With ‘The Show, The After Party, The Hotel’, Jodeci pushed the boundaries of R&B and lived up their reputation as the “bad boys of R&B.”
Beastie Boys always seemed to be pushing their music forward, while simultaneously borrowing heavily from their past.
Praised for its diversity and impact, 90s dance music is to electronica fans what the 60s were to classic rock aficionados.
Spawning megastars such as Snoop Dogg, 2Pac and Eminem, 90s hip-hop marked the point when the music came out of the suburbs and took over the world.
Reflecting his eclectic tastes, Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label covered metal, rock, country and all points in between, establishing its founder as music’s ultimate auteur in the 90s.
Home taping in the 80s didn’t kill the record industry, but the lo-fi format gave a voice to those that the mainstream didn’t always have an ear for.
Like the titular character from her album, ‘Unrepentant Geraldines’, Tori Amos has been unapologetically bucking the constraints of pop her entire career.
A reminder of why people started bands in the first place, Aerosmith caught the attentions a whole new generation with ‘Get A Grip’.
Released just a week after Kurt Cobain’s death, Hole’s Live Through This saw Courtney Love bare her soul on an alt.rock classic that still surprises.
Genre-defining anthems from the finest golden age of R&B, the best 90s R&B songs still fill dancefloors while speaking to the soul.
Though a clear homage to the music he loved, ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’ saw Lenny Kravitz transcend his influences with a unique take on classic rock.
Hailed by some as the band’s “masterpiece”, ‘Machina/The Machines Of God’ was a “really dark album about loss”, according to Billy Corgan.
Produced by Brian Eno, James’ ‘Millionaires’ album lived up to their ambitions of “being commercial and being interesting and different”.
One of the most pervasive hits of 90s alt.rock, Live’s ‘Lightning Crashes’ launched the band to fame and struck a sensitive collective nerve
Fusing lo-fi production with a singer-songwriter sensibility, Phair helped shaped what would become “indie rock” and defied expectations of what a female rock star could be.
