Top 20 Alternative Music Tracks From The 90’s?

1. Velouria-Pixies

2. A Strange Kind of Love-Peter Murphy

3. Head Like a Hole-Nine Inch Nails

4.I’m Free-Soup Dragons

5. Love Spreads-Stone Roses

6. When In Heaven-Kitchens of Distinction

7. Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana

8. No Myth-Michael Penn

9. Not Sleeping Around-Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

10. A Letter to Elise-The Cure

11. Down by the Water-PJ Harvey

12. Even Flow-Pearl Jam

13. Pure-Lightning Seeds

14. Until the End of the World-U2

15. Joey-Concrete Blonde

16. Cannonball-The Breeders

17. The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove-Dead Can Dance

18. Siva-Smashing Pumpkins

19. God-Tori Amos

20. Kiss Them for Me-Siouxsie and the Banshees

ETA: Could’ve gone for Top 50!

1. Today-Smashing Pumpkins

2. Visions of You-Jah Wobble

3. Silent All These Years-Tori Amos

4. Human Behavior-Bjork

5. Cuts You Up-Peter Murphy

6. I Alone-Live

7. Killing in the Name….-Rage Against the Machine

8. Dig for Fire-Pixies

9. In Bloom-Nirvana

10. Pretend We’re Dead-L7

11. Sheela-Na-Gig-PJ Harvey

12. Loser-Beck

13. Under the Bridge-Red Hot Chili Peppers

14. Possession-Sarah McLachlan

15. Thank You-Alanis Morrisette

16. Kill,Your Television-Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

17.Sadeness, pt 1-Enigma

18. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses? -U2

19. Losing My Relgion-REM

20. Sit Down-James

Never Enough-The Cure

Bittersweet Symphony-The Verve

Unbelievable-EMF

What’s Up? - 4 Non-Bondes

Sin-Nine Inch Nails

Drive-REM

Velouria-Pixies

Alive-Pearl,Jam

Outshined-Soundgarden

Sublime -The Ocean Blue

Rush-Big Audio Dynamite

Come as You Are Nirvana

Dreams-The Cranberrries

The Fly-U2

Here’s Where the Story Ends-The Sundays

Step On-Happy Mondays

Jerry Was a Race Car Driver-Primus

Rooster-Alice in Chains

Nearly Lost You-Screaming Trees

The King is Half-Undressed-Jellyfish

It is BEYOND IMPOSSIBLE to limit this to 20 tracks so I will just pick 20 at random

DJ Shadow | Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
Tricky | Black Steel
A Tribe Called Quest | Check The Rhime
Lush | Nothing Natural
Band of Susans | Hell Bent
Hum | Stars
Pee Shy | Mr. Whisper
Beck | Devil's Haircut
Soul Coughing | Super Bon Bon
Placebo | Pure Morning
Jawbox | Cooling Card
Jesus and Mary Chain | Far Gone and Out
Blur | There's No Other Way
Charlatans | The Only One I Know
Curve | Doppelganger
Elastica | Connection
Scala | Slide
Radiohead | Let Down
Future Sound of London | Slider
Pizzicato Five | Collision and Improvisation


I could've just as easily included Seefeel, Schtum, Spiritualized, Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Black Sheep, Portishead, Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps, Thievery Corporation, Locust, Ortibal, The Orb, Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Sarge, Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, Rainer Maria, Dandy Warhols, Yo La Tengo, Pale Saints, Stereolab, Sebadoh, Guided By Voices, Morphine, Calexico, Seaweed, Ivy, The Wendys, 808 State, The Fireman, Opus III, Shamen, Utah Saints, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, DJ Cam, DJ Spooky, Finley Quaye, Death In Vegas, Boom Boom Satellites, Propellerheads, Failure, La Monte Young, William Hooker, and so many more, ugh, as well as some of the more obvious 80s artists who continued making music into the 90s (e.g., Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.)

And as others have mentioned, Jah Wobble, Bjork, Dead Can Dance, Kitchens of Distinction, Stone Roses, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, PJ Harvey, The Ocean Blue and Big Audio Dynamite