10 Hottest Women From 90s Alternative Rock
One of the biggest things about the 90s alternative rock was the drive for women to be taken seriously in their craft. A lot of women played down their looks and drove their sexuality through their music. No matter how some tried to hide it their natural beauty and well I guess in the case of one person on this list their unnatural beauty showed through. The other day my friend Michelle and I had a discussion about who would be considered the ten best looking women from the 90s alternative rock scene, this is my list:
Honorary Mention: Winona Ryder
She slept with every alternative rock band in the 90s, I kind of feel like she deserves a place on this list.
10) Courtney Love- Lead Singer from Hole and murder of Kurt Cobain… er.. I mean widow
For every one good Courtney Love picture out there I could probably find you like 30 bad ones. But she had like a two-year period where she cleaned up, had some surgery, and looked pretty decent.
9) Lisa Loeb- Crappy song from the “Reality Bites” Soundtrack
The glasses, the smile, the hokey video… Lisa Loeb was the girl you wanted to abduct from the coffee house. Now hosting cooking shows she still retains the look that made her popular.
8 ) Carrie Brownstein- Sleater-Kinney Co-Founder
I have a weakness for women with serious musical chops… Carrie Brownstein has that and much more.
7) Kathleen Hanna- Bikini Kill
Hanna was one of the leaders of the whole Riot Grrrrl movement, which was associated with third wave feminism. So she would probably stab me for writing this post.
6) Shirley Manson- Garbage
I had a long debate about Shirley Manson. Physically I guess she is all right, she isn’t really my type, and I think her teeth bug me. However she oozes sexuality, which is enough to launch her to number 6 on my list. She just comes off as a dirty girl you would meet in a club/bar/swingers club that would ruin you for the rest of your life.
5) Gwen Stefani- No Doubt future pop sellout
The best abs on a singer ever…. Stefani didn’t really hit her stride or sell out until this decade but her initial rise to fame came off the “Tragic Kingdom” album release. She married Gavin Rossdale who was also up for consideration on this list.
4) Nina Persson- The Cardigans
She is blond and Swedish more what do you want to discuss? I would have to say she probably aged the worst out of anyone on this list.
3) Hope Sandoval- Mazzy Star and various collaborative projects
Someone once described her voice as haunting to me. I don’t know if I would agree with that but I think “Fade Into You” was put on way too many mix tapes that led to her voice haunting many people. I have no idea if that made sense.
2) Melissa Auf Der Maur- Bassist Hole
Auf Der Maur just sounds like a kinky German porn stars name. Anyway… The fact that she doesn’t like men doesn’t dissuade me from putting her at number two. Of course when you hang out with Courtney Love all the time it might just make you better looking by default. Like when mediocre looking girls hang out with girls with humps on their back or some other massive deformity so they look better.
1) Liz Phair
Liz Phair may have been my first “alternachick” crush I ever had. Maybe it was her looks, maybe it was her songs about being a blowjob queen. I guess it is a toss up. Even better is that she has aged disgustingly well, these two magazine photos were taken over ten years apart.
Also considered: Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, D’Arcy, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Kim Deal, Kelly Deal, the one good looking girl from Luscious Jackson, Bjork
Who would be on your list?
I had a response until my eyes wondered below to “Loosen up the butthole and enjoy a Whopper, people!” I started laughing and lost my train of thought.
That will happen
How about Heather Nova?
But not Ani DiFranco, she gives me the anti-erection.
I totally forgot about her
*roar*
Gwen Stephani….definately
although they’re all pretty hot
It was an odd list to create.
Could use the bass player from White Zombie but the list does include the bass player from Hole. That girl was damn hot. Good list. Agree with most. Man, I am a product of the 90’s more than anything. The memories just now.
I forgot about the girl from white zombie… that is a good call.
What the fuck is Courtney Love doing in there?!
She had a two year period…
She is a two year period.
Well she made Kurt bleed.
Oh Fiona Apple is definitely on my list, that woman was pure sex in a song with Criminal.
And Brody Dalle, from the Distillers. She was married to a fucking god of punk, she’s gotta get some respect.
I guess the Distillers is kinda late nineties, but still kinda counts, right?
