Top 10 Alternative Bands of All Time
Encompassing punk, new wave, and rock, while also spawning subgenres like grunge and Britpop, it went from an indie genre to one of the most popular types of music in the 1990s and beyond. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 alternative bands of all time.
This is the final video in our series of videos spanning the decades of Alternative Rock music from the 1970s to the 2000s, and includes our lists of the Top 10 Alternative Bands of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s as well as the Top 10 Punk Bands and Top 10 Grunge Bands.
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Pixies were lot better than nirvana and radiohead.. Pixies inspired them… Fucking bad list..
Nirvana's #1. I totally didn't see that coming. (sarcasm)
The White Stripes are great, but they're too new.
Talking Heads should be a lot higher.
U2 and The Velvet Underground should be on the list.
WTF WHY THE SMITHS ARE IN THE HONORABLE MENTIONS!?
No goo goo dolls
No Counting Crows
No Dave Matthews Band
No Foo fighters
No Matchbox Twenty
Who made this list? You can’t talk about alternative without these guys. Instead you have grunge and punk bands on this list. R.E.M and Pearl Jam but none of the others?? C’mon.
not based on greatness but more on personal favorites:
10. death from above
9. stone roses
8. swans (too cool for this list?)
7. my bloody valentine
6. the cure
5. talking heads
4. belle & sebastian
3. the smiths
2. joy division
1. radiohead
HM: neutral milk hotel (do they count????), gorillaz, slowdive, lcd soundsystem.
also i don't get grunge. grunge bands other than pixies just don't appeal to me at all.
I don’t feel it necessary to categorize everything, they are what they are.
I do not agree , where's linkin park , three days grace , breaking benjamin this top sucks!!!!
No blink?
I can abide Pearl Jam at 8 but I can't tolerate them bring behind RHCP. And no Pumpkins or Oasis is a travesty.
The clash and not foo fighters?
You obviously don't know what "alternative " means this is all lame top 40 music.
Nirvana? Only reason there number one is because curt cobain died. The foo fighters and weezer should've been on the list. I'm honestly sick of nirvana
Wath is your favorite
Pearl jam deserves a higher spot
Where tf is Muse
Weezer
Jane's Addiction? Smashing Pumpkins? The Velvet Underground? Paisley Underground? Violent Femmes? Arcade Fire? Oasis? 30 Seconds to Mars? I like your list but you missed some good ones thought.
My top 10, using bands from this list.
10. Tears For Fears
9. The Cure
8. Radiohead
7. Depeche Mode
6. The Clash
5. R. E. M.
4. The White Stripes
3. Nirvana
2. Green Day
HN: Talking Heads, Pearl Jam, The Smiths, The Ramones, Sonic Youth.
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stupid line dancing peeps ruined Depeche Mode's mega hit "Personal Jeasus"
Green Day should have been in this!
Mmuuuuuuusssssse!
Isn't blur officially alternative or why there is no "where is blur" comment?
This list was terrible… Didn't even include a lot of actual alternative bands, just grouped bands from rock/punk/grunge together who released songs around the same time.