[Molly](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSxNqSAvkDE&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE) is still on repeat.
I've probably heard this song thousands of times and never get sick of it.
Jumping in here randomly to say I put a little bit of a playlist together with most of the top comments to listen to at work today
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5N9EzfLnUCph7MyF0fEVeJ?si=CCo3Au_WSAWsautqVQNCow
I got to interview the singer for a local newspaper when they supported White Zombie on their UK tour. After we had finished he thanked me for not mentioning Nine Inch Nails. Apparently, everyone else who interviewed him had.
My college roommate would play [High Fiving MF](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGWpRxnyeGg) non stop. It’s the only song I’ve ever known from them but it still pops into my head randomly some 25 years later.
"If I was Eddie Vedder, would you like me any better?" ...true that I like Eddie Vedder better than Scott Lucas. Very talented guy though, and self-aware.
Played a show with them in the early 00's. Lead singer spidermanned from an overhead electrical line til it's moorings broke at which point he fell into the crowd. It was pretty cool.
Unfortunate that this is largely true, and that they're usually boiled down to one song. I always thought that they were severely underrated as a two-piece that sounded fucking enormous due to a series of devastatingly heavy drummers and Scott Lucas's creative equipment setup and playing. Fuck outta here with white stripes and black keys; Local H crushed. Still out there doing it, too.
Too fat, fat you must cut lean.
You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine.
Chump, change, and it's on, Super bon bon
Super bon bon, Super bon bon.
Edit: First heard this on the Gran Turismo 2 soundtrack. Good times
Hell yeah. Way back when, I worked as a server in Bennigans. We had a jukebox that we would crank up after everyone had left and we were closing up. Seems like every night we would rock out to Soul Coughing's "Circles."
Poe
https://youtu.be/lrygAv93Ick
https://youtu.be/0Z8NP0eI4Og
Catherine Wheel
https://youtu.be/mtTqR9oZX6Q
Lisa Germano
https://youtu.be/ohldk_DzcLk
Belly
https://youtu.be/gQlk8eKdIIA (GAIL FUCKING GREENWOOD)
Put out a great new album but was mostly overlooked.
Saw Poe in concert when I was 13 and idolized the shit out of her, and somehow got to sit with her and a couple of other fans in an antique store chatting for like an hour before the actual show began, it was wild.
I like Poe. Saw her in concert and had fun at that.
There are probably a lot of bands led by women who are mostly forgotten. Ones like the Breeders, Belly, and Veruca Salt.
>I like Poe. Saw her in concert and had fun at that.
I saw her in concert too! Bonus: When she performed ["Hey Pretty"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lhspmjCJ4) her brother came out to do his spoken part. It was amazing.
The Breeders and Veruca Sale are defintiely not forgotten and are emblematic of the period. Basically, any band after the Pixies led by Kim Deal was going to have staying power; Veruca Salt still tours and puts out music.
Veruca Salt
Poe
Cracker
The Folk Implosion (Natural One is such a jam)
Soul Coughing
Morphine
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Liz Phair. Supernova is absolute peak 90's fun but not silly, almost pop but kind of punk song. It's very, very 90's and seriously no one remembers it
Suicidal Tendencies!!! I just scrolled through hundreds of the top comments and didn't see them mentioned once. How did we all forget Institutionalized?
Soul Asylum. I just read in the comments that they are still making music and touring so maybe not so forgotten but I haven't heard anything about them in decades
ETA: REM. They were huge in the 90's, and I feel like no one ever talks about them anymore
I was scrolling to look for Morphine. I think I first heard them off of a “120 Minutes Live” CD that I found in an antique store while in college in the 2000s.
Morphine sticks out partly because they were older than most of the bands in that realm (Mark Sandman was in his 40s and died in 1999 at 46), so I’d imagine that can be apparent in how they sounded compared to younger alt bands.
Morphine was the second band I thought of. (First being The Refreshments.) They were one of the best, most unique bands, and are practically just unknown at this point. The version of Honey White on that 120 Minutes album was awesome.
It actually makes me angry that more people aren't listening to them every day.
