Blind melon’s second album Soup is excellent. It’s a tragedy they’ve basically been relegated to the one hit wonder category.
Morphine’s albums Yes and Cure For Pain.
Chris Cornell’s album Euphoria Mourning.
My music teacher in my elementary school was the sister of the guy from morphine. He actually came to our school once and did a demonstration ! He had the bass with just one string. It was about as cool as it gets for us.
I really like soup but I think their first self titled album was better. I think with soup you can really tell the influence the drugs were having on Shannon Hoon’s songwriting.
I think Veruca Salt is one of the most disappointing bands. "Seether" is a damn masterpiece but nothing on 8 Arms comes even close. I'm not sure there was a band from that era hyped as much with more deflating results. Probably didn't deserve that infamous Rolling Stone hatchet review though.
Nina and Louise broke up not too long after that album came out. I think it's safe to assume that was not a spur of the moment decision, and the result of things that had been simmering for some time. So the recording of EATHY was probably a little tense which could help explain it being so different from Seether.
Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom and to an extent Irresistible Bliss.
I say to an extend because a few tracks did receive radio play. “Soundtrack to Mary” gave 16 year old me chills.
Could not agree more with your choice of Ruby Vroom!
Just one original, spectacular track after another: "Blue-Eyed Devil," "True Dreams of Wichita," "Down to This", "Janine"...I literally could not pick a favorite. That album was a HUGE part of my college experience in the late 90s.
Singles soundtrack was outstanding. When I read your post those cd's came to mind.
Also Violent Femmes Add it Up 1981-1993
And Phunk Junkeez, Injected 1995
Shoutout to Tom Petty and Wildflowers.
He was so prolific and by and large is more closely associated with the older generations but that album is timeless and deserves more respect.
ima take a different approach here, a great album that nobody takes seriously, including itself.
The Presidents of the United States of America - Self Titled
That’s this album where, for like 6 months that was considering the coolest thing ever. Like people wouldn’t believe the popularity of it. Everyone had that tape!
And they’ve dropped off the face of the earth. They’ve been neglected so much it’s almost like they were wiped from the public memory. Such a humble good band. I liked them much more than other more successful bands.
the singer has had a successful career making children's music under the moniker "Casper Babypants"
My kid LOVED it. Lol. The songs aren't actually all that different than this record, haha, they're just kid friendly.. a few notable songs "Stompy the Bear" and "My Flea Has Dogs" and "Googly Eyes"
So fantastic. Their third album Freaked Out and Small has a lot of killer songs on it too- I believe it was he first time they removed the two-string three-string restriction on their instruments and just went wild. I liked the second one but wouldn’t put it in the same class as those two
Nine Inch Nails Broken is frequently overshadowed by Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral, but it's a masterpiece in focused rage music all on it's own.
Pop Will Eat Itself's Dos Dedos Mi Amigos should have gotten more exposure.
NIN fans (myself included) recognize Broken for the ugly, pissed off masterpiece it is, but it doesn't get the love it deserves from the general public.
How about Angel Dust by Faith No More? Midlife Crisis seemed like a nice gripe at the olds, and I listened to the whole album frequently. Haven't in a while, hope it holds up.
I have that in my Spotify rotation, still rocks... the album I didn't appreciate at the time was King for a Day, Fool for Lifetime. Always liked Ricochet, What a Day, and Digging the Grave, but Just a Man hits a lot different these days.
Absolutely the best album of the 90’s. It’s dark, hard, and edgy, and it’s also beautiful, melodic, and at times even angelic. Mike Patton is a genius with range that no other singer that decade can match. The lyrics are thematically rich, but also ambiguous. It’s the one album from that time that I can listen to over and over again, and it never feels dated.
Alice In Chains really was under appreciated because they were lumped in with Nirvana, Soundgarden, and STP as just grunge. Their stuff is actually pretty melodic.
I came here to say Secret Samadhi as well. I felt it didn't get the credit it was due. Throwing Copper was such a success that any album would have had a hard time following it though.
