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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Studio Brusselstation
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# Song ListsBest
1 Child in Time Deep Purple 42 #1
2 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 134 #1
3 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 73 #1
4 Angie The Rolling Stones 50 #1
5 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 69 #2
6 Alive Pearl Jam 119 #1
7 Creep Radiohead 111 #1
8 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 115 #1
9 One Metallica 68 #2
10 A Forest The Cure 58 #4
11 One U2 114 #1
12 Purple Rain Prince 51 #1
13 Suds & Soda dEUS 27 #8
14 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 84 #3
15 Nothing Else Matters Metallica 63 #5
16 Temple of Love Sisters of Mercy 41 #16
17 With or Without You U2 123 #3
18 Troy Sinéad O'Connor 44 #4
19 Mia Gorki 33 #1
20 Paranoid Android Radiohead 68 #5
21 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 116 #2
22 Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 67 #6
23 Street Spirit (Fade Out) Radiohead 27 #15
24 Hotellounge dEUS 19 #19
25 Like a Hurricane Neil Young 56 #8
26 Roses dEUS 18 #13
27 New Year's Day U2 100 #4
28 I Want You Elvis Costello 30 #16
29 Summer of '69 Bryan Adams 33 #16
30 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 64 #1
31 Perfect Day Lou Reed 30 #12
32 The End The Doors 52 #10
33 Not An Addict K's Choice 38 #15
34 Paradise by the Dashboard Light Meat Loaf 33 #6
35 Sympathy For The Devil The Rolling Stones 65 #1
36 Heroes David Bowie 93 #1
37 The River Bruce Springsteen 48 #5
38 Imagine John Lennon 54 #1
39 Space Oddity David Bowie 84 #8
40 Oh La La La TC Matic 27 #13
41 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 120 #1
42 Hotel California The Eagles 65 #3
43 Karma Police Radiohead 92 #2
44 Alice Sisters of Mercy 26 #18
45 The Passenger Iggy Pop 33 #10
46 Zombie The Cranberries 71 #1
47 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 83 #1
48 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin 66 #16
49 Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies 59 #5
50 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 47 #1
51 Like The Way I Do Melissa Etheridge 9 #48
52 Little Arithmetics dEUS 7 #38
53 Diane Therapy 19 #16
54 Nights in White Satin The Moody Blues 35 #12
55 I Can't Live in a Living Room Red Zebra 29 #36
56 November Rain Guns N Roses 51 #25
57 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones 64 #17
58 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 77 #1
59 Hey Jude The Beatles 39 #2
60 Paranoid Black Sabbath 65 #9
61 I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 34 #2
62 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 67 #1
63 Whole Lotta Rosie AC/DC 47 #6
64 Drive R.E.M. 45 #3
65 When the Lady Smiles Golden Earring 8 #57
66 The Ship Song Nick Cave 24 #62
67 Music John Miles 13 #20
68 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 61 #1
69 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 117 #1
70 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple 35 #14
71 Yesterday The Beatles 36 #12
72 Debaser The Pixies 47 #3
73 Hard Times The Scabs 15 #1
74 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 63 #1
75 Riders on the Storm The Doors 53 #20
76 Rockin' In The Free World Neil Young 51 #31
77 One Way The Levellers 21 #77
78 Another Brick in the Wall Part II Pink Floyd 18 #3
79 1999 Prince 29 #36
80 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits 42 #18
81 Light My Fire The Doors 44 #5
82 The One I Love R.E.M. 91 #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 34 #24
87 No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley 55 #17
88 Let It Be The Beatles 36 #3
89 Ironic Alanis Morissette 29 #20
90 Private Investigations Dire Straits 10 #32
91 Glycerine Bush 73 #3
92 Have A Little Faith In Me John Hiatt 17 #40
93 Sebastian Cockney Rebel 12 #50
94 Jeremy Pearl Jam 104 #2
95 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 59 #5
96 Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum 32 #20
97 Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 48 #2
98 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack 24 #29
99 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 79 #1
100 I Alone Live 56 #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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