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KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999)

The countdown of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 300 songs, with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana at number one. The list features 126 different artists; Nirvana has the most entries with twelve songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
2 Date Rape Sublime 30 #1
3 Self-Esteem The Offspring 110 #1
4 Dammit blink-182 80 #1
5 Intergalactic Beastie Boys 93 #1
6 Plush Stone Temple Pilots 135 #1
7 What I Got Sublime 106 #1
8 Creep Radiohead 158 #1
9 Loser Beck 125 #2
10 Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine 135 #2
11 Come As You Are Nirvana 175 #1
12 Nookie Limp Bizkit 42 #1
13 Just A Girl No Doubt 78 #2
14 Come Out and Play The Offspring 97 #2
15 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
16 What's My Age Again? blink-182 73 #1
17 Wrong Way Sublime 75 #1
18 Freak on a Leash Korn 80 #2
19 When I Come Around Green Day 119 #2
20 Down 311 71 #1
21 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
22 Everlong Foo Fighters 175 #1
23 Santeria Sublime 92 #1
24 Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers 104 #2
25 Song 2 Blur 124 #1
26 Today The Smashing Pumpkins 108 #2
27 Got the Life Korn 51 #1
28 Closer Nine Inch Nails 109 #1
29 Enter Sandman Metallica 164 #2
30 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
31 Brain Stew Green Day 61 #8
32 Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) The Offspring 55 #1
33 Badfish Sublime 38 #4
34 Jeremy Pearl Jam 187 #1
35 Spiderwebs No Doubt 56 #3
36 Josie blink-182 17 #11
37 Fly Sugar Ray 41 #1
38 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day 92 #2
39 Been Caught Stealing Jane's Addiction 112 #1
40 Where It's At Beck 85 #2
41 Head Like a Hole Nine Inch Nails 89 #1
42 Beastie Boys Sabotage 1 #42
43 Celebrity Skin Hole 54 #4
44 Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode 107 #2
45 Longview Green Day 113 #1
46 Lightning Crashes Live 110 #1
47 The Distance Cake 91 #1
48 Flagpole Sitta Harvey Danger 75 #1
49 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 70 #5
50 Don't Speak No Doubt 58 #3
51 Even Flow Pearl Jam 145 #2
52 Hurt Nine Inch Nails 74 #2
53 Pictures of You The Cure 71 #4
54 Walkin' On The Sun Smash Mouth 50 #1
55 The Unforgiven Metallica 96 #5
56 All Mixed Up 311 64 #10
57 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 125 #3
58 Bawitdaba Kid Rock 44 #1
59 Bad Habit The Offspring 10 #21
60 Iris Goo Goo Dolls 50 #1
61 No Rain Blind Melon 109 #2
62 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
63 My Own Worst Enemy Lit 64 #1
64 One U2 172 #1
65 Semi-Charmed Life Third Eye Blind 63 #1
66 Man in the Box Alice In Chains 129 #3
67 Last Kiss Pearl Jam 60 #3
68 Sex and Candy Marcy Playground 88 #3
69 Give It Away Red Hot Chili Peppers 115 #3
70 Silent All These Years Tori Amos 52 #10
71 Sure Shot Beastie Boys 47 #12
72 Basket Case Green Day 120 #1
73 Vasoline Stone Temple Pilots 100 #3
74 #1 Crush Garbage 40 #24
75 Comedown Bush 95 #2
76 Never There Cake 70 #3
77 Jane Says (Live) Jane's Addiction 6 #43
78 Epic Faith No More 109 #6
79 Doin' Time Sublime 45 #1
80 Nothing Else Matters Metallica 140 #5
81 Lump The Presidents of the United States of America 75 #2
82 Black Pearl Jam 179 #1
83 Every Morning Sugar Ray 29 #2
84 The Rockafeller Skank Fatboy Slim 57 #10
85 Machinehead Bush 78 #1
86 What It's Like Everlast 81 #2
87 More Human Than Human White Zombie 58 #9
88 The Kids Aren't Alright The Offspring 60 #3
89 Buddy Holly Weezer 97 #2
90 You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette 69 #2
91 Faith Limp Bizkit 25 #3
92 Better Man Pearl Jam 148 #2
93 Praise You Fatboy Slim 74 #1
94 Blind Korn 24 #4
95 About A Girl Nirvana 75 #7
96 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
97 All the Small Things blink-182 79 #2