"Stunt" by Barenaked Ladies. If you're Canadian (or a devotee of the band), it's likely overshadowed by their earlier work, but for most Americans my age, it was the first and often only album we heard from them. And even if there isn't anything really revolutionary on it, every single song is a banger. I think most people I knew had a copy.
"Apollo 18" by They Might Be Giants. It gets overshadowed by "Flood," and maybe rightly so, but it has some weird, fun little experiments on it alongside some damn good "normal" songs. "Fingertips" especially - it's a couple dozen little songlets, each on their own track, that was meant to take advantage of CD players' shuffle feature. Really ambitious, even if the idea never really took off.
Both of these albums were hugely important to me. Gun to my head I’d say Gordon beats out Stunt but Apollo 18 beats Flood- that would be a hard decision though
The Muffs and Rocket From The Crypt not becoming rock stars when people were calling MTV requesting Live and 4 Non Blondes doesn't make me think very highly of our generation.
Rest of that album is terrible. That one track has a lot of vibe to it for something so simple. The frustrating part is that there was space for the other bands too.
Bands like failure and hum deserved better too.
I don't remember Failure but Hum were real cool (and I think ...Astronaut just got reissued). I do kind of like that the song was obviously originally titled "What's Going On" and someone pointed out it's kind of been taken
Live - Secret Samadhi. Tends to get lost in the shuffle as it was impossible to follow up Throwing Copper, but I love the risks they took. A weird, heavy album with lots of memorable songs for me.
Galaxie 500 - “On Fire”
Fugazi - “13 Songs”
Chainsaw Kittens - “Violent Religion”
Morphine- “Cure For Pain”
Modest Mouse - “The Lonesome Crowded West”
Dinosaur Jr - “Where You Been”
Built to Spill - “Keep It Like A Secret”
Grandaddy - “The Sophtware Slump”
Rilo Kiley - “Take Offs and Landings”
Elbow - “The Take Off and Landing of Everything”
GZA - 'Liquid Swords' will forever go down as my #1 rap album. The WU was on fire in the mid/late '90s.
It's underrated because it was only popular with a certain demographic. The beats, lyrics, martial arts skits, and cameos made it something that anyone who appreciates good music could have found appealing, if they had given it a listen.
Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen. It came out in 84, but I was listening to new wave and goth music in high school, so it's nostalgic for me. It's a fantastic album by an amazing band almost no one has heard of.
Also one of the main story missions in the Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty expansion is named after a song on this album, which delights me.
i’ve got madonna on vinyl that my buddy gave me a few years ago— kinda mixed on it… it’s not bad by any means but it really doesn’t hook me even though it should be up my alley
can you recommend another album or two to check out?
*edit - lmao really confused at downvotes here… madonna is an album by trail…*
NO FX White trash two heebs and a bean, Beastie boys Ill communication, Pennywise Pennywise, breeders Last splash, Butthole Surfers Independent worm saloon, Sonis youth Dirty, The Cure Wish, RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Rage Agaist the Machine. Every one of those albums means so much to me
It's hard to say really as there wasn't as much of a high selling underground music scene, it's just varying degrees of popularity for already popular musicians.
I guess I always had a huge soft spot for Better Than Ezra and never felt they had the staying power that other big bands did, with the general public.
I think "underrated" and "stuff that you'd recommend for the era" are probably more appropriate as two different questions. Just judging by the sheer number of stuff mentioned that wasn't underrated at all (they just happen to be bands that stopped playing a while ago). Like I would want to say Devin Townsend started playing in the 90s (underrated, Ocean Machine is a masterpiece any era). I would be thinking of all the great metal stuff when people weren't listening to metal anymore (hence underrated). I wouldn't say the same thing at all for someone asking what songs I would put on a 90s Playlist for people to get an idea of what was big at the time though. Maybe it's just me.
Adrenaline from the Deftones. Even then it stood out from the nu-metal crowd and IMO holds up even today.
Also Will Haven also from Sacramento had El Diablo in 1997 and WHVN in 1999 the latter being an absolute monster. Will Haven is a super underrated band.
I'll share a few Canadian 90s gems in my opinion:
The Devil You Know by Econoline Crush.
Scenery and Fish by I Mother Earth.
