10 Greatest Final Rock Music Albums Of The 1990s

10. The Rapture - Siouxsie And The Banshees

As the punk scene began to fade away in the mid-1970s, a new breed of bands started to emerge and found a genre known as "post-punk".

As with all "post-" genres, this one is basically impossible to define and only really exists to make music critics feel good about themselves, but the impact it had on culture was profound nonetheless.

One of the leading lights of the post-punk was Siouxsie Sioux (pronounced "Susie Sue") and her band, The Banshees. Through tracks like Hong Kong Garden, Christine, and Spellbound, the group pushed the boundaries established by the previous genre whilst maintaining its rebellious, no-nonsense spirit.

This sense of experimentation continued right until their farewell record, 1995's The Rapture, which was produced in part by The Velvet Underground's John Cale. With a vast array of instruments on display, from mandolins to cellos to entire brass sections, The Rapture showed just how far the band had come since their days associating with The Sex Pistols.

The Banshees went their separate ways shortly thereafter, but left behind quite the musical legacy and an incredible back catalogue of make-up in their wake.