Yes. Awesome decade for those of us who like good loud music with lots of guitars. Rocket From the Crypt, Green Day, Fugazi, Hellacopters, Turbonegro, Supersuckers, Electric Frankenstein, Goo Goo Dolls, Soul Asylum (though they were way better in the '80s), Screeching Weasel, the Queers, etc... the list goes on and on.

Personally for what I like, I'd take the '90s over any other decade. Well, for straight ahead rock, I'd go with the '70s (KISS, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy), and for metal I'd take the '80s (Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Anthrax, and a zillion other thrash bands), but the '90s had the best loud, melodic, guitar oriented rock/punk/alternative music to my ears.

AIC and Soundgarden (well in their early days they were, I guess) are NOT grunge. At all. I don't think they ever claimed to be either. Decent bands, but certainly not "grunge". Calling AIC "grunge" would be like calling Britney Spears "rock 'n roll". Or calling Slayer "black metal". To the untrained ear, yeah, it all sounds the same, so you can lump it loosely into a category, but you'd be wrong.

Grunge (though mainly a made up media marketing term that the bands themselves didn't like) was bands like Coffin Break, Tad, Melvins, Mudhoney, Nirvana (at least their first album), maybe the Fluid, etc... More of having to do with being produced very cheaply and released by Sub Pop than anything else.

Millions? But then again they probably bought a flannel shirt too.

Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Weezer: Weezer (the blue album)
NIN: The Downward Spiral
Metallica: Metallica
Freshman albums from Snoop Dogg, Dre, and Outkast

as somebody who was living in Seattle when these bands were first becoming popular, I'd say that you may not think they are grunge, but they were most certainly classified that way by the vast majority of listeners...

haha, what are you talking about?!

What I saw start to die in the 90's was black music.
50's,60's,70's and 80's had beautiful original love songs.
The 90's came with all this "F" this "Yo bitch" that in black music.
And to top it off they had to use samples from the 1970's to sell this crap music.
The only black artists that came out of the 90's that had some talent was BOYZ TO MEN and they only lasted for 3 years.

... are you serious?

NIN....Marilyn Manson......nuff said!

Simple answer - YES - as they were no worse than any other decade, and I've got just as many favorite bands that came out of it as any other decade.

Lastly, the question should be "WERE", not "Was".

Gimme some recording black artists that started in the 90's.
And if any of them are rap, I rest my case!

Before I answer your question, you're saying that all rap sucks, regardless?

90s music was great. Especially 90-96.

The music from 2000-2005 is my least favorite in any decade, ever. In fact I hate the music from 2000-2005 dramatically. The current decade has some catching up to do. Britney, Backstreet, Insync, P Diddy, Jessica Simpson, Nelly, JLo, Destiny's Child, Christina, and Fiddy ain't gonna cut it.

That's an ignorant and incorrect statement.

I think he's saying rap sucks for the same reason that a lot of metalheads feel grunge sucks. It totally subverted a different style of music. When grunge arrived, metal was pushed overseas to sweden, germany, etc. When rap exploded in the 90's, non rap or hip-hop black artists disappeared.

Far and away my favorite, but then again I was a teenager in the 1990's and that's when I got into music.

All the Seattle music is still my favorite today, plus stuff like Rage, Bush, Live, etc. Just a great period for the type of music I like.

Here's why rap music sucks and rappers suck; rappers suck because they make vile noise instead of music, substitute moronic verbal crap, hatred, foul language and violence for thoughtful lyrics.


They dress like f**king cloned retards and they all make the same pointless hand gestures and "dance" moves like spastic monkees hopped up on crystal meth.


Only good thing is that they keep killing each other, but just not fast enough.

Obviously not a De La Soul fan.

Yup. Those street thugs with their tatoos,gold,bling,and sportswear all look the same to me.


Not even gonna bother with that last sentence.

For me it was bad, bad, bad. Some good stuff in the very early part, but at some point it just turned to crap--for one thing, it seems like hip hop crept into just about everything (except maybe country, but other than Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline I pretty much can't stand country so that doesn't help).

Ben Harper, for starters. Anymore more incredibly ignorant statements?

Or is it just because of liberals?

Hootie from Hootie and the Blowfish, and I remember when tey were HUUUUGE

And I would say a bunch of R&B singers/songwriters, but I'm sure you'd just classify that as rap, just like thousands of white people classify ANY music put out my an African American as rap...

I did think of one.
R. Kelly
But if we were to run the names of black greats in the 50's,60's70's & 80's the list would be big in each decade. You can't say that for the 90's. You can run a big list of rap artists, but like I stated before the reason their songs are catchy and chicks dance to them is the 70's sample of the background music. That is like calling a someone who traces a picture a great artist.