Alternative Rock
19 artists · 24 albums
Artists
311
Straight from The Hive comes LA Band 311. They brought their Omaha (Grass)Roots West in the 90s and never looked back.
Albums
Throwing Copper
I Alone, Selling the Drama, and Lightning Crashes were all major hits in the mid 90s. Throw in All Over You, Iris, and Top and you have Throwing Copper.
Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
Banditos and Down Together get Tempe's The Refreshments on the radio, but Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy is an album you can put on repeat when driving coast to coast.
Happiness ... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
A hit single was not a fish that Our Lady Peace could catch on their third album. And that is a good thing.
Purple
12 Gracious Melodies. But really 11. Interstate Love Song, Big Empty, and Vasoline are the stars of the second Stone Temple Pilots album, Purple.
Sixteen Stone
Fast - Machinehead, Medium - Comedown, and Slow - Glycerine. Bush's 1994 debut album Sixteen Stone was literally rock.
Scenery and Fish
I Mother Earth's second studio album is a musical delight, with the soaring One More Astronaut and radio-aired Another Sunday.
Superstar Car Wash
Fallin' Down is the best song the Goo Goo Dolls ever wrote. Then again, every song Rzeznik sings is why the Goo Goo Dolls had a 25+ year career.
Clumsy
OLP's second studio album is more polished than debut Naveed, producing hits Superman's Dead, Clumsy, and power ballad 4am.
Foma
A bunch of guys from Oklahoma make a pretty decent hard rock album, only to have a soft rock hit in Sister.
Grave Dancers Union
Somebody to Shove is the pinnacle of 90s alternative rock and Runaway Train owned the second half of 1993. Well done, Soul Asylum.
A Boy Named Goo
A Boy Named Goo is the Goo Goo Dolls commercial breakthrough album, with singles like Name and Long Way Down.
Rotting Piñata
Plowed crushed, Molly drugged, and Rainin ... rained? Sponge's debut album Rotting Piñata is halfway decent rock.
New Miserable Experience
Hey Jealousy and Found Out About You are standout hits on the Gin Blossoms debut album, New Miserable Experience.
Naveed
Our Lady Peace's debut album is built on the massive strength of its two biggest singles, Starseed and Naveed.
Wax Ecstatic
Detroit's Sponge mixes piano, slide guitar, horns, and a cello with 90s grunge to create Wax Ecstatic. Have You Seen Mary is a hit, and My Baby Said is fun.
Pet Your Friends
Counting Blue Cars is a 90s staple, propelling Dishwalla to fame. Pretty Babies, Give, and Charlie Brown's Parents round out Pet Your Friends.
Sparkle and Fade
Everclear's major label debut, Sparkle and Fade, traverses a landscape of grit, polish, fluff, and authenticity, making it decently good, but not epic.
Reloaded
Dizzy's upbeat riff and the heavy riffage of Los Vargos keep Green Apple Quick Step's Reloaded from going underwater.
The Happiest Dogs
Radio single Live Through This (Fifteen Stories) off The Happiest Dogs is why you know Mighty Joe Plum. Or, you're from Tampa, FL.
