10 Most Underrated Rock Songs Of The 90s

A lot of the sounds of the '90s can't really claim to have survived the decade by the end. As much as the grunge sounds felt new and exciting back then, the oncoming slew of post grunge acts coming down the pipeline later have made everything sound faded and dated as the years go on. Even when things were becoming a bit too beige from a sonic perspective, Stuck On You by Failure came out sounding like the future of rock.

Being as much informed by bands like Sonic Youth as they were about Pearl Jam, this one song feels like the blueprint for what would become space rock just a few years later, with a synth line that sounds like you've been transported to the head of a motherboard on a spacecraft. That's before the song really kicks in though, brandishing the same kind of crunch of a rock song with the melody focus of a more pop centric act.

Taking a few sonic left turns here and there, this is the equivalent of if Nirvana had been given the equipment of Radiohead and told to make their best interpretation of a Pink Floyd song, which is way better than the genre car crash that it probably implies. With 30 Seconds to Mars and Angels and Airwaves still cribbing bits and pieces from this one song alone, Stuck On You is still one of the most underrated songs when it comes to how much it's influenced in the years since.