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(#1) Nirvana
- Nevermind, In Utero
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(#2) Radiohead
- The Bends, OK Computer, Pablo Honey
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(#3) Pearl Jam
- Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, Yield, No Code
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(#4) Pixies
- Bossanova, Trompe le Monde
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(#5) The Smashing Pumpkins
- Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Gish, Adore
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(#6) Soundgarden
- Superunknown, Badmotorfinger, Down on the Upside
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(#7) R.E.M.
- Automatic for the People, Out of Time, Monster
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(#8) Alice in Chains
- Dirt, Jar of Flies EP, Alice in Chains, Facelift
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(#9) Weezer
- Pinkerton, Weezer (The Blue Album)
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(#10) Sonic Youth
- Dirty, Washing Machine, Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star, Goo, A Thousand Leaves
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(#11) Nine Inch Nails
- Broken EP, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile
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(#12) Beck Hansen
- Odelay, Mellow Gold, Mutations
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(#13) The Cranberries
- Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We?, No Need to Argue
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(#14) Jane's Addiction
- Ritual de lo Habitual
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(#15) Tool
- Ænima, Undertow, Opiate EP
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(#16) Pavement
- Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee, Brighten the Corners, Terror Twilight
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(#17) Dinosaur Jr
- Green Mind, Where You Been, Hand It Over, Without a Sound
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(#18) Garbage
- Garbage, Version 2.0
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(#19) Fugazi
- Repeater, Steady Diet of Nothing, In on the Kill Taker, Red Medicine
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(#20) My Bloody Valentine
- Loveless, Glider EP, Tremolo EP
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(#21) PJ Harvey
- To Bring You My Love, Rid of Me, Dry
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(#22) Butthole Surfers
- Electriclarryland, Independent Worm Saloon, Piouhgd
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(#23) Björk
- Debut, Post, Homogenic
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(#24) Modest Mouse
- The Lonesome Crowded West, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
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(#25) Elliott Smith
- Either/Or, XO, Elliott Smith
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(#26) The Flaming Lips
- The Soft Bulletin, Clouds Taste Metallic, Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, Hit to Death in the Future Head, In a Priest Driven Ambulance, Zaireeka
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(#27) The Lemonheads
- It's a Shame About Ray, Car Button Cloth, Come on Feel the Lemonheads
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(#28) Neutral Milk Hotel
- In the Aeroplane over the Sea, On Avery Island
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(#29) Mudhoney
- Superfuzz Bigmuff, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Piece of Cake, My Brother The Cow, Tomorrow Hit Today
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(#30) Wilco
- Summer Teeth, Being There, A.M.
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(#31) Screaming Trees
- Sweet Oblivion, Dust, Uncle Anesthesia
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(#32) Filter
- Short Bus, Title of Record
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(#33) Hole
- Live Through This, Celebrity Skin, Pretty on the Inside
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(#34) Everclear
- Sparkle and Fade, So Much for the Afterglow, World of Noise
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(#35) Soul Asylum
- Grave Dancers Union, Let Your Dim Light Shine, And the Horse They Rode In On
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(#36) Veruca Salt
- Eight Arms to Hold You, American Thighs, Blow It out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt
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(#37) Slowdive
- Souvlaki, Pygmalion, Just for a Day
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(#38) Placebo
- Placebo, Without You I'm Nothing
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(#39) Yo La Tengo
- I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One, Painful, Electr-O-Pura, Fakebook, May I Sing With Me
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(#40) Liz Phair
- Exile in Guyville, Whip-Smart, Whitechocolatespaceegg
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(#41) Built to Spill
- Perfect From Now On, There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, Keep It Like a Secret
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(#42) Guided by Voices
- Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, Mag Earwhig!, Under the Bushes Under the Stars, Isolation Drills
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(#43) Sebadoh
- Bakesale, Bubble and Scrape, Sebadoh III, Harmacy, Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
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(#44) Manic Street Preachers
- The Holy Bible, Everything Must Go, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
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(#45) The Afghan Whigs
- Gentlemen, Congregation, Black Love, 1965, Up in It
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(#46) Teenage Fanclub
- Bandwagonesque
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(#47) Sunny Day Real Estate
- Diary, LP2 (The Pink Album), How It Feels to Be Something On, The Rising Tide
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(#48) Sugar
- Copper Blue, File Under: Easy Listening, Beaster EP
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(#49) Sleater-Kinney
- Call the Doctor, Dig Me Out, The Hot Rock, Sleater-Kinney
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(#50) Aphex Twin
- Come to Daddy EP, Richard D. James Album, Selected Ambient Works 85-92
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The early alternative and indie bands were mostly underground bands. In the 1980s, many alternative bands were independent, because their musical form prevented them from getting more mainstream support. However, they achieved great success in the 1990s, and blooming developed. After a number of popular indie bands emerged on the Internet in the 2000s, both indie rock and alternative rock have become mainstream music genres.
The alternative music of the 90s lost some of the essential characteristics of the original alternative music. The style of many experimental bands changed to indie rock. The random tool lists 100 great alternative & indie bands of the 1990s.
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