Fuel - Most Underrated 90s Band? - Page 4

Spider-Fan · 02-27-2019, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by fordman

See Bolded above...
I did see the Screaming Trees with White Zombie sometime mid 1996-97 at a local Venue (Bogarts). Weird Duo to be on tour since one band was pretty much alternative and the other was industrial metal mix.

Fordman

You lost me. Are you saying these banda are underrated or not?

Honestly, if you didnt listen to FM radio or MTV in the 90s, i dont even know why you would comment on which bands from that era were underrated.

jdandns · 02-27-2019, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by CC71

one of my favorite albums from the 90's, The Refreshments: Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy

fun fact: they did the King of the Hill theme song

I loved their song, "Banditos" which boasted some terrific lyrics:

"So give your I.D. card to the border guard.
Now your alias says you're Captain Jean-Luc Picard
of the United Federation of Planets
No one speaks English anyway.

Everybody knows the world is full of stupid people
So meet me at the mission at midnight, we'll divvy up there.
Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people
But I get the pistols, so I'll keep the pesos.
Yeah, that seems fair!"

Seahawks fan · 02-28-2019, 05:54 AM

Did someone quote the most underrated albums of the 90s was the 5 million copy selling dirt and 8x platinum selling core lol...almost every band mentioned has a platinum album.

Most underrated for me would be Scatterbrain, Dada, and SkinYard.

Dada's Puzzle album is a masterpiece and did go Gold yet rarely mentioned.

SK40 · 02-28-2019, 06:37 AM

No Sense off Candlebox is tremendous, best track off the album.

BOboy · 02-28-2019, 07:33 AM

Would also agree with Social Distortion, "White Light, White Heat, White Trash" is one of my favorite albums.

I would add Idlewild, "100 Broken Windows" is another all time favorite album.

LVDan · 02-28-2019, 01:07 PM

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Steve2112 · 02-28-2019, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray27Ray52

I used to dig on some Mazzy Star back in the day. The lead singer has sort of an earthy ethereal voice like Amy Lee. They are obvious different in their deliveries but I get the same kind of reaction from them, like where did that voice come from?

YES! Hope Sandoval's voice hits me in all the emotional spots when I listen to them. You know those York peppermint patty commercials with either the good-looking girl or guy, and when he or she bites into it, their pupils dilate and their skin gets all tight and goosebump-y? That's me listening to Mazzy Star. (I agree, Amy Lee is good too, but Hope does this dreamy, almost whisper-like thing that defies explanation.) Mazzy Star is a nice, relaxing change of pace when I need a brief break from my metal and classic/hard rock.

discostu · 02-28-2019, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by discostu

Skin Yard/Gruntruck are criminally underrated in the grunge genre. To me, Ben McMillan had the prototypical grunge voice.

Grotus is another band from that era that signed a major label deal, but seemingly revolted themselves for signing it.

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Of note, it's interesting to see some of the era's most popular bands mentioned in this thread as possibly "underrated."

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Originally Posted by Seahawks fan

Did someone quote the most underrated albums of the 90s was the 5 million copy selling dirt and 8x platinum selling core lol...almost every band mentioned has a platinum album.

Most underrated for me would be Scatterbrain, Dada, and SkinYard.

Dada's Puzzle album is a masterpiece and did go Gold yet rarely mentioned.

I had your back on Skin Yard at post #41.

Scatterbrain was a band that was so short-lived that they never really hit their stride...especially once Glen left.

Bowman1951 · 02-28-2019, 01:35 PM

I still whip out some Toad the Wet Sprocket at times.

Sue me.

fungi2510 · 02-28-2019, 02:35 PM

This band might be more properly rated, but Everclear is a band that I was into that I thought never quite got over the hump popularity-wise compared with their talent. There are also quite a few punk/emo bands that could be here.

fordman · 02-28-2019, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Spider-Fan

You lost me. Are you saying these banda are underrated or not?

Honestly, if you didnt listen to FM radio or MTV in the 90s, i dont even know why you would comment on which bands from that era were underrated.

Sorry for the confusion. In my bolded responses, I didnt comment as to whther they were under rated or not as I couldnt tell you. I didnt listen to FM radio or watch Mtv in the 90's. The one's I knew are where I put a response.

