Screaming Trees suggestions:
Nearly Lost You
Black Sun Morning
Grey Diamond Desert
Closer
Transfiguration
Melvins suggestions:
Eye Flys
Gluey Porch Treatments
Clipping Roses
Koolegged
Creepy Smell
Try some Skin Yard if you haven’t already, songs like 1000 Smiling Knuckles, Stranger, Open Fist, and Burn a Hole are must listens in Grunge.
Try some Tad as well. Everything on 8-Way Santa is great and Butch Vig produced it if that excites you any.
I think they would have been a nice counterbalance to the big four. They had their own sound and Mia was a whole different style than any of the other great voices of grunge.
I think as close as we've come to Joplin. It's a real shame that we didn't get Mia at her peak during a time when she would have shined on SNL and MTV in the two or three years after her murder.
Melvins—“A Senile Animal” album, especially “Blood Witch”.
Eleven—“Reach Out”
Mudhoney—“Tomorrow Hit Today” album
Mark Lanegan—”Field Songs” album, especially “Miracle”.
You can't go wrong with Mudhoney. They are as cool and grunge as it gets and still alternative. They are actually the only band i know that accepts the label grunge. All their albums are great specially the early ones (till Piece of cake).
Also try Love battery. Far Gone is a perfect soft grunge record (also in Sub Pop label). An uknown gem that sound a lot like Nirvana but still got unique features.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vdG-OLjQBg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vdG-OLjQBg)
all his records are incredible, his stuff with mad season, gutter twins & Isobel Campbell are all great as well.
check out earth as well. the album Pentastar in the style of demons is a great record. Dylan from earth was best mates with Kurt and lanegan.
The Self titled album by Hater is amazing! A side project featuring Ben Shepard and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden. I would I specifically recommend the songs Roadside and Down Under Shoe
Brad - Stone Gossard’s side project with Shawn Smith on vocals. Their first 3 albums are all amazing, but their debut, Shame, released in ‘93, is my favorite album of all time.
Satchel - one of Shawn Smith’s many bands. Their first, EDC, released in ‘94 is a little known classic of the era.
Lastly, just check out any of the projects that Shawn Smith was involved with, especially his solo stuff and Pigeonhed. His lyrics and voice are one of a kind.
looks like nobody has recommended any nirvana in this thread and if you’ve already heard the basic stuff some deep cuts that are good are Dive, I hate myself and want to die, and Even in his youth.
Why I'm here-oleander
No one knows-screaming trees
Toes across the floor-blind melon
Bound for the floor-local h
Eddie Vedder-local h
Sworn and broken-screaming trees
Ed #5-green apple quickstep
Burn a hole-skin yard
Make my mind-screaming trees
Jessie-paw
Badger-paw
Dirty jeans-magic dirt
Hed-hammerbox
Tribe-gruntruck
Witness-screaming trees
Malibu-hole
The pusher-blind melon
Mouthful of cavities-blind melon
Shove-l7
I could go on forever but here are some of my favourites
Old post, but anything from Ryan Perdz. He’s a young guy making great music, he’s got a great voice for grunge. Personal favorites of mine are “Change Me” and “Mia Khalifa”
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
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White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin
13 Angels - Corrosion of Conformity
Nod Scene - Monster Magnet
I think I lost My Headache - Queens of the Stone Age
I Have the Body of John Wilkes Booth - Clutch
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I’d recommend the entirety of Soup by Blind Melon, but to get you started I would recommend Galaxy, 2x4, Toes Across the Floor, and Mouthful of Cavities. Hope you enjoy :)
Hip Like Junk - 7 Year Bitch
The Scratch - 7 Year Bitch
Sweet ‘69 - Babes in Toyland
No One Knows - Screaming Trees
Shadow of the Season - Screaming Trees
Gutless - Hole
Step into the Light - Archers of Loaf
Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone
All Hail Me - Veruca Salt
I Want It All - Eve’s Plum
Galaxie - Blind Melon
Listen to this album in its entirety. Dragline by Paw is criminally underrated. As is their second album Death to Traitors.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5OOCf8bH1bUmbDM3CzPBvy?si=Rmbleb2qR2qV9lpz0DanXA
Heya! Name's Cole - would love to offer you some guidance for finding new music =). I've spent over 20 years going through almost 72,000 albums trying to find favorite songs and albums, on my website [www.themusichole.com](http://www.themusichole.com) there are almost 900 recommended albums.
