# 90s alternative rock sexpots **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126 "2015-06-10T01:32:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/21 "2015-06-10T15:54:28Z")
Maybe generous to include them as part of the 90s (they formed in 1999) but A Perfect Circle had [Paz Lenchantin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paz_Lenchantin) on bass. Totally awesome and super hot. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/22 "2015-06-10T16:21:20Z")
If you look at the lineups for the 1997-98-99 [Lilith Fair](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_Fair), I’d say at least 1/3 of the main acts qualify as “hot.” I’ll let individual posters construct their own Venn diagrams of who fits into the alt-rock/hot intersection. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/23 "2015-06-10T16:28:37Z")
Harriet Wheeler of [The Sundays.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/24 "2015-06-10T16:33:22Z")
Kim Shattuck (The Pandoras 1983-90, The Muffs 1991-) [![](http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/video/thumbnail/71d20d99a1.jpg) ](http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/video/thumbnail/71d20d99a1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/25 "2015-06-10T20:23:47Z")
all of the above plus Monique Palmer from Save Ferris ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/26 "2015-06-10T21:04:05Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Beat me to it. Assuming you’re into waifish girls with [big eyes and full lips](http://www.hopesandoval.com/pics/hope16.jpg), Hope was crazy hot. She might be a bit of a downer across the cornflakes early in the morning, but Dear God she’s a beautiful woman. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/27 "2015-06-11T17:10:23Z")
Kim Shattuck Johnette Napolitano Kat Bjelland Melissa Auf der Maur Kim Coletta Liz Phair ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/28 "2015-06-11T18:07:02Z")
I had to look it up, I guess Evanescence is more of a 2000s band (they formed in the 1990s but their breakthrough album wasn’t until a little later.) Amy Lee was a cutie though. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/29 "2015-06-11T18:12:35Z")
Kim Gordon and Louise Post (who I went to High School with) already mentioned, but not already mentioned - Nina Persson from the Cardigans. Telling that I didn’t even like the song but would watch the video for [Lovefool](https://youtu.be/OERk-MLHvrY) just to stare at her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/30 "2015-06-11T18:47:20Z")
Toni Halliday from Curve: [http://farm1.staticflickr.com/73/203422204\_b04eee394e.jpg](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/73/203422204_b04eee394e.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/31 "2015-06-11T19:00:41Z")
Alison Shaw of the Cranes. Sarah Utter and Maggie Vail both of Bangs D’arcy Wretzky ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/32 "2015-06-11T19:46:46Z")
[Kelli Dayton Ali](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m66svt0PCK1qazb99o1_500.jpg) from the Sneaker Pimps and solo ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/33 "2015-06-11T20:15:18Z")
Inger Lorre from The Nymphs had that [mad as a sack of bats](https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/medium/004666.jpg) hotness. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/34 "2015-06-11T21:13:49Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > [Kelli Dayton Ali](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m66svt0PCK1qazb99o1_500.jpg) from the Sneaker Pimps and solo Funny thing about her: without makeup and seductive clothing she really isn’t all that. But put some makeup and sexy clothes on her and the transformation is remarkable. For such an otherwise plain girl, she really knows how to turn it on when she wants to. [Looking](http://www.kelliali.com/assets/pages/cattales/mexican/metso2%20013.jpg) [plain](http://www.kelliali.com/images/uploads/Leigh_IMG_0869.JPG). [And](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZqmL8ehg) [turning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBwe6IL10o&list=PLE05D9BB80FAD5A35) [it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZqmL8ehg) [on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGKR66QrRc). (Videos, so NSFW due to sound.) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/35 "2015-06-11T21:29:23Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > [Kelli Dayton Ali](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m66svt0PCK1qazb99o1_500.jpg) from the Sneaker Pimps and solo Funny thing about her: without makeup and seductive clothing she really isn’t all that. But put some makeup and sexy clothes on her and the transformation is remarkable. For such an otherwise plain girl, she really knows how to turn it on when she wants to. [Looking](http://www.kelliali.com/assets/pages/cattales/mexican/metso2%20013.jpg) [plain](http://www.kelliali.com/images/uploads/Leigh_IMG_0869.JPG). [And](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZqmL8ehg) [turning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBwe6IL10o&list=PLE05D9BB80FAD5A35) [it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRREz63Sxyk) [on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGKR66QrRc). (Videos, so NSFW due to sound.) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/36 "2015-06-11T21:36:25Z")
Sorry for the double post. I thought I was editing the original which duplicates the first and third videos. The third video (in the second post) is especially fun - a funkadelic-esque song with Bootsy Collins that shouldn’t be missed. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/37 "2015-06-11T22:12:46Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Funny thing about her: without makeup and seductive clothing she really isn’t all that. But put some makeup and sexy clothes on her and the transformation is remarkable. For such an otherwise plain girl, she really knows how to turn it on when she wants to. > > [Looking](http://www.kelliali.com/assets/pages/cattales/mexican/metso2%20013.jpg) [plain](http://www.kelliali.com/images/uploads/Leigh_IMG_0869.JPG). > > [And](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZqmL8ehg) [turning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBwe6IL10o&list=PLE05D9BB80FAD5A35) [it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRREz63Sxyk) [on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcGKR66QrRc). (Videos, so NSFW due to sound.) “Plain” may be too strong an adjective to describe Kelli Ali but I see your point. Glammed down, she’s still attractive but just “cute” rather than “sexy”. Also, if I may be completely sexist (in a thread that was sexist fromt he get-go), she does have a nice figure. Incidentally, has anybody noticed how modestly dressed most of these women now seem? While they certainly weren’t afraid to express their sexuality, female alternative rockers from the 90s look like nuns when compared to the waves of pop-tarts like Britney and Rihanna we’ve had over the last 15 years. (Yes, I know I’m old and decrepit. Just let me go sit in my rocking-chair and wait my turn to die.) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/38 "2015-06-11T23:00:05Z")
She really is cute. In the _Spin Spin Sugar_ and _Play with Bootsy_ videos she reminds me a lot of this killer cute girl (but with mid-60s-era clothing and hairstyle) who worked for my father and who became my first love. She was 4 years older than me (19 to my 15) and could wrap men around her little finger almost instinctively. It wasn’t fun being in love with such an adorable (and prolific) heartbreaker but we had lots of fun and I smile when I think of her to this day. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/39 "2015-06-11T23:37:14Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > When people think of hot musicians in alt rock bands of the 90s what comes to mind? For me [Shirley Manson](http://www.pyroandballyhoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/shirley.jpg)from Garbage and [D’arcy Wretzky](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/D'arcy_Wretzky_32.jpg)from the smashing pumpkins. I never really cared for Gwen Stefani but could see why others would rate her. I always thought Gwen Stefani was an extremely beautiful woman whose fashion sense and personal style completely neutralized her appeal. Just my opinion. I never followed her or even heard much of her stuff but from what little I saw, Liz Phair was pretty attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126/40 "2015-06-11T23:56:58Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > The answer to this question begins and ends with [Liz Phair](https://www.google.com/search?q=liz+phair&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIrKCz1P2DxgIVzgySCh2GJwBz&biw=1920&bih=986). Pretty much. > [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Kim Shattuck (The Pandoras 1983-90, The Muffs 1991-) > [http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/video/thumbnail/71d20d99a1.jpg](http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/video/thumbnail/71d20d99a1.jpg) And an ill-fated tour with The Pixies! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-alternative-rock-sexpots/722126.md?page=3)