Top 10 Unheard songs of the '90s: Garrison Starr, "Superhero"

It's time for #2 on our list of the Top 10 Unheard Songs of the 1990s:* Garrison Starr's "Superhero," off of her 1997 debut Eighteen Over Me. The Memphis native was only 22 when this album came out.

I absolutely adore this song; for me, it perfectly captures the feeling of being a kid. I should note I first heard a good chunk of the songs on this list on the great, classic, long-lost 93.7 FM the SPY out of Stillwater, OK, which was half adult-album-alternative, half college-rock, and all awesome. It switched over to adult top 40 in 2001 or 2002, sadly.

Here's a live version from recently. Sadly, it's missing the high harmonies in the chorus on the recorded version that kick the song to that next level:


Garrison Starr has gone on to release five more albums, and has a decent cult following.

*A few people have asked what my criteria for this series is: basically, if the song never charted on the Billboard Modern Rock Top 40, it's eligible. This means, for example, that For Squirrels "Mighty KC" is ineligible, even though I don't think there's a radio station in the country that has played that song since 1996.