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Year-end countdown · WBCN · December 1996

WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996

The year-end countdown (December 1996) from WBCN in Boston, MA ranks 104 songs, with “Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart” by Stone Temple Pilots at number one. The list features 75 different artists; The Smashing Pumpkins has the most entries with five songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart Stone Temple Pilots 50 #1
2 Just A Girl No Doubt 78 #2
3 Zero The Smashing Pumpkins 49 #3
4 Pepper Butthole Surfers 76 #1
5 Machinehead Bush 78 #1
6 Pretty Noose Soundgarden 28 #6
7 Too Much Dave Matthews Band 31 #7
8 Warped Red Hot Chili Peppers 13 #8
9 Only Happy When It Rains Garbage 69 #9
10 Santa Monica Everclear 90 #3
11 Tahitian Moon Porno for Pyros 15 #9
12 Guilty Gravity Kills 20 #5
13 Down 311 71 #1
14 Where It's At Beck 85 #2
15 In The Meantime Spacehog 60 #7
16 Spiderwebs No Doubt 56 #3
17 Again Alice In Chains 16 #17
18 What I Got Sublime 106 #1
19 Burden in My Hand Soundgarden 55 #4
20 Cumbersome Seven Mary Three 59 #15
21 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
22 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 70 #5
23 I Got Id Pearl Jam 28 #20
24 Ironic Alanis Morissette 35 #20
25 Scooby Snacks Fun Lovin' Criminals 24 #14
26 Big Bang Baby Stone Temple Pilots 44 #12
27 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Primitive Radio Gods 44 #8
28 Aneurysm Nirvana 29 #12
29 Novocaine for the Soul The Eels 39 #16
30 Salvation The Cranberries 31 #22
31 Brain Stew Green Day 61 #8
32 Big Me Foo Fighters 48 #14
33 Natural One Folk Implosion 58 #15
34 All Wrong God Lives Underwater 2 #25
35 Until It Sleeps Metallica 45 #17
36 Mother Mother Tracy Bonham 26 #11
37 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 98 #4
38 Ready To Go Republica 40 #26
39 Shame Stabbing Westward 10 #30
40 So Much To Say Dave Matthews Band 33 #13
41 Stupid Girl Garbage 54 #4
42 All Mixed Up 311 64 #10
43 I Was Wrong Social Distortion 36 #29
44 But Anyway Blues Traveler 24 #44
45 Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers 45 #28
46 Champagne Supernova Oasis 91 #11
47 Hail Hail Pearl Jam 16 #26
48 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
49 Here in Your Bedroom Goldfinger 41 #12
50 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
51 Possum Kingdom Toadies 69 #4
52 Wonder Natalie Merchant 29 #43
53 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 92 #1
54 The World I Know Collective Soul 38 #14
55 Muzzle The Smashing Pumpkins 17 #20
56 Photograph The Verve Pipe 23 #24
57 Heaven Beside You Alice In Chains 56 #39
58 Time Bomb Rancid 61 #17
59 Counting Blue Cars Dishwalla 36 #1
60 The One Tracy Bonham 1 #60
61 What Do I Have To Do? Stabbing Westward 28 #9
62 Banditos The Refreshments 30 #30
63 People of the Sun Rage Against the Machine 19 #25
64 6th Avenue Heartache The Wallflowers 26 #18
65 Heartspark Dollar Sign Everclear 16 #11
66 Popular Nada Surf 29 #36
67 Hook Blues Traveler 41 #38
68 Who You Are Pearl Jam 23 #50
69 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
70 Drugs Ammonia 2 #27
71 Don't Speak No Doubt 58 #3
72 Ruby Soho Rancid 50 #8
73 #1 Crush Garbage 40 #24
74 All I Know Screaming Trees 24 #5
75 Free To Decide The Cranberries 14 #35
76 If I Could Talk I'd Tell You The Lemonheads 13 #23
77 A Common Disaster Cowboy Junkies 6 #75
78 Ocean Sebadoh 16 #78
79 Angry Johnny Poe 31 #11
80 Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina) Sponge 9 #67
81 E-Bow the Letter R.E.M. 8 #71
82 Damage I've Done The Heads 2 #66
83 Lack Of Water Why Store 5 #83
84 Caught A Lite Sneeze Tori Amos 22 #41
85 The Beautiful People Marilyn Manson 41 #1
86 Sucked Out Superdrag 20 #29
87 Ladykillers Lush 20 #21
88 I Hate My Generation Cracker 2 #88
89 Angels of the Silences Counting Crows 14 #55
90 El Scorcho Weezer 31 #9
91 Goldfinger Ash 5 #60
92 Anna Pure 1 #92
93 Morning Glory Oasis 23 #13
94 Devil's Haircut Beck 59 #29
95 Naked Goo Goo Dolls 14 #41
96 Gold Dust Woman Hole 10 #47
97 Soundtrack To Mary Soul Coughing 3 #97
98 You're One Imperial Teen 1 #98
99 Hero of the Day Metallica 24 #8
100 Free Phish 11 #100
101 King of New Orleans Better Than Ezra 13 #36
102 Whoever You Are Geggy Tah 33 #20
103 Mighty K.C. For Squirrels 11 #26
104 Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis 74 #1

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About this countdown

WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 was broadcast by WBCN (Boston, MA) in December 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: WBCN.com, "WBCN's Top 104 Songs of 1996" (Wayback Machine).

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