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Year-end countdown · KROQ · 1996

KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996

The year-end countdown for 1996 from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 107 songs, with “Down” by 311 at number one. The list features 69 different artists; The Smashing Pumpkins has the most entries with six songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Down 311 46 #1
2 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 70 #2
3 Spiderwebs No Doubt 37 #3
4 What I Got Sublime 63 #1
5 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 38 #5
6 Where It's At Beck 58 #2
7 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart Stone Temple Pilots 30 #2
8 Stupid Girl Garbage 42 #4
9 Tahitian Moon Porno for Pyros 12 #9
10 Machinehead Bush 40 #1
11 Don't Speak No Doubt 43 #3
12 Pepper Butthole Surfers 52 #1
13 Zero The Smashing Pumpkins 32 #6
14 Wonderwall Oasis 104 #1
15 All Mixed Up 311 42 #15
16 Just A Girl No Doubt 54 #2
17 Burden in My Hand Soundgarden 20 #4
18 Brain Stew Green Day 39 #8
19 Swallowed Bush 32 #16
20 Ironic Alanis Morissette 29 #20
21 The Distance Cake 58 #1
22 Big Bang Baby Stone Temple Pilots 31 #12
23 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Primitive Radio Gods 24 #8
24 #1 Crush Garbage 32 #24
25 People of the Sun Rage Against the Machine 11 #25
26 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 59 #5
27 Ladykillers Lush 14 #21
28 Glycerine Bush 73 #3
29 Happy Now No Doubt 9 #29
30 Santa Monica Everclear 36 #3
31 Guilty Gravity Kills 16 #5
32 You Learn Alanis Morissette 20 #7
33 Pretty Noose Soundgarden 17 #7
34 Who Will Save Your Soul Jewel 17 #18
35 Champagne Supernova Oasis 65 #11
36 Mother Mother Tracy Bonham 18 #11
37 Aneurysm Nirvana 27 #12
38 Angry Johnny Poe 25 #27
39 I Got Id Pearl Jam 20 #20
40 Head Over Feet Alanis Morissette 12 #29
41 Stinkfist Tool 52 #2
42 Only Happy When It Rains Garbage 48 #14
43 Muzzle The Smashing Pumpkins 11 #20
44 Novocaine for the Soul The Eels 26 #16
45 Lovefool The Cardigans 26 #14
46 Here in Your Bedroom Goldfinger 26 #12
47 In The Meantime Spacehog 38 #7
48 I Was Wrong Social Distortion 26 #34
49 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 67 #1
50 The Diamond Sea Sonic Youth 4 #42
51 Bound for the Floor Local H 35 #32
52 Ready To Go Republica 31 #26
53 Natural One Folk Implosion 42 #15
54 Cumbersome Seven Mary Three 25 #22
55 High and Dry Radiohead 38 #55
56 Devil's Haircut Beck 39 #29
57 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Marilyn Manson 7 #48
58 Salvation The Cranberries 24 #22
59 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 63 #1
60 A Long December Counting Crows 23 #26
61 What Do I Have To Do? Stabbing Westward 20 #9
62 Mint Car The Cure 14 #24
63 Possum Kingdom Toadies 37 #5
64 Bluster Salt 2 #64
65 Blow Up the Outside World Soundgarden 14 #34
66 Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis 56 #1
67 Again Alice In Chains 5 #67
68 6th Avenue Heartache The Wallflowers 13 #18
69 The Beautiful People Marilyn Manson 19 #29
70 Counting Blue Cars Dishwalla 20 #1
71 Popular Nada Surf 14 #36
72 Scooby Snacks Fun Lovin' Criminals 14 #14
73 E-Bow the Letter R.E.M. 6 #71
74 Lump The Presidents of the United States of America 51 #2
75 No Woman, No Cry The Fugees 9 #75
76 My Friends Red Hot Chili Peppers 30 #7
77 Tiny Meat Ruby 5 #77
78 Walking Contradiction Green Day 6 #58
79 Who You Are Pearl Jam 21 #50
80 Santeria Sublime 52 #4
81 Free To Decide The Cranberries 12 #35
82 Photograph The Verve Pipe 22 #24
83 Thirty-Three The Smashing Pumpkins 27 #39
84 Angels of the Silences Counting Crows 12 #55
85 The Box Orbital 7 #7
86 The World I Know Collective Soul 22 #38
87 Fat Randy Voodoo Glow Skulls 1 #87
88 Bittersweet Me R.E.M. 7 #47
89 Tumble in the Rough Stone Temple Pilots 3 #65
90 If It Makes You Happy Sheryl Crow 22 #40
91 Big Me Foo Fighters 32 #14
92 Supervixen Garbage 3 #75
93 Heaven Beside You Alice In Chains 30 #39
94 Caught A Lite Sneeze Tori Amos 16 #60
95 Greedy Fly Bush 15 #20
96 Jealousy Natalie Merchant 8 #96
97 Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers 28 #28
98 Lady Picture Show Stone Temple Pilots 26 #36
99 Shadowboxer Fiona Apple 9 #73
100 Hail Hail Pearl Jam 10 #26
101 Wax Ecstatic Sponge 4 #67
102 Shame Stabbing Westward 8 #30
103 Flood Jars of Clay 21 #36
104 Sucked Out Superdrag 13 #53
105 Smile Pearl Jam 3 #39
106 Open The Door Magnapop 5 #106
106.7 Let's Go Smoke Some Pot Dash Rip Rock 6 #69

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About this countdown

KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA). 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 Eric Schwartz. Thank you!

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