I was listening to the radio today and heard "Dream All Day"' by the Posies.  They IMHO were an awesome awesome band who never fully got the recognition I think they deserved.  Any other bands out there you think should have made it but didn'T?  :o

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Wilco

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Blue Rodeo

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I would say Faith No More.

"They opened up the door to alternative music and got trampled on the way through."

I have said it before and I will say it again, after their fist album they were ahead of their time.  You can hear their influences in a lot of harder bands nowadays like Korn.

My advice, if you like hard rock pick up "King for a Day Fool for a Lifetime" aka "The Red Album".

Check this stuff out...
Ammonia - Drugs
Dada - I Get High
Spot - Moon June Spoon
Self - So Low
That's what forgotten 90's rock is all about....



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It's a shame they never made it abroad.  America sure missed out on some great songs


Harem Scarem - They had a great 1991 song called "Slowly Slipping Away" that should have been a big hit around the world, but wasn't  :\'(

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I always think of Wilco as a 00s band; they certainly received recognition in the 00s when their album 'Foxtrot Hotel' won the best 'Alternative album' award in 2004 (I think it was 04). I personally think they're a bit over-hyped in terms of their music.

I always think of Wilco as a 00s band; they certainly received recognition in the 00s when their album 'Foxtrot Hotel' won the best 'Alternative album' award in 2004 (I think it was 04). I personally think they're a bit over-hyped in terms of their music.


Yeah, they're one of the following bands that I think of as "'00s in the '90s":

Death Cab for Cutie (debuted in '97, though nobody'd heard of them)
Elliott Smith
Belle and Sebastian
Modest Mouse
Ben Folds Five

There are tons of bands that were popular in the '90s that nobody cares about anymore.

There are tons of bands that were popular in the '90s that nobody cares about anymore.


There were so many grunge-influenced pop-rock ensembles, almost a dime a dozen, from like 1994-1998 and to a lesser extent 1998-2001ish. Some bands "nobody cares about anymore":

The Wallflowers
Counting Crows
The Presidents of the United States of America
Chumbawumba
Cake
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Sublime
Catch 22
Better Than Ezra
Hottie and the Blowfish
Dave Matthews Band
Alanis Morisette
Marcy Playground
New Radicals...
Jewel...

The list goes on.

There are tons of bands that were popular in the '90s that nobody cares about anymore.


Alot of them deserve to be in the position of obscurity they are today because they were pretty ordinary. So there is a difference between an ordinary obscure band, and a really great obscure band, like an uncut diamond hidden beneath all that carbon.

Apples In Stereo.  A very good indie band, and part of the "Elephant Six" music group(also includes members of Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel, and a couple of other bands I think).  They had a couple of really good albums in the 90s, Fun Trick Noisemaker, and Tone Soul Evolution.

Alot of them deserve to be in the position of obscurity they are today because they were pretty ordinary. So there is a difference between an ordinary obscure band, and a really great obscure band, like an uncut diamond hidden beneath all that carbon.


Yeah, that's correct. Like who gives a cr*p about Hootie and the Blowfish anymore? I actually think Everclear were somewhat underrated.

Yeah, that's correct. Like who gives a cr*p about Hootie and the Blowfish anymore? I actually think Everclear were somewhat underrated.


Lol. Yeah it's seems all I heard in the 90s was 'Hootie and the Blowful' or the 'Dave Matthew's Band' or 'Everclear.' Great bands, but not always deserving of the veneration heaped on them during the 90s.

Mad Season.

Lol. Yeah it's seems all I heard in the 90s was 'Hootie and the Blowful' or the 'Dave Matthew's Band' or 'Everclear.' Great bands, but not always deserving of the veneration heaped on them during the 90s.


Yeah, these sort of archetypical, vaguely post-grunge pop-rock outfits that were huge, peaking around 1997. Dave Matthews Band was a big deal among some girls even in 1999 when I was in 4th grade. Alot of the girls who liked them back then later became Maroon 5, Jack Johnson, etc. fans in the mid-'00s.

Yeah, these sort of archetypical, vaguely post-grunge pop-rock outfits that were huge, peaking around 1997. Dave Matthews Band was a big deal among some girls even in 1999 when I was in 4th grade. Alot of the girls who liked them back then later became Maroon 5, Jack Johnson, etc. fans in the mid-'00s.


I still don't understand the whole Jack Johnson appeal. Seems to me the entire beach bum/pot smoking crowd he attracts are really early 90's suburban kids who never really lived near the beach, but grew up in a pressure filled life. Must get straight A's, be a star in every sport, date the cutest guy/girl, be Mr/Ms. Popular, wear the best clothes. Sometimes they have to deal with divorce as well. A reaction to this might've been to turn to "turn off", free yourself from the stress, strain, and pursuit of whatever...and become a surfer.

and perhaps it was also a reaction to the 80's conservative yuppies they knew while growing up. Maybe a reaction to not wanting to be like them.

I personally don't see that much fun in either lifestyle.

I still don't understand the whole Jack Johnson appeal. Seems to me the entire beach bum/pot smoking crowd he attracts are really early 90's suburban kids who never really lived near the beach, but grew up in a pressure filled life. Must get straight A's, be a star in every sport, date the cutest guy/girl, be Mr/Ms. Popular, wear the best clothes. Sometimes they have to deal with divorce as well. A reaction to this might've been to turn to "turn off", free yourself from the stress, strain, and pursuit of whatever...and become a surfer.

and perhaps it was also a reaction to the 80's conservative yuppies they knew while growing up. Maybe a reaction to not wanting to be like them.

I personally don't see that much fun in either lifestyle.


Yeah, I don't get it either, honestly...actually, alot of the kids who like him in my school are the work-hard/play-hard preppie types.

Yeah, I don't get it either, honestly...actually, alot of the kids who like him in my school are the work-hard/play-hard preppie types.


I blame Jack Johnson for almost killing me!

Well, in sort of a round about way...

When I went to an open air rock festival in 2003 I remember Jack Johnson was one of the headline acts. And you can imagine the effect ol' Jack would have had on several thousand screaming teenage girls...since I was standing near the moshpit I was nearly crushed to death, lol. But apart from that, it was a very memorable concert.