24-7 Spyz, A Tribe Called Quest, Alice in Chains, Arrested Development, Ash, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Beck, Belly, Björk, Body Count, Bootsy Collins, Butthole Surfers, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Cocteau Twins, Curve, Cypress Hill, Damian Marley, De La Soul, Dinosaur Jr, DJ Shadow, Dr. Dre, Elastica, Faith No More, Fishbone, Foo Fighters, Front 242, George Clinton, Godflesh, Green Day, Helmet, Hole, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Iggy Pop, Iron Maiden, James, Jane's Addiction, Killdozer, KMFDM, Korn, L7, Lenny Kravitz, Living Colour, Lunachicks, Lush, Marlilyn Manson, Melt-Banana, Metallica, Method Man, Ministry, Moby, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, NOFX, Pantera, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Peter Murphy, Porno for Pyros, Prick, Primus, Psychotica, Public Enemy, R.E.M., Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redman, Rollins Band, Run-DMC, Screaming Trees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Slayer, Snoop Dogg, Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Superchunk, The Beautiful South, The Boredoms, The Breeders, The Chemical Brothers, The Cramps, The Cult, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus Lizard, The Lemonheads, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Offspring, The Prodigy, The Ramones, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Wu-Tang Clan, Tool, Tricky, Tupac Shakur, Unsane, White Zombie, Ziggy Marley
Afghan Whigs, Archers of Loaf, At the Drive-In, Babes in Toyland, Belly, Blur, Change of Heart, Death From Above 1979, Dinosaur Jr, Drive Like Jehu, Echobelly, Eric's Trip, Faith No More, Guided by Voices, Helmet, Hole, Jane's Addiction, L7, LCD Soundsystem, Luna, Luscious Jackson, Lush, Mazzy Star, Menswear, My Bloody Valentine, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Odds, Pavement, Pulp, Rage Against the Machine, Ride, Sleater-Kinney, Slint, Slowdive, Soundgarden, Stone Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Suede, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Breeders, The Constantines, The Happy Mondays, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus Lizard, The Killjoys, The La's, The Lemonheads, The Libertines, The Pixies, The Replacements, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, The Watchmen, The Wedding Present, Thrush Hermit, Urge Overkill, Violent Femmes, Wolf Parade
10000 Maniacs, Hüsker Dü, Hole, Marvin Gaye, Mike Watt, Nirvana, R.E.M., Soul Asylum, The Germs, The Melvins, U2, Weird Al Yankovic
Perception. Hyperbole. Legacy. I’m not exactly sure what I was trying to get at when I put together this graphic.
However, in 2014, it seems absurd how close (on paper) these two outfits were in the early 1990s, considering one is now the most important rock band of the last quarter century and the other is now a small footnote.