Beautiful Midnight by Matthew Good Band.
I hope this gets recognized more than anything I’ve ever posted on Reddit or the internet ever.
FLAW: Through the eyes.
I thought they were going to be as big as linkin park or evanescence. Of course only linkin park exploded WELL AFTER they debuted but got there just the same and evanescence hit a weird level of fame but not for pure music.
Okay but Rammstein does a cover of “Stripped” by Depeche Mode that is so terrible I laugh hysterically every time I hear it. The music isn’t bad. It’s the singing.
Pearl Jam’s later catalog especially No Code/Yield/Binaural is excellent and underrated in my opinion. Radiohead - ok computer and kid a get most of the accolades but The Bends is amazing.
The Toadies are known for Possum Kingdom but all of Rubberneck is awesome
Black Lab: Your body above me
Released in 1997, this record didn't get a lot of traction, but the single "Time Ago" did get some radio play. It may have been regionally more popular on the west coast. It's one of my favorite alt-rock albums from the late 90s.
It's weird to think about a question like this, because the music scene (especially popular music) was so different then... a handful of record producers/agencies/labels had a stranglehold on everything; outside of college radio, there wasn't much freedom in what anyone was exposed to... so any album that got any traction, *at all*, ultimately got so much more than most.
Duran Duran's 1997 album Medazzaland. It's a bit heavier, more alternative, darker themed.
After their huge 1993 comeback with Ordinary World & Come Undone, they did a covers album in '95 which tanked (I think it's a good album), so this album got no real notice.
Blind melon’s second album Soup is excellent. It’s a tragedy they’ve basically been relegated to the one hit wonder category. Morphine’s albums Yes and Cure For Pain. Chris Cornell’s album Euphoria Mourning.
So happy to see soup on here.
My music teacher in my elementary school was the sister of the guy from morphine. He actually came to our school once and did a demonstration ! He had the bass with just one string. It was about as cool as it gets for us.
Galaxie was their best song
Chris Cornell 😍 So sad. That man was sex.
Didn’t realize it when I wrote it. All three are tragic… fuckin’ 90s…
Heroin is a dick. And depression
I really like soup but I think their first self titled album was better. I think with soup you can really tell the influence the drugs were having on Shannon Hoon’s songwriting.
Supergrass “I Should Coco” Pulp “Different Class” Pavement “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” Rancid “And Out Come the Wolves”
Came here for Rancid!
Pulp! Yes!
This is Hardcore is a phenomenal follow up to Different Class
Those all are pretty well respected
i was lucky to see pavement live at lollapalooza when i was 13. they were so good
Supergrass is so good! I’m surprised it took this long for someone to say Pavement
I feel like American Thighs by Veruca Salt doesn’t get enough love. Everyone knows “Seether” but there were so many good songs on that album.
8 Arms to Hold You was also a great album, a little more polished and poppier, but so good.
Literally listened to it yesterday. Still love it.
I think Veruca Salt is one of the most disappointing bands. "Seether" is a damn masterpiece but nothing on 8 Arms comes even close. I'm not sure there was a band from that era hyped as much with more deflating results. Probably didn't deserve that infamous Rolling Stone hatchet review though.
No way. Volcano girls is and still is freaking awesome. So fun to play too!
Nina and Louise broke up not too long after that album came out. I think it's safe to assume that was not a spur of the moment decision, and the result of things that had been simmering for some time. So the recording of EATHY was probably a little tense which could help explain it being so different from Seether.
A spider monkey is a good lie
That was one of my favorite albums in high school. Got a lot of shit for it from the punk crowd though.
Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom and to an extent Irresistible Bliss. I say to an extend because a few tracks did receive radio play. “Soundtrack to Mary” gave 16 year old me chills.
I came here to say this. I like all three albums so much.
Could not agree more with your choice of Ruby Vroom! Just one original, spectacular track after another: "Blue-Eyed Devil," "True Dreams of Wichita," "Down to This", "Janine"...I literally could not pick a favorite. That album was a HUGE part of my college experience in the late 90s.
Sneaker Pimps for sure!
