10 Perfect Post Grunge Albums In Rock Music History

Any band that chose to identify as post grunge probably didn't want to break any new ground. It's right there in the title of the genre that almost half of what you do is just cribbing notes from your favorite bands that came out 5 years before you even thought about picking up a guitar. In the case of Failure, they were there at the start of grunge and knew exactly where to go once the first wave started to die.

After making some solid rock on their first two albums, Fantastic Planet is where everything started to come together, taking the drony sounding guitar effects and adding in layers of ambient noise that made the whole thing sound like it was floating on air. Aside from the effects though, that album title is not a joke either, with most of these songs being the first few instances of space rock to come out of the '90s.

Just like people claimed that someone like the Edge made the first futuristic sounding guitar lines, the opening piano keys of Stuck On You still feels like you're being transported into a different galaxy. Adding the slightest dashes of bands like Sonic Youth and Nirvana, Failure created a masterpiece with this album that took a look at what rock and roll could sound like from other planets. Angels and Airwaves and 30 Seconds to Mars still live in the shadow of what this album started.