lesser Known bands of the early 90's
 

post some of the lesser known artist/bands of the early 90's """"""90-95""""" time period only ...basically they just had to release some music during that time.


Atheist
Bolt Thrower
Jack Nitzsche
Steel Pole Bath Tub
Winter
Demolition Hammer
The Stone Roses
3 Mustaphas 3
Babes In Toyland
Drop Nineteens
Malevolent Creation
Milk Cult
Don Caballero
Hombres G
Shabba Ranks
The Sonics
urge overkill
Buzzov•en
Cranes-Shining Road
Nobukazu Takemura
Slowdive
Bomb The Bass
Disgust
Ini Kamoze
The Jayhawks
Lord Belial
Los Enanitos Verdes
Phil Phillips
Pupo-Gelato Al Cioccolato
Puya
Senser
Wayne Hancock
Ved buens ende
Southern Isolation
Poison Idea

A lot of those bands are (a) pretty well known and (b) not from the early 90s.

Who?

:laughing:

Axl Rose's band right?

Yep. The one he was in with Keith Richards.

i just said released music from 90-95 or being around during that time i know some prob started in the 80's but didnt feel like cross checking it to much work ....

and lets cee your list then i just thought this was a cool way to learn about lesser know bands of 90-95

I will have to check out The Stone Roses.

I don't get the point of making lists like the one in the first post. What's the point? I like to discuss music, not list names of bands and artists. If I wanted to inform people of lesser known bands from the 90s, I'd rather pick one or two per post and spend some time actually describing them.

Nirvana
Miles Davis
My friend's brother's hardcore band which was called Raze or something like that
Pink Floyd
Sergei Rachmaninoff
My other friend's punk band whose name I can't remember
Nitzer Ebb
Tracy Chapman

Norg, it would actually be pretty cool if you reviewed one album by each of those bands. It would be something people would be interested in reading. Consider it a challenge for yourself :)

The Sonics? Lolwut?
Seriously though, The Auteurs are crazy underrated compared to other Britpop bands. As are Ultrasound and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

well i wanted lists not reviews if i wanted reviews i would post something in the album review fourm ........


Nirvana ... Pink floyd ......................... ..........A lot of those bands are (a) VERY!! well known

Seriously?

Anyone know about that band Rage Against the Machine?

Yes so why did u post them ????

I didn't realize, thanks for letting me know.

Indian Summer.

The Sonics started in the 60's.

Nice one. I like that pick.

In that vain I'll add I Hate Myself to the list...since that's apparently all we are doing is listing bands from the early to mid 90s...

And for something completely opposite...

Cub
Tiger Trap
Go Sailor

I didn't get my first Jimi Hendrix cd until the 90s. He was from the 90s right?

:rofl:

my list is pretty much in my journal (which i've been avoiding for some reason)

I'm going to do your research for you....


10 minutes on wikipedia would have made your list and your prospective thread a lot sharper.

no i mean they artist had to release music around 90-95 thoes counted has well .....has well has new bands

Did the Sonics release music in the early 90s? I thought they broke up in the late 60s.

Brenoritvrezorkre

People should get off the OP's back, he even said in the beginning of the thread that the artists only had to release some music in the early 90's, not have started then or anything.

90's is possibly my favorite decade musically so I wouldn't mind being recommended any artists I haven't heard of and are worth checking out

Some under appreciated bands and albums of the '90's.

Morphine - Their entire discography but Cure for Pain (1993) is an absolute must for anyone who claims to love music of the '90's. Alternative jazzy blues rock without a guitar or distortion, yet just as relevant and important as any other alternative rock albums of that decade.

Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (1990) and Mexican Moon (1993)

This is another band that I don't think gets talked about nearly enough whenever someone brings up how awesome the '90's were. The fact that they're still going strong to this day indicates how strong they are as musicians. Some may blame them for the rise of female fronted hard rock/ goth rock acts, but they shouldn't pay the price just because some hack musicians heard them, and decided they wanted to be like them. Bloodletting is my personal favourite, but Mexican Moon has a strong follow too. Their 1986 self-titled album is something also worth looking into.

Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions (1990) - Pandemonium (1994) - Democracy (1996)

While they were in the same group as many of the other late '70's/ early '80's post-punk groups, Killing Joke have been going strong, and the '90's saw them transform into something wholly unto themselves. They still kept much of their post-punk/ goth rock stylings from their '80's material, but they updated it to keep up with the times, but not in a way that sounded like a sellout, but rather a way that allowed them to keep their integrity. They're really a band that deserves more than just the odd shout out every now and then, and their 3 albums that came out in the '90's really do a good job at encompassing the sound and mentality, but from an older, wiser perspective.

Jeru the Damaja - Wrath of the Math (1996) & The Sun Rises in the East (1994)

I think Jeru mostly gets overshadowed because his '94 debut came out the same year as Nas' Illmatic. It's a shame because I could see a lot of people who enjoy Nas also enjoy Jeru, and he does a good job of having something to say, while saying it in a manner that speaks to the widest possible audience. I wish he'd put out something new, to prove that he's not just some old burning star, but one still fresh and vibrant. You can really try either album, I haven't really ventured out to anything outside of these two, but I still think they're albums that need to be listened to.