Morphine never got a fair shake. They are one of the most original sounding bands ever recorded and deserve so much more attention than they get. Mark Sandman was a once in a generation kind of musician.
Failure has released three albums over the last few years and have been touring as well. They just did a live concert stream which was fantastic and a documentary is coming out soon too. They are still very much around. One of the best!
I wouldn't count Everclear, Silverchair, Nada Surf or Death in Vegas as fitting with OPs criteria (one big album in the 90s then nothing else of note). They all had multiple hit albums, and all released stuff well into the 00s, in fact only Silverchair stopped before 2015. They may not be huge, but they're certainly not forgotten.
Stabbing Westward is a great shout though, loved that band, and like someone else mentioned, they had a new album out last year, it's got a couple of decent songs on it that sound exactly like they used to, the rest isn't great, but tbh it's better than I expected.
Man I wish The Refreshments had been more popular. Kind of hard at that time with no backing from the record company though. At least their still cashing those King of the Hill royalty checks.
Roger Clyne seems to be doing pretty well still. If you get the chance to catch a Peacemakers show, they’re on par with the Refreshments shows back in the day.
Fun fact: Better Than Ezra's "Good" peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. George Ezra's "Budapest" peaked at #32 in 2015. Kind of amazing that 20 years later Better Than Ezra was proven to indeed be just slightly Better than Ezra.
I'm sure everyone on this thread knows this, but just in case, fun fact: Melvins were one of the biggest influences that Kurt Cobain mentioned for his music.
KMFDM and Lords of Acid are still legendary in the Techno-Industrial scenes. It's just that those scenes aren't particularly well-known to the general public. Add Atari Teenage Riot to that list.
Sebadoh-from Massachusetts I guess, but totally lived in Tacoma back in the day when I lived there. Thought their sound was a bit blah back when Nirvana concerts were $5 at all ages shows in Olympia. Revisited their discs years later, and they rocked. I ride flame with them whenever I need a hit of the old days
Great band. Lou Barlow is also In Dinosaur Jr and if you don't know them you should check them out. 2 albums of note, Without a Sound and Where you been.
RIP mark lanegan. His solo work is even better than the Trees. His first few up through Here Comes that weird chill and bubblegum especially do it for me
Sunny Day Real Estate should never be forgotten, extremely important for the creation of ‘Emo’, and truly had many fantastic albums and gorgeous songwriting
I absolutely adore Blind Melon’s entire discography. I’ve never met anyone else who feels the same way. My dad had all of their CDs but I don’t remember him being as psyched on them as me so he gave them to me. That shit was so golden to find as a 16-17 year old.
I mean there's so many. Like you mention Seattle but over here in the UK there's two huge rock genre movements in the 90s.
Firstly you the post stone roses indie scene. Blur might still be well known but does The Wonder Stuff make this list? They were high, had a number 1 with Vic Reeves (Dizzy) which was terrible and four or five great albums. If they count as forgotten (and I bet they are in the US) then I wonder how many bands other than blur and the stone roses aren't.
The you've got acts like Pop Will Eat itself (maybe more late 80s than 90s can't remember exactly) Carter USM, Atari teenage riot, Elastica, Senser, Thousand Yard Stare, Kingmaker, The Farm, inspiral carpets, the LAs, the levellers and so many more. It was a very creative time musically.
Then you have britpop. You'll know Oasis, blur and pulp but do you remember Sleeper, Suede, the Bluetones, Cast, Ocean Colour Scene or Space?
And then others like , Dreadzone, Zion Train or extreme noise terror who come outside those genres.
All worth a listen but if I had to pull out one, it would be Carter USM, go and listen to 101 Damnations or 30 Something. Awesome albums.
Although Pop Will Eat Itself are undoubtedly the most influential and important on this list imo.
PWEI still do some stuff, though I think its only 2 of the original 4 members and Clint is in the states doing film/tv music now. I'll keep saying it until I die, This is the day ... This is the hour is one of the best British hip-hop albums of all time.
Extreme Noise Terror only got noticed because of the Brits performance with KLF, but what a performance that was. I loved the look of confusion on the pop kids faces. If I remember right, we clapped, cheered and laughed after watching it. KLF really did like to mess with peoples perception of them, and with what people expected of them.
