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"Perhaps it wasn’t quite the way Jimmy Page would have done things in his raucous Led Zeppelin heyday.

The veteran guitarist enjoyed a 71st birthday meal at a branch of the chicken restaurant chain Nando’s.

But at least he was accompanied by one essential for an ageing rock star – the much younger girlfriend."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2905867/Whole-Lotta-Love-Led-Zeppelin-guitar-hero-Jimmy-Page-71-takes-actress-girlfriend-s-age-dinner-Nando-s.html

Guitar Legend / Nando's card holder
 
My vote is for Live or Bush. Live made two great albums and then pretty much crashed and burned. Bush made the same bad song over and over, but the lead singer managed to get with Gwen Stefani. And... they're both losing because people are voting for the most famous band in each case, not the most 90's band.
 
I'm totally biased but have a soft spot for soul asylum. They were that total mix between "look at our angst" but our music isn't so angry and hard sounding. The singer dated winona ryder (date an alternative quasi famous girl is so 90s). And they had a song personify Clerks which is yet another cult classic. And I freakin love them.

I don't like soul asylum vs. stp in the first round. both have strong merits to make it into later rounds.

when all was said and done i couldn't take temple of the dog over bush.

Also mediated a heated argument between two friends last night over whether the winner of this bracket should have no cultural relevance outside the 90s (i contend there is room on both sides of the argument)

So I got to:

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they should've had kid n play, digital underground, etc... but i guess early 90s are just an extension of the 80s. anyway i had Soul Asylum win too, over the Fugees
 
Good job actually filling the entire thing out, ucsd. You are probably right about the Spice Girls for the pop division - they were the biggest thing in the world for a few years in the middle of the 90s and then imploded. They had their own movie, which is more than I can say for Smash Mouth. But, none of these pop groups or rappers can make it to the top, the 90s were all about whiners in lumberjack outfits.

Pretty sure the Offspring made it well out of the 1990s.

I was very lucky I got to see STP when not only did they have Scott Weiland in the band, but he was actually sober.

Donde esta Nirvana and Pearl Jam? I know for a fact that Nirvana didn't make it out of the 90s.
 
I could also make a strong argument for Alice in Chains. But I guess death of a singer isn't 90's enough.

Pearl Jam at least gets somewhat of a nod with soungarden in Temple of the Dog....I guess..
 
the link explains why they left out nirvana, pearl jam and tupac, etc... i mean if they did include AIC i wouldn't even read the bracket and they'd win
 
According to their guidance, the goal is to find the band that "typify[ies] everything about the decade, both musically and culturally". Grunge defined the 90s, musically and culturally, more than anything else, and Nirvana and Pearl Jam defined grunge, more than anything else. Of course, the same paragraph also calls Nirvana great musicians, but maybe the plural meant Grohl and some of the members of Weezer.
 
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