Exile in Guyville is, IMO, one of the best debut albums any artist has ever made.
I agree :). I thought about her earlier, but had eye surgery this morning and didn’t get a chance to post it.
I just looked up Joan Jett to see if she could count as 1990’s and found out that she is OLDER THAN I AM. So I can letch on her without feeling like a creep.
My wife has expressed GREAT appreciation for Chris Cornell. She prefers him now, though, as opposed to the Badmotorfinger days; he’s doesn’t look as greasy.
For me, it’s all about Tori Amos. I actually had the chance to meet her, very briefly, at a pre-concert event. This was '98 or '99. She was strikingly gorgeous, and so TINY. I think I managed to speak a couple of actual words, but possibly not.
Courtneywas super hot in the late 90s.
Count me in for the Veruca Salt Girls!
Some other favorites…
Sean Yseult - White Zombie
Bif Naked
Angie Hart - Frente!
Got her start in the 80s, but stayed active throughout the 90s:
Kira Roessler was the cutest thing ever in one of the most intensely sonically ugly bands in the world, late-era Black Flag.
That reminds me of Mary Fahl of October Project who I had a chance to meet twice (and even scored a hug). Which is probably stretching the limits of “90s alternative” although I think Bury My Lovely got a few spins on 120 Minutes back in the day. Which then reminds me that 120 Minutes also played Cowboy Junkies’ cover of “Sweet Jane” for a while. Again, not really “alternative” but I guess they weren’t going to play it during “Yo! MTV Raps!”. I don’t know that Margo Timmins was a “sexpot” but she was an attractive woman.
I guess the real point of my tangent is that MTV used to throw some fairly random catch-all stuff into 120 Minutes. 
I don’t know whether they count as Alt-Rock but I offer up the Irish contingent:
All About Eve singer Julianne Regan from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan although I think she possibly hit the bottle hard a few years back.
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The Corrs** gives you three fine looking sisters plus, for those who prefer a strapping lad, the guitarist is their brother.
TCMF-2L
Since Liz Phair has already been mentioned, I’ll note Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo.
50 posts and no mention of Lisa Loeb? Is she not alternative enough or ain’t nobody else got a thing for girls wearing glasses?
Kira’s got the 10 1/2!
(NSFW)
What, no love for Sheryl Crow?
Crow (like Lisa Loeb) probably wasn’t “alternative” enough during the 90s. Basically, one easy (if superficial) way to determine if an artist was considered “alternative” was if his, her, or their videos were aired on MTV’s “120 Minutes” late Sunday night.
Attractive woman though.
I forgot to mention this in my last post but I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Sarah McLachlan yet.
I don’t know who any of these people are. And I can’t bring any I should remember to mind. It’s like I never lived through the 90s at all. I must really be getting old.
Borderline alternative, but I wouldn’t have kicked Ute Lemper out of bed for annexing the Sudetenland.
Oh, I assuredly have a thing for girls wearing glasses, and her particularly.
I remember many moons ago listening to one of the VJ’s discussing the success of her video for “Stay”. It was probably one of those “I Love the 90’s” style program, it might have been Kennedy, whatever, that’s irrelevant. The VJ noted that the video was really popular among both boys and girls, and parsed it this way: “The boys kept hoping that dress will fall off, and the girls knew it won’t.”
I’m just wild about Saffron
And who could forget Deee Groovy Lady Miss Kier
And they were Alt before Alt was Alt, the one and only B-52s (I always had a thing for Kate Pierson)
Oh, that’s a good one. I just didn’t think of her. She was played on the alternative stations here, and I definitely considered her hot. I just didn’t think of her as I was thinking of more aggressive alt-rock, not the singer-songwriter stuff, but she should qualify, I’d think. In that same sort of vein, there was also Jewel.