow 09. Sash! 10. Des'ree 11. Madonna 12. Erasure (although they really went off the boil after '94) 13. M People (dreadful albums, but GREAT singles) 14. Seal 15. Massive Attack 16. Annie Lennox 17. Bryan Adams 18. Cranberries 19. The Beautiful South 20. TLC I briefly considered the Lighthouse Family, but decided that really would be going TOO FAR |
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