I agree with EEE. After some really bad 80's pop (to me, "real" 80's music is just about all metal)... there were some decent acts getting popular airplay on MTV (which still actually played Music Videos), and alternative pop radio. I owned American Thighs on cassette... Seether was great... lots of radio play... but my favorite on the alhum was, hands down, Spiderman '79.
Veruca Salt has about the best Facebook page of any of those old alt rockers. Click "like" It's worth it.
https://www.facebook.com/verucasaltband
Long story short... Somehow Louise Post retained the name of the band. She toured with a rotating roster of musicians. She partied hard and then didn't. She retired from music. She put away the makeup and hairpsray and lived a civilian life (check out her boring, civilian Facebook Page) and then she returned to music. Then she made a Veruca Salt facebook page.
Jim, Steve and Nina joined her page. It's really kinda cool to read the posts! They all decided to make some new songs.
And, as said, the four of them put together one of the bet FB pages on the web. Lots of old photos.