All-time countdown · Studio Brussel · 1999

Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1999)

The all-time countdown (1999) from Studio Brussel in Flanders, Belgium ranks 150 songs, with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana at number one. The list features 88 different artists; dEUS has the most entries with six songs.

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150 songs were broadcast this year instead of the usual 100 (per nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijdloze_100).

# Song ListsBest
1 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
2 Child in Time Deep Purple 42 #1
3 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 169 #1
4 Angie The Rolling Stones 100 #1
5 Nothing Else Matters Metallica 140 #5
6 Creep Radiohead 158 #1
7 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 169 #1
8 One Metallica 107 #2
9 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 173 #1
10 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
11 A Forest The Cure 63 #4
12 One U2 172 #1
13 Suds & Soda dEUS 27 #8
14 Purple Rain Prince 71 #1
15 With or Without You U2 213 #3
16 Temple of Love Sisters of Mercy 41 #16
17 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 125 #3
18 Mia Gorki 33 #1
19 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
20 Not An Addict K's Choice 51 #10
21 Troy Sinéad O'Connor 48 #4
22 Street Spirit (Fade Out) Radiohead 28 #15
23 Roses dEUS 18 #13
24 Hotellounge dEUS 19 #19
25 Paranoid Android Radiohead 82 #5
26 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 75 #1
27 I Want You Elvis Costello & the Attractions 33 #16
28 Zombie The Cranberries 97 #1
29 The End The Doors 69 #10
30 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
31 New Year's Day U2 182 #4
32 Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 143 #6
33 Imagine John Lennon 121 #1
34 Like a Hurricane Neil Young 79 #8
35 I Alone Live 97 #4
36 Sympathy For The Devil The Rolling Stones 156 #1
37 November Rain Guns N Roses 119 #22
38 Summer of '69 Bryan Adams 93 #3
39 Hotel California The Eagles 160 #1
40 I Can't Get No Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 116 #2
41 Paradise by the Dashboard Light Meat Loaf 74 #6
42 Paranoid Black Sabbath 150 #4
43 Perfect Day Lou Reed 39 #12
44 Heroes David Bowie 125 #1
45 Diane Therapy 19 #16
46 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
47 My Bond With You And Your Planet: Disco! Zita Swoon 4 #47
48 The River Bruce Springsteen 60 #5
49 Alice Sisters of Mercy 26 #18
50 The Passenger Iggy Pop 44 #10
51 Oh La La La TC Matic 27 #13
52 Karma Police Radiohead 125 #2
53 The Dolphin's Cry Live 30 #12
54 Whole Lotta Rosie AC/DC 74 #6
55 Space Oddity David Bowie 157 #8
56 Another Brick In The Wall Pt. II Pink Floyd 28 #3
57 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack 28 #29
58 Instant Street dEUS 27 #23
59 Yesterday The Beatles 50 #12
60 Paint It Black The Rolling Stones 146 #7
61 No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley 67 #17
62 Debaser The Pixies 53 #3
63 Lightning Crashes Live 110 #1
64 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
65 Riders on the Storm The Doors 133 #20
66 Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine 135 #2
67 I Can't Live in a Living Room Red Zebra 29 #36
68 Light My Fire The Doors 127 #5
69 Music John Miles 13 #20
70 Drive R.E.M. 50 #3
71 Hey Jude The Beatles 105 #1
72 The Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 30 #7
73 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple 122 #4
74 When the Lady Smiles Golden Earring 8 #57
75 Born to Run Bruce Springsteen 139 #1
76 Like The Way I Do Melissa Etheridge 12 #48
77 Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies 67 #5
78 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 90 #1
79 Little Arithmetics dEUS 7 #38
80 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin 151 #4
81 1999 Prince 37 #1
82 Born Slippy (Nuxx) Underworld 41 #5
83 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 92 #1
84 Hallelujah Jeff Buckley 51 #3
85 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
86 The One I Love R.E.M. 150 #5
87 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits 45 #18
88 Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix 99 #24
89 Rockin' In The Free World Neil Young 121 #8
90 Lord of the Boards Guano Apes 2 #90
91 Blauw The Scene 16 #6
92 Let It Be The Beatles 89 #3
93 Ironic Alanis Morissette 35 #20
94 Jeremy Pearl Jam 187 #1
95 Mr. Jones Counting Crows 96 #4
96 Private Investigations Dire Straits 10 #32
97 Sister Dew dEUS 1 #97
98 One Way The Levellers 21 #77
99 Self-Esteem The Offspring 110 #1
100 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
101 The Unforgiven Metallica 96 #5
102 Sebastian Cockney Rebel 12 #50
103 Nights in White Satin The Moody Blues 67 #8
104 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 148 #2
105 Sign O The Times Prince 34 #8
106 Nobody's Wife Anouk 1 #106
107 Roxanne The Police 167 #10
108 Liberty Song The Levellers 8 #29
109 Dear God XTC 92 #1
110 Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 97 #2
111 Lola The Kinks 105 #24
112 Have A Little Faith In Me John Hiatt 28 #40
113 Hard Times The Scabs 15 #1
114 Weak Skunk Anansie 1 #114
115 Where Is My Mind? The Pixies 83 #5
116 Enter Sandman Metallica 164 #2
117 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 69 #1
118 Song 2 Blur 124 #1
119 Iris Goo Goo Dolls 50 #1
120 Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead 83 #11
121 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
122 Grace Jeff Buckley 19 #29
123 Nightswimming R.E.M. 38 #17
124 Voodoo Chile/Slight Return Jimi Hendrix 40 #39
125 Last Goodbye Jeff Buckley 50 #3
126 Basket Case Green Day 120 #1
127 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd 148 #2
128 Open Your Eyes Guano Apes 1 #128
129 Martha Tom Waits 26 #18
130 So Long Fischer-Z 10 #79
131 Come As You Are Nirvana 175 #1
132 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
133 Tears in Heaven Eric Clapton 22 #60
134 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 50 #16
135 Teardrop Massive Attack 25 #21
136 New Gold Dream Simple Minds 7 #54
137 Into My Arms Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 28 #18
138 Epic Faith No More 109 #6
139 Lithium Nirvana 150 #3
140 Taillights Fade Buffalo Tom 20 #34
141 Believe K's Choice 1 #141
142 Today The Smashing Pumpkins 108 #2
143 Saturday Soulwax 1 #143
144 Too Many DJ's Soulwax 1 #144
145 Born to be Wild Steppenwolf 95 #1
146 Freak on a Leash Korn 80 #2
147 Sabotage Beastie Boys 111 #3
148 Black Pearl Jam 179 #1
149 Master of Puppets Metallica 81 #1
150 Our Darkness Anne Clark 10 #71

About this countdown

Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1999) was voted by Studio Brussel’s listeners (Flanders, Belgium) in 1999. 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 1999" (data via api.tijdloze.rocks/core-data; rankings cross-checked against nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijdloze_100 top-10 table).

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