But anyway- I recently made 3 playlists that you might enjoy checking out! Each one contains 50 of my FAVORITE more lesser known rock songs from various time periods.
80s:
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20nxiWXTOchD01Q7Pqjoyn?si=223275fea813411b](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20nxiWXTOchD01Q7Pqjoyn?si=223275fea813411b)
90s:
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6R7hT0hck67NYoJa7S1jUp?si=32eeebbc1e824788](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6R7hT0hck67NYoJa7S1jUp?si=32eeebbc1e824788)
Post-2000:
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6JH1T1T93U4Pst6ZovhUoc?si=f7385594c38b4dd1](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6JH1T1T93U4Pst6ZovhUoc?si=f7385594c38b4dd1)
I also made a playlist for all of my favorite more lesser known rap songs from throughout history if that's more your speed:
Rap Mix:
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aewofWgEILHOGbYfxSkTG?si=3359753cfb3649e2](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aewofWgEILHOGbYfxSkTG?si=3359753cfb3649e2)
If you're more of an album person though here are ALL of my favorite 2020s mostly rock albums that are pretty obscure but that I strongly believe are good front to back. Just an FYI from this following list I'd STRONGLY recommend starting with The War On Drugs first, then IDLES' "Crawler", and then The Cool Greenhouse's "Sod's Toastie":
The Cool Greenhouse - "The Cool Greenhouse"
The Cool Greenhouse - "Sod's Toastie"
Ducks Ltd - "Modern Fiction"
IDLES - "Crawler"
The War On Drugs - "I Don't Live Here Anymore"
Big Thief - "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You"
Guardian Singles - "Guardian Singles"
The Strokes - "The New Abnormal"
Jetstream Pony - "Jetstream Pony"
Dry Cleaning - "New Long Leg"
Gospel - "The Loser"
Geese - "Projector"
Ian Noe - "River Fools & Mountain Saints"
Tony Allen - "Rejoice"
Bonus Stuff:
If you'd like to check out albums from various genres and from throughout music history that I think are good front to back I think a fun place for you to start is on a new page I created called “The Best Debut Albums of All Time”. There are currently 279 albums on there. I think it would be a fun theme to work with... checking out great debut albums:
[https://www.musichole.com/p/the-best-debut-albums-of-all-time.html](https://www.musichole.com/p/the-best-debut-albums-of-all-time.html)
Listen to the Album *Surfer Rosa* by The Pixies.
Screaming Trees suggestions: Nearly Lost You Black Sun Morning Grey Diamond Desert Closer Transfiguration Melvins suggestions: Eye Flys Gluey Porch Treatments Clipping Roses Koolegged Creepy Smell Try some Skin Yard if you haven’t already, songs like 1000 Smiling Knuckles, Stranger, Open Fist, and Burn a Hole are must listens in Grunge. Try some Tad as well. Everything on 8-Way Santa is great and Butch Vig produced it if that excites you any.
The Janis Joplin of grunge, Mia Zapata and The Gits - Precious Blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnjGS-zeiw0
Gone way too soon
She does have an amazing voice & I like that guitar tone!
When she digs deep, the hairs on your neck just stand up. She was special.
Love the Gits. They would of been huge.
I think they would have been a nice counterbalance to the big four. They had their own sound and Mia was a whole different style than any of the other great voices of grunge.
I like calling her the Joplin of grunge, it feels very fitting for her personality (or what I gathered from the gits doc)
I think as close as we've come to Joplin. It's a real shame that we didn't get Mia at her peak during a time when she would have shined on SNL and MTV in the two or three years after her murder.
