1990-1994*
The Accüsed: Grinning Like an Undertaker (1990)
Alice Donut: Mule (1990)
Alice Donut: Revenge fantasies of the impotent (1990)
Alice in Chains: Facelift (1990)
Anti Cimex: Absolut Country of Sweden (1990)
Babes in Toyland: Spanking Machine (1990)
The Breeders: Pod (1990)
Citizen Fish: Free Souls in a Trapped Environment (1990)
Citizens Arrest: A Light in the Darkness (1990)
Cowboy Killers: Press and Run Like Hell (1990)
The Dead Milkmen: Metaphysical Graffiti (1990)
Dead Moon: Defiance (1990)
Decadence Within: Soulwound (1990)
Defiance: Void Terra Firma (1990)
Despair: Decay of Humanity (1990)
D.O.A.: Murder (1990)
Dwarves: Blood Guts & Pussy (1990)
The Ex: Dead Fish EP (1990)
The Exploited: The Massacre (1990)
Eyehategod: In the Name of Suffering (1990)
The Fartz: You, We See You Crawling (1990)
Fastbaks: Very, Very Powerful Motor (1990)
Flag of Democracy: Down With People (1990)
Flower Leperds: The Original Group (1990)
Fugazi: Repeater (1990)
Girl Trouble: Stomp And Shout And Work It On Out !!!! (1990)
Girl Trouble: Thrillsphere (1990)
The Gories: I Know You’re Fine, But How You Doin’ (1990)
The Green Pajamas: Ghosts Of Love (1990)
Gruntruck: Inside Yours (1990)
Half Japanese: We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love (1990)
Hard-Ons: Yummy! (1990)
HDQ: Soul Finder (1990)
Heresy: Never Slit Thanks (1990)
Hiatus: Self-titled EP (1990)
Hogan’s Heroes: Self-titled (1990)
The Humpers: My Machine (1990)
Inside Out: No Spiritual Surrender EP (1990)
Internal Autonomy: Inquiry (1990)
Jesus Lizard: Head (1990)
Johnny Moped Band: The Search for Xerxes (1990)
Juggling Jugulars: Radicals of Today EP (1990)
Jughead’s Revenge: Unstuck in Time (1990)
L7: Smell the Magic (1990)
Lard: I Am Your Clock EP (1990)
Lard: The Last Temptation of Reid (1990)
Long Cold Stare: Third Eyes (1990)
Love Battery: Between the Eyes (1990)
The Lurkers: Powerjive (1990)
Maniacs (2): Thrown to the Dogs (1990)
The Mono Men: Stop Dragging Me Down (1990)
Naked Raygun: Raygun…Naked Raygun (1990)
Nausea: Extinction (1990)
Necros: Live or Else (1990)
Neurosis: The Word as Law (1990)
Nip Drivers: Pretty Face EP (1990)
Nomeansno: The Power of Positive Thinking EP (1990)
No Use for a Name: Incognito (1990)
Paranoid Visions: Immature Recollections (1990)
Peter and the Test Tube Babies: The $hit Factory (1990)
Pixies: Bossanova (1990)
Poison Idea: Feel the Darkness (1990)
Pussy Galore: Historia de la Musica Rock (1990)
The Queers: Grow Up (1990)
Reagan Youth: Volume 2 (1990)
Reason to Believe: When Reason Sleeps Demons Dance (1990)
Seaweed: Self-titled EP (1990)
Samhain: Final Descent (1990)
Sebadoh: Weed Forestin' (1990)
Septic Death: Attention (1990)
Skin Yard: Fist Sized Chunks (1990)
Some Velvet Sidewalk: Appetite For Extinction (1990)
Sonic Youth: Goo (1990)
Suicidal Tendencies: Lights...Camera...Revolution! (1990)
Superchunk: Self-titled (1990)
Tad: Salt Lick (1990)
Thatcher on Acid: Flannel 905 EP (1990)
Toxic Reasons: Fashion for Fascism (1990)
Toxoplasma: Monsters of Bullshit (1990)
Treepeople: Time Whore EP (1990)
Turning Point: It’s Always Darkest…Before the Dawn (1990)
Vegan Reich: Hardline (1990)
The Vibrators: Volume (1990)
The Weirdos: Condor (1990)
Youth of Today: Self-titled EP (1990)
Acid Bath: Wet Dreams of the Insane (Golgotha Demo, 1991)
Antiseen: Southern Hostility (1991)
Attitude Adjustment: Out of Hand (1991)
Babes in Toyland: To Mother EP (1991)
Big Drill Car: Batch (1991)
Bikini Kill: Revolution Girl Style Now! (1991)
Billy Childish: 50 Albums Great (1991)
Buzzov*en: Buttrash (1991)
Cerebral Fix: Bastards (1991)
Chaos UK: Enough to Make You Sick (1991)
Chaos UK: Total Chaos (1991)
Christ on a Crutch: Crime Pays When Pigs Die (1991)
