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50 of The Best Alternative Guitar Songs of the 90s

January 23, 2015 By Klaus Crow 12 Comments

Last Updated on May 16, 2021 by Klaus Crow

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The 90’s. Oh dear, they were really good times for young guitar players like myself who adored rock music.

There were so many alternative rock bands back then you got lost in the woods, but that didn’t bother most of us.

Not that everything was great, but at least it was guitar music playing on the radio, just like in the 60’s and 70’s authentic bands playing real guitar songs.

Nowadays I even like some of the songs that I didn’t really dig back then. It has all become nostalgia.

They make me think of the good times or maybe I just listen to those songs differently now. Has my alternative taste expanded? It doesn’t matter. The bands and their songs that were so awesome then have just become more awesome after all these years. Those cranked up guitars just got better.

Favorites? Of course: REM, Radiohead, Alanis Morissette, Oasis, Beastie Boys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but it was great putting the entire list together.

Yes, there were many more songs that i wanted to add, but fifty seemed like a nice round number. So here you are.

Notes:
The list below is to inspire, to motivate, to plug your guitar into that full stack to wake up some neighbors or just to bring back some good memories. The songs are in no particular order and the list is definitely incomplete.

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Enjoy listening!

01 – Smells like teen spirit – Nirvana – Tabs

02 – Creep – Radiohead – Tabs

03 – Alive – Pearl Jam – Tabs

04 – No rain – Blind Melon – Tabs

05 – Black hole sun – Soundgarden – Tabs

06 – Wonderwall – Oasis – Tabs

07 – Under the bridge – RHCP – Tabs

08 – Interstate lovesong – Stone temple pilots – Tabs

09 – What’s up – For non blondes – Tabs

10 – Cannonball – The Breeders – Tabs

11 – Everlong – Foo Fighters – Tabs

12 – Losing my religion – REM – Tabs

13 – Lithium – Nirvana – Tabs

14 – Song 2 – Blur

15 – Jeremy – Pearl Jam – Tabs

16 – Bittersweet symphonie – The Verve – Tabs

17 – Plush – Stone temple pilots – Tabs

18 – You oughta know – Alanis Morissette – Tabs

19 – Sabotage – Beastie Boys

20 – Breakfast at tiffanys – Deep Blue Something

21 – Epic – Faith No More

22 – Only Wanna Be With You – Hootie & The Blowfish

23 – Paranoid android – Radiohead – Tabs

24 – Mysterious ways – U2 – Tabs

25 – The way – Fastball

26 – Shine – Collective Soul – Tabs

27 – Closing time – Semisonic – Tabs

28 – Champagne supernova – Oasis – Tabs

29 – I’m only happy when it rains – Garbage

30 – Iris – Goo Goo Dolls – Tabs

31 – Lightning crashes – Live – Tabs

32 – Californication – Red hot chili peppers – Tabs

33 – Loser – Beck – Tabs

34 – Hurt – Nine Inch Nails

35 – Zombie – The Cranberries – Tabs

36 – Would – Alice in Chains – Tabs

37 – Glycerine – Bush – Tabs

38 – Runaway train – Soul Asylum – Tabs

39 – I alone – Live – Tabs

40 – Mr. Jones – Counting Crows – Tabs

41 – Basketcase – Greenday – Tabs

42 – Killing in the name of – Rage against the machine – Tabs

43 – Self esteem – Offspring – Tabs

44 – What’s the frequency Kenneth – REM – Tabs

45 – Buddy Holly – Weezer – Tabs

46 – 1979 – Smashing Pumpkins – Tabs

47 – What I got – Sublime – Tabs

48 – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day – Tabs

49 – The Distance – Cake – Tabs

50 – Lump – Presidents of the united states of america – Tabs

What’s your favorite alternative song of the 90s?
Please share in the comments.

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Comments

  1. Prasana says

    January 23, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Hi Klaus,
    I am a beginner who is learning and practicing the guitar with a teacher.I’m not sure that i could become a guitar player.I love to play guitar because it gives me pleasure and distract me from my life stresses.There are many obstacles in my path which hinders my guitar practicing. If I am able to make my own music in my guitar i will be very happy.I have the desire to learn guitar with many distractions that hamper that desire.I am glad that i had found your website.I love your website because it helped me a lot to keep myself motivated.I am a beginner your articles are so inspiring and motivating to me.If I become an amateur guitar player i will be very happy.I am imagining and believing that i will be able to become a guitar player one day with the help of your blog.
    I love your website,you have helped me a lot.your ideas are simple but highly effective.There are no words to express my gratitude.If I had studied with you in person i would be a great guitar player.This article contain good songs.There are points to take notice in the songs.I like the songs selfesteem, the way,whats up and I alone.I will surely practice some of these songs.Thanks for sharing.

  2. Prasana says

    January 23, 2015 at 11:39 am

    Hi Klaus sir,
    I have a doubt in 3 ways to improve your skills,I had understood the first part(don’t think about what you can’t do ,focus on your practice),I am unable to understand the second part(practice with the tools you have while you pursue all the knowledge you want).
    can you explain the second part so that i could understand it?

  3. Klaus Crow says

    January 23, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    Hi Prasana,

    I mean that not everybody has a decent sounding guitar or can afford private guitar lessons or whatever you need to help improve your guitar playing, but let that not stop you from practicing and achieving your goal.

  4. Dave says

    January 24, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    Hi Klaus,

    Say int ain’t so by Weezer and Even Flow by Pearl Jam.

    Great list, thanks.

  5. Klaus Crow says

    January 24, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    Hi Dave,

    “Even flow” Great song!

  6. Brandon says

    January 28, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    What about Come out and play by Offspring

    Brandon

  7. Antonio says

    February 2, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    SludgeFeast by Dinosaur Jr. !!! J Mascis is a guitar god.

  8. Greg says

    April 6, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    Hi Klaus
    Every rose has it’s thorn

  9. Pete says

    August 26, 2015 at 5:25 am

    Greg, dude, Every Rose has it Thorn is 80’s bro. Great song, wrong decade.

  10. DAVID R. MAHONEY says

    May 2, 2017 at 8:29 am

    The list is sorely lacking PIXIES and The Replacements.
    Also; Hootie & The Blowfish?… Alternative?… What?

  11. Ronald Enos says

    January 2, 2020 at 7:29 am

    Great post. Keep posting. Please let me know for the upcoming posts.

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