Most underrated band of the 1990's [Archive]

hndsmepete

08-09-2001, 11:51 PM

That's truly a tough one. There were a lot of bands I was into during the 90's that were very underrated. For the 1990's I would say Fear Factory. They didn't get big until a shitty cover song Gary Numan's "Cars"(worst song on the cd Obsolete, wasn't even on the first edition of the cd. They put out a digi-pack with 5 bonus tracks and about 5 months later it got popular with next to 0% airplay. They then released Obsolete for a third time minus 4 of the bonus tracks with Cars as an extra track that didn't exactly fit well on a friggin CONCEPT ALBUM!!!!) Demanufacture is one of the most underrated albums of the 90's. It was very influential. If anyone likes that corny genre named NU-Metal, Fear Factory's Demanufacture clearly influenced most of these new & horrible bands that all sound the same.

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Dirtybird11

08-10-2001, 12:27 AM

Soul Asylum- miniapolis garage rock. best live rock band. went down hill with runaway train..8 rock solid cds that kick out the jams...

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Charlie The Drops Kid

08-10-2001, 12:46 AM

Bon Jovi.



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Gvac

08-10-2001, 03:05 AM

Lyle Lovett, Foo Fighters, G.
Love and Special Sauce, ahh, I
could go on forever.

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JimBeam

08-10-2001, 05:56 AM

Of all the Seattle bands I think both Alice In Chains and Soungarden took a back seat to Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
Soundgraden was the first to have a major record deal and AIC was the first to have a video on MTV.
Nirvana was way over-blown ( no pun on the whole shotgun thing ). I actually got more into their stuff when Cobain was dead.
But I think AIC was the best of the bunch.

angrymissy

08-10-2001, 06:05 AM

soul asylum is/was bahdass! their best album was the ...and the horse they rode in on one. Screaming Trees was the MOST underrated band of the 90's tho. They only had that one hit "I nearly lost you" but their album was excellent and their lead singer (Mark Langleland) put out a kick ass solo album.

I was grungy in the 90's :)

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08-10-2001, 07:19 AM

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scooter

08-10-2001, 08:13 AM

Even though they formed in the mid 80's they still made albums throughout the 90's, and still remained obscure. The best band ever: FAITH NO MORE

Beer Bishop

08-10-2001, 08:42 AM

Sublime... but that's also because they did not gain popularity until Brad Nowell had died.

Sheeplovr

08-11-2001, 04:38 AM

It hought this was all under ratered stuff of the 90'2 everyone you named is all really rated highly well except and G love and special sauce cause non of you probly know who they are and some of you should know Lyle Lovett banged whats her name with the big mouth her name ecapes me but i dont know what im talking about any more my head hurts

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Dirtybird11

08-11-2001, 08:44 AM

SCOOTER!!!! GREAT PULL BRO~
Faith no more def...my god that band rox! DUKES!!! JAM SOME FAITH NO MORE>>> wow-
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Heroin Bob

08-11-2001, 08:49 PM

who doesn't know about G love and the special sauce? if it were the band "Say Anything" then it would make more sense.

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08-12-2001, 04:36 AM

Corrision of Conformity and Mighty Mighty Bosstones

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girl germs

08-13-2001, 12:35 AM

the most underrated band of the 1990s would have to be yo la tengo.

yo la tengo is one of the few bands i would die for. i love them that much. they are that good.

you've all heard of the smashing pumpkins, you've all heard of the foo fighters, etc...yo la tengo is one of the most hardworking bands ever and they fuckin rock.

yo la tengo for president.

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JustJon

08-13-2001, 08:15 AM

How can you call any band that got multiple songs off multiple albums on mtv underrated? More likely they're over exposed.

I agree with Screaming Trees and Yo La Tengo, but how about Primitive Radio Gods? Another one hit wonder that was off a great album.

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Dirtybird11

08-13-2001, 09:02 AM

blind melon never got the recognition they deserve..
*soup is a classic.

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Heroin Bob

08-14-2001, 01:34 AM

Superdrag are great so i'm going to nominate them for a great underrated band, no label support so they had to sell their records based on touring and word of mouth but now they're an Indie band so they said "F you" to being on a major label and went out on their own.

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erinmoran

08-14-2001, 06:12 AM

CANDLEBOX!!!!I STILL LOVE THEM!!!

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Gvac

08-14-2001, 08:37 PM

Just a quick note: underrated is not the same as unknown. For example, you could say you think Mark McGwire is an underrated 1st baseman, though every baseball fan in the world knows who he is.

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girl germs

08-14-2001, 09:16 PM

oúverúrate

To overestimate the merits of; rate too highly.

bands like the smashing pumpkins, foo fighters, and marilyn manson are definitely overrated. i'm not saying they aren't talented but to me these bands seem a bit too gimmicky and they try to use that to sell records and whatnot.

other bands i think are underrated:

nada surf
cake
the dandy warhols
luscious jackson
cibo matto
rasputina
that dog
the rentals
unwound
etc..

the thing is that most of the bands that are underrated don't even care. they're happy with how things are for them and i think that's cool.

and i'm getting sick of using the term "overrated" and "underrated". it's as silly as saying a band has "sold out" or something.

i'm not using these terms no more.

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LittleLizaJane

08-14-2001, 09:35 PM

ummm... Dexis' MidnightRunners
damn, that was the 80's

lil chicklet

08-23-2001, 07:58 AM

cake
&
social distortion

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fluffernutter

01-25-2003, 08:55 AM

Considering the current popularity of Queens Of The Stone Age, hell, even not considering that, KYUSS has to be my pick for the most underrated. They were just so tighe and has such and influence on so much of the stuff out there today. Blues For The Red Sun and Welcome to Sky Valley are just two AMAZING ALBUMS!

