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Year-end countdown · WBER · 1998

WBER Listener Countdown 1998

The year-end countdown (1998) from WBER in Rochester, NY ranks 98 songs, with “All In The Family” by Korn at number one. The list features 77 different artists; Tori Amos 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. #56 is printed 'You & Me & The Bottle ...' and is written out in full.

# Song ListsBest
1 All In The Family Korn 1 #1
2 Intergalactic Beastie Boys 93 #1
3 Faith Limp Bizkit 25 #3
4 Got the Life Korn 51 #1
5 Du Hast Rammstein 22 #5
6 Dr. Worm They Might Be Giants 10 #6
7 Loco Coal Chamber 1 #7
8 Circles Soul Coughing 43 #8
9 Renegade Master Wildchild 2 #9
10 Drinking In L.A. Bran Van 3000 10 #9
11 Dope Show Marilyn Manson 1 #11
12 Hocus Pocus Insane Clown Posse 1 #12
13 Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) The Offspring 55 #1
14 As Is Ani DiFranco 1 #14
15 The Rockafeller Skank Fatboy Slim 57 #10
16 Sour Limp Bizkit 1 #16
17 History of A Boring Town Less Than Jake 4 #17
18 Kick The P.A. Korn & The Dust Brothers 1 #18
19 Buck Dich Rammstein 1 #19
20 Little Plastic Castle Ani DiFranco 27 #20
21 Pure Morning Placebo 38 #21
22 Spank My Booty Lords Of Acid 1 #22
23 Dragula Rob Zombie 51 #15
24 Gay/Not Gay King Missile III 1 #24
25 Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) Deftones 2 #25
26 Sunchyme Dario G 1 #26
27 Body Movin' Beastie Boys 31 #12
28 Around The Fur Deftones 1 #28
29 No Shelter Rage Against the Machine 26 #13
30 How Many Times? Insane Clown Posse 1 #30
31 One Week Barenaked Ladies 46 #3
32 Up To No Good The Porn Kings 2 #32
33 Life in Mono Mono 4 #33
34 Spark Tori Amos 25 #34
35 Eulogy Tool 6 #35
36 Only You Portishead 2 #36
37 Polyester Bride Liz Phair 24 #37
38 Song For The Dumped Ben Folds Five 23 #38
39 Rock The Funky Beat Natural Born Chillers 1 #39
40 Celebrity Skin Hole 54 #4
41 Silence Delerium 2 #6
42 Teardrop Massive Attack 25 #21
43 Stitches Orgy 16 #32
44 New Skin Incubus 1 #44
45 Siren Tori Amos 1 #45
46 Sweet Surrender (Uberzone Remix) Sarah McLachlan 1 #46
47 London Rain Heather Nova 2 #47
48 Blow Lincoln 1 #48
49 Too Close To Hate Sevendust 3 #30
50 Sway (The Roof Is On Fire) Coal Chamber 1 #50
51 Quilombo Soulfly 1 #51
52 Lotion Deftones 1 #52
53 No Surprises Radiohead 31 #9
54 Raspberry Swirl Tori Amos 1 #54
55 Gangster Tripping Fatboy Slim 9 #10
56 You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 1 #56
57 From Your Mouth God Lives Underwater 9 #57
58 16 Horses Soul Coughing 1 #58
59 The Freshmen Mustard Plug 9 #59
60 Josie blink-182 17 #11
61 Push It Garbage 28 #7
62 Golden Years Marilyn Manson 1 #62
63 Ava Adore The Smashing Pumpkins 26 #6
64 Save Yourself Stabbing Westward 36 #8
65 Bitch Sevendust 5 #8
66 Jump Jive An' Wail Brian Setzer Orchestra 16 #25
67 Too Cold Vanilla Ice 1 #67
68 He Got Game Public Enemy 1 #68
69 Keep Hope Alive The Crystal Method 2 #64
70 Daysleeper R.E.M. 10 #45
71 Tropicalia Beck 21 #49
72 Bloodclot Rancid 5 #72
73 I Am A Pig Two 1 #73
74 Shock Fear Factory 1 #74
75 Brown Paper Bag Roni Size 1 #75
76 God Is a DJ Faithless 9 #39
77 Who Would Have Thought Rancid 1 #77
78 Closing Time Semisonic 57 #4
79 Jackie's Strength Tori Amos 8 #79
80 Road Rage Catatonia 9 #5
81 Give Suicide Machines 1 #81
82 Suite Pee System of a Down 1 #82
83 I Can't See Why Baxter 1 #83
84 The Soapmakers Clutch 1 #84
85 Butter Ultraspank 1 #85
86 The Mummer's Dance Loreena McKennitt 9 #53
87 She Found You Samiam 1 #87
88 Sexy Boy Air 10 #88
89 My Favourite Game The Cardigans 26 #10
90 It's All Been Done Barenaked Ladies 6 #20
91 Waltz #2 (Xo) Elliott Smith 25 #4
92 The Set Up Reel Big Fish 2 #43
93 Stop Lincoln 1 #93
94 Perfect The Smashing Pumpkins 28 #9
95 I Think I'm Paranoid Garbage 45 #10
96 Only When I Lose Myself Depeche Mode 5 #58
97 Deeper Underground Jamiroquai 1 #97
98 Don't Drink the Water Dave Matthews Band 13 #26

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About this countdown

WBER Listener Countdown 1998 was voted by WBER’s listeners (Rochester, NY) 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: WBER 90.5, "Countdowns".

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