The mid-90s to early 2000s alt-rock scene spawned an avalanche of bands that caught fire, and are still burning hot today, and others that didn’t quite recover after their initial debuts in the peak era of MTV and cable music video channels.

Now, listen… I don’t like to shit-talk people who don’t deserve it. It’s not who I am at my core. But data doesn’t lie, and when a band just falls off, it’s usually pretty obvious, even if we don’t want it to be. With that in mind, here are four bands that had some hit songs on MTV but were unable to recreate their popularity later.

The Verve Pipe

In 1997, you could not turn on a radio or MTV and not hear The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen,” a wildly popular song about ill-fated love and abortion. Ahhh, the ’90s.

This was the third single off the band’

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