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Poll Question: Which of the following bands is your favourite?
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    Posted: 07 Dec 2010 at 6:19am
Here's one for the grunge and alternative rock fans... all hail the early '90's!
There is such a wealth of these bands that I felt multiple choice was necessary.
Everyone get out your plaid shirts, ripped jeans and mix tapes!
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My personal favourites...
PEARL JAM
SCREAMING TREES
SMASHING PUMPKINS
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I did wear plaid shirts back then (they're actually useful in the cold chilly Danish winter), but not ripped jeans (why destroy a nice new pair of jeans?). Anyway, this is about the music. I continued to listen to all kinds of metal during the alt.-wave of the 90s, so it was more a question of me adding some alt. rock to my overall musical universe rather than replacing my metal music with alt. music (which a lot of people did back then).

I listened extensively to Nirvana's "Nevermind", which I think is a good and unique album, but I didn't care much for their other output. My favorite band of that period/genre/movement probably was RATM, because I think that their way of mixing rap and metal was totally awesome. Then I checked "others", because there's a bunch of bands which are not on your list:

Boghandle: a Danish noise/punk/grunge band who released some pretty fierce music. I had their album on tape somewhere (I can't even recall its title, but I liked it)
Kashmir: a Danish alt. rock band whose first couple of releases were quite hard rocking ("Travelogue" and "Cruzential").
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy: a Danish hard rock band with some alt. rock tendencies. They only released two albums (but, man, they're good), before frontman Tim Christensen split up the band and pursued a boring solo career.
Clawfinger: Swedish/Norwegian rap-metal band with more industrial tendencies; they're up there with RATM on my list.
Helmet: I liked their "Meantime" album quite a lot
Suede: Brit pop band - now, I couldn't stand Brit pop back then, and I'm glad it's more or less dead and gone now, but I did think that Suede were quite good though
Primus: bass madness!
Fielfraz: another Danish alt. rock band. Their first album "Shine" is kind of okay but also kind of boring, but I really like their experimental approach on the second album "Electric Eel".... even if the lyrics are stupid and juvenile.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" and "One Hot Minute" received a lot of rotation on my stereo (I've lost both discs... I suspect my ex took them when we split up)
Faith No More: "The Real Thing" is an absolute classic!
U2: kind of funny - when they went into alt. rock in the 90s, they were unavoidable, because everybody in my school loved them, I started digging their 80s music, which I still prefer.
Anthrax: a thrash metal band who started doing alt. metal (didn't work too well for Metallica), but I actually think that "The Sound of White Noise" is a good and groovy album.
Death Angel: I might be stretching it here, but "Act III" has an alt. rock edge to it although it's still very much a thrash metal album.
Biohazard: another rap metal act, but they approach it from a US hardcore punk background - I remember listening extensively to "Urban Discipline", "State of the World Address" and "Mata Le�o"
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Totally with you on RHCP, Faith No More and Primus. And although I never really intended for it to be a 'metal' oriented poll per say, 'The Sound Of White Noise' is exactly as you say it is...one very groovy album!
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I'd always been sort of skeptical towards anthrax, but it's that album that got me into Anthrax.... now, I like their old stuff better though. Taste moves in mysterious ways.
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Radiohead!
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I'm separating Alice In Chains and Soundgarden in my head because, IMO, they're Metal.
 
From the rest of that list, I like Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters and just in 2010 began to understand and get into Nirvana...
 
From the list, I'll choose Foo Fighters beacuse I have all their albums...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Balthamel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jan 2011 at 4:25pm
i recomend some of the 80s and 90s Norwegian  hard rock bands (which Im lately bin starting to regard as proto grunge in ways, De Lillos, Jokke & Valentinerne, Raga Rockers, and DumDum Boys (all sang in Norwegian) and had that their style but also similarities, also worth mentioning is Turbonegro and Motorpsycho (one is punk-glam metal other is progressive grunge alt metal, with strong kraut leanings)
 
 
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i miss the Rage Againts The Machine, i like Killing In The names song from RATM, i don't even know why tommy morelo disband the Rage Againts the machine
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