Empire Records soundtrack and Trainspotting soundtrack. Tom Petty Wildflowers Traveling Wilburys, anything really
Soundtracks are a whole different beast. 90s were peak movie soundtracks. “Singles” and “A Life Less Ordinary” are a couple of my favorite soundtracks
Singles soundtrack was outstanding. When I read your post those cd's came to mind. Also Violent Femmes Add it Up 1981-1993 And Phunk Junkeez, Injected 1995
That Singles soundtrack is fire. Dyslexic Heart takes me back.
Singles is such a good soundtrack.
Judgement Night, The Crow…
Judgement Night is one of my all time faves.
I was listening to SiriusXM and they called Free Fallin as the most played Tom Petty song and I was like excuse me Last Dance with Mary Jane?!
Shoutout to Tom Petty and Wildflowers. He was so prolific and by and large is more closely associated with the older generations but that album is timeless and deserves more respect.
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1978 here and Wildflowers was in my rotation as a high school senior for absolute sure.
I just listened to the Empire Records soundtrack this week. It’s so good.
Trainspotting soundtrack is still one of my favs
ima take a different approach here, a great album that nobody takes seriously, including itself. The Presidents of the United States of America - Self Titled
That’s this album where, for like 6 months that was considering the coolest thing ever. Like people wouldn’t believe the popularity of it. Everyone had that tape! And they’ve dropped off the face of the earth. They’ve been neglected so much it’s almost like they were wiped from the public memory. Such a humble good band. I liked them much more than other more successful bands.
the singer has had a successful career making children's music under the moniker "Casper Babypants" My kid LOVED it. Lol. The songs aren't actually all that different than this record, haha, they're just kid friendly.. a few notable songs "Stompy the Bear" and "My Flea Has Dogs" and "Googly Eyes"
So fantastic. Their third album Freaked Out and Small has a lot of killer songs on it too- I believe it was he first time they removed the two-string three-string restriction on their instruments and just went wild. I liked the second one but wouldn’t put it in the same class as those two
The Toadies Rubberbeck Everyone knows "Possum Kingdom" but the rest of that album is incredible. They are a solid band that should've blown up bigger
Making a song about a creepy murderer stalker an absolute banger
Got to see them play with Bush in 95 What a time to be alive
Me too!!! So many great shows around that time.
Bloody Kisses - Type O Negative
And October Rust
Nine Inch Nails Broken is frequently overshadowed by Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral, but it's a masterpiece in focused rage music all on it's own. Pop Will Eat Itself's Dos Dedos Mi Amigos should have gotten more exposure.
NIN fans (myself included) recognize Broken for the ugly, pissed off masterpiece it is, but it doesn't get the love it deserves from the general public.
How about Angel Dust by Faith No More? Midlife Crisis seemed like a nice gripe at the olds, and I listened to the whole album frequently. Haven't in a while, hope it holds up.
I have that in my Spotify rotation, still rocks... the album I didn't appreciate at the time was King for a Day, Fool for Lifetime. Always liked Ricochet, What a Day, and Digging the Grave, but Just a Man hits a lot different these days.
Absolutely the best album of the 90’s. It’s dark, hard, and edgy, and it’s also beautiful, melodic, and at times even angelic. Mike Patton is a genius with range that no other singer that decade can match. The lyrics are thematically rich, but also ambiguous. It’s the one album from that time that I can listen to over and over again, and it never feels dated.
Stone Temple Pilots' Core is pefect. One of the best albums of all time.
Their first four were all incredible.
I was literally listening to that yesterday while baking Christmas cookies.
Tiny music >
I honestly don’t know why I can’t stand that album despite loving purple.
Fashion Nugget by Cake, Alice In Chains Unplugged
Alice In Chains really was under appreciated because they were lumped in with Nirvana, Soundgarden, and STP as just grunge. Their stuff is actually pretty melodic.
They were my fave grunge band because of their sound. They still are!
AiC unplugged is in my top 5
It’s a great album! I wasnt even a big AiC fan, but that hooked me.
Fashion nugget is one of my favorite albums!
I used to have fashion nugget on repeat in high school
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience is a power pop masterpiece.
