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Originally Posted by Violent & Funky
"Mainstream" music wasn't that bad for parts of the 1990s. All of these bands were popular sellers that still maintained at least some artistic integrity:
RHCP
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins
Dinosaur Jr.
Primus
Incubus
311
KoRn
RATM
Weezer
Green Day
The Offspring
Tool
Faith No More
Sonic Youth
(I make this list like once a month, don't I? You guys are probably really tired of me)
Also, plenty of great hip-hop during this time. And those are just the ones I like from my collection. There are plenty of others...
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It's funny to me when I see a list like this because it's so obviously written by someone who doesn't remember the 90s very well. While it's true that bands like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Primus and Faith No More did okay in the 90s, they were not at all what the average high school kid was listening to. Some of those other bands, like 311, Korn, Green Day, The Offspring and 90s era Chili Peppers were low points, not high points of the decade. And Incubus was much more popular in the 00s than the 90s.
But the most important thing to keep in mind about the experience of living in the 90s is how far from representative that list is from the music that was really moving units back then. The biggest hits were by people like Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey and Puffy Daddy. Hell, one the biggest songs of the decade was "The Macarena" for f
uck's sake.
All of this is not to say that the 90s didn't have good music, of course it did. Hip hop, trip hop, IDM, post-rock, etc., etc., there was tons of great stuff going on mostly outside the limelight. I'm just saying that living through the 90s was far from the musically mind-blowing experience you guys seem to think it was.