What are some obscure alternative hits from the early 90's?

"Very Best Years," The Grays
"Lie on Lie," Chalkfarm
"Here and Now," Letters to Cleo
"I'm Allowed," Buffalo Tom
"Web in Front," Archers of Loaf
"Boring," (?) Denzil
"Watch the Girl Destroy Me," Possum Dixon

...That's a good start, hopefully.

Thanks d00ds. Some of these songs arent terrible.

(well, obscure at the time)

also,
Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life (sounds just like Two Princes)
Breeders - cannonball
The Odds - Eat My Brain(so good)

Candlebox, "You"

These suggestions may be a little skewed because I consider nearly every alt.rock MTV-friendly hit from that time "forgotten" in some sense. Perhaps if I still listened to rock radio, things would be different.

(NB The Spin Doctors' "Two Princes" was anything but obscure! It was bloody massive! and so AWFUL it made me want to stick forks in my ears.)

Wax -- Southern California

Local H -- THe Kids are Right

Soul Asylum -- Misery, Somebody To Shove, Just Like Anyone (Starring Claire Danes!!)

Sponge -- Molly

Filter -- Hey Man Nice Shot

Flaming Lips -- She Don't Use Jelly

Faith No More -- We Care A Lot, Epic

Screaming Trees -- Nearly Lost You

Len -- Steal My Sunshine

Sneaker Pimps -- Six Underground

Verve Pipe -- THe Freshman

"Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"
"Happy Birthday to Me"

Try....

"Ten Dollar Bill" by Cop Shoot Cop
"Heterosexual Male" by the Odds
"Annie's Gone" by Redd Kross
"13th Disciple" by the 5:30

Some mo'....

"Stay" by Shakespeare's Sister
"Something Good" by Utah Saints

But he also said "forgotten," and that kinda covers a lot of territory. Plus he cited "Two Princes" as an example.

Out-obscure that one ya fukkas :)

- The Pale Saints' cover of "Kinky Love"
- "Paradise" by Birdland
- "I'd Sell My Soul to God" by Passion Fodder

"Ten Dollar Bill" by Cop Shoot Cop

Haha, Jackie Brambles made that single of the week on the Radio 1 mid-morning show.

Y'all are AMATEURS.

Dan, I kiss you. I found that on an unlabelled mixtape the other day and have been tearing my hair out trying to remember who sang it.

How the heck are Roxette obscure? Or alternative?

What about Push The Little Daisies by Ween?

how come nobody's mentioned "french disko"?

Tripping Daisy "I Got A Girl"

These 1990-91 KROQ charts are making me unexplicably sad.

That Dog "Hey Old Timer"

Got a good one: The Clarks - "Madeline"

Lush "Hypocrite"
Morphine "I'm Free Now"
Babes in Toyland "Bruise Violet"
Meat Puppets "Backwater"

It's actually Living Colour, not Living Color.

My choice for obscure alternative "hit" would be:

"If You See Kay" by The Poster Children

Hi I'm looking to find the name of this song and the group who sang it. They only had two hit songs back in '95. I vaguely remember the lyrics which went like this: "Hold back the (rose?,so that the others may go. Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

Paraffin by Ruby :)

and I forgot to mention
Three Little Pigs
By Green Jelly
(Originally Green Jello)

Mother Mother by Tracy Bonham

Jars of Clay "Flood" and Stone Roses "Love Spreads" even though they are christian songs

Love Spreads is not a Christian song!

"Who Sucked Out the Feeling" - Superdrag
most... annoying... song... ever

the worst is that horrible, forced, gutteral, grating "FEEEEEEELLLLINGGG." How terrible is that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-s8I3BHIE

Hi I'm looking to find the name of this song and the group who sang it. They only had two hit songs back in '95. I vaguely remember the lyrics which went like this: "Hold back the (rose?,so that the others may go. Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

― Jam90s, Monday, March 1, 2010 2:15 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Two years too late but this is Shudder To Think's "X-French T-Shirt"

Imperial Drag - "Boy Or A Girl"
Shonen Knife - "Riding On The Rocket"
Greta - "Fathom"
Paw - "Jessie"
Toadies - "I Come From The Water" & "Possum Kingdom"
Sunscreem - "Love You More"
Quicksand - "Dine Alone" & "Thorn In My Side"
Jennifer Trynin - "Better Than Nothing"
Magnapop - "Slowly, Slowly"
Velocity Girl - "Sorry Again"
Ass Ponys - "Little Bastard"
Civ - "Can't Wait One Minute More"

"Seven Mary Three. Can't remember the name of the song, but it may have been the worst song of the 90's. Hootie and the Blowfish, too.
That would be the godawful "Cumbersome", which was only slightly more irritaing than the work of Collective Soul."