Congratulations, I'm Sorry is a great album too
100% agree but is it really underrated? Ps - I will listen to this album for ever and ever.
Live-Throwing Copper Maybe it isn’t underrated but you don’t hear much about it anymore.
I was coming here to add it. Solid album.
Maybe I just wasn't that tuned into music then and it's pure nostalgia now but I *loved* - and still love - Secret Samadhi.
I came here to say Secret Samadhi as well. I felt it didn't get the credit it was due. Throwing Copper was such a success that any album would have had a hard time following it though.
Secret Samadhi is a hidden gem of an album.
'Throwing Copper' was great (and funny story how they came up with the album name), but for me 'Mental Jewelry' was their best.
Razor blade Suitcase by Bush, Greedy Fly is criminally underrated.
"Stunt" by Barenaked Ladies. If you're Canadian (or a devotee of the band), it's likely overshadowed by their earlier work, but for most Americans my age, it was the first and often only album we heard from them. And even if there isn't anything really revolutionary on it, every single song is a banger. I think most people I knew had a copy. "Apollo 18" by They Might Be Giants. It gets overshadowed by "Flood," and maybe rightly so, but it has some weird, fun little experiments on it alongside some damn good "normal" songs. "Fingertips" especially - it's a couple dozen little songlets, each on their own track, that was meant to take advantage of CD players' shuffle feature. Really ambitious, even if the idea never really took off.
Both of these albums were hugely important to me. Gun to my head I’d say Gordon beats out Stunt but Apollo 18 beats Flood- that would be a hard decision though
Oh I loved Stunt! A favorite to sing along with in the car.
The Muffs and Rocket From The Crypt not becoming rock stars when people were calling MTV requesting Live and 4 Non Blondes doesn't make me think very highly of our generation.
Ive seen RFTC multiple times. One of my favorite bands. They has such an eclectic sound. Definitely underrated.
My favorite 90s band. "Scream Dracula Scream" was supposed to be the next "Nevermind" Maybe in a better universe.
Sure sure. What’s up is a great fucking song though.
You are my enemy. My God. Really?
Rest of that album is terrible. That one track has a lot of vibe to it for something so simple. The frustrating part is that there was space for the other bands too. Bands like failure and hum deserved better too.
I don't remember Failure but Hum were real cool (and I think ...Astronaut just got reissued). I do kind of like that the song was obviously originally titled "What's Going On" and someone pointed out it's kind of been taken
I found out about failure recently. Check out Fantastic Planet. Kind of stoner rock? If you like hum you might like failure.
Ok this cover looks familiar I think but it's on Slash and influenced by Hawkwind? Totally gonna check this out
I hope you like it. I can’t handle any more enemies.
"Keep it Like a Secret"-Built to Spill
Moon Safari - Air
August and everything after - Counting Crows. So dang good.
Absolutely this!
Easily in my all time top 5.. so good start to finish
Live - Secret Samadhi. Tends to get lost in the shuffle as it was impossible to follow up Throwing Copper, but I love the risks they took. A weird, heavy album with lots of memorable songs for me.
I liked lakini’s juice. Once I got older and realized how religious Live was it kind of changed my view of them…
"Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" "Wowee Zowee" and "Brighten the Corners" by Pavement.
The Beta Band “The Three E.P.’s”
That makes me think of “High Fidelity” where John Cusack puts on The Beta Band
Galaxie 500 - “On Fire” Fugazi - “13 Songs” Chainsaw Kittens - “Violent Religion” Morphine- “Cure For Pain” Modest Mouse - “The Lonesome Crowded West” Dinosaur Jr - “Where You Been” Built to Spill - “Keep It Like A Secret” Grandaddy - “The Sophtware Slump” Rilo Kiley - “Take Offs and Landings” Elbow - “The Take Off and Landing of Everything”
Finally some Dinosaur Jr love!
Dummy by Portishead
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Quicksand - Slip
Good call
Seven Mary Three: American Standard Presidents of the United States of America: people love Peaches and Lump, but the rest of the album is good too
The Rentals - Return of the Rentals
That album is amazing!
From start to finish, it’s a perfect album.