The next few recommendations are going to be some Canadian stuff that never really broke out in the US.

NoMeansNo - Pretty much anything from the '90's

NoMeansNo are one of those infuriating bands that decided to put out a slew of amazing material with only a year or two between the releases, which means you're pretty much constantly playing catch up. I'd pretty much say start off with their '89 album Wrong and work your way up from there going in chronological order. When you're caught up, go back and check out their pre-Wrong material.

The Smalls - To Each a Zone (1992)

Easily one of Canada's hardest working bands that toured relentlessly and were renowned for putting on high energetic shows with a minimum of talking. I think all four of their albums are worth your time, but To Each a Zone is my personal favourite. It's heavy, fast, and unrelenting, yet it's thoughtful and well crafted that really helps me escape the trappings of so many other bands that were a little too heavy for alternative rock, but not heavy enough for metal. Think of them as doing what Queens of the Stone Age were doing a decade later.

The Gandharvas - Kicking in the Water (1995)

If my memory serves me correctly, they did actually have a music video for the song "Masochistic Minstrel" and it was filmed using claymation (like with Tool's "Sober"). The Gandharvas were another sad example of Canadian music failing to make it in the US market, and thus damning them to cult status in the US, but were relatively well known in Canada, much like The Tragically Hip. Good alternative rock, but they did kind of go out on a sour note with their 1997 album Sold For a Smile. Kicking in the Water is really the only album by them you need.

Barstool Prophets - Crank (1995) & Last of the Big Game Hunters (1997)

A lot like The Tragically Hip, with the more bluesy based song structure and lyrical content. Still the album Crank knows how to tell a story and write a straight forward rock song. I've heard Last of the Big Game Hunters is the better album, though I've never been able to find a copy of it.

Esthero - Breath From Another (1998)

The only album from her that's worth a damn. Decent trip hop laced with jazz aesthetics and some really relaxing vocals. It's just a shame her 2005 follow-up Wikked Lil' Grrls was complete crap.

Delerium - Karma (1997)

My personal favourite from the Vancouver based electronic/ world/ downtempo duo. Definitely their most accessible album, but don't go into expecting something like Aphex Twins or some other popular '90's electronic act.



Well I think that's enough for now.

^^^
A couple of bands I don't know there so I will go a hunting!

Good call on Morphine and Nomeansno.

Anyone who likes Morphine are advised to check out Karate.

Yes! One of my favorite subjects!

Do not forget Belly!... :bowdown: Tanya Donelly :love:





What about Matthew Sweet?!?! :thumb:

You're the only other person I've ever seen mention this band. I think they're fantastic, reminiscent of Jane's Addiction to me but still completely unique. Though I wouldn't call the last album a sour note, it's not as good as Kicking in the Water but it's not horrible. They also apparently released a live disc back in the day but I was never able to find a copy, though I did hear a live version of 'The First Day of Spring' once so it 'does' exist.

Good call on Esthero as well. The main reason for the divide in quality and direction of her output is the split with the producer from her first disc (some dude going by the name Doc). There were a few tracks on her latest that weren't horrible (or maybe just b-sides to her recent singles). I remember seeing them at a festival in '98 when their first single was peaking, they were really good (like a 7-8 piece band), and she's really tiny.

I haven't heard anything media wise weather that be on the radio or other mediums of promotion of the Red House Painters. They have some pretty brilliant music and I know absolutley no one who has given them the time of day. 'Red House Painters I' alone has to be one of my favorite albums of all time. I think these guys are pretty underrated and are overlooked. Overall there music is great.

This post needs to be in big letters because James speaks the truth.

I checked them all out. Loved each album.

Yay. Concrete Blonde. I haven't even seen "Joey" on VH1 Classic for a long time, but I could tell from that and the few other songs I heard that that was a good band. One of the best female-fronted alternative rock bands of all time.

I find the Red House Painters to be incredibly tedious. Their music is already slow and subtle...why the hell is that album so damn long? Half an hour in and I'm completely satisfied...I check how much more there is, see I still have close to an hour's worth, and decide I just can't handle it anymore.

As for me...

The Sundays - Fans of the Smiths should love these guys. Their albums Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic as well as Blind are really good.

Lush - Actually, these guys are a pretty well known shoegaze band, but I think they are underrated. Gala is great as well as their slightly-change-of-direction album Lovelife.

Pale Saints - Again, another band that gets some recognition around here but I still think deserves a mention. The Comforts of Madness is a classic.

Underworld - Not sure when these guys started, but some of their best work was done in the 90's. Some of the best electronic music every created. dubnobasswithmyheadman would be their classic 90's album. Oblivion With Bells is very recent, but its freaking GOOD.

Madder Rose - Some straight ahead guitar rock with a VERY 90's feel. Their album Panic On is a good listen.

Swirlies - We Spent Our Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons is required listening. If I had a list of the most underrated bands of all time, these guys would easily make top 3.