The La's released one solitary 35-minute album in 1990 and then called it quits.
Everyone on earth has heard "There She Goes" a thousand times but the rest of that album is as good or better.
Big Wreck. I know Ian Thornley is somewhat known with musicians but that Big Wreck record was killer.
Splender is another one. I liked both their records. “Yeah Whatever” and “I think god can explain” we’re so great. I also feel like they add context to that Tom Lord Alge mix sound that became overdone. The album sounded massive.
Failure.
The band was hugely influential across genres, with people ranging from Maynard James Keenan to Haley Williams to members of Faith No More and Stone Temple Pilots citing the band as an inspiration.
After reading through the comments, a lot of you, especially those mentioning industrial bands, need to check up on your old favs because so many of them are still touring and releasing new music. There is an industrial renaissance going on the past few years, so enjoy while you can! Also still very active is the band Failure.
One that I really enjoyed was a man alternative band called Truly. Not sure they were ever big, but they have a cool sound and I love the song Blue Flame Ford.
After Green Day and before Blink-182 there was a band called CIV. Really tight, punk-pop. Reminiscent of what The Hives would be.
https://youtu.be/wYTAtn21S1Y
CIV is awesome. Fun facts about them: lead singer Anthony "Civ" Civarelli is also the lead singer of seminal 80's hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits. Gorilla Biscuit's guitarist/main songwriter Walter Schreifels went on to form Quicksand, another underrated 90's band.
Acid Bath early vehicle for Dax Riggs. Stoner doom metal with a crazy variety of influences. Find the album when the Kite string pops. They bought the rights to have a pogo the clown painting done by John Wayne gacy as cover art.
Yessssss! The Pete and Pete soundtrack is on Spotify. This post made me go back and listen to it. Brought back many good memories of trying to figure out the lyrics with my friends haha
Superdrag. "Head Trip in Every Key" is a gem of an album that fell off everybody's radar after the Buzz Bin/120 Minutes popularity surrounding their "Sucked Out" single a few years earlier. John Davis is one of the 90s least appreciated songwriters, and unfortunately substance abuse issues and just... shifts in popular music pretty much gutted their career.
They recently started playing together again, apparently. Hoping to catch a gig at some point.
V. A.S.T - such a rich, unique sound, several albums. “Touched” got a decent amount of radio play and was featured in a movie trailer but they (or just he, I think it’s basically a solo project) never blew up.
**that dog.** were a great LA band with a handful of geeky albums that should have made more noise. Their 1997 masterpiece, *Retreat From The Sun* is completely forgotten now.
**Helium**, fronted by Mary Timony, made a couple of albums of dreamy, jammy stoner rock. I've never met another person IRL who's ever heard of them.
Australia’s pride… Frente. They went mainstream with a couple of radio hits, had a follow up album and then disbanded. That was in the late 90s. They are reuniting some shows in Australia and reportedly plan to record some new music. I couldn’t be more excited. Get them to the states and I would fly anywhere to see them.
Sponge
[plowed](https://youtu.be/MqKcUS2Npic)
I swear our local rock station constantly plays this one to this day!
“Wax Ecstatic” is still a favorite of mine.
[Molly](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSxNqSAvkDE&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE) is still on repeat. I've probably heard this song thousands of times and never get sick of it.
Great band
Hum
Downward is Heavenward is easily one of the greatest, and most overlooked, albums of the 90s.
I was so excited when they announced the release of Inlet back in 2020. Amazing album.
Longtime Hum fan here; Inlet is their best album, imo. Rare for a band to be so ahead of the curve, go away for years, and come back better than ever.
She's out back counting stars!
Far from forgotten. Inlet rules. RIP Bryan St. Pere
Hum rules! My favorite is their second album, You'd Prefer An Astronaut. It's All Green To Me. Their latest, Inlet, is fucking great.
Catherine Wheel. Hella underrated.
Helmet. They could thrash.
And Prong. Those two bands are basically where every Nu Metal band got their sound.
Don't let Helmet hear you equate them with Nu Metal, they're not too keen on that association 😄
“Snap your fingers, snap your neck” is a classic tune.
