10 Most Underrated Rock Songs Of The 90s

10. Honey Bee - Tom Petty

Most classic rock stalwarts would have killed to have had the career that Tom Petty had in the '90s. Not many other acts can claim to have been stars in the '70s and continued to ride the tide and have hits two decades later. While Wildflowers is seen as a career highlight for most Petty fans, the deep cut Honey Bee brings it back to much more gritty territory.

Compared to the usual acoustic sounds throughout this solo record, this is the kind of down and dirty blues track that is made for the garage rock circuit. Starting off with a fireball of a guitar lick, Petty is on full rock star mode for this one, as he approaches the metaphor of a honey bee with a kind of swagger that you would normally see from someone like Mick Jagger in his prime.

Aside from a few TV appearances though, this track was largely ignored by the public, wanting to hear something more like You Wreck Me. Although playing it on Saturday Night Live with future Foo Fighter Dave Grohl certainly didn't hurt its chances of being remembered. Out of all the classic rock schlock that was happening around the same time, this is the kind of gritty rock and roll that the Stones wish they could have been making at this stage of their evolution.