98 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 173 #1
99 Cowboy Kid Rock 33 #8
100 Sober Tool 75 #14
101 No Shelter Rage Against the Machine 26 #13
102 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 154 #1
103 Linger The Cranberries 63 #3
104 Body Movin' Beastie Boys 31 #12
105 Why Don't You Get a Job? The Offspring 39 #8
106 Detachable Penis King Missile 31 #29
107 Re-Arranged Limp Bizkit 39 #8
108 Special Garbage 34 #11
109 Lithium Nirvana 150 #3
110 Landslide The Smashing Pumpkins 40 #15
111 Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine 34 #7
112 Ball and Chain Social Distortion 71 #2
113 Daughter Pearl Jam 132 #1
114 Breathe The Prodigy 40 #2
115 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart Stone Temple Pilots 50 #1
116 Bittersweet Sympthony The Verve 20 #2
117 In Bloom Nirvana 117 #5
118 Stupid Girl Garbage 54 #4
119 Far Behind Candlebox 58 #7
120 Are You Gonna Go My Way Lenny Kravitz 100 #3
121 Say It Ain't So Weezer 80 #4
122 Thunder Kiss '65 White Zombie 34 #46
123 Pepper Butthole Surfers 76 #1
124 Yellow Ledbetter Pearl Jam 117 #2
125 Welcome to Paradise Green Day 74 #6
126 Dreams The Cranberries 67 #2
127 All-Star Smash Mouth 23 #9
128 The Dope Show Marilyn Manson 25 #20
129 Caress Me Down Sublime 23 #24
130 Corduroy Pearl Jam 65 #5
131 The Impression That I Get The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 70 #1
132 Disconnected Face to Face 11 #38
133 Your Woman White Town 39 #14
134 Would? Alice In Chains 120 #5
135 Battle Flag Lo Fidelity All-Stars 52 #3
136 Cannonball The Breeders 78 #1
137 She Green Day 51 #12
138 Alien Pennywise 11 #16
139 Mysterious Ways U2 135 #1
140 Fell On Black Days Soundgarden 104 #11
141 People of the Sun Rage Against the Machine 19 #25
142 Low Cracker 88 #9
143 Come Undone Duran Duran 23 #5
144 All Apologies Nirvana 145 #2
145 The Beautiful People Marilyn Manson 41 #1
146 Policy of Truth Depeche Mode 63 #2
147 Cornflake Girl Tori Amos 65 #16
148 Soul to Squeeze Red Hot Chili Peppers 81 #9
149 Everything Zen Bush 77 #3
150 Sunday Morning No Doubt 13 #22
151 I Will Buy You a New Life Everclear 54 #4
152 Zombie The Cranberries 97 #1
153 Stinkfist Tool 73 #2
154 I Think I'm Paranoid Garbage 45 #10
155 Cherub Rock The Smashing Pumpkins 77 #8
156 Unbelievable EMF 55 #2
157 Hey Man Nice Shot Filter 75 #6
158 Doll Parts Hole 57 #2
159 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
160 Santa Monica Everclear 90 #3
161 Mr. Jones Counting Crows 96 #4
162 Jump Around House of Pain 35 #3
163 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 69 #1
164 I Alone Live 97 #4
165 The New Pollution Beck 63 #8
166 Fade Into You Mazzy Star 65 #4
167 Heart-Shaped Box Nirvana 122 #6
168 Karma Police Radiohead 125 #2
169 Violet Hole 34 #12
170 Friday I'm in Love The Cure 77 #1
171 Drown The Smashing Pumpkins 27 #9
172 Rush Big Audio Dynamite 51 #5
173 Burden in My Hand Soundgarden 55 #4
174 Goodbye Save Ferris 23 #12
175 Champagne Supernova Oasis 91 #11
176 Perfect The Smashing Pumpkins 28 #9
177 Sweet Jane Cowboy Junkies 57 #4
178 Big Empty Stone Temple Pilots 97 #10
179 Everclear Father of Mine 1 #179
180 Crash The Primitives 40 #12
181 A Letter to Elise The Cure 36 #3
182 Zero The Smashing Pumpkins 49 #3
183 Beautiful Disaster 311 47 #13
184 Rape Me Nirvana 49 #18
185 Inside Out Eve 6 65 #2
186 Natural One Folk Implosion 58 #15
187 6 Underground Sneaker Pimps 54 #2
188 Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Pearl Jam 71 #4
189 Right Here, Right Now Jesus Jones 58 #3
190 It's No Good Depeche Mode 23 #13
191 Malibu Hole 31 #16
192 Devil's Haircut Beck 59 #29
193 Hey Jealousy Gin Blossoms 46 #6
194 Sell Out Reel Big Fish 32 #4
195 Fly Away Lenny Kravitz 93 #6
196 Stop! Jane's Addiction 56 #6
197 One Headlight The Wallflowers 55 #4
198 The Man Who Sold the World Nirvana 81 #4
199 Kiss Them for Me Siouxsie and the Banshees 55 #3
200 All Over You Live 63 #9
201 Born of Frustration James 34 #3
