Lucky for me, I fit into both categories.
What Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman accomplished with Bat Out of Hell 2 is nearly unprecedented. Everything in the music industry was working against them. I think what that album and its success also proved was that the switch to alternative was not driven by fans, it was driven by the industry. If a good melodic rock album was released by a major label and adequately promoted, it sold just fine.
This is a level of dire not seen since the pre-Beatles years. I had pretty much given up on the radio at this point. It wasn’t until April of the next year that I rediscovered music. I turned on the radio to hear a lot of people bemoaning the death of some guy named Kurt that I’d never heard of. And that was the night that young Spaz discovered alternative rock.
I’m not sure early grunge is an improvement, though. 
I ended up voting for this one. Kind of hate this version of the song, but voted for it since I love the version from the movie.
What an awful year. Voted for UB40 because it was the only song on the list that didn’t annoy me.
This is such a weird assortment from what I consider a great year in music.
I only have two of these songs personally, and one I keep for the kid. So really, the only song adult me likes is Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.
But I’m going with Alone, the only song of hers I like.
My drunk and stoned teenage self was not listening to these songs with my friends.
Things were a bit better in Britain, where we at least had Gabrielle, Freddie Mercury and The Bluebells (though that last one was played to fucking death in VW ads.)
I had forgotten how dead non-grunge rock was in the early nineties, though. There was Guns and Roses and that was pretty much it.