Their first real album wasn’t until 2000 they only had a small EP before that so she doesn’t count.
Apple is hot but there is something about her bug like eyes and the annoying title of that one album.
Fiona Apple was hot if you like the whole “I look like a fucking junkie” thing.
I know it’s way early ’90s, but I gotta give a shout-out to Chrissy Amphlett from the Divinyls and that fishnet body stocking she wore on the cover of their album. Rowr!
I always thought she was a tad round.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
my friend found a fishnet crothless body stocking in her boyfriends closet……we put it on the dog and we never talked to him again
crotchless*
Mmm Shirley Manson. She’s smokin hot. And I have to say, I think Liz Phair looks better now than she did back then.
She knocked out a kid or two as well
That bitch.
D’arcy from Smashing Pumpkins was hot as fuck.
I love Bikini Kill.
I thought so too and was going to include her until I saw this:
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/2004/08/05/darcy-wretzky/
Maybe the most controversial – but I think Courney is really hot and her voice.
I have to demand a retraction of the statement that Nina Persson aged the worst of the people on the list. Take a look at this link (from a modeling gig she did for a swedish clothing chain earlier this year) and tell me that Courtney Love, for example, aged better than her… I mean come on!
http://emsaans.blogg.se/images/2008/nina_persson_1201290258_4750770.png
Citing Courtney Love doesn’t count…
Compared to Phair, Gwen, and Lisa Loeb…
wait I looked at the pictures… you are right. When I wrote this I found some pictures on Google images of her that were rough. But I stand corrected.
Dolores O’Riordan was always someone I thought was hot. I concur with the chick from Garbage and Gwen before she left No Doubt. Fiona Apple was also an obsession of mine.
Frig, I had one too many girly crushes. *sigh*
Closet lesbian
I have zero hot women to add…I somehow think this is a pre-quel to a post completely dedicated to Jenny Lewis. But who could blame you?
I was hoping to see Hope Nichols from Fetchin’ Bones on the list.
Wow… that was an under the radar reference and a good call. But wouldn’t you consider them more of an 80s band… actually they have had a long career through all decades.
No Bjork?!
The swan outfit killed her chances
Also, I would have said Jenny Lewis or Neko Case but they made their mark more in this decade.
And Courtney Love is a scuzzy crack whore. And not the good kind, either.
I love Jenny Lewis… so… so.. so much
Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays has it over crack slut Courtney any day.
It’s a pity that Tanya Donelly is disqualified because of her time with Throwing Muses. She’s hot (and was a co-founder of 3 of the most successful alternative bands ever).
There’s also the lead singer of Bettie Serveert, Carol van Dijk, who deserves consideration.
Oh, and D’Arcy’s not hot, she’s just blonde. That goes a long way, for some reason.
And furthermore, Corin Tucker is hotter than Carrie Brownstein. Just an opinion.
I went back and forth over Tucker or Brownstein… I had to google Carol van Dijk… She wasn;t on my radar but I agree… She should be heavily considered.
Wheeler … meh…
And you are right Tanya Donnelly is totally hot
She was really hot on the Smashing Pumpkins video “Rocket.”
Toni Halliday from Curve is by far one of the hottest chicks in rock – period. If not for Curve then bands like Garbage wouldn’t exist.
That is an excellent call. Early 90s and totally overlooked.
Cindy Blackman, drummer for Lenny Kravitz.
Cherielynn Westrich from The Rentals.
Bilinda Butcher from My Bloody Valentine
And I agree with the other guy about Harriet Wheeler from The Sundays.
Good article!
Butcher and Westrich are great suggestions. Butcher doesn’t do it for me and Westrich was someone that I totally forgot about.
As for Blackman I totally forgot about her for some reason I think of the drummer for Lenny Kravitz looks like the drummer for kid rock
Sean Yseult, the bassist from White Zombie, should absolutely be on this list…Great call on all the others and I agree with the Courtney Love pick…there was a period where she was gorgeous and surprisingly still can be on a good day. What about the Donna’s?!? 3 out of 4 of them are hotties to me and even though they got ‘bigger’ in the 00’s I believe their debut album was in 1993.
