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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# Song ListsBest
1 Child in Time Deep Purple 42 #1
2 Angie The Rolling Stones 100 #1
3 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 169 #1
4 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
5 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 169 #1
6 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 173 #1
7 A Forest The Cure 63 #4
8 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
9 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 125 #3
10 Purple Rain Prince 71 #1
11 One Metallica 107 #2
12 Like a Hurricane Neil Young 79 #8
13 Troy Sinéad O'Connor 48 #4
14 Creep Radiohead 158 #1
15 The End The Doors 69 #10
16 Suds & Soda dEUS 27 #8
17 Temple of Love Sisters of Mercy 41 #16
18 Zombie The Cranberries 97 #1
19 Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 143 #6
20 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
21 One U2 172 #1
22 Hotel California The Eagles 160 #1
23 The River Bruce Springsteen 60 #5
24 Nothing Else Matters Metallica 140 #5
25 Sympathy For The Devil The Rolling Stones 156 #1
26 Imagine John Lennon 121 #1
27 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
28 I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 116 #2
29 Perfect Day Lou Reed 39 #12
30 Summer of '69 Bryan Adams 93 #3
31 The Passenger Iggy Pop 44 #10
32 Paradise by the Dashboard Light Meat Loaf 74 #6
33 Hotellounge dEUS 19 #19
34 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 139 #1
35 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 92 #1
36 Diane Therapy 19 #16
37 Riders on the Storm The Doors 133 #20
38 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones 146 #7
39 Light My Fire The Doors 127 #5
40 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin 151 #4
41 With or Without You U2 213 #3
42 Oh La La La TC Matic 27 #13
43 Nights in White Satin The Moody Blues 67 #8
44 Heroes David Bowie 125 #1
45 Alice Sisters of Mercy 26 #18
46 The One I Love R.E.M. 150 #5
47 I Want You Elvis Costello & the Attractions 33 #16
48 Rockin' In The Free World Neil Young 121 #8
49 New Year's Day U2 182 #4
50 Ironic Alanis Morissette 35 #20
51 Paranoid Black Sabbath 150 #4
52 Another Brick In The Wall Pt. II Pink Floyd 28 #3
53 Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies 67 #5
54 Mia Gorki 33 #1
55 Little Arithmetics dEUS 7 #38
56 Hey Jude The Beatles 105 #1
57 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 75 #1
58 Dear God XTC 92 #1
59 Lola The Kinks 105 #24
60 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 69 #1
61 Blauw The Scene 16 #6
62 Yesterday The Beatles 50 #12
63 Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum 50 #20
64 Drive R.E.M. 50 #3
65 Like The Way I Do Melissa Etheridge 12 #48
66 Street Spirit (Fade Out) Radiohead 28 #15
67 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 90 #1
68 November Rain Guns N Roses 119 #22
69 Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix 99 #24
70 Music John Miles 13 #20
71 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple 122 #4
72 Not An Addict K's Choice 51 #10
73 Let It Be The Beatles 89 #3
74 I Can't Live in a Living Room Red Zebra 29 #36
75 Space Oddity David Bowie 157 #8
76 Roxanne The Police 167 #10
77 Born Slippy (Nuxx) Underworld 41 #5
78 Whole Lotta Rosie AC/DC 74 #6
79 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
80 Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 97 #2
81 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 50 #16
82 Born to be Wild Steppenwolf 95 #1
83 Psycho Killer Talking Heads 98 #6
84 Sebastian Cockney Rebel 12 #50
85 No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley 67 #17
86 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
87 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
88 So Long Fischer-Z 10 #79
89 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 66 #3
90 Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine 135 #2
91 Gloria Them 8 #27
92 The Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 30 #7
93 One Way The Levellers 21 #77
94 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
95 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 125 #4
96 Sign O The Times Prince 34 #8
97 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits 45 #18
98 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #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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