SiriusXM station Lithium began polling their listeners on June 04th to compile a list of ‘the top 250 90s alternative and grunge songs of all time.’ That list aired over this past weekend in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. An unsung hero over at Reddit compiled that extensive list for non-subscribers to see.
Surprisingly, Foo Fighters‘ 1997 2x platinum “Everlong” beat out Nirvana‘s genre-defining diamond-certified hit 1991 single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for the top spot. You can dig into the whole list below, while another Redditor took it upon themselves to compile the entire thing into a playlist over at Spotify.
01 – “Everlong” – Foo Fighters
02 – “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – Nirvana
03 – “Sabotage” – Beastie Boys
04 – “Zombie” – Cranberries
05 – “Would?” – Alice in Chains
06 – “Black Hole Sun” – Soundgarden
07 – “Killing in the Name” – Rage Against The Machine
08 – “Black” – Pearl Jam
09 – “Man in the Box” – Alice in Chains
10 – “Creep” – Radiohead
11 – “Loser” – Beck
12 – “Rooster” – Alice in Chains
13 – “Nutshell” – Alice in Chains
14 – “You Oughta Know” – Alanis Morissette
15 – “Fade Into You” – Mazzy Star
16 – “Interstate Love Song” – Stone Temple Pilots
17 – “Iris” – Goo Goo Dolls
18 – “Possum Kingdom” – Toadies
19 – “No Rain” – Blind Melon
20 – “Closer” – Nine Inch Nails
21 – “Come as You Are” – Nirvana
22 – “Glycerine” – Bush
23 – “The Distance” – Cake
24 – “Linger” – Cranberries
25 – “Hunger Strike” – Temple of the Dog
26 – “Santa Monica” – Everclear
27 – “Alive” – Pearl Jam
28 – “Lithium” – Nirvana
29 – “What’s Up” – Four Non Blondes
30 – “Far Behind” – Candlebox
31 – “Hey Jealousy” – Gin Blossoms
32 – “Wonderwall” – Oasis
33 – “Lightning Crashes” – Live
34 – “Song 2” – Blur
35 – “Bulls on Parade” – Rage Against the Machine
36 – “Even Flow” – Pearl Jam
37 – “River of Deceit” – Mad Season
38 – “Epic” – Faith No More
39 – “Pepper” – Butthole Surfers
40 – “Basket Case” – Green Day
41 – “Hey Man Nice Shot” – Filter
42 – “Mr. Jones” – Counting Crows
43 – “Down in a Hole” – Alice in Chains
44 – “1979” – The Smashing Pumpkins
45 – “Under the Bridge” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
46 – “Yellow Ledbetter” – Pearl Jam
47 – “Head Like a Hole” – Nine Inch Nails
48 – “Champagne Supernova” – Oasis
49 – “Good” – Better Than Ezra
50 – “Where Is My Mind?” – Pixies
51 – “Machinehead” – Bush
52 – “Intergalactic” – Beastie Boys
53 – “Sober” – Tool
54 – “My Hero” – Foo Fighters
55 – “Jeremy” – Pearl Jam
56 – “Plush” – Stone Temple Pilots
57 – “So What ‘Cha Want” – Beastie Boys
58 – “Criminal” – Fiona Apple
59 – “Losing My Religion” – R.E.M.
