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Electronic music would be the 90's for me when it was at its peak and rock...well sure I know plenty would say the 60's for the Beatles output, or the 70's for the true pioneers of the current trends in rock, but I could easily argue for the 90's, my "growing years" when grunge hit and bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Neutral Milk Hotel and Radiohead were doing very interesting things that demolished the 15-20 years before them.
Kurt Kobain: "I was just trying to ripoff the Pixies".
Most of the music you named was actually not at all innovative let alone demolishingly so; they stayed waaaay within the parameters that had been set before 1970 by Velvet Underground et al. This was an "Elvis" period when watered down versions of earlier more innovative music (besides the Velvets and The Pixies you can also cite, Dylan, Can and the Violent Femmes) entered the mainstream. Grunge especially is almost defined by its conservatism - no one ever did anything that would surprise anyone who had listened to the first Pixies EP. And the Pixies themselves were pretty much "What if the Velvets had really got off on surf rock guitar."
Which is not to say that you should like the music you name less, just have an idea that, no, it didn't arrive perfectly formed, without any precedents, out of Kurt Kobain's head anymore than The Monkees' "Daydreamer Believer" was without precedent.
So I'll take from about '64 to 74. In this period you have
Dylan's Subteranean Homesick Blues, Highway 61, Blonde On Blonde and The Basement Tapes
The Band's best Dylan-less work, fuzing the blues with country and Apalachian influences and equalling anything from Chicago or the Delta
The Velvet Underground's entire original career
Bitches' Brew
Neil Young's Tonight's The Night
The Stooges self-titled album, Funhouse and Raw Power
Trout Mask Replica
Nico's Marble Index
Can's Tago Mago
Love's Forever Free
Lee Scratch Perry's The Upsetter
The Wailer's first six albums
..This is an extradordinary burst of creativity that artists are still mining today - entire later genres existed inside the limits set by individual albums here. The Days Before Kobain were not entirely about The Rolling Stones, The Eagles and Led Zep, despite what your parents might have told you.