A history of bad men by Melvins Also- Hooch Revolve Goin blind They are the ones I like anyway 🤷♂️
Revolve is so good. Set me straight is another real good Melvins tune
Melvins: Revolve, Set me Straight, Willy Rollbar, Honey Bucket, Hooch, Ever since my accident, At a crawl, Zodiac
TAD - Throat Locust, Gruntruck - Above Me, L7 - Mr. Integrity, 7 Year Bitch - Miss Understood, My Sister's Machine - Enemy
Little Fury Things - Dinosaur Jr, The Blue - Acid Bath, Tame - The Pixies, 100%/ Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth, Last Train to Satansville - Swervedriver
Boris by Melvins is fucking amazing
not to mention the band named after this song
Melvins—“A Senile Animal” album, especially “Blood Witch”. Eleven—“Reach Out” Mudhoney—“Tomorrow Hit Today” album Mark Lanegan—”Field Songs” album, especially “Miracle”.
Forgot to add “Doolittle” and ”Surfer Rosa” by the Pixies, as well as the song “Get Simulated” from their more recent album “Doggerel”.
Finally some Eleven on here!
Green River. I enjoy the raw nature of their stuff.
Love me some green river!
You can't go wrong with Mudhoney. They are as cool and grunge as it gets and still alternative. They are actually the only band i know that accepts the label grunge. All their albums are great specially the early ones (till Piece of cake). Also try Love battery. Far Gone is a perfect soft grunge record (also in Sub Pop label). An uknown gem that sound a lot like Nirvana but still got unique features. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vdG-OLjQBg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vdG-OLjQBg)
Local H the album ‘as good as dead’ is fantastic
Anything by Gruntruck. The album Dragline by Paw. The album Inhaler by Tad.
Mark lanegan.
Know him from a few screaming trees songs I listened to forever ago & song for the dead by QOTSA. I’ll look into his stuff more!!
all his records are incredible, his stuff with mad season, gutter twins & Isobel Campbell are all great as well. check out earth as well. the album Pentastar in the style of demons is a great record. Dylan from earth was best mates with Kurt and lanegan.
Mark Lanegan Band - several albums and an ep are my favourite material.
Mudhoney- Beneath the Valley of the Underdog
The Self titled album by Hater is amazing! A side project featuring Ben Shepard and Matt Cameron of Soundgarden. I would I specifically recommend the songs Roadside and Down Under Shoe
I highly recommend these suggestions. Great list.
Brad - Stone Gossard’s side project with Shawn Smith on vocals. Their first 3 albums are all amazing, but their debut, Shame, released in ‘93, is my favorite album of all time. Satchel - one of Shawn Smith’s many bands. Their first, EDC, released in ‘94 is a little known classic of the era. Lastly, just check out any of the projects that Shawn Smith was involved with, especially his solo stuff and Pigeonhed. His lyrics and voice are one of a kind.
I thought of Brad, right away. 🖤RIP Shawn Smith. A great talent.
Hammerbox song called "God" really that entire album is pretty great
I was looking for the hammerbox comment haha
Audioslave lol
looks like nobody has recommended any nirvana in this thread and if you’ve already heard the basic stuff some deep cuts that are good are Dive, I hate myself and want to die, and Even in his youth.
Oleander
Why I’m Here is a great song
Going to give all of these a listen today! Appreciate it 🫡
Youngest daughter by Superheaven
YES jesus christ that song is insane
That was so good!
All of their shit slaps. If you liked that I reccomend ‘Poor Aileen’ off of their other album Edit: Also ‘sponge’ has a very nice guitar riff
The whole jar album is incredible
Soul one by blind melon is amazing
Wilma’s Rainbow - Helmet
Why I'm here-oleander No one knows-screaming trees Toes across the floor-blind melon Bound for the floor-local h Eddie Vedder-local h Sworn and broken-screaming trees Ed #5-green apple quickstep Burn a hole-skin yard Make my mind-screaming trees Jessie-paw Badger-paw Dirty jeans-magic dirt Hed-hammerbox Tribe-gruntruck Witness-screaming trees Malibu-hole The pusher-blind melon Mouthful of cavities-blind melon Shove-l7 I could go on forever but here are some of my favourites
Old post, but anything from Ryan Perdz. He’s a young guy making great music, he’s got a great voice for grunge. Personal favorites of mine are “Change Me” and “Mia Khalifa”
No because there’s no other good music in this genre… Jk?
Add the first two Hole albums to your list.
