two thumbs up for the Fury in the Slaughterhouse album Mono, though I liked The Hearing and Sence of Balance more with tunes like Kiss the Judas, Hang the DJ, Radio Orchid, Every Generation Has Its Own Disease…….

nobody mentioned the Sponge abum Rotting Pinata, not a bad tune on it

Robbie Robertson – Robbie Robertson a haunting album end to end

Concrete Blonde – Concrete Blonde was a great disc if only for the tune ‘Dance Along the Edge’

The Darkness – Permission to Land , seems impossible nobody mentioned it, like them or not, it rocks big time

honourable mention to Dismemberment Plan – ‘Is Terrified’, Fiction Plane – “Everything Will Never Be OK”, Incubus is certainly a respectable band with “Fungus Amongus”, Spacehog – “Resident Alien”, Steve Earle – “Guitar Town”, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “Shake the Sheets”, Thomas Dolby – “The Aliens Ate My Buick”, best comeback album Tina Turner – “Private Dancer”, World Party – “Goodbye Jumbo”

be great to see more comments, huge FUN

Stompbox-Stress. Another Boston band. Released 1 album,and 1 EP. Hits hard. Like Helmet meets Soundgarden. Band broke up, but this masterpiece remains.

Morphine-Cure for Pain. Yet another Boston band. Use of saxophone, low rock sound yet to be duplicated.

The Chameleons-Strange Times. All 3 of the Chameleons albums could be on this list, but the epic Strange Times released in 1986 falls within the last 25 years. Swirling guitars of Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding, and the lyrics of Mark Burgess are incredible. Most unsung band of the 80′s

Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers-Coming Home. The ultimate bar band from the ultimate shot and beer town, Pittsburgh. The former frontman of the Iron City Houserockers made a strong comeback with this 1988 release Rock and Real, however I selected the 1998 album Coming Home. The closer “Innocence is Beautiful” is the greatest song about fatherhood ever penned. Bruce Springsteen never sounded so good.

Bevis Frond – What Did for the Dinosaurs (2002).

OR

Hit Squad by same

On his 14th album (not including compilations) in 18 years, Nick Saloman finds himself reassessing his career as one of the British psychedelic underground’s key figures,as both the leader and sole constant member of the Bevis Frond and as the publisher of the pioneering fanzine Ptolemaic Terrascope. WHAT DID FOR THE DINOSAURS is one of his most overtly autobiographical albums. In particular, the sardonic but ultimately defiant title track is Saloman’s grudging acceptance of his role as a musical throwback, set to one of his catchiest tunes. Other highlights include the album’s 14-minute closing track, “Dustbins in the Rain,” a vintage extended guitar jam of the type that often decorated the Bevis Frond’s early albums, and the attitude-heavy “Good Enough For You.”

http://www.amazon.com/What-Did-Dinosaurs-Bevis-Frond/dp/B000066E7H/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1281892033&sr=1-5

Vroys/ARE YOU THROUGH YET?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gqvz6Px92M

Connells/Ring
http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Connells/dp/B000000GPT/ref=pd_krex_shvl_2

Whiskeytown/Faithless Street
http://www.amazon.com/Faithless-Street-Whiskeytown/dp/B00000C2BX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1281298907&sr=1-1

Lonesome Bob/Things Fall Apart
http://www.myspace.com/lonesomebob

The Gourds/Dems Good Beeble, Stadium Blitzer or Shinebox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SunrKwykK_Y&feature=related
http://www.amazon.com/Shinebox-Gourds/dp/B00005NHNE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1281299636&sr=8-1

Trip Shakespeare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_Shakespeare

John Browns Body
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown‘s_Body

Rialto had an eponymous album in the late 90′s that did well in England, but didn’t stick here. They sound kind of like pre-psychedelic Beatles, except depressed. More hooks than a long-line trawler, and the lyrics drip with articulate self-hatred.

Metal is a good source of obscure greats, since the genre and bands don’t go away, they just go underground. God Forbid’s “Gone Forever” (2004) never got into the Billboard Top 200. Too bad. Bleak and thrashy, these are Jerseyites who do more than GTL (Gym, Tan, Laundry).

Trivium did chart on Billboard, for two weeks (peaked at 25 in 2006). They actually sing, a comparative rarity in the genre. Neck-snapping riffage and socially conscious lyrics round out the mis. Think of them as what Metallica could have been.

Terrell: On the Wings of Dirty Angels (1990) – [ did not chart ]

Rob Dougan: Furious Angels (2001) – [ 16 / Billboard Dance/Electronic ]

Boozoo Bajou: Dust My Broom (2005) – [ did not chart ]

Primal Scream: Screamadelica (1991) – [ did not chart ]

Scott Weiland: 12 Bar Blues (1998) – [ 42 / Billboard 200 ]

The Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003) – [ 39 / Billboard 200 ]

Stress: Stress (1991) – [ did not chart ]

Pere Ubu: Worlds in Collision (1991) – [ did not chart ]