Worst era of the US Modern Rock Chart?

In the early '90s we had, what, Sinead and Suzanne Vega and maybe Kate Bush? Slim pickins.

right in the middle of the 2003-2008 "Oligopoly" period I remember hearing a lot of White Stripes and Modest Mouse and the Raconteurs and Bloc Party and Gnarls Barkley and the Bravery

Yeah, while the Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, and Incubus had the highest peaking songs of that era I tend to usually associate that time period more with bands like The White Stripes, The Killers, Modest Mouse, The Bravery, Muse and all of those emo pop acts like Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance. Also, because I'm in Canada bands like Metric, Arcade Fire, Sam Roberts, and AlexisonFire/City and Colour.

Alfred you are talking the height of the Tori Amos era. she was huge.

Was tori amos really that huge?

Huger than the three Alfred mentioned. I think Alfred's thinking 1990-91 though.

well, Little Earthquakes was '92.

1999-2002 < 1997-1999 < 2003-2008 < 1993-1996 < 2009-2013 < 1988-1993

actually i can't really decide whether 1999-2002 or 1997-1999 is worse

arent you supposed to be nostalgic for the music of your youth?

right now I'm jonesing for a burger

I listened to oldies radio so I am nostalgic for the Four Tops and the Grass Roots, not Matchbox 20 and Fuel.

I have never heard Sweater Weather.

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it feels weird lumping in 2003 with as far ahead as 2008. the representation listed above doesn't account for the singles during the earlier half of that era that were actually decent ("go with the flow," "minerva," "just because," "maps," "duality," "hard to explain," the darkness, etc) although audioslave had shown up by then who were both the worst and most overplayed rock band of that entire decade. but as far as i can tell, those odd minor-hits disappeared entirely by the time 2009 had arrived.

just as well that i am mookieproofed

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hmm