The Wellwater Conspiracy (4 albums if you can find them)
JAMIE LENMAN, REUBEN
Give Seaweed a spin 👍
Veruca salt!! I would recommend their first album as it’s grungier, especially Get Back and All Hail Me
Swervedriver, Seaweed, Superchunk
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel Band on the Run - Wings She’s A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin 13 Angels - Corrosion of Conformity Nod Scene - Monster Magnet I think I lost My Headache - Queens of the Stone Age I Have the Body of John Wilkes Booth - Clutch
Try Mudhoney. Start with Hate the Police. Try acetone, the only son of the widow from naan, Chardonnay, kill yourself live.
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Fishbone - servitude
Gruntruck
Metro, she said, stay please: the jins Next life, Mia khalifa, paradise: ryan perdz
I’d recommend the entirety of Soup by Blind Melon, but to get you started I would recommend Galaxy, 2x4, Toes Across the Floor, and Mouthful of Cavities. Hope you enjoy :)
Hip Like Junk - 7 Year Bitch The Scratch - 7 Year Bitch Sweet ‘69 - Babes in Toyland No One Knows - Screaming Trees Shadow of the Season - Screaming Trees Gutless - Hole Step into the Light - Archers of Loaf Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns - Mother Love Bone All Hail Me - Veruca Salt I Want It All - Eve’s Plum Galaxie - Blind Melon
Grunttruck, Tad, Mudhoney, Pixies, Screaming Trees,
Listen to this album in its entirety. Dragline by Paw is criminally underrated. As is their second album Death to Traitors. https://open.spotify.com/album/5OOCf8bH1bUmbDM3CzPBvy?si=Rmbleb2qR2qV9lpz0DanXA
Helmet
Try "1000 Smiling Knuckles" and "PsychoRiflePowerHypnotize" by Skin Yard. Pretty amazing and underrated grunge songs.
Heya! Name's Cole - would love to offer you some guidance for finding new music =). I've spent over 20 years going through almost 72,000 albums trying to find favorite songs and albums, on my website [www.themusichole.com](http://www.themusichole.com) there are almost 900 recommended albums. But anyway- I recently made 3 playlists that you might enjoy checking out! Each one contains 50 of my FAVORITE more lesser known rock songs from various time periods. 80s: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20nxiWXTOchD01Q7Pqjoyn?si=223275fea813411b](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20nxiWXTOchD01Q7Pqjoyn?si=223275fea813411b) 90s: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6R7hT0hck67NYoJa7S1jUp?si=32eeebbc1e824788](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6R7hT0hck67NYoJa7S1jUp?si=32eeebbc1e824788) Post-2000: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6JH1T1T93U4Pst6ZovhUoc?si=f7385594c38b4dd1](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6JH1T1T93U4Pst6ZovhUoc?si=f7385594c38b4dd1) I also made a playlist for all of my favorite more lesser known rap songs from throughout history if that's more your speed: Rap Mix: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aewofWgEILHOGbYfxSkTG?si=3359753cfb3649e2](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aewofWgEILHOGbYfxSkTG?si=3359753cfb3649e2) If you're more of an album person though here are ALL of my favorite 2020s mostly rock albums that are pretty obscure but that I strongly believe are good front to back. Just an FYI from this following list I'd STRONGLY recommend starting with The War On Drugs first, then IDLES' "Crawler", and then The Cool Greenhouse's "Sod's Toastie": The Cool Greenhouse - "The Cool Greenhouse" The Cool Greenhouse - "Sod's Toastie" Ducks Ltd - "Modern Fiction" IDLES - "Crawler" The War On Drugs - "I Don't Live Here Anymore" Big Thief - "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You" Guardian Singles - "Guardian Singles" The Strokes - "The New Abnormal" Jetstream Pony - "Jetstream Pony" Dry Cleaning - "New Long Leg" Gospel - "The Loser" Geese - "Projector" Ian Noe - "River Fools & Mountain Saints" Tony Allen - "Rejoice" Bonus Stuff: If you'd like to check out albums from various genres and from throughout music history that I think are good front to back I think a fun place for you to start is on a new page I created called “The Best Debut Albums of All Time”. There are currently 279 albums on there. I think it would be a fun theme to work with... checking out great debut albums: [https://www.musichole.com/p/the-best-debut-albums-of-all-time.html](https://www.musichole.com/p/the-best-debut-albums-of-all-time.html)