10 Most Underrated Rock Albums Of The 90s

10. Insomniac - Green Day

After the grunge melodrama faded from memory, Green Day had become one of the next big voices of rock with Dookie. Any other band that has a record with that much star power and timeless songs would probably just want to milk the formula for all it's worth, right? Not necessarily. When it came to the next album, Green Day got to the studio with a definite axe to grind on Insomniac.

Right as Dookie started to blow up, the band's original fanbase in California started to call them sellouts and openly boycotted them appearing at any of the local shows. You can really hear that frustration of staying a true punk band on this album, especially with the guitars sounding a lot more crunchy than most were probably expecting out of the guys who wrote songs like When I Come Around.

The topics on here are a lot darker as well, talking about addiction to crystal meth on Geek Stink Breath and also confronting the fan discourse on the song 86. There are also a few more twists and turns in the instrumentals, from Mike Dirnt's precision and stamina opening Panic Song and toying around with connecting songs on Brain Stew and Jaded. You can call what Green Day was doing pop punk, but don't you dare forget that they are still focused on the punk side of that conversation.