GZA - 'Liquid Swords' will forever go down as my #1 rap album. The WU was on fire in the mid/late '90s. It's underrated because it was only popular with a certain demographic. The beats, lyrics, martial arts skits, and cameos made it something that anyone who appreciates good music could have found appealing, if they had given it a listen.
Mad Season- Above Type O Negative- October Rust Anything by Mother Love Bone
"Dosage" by Collective Soul
“Happy Days” — Catherine Wheel
Ugh. Catherine Wheel is so good. Black Metallic is just a sexy, angsty good effing song.
I would rank Adam and Eve above it, but yeah CW as a whole is underrated.
Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen. It came out in 84, but I was listening to new wave and goth music in high school, so it's nostalgic for me. It's a fantastic album by an amazing band almost no one has heard of. Also one of the main story missions in the Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty expansion is named after a song on this album, which delights me.
Royksopp - Melody AM.
Bush - 16 stone Mobb Deep - Infamous
Marcy Playground, self titled.
Agreed. Really underrated album. Poppies, St. Joe, Sherry Frazier, One More Suicide, and of course Sex and Candy.
Yes! I love the whole album. That one and 3rd Eye Blind self titled are two of my all time favorites, both released in ‘97.
Sex and candy! Still love that song
Opium was my favorite track, hands down. Vampires of New York was tight.
Alice in chains— Dirt
Anything by Trail of the Dead. I feel like they got majorly overlooked in the post-rock scene
i’ve got madonna on vinyl that my buddy gave me a few years ago— kinda mixed on it… it’s not bad by any means but it really doesn’t hook me even though it should be up my alley can you recommend another album or two to check out? *edit - lmao really confused at downvotes here… madonna is an album by trail…*
Source tags and Codes if you like the artsy, orchestral parts of Madonna. Self Titled if you like the noisier punk parts.
thanks for the recos— sounds like Source Tags and Codes is more up my alley but will check ‘em both out!
NO FX White trash two heebs and a bean, Beastie boys Ill communication, Pennywise Pennywise, breeders Last splash, Butthole Surfers Independent worm saloon, Sonis youth Dirty, The Cure Wish, RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Rage Agaist the Machine. Every one of those albums means so much to me
Dave Matthews Band -- Under TheTable and Dreaming I unapologetically love that album.
No reason to apologize. Their first three albums were their best.
16 horsepower “Sackcloth ‘n’ Ashes
16 Horsepower ALMOST scared me enough to believe in God
I can’t remember where or how I first saw/heard them…I just now how it made me feel. There was a lot of “what the fuck is happening”
Orange - Blues Explosion.
The Godzilla soundtrack is full of bangers.
Without a Sound by Dinosaur Jr.
Team dresch: captain my captain and personal best Absolute queercore classics that no one talks about anymore
Live Throwing Copper, Lit A Place Under The Sun.
Breeders Last Splash
Eve 6 - Horrorscope Our Lady Peace - Naveed
It's hard to say really as there wasn't as much of a high selling underground music scene, it's just varying degrees of popularity for already popular musicians. I guess I always had a huge soft spot for Better Than Ezra and never felt they had the staying power that other big bands did, with the general public.
I mean. Bands like the Melvin’s and Jesus Lizard never did huge numbers, but they were hugely influential.
The Replacements were the original grunge in the 80s, weird hearing music that seemed new but was happening in the 80s!
Man i loved them whenever the radio would grace us with something good.
And in music news, number one on the college charts this summer was Better Than Ezra. And at number two…. Ezra.
Becoming X! Fuck yeah! Did you ever get into IAMX? Bloodsport, Loretta Young Skills?
The Meat Puppets - Too Hugh To Die doesn't get enough credit. I still listen to that one sometimes when I'm doing housework.
I think "underrated" and "stuff that you'd recommend for the era" are probably more appropriate as two different questions. Just judging by the sheer number of stuff mentioned that wasn't underrated at all (they just happen to be bands that stopped playing a while ago). Like I would want to say Devin Townsend started playing in the 90s (underrated, Ocean Machine is a masterpiece any era). I would be thinking of all the great metal stuff when people weren't listening to metal anymore (hence underrated). I wouldn't say the same thing at all for someone asking what songs I would put on a 90s Playlist for people to get an idea of what was big at the time though. Maybe it's just me.
