90s bands uk pop. 1,072 votes. It also explored the consequences of new technology and social change in the electronic music of synthpop. Pulp. Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify. The whole chart has brought back so many memories of brilliant songs and bands from a very special time in British pop music. This continued until 1994, when the contract to compile the UK charts was won by Millward Brown, who took over on 1 February 1994. Most of it in the UK in the early-1990s. Bis Scots indie-poppers Bis may not be a household name, but they were enormously influential throughout the 90s underground indie scene. Uncover the top 100 artists of the 90s, featuring the decade's most influential musicians across pop, rock, hip-hop, and more, who shaped the era’s sound. Unpromisingly reviewed then by NME (the highly influential but, sometimes wrong, music paper, New Musical Express) as “ a lily livered excuse for a rock band”, they produced a stream of albums, including 'The Bends', 'Ok Computer', and 'Amnesiac', that saw their transition from outsiders to princes of British pop within the decade.