Sex Panther said:

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I'm not sure I know exactly what qualifies as an "Obscure Tier III 90's Song"... but I do know this ain't one

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Only a 167 million plays on Spotify, this and ordinary world were played non stop when they came out .

Shawn Mullins - Shimmer
This followed his hit "Lullaby"

This song would be representative of the OP's intent for me. I don't care if ween had some cult following, this song SUCKS.

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Sea Speed said:

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That one song by local H

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Ha, pretty much where my head also goes, and also no one remembers the title

However, Song 2 is hardly obscure.

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It was epic in the trailer for the movie Chasing Mavericks.

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Loved Helmet. Saw them at Liberty Lunch in Austin. I think they're touring this year

I don't know if anybody outside of Austin or Dallas ever heard of them but I saw Soak at The Backroom in Austin in the mid 1990s.

Their song Shutter Gut (Caroline) was a decent hit and the instrumental part still occasionally shows up on radio as bumper music.

I remember that song. Had not thought of Soak in forever!!

Pahdz said:

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That one song by local H

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Ha, pretty much where my head also goes, and also no one remembers the title

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Bound to the floor. Oddly enough a good friend asked me the other day as it came across his playlist while we were driving if I could name what he thought was an obscure song. Loved that album back in college so he was shocked when I immediately knew it

When I got the album I was blown away it was only 2 dudes.

True, but I'd classify it as tier III.

Cheating a bit as this is 80's, but to this day it's one of my favorite songs. In large part because I used to go to a town every summer as a kid, it was just across the river from Illinois, and so much if this rings true to me even to this day. Brings back tons of memories when I watch it. Never hear it anymore even on the 80's channel on Sirius.

I'm not sure what tier III means, but I remember this song playing on the radio quite a bit for a couple weeks and then fell off the face of the universe.

Spot - Moon June Spoon

That's the first band that came to mind for me as well although I wouldn't view them as tier III. They might still get some air time in Dallas but don't remember hearing them on Houston radio when I moved here in '96 nor on SXM Lithium after I switched 15 years ago.

I wore this album out in college:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n9XEuq8rS8pKfKQGZW1Q2Uf-tJ6wk4fhw&playnext=1&index=1

These last two Tripping Daisy posts just scratched my 94/95(?) Stafford Opera House itch. Thanks

Saw them for the 20th anniversary of Betty at a small-ish venue and after they ran through the entire album non-stop, Hamilton griped about his ex-wife between more than one song. And he was something like 55 then. Can't imagine what his between song banter is like these days.

Duuuuuude…..nice reference. That song still gets people to stop and sing along

I keep in touch with Tim DeLaughter, as we have some family friends in common. Crazy artistic mind he's got.

Somebody needs to reference this thread. So shall it be.

https://texags.com/forums/12/topics/3409972/1

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I keep in touch with Tim DeLaughter, as we have some family friends in common. Crazy artistic mind he's got.

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Also a really nice guy. I see him from time to time up at Good Records around record store day. About 12 years ago I made a bunch of the albums for Preteen Zenith at A&R records. It was really cool to get to select which vinyl chips would go into the finished records.

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HAHA, after 20-something years I had no idea there was a non edited version of this song. lol.
I only heard it on the radio so I thought the chorus was "short, short man."

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This is the first song I thought of. I remember seeing the video once on MTV. Then never hearing the song again until just a couple years ago.

The Tier III thing is a little confusing because I like these songs, but they likely fit the bill:
Superchunk's Slack Mother****er (1990) (edited because I can't find a vid without the profane title on Youtube - great song)

Sebadoh's Brand New Love (written in the 80s when Barlow was still part of Dinosaur Jr. with J. Mascis, but released in the early 90s - covered by Helmet a few years later).


Shoe Gazer bands are good for this too:

Lush's Nothing Natural (Spooky charted in the UK but not the U.S.)


My Bloody Valentine's Only Shallow (band never sold much in the way of records, but Loveless is considered a masterpiece for the genre)


Saw this vid on 120 minutes on MTV once by Chapterhouse (Pearl) and liked it - never heard from them again, so probably the most apt song for the thread on my selections:


This one is from the 80s ('89) and likely won't fit since they were big in the UK, but not the U.S. Head On was covered on the Pixies' Tromp Le Monde disk in the 90s.



I was present when KTRU (91.7 back in the day at Rice) interviewed Curve for this song. Tier III for sure, but lead singer Tony Halliday was hot.

Coast is Clear ('92)


Halliday (maybe not as hot as I recalled although this is a good pic)

Depending on Tier III definition I'd add Pavement's Trigger Cut / Wounded Kite At: 17 ('92).


Beloved by critics, but didn't get any airplay.

Leggo My Elko said:

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Anybody remember this one?

Fuel - Hemorrhage (In My Hands):

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I was working at Best Buy when this song came out, and it was on the loop of about 7 songs that played throughout the store on repeat. I have a visceral reaction every time I hear it.

I don't know how to clock an "obscure" song that I remember from MTV and the radio, but I would say this one was literally everywhere in 1997 and then it was nowhere, and I don't think I've heard it on the radio or in movie/commercial or anything since then.



Fun follow up... I looked them up and they have released 10 albums. Wow.