Tuesday, August 25, 2015

BONUS: Live 105's top artists of the '90s (December 1999)

So here's something interesting I came across through The Wayback Machine: it's Live 105's list of the top artists of the '90s. I assume they did this at the end of '99 to cap off the decade's end (I found it on a 2001 edition of the webpage, so they were still keeping this list public back then) as a lot of stations did. What's especially interesting is how Blink 182, Korn, and Limp Bizkit (who had only been popular for less than a year at that point) are near the top, which does say a lot about the state of alternative rock in 1999. It also says a lot about the decade in general, seeing how those artists are sharing a list with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Big Audio Dynamite, and The Charlatans UK. Still, it's an interesting time capsule, and one I couldn't find on Rocklists.com, so here it is on the Internet...again.

1. Nirvana
2. Blink-182
3. Korn
4. Beastie Boys
5. Rage Against the Machine
6. Sublime
7. Limp Bizkit
8. Green Day
9. Metallica
10. Smashing Pumpkins
11. Pearl Jam
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Nine Inch Nails
14. The Offspring
15. 311
16. Bush
17. Radiohead
18. Foo Fighters
19. Stone Temple Pilots
20. Live
21. Depeche Mode
22. Beck
23. Garbage
24. Alice in Chains
25. U2
26. Dave Matthews Band
27. Creed
28. The Cure
29. Third Eye Blind
30. Jane's Addiction
31. Everclear
32. Tool
33. Soundgarden
34. Filter
35. Weezer
36. Kid Rock
37. Hole
38. No Doubt
39. Marilyn Manson
40. Sugar Ray
41. Orgy
42. Cake
43. Tori Amos
44. Bad Religion
45. Godsmack
46. Goo Goo Dolls
47. R.E.M.
48. Oasis
49. Rancid
50. Blur
51. Social Distortion
52. Rob Zombie
53. Smash Mouth
54. Counting Crows
55. Silverchair
56. Primus
57. Violent Femmes
58. Fatboy Slim
59. White Zombie
60. Lenny Kravitz
61. Bjork
62. The Chemical Brothers
63. Deftones
64. Faith No More
65. Alanis Morissette
66. Prodigy
67. Everlast
68. Pennywise
69. Lit
70. Fiona Apple
71. Reel Big Fish
72. Eve 6
73. Crystal Method
74. Less Than Jake
75. Collective Soul
76. Cypress Hill
77. Butthole Surfers
78. Cowboy Junkies
79. Local H
80. The Presidents of the United States of America
81. Cracker
82. MXPX
83. Porno for Pyros
84. Blind Melon
85. King Missile
86. Matchbox 20
87. Catherine Wheel
88. Marcy Playground
89. The Wallflowers
90. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
91. Harvey Danger
92. Temple of the Dog
93. The Primitives
94. School of Fish
95. 4 Non Blondes
96. James
97. Big Audio Dynamite
98. The Breeders
99. Tonic
100. Elastica
101. The Charlatans UK
102. PJ Harvey
103. Days of the New
104. Siouxsie & the Banshees
105. Soul Coughing

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