your favorite non-metal bands from the 90s?

Afghan Whigs were a great band!

detuned wrote:

Morphine!!!!

Drums, sax and a two string bass... and totally awesome. Good call.

Daniel Johnston and Wesley lewis, gotta love outsider music.

The Tea Party
Lenny Kravitz
The Black Crowes
Type O Negative
Collective Soul
Paw

This is easy.

The Cranberries.

UNCLE SAXON wrote:

The 2 that always pop into my head instantly are

Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Jellyfish

I know alot of you guys here personally - so I can totally recommend Ned's to all you metalheads! They have a cool dynamic of having 2 bassists - 1 lead and 1 rhythm! Makes for a very unique sound that I have never heard anyone come close to duplicating!!

I really loved the song they did for So I Married An Axe Murderer.

I'm not going to include bands that were alt-metal (i.e. Alice In Chains, Pirmus, Faith No More, etc.):

The Choir
Pearl Jam
Soul Asylum
some Stone Temple Pilots
Temple Of The Dog
Soundgarden
The Lost Dogs (probably my favorite of all these)
All Star United
Marillion (they were like a totally different band in the 90s than in the 80s)
One Hundred Days
House Of Pain
Cypress Hill
The O.C. Supertones
Collective Soul
The Kry
Iona

How about albums.........

Beasts Of Bourbon - The Low Road (1991)
Thee Hypnotics - Soul, Glitter & Sin (1991)
The Rosehips - Soul Veronique In Parchment (1994)
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film (1999)
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (1992)
Urge Overkill - Saturation (1993)
Wildhearts - p.h.u.q. (1995)
Suede - Suede (1993)
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998)
Peter Perrett - Woke Up Sticky (1996)
Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above (1992)
Chamber Strings - Gospel Morning (1999)
Paul K & The Weathermen - The Big Nowhere (1991)
Blackeyed Susans - All Souls Alive (1993)
Lauging Hyenas - Hard Times (1995)
The Bounty Hunters - Threads A Tear Stained Scar (1990)
Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow (1993)
Robyn Hitchcock - Eye (1990)
Motorcycle Boy - Popsicle (1991)
Chainsaw Kittens - Pop Heiress (1994)
Spencer P. Jones - Rumour Of Death (1994)


...........i'll stop!!!

rattpoison wrote:

How about albums.........

Beasts Of Bourbon - The Low Road (1991)
Thee Hypnotics - Soul, Glitter & Sin (1991)
The Rosehips - Soul Veronique In Parchment (1994)
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film (1999)
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (1992)
Urge Overkill - Saturation (1993)
Wildhearts - p.h.u.q. (1995)
Suede - Suede (1993)
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998)
Peter Perrett - Woke Up Sticky (1996)
Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above (1992)
Chamber Strings - Gospel Morning (1999)
Paul K & The Weathermen - The Big Nowhere (1991)
Blackeyed Susans - All Souls Alive (1993)
Lauging Hyenas - Hard Times (1995)
The Bounty Hunters - Threads A Tear Stained Scar (1990)
Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow (1993)
Robyn Hitchcock - Eye (1990)
Motorcycle Boy - Popsicle (1991)
Chainsaw Kittens - Pop Heiress (1994)
Spencer P. Jones - Rumour Of Death (1994)


...........i'll stop!!!

Yeah, sticking to bands leaves shorter lists.

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Yeah, sticking to bands leaves shorter lists.

Stender wrote:

the mentors

warrior soul

I salute these choices, young'in, but the Mentors have been recording since the early 80s (their most famous release, YOU AXED FOR IT, is from '85).

...and if Warrior Soul are "non-metal" then I've been listening to the wrong genre all these years. That band is TOTALLY metal.

As for me, aside from Nirvana, L7, and Soul Asylum's GRAVE DANCERS UNION album I pretty mcuh slept thru the 90s musically.

I clicked open this thread three or four times already and STILL can't think of one non-metal band from the 90's that I dig all that much. Can think of plenty from the 70's and 80's, but the 90's? Hmmm...

Foo Fighters!

thejokeriv wrote:

Foo Fighters!

Oh, good one. Forgot about those guys.

Looking back through my collection, there wasn't much non-metal from the 90's that I cared for. While my tastes broadened slighty, stuff that I tried out (Green Day, Offspring, some grunge) never really stuck with me. I always come back to my first love, heavy metal.

