1990 First Album Mystery Band??? My God, a ton of interesting bands that year.

 Somebody on the radio channel I listen to, this month, said that before the Cranberries, but similar to the Cranberries, a band put out a debut album in 1990, and it was pretty darn good. Also hinted they were less well known. 

Who the heck is it? 

Cranberries out of Ireland

The Breeders: part Pixies, Part Throwing Muses (Belly)

Can't be the obvious Breeders debut Pod in 1990. Too easy, too well known. So who then? 

Don't tell me I have to comb through this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1990_debut_albums

Surely it can't be:

Ani DiFranco, Tone Dogs (related to Soundgarden drummer), The Lightning Seeds (forgot about them), Boss Hog (see wikip, sound insane but I like the name and album name "Brood X" a cicada reference around 2016),  

JELLYFISH ?, 

Teenage Fanclub? - Scottish pop rock. 

The Heart Throbs? - British indie rock

Pale Saints - British alt rock shoegaze

Cop Shoot Cop - cult following, MTV etc., Industrial and Noise. Hmmm.

The Servants - Disinterest album, Brit, Mojo chart puts top of best indie albums ever. Why the heck not on Spotify? 

The Grid - electronic Brit, still making music

Energy Orchard - N. Ireland - folk and punk

Breakfast With Amy - Influenced by early U2 and Echo and the Bunnymen

The Divine Comedy - still making music, N. Irish, rock + strings + horns

Cherry Poppin Daddies - remember them? Still touring.

Eden (Australian Band) - some goth and synth from Australia? Lots of albums. 

Ween - the goofy nutters. Didn't know they had a DemonGod mascot called Boognish. And why is their 2nd album called "The Pod" a year after Breeders' had "Pod". On purpose you know it. 

The Jesus Lizard - Noise rock, apparently first two albums are something.

Tribe - Alt rock. from Boston. Also interesting a few of these have a "debut in 1990", but then in another place it has a debut album in the late 1980s.

Hindu Love Gods - R.E.M. side project ppl.

Power of Dreams - Irish pop rock, still active.

Eyehategod - New orleans Sludge Metal. They know Pantera right? 

No Use for a Name - punk band.

Winter - doom metal. And this label, Southern Lords, has this funny picture of Greg Anderson and Sunn o, two guys dressed up like mages with their hoods up playing music. Like the look. 

The La's - English rock. So... the funky apostrophe that confuses the world over all normal apostrophes appears here. 

Warrior Soul - still active. Somebody compared them to Nirvana, but not nihilistic. Hmm. 

Vic Chestnut - R.E.M. Stipe found him, promoted. Fugazi guy apparently admired. Paralyzed.

His Name is Alive - some experimental guitar(?) guy, gets new singers all the time. 

Red Rockers - old punk ->new wave band from nola, members then joined other bands. 

Raindogs - Celtic + rock. Made up of partially Red Rockers. (Holy cow, Spotify has every RainDogs combo but these dudes). 

Silly Wizard - folk band from Scotland. 

Ass Ponys - alternative country. Country rock. OK. 

Lightwave - ambient and electronic.

Christina Agular - Thai singer, not the other one. First Thai singer to have a plat album or something. 

Anything Box - Synth band. 

Learned this from wikipedia:

0.1 Cenobite is a religious title or something similar. 

0.2 Cenobita is a Mexican industrial band, influenced by Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. 

1. Noise Rock, uses guitar distortions, etc. for percussion and such. 

2. Soundgarden was influenced by Butthole Surfers?!

3. Butthole Surfers, the 2 main dudes, were an accountant and an MBA student. What?

4. Technical Death Metal, is a genre of music. They have one great album art for Nocturnus, The Key:

"While noise rock has never had any mainstream popularity, the raw, distorted and feedback-intensive sound of some noise rock bands had an influence on shoegaze, which enjoyed some popularity in the 90s, especially in the UK, and grunge, the most commercially successful. Among them are Wisconsin's Killdozer, Chicago's Big Black, and most notably San Francisco's Flipper, a band known for its slowed-down and murky "noise punk". The Butthole Surfers' mix of punk, heavy metal and noise rock was a major influence, particularly on the early work of Soundgarden.^[18]"