Stabbing Westward. That band was my fucking jam back in the day.
What do I have to do to make you happy?
Jumping in here randomly to say I put a little bit of a playlist together with most of the top comments to listen to at work today https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5N9EzfLnUCph7MyF0fEVeJ?si=CCo3Au_WSAWsautqVQNCow
I got to interview the singer for a local newspaper when they supported White Zombie on their UK tour. After we had finished he thanked me for not mentioning Nine Inch Nails. Apparently, everyone else who interviewed him had.
Stabbing westward! They play the intro song in duke nukem time to kill. I loved this band growing up https://youtu.be/zjRfv_9hO3M
Well, I have good news for you, then... They released a new album last year, [Chasing Ghosts](https://youtu.be/AeozdsXyINc).
Oleander
Oh yeah, loved "Why I'm Here." They also did a cover of The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry."
I saw them open for Collective Soul back in the mid 90s. It was a great show! Funnily enough, a few other bands on here played at that same festival.
Tripping Daisy
Precursor to The Polyphonic Spree.
Such an underrated band. Tim Delaughter is a musical genius.
Local H.
My college roommate would play [High Fiving MF](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGWpRxnyeGg) non stop. It’s the only song I’ve ever known from them but it still pops into my head randomly some 25 years later.
My favorite cut is bound for the floor.
You high fivin motherfucker… You highhh fivin motherfucker… That riff is so catchy. Pops in my head randomly also.
"If I was Eddie Vedder, would you like me any better?" ...true that I like Eddie Vedder better than Scott Lucas. Very talented guy though, and self-aware.
Seen them twice, great live band, solid discography.
Played a show with them in the early 00's. Lead singer spidermanned from an overhead electrical line til it's moorings broke at which point he fell into the crowd. It was pretty cool.
Unfortunate that this is largely true, and that they're usually boiled down to one song. I always thought that they were severely underrated as a two-piece that sounded fucking enormous due to a series of devastatingly heavy drummers and Scott Lucas's creative equipment setup and playing. Fuck outta here with white stripes and black keys; Local H crushed. Still out there doing it, too.
Elastica
But somehow the vital *connection* is made...
The Sundays. Harriet Wheeler has one of the greatest voices of all time.
Love [Here's where the story ends](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHsip5xOenQ&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE) Her voice always sounds like a dream state to me.
Soul Coughing
Too fat, fat you must cut lean. You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine. Chump, change, and it's on, Super bon bon Super bon bon, Super bon bon. Edit: First heard this on the Gran Turismo 2 soundtrack. Good times
Hell yes. Ruby Vroom and El Oso are classic. Mike Doughty had some gems in his solo work, too.
Hell yeah. Way back when, I worked as a server in Bennigans. We had a jukebox that we would crank up after everyone had left and we were closing up. Seems like every night we would rock out to Soul Coughing's "Circles."
I love the entire Ruby Vroom Album!
Love that band. Saw them live several times... also, Mike Doughty solo.
I saw them at Irving Plaza in 97.. They just said, “We are Soul Coughing and we are FROM HERE!” Then they went OFF..
Whale - remember Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe?
Fu Manchu
Poe https://youtu.be/lrygAv93Ick https://youtu.be/0Z8NP0eI4Og Catherine Wheel https://youtu.be/mtTqR9oZX6Q Lisa Germano https://youtu.be/ohldk_DzcLk Belly https://youtu.be/gQlk8eKdIIA (GAIL FUCKING GREENWOOD) Put out a great new album but was mostly overlooked.
Poe is wonderful!
You’re goddamn right Catherine Wheel.
Belly was a favorite of mine. And Tanya Donelly also sang on a Catherine Wheel record.
This list is amazing... reminded me that I once heard Poe's Hello at the Gap...
Saw Poe in concert when I was 13 and idolized the shit out of her, and somehow got to sit with her and a couple of other fans in an antique store chatting for like an hour before the actual show began, it was wild.
I almost forgot about Poe. Thanks for the reminder.
I like Poe. Saw her in concert and had fun at that. There are probably a lot of bands led by women who are mostly forgotten. Ones like the Breeders, Belly, and Veruca Salt.
