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Year-end countdown · KISW · July 30, 2021

KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from 1994

The year-end countdown (July 30, 2021) from KISW in Seattle-Tacoma, WA ranks 25 songs, with “Seether” by Veruca Salt at number one. The list features 17 different artists; Stone Temple Pilots has the most entries with three songs.

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Aired in 2021 as part of KISW's 50th-anniversary '25 from 50' weekend countdowns (counted down from 25 to 1). Retrospective list of songs from 1994.

# Song ListsBest
25 Seether Veruca Salt 52 #3
24 Possum Kingdom Toadies 69 #4
23 Backwater Meat Puppets 63 #7
22 Vasoline Stone Temple Pilots 100 #3
21 Buddy Holly Weezer 97 #2
20 The Day I Tried To Live Soundgarden 22 #20
19 Plowed Sponge 55 #19
18 Come Out and Play The Offspring 97 #2
17 Hurt Nine Inch Nails 74 #2
16 Basket Case Green Day 120 #1
15 Loser Beck 125 #2
14 Spoonman Soundgarden 101 #14
13 Machinehead Bush 78 #1
12 Big Empty Stone Temple Pilots 97 #10
11 Self-Esteem The Offspring 110 #1
10 Sabotage Beastie Boys 111 #3
9 Lightning Crashes Live 110 #1
8 Closer Nine Inch Nails 109 #1
7 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
6 When I Come Around Green Day 119 #2
5 Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots 135 #3
4 The Man Who Sold the World Nirvana 81 #4
3 No Excuses Alice In Chains 72 #3
2 Better Man Pearl Jam 148 #2
1 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 154 #1

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About this countdown

KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from 1994 was broadcast by KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA) in July 30, 2021. 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 Hard Rock & Metal rankings.

Source: KISW 99.9 (Audacy), "The 25 Greatest Rock Songs from 1994".

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