All-time countdown · Studio Brussel · 1998

Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1998)

The all-time countdown (1998) from Studio Brussel in Flanders, Belgium ranks 100 songs, with “Child in Time” by Deep Purple at number one. The list features 63 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 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
3 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 169 #1
4 Angie The Rolling Stones 100 #1
5 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 169 #1
6 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
7 Creep Radiohead 158 #1
8 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 173 #1
9 One Metallica 107 #2
10 A Forest The Cure 63 #4
11 One U2 172 #1
12 Purple Rain Prince 71 #1
13 Suds & Soda dEUS 27 #8
14 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 125 #3
15 Nothing Else Matters Metallica 140 #5
16 Temple of Love Sisters of Mercy 41 #16
17 With or Without You U2 213 #3
18 Troy Sinéad O'Connor 48 #4
19 Mia Gorki 33 #1
20 Paranoid Android Radiohead 82 #5
21 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
22 Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 143 #6
23 Street Spirit (Fade Out) Radiohead 28 #15
24 Hotellounge dEUS 19 #19
25 Like a Hurricane Neil Young 79 #8
26 Roses dEUS 18 #13
27 New Year's Day U2 182 #4
28 I Want You Elvis Costello & the Attractions 33 #16
29 Summer of '69 Bryan Adams 93 #3
30 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 75 #1
31 Perfect Day Lou Reed 39 #12
32 The End The Doors 69 #10
33 Not An Addict K's Choice 51 #10
34 Paradise by the Dashboard Light Meat Loaf 74 #6
35 Sympathy For The Devil The Rolling Stones 156 #1
36 Heroes David Bowie 125 #1
37 The River Bruce Springsteen 60 #5
38 Imagine John Lennon 121 #1
39 Space Oddity David Bowie 157 #8
40 Oh La La La TC Matic 27 #13
41 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
42 Hotel California The Eagles 160 #1
43 Karma Police Radiohead 125 #2
44 Alice Sisters of Mercy 26 #18
45 The Passenger Iggy Pop 44 #10
46 Zombie The Cranberries 97 #1
47 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
48 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin 151 #4
49 Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies 67 #5
50 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 69 #1
51 Like The Way I Do Melissa Etheridge 12 #48
52 Little Arithmetics dEUS 7 #38
53 Diane Therapy 19 #16
54 Nights in White Satin The Moody Blues 67 #8
55 I Can't Live in a Living Room Red Zebra 29 #36
56 November Rain Guns N Roses 119 #22
57 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones 146 #7
58 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 90 #1
59 Hey Jude The Beatles 105 #1
60 Paranoid Black Sabbath 150 #4
61 I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 116 #2
62 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 92 #1
63 Whole Lotta Rosie AC/DC 74 #6
64 Drive R.E.M. 50 #3
65 When the Lady Smiles Golden Earring 8 #57
66 The Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 30 #7
67 Music John Miles 13 #20
68 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 139 #1
69 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
70 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple 122 #4
71 Yesterday The Beatles 50 #12
72 Debaser The Pixies 53 #3
73 Hard Times The Scabs 15 #1
74 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
75 Riders on the Storm The Doors 133 #20
76 Rockin' In The Free World Neil Young 121 #8
77 One Way The Levellers 21 #77
78 Another Brick In The Wall Pt. II Pink Floyd 28 #3
79 1999 Prince 37 #1
80 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits 45 #18
81 Light My Fire The Doors 127 #5
82 The One I Love R.E.M. 150 #5
83 Blauw The Scene 16 #6
84 So Long Fischer-Z 10 #79
85 Liberty Song The Levellers 8 #29
86 Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix 99 #24
87 No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley 67 #17
88 Let It Be The Beatles 89 #3
89 Ironic Alanis Morissette 35 #20
90 Private Investigations Dire Straits 10 #32
91 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
92 Have A Little Faith In Me John Hiatt 28 #40
93 Sebastian Cockney Rebel 12 #50
94 Jeremy Pearl Jam 187 #1
95 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 148 #2
96 Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum 50 #20
97 Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 97 #2
98 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack 28 #29
99 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
100 I Alone Live 97 #4

About this countdown

Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1998) was voted by Studio Brussel’s listeners (Flanders, Belgium) in 1998. 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 1998" (data via api.tijdloze.rocks/core-data; rankings cross-checked against nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijdloze_100 top-10 table).

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