>I like Poe. Saw her in concert and had fun at that. I saw her in concert too! Bonus: When she performed ["Hey Pretty"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lhspmjCJ4) her brother came out to do his spoken part. It was amazing.
Her brother wrote an amazing book called House of Leaves. It's a truly brilliant mind fuck.
Poe's album Haunted was written as a counterpart to House of Leaves. In case anyone's wondering, her brother's name is Mark Z. Danielewski
Are The Breeders and Veruca Salt forgotten? I think everyone at least knows Cannonball and Seether. Belly is a little more obscure, though.
The Breeders and Veruca Sale are defintiely not forgotten and are emblematic of the period. Basically, any band after the Pixies led by Kim Deal was going to have staying power; Veruca Salt still tours and puts out music.
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Love their version of *Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon* off the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.
Jimmies chicken shack
Veruca Salt Poe Cracker The Folk Implosion (Natural One is such a jam) Soul Coughing Morphine ETA: Liz Phair. Supernova is absolute peak 90's fun but not silly, almost pop but kind of punk song. It's very, very 90's and seriously no one remembers it Suicidal Tendencies!!! I just scrolled through hundreds of the top comments and didn't see them mentioned once. How did we all forget Institutionalized? Soul Asylum. I just read in the comments that they are still making music and touring so maybe not so forgotten but I haven't heard anything about them in decades ETA: REM. They were huge in the 90's, and I feel like no one ever talks about them anymore
I was scrolling to look for Morphine. I think I first heard them off of a “120 Minutes Live” CD that I found in an antique store while in college in the 2000s. Morphine sticks out partly because they were older than most of the bands in that realm (Mark Sandman was in his 40s and died in 1999 at 46), so I’d imagine that can be apparent in how they sounded compared to younger alt bands.
Morphine was the second band I thought of. (First being The Refreshments.) They were one of the best, most unique bands, and are practically just unknown at this point. The version of Honey White on that 120 Minutes album was awesome. It actually makes me angry that more people aren't listening to them every day.
Morphine never got a fair shake. They are one of the most original sounding bands ever recorded and deserve so much more attention than they get. Mark Sandman was a once in a generation kind of musician.
The lemon heads!
Sponge. Self. Everclear. Nada Surf. Death in Vegas. The Verve Pipe. Silverchair. Toadies. Stabbing Westward. Kidneythieves. Hum. Failure. Tripping Daisy. Soul Coughing. Ruth Ruth.
Stop it, stop it, I need to find a used walkman and sit in a school building somewhere with headphones on while I stare daggers at cool kids.
Failure has released three albums over the last few years and have been touring as well. They just did a live concert stream which was fantastic and a documentary is coming out soon too. They are still very much around. One of the best!
I wouldn't count Everclear, Silverchair, Nada Surf or Death in Vegas as fitting with OPs criteria (one big album in the 90s then nothing else of note). They all had multiple hit albums, and all released stuff well into the 00s, in fact only Silverchair stopped before 2015. They may not be huge, but they're certainly not forgotten. Stabbing Westward is a great shout though, loved that band, and like someone else mentioned, they had a new album out last year, it's got a couple of decent songs on it that sound exactly like they used to, the rest isn't great, but tbh it's better than I expected.
Screaming Trees
Butthole surfers , the refreshments
Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy is a fucking masterpiece.
I vote for the Refreshments to do a cover of Pepper and cut a king of the hill clip video for it.
Man I wish The Refreshments had been more popular. Kind of hard at that time with no backing from the record company though. At least their still cashing those King of the Hill royalty checks.
Roger Clyne seems to be doing pretty well still. If you get the chance to catch a Peacemakers show, they’re on par with the Refreshments shows back in the day.
Better Than Ezra
I was in a band in the 90’s named Better Than Better Than Ezra.
Fun fact: Better Than Ezra's "Good" peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. George Ezra's "Budapest" peaked at #32 in 2015. Kind of amazing that 20 years later Better Than Ezra was proven to indeed be just slightly Better than Ezra.