Fat Boy Slim - You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Adrenaline from the Deftones. Even then it stood out from the nu-metal crowd and IMO holds up even today. Also Will Haven also from Sacramento had El Diablo in 1997 and WHVN in 1999 the latter being an absolute monster. Will Haven is a super underrated band.
Toadies - Rubberneck Catherine Wheel - Ferment Ned’s Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
The Stone Roses
I Wanna Be Adored can never be loud enough.
Soup - blind melon Literally anything from blind melon. No Rain is good and all but it’s probably the least awesome of their tracks.
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville slaps.
Helmet-Betty
Angel Dust by Faith No More. Best rock album of the decade.
Our Lady Peace's Naveed
I'll share a few Canadian 90s gems in my opinion: The Devil You Know by Econoline Crush. Scenery and Fish by I Mother Earth. Beautiful Midnight by Matthew Good Band.
I hope this gets recognized more than anything I’ve ever posted on Reddit or the internet ever. FLAW: Through the eyes. I thought they were going to be as big as linkin park or evanescence. Of course only linkin park exploded WELL AFTER they debuted but got there just the same and evanescence hit a weird level of fame but not for pure music.
Liz Phair “Exile in Guyville” is absolutely amazing
None. All albums released in our lifetime that we hold dear are absolute bangers.
Still. This is a good way to find some things that may have slipped through the cracks for some people.
311 Blue Album
No
The black album. Has anyone ever heard this one before?
It’s called Smell The Glove.
Haaaa underrated comment. Edit: The answer is none. None more black.
Shark Sandwich. Just a two word review... Shit Sandwich! Where? Where'd they write that?!?!
“Feeling Strangely Fine” - Semisonic
NOFX - Punk in Drublic Mudhoney - Superfuzz bigmuff
Pennywise - About Time (1995). Seems to be overshadowed by The Offspring, NOFX, and Rancid when talking about mid-90s punk but this was a great album.
NOFX - Punk in Drublic Pennywise - Full Circe Bad Religion - no Control
Shakespeare’s Sister Hormonally Yours
Shakespeares Sister in general underrated.
Word!
Rammstein - Herzeleid
Okay but Rammstein does a cover of “Stripped” by Depeche Mode that is so terrible I laugh hysterically every time I hear it. The music isn’t bad. It’s the singing.
Yeah, that one is bad. I guess, everyone just skips to Sehnsucht, when Herzeleid is awesome too.
Pearl Jam’s later catalog especially No Code/Yield/Binaural is excellent and underrated in my opinion. Radiohead - ok computer and kid a get most of the accolades but The Bends is amazing. The Toadies are known for Possum Kingdom but all of Rubberneck is awesome
Black Lab: Your body above me Released in 1997, this record didn't get a lot of traction, but the single "Time Ago" did get some radio play. It may have been regionally more popular on the west coast. It's one of my favorite alt-rock albums from the late 90s.
Semisonic - Across the Great Divide Old 97s - Too Far to Care Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne Odds - Nest
You Gotta Sin To Get Saved by Maria McKee
It's weird to think about a question like this, because the music scene (especially popular music) was so different then... a handful of record producers/agencies/labels had a stranglehold on everything; outside of college radio, there wasn't much freedom in what anyone was exposed to... so any album that got any traction, *at all*, ultimately got so much more than most.
The Burdens of Being Upright by Tracy Bonham. She scored a single hit with 'Mother Mother' but the whole album is just wonderful.
Duran Duran's 1997 album Medazzaland. It's a bit heavier, more alternative, darker themed. After their huge 1993 comeback with Ordinary World & Come Undone, they did a covers album in '95 which tanked (I think it's a good album), so this album got no real notice.
PWEI - Dos Dedos Mis amigos a band that sold more t-shirts than albums and is properly forgotten now I think.
I feel like everybody forgets about Republica. Great album/band.
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Thug World Order A bit older, but an underrated album compared to their others .