60 – “Jane Says” – Jane’s Addiction
61 – “Cannonball” – Breeders
62 – “The Man Who Sold The World” – Nirvana
63 – “Name” – Goo Goo Dolls
64 – “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” – Smashing Pumpkins
65 – “Freak On A Leash” – Korn
66 – “Fell On Black Days” – Soundgarden
67 – “Mayonaise” – Smashing Pumpkins
68 – “Flagpole Sitta” – Harvey Danger
69 – “No Excuses” – Alice in Chains
70 – “Friday I’m In Love” – The Cure
71 – “Peaches” – Presidents Of The United States
72 – “Self Esteem” – The Offspring
73 – “Say It Ain’t So” – Weezer
74 – “Cherub Rock” – The Smashing Pumpkins
75 – “I Stay Away” – Alice in Chains
76 – “Shimmer” – Fuel
77 – “Hook” – Blues Traveler
78 – “Santeria” – Sublime
79 – “My Own Worst Enemy” – Lit
80 – “Low” – Cracker
81 – “Don’t Look Back in Anger” – Oasis
82 – “Heart-Shaped Box” – Nirvana
83 – “All The Small Things” – blink-182
84 – “Forty Six & Two” – Tool
85 – “Outshined” – Soundgarden
86 – “Semi-Charmed Life” – Third Eye Blind
87 – “Buddy Holly” – Weezer
88 – “Hurt” – Nine Inch Nails
89 – “Shine” – Collective Soul
90 – “Only Happy When it Rains” – Garbage
91 – “Comedown” – Bush
92 – “Laid” – James
93 – “Slide” – Goo Goo Dolls
94 – “Good Riddance” – Green Day
95 – “Dammit” – blink-182
96 – “Long Way Down” – Goo Goo Dolls
97 – “When I Come Around” – Green Day
98 – “Bound For the Floor” – Local H
99 – “What I Got” – Sublime
100 – “Karma Police” – Radiohead
101 – “Learn to Fly” – Foo Fighters
102 – “Monkey Wrench” – Foo Fighters
103 – “Down” – 311
104 – “Undone – The Sweater Song” – Weezer
105 – “Heaven Beside You” – Alice in Chains
106 – “What’s My Age Again” – blink-182
107 – “Bittersweet Symphony” – Verve
108 – “All Apologies” – Nirvana
109 – “Everything Zen” – Bush
110 – “Them Bones” – Alice in Chains
111 – “One Headlight” – Wallflowers
112 – “Feel The Pain” – Dinosaur Jr.
113 – “Spoonman” – Soundgarden
114 – “Come Out and Play” – The Offspring
115 – “Enjoy The Silence” – Depeche Mode
116 – “In Bloom” – Nirvana
117 – “I Alone” – Live
118 – “Been Caught Stealing” – Jane’s Addiction
119 – “Round Here” – Counting Crows
120 – “Brain Stew/Jaded” – Green Day
121 – “In the Meantime” – Spacehog
122 – “Californication” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
123 – “Fake Plastic Trees” – Radiohead
124 – “Inside Out” – Eve 6
125 – “Nothing Compares 2 U” (Sinead O’Connor cover) – Chris Cornell
126 – “Nearly Lost You” – Screaming Trees
127 – “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” – R.E.M.
128 – “Got You (Where I Want You)” – The Flys
129 – “Tomorrow” – Silverchair
130 – “#1 Crush” – Garbage
131 – “Personal Jesus” – Depeche Mode
132 – “Plowed” – Sponge
133 – “Violet” – Hole
134 – “You” – Candlebox
135 – “Paranoid Android” – Radiohead
136 – “Better Man” – Pearl Jam
137 – “Welcome to Paradise” – Green Day
138 – “Tonight, Tonight” – The Smashing Pumpkins
139 – “Celebrity Skin” – Hole
140 – “Dreams” – Cranberries
141 – “3 AM” – Matchbox Twenty
142 – “Stupid Girl” – Garbage
143 – “More Human Than Human” – White Zombie
144 – “Pardon Me” – Incubus
145 – “Longview” – Green Day
146 – “Sunshower” – Chris Cornell
147 – “Ironic” – Alanis Morissette
148 – “Disarm” – The Smashing Pumpkins
149 – “Give It Away” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
150 – “Corduroy” – Pearl Jam
151 – “The Beautiful People” – Marilyn Manson
152 – “Big Empty” – Stone Temple Pilots
153 – “Superman’s Dead” – Our Lady Peace
154 – “Gone Away” – The Offspring
155 – “One Week” – Barenaked Ladies
156 – “Ænema” – Tool