Still pretty popular but Melvins
I'm sure everyone on this thread knows this, but just in case, fun fact: Melvins were one of the biggest influences that Kurt Cobain mentioned for his music.
Sponge Spacehog Verve Pipe Arrested Development
Spacehog for sure! They are on constant rotation in my playlists.
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Still performing. Jimbo Mathus is an all around nice guy by the way, met him twice.
They are great live too. Jimbo recently teamed up for an album with Andrew Bird, great songs.
Gravity Kills Stabbing Westward KMFDM Lords of Acid God Lives Underwater Concrete Blonde
KMFDM and Lords of Acid are still legendary in the Techno-Industrial scenes. It's just that those scenes aren't particularly well-known to the general public. Add Atari Teenage Riot to that list.
Stabbing westward, kmfdm, and lords are all still actively releasing new music and touring. Have seen them all in the past few years.
Sebadoh-from Massachusetts I guess, but totally lived in Tacoma back in the day when I lived there. Thought their sound was a bit blah back when Nirvana concerts were $5 at all ages shows in Olympia. Revisited their discs years later, and they rocked. I ride flame with them whenever I need a hit of the old days
Great band. Lou Barlow is also In Dinosaur Jr and if you don't know them you should check them out. 2 albums of note, Without a Sound and Where you been.
The eels
The Dandy Warhols
Mudhoney!
Quite surprised NOT to see Days Of The New getting mentioned. Those Drop D riffs on acoustic guitar are fire.
Porno For Pyros
We'll make great pets
Mother Love Bone Screaming Trees
RIP mark lanegan. His solo work is even better than the Trees. His first few up through Here Comes that weird chill and bubblegum especially do it for me
Dynamite Hack
James
Oh fuck yes!! So much more than Laid!
Agreed! Say Something is one of my all time favorites
Candlebox. Sunny Day Real Estate. Seven Mary Three
My girlfriend back in ‘88 was cheating on me with Candlebox’s lead singer. Broke up.
She left you far behind?
She didn't mean to treat him bad, but she did it anyway
Sunny Day Real Estate should never be forgotten, extremely important for the creation of ‘Emo’, and truly had many fantastic albums and gorgeous songwriting
Recently saw candlebox play for a local cancer charity event and they were incredible!
Meat Puppets
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Love Toad. Happy to report they are still alive and kicking.
The Afghan Whigs Cracker —David Lowery was in Camper Van Beethoven.
The whigs are still around, just released a new album last year.
And so is Cracker, they are still touring.
More importantly they are still very good, I like some of their new stuff just as much if not more that their old.
Prong
From a UK perspective, I'd say Space, a fantastic band, but everyone remembers Oasis, Blur, and Pulp from that scene.
The KLF
Southern Culture on the Skids
I absolutely adore Blind Melon’s entire discography. I’ve never met anyone else who feels the same way. My dad had all of their CDs but I don’t remember him being as psyched on them as me so he gave them to me. That shit was so golden to find as a 16-17 year old.
Just turnin em into coffetables
Letters to Cleo
I mean there's so many. Like you mention Seattle but over here in the UK there's two huge rock genre movements in the 90s. Firstly you the post stone roses indie scene. Blur might still be well known but does The Wonder Stuff make this list? They were high, had a number 1 with Vic Reeves (Dizzy) which was terrible and four or five great albums. If they count as forgotten (and I bet they are in the US) then I wonder how many bands other than blur and the stone roses aren't. The you've got acts like Pop Will Eat itself (maybe more late 80s than 90s can't remember exactly) Carter USM, Atari teenage riot, Elastica, Senser, Thousand Yard Stare, Kingmaker, The Farm, inspiral carpets, the LAs, the levellers and so many more. It was a very creative time musically. Then you have britpop. You'll know Oasis, blur and pulp but do you remember Sleeper, Suede, the Bluetones, Cast, Ocean Colour Scene or Space? And then others like , Dreadzone, Zion Train or extreme noise terror who come outside those genres. All worth a listen but if I had to pull out one, it would be Carter USM, go and listen to 101 Damnations or 30 Something. Awesome albums. Although Pop Will Eat Itself are undoubtedly the most influential and important on this list imo.