There was a debate about this because I think their drummer is super hot. Their major label debut and most of the music they were known for didn’t happen until after 2000… It was a debate if I could include them or not.
How is Nina Gordon and Louise Post from Veruca Salt not up there?????? Those were some hot bitches…I got to see them live back in 97 with Bush. Courtney can sniff my folds, I loved Hole but she is so not hot.
absolutely the girls from Veruca Salt should be high up on this list…but good call on Liz Phair…
When I read the title I thought “Liz Phair better be #1.” Sure enough…
I’m with you on Winona and Loeb, but Liz Phair? Ummmm…she’s not that hot. Great singer/songwriter, but not hot. Still I respect your opinion and probably wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers.
AAAAAAAAHHH! Liz Phair not that hot? If I had never seen a photograph of her I would be in love/lust with that sex goddess. I saw her in concert a couple of years ago and she was wearing a sheer white shirt sans bra. My Gawd! Is there a female rocker in any decade that can even approach her? And don’t even bring up any of that Madonna, Brittney, Christina crowd. We are talking about women with talent.
That bitch from DeeLight was pretty fucking RAD!
That chick was f-i-n-e fine. I agree.
Alas, Dee-Lite was not alternative rock. But still…
Um … Liz Phair is hot as fuck.
your a racist Not one woman of color on your list.
Besides the drummer from Lenny Kravitz’s band what other women of color were involved in 90s alternative rock?
If you’re not limiting it to alt rock, that girl from the sneakerpimps was my all-time favorite 90’s crush. Even with the snaggletooth, she was outstanding. In fact, for some reason it made her even hotter.
The girl from Republica wasn’t too bad either.
Oh, I forgot Kat Bjelland.
She was one of the hottest rock chicks of the 90’s.
She was definitely hotter than Courtney Love. Lemmy from Motorhead was hotter than Courtney Love. Why is she on that list again?
Okay…I’m with ya on Liz Phair at #1…in fact, her only real competition would be somebody YA DIDN’T EVEN MENTION:
I give you: PJ Harvey–just watch any u-tube video (particularly the ones where she’s playing guitar and singing onstage in the stilettos, the incredibly short skirt, and bra)…..
Nonetheless, without her there, Melissa Auf Der Mar makes a nice second….
Still, that’s not even mentioning Fiona Apple who could kick Lisa Loeb’s ass in every way imaginable….
…and…wait a second…ever hear of Tori Amos? Or Tanya Donnelly? Or…as long as she keeps her “poetry” to herself…Jewel?
I wouldn’t keep harping but…for god’s sake…ya put fucking Lisa Loeb on the list….
=Amos is not that hot… Donnelly I will give you… Jewel… She needs braces.
As far as PJ Harvey. I like PJ Harvey but she isn’t hot. She is another person for every good picture you find I can find ten bad ones
WINONA RYDER!
REMINDS ME OF BEETLEJUICE, WHICH REMINDS ME OF GOOD TIMES.
This list totally made me shoot in my pants.
Dems is all hotties, in my book.
I always thought Poe was smokin’ hot,
Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo still makes me hawny,
Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, HAWT!
Miki Berenyi from the band Lush,
Justine Frischmann of Elastica,
Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner from L7,
Leah Andreone
Siouxsie Sioux (stills looks pretty good for 50 today),
Toni Halliday is gorgeous, can’t believe she didn’t make the list. Oh, well…
Tori Amos isn’t that hot? I’m straight and I’d …well, I’d do something with her. Not everything…but definitely something if I had a few drinks and she was game. Good list though. I respect you giving props to Courtney’s two-year or so period where everybody was like ”Hey, have you seen Courtney lately?” which abruptly turned into, you know, *Kaboom!* ”Have you SEEN Courtney lately?”. That was sad.
Was Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth mentioned?!?
Tori Amos and Courtney Love (she had more than 2 years people! I’d say from 91-00) would have a split #1 position with me. Melissa Auf der Maur, D’Arcy, PJ Harvey (okay maybe not all that hooot but there’s something sexual to her), Kathleen Hannah, Donita Sparks, Kat Bjelland, Shirley Manson and Kim Gordon and Kim Deal would also be included. Hot women. MMMMMMHM.
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