Sonic Youth. Awesome. I caught Smashing Pumpkins at the Melbourne V Festival earlier this year too, speaking of that era. One of the best damn gigs I've ever seen. Increasingly odd-looking Billy Corgan still rules. A lot.
Didn't really dig NAD, Wonder Stuff, Blur etc at all) until Radiohead released The Bends in '95 (96?), which eventually led me to OK Computer and my current tragic Radiohead fanboyness. I was still blasting Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Corrosion of Conformity, Fear Factory, Stone Temple Pilots among others at that time.
These days the heaviest stuff in my collection is Muse, Opeth (awesome but I rarely listen to it) and The Mars Volta (intensely heavy but without being even a tiny bit metal, it's more like devastatingly intense latino jazz-fusion prog-rock and it's listened to rather frequently).
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