All-time countdown · Studio Brussel · 1996

Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1996)

The all-time countdown (1996) from Studio Brussel in Flanders, Belgium ranks 100 songs, with “Child in Time” by Deep Purple at number one. The list features 68 different artists; U2 has the most entries with five songs.

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Studio Brusselstation
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# Song ListsBest
1 Child in Time Deep Purple 42 #1
2 Angie The Rolling Stones 50 #1
3 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 73 #1
4 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 134 #1
5 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 69 #2
6 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 115 #1
7 A Forest The Cure 58 #4
8 Alive Pearl Jam 119 #1
9 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 84 #3
10 Purple Rain Prince 51 #1
11 One Metallica 68 #2
12 Like a Hurricane Neil Young 56 #8
13 Troy Sinéad O'Connor 44 #4
14 Creep Radiohead 111 #1
15 The End The Doors 52 #10
16 Suds & Soda dEUS 27 #8
17 Temple of Love Sisters of Mercy 41 #16
18 Zombie The Cranberries 71 #1
19 Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 67 #6
20 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 116 #2
21 One U2 114 #1
22 Hotel California The Eagles 65 #3
23 The River Bruce Springsteen 48 #5
24 Nothing Else Matters Metallica 63 #5
25 Sympathy For The Devil The Rolling Stones 65 #1
26 Imagine John Lennon 54 #1
27 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 120 #1
28 I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 34 #2
29 Perfect Day Lou Reed 30 #12
30 Summer of '69 Bryan Adams 33 #16
31 The Passenger Iggy Pop 33 #10
32 Paradise by the Dashboard Light Meat Loaf 33 #6
33 Hotellounge dEUS 19 #19
34 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 61 #1
35 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 67 #1
36 Diane Therapy 19 #16
37 Riders on the Storm The Doors 53 #20
38 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones 64 #17
39 Light My Fire The Doors 44 #5
40 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin 66 #16
41 With or Without You U2 123 #3
42 Oh La La La TC Matic 27 #13
43 Nights in White Satin The Moody Blues 35 #12
44 Heroes David Bowie 93 #1
45 Alice Sisters of Mercy 26 #18
46 The One I Love R.E.M. 91 #5
47 I Want You Elvis Costello 30 #16
48 Rockin' In The Free World Neil Young 51 #31
49 New Year's Day U2 100 #4
50 Ironic Alanis Morissette 29 #20
51 Paranoid Black Sabbath 65 #9
52 Another Brick in the Wall Part II Pink Floyd 18 #3
53 Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies 59 #5
54 Mia Gorki 33 #1
55 Little Arithmetics dEUS 7 #38
56 Hey Jude The Beatles 39 #2
57 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 64 #1
58 Dear God XTC 76 #1
59 Lola The Kinks 40 #24
60 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 47 #1
61 Blauw The Scene 16 #6
62 Yesterday The Beatles 36 #12
63 Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum 32 #20
64 Drive R.E.M. 45 #3
65 Like The Way I Do Melissa Etheridge 9 #48
66 Street Spirit (Fade Out) Radiohead 27 #15
67 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 77 #1
68 November Rain Guns N Roses 51 #25
69 Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix 34 #24
70 Music John Miles 13 #20
71 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple 35 #14
72 Not An Addict K's Choice 38 #15
73 Let It Be The Beatles 36 #3
74 I Can't Live in a Living Room Red Zebra 29 #36
75 Space Oddity David Bowie 84 #8
76 Roxanne The Police 82 #10
77 Born Slippy Underworld 34 #5
78 Whole Lotta Rosie AC/DC 47 #6
79 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 117 #1
80 Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 48 #2
81 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 43 #16
82 Born to be Wild Steppenwolf 28 #1
83 Psycho Killer Talking Heads 71 #6
84 Sebastian Cockney Rebel 12 #50
85 No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley 55 #17
86 Wonderwall Oasis 104 #1
87 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 83 #1
88 So Long Fischer-Z 10 #79
89 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 60 #3
90 Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine 85 #2
91 Gloria Them 4 #27
92 The Ship Song Nick Cave 24 #62
93 One Way The Levellers 21 #77
94 Glycerine Bush 73 #3
95 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 72 #9
96 Sign O The Times Prince 30 #8
97 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits 42 #18
98 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 63 #1
99 Hard Times The Scabs 15 #1
100 Liberty Song The Levellers 8 #29

About this countdown

Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1996) was voted by Studio Brussel’s listeners (Flanders, Belgium) in 1996. 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: tijdloze.rocks, "De Tijdloze van 1996" (data via api.tijdloze.rocks/core-data; rankings cross-checked against nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijdloze_100 top-10 table).

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