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Special countdown · CFNY 102.1 The Edge · October 6, 2012

102.1 The Edge Top 102 New Rock Songs of All-Time

The countdown (October 6, 2012) from CFNY 102.1 The Edge in Toronto, ON ranks 102 songs, with “Come As You Are” by Nirvana at number one. The list features 39 different artists; Red Hot Chili Peppers has the most entries with seven songs.

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"New Rock" is the station's own descriptor for its core alternative/modern-rock catalogue rather than a specific era. Rank order taken from the page's own <ol> markup (not printed as explicit numbers). A May 2012 Toronto Mike blog post covered an earlier/different-order 102-song version of this chart without explicit ranks (torontomike.com/2012/05/top_102_new_rock_songs_by_1021/); this file uses the primary station page instead, which has explicit rank order.

# Song ListsBest
1 Come As You Are Nirvana 175 #1
2 Everlong Foo Fighters 175 #1
3 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
4 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
5 Undone (The Sweater Song) Weezer 71 #3
6 Sabotage Beastie Boys 111 #3
7 Jeremy Pearl Jam 187 #1
8 Brain Stew Green Day 61 #8
9 Closer Nine Inch Nails 109 #1
10 Today The Smashing Pumpkins 108 #2
11 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
12 Times Like These Foo Fighters 65 #3
13 The Kids Aren't Alright The Offspring 60 #3
14 All the Small Things blink-182 79 #2
15 Buddy Holly Weezer 97 #2
16 Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers 104 #2
17 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 154 #1
18 Even Flow Pearl Jam 145 #2
19 Crabbuckit K-OS 4 #19
20 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day 92 #2
21 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
22 New Orleans Is Sinking The Tragically Hip 13 #5
23 Numb Linkin Park 85 #2
24 Champagne Supernova Oasis 91 #11
25 Man in the Box Alice In Chains 129 #3
26 Soul to Squeeze Red Hot Chili Peppers 81 #9
27 Lithium Nirvana 150 #3
28 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 125 #3
29 Starseed Our Lady Peace 32 #13
30 Ready to Start The Arcade Fire 54 #3
31 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
32 Self-Esteem The Offspring 110 #1
33 Losing California Sloan 5 #33
34 So What'cha Want Beastie Boys 72 #34
35 Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine 135 #2
36 Everything Is Automatic The Matthew Good Band 5 #36
37 One Thing Finger Eleven 29 #11
38 Creep Radiohead 158 #1
39 Uprising Muse 81 #1
40 Romantic Rights Death From Above 1979 3 #8
41 My Hero Foo Fighters 130 #9
42 I Hate Everything About You Three Days Grace 44 #3
43 Around the World Red Hot Chili Peppers 60 #10
44 Superman's Dead Our Lady Peace 49 #8
45 Poets The Tragically Hip 23 #19
46 Basket Case Green Day 120 #1
47 Would? Alice In Chains 120 #5
48 About A Girl Nirvana 75 #7
49 Help, Im Alive Metric 31 #2
50 Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots 135 #3
51 Rebellion (Lies) The Arcade Fire 47 #6
52 Better Man Pearl Jam 148 #2
53 Above Finger Eleven 3 #49
54 In the End Linkin Park 92 #1
55 Load Me Up The Matthew Good Band 4 #55
56 Come Out and Play The Offspring 97 #2
57 Pieces Sum 41 17 #1
58 Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers 57 #6
59 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 98 #4
60 Little Bones The Tragically Hip 9 #5
61 Neighbourhood #3 The Arcade Fire 2 #61
62 Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine 54 #5
63 Clumsy Our Lady Peace 49 #12
64 Karma Police Radiohead 125 #2
65 The Good In Everyone Sloan 6 #45
66 No Sleep Til Brooklyn Beastie Boys 55 #6
67 Longview Green Day 113 #1
68 Sleeping Sickness City And Colour 3 #22
69 Try Honesty Billy Talent 13 #13
70 All Apologies Nirvana 145 #2
71 Brother Down Sam Roberts 9 #6
72 Starlight Muse 57 #1
73 Innocent Our Lady Peace 15 #5
74 Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers 91 #1
75 Plush Stone Temple Pilots 135 #1
76 First Time Finger Eleven 5 #16
77 Money City Maniacs Sloan 6 #33
78 Yellow Ledbetter Pearl Jam 117 #2
79 Fully Completely The Tragically Hip 3 #79
80 Gone Away The Offspring 60 #3
81 One Step Closer Linkin Park 63 #1
82 In Too Deep Sum 41 25 #24
83 This Could Be Anywhere in the World Alexisonfire 6 #7
84 Learn to Fly Foo Fighters 108 #6
85 How You Remind Me Nickelback 53 #2
86 Rooster Alice In Chains 115 #6
87 Somewhere Out There Our Lady Peace 22 #2
88 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
89 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers 102 #2
90 Wake Up The Arcade Fire 31 #6
91 One More Astronaut I Mother Earth 6 #29
92 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 70 #5
93 The Oaf (My Luck Is Wasted) Big Wreck 7 #57
94 High and Dry Radiohead 55 #44
95 Boiled Frogs Alexisonfire 3 #3
96 Polly Nirvana 50 #5
97 I'm with You The Stills 2 #61
98 Hysteria Muse 40 #3
99 Makes No Difference Sum 41 4 #58
100 Apparitions The Matthew Good Band 5 #51
101 Hollow Point Sniper Hyperbole Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker 3 #90
102 Intergalactic Beastie Boys 93 #1

About this countdown

102.1 The Edge Top 102 New Rock Songs of All-Time was voted by CFNY 102.1 The Edge’s listeners (Toronto, ON) in October 6, 2012. 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. Because it is a themed or special countdown, it is archived here but not counted in the combined rankings.

Source: 102.1 the Edge (archived countdown page), "The Top 102 New Rock Songs of All Time".

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