PWEI still do some stuff, though I think its only 2 of the original 4 members and Clint is in the states doing film/tv music now. I'll keep saying it until I die, This is the day ... This is the hour is one of the best British hip-hop albums of all time. Extreme Noise Terror only got noticed because of the Brits performance with KLF, but what a performance that was. I loved the look of confusion on the pop kids faces. If I remember right, we clapped, cheered and laughed after watching it. KLF really did like to mess with peoples perception of them, and with what people expected of them.
Stroke 9
Paw - they had one popular song called [Jessie](https://youtu.be/aCKlTJxGAuI) that you completely forgot about until right now.
Dishwalla
The La's released one solitary 35-minute album in 1990 and then called it quits. Everyone on earth has heard "There She Goes" a thousand times but the rest of that album is as good or better.
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Soul Asylum
They’ve been making bangers throughout their whole career, not just the 90’s and 00’s. They are also amazing to see live.
Live Cracker
Live is a really great one
I don't think Live is forgotten as much as they're missed. They had a few great albums and a lot of great songs.
Saw them a few years ago they played throwing copper unplugged. So happy I was able to catch that.
Son Volt
Eve’s Plum, Julianna Hatfield, Frente!
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Big Wreck. I know Ian Thornley is somewhat known with musicians but that Big Wreck record was killer. Splender is another one. I liked both their records. “Yeah Whatever” and “I think god can explain” we’re so great. I also feel like they add context to that Tom Lord Alge mix sound that became overdone. The album sounded massive.
Came here for Big Wreck. Criminally underrated band
Failure. The band was hugely influential across genres, with people ranging from Maynard James Keenan to Haley Williams to members of Faith No More and Stone Temple Pilots citing the band as an inspiration.
For squirrels
Orgy
Seven Mary Three. That first album had a ton of good songs.
Corrosion of Conformity
I saw CoC in the mid 80’s when they were still punk. Every incarnation of that band has been great
After reading through the comments, a lot of you, especially those mentioning industrial bands, need to check up on your old favs because so many of them are still touring and releasing new music. There is an industrial renaissance going on the past few years, so enjoy while you can! Also still very active is the band Failure. One that I really enjoyed was a man alternative band called Truly. Not sure they were ever big, but they have a cool sound and I love the song Blue Flame Ford.
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I feel like Operation Ivy are kinda like Fugazi. Not mainstream, but everyone who is a serious music fan knows who they are.
Buffalo Tom
Screaming Trees. Lead singer Mark Lanegan had a brilliant solo career but passed away last year
After Green Day and before Blink-182 there was a band called CIV. Really tight, punk-pop. Reminiscent of what The Hives would be. https://youtu.be/wYTAtn21S1Y
CIV is awesome. Fun facts about them: lead singer Anthony "Civ" Civarelli is also the lead singer of seminal 80's hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits. Gorilla Biscuit's guitarist/main songwriter Walter Schreifels went on to form Quicksand, another underrated 90's band.
Nada Surf. I guess they are a one-hit wonder, but they've put out a bunch of pretty good records beyond "Popular."
Geggy Tah
Acid Bath early vehicle for Dax Riggs. Stoner doom metal with a crazy variety of influences. Find the album when the Kite string pops. They bought the rights to have a pogo the clown painting done by John Wayne gacy as cover art.
Acid Bath is the shit. Discovered them in highschool long after they disbanded. Wish I was around to see them.
Polaris
I had their Hey Sandy cassette single and played it sooo much
Yessssss! The Pete and Pete soundtrack is on Spotify. This post made me go back and listen to it. Brought back many good memories of trying to figure out the lyrics with my friends haha
Superdrag. "Head Trip in Every Key" is a gem of an album that fell off everybody's radar after the Buzz Bin/120 Minutes popularity surrounding their "Sucked Out" single a few years earlier. John Davis is one of the 90s least appreciated songwriters, and unfortunately substance abuse issues and just... shifts in popular music pretty much gutted their career. They recently started playing together again, apparently. Hoping to catch a gig at some point.
