[QUOTE=D. Bergin;2062022]Here's my hot take on two early to mid-90's bands with a tragic history and a similar trajectory.
No, not the big ones you're thinking of............
Blind Melon - Best known for "No Rain" (the bee girl music video). Lead singer Shannon Hoon died of an overdose in 1995. Retrospectively, critics and lots of hard core early 90's fans seem to loathe this band, that song in particular, and that entire first album.
I love it....LOL. Still do to this day. I've got their debut CD buried somewhere around here, and it got plenty of air play in my house back in the day. I thought the whole thing was pretty entertaining. Had that early 90's new music kind of feel, without being overwhelmingly depressing and overwrought (not that I didn't also like that kind of music to).
Sadly, it's made almost every worst album of the 90's list I've ever seen.
Love the Blind Melon shout out. “Soup” is a great album. A little darker than the first album. It was released weeks before Shannon Hoon’s OD. They still have a really loyal following.