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All-time countdown · 99.1 PLR · May 2025

99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2025)

The all-time countdown (May 2025) from 99.1 PLR in New Haven, CT ranks 400 songs, with “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N Roses at number one. The list features 156 different artists; Metallica has the most entries with 16 songs.

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Station post dated May 26, 2025 (Memorial Day weekend). Transcribed from a Wayback Machine copy.

# Song ListsBest
1 Welcome to the Jungle Guns N Roses 106 #1
2 Enter Sandman Metallica 164 #2
3 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
4 You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party) Beastie Boys 86 #1
5 Wanted Dead or Alive Bon Jovi 95 #5
6 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
7 Everlong Foo Fighters 175 #1
8 Sweet Child o' Mine Guns N Roses 136 #1
9 In the End Linkin Park 92 #1
10 Black Pearl Jam 179 #1
11 Kickstart My Heart Motley Crue 70 #6
12 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes 112 #1
13 One Metallica 107 #2
14 Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine 135 #2
15 Man in the Box Alice In Chains 129 #3
16 Dude Looks Like a Lady Aerosmith 89 #16
17 Basket Case Green Day 120 #1
18 Thunderstruck AC/DC 132 #1
19 Santeria Sublime 92 #1
20 Livin' on a Prayer Bon Jovi 97 #5
21 All the Small Things blink-182 79 #2
22 Pour Some Sugar On Me Def Leppard 98 #5
23 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 154 #1
24 Free Fallin' Tom Petty 116 #10
25 Even Flow Pearl Jam 145 #2
26 Master of Puppets Metallica 81 #1
27 Plush Stone Temple Pilots 135 #1
28 Why Can't This Be Love Van Halen 80 #28
29 Come Out and Play The Offspring 97 #2
30 Love in an Elevator Aerosmith 79 #30
31 Would? Alice In Chains 120 #5
32 Home Sweet Home Motley Crue 77 #17
33 Come As You Are Nirvana 175 #1
34 You Give Love a Bad Name Bon Jovi 81 #16
35 Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers 70 #1
36 No Sleep Til Brooklyn Beastie Boys 55 #6
37 November Rain Guns N Roses 119 #22
38 Numb Linkin Park 85 #2
39 Today The Smashing Pumpkins 108 #2
40 The Unforgiven Metallica 96 #5
41 Machinehead Bush 78 #1
42 Hard to Handle Black Crowes 94 #21
43 Closer Nine Inch Nails 109 #1
44 My Hero Foo Fighters 130 #9
45 Dreams Van Halen 63 #45
46 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
47 Mama, I'm Coming Home Ozzy Osbourne 74 #15
48 Say It Ain't So Weezer 80 #4
49 Give It Away Red Hot Chili Peppers 115 #3
50 Brainstew / Jaded Green Day 31 #13
51 Janie's Got a Gun Aerosmith 79 #12
52 Loser Beck 125 #2
53 Rooster Alice In Chains 115 #6
54 Paradise City Guns N Roses 112 #2
55 Lithium Nirvana 150 #3
56 I Won't Back Down Tom Petty 98 #10
57 Can't Stop Red Hot Chili Peppers 67 #2
58 One Step Closer Linkin Park 63 #1
59 Sad But True Metallica 52 #16
60 Fell On Black Days Soundgarden 104 #11
61 Girls Girls Girls Motley Crue 70 #22
62 Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots 135 #3
63 Land of Confusion Genesis 32 #48
64 Jeremy Pearl Jam 187 #1
65 When It's Love Van Halen 50 #65
66 Drive Incubus 66 #1
67 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
68 Song 2 Blur 124 #1
69 Here I Go Again Whitesnake 92 #2
70 Dammit blink-182 80 #1
71 Armageddon It Def Leppard 51 #41
72 Learn to Fly Foo Fighters 108 #6
73 Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers 104 #2
74 What I Got Sublime 106 #1
75 Rag Doll Aerosmith 84 #50
76 Voodoo Godsmack 36 #10
77 When I Come Around Green Day 119 #2
78 Sabotage Beastie Boys 111 #3
79 Nothing Else Matters Metallica 140 #5
80 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
81 Dr. Feelgood Motley Crue 64 #37
82 Creep Radiohead 158 #1
83 Bring Me to Life Evanescence 57 #1
84 She Talks to Angels Black Crowes 76 #73
85 It's Been Awhile Staind 47 #1
86 Nothin But a Good Time Poison 61 #41
87 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 173 #1
88 Last Resort Papa Roach 61 #1
89 Self-Esteem The Offspring 110 #1
90 Learning to Fly Pink Floyd 80 #63
91 Break Stuff Limp Bizkit 40 #1
92 18 & Life Skid Row 56 #47
93 Santa Monica Everclear 90 #3
94 Like a Stone Audioslave 75 #1
