The other day I started a post about alternative dude rock from the ‘90s that aren’t really popular anymore. My three examples didn’t even begin to cover the scope of these were-cool bands. Here’s the continuation.

Alternative dude rock was the thing in the ‘90s. The guys in these bands usually had long, stringy hair and wore flannel in-and-outside Seattle, singing songs about lost love or broken hearts or drugs. The songs were usually epic ballads, sung with lyrical simplicity on top of angst-ridden chords. We loved it.

But where did these bands go? Even the biggest of them seemed to fall to the wayside as soon as 2000 came around. And that’s saying nothing about the imitators and the one-hit wonders. Let’s take a look at some of the ‘90s biggest bands, their hits and what happened to them in the fateful ‘00s:

Better than Ezra. Better than Ezra was formed way back in 1988, but didn’t have a record label, Elektra Records, or a number one smash until “Good” in 1995. Unfortunately, that success didn’t last long—the band was dropped by Elektra in 1999 after an experimental, i.e. not commercial, release How Does Your Garden Grow? Undeterred, the band kept plugging away on their self-created label, and still performs to this day.

The Verve Pipe. The Verve Pipe had one hit, “The Freshmen” in 1996, but that single song seemed like it was played in every ‘90s teen movie involving rain and shunning. After the relative success of the album on which “The Freshmen” was recorded, the band released more records with little commercial success. In 2009, the band announced that it would be taking a new direction, and releasing Calling All Kids, an album of family friendly songs.

Tonic. Tonic released that angsty, soul-ripping song “If You Could Only See” in 1996. Then they spent years on-and-off, touring and taking hiatuses, over and over again until 2010 when they released their most recent record, Tonic.

Train. Train, as you may know, is one of the only hot ‘90s band that survived the coming of the millennium. Formed in 1994, the band started racking up hits like “Meet Virginia.” They crossed over into the aughts for a short time, as well, with their megahit “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me),” but fell out of commercial favor in 2006 with their album For Me, It’s You. They went on a three year hiatus after that, but came back in 2009 with new hits like “Hey, Soul Sister” and “Marry Me.”

Can you believe that all of these ‘90s bands are still together?