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WBER Listener Countdown 1996

The year-end countdown (1996) from WBER in Rochester, NY ranks 100 songs, with “The Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson at number one. The list features 76 different artists; The Smashing Pumpkins has the most entries with four songs.

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From WBER's countdown archive page: listeners vote for their five favourite songs of the year and the station counts down the results on New Year's Day. Names printed surname-first or as 'National, The' are turned around, and obvious misspellings are corrected where spotted.

# Song ListsBest
1 The Beautiful People Marilyn Manson 41 #1
2 King of Spain Moxy Fruvous 2 #2
3 States Of Mind Senser 2 #3
4 Shoots And Ladders Korn 9 #4
5 The Distance Cake 91 #1
6 7 Words Deftones 1 #6
7 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 70 #5
8 Trigger Happy Jack (Drive By A Go-Go) Poe 1 #8
9 Stinkfist Tool 73 #2
10 No Place to Hide Korn 7 #10
11 Angry Johnny Poe 31 #11
12 Down 311 71 #1
13 Firestarter The Prodigy 37 #13
14 As Cool as I Am Dar Williams 6 #14
15 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Marilyn Manson 26 #3
16 Where It's At Beck 85 #2
17 Pepper Butthole Surfers 76 #1
18 Just A Girl No Doubt 78 #2
19 Carnival The Cardigans 2 #19
20 Whoever You Are Geggy Tah 33 #20
21 S-E-X-X-Y They Might Be Giants 15 #21
22 Engine No. 9 Deftones 2 #21
23 Uncle Walter Ben Folds Five 16 #23
24 What I Got Sublime 106 #1
25 All Wrong God Lives Underwater 2 #25
26 El Scorcho Weezer 31 #9
27 The Old Apartment Barenaked Ladies 10 #27
28 Bored Deftones 1 #28
29 Sucked Out Superdrag 20 #29
30 Scooby Snacks Fun Lovin' Criminals 24 #14
31 Kung Fu Ash 3 #6
32 Santa Monica Everclear 90 #3
33 All Mixed Up 311 64 #10
34 Here in Your Bedroom Goldfinger 41 #12
35 Mother Mother Tracy Bonham 26 #11
36 Natural One Folk Implosion 58 #15
37 Shame Stabbing Westward 10 #30
38 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
39 Spaceman Babylon Zoo 2 #16
40 Excuse Me Amy Arena 2 #40
41 Caught A Lite Sneeze Tori Amos 22 #41
42 Aneurysm Nirvana 29 #12
43 Lay Lady Lay Ministry 2 #43
44 High and Dry Radiohead 55 #44
45 Spiderwebs No Doubt 56 #3
46 Popular Nada Surf 29 #36
47 Ready To Go Republica 40 #26
48 Guilty Gravity Kills 20 #5
49 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
50 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Primitive Radio Gods 44 #8
51 Power KMFDM 1 #51
52 Clown Korn 1 #52
53 Ice Planet Hell Psychotica 1 #53
54 Mable Goldfinger 3 #54
55 Friends of P The Rentals 34 #19
56 Zero The Smashing Pumpkins 49 #3
57 Ahead By A Century The Tragically Hip 6 #3
58 Outta Me, Onto You Ani DiFranco 2 #58
59 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 92 #1
60 Pearl's Girl Underworld 1 #60
61 Don't Stay Home 311 13 #29
62 Devil's Haircut Beck 59 #29
63 Lovefool The Cardigans 36 #14
64 Don't Speak No Doubt 58 #3
65 People of the Sun Rage Against the Machine 19 #25
66 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
67 Know Your Chicken Cibo Matto 1 #67
68 Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts Less Than Jake 2 #42
69 It's Martini Time The Reverend Horton Heat 5 #69
70 Hey Jupiter Tori Amos 1 #70
71 Born Slippy (Nuxx) Underworld 41 #5
72 Only Happy When It Rains Garbage 69 #9
73 Naked Eye Luscious Jackson 45 #15
74 Ladykillers Lush 20 #21
75 Good Pizzicato 5 1 #75
76 Scooby Doo Matthew Sweet 1 #76
77 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
78 Possum Kingdom Toadies 69 #4
79 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 98 #4
80 Salvation The Cranberries 31 #22
81 Ruby Soho Rancid 50 #8
82 Failure Orange 9mm 1 #82
83 Fire Water Burn Bloodhound Gang 21 #31
84 Satellite Dave Matthews Band 29 #38
85 Too Much Dave Matthews Band 31 #7
86 The Impression I Get The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 1 #86
87 In The Meantime Spacehog 60 #7
88 My Girlfriend's Girlfriend Type O Negative 1 #88
89 The 13th The Cure 4 #87
90 Mighty K.C. For Squirrels 11 #26
91 Ironic Alanis Morissette 35 #20
92 #1 Crush Garbage 40 #24
93 Gold Dust Woman Hole 10 #47
94 Orangecrush Snapdragon 2 #77
95 Mint Car The Cure 15 #24
96 On a Rope Rocket from the Crypt 4 #54
97 Setting Sun The Chemical Brothers 14 #26
98 Shy Ani DiFranco 2 #98
99 Swallowed Bush 42 #16
100 Down in the Park Foo Fighters 2 #21

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About this countdown

WBER Listener Countdown 1996 was voted by WBER’s listeners (Rochester, NY) 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: WBER 90.5, "Countdowns".

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