95 Mary Jane's Last Dance Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 102 #20
96 Hunger Strike Temple of the Dog 104 #7
97 One U2 172 #1
98 Bad Medicine Bon Jovi 52 #49
99 Undone (The Sweater Song) Weezer 71 #3
100 Epic Faith No More 109 #6
101 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 96 #1
102 Sober Tool 75 #14
103 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers 102 #2
104 Down With the Sickness Disturbed 58 #3
105 All My Life Foo Fighters 80 #2
106 Better Man Pearl Jam 148 #2
107 Take Me Home Tonight Eddie Money 53 #30
108 Aerials System of a Down 47 #1
109 What I've Done Linkin Park 39 #1
110 Right Now Van Halen 65 #84
111 Spoonman Soundgarden 101 #14
112 Freak on a Leash Korn 80 #2
113 In Bloom Nirvana 117 #5
114 Fade to Black Metallica 50 #14
115 Kryptonite 3 Doors Down 80 #1
116 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
117 Love Bites Def Leppard 70 #39
118 Whatever Godsmack 35 #12
119 Big Empty Stone Temple Pilots 97 #10
120 By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers 70 #1
121 Live And Let Die Guns N Roses 47 #14
122 Lightning Crashes Live 110 #1
123 Cryin' Aerosmith 61 #59
124 Longview Green Day 113 #1
125 The Final Countdown Europe 29 #125
126 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
127 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Metallica 21 #5
128 Fly Away Lenny Kravitz 93 #6
129 I Miss You blink-182 50 #8
130 Comedown Bush 95 #2
131 Knockin on Heaven's Door Guns N Roses 69 #5
132 Yellow Ledbetter Pearl Jam 117 #2
133 Touch of Grey The Grateful Dead 85 #43
134 Crawling Linkin Park 55 #1
135 Father of Mine Everclear 56 #11
136 All She Wants to Do is Dance Don Henley 18 #136
137 Pardon Me Incubus 59 #1
138 Outshined Soundgarden 52 #12
139 Invisible Touch Genesis 19 #71
140 My Own Prison Creed 37 #3
141 Running Down a Dream Tom Petty 108 #8
142 Money Talks AC/DC 71 #20
143 American Idiot Green Day 86 #1
144 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins 125 #3
145 No Rain Blind Melon 109 #2
146 Heart-Shaped Box Nirvana 122 #6
147 Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers 57 #6
148 California Girls David Lee Roth 11 #14
149 Inside Out Eve 6 65 #2
150 Them Bones Alice In Chains 40 #39
151 Finish What Ya Started Van Halen 53 #151
152 I Stand Alone Godsmack 25 #1
153 Creep Stone Temple Pilots 77 #44
154 Hysteria Def Leppard 81 #39
155 Stupify Disturbed 32 #1
156 Wind Of Change Scorpions 50 #112
157 Youth of the Nation P.O.D. 39 #1
158 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
159 Shine Collective Soul 85 #24
160 Fuel Metallica 36 #2
161 Patience Guns N Roses 81 #22
162 Wrong Way Sublime 75 #1
163 Livin' On The Edge Aerosmith 69 #123
164 Soul to Squeeze Red Hot Chili Peppers 81 #9
165 Signs Tesla 58 #124
166 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
167 The Pretender Foo Fighters 78 #1
168 Every Rose Has Its Thorn Poison 65 #44
169 Mysterious Ways U2 135 #1
170 More Human Than Human White Zombie 58 #9
171 I Drink Alone George Thorogood 46 #53
172 Daughter Pearl Jam 132 #1
173 Is This Love Whitesnake 35 #156
174 Heaven Beside You Alice In Chains 56 #39
175 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day 92 #2
176 Wherever I May Roam Metallica 48 #15
177 Burden in My Hand Soundgarden 55 #4
178 Civil War Guns N Roses 51 #25
179 Hey Man Nice Shot Filter 75 #6
180 Remedy Black Crowes 27 #21
181 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 138 #2
182 All Apologies Nirvana 145 #2
183 Got the Life Korn 51 #1
184 Same Ol' Situation Motley Crue 21 #156
185 Far Behind Candlebox 58 #7
186 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 98 #4
187 Animal Def Leppard 75 #41
188 Paul Revere Beastie Boys 24 #30
189 Don't Come Round Here No More Tom Petty 32 #44
190 Are You Gonna Go My Way Lenny Kravitz 100 #3
191 Holiday Green Day 74 #2
192 Nookie Limp Bizkit 42 #1
193 Love Walks In Van Halen 19 #163
194 Somewhere I Belong Linkin Park 42 #1
195 Gone Away The Offspring 60 #3
196 Talk Dirty to Me Poison 31 #106
197 Just Like Paradise David Lee Roth 13 #197
198 You Could Be Mine Guns N Roses 36 #78
199 Vasoline Stone Temple Pilots 100 #3
200 Like a Rock Bob Seger 8 #200
201 Awake Godsmack 34 #13
202 Hurt Nine Inch Nails 74 #2
203 Low Cracker 88 #9