Starting near the end of 1995 I started getting into Jazz, so I spent the rest of the decade in deep study of that style. So I missed alot of the bands mentioned in this thread (or I only heard them here and there).

However, nothing in the "rock/metal" camp interested me in that era, so I didn't bother investigating things. It wasn't until about 2005 that I started checking out some of the music from the late 90's and found alot that I liked...though most of it was either in the prog or metal genres.

ultmetal wrote:

I clicked open this thread three or four times already and STILL can't think of one non-metal band from the 90's that I dig all that much. Can think of plenty from the 70's and 80's, but the 90's? Hmmm...

is there life beyond metal?? everytime one comes to mind..its like "nah,thats metal!!!" cant think of ONE!!

rattpoison wrote:

How about albums.........

Beasts Of Bourbon - The Low Road (1991)
Thee Hypnotics - Soul, Glitter & Sin (1991)
The Rosehips - Soul Veronique In Parchment (1994)
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film (1999)
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (1992)
Urge Overkill - Saturation (1993)
Wildhearts - p.h.u.q. (1995)
Suede - Suede (1993)
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998)
Peter Perrett - Woke Up Sticky (1996)
Epic Soundtracks - Rise Above (1992)
Chamber Strings - Gospel Morning (1999)
Paul K & The Weathermen - The Big Nowhere (1991)
Blackeyed Susans - All Souls Alive (1993)
Lauging Hyenas - Hard Times (1995)
The Bounty Hunters - Threads A Tear Stained Scar (1990)
Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow (1993)
Robyn Hitchcock - Eye (1990)
Motorcycle Boy - Popsicle (1991)
Chainsaw Kittens - Pop Heiress (1994)
Spencer P. Jones - Rumour Of Death (1994)


...........i'll stop!!!

I loved that Material Issue album! "Valerie Loves Me" is one of my favorite songs of the decade.

BTW, are you from Australia? I was asking because of the Cold Chisel album cover you have for your image. I've never know anyone here in the States listen to Cold Chisel.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Stender wrote:

the mentors

warrior soul

I salute these choices, young'in, but the Mentors have been recording since the early 80s (their most famous release, YOU AXED FOR IT, is from '85).

...and if Warrior Soul are "non-metal" then I've been listening to the wrong genre all these years. That band is TOTALLY metal.

As for me, aside from Nirvana, L7, and Soul Asylum's GRAVE DANCERS UNION album I pretty mcuh slept thru the 90s musically.

My bad, I was referring to the mentors albums that came out in the early 90's, not a real fair choice I suppose.

but warrior soul always strikes me as having hard rock or heavy metal but with a huge influence from punk and alternative...Like space age playboys album. Maybe I'm just tripping out.

Warrior Soul
The first Candlebox CD
The first two Black Crowes cds


Good call on Ned's Atomic dustbin

Stender wrote:

but warrior soul always strikes me as having hard rock or heavy metal but with a huge influence from punk and alternative...Like space age playboys album. Maybe I'm just tripping out.

I'll give ya that SPACE AGE PLAYBOYS was more cyberpunk/hard rock, but if ya check out SALUTATIONS FROM THE GHETTO NATION (my fave) or DRUGS, GOD AND THE NEW REPUBLIC, them discs are metal thru and thru.

James B. wrote:

Warrior Soul
The first Candlebox CD
The first two Black Crowes cds


Good call on Ned's Atomic dustbin

Forgot about Candlebox!!! Had their first CD been released in 89, they would have been called Metal. Same with Creed, as their deep tracks are really good and have awesome riffs!

I agree with Jokerman, Candlebox and Creed would have been labeled metal bands if they had been released years earlier, also alot of bands such as Alice In Chains, Soundgarden were marketed as metal bands.

I reallly love alot of 90s bands.

Helmet
Faith No More
The Jesus Lizard
Oasis
Blur
Foo Fighters
AIC
Soundgarden
STP
Smashing Pumpkins
Fugazi
Quicksand
Super Furry Animals (still awesome!)
Kyuss
Fu Manchu
Mr. Bungle
Swervedriver
Radiohead
Cake
Soul Coughing
Fishbone (80s/90s)
Sunny Day Real Estate
At the Drive-In
Rancid

and on and on...

Oh, yeah I forgot to mention the Foo's.

I forgot about The Choir (good call Dallas, even though they started back in the 80s, they got big in the 90s) and Rancid!

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