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Year-end countdown · Q101 · January 1993

Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992

The year-end countdown (January 1993) from Q101 in Chicago, IL ranks 101 songs, with “Under the Bridge” by Red Hot Chili Peppers at number one. The list features 75 different artists; U2 has the most entries with five songs.

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Exact air date of the original 1992/93 broadcast is not stated on the blog repost.

# Song ListsBest
1 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
2 Jeremy Pearl Jam 187 #1
3 A Letter to Elise The Cure 36 #3
4 Come As You Are Nirvana 175 #1
5 One U2 172 #1
6 All I Want Toad The Wet Sprocket 47 #6
7 Stay Shakespear's Sister 19 #7
8 Even Flow Pearl Jam 145 #2
9 Tomorrow Morrissey 34 #6
10 Drive R.E.M. 50 #3
11 Born of Frustration James 34 #3
12 Hit The Sugarcubes 36 #3
13 Friday I'm in Love The Cure 77 #1
14 Hunger Strike Temple of the Dog 104 #7
15 Pretend We're Dead L7 33 #15
16 Digging In The Dirt Peter Gabriel 24 #12
17 Weirdo The Charlatans 29 #16
18 You Think You Know Her Cause and Effect 5 #18
19 Why Annie Lennox 20 #19
20 Would? Alice In Chains 120 #5
21 Mysterious Ways U2 135 #1
22 Not Enough Time INXS 17 #13
23 Take a Chance on Me Erasure 4 #23
24 What Are We Gonna Do? Dramarama 16 #24
25 We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful Morrissey 8 #22
26 Breaking the Girl Red Hot Chili Peppers 55 #26
27 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
28 Caribbean Blue Enya 15 #28
29 Lithium Nirvana 150 #3
30 Divine Thing The Soup Dragons 29 #8
31 Even Better Than The Real Thing U2 45 #15
32 High The Cure 22 #32
33 Something Good Utah Saints 8 #31
34 Crucify Tori Amos 37 #34
35 Somebody To Shove Soul Asylum 45 #35
36 Walking On Broken Glass Annie Lennox 30 #29
37 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses U2 24 #14
38 Two Worlds Collide Inspiral Carpets 17 #5
39 So What'cha Want Beastie Boys 72 #34
40 Black Metallic Catherine Wheel 47 #15
41 Black Pearl Jam 179 #1
42 Temple of Dreams Messiah 5 #42
43 Midlife Crisis Faith No More 19 #12
44 Trout Neneh Cherry & Michael Stipe 2 #44
45 Suck My Kiss Red Hot Chili Peppers 46 #30
46 Only Love Can Break Your Heart St. Etienne 10 #46
47 Into The Fire Sarah McLachlan 24 #47
48 In Bloom Nirvana 117 #5
49 Blood Makes Noise Suzanne Vega 25 #20
50 When She Begins Social Distortion 5 #50
51 Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World U2 21 #49
52 Physical Nine Inch Nails 2 #52
53 Someday? Concrete Blonde 12 #53
54 These Are Days 10,000 Maniacs 48 #9
55 Teen Angst Cracker 46 #14
56 Revolution Earth The B-52's 7 #13
57 Pleasure The Soup Dragons 6 #39
58 Mrs. Robinson The Lemonheads 56 #19
59 Helpless Sugar 30 #9
60 Face To Face Siouxsie and the Banshees 14 #15
61 Jump Around House of Pain 35 #3
62 Pain Lies On The Riverside Live 27 #62
63 Constant Craving KD Lang 19 #30
64 The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead XTC 31 #21
65 N.W.O. Ministry 20 #13
66 Walk On The Ocean Toad The Wet Sprocket 40 #15
67 Sheela Na Gig PJ Harvey 12 #2
68 The Life of Riley The Lightning Seeds 7 #42
69 Dizz Knee Land dada 38 #7
70 100% Sonic Youth 20 #23
71 For Love Lush 7 #40
72 Killer Seal 2 #72
73 Not Sleeping Around Ned's Atomic Dustbin 11 #19
74 Old Red Eyes is Back The Beautiful South 3 #74
75 It's a Fine Day Opus III 2 #75
76 Far Gone and Out The Jesus and Mary Chain 8 #5
77 Heaven Sent INXS 3 #77
78 Nearly Lost You Screaming Trees 72 #21
79 Spiritual High (State of Independence) Moodswings 14 #37
80 Girlfriend Matthew Sweet 58 #2
81 Black Gold Soul Asylum 33 #35
82 Dyslexic Heart Paul Westerberg 32 #24
83 Damn! I Wish I Was Your Lover Sophie B. Hawkins 2 #83
84 Steam Peter Gabriel 22 #78
85 Sex On Wheelz My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult 13 #48
86 Silent All These Years Tori Amos 52 #10
87 Glamorous Glue Morrissey 3 #50
88 A Small Victory Faith No More 6 #61
89 Behind The Sun Red Hot Chili Peppers 22 #38
90 Love U More Sunscreem 7 #68
91 Ordinary World Duran Duran 46 #6
92 Lover Lover Lover Ian McCulloch 5 #50
93 Hello Cruel World E 13 #60
94 The Concept Teenage Fanclub 7 #6
95 What do you See Cause and Effect 2 #95
96 Iron Lion Zion Bob Marley 12 #60
97 What Girls Want Material Issue 5 #67
98 I'm Too Sexy Right Said Fred 15 #24
99 Bad Luck Social Distortion 41 #22
100 Laid so Low (Tears Roll Down) Tears for Fears 4 #100
101 She's Mad David Byrne 6 #69

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About this countdown

Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992 was broadcast by Q101 (Chicago, IL) in January 1993. 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.

Source: Wayback Machine capture of Q101.com (WKQX), "Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992" (originally posted Oct 23, 2013 on the Q101 blog archive; Q101 launched in April 1992, so this is a retrospective repost of the station's first year-end countdown).

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