Pretty much every song by Collective Soul. Great band, don't know why this guy has to hate on them.

Ohhhh, man, I was looking in vain for this thread the other day.

Dog's Eye View - "Everything Falls Apart"
MC 900 Ft. Jesus - "If I Only Had A Brain"
Life, Sex & Death - "Tank"
Animal Bag - "Everybody"
Tragically Hip - "Courage"
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - "Bittersweet"
Abra Moore - "Four Leaf Clover"
K's Choice - "Not An Addict"
Days Of The New - "Touch, Peel & Stand"
Tonic - "Open Up Your Eyes"
Forest For The Trees - "Dream"
Verve Pipe - "Photograph"
Stabbing Westward - "What Do I Have To Do"
Patti Rothberg - "Inside"
Imperial Teen - "You're One"
Gravity Kills - "Guilty"
Heather Nova - "Walk This World"

And the other Seven Mary Three single I had forgotten, "Water's Edge".

God, some of this stuff is so, so bad. And yet I revisit it regularly.

O damn, "Not An Addict"

preach it, wipefeetnmat!

I wonder why the lead singer of Collective Soul chose that particular username.

the definition of 'obscure' sure has changed in the 'oral histories for all' era

'Obscure' is naturally going to be a rather loose definition when used in conjunction with 'hits', alternative or otherwise. I'd prefer 'largely forgotten'.

Reigndance - "Lazy Bones"
Rebecca Blasband - "Mr. Sunshine"

Late 90s rather than early but this is a jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXOo3e_BIg

Yeah, I went a little mid-to-late-mid-'90s with some of my selections but was going for anything with that Alternative Nation vibe even if the video for the given song wasn't ever technically introduced or back announced by Kennedy.

I think Fig Dish still qualify, in as much that they don't get talked about and are kinda good, terrible name though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwUI9FBAjJc

Deacon Blue: "Your Town" https://youtu.be/Xf8gm7ou-YY

I was gonna suggest Dink's "Green Mind" but I just listened to it for the first time since the 90s and it's so bad I refuse to link it. At least the Deacon Blue tune sounds like something that would show up in a Michael Mann or Tony Scott movie.

Also, on that godawful "Cumbersome" song: the album whence it sprang was called American Standard. I only remember this because http://www.americanstandard-us.com/bathroom-products/toilets/

Oh and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGaX9lWBTMQ

Was this big outside of college radio? That's the only place I ever heard it.

I guess college radio was big in and of itself though wasn't it.

Also xxxxxxxpost Heather Nova has a gorgeous voice and I will probably always buy whatever she does.

The Only Living Boy in New Cross was a Top Ten hit in the UK.

It certainly sounds like it.

Unrelated, I feel a Course of Empire binge coming on.

"Mother Mother by Tracy Bonham"

Saw her play finally relent and play this while opening for a touring Blue Man Group show after the crowd wouldn't even clap for her then-new album (2008ish?)

Mary's Danish - "Don't Crash The Car Tonight"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaCSZHw5lS8

xpost. Tracy Bonham was the music teacher at my son's school in 2013.

Anyway, also this Mary's Danish track, which I still like a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtJLC65zIk

Green Apple Quick Step "Los Vargos"

Sky Cries Mary "Shipwrecked"
The Frogs "Starboy"
Nixons "Sister"

Smile, "Staring at the Sun"

Who covered "Temptation Eyes" in the late 90's/early 2000s? It was in the indie/college music. Kinda sounds like a brass band playing with Molly's Yes or Gin Blossums.

Blake Babies

Oh wait no, I incorrectly assumed Blake Babies because thread is for early '90s alt rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maz6jFdvn2Q

Every time I hear it I'm like 'christ, how did I forget about this awful song that was in constant rotation for a decent stretch of time?' and then I immediately forget about it again once it's over.

There couldn't be a less memorable song!

When I saw the thread title, I thought of these three, all of which got a decent amount of airplay on my local alt-rock station in the early 90s:

E - Hello Cruel World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYSl3PblyU

Lloyd Cole - She's a Girl and I'm a Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hGy7cBRNM

Freedy Johnston - Bad Reputation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQBuFNt65U

I think about "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" by Whale not infrequently.

It's rare that I suddenly recall a long-lost alternasingle from this era and think 'how could I possibly have forgotten such a good song?'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VTBam8YzQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJhulZ0zR58

Little Bastard, of course! Never heard that Rugburns song, but when I moved to San Diego I kept running into people who tried to sell me on Steve Poltz.

Came here to post The Caulfields' "Devil's Diary," but someone did it sixteen years ago. Still will...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0eDZIyfbI

Never cared for much of the rest of their records (singing is generally useless) but this riff is all time -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PugwqtNSwco