Citizen Fish: Wider than a Postcard (1991)
Coffin Break: Crawl (1991)
Corrosion of Conformity: Blind (1991)
Crime: San Francisco’s Doomed (1991)
Dead Horse: Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers (1991)
Deviated Instinct: Split with Grave and Devolution (1991)
The Dils: Dils Dils Dils (1991)
Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind (1991)
Disorder: More Noize EP (1991)
Disorder: Senile Punks… (1991)
Disrupt: Refuse Planet EP (1991)
Drive Like Jehu: Self-titled (1991)
Dwarves: Thank Heaven for Little Girls (1991)
Eric’s Trip: Catapillars EP (1991)
Eric’s Trip: Drowning EP (1991)
FIREHOSE: Flyin' the Flannel (1991)
The Freeze: Misery Loves Company (1991)
Fugazi: Steady Diet of Nothing (1991)
Gas Huffer: Janitors of Tomorrow (1991)
Hammerbox: Self-titled (1991)
Heroin: All About Heroin (1991)
Hiatus: I Don't Scare Easily But... EP (1991)
Hiatus: Way Of Doom EP (1991)
Hole: Pretty on the Inside (1991)
Johnny Moped: The Search For Xerxes (1991)
Integrity: Those Who Fear Tomorrow (1991)
Internal Autonomy: Lobe & Life EP (1991)
Jesus Lizard: Goat (1991)
The Killjoys: Naïve (1991)
M.D.C.: Hey Cop!!! If I Had A Face Like Yours... (1991)
Melvins: Bullhead (1991)
Melvins: Bullhead (1991)
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991)
Napalm Beach: Thunder Lizard (1991)
The Nation of Ulysses: Self-titled EP (1991)
The Nation of Ulysses: 13-Point Program to Destroy America (1991)
Nirvana: Nevermind (1991)
Nomeansno: 0 + 2 = 1 (1991)
Pearl Jam: Ten (1991)
Peter and the Test Tube Babies: Cringe (1991)
Pixies: Trompe le Monde (1991)
The Posies: Dear 23 (1990)
Seaweed: Despised EP (1991)
Screaming Trees: Uncle Anesthesia (1991)
Sebadoh: Sebadoh III (1991)
Sham 69: Information Libre (1991)
Skin Yard: 1000 Smiling Knuckles (1991)
Son of Sam [1]: The Lemming EP (1991)
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (1991)
Superchunk: No Pocky for Kitty (1991)
Tad: 8-Way Santa (1991)
Thatcher on Acid: Frank (1991)
Toxoplasma: Ausverkauf (1991)
Treepeople: Guilt Regret Embarrassment (1991)
U.K. Subs: Mad Cow Fever (1991)
The Undead (2): Live Slayer (1991)
The Vandals: Fear of a Punk Planet (1991)
Violent Femmes: Why Do Birds Sing? (1991)
Wide Awake: The End EP (1991)
Zero Boys: Make It Stop (1991)
7 Year Bitch: Sick 'Em (C/Z Records, 1992)
Acid Bath: Screams of the Butterfly Demo (1992)
Active Minds: Capitalism Is a Disease, and Money an Addictive Drug EP (1991)
Agnostic Front: One Voice (1992)
Alice Donut: The Untidy Suicides of your Degenerate Children (1992)
Alice in Chains: Dirt (1992)
Angelic Upstarts: Bombed Out (1992)
Atrocity Exhibition: Never Mind The Atrocity Exhibition Here's Crazy Fucked Up Daily Life EP (1992)
Aus-Rotten: We Are Denied…They Deny It (1992)
Babes in Toyland: Fontanelle (1992)
Bastard: Wind of Pain (1992)
Biohazard: Urban Discipline (1992)
Buzzov*en: Hate Box EP (1992)
Buzzov*en: Wound EP (1992)
Capitalist Casualties: Disassembly Line (1992)
The Celibate Rifles: Heaven on a Stick (1992)
Cerebral Fix: Death Erotica (1992)
Charley's War: 1000 Years of Civilization (1992)
Coffin Break: Thirteen (1992)
Crackerbash: Self-titled (1992)
The Dead Milkmen: Soul Rotation (1992)
Dead Moon: Strange Pray Tell (1992)
Deafness by Noise: Self-titled (1992)
Disfear: Self-titled (1992)
D.O.A.: 13 Flavours of Doom (1992)
Earth Crisis: All Out War EP (1992)
Face to Face: Don't Turn Away (1992)
Gas Huffer: Integrity, Technology & Service (1992)
Girls Against Boys: Tropic of Scorpio (1992)
The Gits: Frenching the Bully (1992)
Gravel: Break-A-Bone (1992)
Gray Matter: Thog (1992)
Grief: Depression EP (1992)
Grief: Dismal (1992)
Gruntruck: Push (1992)
Hammerbox: Numb (1993)
Heroin: Self-titled (1992)
Jesus Lizard: Liar (1992)
