Artist	Song
Portishead	Sour Times
from Dummy (1994)
No Doubt	Just a Girl
from The Singles 1992-2003 (1995)
Smash Mouth	Walkin' on the Sun
from Fush Yu Mang (1997)
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	The Impression That I Get
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (1997)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy	You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (1994)
Beck	Where It's At
from Odelay (Deluxe Edition) (1996)
Whiskeytown	16 Days
from Strangers Almanac (1997)
Fiona Apple	Criminal
from Tidal (1996)
Eels	Novocaine for the Soul
from Beautiful Freak (1996)
Elliott Smith	Angeles
from Either/Or (1997)
Ben Folds Five	Brick
from Whatever and Ever Amen (1997)
Sarah McLachlan	Building a Mystery
from Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan (Deluxe Version) (1997)
Marilyn Manson	The Beautiful People
from Antichrist Superstar (1996)
Moby	Bodyrock
from Play & Play: B Sides (1999)
Foo Fighters	Learn to Fly
from There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)

Comment:

Alt rock ruled the ’90s as thoroughly as Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq. Fact is, by the decade’s midpoint, it [i]was[/i] the mainstream, having flattened what had come before as completely as a nuclear blast. In this newly fertile landscape, all sorts of hybrids sprang up — alt country and alt metal, trip-hop and Britpop. But the [i]rock[/i] part of alt rock continued to be the sun of this solar system, with the various subgenres orbiting around it.

Fans spent countless hours in their darkened bedrooms, tripping on the surreal sounds of Radiohead’s [i]OK Computer[/i], Beck’s [i]Odelay[/i], Portishead’s [i]Dummy[/i], and Wilco’s [i]Being There[/i]. They also tore it up on the dance floor, bouncing to third-wave ska, jitterbugging to big-band swing, and raving to electronica.
The scene got so big that it had its own Woodstock festival, 30 years after the first one — so big that female artists mounted their own traveling fest, Lilith Fair. It was only a matter of time before [i]alterna

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