Year-end countdown · KROQ · 1998

KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998

The year-end countdown for 1998 from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 107 songs, with “Intergalactic” by Beastie Boys at number one. The list features 77 different artists; Green Day has the most entries with four songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Intergalactic Beastie Boys 93 #1
2 Flagpole Sitta Harvey Danger 75 #1
3 Dammit blink-182 80 #1
4 Badfish Sublime 38 #4
5 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day 92 #2
6 I Will Buy You a New Life Everclear 54 #4
7 Sex and Candy Marcy Playground 88 #3
8 Celebrity Skin Hole 54 #4
9 Iris Goo Goo Dolls 50 #1
10 I Think I'm Paranoid Garbage 45 #10
11 Perfect The Smashing Pumpkins 28 #9
12 Goodbye Save Ferris 23 #12
13 Father of Mine Everclear 56 #11
14 Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) The Offspring 55 #1
15 Beautiful Disaster 311 47 #13
16 The Way Fastball 45 #6
17 Body Movin' Beastie Boys 31 #12
18 Got the Life Korn 51 #1
19 Inside Out Eve 6 65 #2
20 What It's Like Everlast 81 #2
21 Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve 113 #1
22 Never There Cake 70 #3
23 Josie blink-182 17 #11
24 Closing Time Semisonic 57 #4
25 The Dope Show Marilyn Manson 25 #20
26 Zoot Suit Riot Cherry Poppin' Daddies 27 #6
27 No Shelter Rage Against the Machine 26 #13
28 Karma Police Radiohead 125 #2
29 The Rockafeller Skank Fatboy Slim 57 #10
30 Push It Garbage 28 #7
31 Ava Adore The Smashing Pumpkins 26 #6
32 One Week Barenaked Ladies 46 #3
33 You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three Tonight (Baby) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 9 #33
34 Everything to Everyone Everclear 59 #8
35 Jumper Third Eye Blind 35 #8
36 Fly Away Lenny Kravitz 93 #6
37 Jump, Jive, and Wail Brian Setzer Orchestra 9 #21
38 Busy Child The Crystal Method 24 #17
39 Everlong Foo Fighters 175 #1
40 Spark Tori Amos 25 #34
41 My Own Prison Creed 37 #3
42 Get 'Em Outta Here Sprung Monkey 11 #6
43 Jane Says (Live) Jane's Addiction 6 #43
44 Given To Fly Pearl Jam 45 #12
45 Life in Mono Mono 4 #33
46 My Hero Foo Fighters 130 #9
47 Caress Me Down Sublime 23 #24
48 Save Tonight Eagle Eye Cherry 25 #6
49 Deadweight Beck 25 #32
50 The Sweetest Thing (remix) U2 15 #2
51 I'm OK, You're OK MxPx 11 #44
52 How's It Going To Be Third Eye Blind 45 #17
53 Story of My Life (live) Social Distortion 2 #53
54 Slide Goo Goo Dolls 38 #23
55 Touch, Peel, and Stand Days of the New 45 #1
56 Lucky Man The Verve 27 #31
57 Torn Natalie Imbruglia 21 #4
58 Shimmer Fuel 46 #1
59 Got You (Where I Want You) The Flys 28 #20
60 Redundant Green Day 6 #50
61 Thank U Alanis Morissette 8 #50
62 Losing A Whole Year Third Eye Blind 19 #16
63 Wishlist Pearl Jam 39 #10
64 Special Garbage 34 #11
65 3 A.M. Matchbox 20 23 #27
66 Can't Get Enough of You Baby Smash Mouth 6 #50
67 Only When I Lose Myself Depeche Mode 5 #58
68 Surfer Girl Home Grown 1 #68
69 What's This Life For Creed 12 #4
70 You Get What You Give The New Radicals 45 #3
71 Enjoy the Silence Failure 6 #30
72 Heroes The Wallflowers 16 #46
73 In Hiding Pearl Jam 19 #44
74 To Shiela The Smashing Pumpkins 1 #74
75 Nice Guys Finish Last Green Day 13 #48
76 Every Morning Sugar Ray 29 #2
77 Torn Ednaswap 1 #77
78 Jump Right In The Urge 15 #39
79 Uninvited Alanis Morissette 3 #79
80 Blue Monday Orgy 47 #6
81 Malibu Hole 31 #16
82 Mouth Bush 27 #22
83 Clumsy Our Lady Peace 49 #12
84 My Favourite Game The Cardigans 26 #10
85 Brick Ben Folds Five 65 #6
86 Praise You Fatboy Slim 74 #1
87 St. Joe on the School Bus Marcy Playground 6 #36
88 The Mummer's Dance Loreena McKennitt 9 #53
89 Prophecy Remy Zero 6 #57
90 The Negotiation Limerick File Beastie Boys 10 #5
91 Circles Soul Coughing 43 #8
92 Get Back Zebrahead 6 #62
93 Teardrop Massive Attack 25 #21
94 Singing In My Sleep Semisonic 12 #59
95 Como Vez Ozomatli 1 #95
96 Hitchin' A Ride Green Day 42 #25
97 Sexy Boy Air 10 #88
98 Tropicalia Beck 21 #49
99 Dragula Rob Zombie 51 #15
100 Bloodclot Rancid 5 #72
101 This Cat's on a Hot Tin Roof Brian Setzer Orchestra 1 #101
102 Fire Escape Fastball 8 #54
103 From Your Mouth God Lives Underwater 9 #57
104 If You Were Here Kent 1 #104
105 All The Kids Are Right Local H 17 #27
106 Real World Matchbox 20 11 #37
106.7 History Repeating Propellerheads 10 #28

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About this countdown

KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 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 Brian Reynolds. Thank you!

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