Alternative Rock: Top 250 Of The 1990's

[R!ck]

Here's is a a list of the Top 250Alternative Songs of the 90's. Compiled from The Buzz, KQQ, Billboard and Radio and Records and me

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

2. The Offspring - Self-Esteem

3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

4. Hole - Celebrity Skin

5. Pearl Jam - Jeremy

6. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

7. Sublime - What I Got

8. Radiohead - Creep

9. Beck - Loser

10. Rage against the Machine - Killing in the Name

11. Nirvana - Come As You Are

12. Limp Bizkit - Nookie

13. No Doubt - Just a Girl

14. The Offspring - Come Out and Play

15. Pearl Jam - Alive

16. blink-182 - What's My Age Again?

17. Sublime - Wrong Way

18. Korn - Freak on a Leash

19. Green Day - When I Come Around

20. 311 - Down

21. Sublime - Date Rape

22. Foo Fighters - Everlong

23. Sublime - Santeria

24. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue

25. Blur - Song 2

26. The Smashing Pumpkins - Today

27. Korn - Got the Life

28. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

29. Metallica - Enter Sandman

30. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

31. Green Day - Brain Stew

32. The Offspring - Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)

33. Sublime - Badfish

34. The Cranberries - Zombie

35. No Doubt - Spiderwebs

36. blink-182 - Josie

37. Sugar Ray - Fly

38. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

39. Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

40. Beck - Where It's At

41. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole

42. Sabotage - Beastie Boys

43. blink-182 - Dammit

44. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

45. Green Day - Longview

46. Live - Lightning Crashes

47. Cake - The Distance

48. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

49. Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade

50. No Doubt - Don't Speak

51. Pearl Jam - Even Flow

52. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

53. The Cure - Pictures of You

54. Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun

55. Metallica - The Unforgiven

56. 311 - All Mixed Up

57. The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

58. The Cranberries - Linger

59. The Offspring - Bad Habit

60. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

61. Blind Melon - No Rain

62. The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

63. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy

64. U2 - One

65. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

66. Alice in Chains - Man in the Box

67. Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

68. Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy

69. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away

70. Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

71. Beastie Boys - Sure Shot

72. Green Day - Basket Case

73. Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline

74. Garbage - #1 Crush

75. Bush - Comedown

76. Cake - Never There

77. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

78. Kid Rock - Bawitdaba

79. Sublime - Doin' Time

80. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

81. Presidents of the United States of America - Lump

82. Pearl Jam - Black

83. Sugar Ray - Every Morning

84. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

85. Bush - Machinehead

86. Everlast - What It's Like

87. White Zombie - More Human than Human

88. The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright

89. Weezer - Buddy Holly

90. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

91. Limp Bizkit - Faith

92. Pearl Jam - Better Man

93. Fatboy Slim - Praise You

94. Korn - Blind

95. Nirvana - About a Girl

96. Oasis - Wonderwall

97. blink-182 - All the Small Things

98. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

99. Kid Rock - Cowboy

100. Tool - Sober

101. Rage Against the Machine - No Shelter

102. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

103. Faith No More - Epic

104. Beastie Boys - Body Movin'

105. The Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job?

106. King Missile - Detachable Penis

107. Limp Bizkit - Re-Arranged

108. Garbage - Special

109. Nirvana - Lithium

110. The Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide

111. Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio

112. Social Distortion - Ball and Chain

113. Pearl Jam - Daughter

114. The Prodigy - Breathe

115. Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin' in a Hole in a Paper Heart

116. The Verve - Bittersweet Sympthony

117. Nirvana - In Bloom

118. Garbage - Stupid Girl

119. Candlebox - Far Behind

120. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way

121. Weezer - Say It Ain't So

122. White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65

123. Butthole Surfers - Pepper

124. Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

125. Green Day - Welcome to Paradise

126. The Cranberries - Dreams

127. Smash Mouth - All-Star

128. Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show

129. Sublime - Caress Me Down

130. Pearl Jam - Corduroy

131. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get

132. Face to Face - Disconnected

133. White Town - Your Woman

134. Alice in Chains - Would?

135. Lo Fidelity All-Stars - Battle Flag

136. The Breeders - Cannonball

137. Green Day - She

138. Pennywise - Alien

139. U2 - Mysterious Ways

140. Soundgarden - Fell on Black Days

141. Rage Against the Machine - People of the Sun

142. Cracker - Low

143. Duran Duran - Come Undone

144. Nirvana - All Apologies

145. Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People

146. Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth

147. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

148. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze

149. Bush - Everything Zen

150. No Doubt - Sunday Morning

151. Everclear - I Will Buy You a New Life

152. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

153. Tool - Stinkfist

154. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

155. The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

156. EMF - Unbelievable

157. Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot

158. Hole - Doll Parts

159. Bush - Glycerine

160. Everclear - Santa Monica

161. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

162. House of Pain - Jump Around

163. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

164. Live - I Alone

165. Beck - New Pollution

166. Mazzy Star - Fade into You

167. Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box

168. Radiohead - Karma Police

169. Hole - Violet

170. The Cure - Friday I'm in Love

171. The Smashing Pumpkins - Drown

172. Big Audio Dynamite II - Rush

173. Soundgarden - Burden in My Hand

174. Save Ferris - Goodbye

175. Oasis - Champagne Supernova

176. The Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect

177. Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

178. Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty

179. Everclear - Father of Mine

180. Garbage - Push It

181. The Cure - A Letter to Elise

182. The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero

183. 311 - Beautiful Disaster

184. Nirvana - Rape Me

185. Eve 6 - Inside Out

186. Folk Implosion - Natural One

187. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground

188. Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind a Counter in a Small Town

189. Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now

190. Depeche Mode - It's No Good

191. Hole - Malibu

192. Beck - Devil's Haircut

193. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me

194. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out

195. Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away

196. Jane's Addiction - Stop!

197. The Wallflowers - One Headlight

198. Nirvana - Man Who Sold the World

199. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

200. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

201. James - Born of Frustration

202. Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden

203. Matchbox 20 - Push

204. Creed - My Own Prison

205. Third Eye Blind - Graduate

206. Alanis Morissette - Hand in My Pocket

207. Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike

208. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell

209. Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand

210. The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends

211. Soundgarden - Spoonman

212. The Lemonheads - Mrs. Robinson

213. Goo Goo Dolls - Name

214. Social Distortion - Story of My Life

215. R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People

216. Green Day - Hitchin' a Ride

217. Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

218. The Offspring - All I Want

219. The Living End - Prisoner of Society

220. Live - The Dolphin's Cry

221. Nirvana - Dumb

222. Dave Matthews Band - Crash into Me

223. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats

224. Fastball - The Way

225. No Doubt - Happy Now?

226. The Offspring - Gotta Get Away

227. U2 - All I Want is You

228. Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head

229. Rancid - Time Bomb

230. Local H - Bound for the Floor

231. Third Eye Blind - Jumper

232. Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

233. The Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore

234. Len - Steal My Sunshine

235. Candlebox - You

236. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the World

237. PJ Harvey - Down by the Water

238. Bad Religion - Infected

239. Beastie Boys - Negotiation Limerick File

240. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight

241. Fiona Apple - Criminal

242. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster

243. Rob Zombie - Dragula

244. No Doubt - Excuse Me Mr.

245. Beck - Jack-Ass

246. Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes

247. The Offspring - Gone Away

248. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking the Girl

249. Dave Matthews Band - Crush

250. Nine Inch Nails - Down In It

It's a little sad, but I remember every one ofs these LOL

[JinkiesP]

I remember most of them. I even have a some downloaded.

Sugar Ray's Fly and Every Morning is considered Alternative?

[crc]

I remember and still listen to a lot of those on XM. This was around the time (I was in middle and high school) I started diversifying my taste in music outside of hip-hop and R&B. Of course, alternative was all they'd play on the radio around that time. I've even ::looking behind my back:: bought and still own a few cds. Some people thought I was weird. But I didn't give a damn. LOL!

[R!ck]

That's great crc! I to am very diversified when it comes to music. It's not unusual for me to have Mary J. Blige, Enya, and Metallica on my playlist lol

A little history on Alternative Music

The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the 80s to describe punk rock-inspired bands on independent record labels which didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. Though the genre is considered to be rock, its influenced by folk, new wave, reggae, swing, techno and jazz.

The explosion of alternative rock was aided by MTV's Alternative Nation, 120 Minutes and Lollapalooza. Bands broke through into the mainstream in the early 1990s, making alternative the most popular form of music at the time. By 1998 Alternative has become almost obscure. Lollapalooza was cancelled, and MTV and the radio had been taken over by boy bands, Latin explosion and Hip/Hop R&B.

In 2004, Lallopalooza was resurrected and Alternative once again became mainstream with the with the popularity of indie rock artists such as The White Stripes, The Killers, Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand.

During the past 2 years, Alternative music has become popular once again. Although Alternative artists do not get much airplay on Top 40 radio, album sales have almost matched Pop and Hip/Hop sales, and there have been numerous ALt/Rock stations popping up around the country. In addition to the Alternative and Modern Rock Charts, there has even been a new radio/record chart added called Triple AAA or "Adult Album Alternative" for artists who do not fit into the Pop/HipHop genre. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, KT Tunstall, Keane, and Snow Patrol are just a few who do well on AAA radio.

[Ms. Walsh]

I know pretty much all of those songs too. Bands like the Smashing Pumpkins, DMB, No Doubt, NIN, etc. define my teenage years, DMB especially...I was a wannabe hippie for a long time. Now I feel super old! You know you're old when the songs you grew up listening to were from another decade.

I used to be a total alt. rock fan in middle school and most of high school: everyone was listening to the pop music station in town, and I thought I was cool b/c I listened to the alternative rock station instead.

I stopped listening to it, though, b/c it got "too popular" when they started playing Good Charlotte and New Found Glory, and those kinds of bands. It was the same w/ the store Hot Topic: I guess I was stupid back then b/c in HS I was really obsessed w/ that store. Now, whenever my best friend and I shop at the mall, we're always like, "What the hell were we thinking?"

I'm pretty ecclectic when it comes to music too. I really like classic rock and classic R&B, but I also listen to indie rock occasionally. But I'm definitely going to download some of the songs from this list onto my iTunes library tonight and tomorrow.

[MatinèeGirl]

I remember all those songs if that makes me sad then I'm proud to be so

[SpiritualJunkie]

I remember some of those songs and recognize most of the bands/artists. Growing up in Canada, though...I'm more familiar with their alt-rock scene (ie. Our Lady Peace, Moist, Limblifter, Sloan, the Tea Party, etc.)

Alt-rock to me now is a blurred with what people consider to be indie music...or stuff that doesn't become big hits on the radio. Bands on small, more unknown labels are more likely to experiment and not have heavily produced albums that are supposed to be radio-friendly.