157 – “Angry Chair” – Alice in Chains
158 – “Seether” – Veruca Salt
159 – “Sex Type Thing” – Stone Temple Pilots
160 – “The World I Know” – Collective Soul
161 – “Something In The Way” – Nirvana
162 – “Unsung” – Helmet
163 – “Cumbersome” – Seven Mary Three
164 – “Black Balloon” – Goo Goo Dolls
165 – “Dead & Bloated” – Stone Temple Pilots
166 – “Rusty Cage” – Soundgarden
167 – “Today” – The Smashing Pumpkins
168 – “Rearviewmirror” – Pearl Jam
169 – “Just A Girl” – No Doubt
170 – “Got The Life” – Korn
171 – “Fire Water Burn” – Bloodhound Gang
172 – “A Long December” – Counting Crows
173 – “Creep” – Stone Temple Pilots
174 – “The Day I Tried to Live” – Soundgarden
175 – “Zero” – The Smashing Pumpkins
176 – “Don’t Speak” – No Doubt
177 – “Drive” – Incubus
178 – “Daughter” – Pearl Jam
179 – “Where It’s At” – Beck
180 – “Stars” – Hum
181 – “Crash Into Me” – Dave Matthews Band
182 – “Stinkfist” – Tool
183 – “Pretty Fly” – The Offspring
184 – “Backwater” – Meat Puppets
185 – “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” – Crash Test Dummies
186 – “Elderly Woman Behind The Counter in a Small Town” – Pearl Jam
187 – “Ants Marching” – Dave Matthews Band
188 – “These Are the Days” – 10,000 Maniacs
189 – “Thunder Kiss ’65” – White Zombie
190 – “Doll Parts” – Hole
191 – “Lumo” – Presidents Of The United States
192 – “Say Hello 2 Heaven” – Temple of the Dog
193 – “Take A Picture” – Filter
194 – “Heavy” – Collective Soul
195 – “Popular” – Nada Surf
196 – “Father of Mine” – Everclear
197 – “Counting Blue Cars” – Dishwalla
198 – “December” – Collective Soul
199 – “Got Me Wrong” – Alice in Chains
200 – “Sour Girl” – Stone Temple Pilots
201 – “Drain You” – Nirvana
202 – “Terrible Lie” – Nine Inch Nails
203 – “March of the Pigs” – Nine Inch Nails
204 – “Are You Gonna Go My Way” – Lenny Kravitz
205 – “Joey” – Concrete Blonde
206 – “Desperately Wanting” – Better Than Ezra
207 – “Beautiful Disaster” – 311
208 – “Trippin’ On A Hole in a Paper Heart” – Stone Temple Pilots
209 – “Burden In My Hand” – Soundgarden
210 – “The Kids Aren’t Alright” – The Offspring
211 – “Sex & Candy” – Marcy Playground
212 – “Brick” – Ben Folds Five
213 – “Ruby Soho” – Rancid
214 – “The Perfect Drug” – Nine Inch Nails
215 – “Steal My Sunshine” – Len
216 – “Runaway Train” – Soul Asylum
217 – “Seasons” – Chris Cornell
218 – “Sea of Sorrows” – Alice in Chains
219 – “The Freshman” – Verve Pipe
220 – “Man on the Moon” – R.E.M.
221 – “Live Forever” – Oasis
222 – “Found Out About You” – Gin Blossoms
223 – “One” – U2
224 – “Blow Up The Outside World” – Soundgarden
225 – “Dragula” – Rob Zombie
226 – “Girlfriend” – Matthew Sweet
227 – “Push” – Matchbox Twenty
228 – “Mountain Song” – Jane’s Addiction
229 – “The Way” – Fastball
230 – “Come Undone” – Duran Duran
231 – “All Mixed Up” – 311
232 – “High and Dry” – Radiohead
233 – “Rock’ N ‘Roll Lifestyle” – Cake
234 – “Vasoline” – Stone Temple Pilots
235 – “Jerry Was A Race Car Driver” – Primus
236 – “Swallowed” – Bush
237 – “Banditos” – Refreshments
238 – “Everybody Hurts” – R.E.M.
239 – “Rape Me” – Nirvana
240 – “Tubthumping” – Chumbawamba
241 – “I Will Survive” – Cake
242 – “Scar Tissue” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
243 – “Naked Eye” – Luscious Jackson
244 – “Sure Shot” – Beastie Boys
245 – “If You Could Only See” – Tonic
246 – “Doin’ Time” – Sublime
247 – “Here Comes Your Man” – Pixies
248 – “State of Love and Trust” – Pearl Jam
249 – “Spiderwebs” – No Doubt
250 – “The Impression That I Get” – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