Killing Time: Happy Hour (1992)
The Killjoys: Naïve (1992)
L7: Bricks Are Heavy (1992)
Love Battery: Dayglo (1992)
M.O.D.: Rhythm of Fear (1992)
Melvins: Lysol (1992)
The Mono Men: Wrecker (1992)
The Mono Men: Back to Mono (1992)
Mucky Pup: Act of Faith (1992)
Mudhoney: Piece of Cake (1992)
My Sisters Machine: Diva (1992)
The Nation of Ulysses: The Birth of the Ulysses Aesthetic EP (1992)
The Nation of Ulysses: Plays Pretty for Baby (1992)
Nihilistics: Fuck Guns & Roses What about the Nihilistics (1992)
Nihilistics: My Dog He Licks Me He Keeps My Body Clean EP (1992)
No Use for a Name: Don't Miss the Train (1992)
Nukey Pikes: Nukey Free Zone (1992)
Poison Idea: Blank Blackout Vacant (1992)
Rollins Band: The End of Silence (1992)
Seaweed: Weak (1992)
Screaming Trees: Sweet Oblivion (1992)
Shelter: Quest For Certainty (1992)
Sick of It All: Just Look Around (1992)
Some Velvet Sidewalk: Avalanche (1992)
Sonic Youth: Dirty (1992)
Stone Temples Pilot: Core (1992)
Sublime: 40oz. to Freedom (1992)
Thatcher on Acid: Chagrin EP (1992)
Treepeople: Something Vicious for Tomorrow EP (1992)
Vegan Reich: The Wrath of God (1992)
Alcohol Funnycar: Burn EP (1993)
Alcohol Funnycar: Time to Make the Donuts (1993)
Anti Cimex: Scandinavian Jawbreaker (1993)
Antiseen: Eat More Possum (1993)
Babes in Toyland: Painkillers EP (1993)
Bad Brains: Rise (1993)
Best Kissers in the World: Been There (1993)
Bikini Kill: Pussy Whipped (1993)
Bikini Kill: Yeah Yeah Yeah (1993)
Billy Childish: Torments Nest (1993)
Bratmobile: Pottymouth (1993)
The Breeders: Last Splash (1993)
Buzzov*en: To a Frown (1993)
Buzzcocks: Trade Test Transmissions (1993)
Chelsea: The Alternative (1993)
Citizen Fish: Flinch (1993)
Doom: The Greatest Invention (1993)
Dwarves: Sugarfix (1993)
Earth Crisis: Firestorm EP (1993)
Eric’s Trip: Songs About Chris EP (1993)
Eric’s Trip: Warm Girl EP (1993)
Eric’s Trip: Love Tara (1993)
Eyehategod: Take as Needed for Pain (1993)
FIREHOSE: Mr. Machinery Operator (1993)
Flipper: American Grafishy (1993)
Fugazi: In on the Kill Taker (1993)
F.Y.P.: Finish Your Popcorn (1992)
Girls Against Boys: Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (1993)
Girl Trouble: New American Shame (1993)
Gravel: No Stone Unturned (1993)
Greg Ginn: Getting Even (1993)
Hard-Ons: Too Far Gone (1993)
Love Battery: Far Gone (1993)
M.D.C.: Shades of Brown (1993)
Melvins: Houdini (1993)
Melvins: Self-titled (1993)
The Mono Men: Shut the Fuck Up! (1993)
The Mono Men: Bent Pages (1993)
My Sisters Machine: Wallflower (1993)
Nirvana: In Utero (1993)
No Use for a Name: The Daily Grind (1993)
Pearl Jam: Vs. (1993)
Poison Idea: We Must Burn (1993)
The Posies: Frosting on the Beater (1993)
The Queers: Love Songs for the Retarded (1993)
Quicksand: Slip (1993)
Raw Power: Too Tough To Burn (1993)
Rich Kids on LSD: Reactivate (1993)
Seaweed: Four (1993)
Skin Yard: Inside the Eye (1993)
SNFU: Something Green and Leafy This Way Comes (1993)
Some Velvet Sidewalk: Whirlpool (1993)
Superchunk: On the Mouth (1993)
Tad: Inhaler (1993)
Treepeople: Just Kidding (1993)
The Wipers: Silver Sail (1993)
X: Hey Zeus! (1993)
Zero Boys: The Heimlich Maneuver (1993)
Alice in Chains: Jar of Flies EP (1994)*
Soundgarden: Superunknown (1994)*
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple (1994)*
From the About page:
"To highlight the tragic ending of the meteoric rise and fall of the grunge scene, I have only included three albums from 1994: (Alice in Chains: Jar of Flies EP (1994); Soundgarden: Superunknown (1994); Stone Temple Pilots: Purple (1994). These are the last albums in the chronology of grunge (although I do list some of the post-1994 music that has been released by grunge-era bands and their spins offs).
Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994 effectively broke apart the grunge scene as the media sensation it had been. His tragic death was followed years later by the drug overdoses of Layne Stanley (2002), Scott Weiland (2015), and Chris Cornell (2017)—to name just a few of the more prominent casualties of the grunge scene. Many of the artists who produced this incredible crush of amazing music in the late 80s and early 90s paid a hefty price for the fruits of their labors. This chronology is dedicated to them, for changing music, and for changing my life for the better (at a time in my young life when I desperately needed the connection their music provided).
Here are the albums put out by some of the major bands from the grunge scene (and the bands they went on to form) as the scene faded into the past.
3rd Secret: Self-titled (2022)
3RD Secret: The 2nd 3rd Secret (2023)
Alice in Chains: Self-titled (1995)
Alice in Chains: MTV Unplugged (1996)
Alice in Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)
Alice in Chains: The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013)
Alice in Chains: Rainer Fog (2018)
Audioslave: Self-titled (2002)
Audioslave: Out of Exile (2005)
Audioslave: Revelations (2006)
Chris Cornell: Carry On (2007)
Chris Cornell: Scream (2009)
Chris Cornell: Higher Truth (2015)
Chris Cornell: No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1 (2020)
The Foo Fighters: Self-titled (1995)
The Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape (1997)
The Foo Fighters: There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)
The Foo Fighters: One by One (2002)
The Foo Fighters: In Your Honor (2005)
The Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)
The Foo Fighters: Wasting Light (2011)
The Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (2014)
The Foo Fighters: Concrete and Gold (2017)
The Foo Fighters: Medicine at Midnight (2021)
The Foo Fighters: But Here We Are (2023)
Mad Season: Above (1995)
Melvins: Prick (1994)
Melvins: Stoner Witch (1994)
Melvins: Stag (1996)
Melvins: Honky (1997)
Melvins: The Maggot (1999)
Melvins: The Bootlicker (1999)
Melvins: The Crybaby (2000)
Melvins: Electroretard (2001)
Melvins: Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002)
Melvins: (A) Senile Animal (2006)
Melvins: Nude with Boots (2008)
Melvins: The Bride Screamed Murder (2010)
Melvins: Freak Puke (2012)
Melvins: Everybody Loves Sausages (2013)
Melvins: Tres Cabrones (2013)
Melvins: Hold It In (2014)
Melvins: Basses Loaded (2016)
Melvins: A Walk with Love & Death (2017)
Melvins: Pinkus Abortion Technician (2018)
Melvins: Working with God (2021)
Melvins: Five Legged Dog (2021)
Melvins: Bad Mood Rising (2022)
Melvins: Tarantula Heart (2024)
Pearl Jam: Vitalogy (1994)
Pearl Jam: No Code (1996)
Pearl Jam: Yield (1998)
Pearl Jam: Binaural (2000)
Pearl Jam: Riot Act (2002)
Pearl Jam: Self-titled (2006)
Pearl Jam: Backspacer (2009)
Pearl Jam: Lightning Bolt (2013)
Pearl Jam: Gigaton (2020)
Pearl Jam: Dark Matter (2024)
Screaming Trees: Dust (1996)
Screaming Trees: Last Words: The Final Recordings (2011)
Soundgarden: Down on the Upside (1996)
Soundgarden: King Animal (2012)