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Join us as we see how alt-rock evolved throughout the '90s as we take a deeper dive into the best alternative album of each year of the 1990s.

This alt-rock ska-punk outfit is still considered one of the very first progenitors of ska-punk, and their biggest claim to fame was the 1997 song “The Impression That I Get”.

This is one of a few albums from the 1990s that defined alt-rock, mainly in terms of how dark, gritty, self-indulgent, and well-produced an album could get. This 1994 release bridged the loose gap ...

The Replacements cleaned up (sort of), brought R.E.M.’s Peter Buck into the studio for a guest guitar solo, and made one of the greatest alternative rock albums of all time.