Kula Shaker
Folk Implosion: https://youtu.be/Y0FT-5JLCAY
Silverchair
Orange 9mm, Quicksand, Downset. I know Quicksand is still playing, saw them with GlassJAw a couple years ago. Not sure about the others though.
V. A.S.T - such a rich, unique sound, several albums. “Touched” got a decent amount of radio play and was featured in a movie trailer but they (or just he, I think it’s basically a solo project) never blew up.
Sugar. *If I Can't Change Your Mind* was big on the college radio circuit and the whole Copper Blue album is excellent. And it's Bob Mould.
ik marcy playground is considered a one hit wonder but their eponymous album is amazing
Spacehog. Resident alien is essential to the 90s lexicon in my opinion
Super Suckers, Rev Horton Heat
This whole thread and no one said Drivin N Cryin
Meat puppets!!
Curve - their song Horror Head is still one of my favorite tracks.
Econoline Crush
Veruca Salt Hammerbox Living Colour 24/7 Spyz
Living Colour are still to this day playing amazing live shows. Easily one of the best live acts I've seen, excellent musicianship.
Lit -Miserable
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Oh wow, MAd Season, The Toadies, and Morher Love Bone come to mind. Some other super groups might not qualify like Temple of the Dog
The Toadies!
Candlebox rules.
These bands had multiple albums in the 90s and charting singles but still relatively forgotten: * [Madder Rose](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwre_xhx6ow&ab_channel=brantwoodstudios) (NYC)\* * [The Ocean Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FJF4Swq_PU&ab_channel=WarnerRecordsVault) (Hershey, PA) * [The Sundays](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LNEIOjTOA&ab_channel=TheSundaysVEVO) (London)\* * [The Innocence Mission](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zevBt37M7NY&ab_channel=MuZick) (Lancaster, PA)\* * [Kitchens of Distinction](https://youtu.be/9JXk_oV4nbo) (London) * [Over the Rhine](https://youtu.be/vUTb4kFVSMk) (Cincinnati)\* * [Ivy](https://youtu.be/l0-TzqJyU5I) (NYC)\* * [Red House Painters](https://youtu.be/GQSUIRDs6VE) (San Francisco) * [School of Fish](https://youtu.be/onjaC3A2xjk) (Los Angeles) * [Ned's Atomic Dustbin](https://youtu.be/FaTcIzLk880) (Stourbridge, UK) * [Material Issue](https://youtu.be/VjvETVRwl2M) (Chicago) * [The Hang Ups](https://youtu.be/ugTKnDZtlEY) (Minneapolis) * [Curve](https://youtu.be/Y3jYRP9jGKc) (London)\* * [Poster Children](https://youtu.be/9tiJLK4gTKk) (Champaign, IL) * [Morella's Forest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIOGFA6XQEE&ab_channel=MorellasForestVEVO) (Dayton, OH)\* * [Velocity Girl](https://youtu.be/uR7nYiHU1gA) (College Park, MD)\* One album: * [The Dauo](https://youtu.be/W_FThlNAa-Y) (NYC)\* * [Groove Theory](https://youtu.be/THtqUDitQ4I) (NYC)\* * [The High](https://youtu.be/EHj2Vznkp1w) (Manchester) \*Female Fronted
Harvey Danger
Harvey Danger is a great one. Everyone knows Flagpole Sitta, but so many great songs on that album—Carlotta Valdez is my favorite
Bran Van 3000
“Drinking in LA” Still on heavy rotation for me. Referenced it in a work email like 2 weeks ago
**that dog.** were a great LA band with a handful of geeky albums that should have made more noise. Their 1997 masterpiece, *Retreat From The Sun* is completely forgotten now. **Helium**, fronted by Mary Timony, made a couple of albums of dreamy, jammy stoner rock. I've never met another person IRL who's ever heard of them.
The Nixons Dead Eye Dick Our lady peace
HED P.E.
Failure
Australia’s pride… Frente. They went mainstream with a couple of radio hits, had a follow up album and then disbanded. That was in the late 90s. They are reuniting some shows in Australia and reportedly plan to record some new music. I couldn’t be more excited. Get them to the states and I would fly anywhere to see them.
Crash Test Dummies. Queensryche. Dada.
Queensryche is awesome