Fordman

jdandns · 02-28-2019, 06:35 PM

I'm gonna fly on down for the last stop to this town.
(What?)
I'm gonna fly on down, then fly away.
(Well, alright.)

Get down.

The above is EELS from 1998's "Electro-Shock Blues", the followup to their debut classic, 1996's "Beautiful Freak" with the creepy pre-Momo cover...

blackandgold · 02-28-2019, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by LVDan

https://youtu.be/ycCRTl-_aCE

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Buena and All Wrong are equally good I’ve noticed hearing their music in various movies also

LVDan · 02-28-2019, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by blackandgold

Buena and All Wrong are equally good I’ve noticed hearing their music in various movies also

Every album the released before Sandman’s untimely death(onstage during a show in Europe) is fantastic:
Good
Cure for Pain(probably their best)
Yes
Like Swimming

Spectacular moody rock n roll without guitars. Drums, bari sax and Sandman’s homemade 3 string bass.

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blackandgold · 02-28-2019, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by LVDan

Every album the released before Sandman’s untimely death(onstage during a show in Europe) is fantastic:
Good
Cure for Pain(probably their best)
Yes
Like Swimming

Spectacular moody rock n roll without guitars. Drums, bari sax and Sandman’s homemade 3 string bass.

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Yah I’m a sucker for Rock and roll with horns- Another not mentioned
Mighty Mighty Bosstones

discostu · 02-28-2019, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by LVDan

Every album the released before Sandman’s untimely death(onstage during a show in Europe) is fantastic:
Good
Cure for Pain(probably their best)
Yes
Like Swimming

Spectacular moody rock n roll without guitars. Drums, bari sax and Sandman’s homemade 3 string bass.

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Originally Posted by blackandgold

Yah I’m a sucker for Rock and roll with horns- Another not mentioned
Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Morphine was so great live.

As for the Bosstones, I think I only saw them once...1989 or so. I never dug the records, but they were fun live.

CC71 · 03-04-2019, 06:38 PM

Brother Cane, very underrated. they're sound was similar to alice in chains

blackandgold · 03-20-2019, 09:37 PM

Just listened to the album The Real Thing by Faith No more - that album was golden

IronMonkey415 · 03-20-2019, 10:00 PM

Been blasting some SUM 41.

Life was much simpler back then.

jrosales · 03-21-2019, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by CC71

one of my favorite albums from the 90's, The Refreshments: Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy

fun fact: they did the King of the Hill theme song

One of my all-time favorite albums. Especially love 'Mexico'!

This album was one of the soundtracks of my college years!

jrosales · 03-21-2019, 09:57 AM

A few of my favorite underrated (read: non-mainstream) '90s bands:

Shudder to Think
Tripping Daisy
Letters to Cleo
Screaming Trees
Wax
Spot
Green Apple Quick Step
Juliana Hatfield
Belly
Imperial Drag

Of course, I love much of the popular '90s rock out there (90s music is the greatest ever), but this thread is about underrated bands.

To me, Fuel - as great as they were - were never 'underrated'.

Brobocop · 03-21-2019, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by CC71

Brother Cane, very underrated. they're sound was similar to alice in chains

Fun fact, this song was featured on the Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers soundtrack. Back in the 90's, it seemed as if every single horror film had to have at least one alternative song in it. The 90's, yeesh.

hairysasquatch · 03-21-2019, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Brobocop

Fun fact, this song was featured on the Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers soundtrack. Back in the 90's, it seemed as if every single horror film had to have at least one alternative song in it. The 90's, yeesh.

I won't have people talking crap about the 90s in here.

Greatest musical decade ever!

quackhead · 04-01-2019, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jrosales

A few of my favorite underrated (read: non-mainstream) '90s bands:

Shudder to Think
Tripping Daisy
Letters to Cleo
Screaming Trees
Wax
Spot
Green Apple Quick Step
Juliana Hatfield
Belly
Imperial Drag

Of course, I love much of the popular '90s rock out there (90s music is the greatest ever), but this thread is about underrated bands.

To me, Fuel - as great as they were - were never 'underrated'.

Still love listening to Tripping Daisy. I think they got back together?

SOme other 90s bands that are underrated:

At The Drive-In
Days Of The New

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