What are some good, mostly forgotten, alternative songs from the 90's?

[MetalMat]

"Pain lies on the Riverside" by Live, such an awesome song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP5XavjhhQc

 

[NL5]

From the one of the founding bands of "alternative" - Chloe dancer - MLB

 

[manimal]

mayor of simpleton -xtc

basically anything from xtc

 

[wishfool]

Sister Machine Gun - Burn
?? (think filter) - Trip like I do
Tricky - Hell is around the corner

 

[Atomic Playboy]

White Town - Your Woman

 

[Kadarin]

Here are some more:

Days of the New - Touch, Peel, and Stand
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Duran Duran - Come Undone
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Filter - Take a Picture
The Flys - Got You (Where I Want You)
Hooters - All You Zombies
The Hunger - Vanishing Cream
Jars of Clay - Flood
Marcy Playground - St. Joe on the Schoolbus
Martin Page - In the House of Stone and Light
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Milla (Jovovich) - Gentleman who Fell
Natalie Merchant - Carnival
The Offspring - Gone Away
P.O.D. - Youth of the Nation
Payolas - Eyes of a Stranger
Primal Scream - Loaded
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Phone Booth
Smash Mouth - Walking on the Sun
Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Sugar Ray - When It's Over (and a bunch of other songs)
Suzanne Vega - Luka
The Wallflowers - One Headlight

 

[zinfamous]

Yo La Tango
Superchunk
Archers of Loaf

oh, and Pavement

 

[zinfamous]

damn, no one mentions Ben Folds Five anymore, do they?


I was a big fan of Squirrel Nut Zippers, too. They got kinda a poppy when they released Hell, though. :\

 

[Via]

This might be a bit before the 90's, but I always loved this song for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6nKP10j4s

 

[Tweak155]

Although it was named twice, it was named twice wrong:

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in my Hand

Has to be done right to show how long the title really is

Also Chumbawamba was a big deal back then, but I don't think I'd list them as super awesome.

 

[classy]

Green Day - Brain Stew

 

[edro]

Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh,
Totally motionless except for her heart.

http://www.aolradioblog.com/2010/08/14/top-100-alternative-songs-of-the-90s/
Good list.

Awesome! You can listen to them all for free too!

 

[soulcougher73]

Not an Addict by K's Choice

 

[Gibsons]

mayor of simpleton -xtc

basically anything from xtc

That's like the 80s man.

White Music (1978)
Go 2 (1978)
Drums and Wires (1979)
Black Sea (1980)
English Settlement (1982)
Mummer (1983)
The Big Express (1984)
25 O'Clock (1985), as The Dukes of Stratosphear
Skylarking (1986)
Psonic Psunspot (1987), as The Dukes of Stratosphear
Oranges & Lemons (1989)
Nonsuch (1992)
Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999)
Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (2000)

 

[zebano]

Much more common than a lot of these but my favorites from the 90s.

Laid - James
Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden (not necessarily alternative)
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth
Pepper - Butthole Surfers

 

[Jaepheth]

Claus Schall – Concerto No. 4 for violin and orchestra in D major

 

[KLin]

More Than Words - Extreme

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Corrosion of Conformity: albatross, clean my wounds
Silverchair: tomorrow
Tripping Daisy: blown away
Dishwalla: counting blue cars
Fuel: hemorrhage
Smashing Pumpkins: 1979
Gin Blossoms: follow you down, hey jealousy

I listed some you guys might not of heard in a while.

 

[WT]

Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike

Vedder and Cornell sound sooooooo good.

 

[Ns1]

I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)

Originally done by David Bowie, made better by Trent Reznor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-d2T29dNMY

 

[IcePickFreak]

I still get this song stuck in my head sometimes.

Ugly Kid Joe - Everything about you

How appropriate for ATOT :awe:

 

[FeuerFrei]

Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon

Step aside ... and let the man go through! ♫

Good music up in here

 

[Abel007]

Live - Lightning Crashes
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
Blind Melon - No Rain
Blur - Song 2
The Breeders - Cannonball
Edwin Collins - Girl Like You (kind of a stretch but whatever)
Chumbawumba - Tubthumper
Semisonic - Closing Time
Proclaimers - I'd Walk 500 Miles
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Folk Implosion - Natural One

 

[Abel007]

damn, no one mentions Ben Folds Five anymore, do they?


I was a big fan of Squirrel Nut Zippers, too. They got kinda a poppy when they released Hell, though. :\

Love me some Ben Folds Five! The entire Whatever and Ever Amen album has been listened to hundreds of times by me. Don't forget Army off the previous album as well!

Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Damian Kulash & Neil Gaiman have formed their self proclaimed "Super Group" called 8in8 that has some definite Ben Folds-esque music in it.

 

[zinfamous]

Love me some Ben Folds Five! The entire Whatever and Ever Amen album has been listened to hundreds of times by me. Don't forget Army off the previous album as well!

Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Damian Kulash & Neil Gaiman have formed their self proclaimed "Super Group" called 8in8 that has some definite Ben Folds-esque music in it.

Yeah, I much prefer the first album. Alice Childress pwns. (I saw those fucks thrice and they never played it once! ASSHOLES!)

Love the 2nd album, too, but Brick kinda ruined them. I like the song, but was so damn sick of it by the time it hit big.

Ben Folds is a blast live, but pretty much all of his shows are identical. :\