What are some obscure alternative hits from the early 90's?

Oh and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGaX9lWBTMQ

Was this big outside of college radio? That's the only place I ever heard it.

I guess college radio was big in and of itself though wasn't it.

Also xxxxxxxpost Heather Nova has a gorgeous voice and I will probably always buy whatever she does.

The Only Living Boy in New Cross was a Top Ten hit in the UK.

It certainly sounds like it.

Unrelated, I feel a Course of Empire binge coming on.

"Mother Mother by Tracy Bonham"

Saw her play finally relent and play this while opening for a touring Blue Man Group show after the crowd wouldn't even clap for her then-new album (2008ish?)

Mary's Danish - "Don't Crash The Car Tonight"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaCSZHw5lS8

xpost. Tracy Bonham was the music teacher at my son's school in 2013.

Anyway, also this Mary's Danish track, which I still like a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtJLC65zIk

Green Apple Quick Step "Los Vargos"

Sky Cries Mary "Shipwrecked"
The Frogs "Starboy"
Nixons "Sister"

Smile, "Staring at the Sun"

Who covered "Temptation Eyes" in the late 90's/early 2000s? It was in the indie/college music. Kinda sounds like a brass band playing with Molly's Yes or Gin Blossums.

Blake Babies

Oh wait no, I incorrectly assumed Blake Babies because thread is for early '90s alt rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maz6jFdvn2Q

Every time I hear it I'm like 'christ, how did I forget about this awful song that was in constant rotation for a decent stretch of time?' and then I immediately forget about it again once it's over.

There couldn't be a less memorable song!

When I saw the thread title, I thought of these three, all of which got a decent amount of airplay on my local alt-rock station in the early 90s:

E - Hello Cruel World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYSl3PblyU

Lloyd Cole - She's a Girl and I'm a Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hGy7cBRNM

Freedy Johnston - Bad Reputation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQBuFNt65U

I think about "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" by Whale not infrequently.

It's rare that I suddenly recall a long-lost alternasingle from this era and think 'how could I possibly have forgotten such a good song?'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VTBam8YzQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJhulZ0zR58

Little Bastard, of course! Never heard that Rugburns song, but when I moved to San Diego I kept running into people who tried to sell me on Steve Poltz.

Came here to post The Caulfields' "Devil's Diary," but someone did it sixteen years ago. Still will...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0eDZIyfbI

Never cared for much of the rest of their records (singing is generally useless) but this riff is all time -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PugwqtNSwco