202 Wicked Garden Stone Temple Pilots 61 #23
203 Push Matchbox 20 22 #5
204 My Own Prison Creed 37 #3
205 Graduate Third Eye Blind 24 #12
206 Hand In My Pocket Alanis Morissette 31 #14
207 Hunger Strike Temple of the Dog 104 #7
208 Hell Squirrel Nut Zippers 45 #10
209 So What'cha Want Beastie Boys 72 #34
210 Here's Where The Story Ends The Sundays 56 #3
211 Spoonman Soundgarden 101 #14
212 Mrs. Robinson The Lemonheads 56 #19
213 Name Goo Goo Dolls 42 #2
214 Story of My Life Social Distortion 43 #7
215 Shiny Happy People R.E.M. 36 #8
216 Hitchin' A Ride Green Day 42 #25
217 Runaway Train Soul Asylum 73 #6
218 All I Want The Offspring 14 #55
219 Prisoner of Society The Living End 25 #15
220 The Dolphin's Cry Live 30 #12
221 Dumb Nirvana 73 #17
222 Crash Into Me Dave Matthews Band 70 #4
223 Block Rockin' Beats The Chemical Brothers 53 #19
224 The Way Fastball 45 #6
225 Happy Now No Doubt 9 #29
226 Gotta Get Away The Offspring 63 #18
227 All I Want Is You U2 46 #6
228 Bullet in the Head Rage Against the Machine 5 #84
229 Time Bomb Rancid 61 #17
230 Bound for the Floor Local H 59 #10
231 Jumper Third Eye Blind 35 #8
232 Wynona's Big Brown Beaver Primus 40 #28
233 Ava Adore The Smashing Pumpkins 26 #6
234 Steal My Sunshine Len 37 #9
235 You Candlebox 35 #35
236 Around the World Red Hot Chili Peppers 60 #10
237 Down by the Water PJ Harvey 55 #17
238 Infected Bad Religion 28 #39
239 The Negotiation Limerick File Beastie Boys 10 #5
240 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 98 #4
241 Criminal Fiona Apple 47 #8
242 Love Rollercoaster Red Hot Chili Peppers 33 #15
243 Plowed Sponge 55 #19
244 Excuse Me Mr. No Doubt 10 #67
245 Jack-Ass Beck 28 #11
246 World In My Eyes Depeche Mode 35 #5
247 Gone Away The Offspring 60 #3
248 Breaking the Girl Red Hot Chili Peppers 55 #26
249 Crush Dave Matthews Band 40 #19
250 Down In It Nine Inch Nails 53 #47
251 The Chemicals Between Us Bush 39 #11
252 I'll Stick Around Foo Fighters 48 #2
253 Stutter Elastica 19 #14
254 J.A.R. Green Day 34 #15
255 3 Strange Days School of Fish 43 #1
256 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Primitive Radio Gods 44 #8
257 Only Happy When It Rains Garbage 69 #9
258 Eye The Smashing Pumpkins 21 #9
259 Rooster Alice In Chains 115 #6
260 How's It Going To Be Third Eye Blind 45 #17
261 Sex Type Thing Stone Temple Pilots 60 #19
262 Selling The Drama Live 54 #1
263 Lovefool The Cardigans 36 #14
264 Little Things Bush 55 #16
265 Tomorrow Silverchair 65 #1
266 No Excuses Alice In Chains 72 #3
267 I'm OK, You're OK MxPx 11 #44
268 Busy Child The Crystal Method 24 #17
269 New No Doubt 11 #25
270 Valerie Loves Me Material Issue 46 #19
271 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 75 #1
272 Smack My Bitch Up The Prodigy 22 #21
273 Higher Creed 47 #6
274 Live Forever Oasis 50 #4
275 Nice Guys Finish Last Green Day 13 #48
276 American Woman Lenny Kravitz 33 #10
277 Verse Chorus Verse Nirvana 25 #33
278 Greedy Fly Bush 23 #20
279 Push It Garbage 28 #7
280 Creep Stone Temple Pilots 77 #44
281 Drive R.E.M. 50 #3
282 Dragula Rob Zombie 51 #15
283 Possum Kingdom Toadies 69 #4
284 Jerry Was A Race Car Driver Primus 62 #26
285 Here in Your Bedroom Goldfinger 41 #12
286 Da Funk Daft Punk 24 #10
287 Guilty Gravity Kills 20 #5
288 Undone (The Sweater Song) Weezer 71 #3
289 Pretty Noose Soundgarden 28 #6
290 Remote Control Beastie Boys 18 #19
291 Vow Garbage 11 #15
292 Polly Nirvana 50 #5
293 Blue Monday Orgy 47 #6
294 Swallowed Bush 42 #16
295 Closing Time Semisonic 57 #4
296 Human Behaviour Björk 55 #20
297 Everything to Everyone Everclear 59 #8
298 Sin Nine Inch Nails 20 #67
299 Bad Luck Social Distortion 41 #22
300 Firestarter The Prodigy 37 #13

About this countdown

KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA) in Labor Day 1999. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Contributed by Bug Campbell. Thank you!

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