{"id":2413,"date":"2025-07-17T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2413\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:27:13","slug":"4-1990s-alt-rock-staples-everyone-adored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2413\/","title":{"rendered":"4 1990s Alt-Rock Staples Everyone Adored"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1990s, people seemed a bit more agreeable than they do today. For one, it was a decade that wasn\u2019t impacted by the fracturing nature of the internet. It was a time when there were fewer options and most people listened to the radio or went to local record shops to get their music. Ah, memories!<\/p>\n

But because culture wasn\u2019t nearly as splintered as it is today, there was a great deal more consensus about what we listened to. Here below, we wanted to dive into that very fact. We wanted to highlight four songs from the decade that, well, just about every music-loving person could agree on. These are four alt-rock songs from the 90s everyone simply adored. <\/p>\n

\u201cIronic\u201d by Alanis Morissette from Jagged Little Pill (1996)<\/p>\n

The former child actor-turned-rock songwriter was on the tip of everyone\u2019s tongues in the 1990s. Whether we were singing along with her songs like \u201cIronic\u201d or \u201cYou Oughta Know\u201d or trying to decipher who those songs were written about, Alanis in many ways was the 1990s. So much so that she even played God in the 1999 Kevin Smith comedy, Dogma. But that\u2019s just the presence Morissette boasted. <\/p>\n

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\u201cLosing My Religion\u201d by R.E.M. from Out of Time (1991)<\/p>\n

A rock song that features the mandolin\u2014just add that to the lengthy list of creative accomplishments by the Athens, Georgia-born rock group. This song is dark and brooding but it\u2019s also somehow catchy and memorable. R.E.M. lead vocalist Michael Stipe makes his pain yours and in that way, the burden of spirituality and philosophical thought is spread out and shared by all of us. Somehow, we all accepted this fate. And we continue to every time we play this iconic, acoustic-driven tune. <\/p>\n

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\u201c1979\u201d by The Smashing Pumpkins from Mellon\u00a0Collie and the Infinite\u00a0Sadness (1996)<\/p>\n

Listening to the Smashing Pumpkins was like walking into a dream. Sounds exciting, right? But the only thing about that proposition was that you didn\u2019t quite know if it was a pleasant dream or a nightmarish one. But that is the fine line that the Pumpkins\u2019 lead vocalist Billy Corgan walked. They were transportive, but they took you to the place that he mapped out. This in between space where things seemed interesting and new but also you had to keep your head on a swivel. That\u2019s the beauty of art\u2014it can surround, envelop and spin you around so much that it changes you. <\/p>\n

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\u201cBulls on Parade\u201d by Rage Against the Machine from Evil Empire (1996)<\/p>\n

Everyone who heard the Los Angeles-born rockers Rage Against the Machine was suddenly turned into a protester. And everyone adopted this reality easily. Rage\u2019s, well, rage was seductive. Lead singer Zack de\u00a0la\u00a0Rocha felt like an army general recruiting you to his ranks. Yes, the world is imbalanced. Yes, financial disparity is real and choking the planet. Yes, that guitar riff and those vocal screams are compelling me to think about the world differently. Yes, I\u2019d like to hear more! Rage pushed us all to think beyond ourselves. <\/p>\n

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Photo by Taylor Hill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 1990s, people seemed a bit more agreeable than they do today. For one, it was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3213,3214,49,48,75,341,3215],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1990s","tag-alt-rock","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-noisey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}