10 More Perfect Grunge Albums With No Bad Songs

This next entry might surprise you. Brad was another group who emerged in Seattle during the early '90s, but they stand apart from many of their contemporaries. Far less heavy and far more soulful, they're one of the few groups who didn't cash in on the commercial grunge sound in order to make it big.

The opening number Buttercup sounds nothing like anything you've heard on this list so far. It's slow, melodic and tender. They quickly change tack, jumping headlong into My Fingers; a song that sounds like a jangle-pop number smothered in fuzzy Seattle attitude. Things take a soulful turn with Screen, another song that feels a world away from Sound Garden or Alice In Chains. It contains one of the more enjoyable and distinctive solos of the era. It's melodic and hauntingly mournful while at the same time, completely erratic and wild.

Vocalist Shawn Smith had a voice with a confusing quality; at times he sung with the kind of inflection more reminiscent of acts like Jamiroquai or New Radicals, particularly on 20th Century. But, on Down he was able to channel sounds more inline with Chris Cornell. The result was an album of varying styles, vaguely reminiscent of a number of acts, while staying distinctly unique.