Not in this lifetime or the next. They had one fucking album almost 30 years ago. Pavement delivered the goods on all 5 of their albums plus inspired bands like Blur and Radiohead to........push forward.

This seems to be a pretty short sighted list, no?

It's hard to not vote for my favorite band of the decade (Oasis), but are they really the best? What makes a band the best? Is it popularity? Or maybe album sells? Cultural impact?

I think we need to develop some kind of analytics to decide such things. Broaden our scope and try to weed out our biases and personal preferences.

(I've abstained from voting thus far.)

Talking about 90's bands, I've listened to a bit of Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie era, lately. Tonight, Tonight has to be one of the most defining song of the 90's for rock alternative music.

Not sure why the Roses are in the poll. Sure, I love their music, but their magnum opus was released in the previous decade, and they only put out one album in the 90's (Turns into Stone doesn't count!), which had a mixed reception, and made hardly a dent in a world dominated by Britpop.

But this really illustrates how arbitrary a decade is. Who's to say that a decade can't start in, say 1987? It's just as arbitrary to group music moments into decades, as you're gonna get overlap in style at the beginning and end of decades. And, because the Roses has such an influence on 90's British rock, you could call them a "90's band", even though their best work was released in 1989.

What's the best Aphex Twin album? I've got his 'Selected Ambient Works' albums and I'm pretty keen to listen to more but I'm not sure where to start.

Or a 90's version of the Velvet Underground, especially with that jangled guitar twag tone, but as Mark E. Smith would say they're just a fucking The Fall ripoff.

Seriously though. Pavement is probably the correct answer. 5 for 5 on great albums with 2 legit classics, 1 cult favorite, and 2 neat and consistent closing albums. 90's is one of my favorite eras in general, but Pavement and Oasis are probably my top 2 bands of all time.

=w=

Why are the god awful Spice Girls in the list.

1. Oasis
2. Belle and Sebastian
3. Radiohead
4. Teenage Fanclub
5. Pavement

I didn't include The La's or My Bloody Valentine because they only had one album during the decade, but both are pretty high in my personal favourite lists.

Shoutout also to Portishead, Pulp, Primal Scream, Supergrass, Nirvana, Blur, Mazzy Star, The Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., The Verve, Mercury Rev, Pixies, The Breeders, Swell, Spiritualized, Slowdive, The Boo Radleys, and many others.


Fuck, how good were the 90's ?!