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DarkHippie

01-25-2003, 09:18 AM

without a doubt Steve Earle and the Dukes. Since becoming clean (and even before that), Earle has put out some of the most fantastic albums of recent memory: Copperhead road, Train-a-comin, I Feel Alright, el Corazon, the Mountain, Transcendental Blues (not to mention what he's done recently)

His work jumps the borders of genres, and helped expand the notion of what alt country is. Not too mention that he may be the finest songwriter of this era. His music has been ignored for far too long.

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LiquidCourage

01-25-2003, 09:30 AM

Although they formed at the end of the 80s, I'm gonna say Dream Theater.

toneburst20

01-25-2003, 09:51 AM

definitly UNWOUND, though i will have to give a nod to jawbreaker 
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TheMojoPin

01-25-2003, 10:24 AM

Supersuckers, dammit.

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fluffernutter

01-25-2003, 10:32 AM

How the HELL did I miss Jawbreaker and Fuel (1990)? Those two were GREAT!

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DarkHippie

01-25-2003, 11:47 AM

Supersuckers, dammit
I love the Supersuckers! except they took a line from me because "i can use my dick as a walkingstick"

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01-25-2003, 11:50 AM

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LiquidCourage

01-25-2003, 01:13 PM

Anselmo's side project "Down"

Lulu

01-25-2003, 01:18 PM

Anselmo's side project "Down"its also pepper keenan's side project. he's lead singer of coc (corrosion of conformity). also a very underrated band.

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East Side Dave

01-25-2003, 01:26 PM

Wilco
Dropkick Murphy's
Luna
Neutral Milk Hotel
Mighty, Mighty Mosh-tones

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TheMojoPin

01-25-2003, 01:39 PM

The Make Up.

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furly

01-25-2003, 02:40 PM

pearl jam.after 10 and vs. they didn't get much attention.

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walking joint

01-25-2003, 02:47 PM

i liked Blind Melon, Toadies and Radiohead more than most did.

WintersEmbers

01-25-2003, 03:01 PM

even though they were late 90's Texas Is The Reason is my pull, that band more or less molded what most of bands like saves the day, thursday, further seems forever and countless other bands are doing now...oh and in also since most people didnt actually start admitting to liking them til 2000 im going to say Weezer. those are my two.

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Arienette

01-25-2003, 04:08 PM

even though he's come to enjoy quite a bit of popularity, i'd still have to say that jeff buckley was most underrated. compared to what he deserved, he was certainly underrated

there are just so many others (most of which have been mentioned), among them...

smoking popes
screaming trees
jawbreaker
g love and special sauce
texas is the reason
avail

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TheMojoPin

01-25-2003, 04:22 PM

The La's.

Well, technically 80's, though they didn't hit Stateside until like around '90 or '91.

And Brit bands like The Manic Street Preachers, Pulp and Blur were criminally ignored here in America. It's horrible that most people think of Blur as a one-hit band or as the "Wooo-HOO!!! guy"...bah...

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grlNIN

01-25-2003, 04:53 PM

The Gorilla Biscuits
Life of Agony
The Casualties

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TheMojoPin

01-25-2003, 06:43 PM

Afghan Whigs, mofos...

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WintersEmbers

01-26-2003, 09:24 AM

no i think of blur as the walking milk box guys :), i love blur and have everyone of their albums, excellent stuff.

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SuperClerk

01-26-2003, 09:10 PM

-Faith No More
-Weezer
-Life of Agony
-Type O Negative

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porchjunk

01-26-2003, 09:37 PM

BLIND MELON without a doubt is the most underrated band of the 90's.

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spoon

01-27-2003, 01:30 AM

Urge Overkill
Cracker
Living Colour
Nixons
Heather Nova
Portishead
Enormous
Belly
Bird 3
Letters to Cleo
PJ Harvey
Mazzy Star
Toadies
Juliana Hatfield
Salt
Liz Phair (before she had a kid)
eels
Sponge
Cake (not sponge cake)
God Lives Underwater
Ben Harper
Spoon (no joke)
Gus
Stereophonics (in the US)
Our Lady Peace (all up until the latest shit album by Metallica's producer Bob Rock...he ruined it! That's his real name too? Seriously, what a fag! That would be like Ron or Fez changing their name to Johny Broadcast.)
Oleander
Shades Apart
Ours
The Juliana Theory
Local H
JJ72
Finger Eleven
Remy Zero
Latterday Saints (rock and ribs)
Small AM

All great shit that you never hear on the radio, which would only make it better or at least more interesting. Instead, we here the same Weezer song when newly released and Limp, Staind, Metallica, and ...you get the point. And these are just a few.

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spoon

01-27-2003, 01:46 AM

I found it really interesting how Carter answered himself as if another person asked him way back in August of 2001 which band was underrated. This was his thread!
That's easy... Smashing Pumpkins.
Oh yah, underrated my ass!

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Servo

01-27-2003, 07:42 AM

Some good underrated bands have been listed... I would add Quicksand. A great NYC-based band that never got the attention it deserved. A lot of what these bands are doing today, Quicksand did it 13 years ago, and did it 100 times better. In their all-too-brief time around they put out two amazing albums. They also did a tremendous cover of the Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" If you can, pick up some of their stuff, particularly their second album, "Manic Compression."

WintersEmbers

01-27-2003, 09:14 AM

cant believe i missed finger elven, good pull spoon, and i still think when it comes to the ninties weezer was underated.

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