’90s Alternative Essentials

Apple Music ’90s
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’90s Alternative Essentials

Revisit the hits, album cuts, and iconic tracks of the decade. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Nirvana
Nirvana
Nevermind
Radiohead
Radiohead
Pablo Honey
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Green Day
Green Day
Dookie
Beck
Beck
Mellow Gold
No Doubt
No Doubt
Tragic Kingdom
Weezer
Weezer
Weezer
The Verve
The Verve
Urban Hymns (Deluxe / Remastered 2016)
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
U2
U2
Achtung Baby
The Cranberries
The Cranberries
No Need To Argue (Remastered 2020)
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Ritual de lo Habitual
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Ten
R.E.M.
R.E.M.
Out of Time
Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains
Facelift
Fastball
Fastball
All the Pain Money Can Buy
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde
Bloodletting - 20th Anniversary Edition (Remastered)
Pixies
Pixies
Bossanova
Sublime
Sublime
Sublime
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
To Bring You My Love
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
Violator
blink-182
blink-182
Enema of the State
Portishead
Portishead
Dummy
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
The Colour and the Shape (Bonus Track Version)
Garbage
Garbage
Garbage (20th Anniversary Edition)
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots
Purple (2019 Remaster)
Oasis
Oasis
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill (Remastered)
Soundgarden
Soundgarden
Superunknown (20th Anniversary)
Hole
Hole
Live Through This
Radiohead
Radiohead
OK Computer
Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz
Are You Gonna Go My Way
Bad Religion
Bad Religion
Stranger Than Fiction
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys
Ill Communication
4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Descendents
Descendents
Everything Sucks
The Prodigy
The Prodigy
The Fat of the Land
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream
Lit
Lit
A Place In The Sun
Blur
Blur
Blur
Bush
Bush
Sixteen Stone (Remastered)
James
James
Laid (Remastered)
Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind
CAKE
CAKE
Fashion Nugget
Harvey Danger
Harvey Danger
Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray
Floored
Counting Crows
Counting Crows
August and Everything After
Social Distortion
Social Distortion
White Light White Heat White Trash
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler
Four
The Offspring
The Offspring
Americana
Smash Mouth
Smash Mouth
Astro Lounge
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
Semisonic
Semisonic
Feeling Strangely Fine (20th Anniversary Edition)
Eve 6
Eve 6
Eve 6
Gin Blossoms
Gin Blossoms
New Miserable Experience
Blind Melon
Blind Melon
Blind Melon
Nirvana
Nirvana
Nevermind
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Grace
The Cure
The Cure
Wish
Soul Asylum
Soul Asylum
Grave Dancers Union (2022 Remaster)
Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba
Tubthumper
Cornershop
Cornershop
When I Was Born for the 7Th Time
311
311
311
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Faith No More
Faith No More
Angel Dust
Pixies
Pixies
Trompe le Monde
Radiohead
Radiohead
The Bends
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine
Better Than Ezra
Better Than Ezra
Deluxe
Soul Coughing
Soul Coughing
Irresistible Bliss
The Breeders
The Breeders
Last Splash
Placebo
Placebo
Without You I'm Nothing
Bush
Bush
Razorblade Suitcase (Remastered)
R.E.M.
R.E.M.
Automatic For The People
Stereo MC's
Stereo MC's
Connected
White Town
White Town
Women In Technology
Pavement
Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains
Dirt (Remastered)
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream
The Goo Goo Dolls
The Goo Goo Dolls
A Boy Named Goo
Primitive Radio Gods
Primitive Radio Gods
Rocket
Social Distortion
Social Distortion
Social Distortion
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band
Crash
Pulp
Pulp
Different Class
Everclear
Everclear
Sparkle And Fade
Veruca Salt
Veruca Salt
American Thighs
Nirvana
Nirvana
In Utero (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Presidents of the United States of America
The Presidents of the United States of America
The Presidents of the United States of America (10th Anniversary Edition)
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps
Becoming X
Remy Zero
Remy Zero
Villa Elaine
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Let Love In (2011 Remastered Version)
Jesus Jones
Jesus Jones
Doubt
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Let's Face It
Elastica
Elastica
Elastica
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
There Is Nothing Left to Lose
White Zombie
White Zombie
Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head
Björk
Björk
Debut
Green Day
Green Day
Nimrod
New Radicals
New Radicals
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace
Clumsy
The Lemonheads
The Lemonheads
It's a Shame About Ray (30th Anniversary Edition)
Bush
Bush
Sixteen Stone (Remastered)
No Doubt
No Doubt
Tragic Kingdom
Rancid
Rancid
...And Out Come the Wolves
U2
U2
Achtung Baby
L7
L7
Bricks Are Heavy
Ministry
Ministry
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
Violator
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Goo
Hole
Hole
Celebrity Skin
Crash Test Dummies
Crash Test Dummies
God Shuffled His Feet
Incubus
Incubus
Make Yourself
Dido
Dido
No Angel
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Californication (2014 Remaster)
Cracker
Cracker
Kerosene Hat
Filter
Filter
Title Of Record
Primus
Primus
Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Collective Soul
Collective Soul
Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
The Colour and the Shape (Bonus Track Version)
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple
Tidal
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Fear
Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Under the Pink (Remastered)
The Cure
The Cure
The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Descendents
Descendents
Everything Sucks
Garbage
Garbage
Version 2.0 (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
LIVE
LIVE
Throwing Copper
CAKE
CAKE
Prolonging the Magic (Deluxe Version)
Radiohead
Radiohead
OK Computer
EMF
EMF
Schubert Dip
Moby
Moby
Play & Play: B Sides
Nirvana
Nirvana
In Utero (20th Anniversary Edition)
Belly
Belly
Star

135 Songs, 9 hours, 12 minutes