You may notice a trend on this list, and it's that a lot of the albums featured were the bands' only albums. This was the ...

but there were a handful of grunge bands who were drafting the blueprints of the genre in the late 80s as well. Many of these bands, of course, started in Seattle, like the following groups in ...

Before alternative became mainstream, college rock was holding it down for the left of the dial bands. Look back at the best ...