204 Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) Cinderella 11 #146
205 Breaking the Girl Red Hot Chili Peppers 55 #26
206 Higher Creed 47 #6
207 For Whom The Bell Tolls Metallica 41 #3
208 Blurry Puddle of Mudd 57 #1
209 Shot in the Dark Ozzy Osbourne 67 #53
210 Schism Tool 92 #1
211 With or Without You U2 213 #3
212 Still of the Night Whitesnake 33 #53
213 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 70 #5
214 No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age 110 #1
215 Never There Cake 70 #3
216 I'll Be There for You Bon Jovi 15 #150
217 Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel 47 #4
218 Once Bitten Twice Shy Great White 47 #111
219 My Own Worst Enemy Lit 64 #1
220 I Am the Highway Audioslave 52 #4
221 Angel Aerosmith 55 #83
222 What's My Age Again? blink-182 73 #1
223 Turn Up the Radio Autograph 35 #79
224 About A Girl Nirvana 75 #7
225 Keep Your Hands To Yourself Georgia Satellites 52 #78
226 Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet 84 #1
227 Turn The Page Metallica 52 #9
228 The World I Know Collective Soul 38 #14
229 Mr. Brownstone Guns N Roses 47 #29
230 Mother Danzig 29 #62
231 The Other Side Aerosmith 50 #116
232 I Alone Live 97 #4
233 Everything Zen Bush 77 #3
234 It's My Life Bon Jovi 18 #31
235 I Will Buy You a New Life Everclear 54 #4
236 Times Like These Foo Fighters 65 #3
237 Yankee Rose David Lee Roth 5 #194
238 Buddy Holly Weezer 97 #2
239 Chop Suey System of a Down 86 #1
240 Touch, Peel, and Stand Days of the New 45 #1
241 You Belong to the City Glen Frey 2 #241
242 I Wish You Were Here Incubus 59 #5
243 What It Takes Aerosmith 67 #107
244 Rusty Cage Soundgarden 28 #36
245 Falling Away From Me Korn 50 #8
246 You Don't Know How It Feels Tom Petty 62 #72
247 Fat Lip Sum 41 50 #3
248 Corduroy Pearl Jam 65 #5
249 The Flame Cheap Trick 5 #96
250 Bleed It Out Linkin Park 31 #5
251 Crossfire Stevie Ray Vaughan 43 #79
252 Suck My Kiss Red Hot Chili Peppers 46 #30
253 Cradle of Love Billy Idol 17 #19
254 Send the Pain Below Chevelle 34 #3
255 Silent Lucidity Queensryche 37 #32
256 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart Stone Temple Pilots 50 #1
257 Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine 34 #7
258 Time After Time Ozzy Osbourne 18 #148
259 Paraylzer Finger Evelen 1 #259
260 Your Love The Outfield 46 #68
261 How You Remind Me Nickelback 53 #2
262 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 140 #9
263 Beverly Hills Weezer 56 #4
264 Heaven Warrant 5 #119
265 Dragula Rob Zombie 51 #15
266 Rocket Def Leppard 50 #88
267 Faith Limp Bizkit 25 #3
268 The Distance Cake 91 #1
269 Cherub Rock The Smashing Pumpkins 77 #8
270 Blaze of Glory Jon Bon Jovi 25 #124
271 Until It Sleeps Metallica 45 #17
272 Fire Woman The Cult 75 #6
273 No Excuses Alice In Chains 72 #3
274 I Hate Myself for Loving You Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 54 #20
275 Jane Says Jane's Addiction 106 #2
276 Keep Away Godsmack 26 #8
277 Top Of The World Van Halen 15 #277
278 Pepper Butthole Surfers 76 #1
279 Cowboy Kid Rock 33 #8
280 She Green Day 51 #12
281 Love Song Tesla 36 #174
282 Outside Staind 36 #1
283 Photograph Nickelback 13 #9
284 Aenema Tool 24 #38
285 It's So Easy Guns N Roses 3 #285
286 Doesn't Remind Me Audioslave 31 #4
287 King Nothing Metallica 26 #2
288 Girls Beastie Boys 40 #6
289 Nighttrain Guns N Roses 21 #169
290 Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm 46 #4
291 Who Made Who AC/DC 44 #22
292 Wake Me Up When September Ends Green Day 44 #2
293 Don't Go Away Mad Just Go Away Motley Crue 3 #293
294 Aint no Rest for the Wicked Cage The Elephant 65 #1
295 High Enough Damn Yankees 15 #167
296 The Middle Jimmy Eat World 76 #1
297 My Sacrifice Creed 27 #5
298 Cult of Personality Living Colour 89 #42
299 Use Somebody Kings of Leon 64 #1
300 Crazy Aerosmith 40 #103
301 Shimmer Fuel 46 #1
302 Monkey Wrench Foo Fighters 74 #11
303 Tuff Enuff Fabulous Thunderbirds 15 #273
304 Last Kiss Pearl Jam 60 #3
305 What It's Like Everlast 81 #2
306 Breaking the Habit Linkin Park 36 #4
307 Selling The Drama Live 54 #1
308 I Stay Away Alice In Chains 47 #22
309 All Summer Long Kid Rock 14 #1
310 The Boys of Summer The Ataris 32 #9
311 I Disappear Metallica 30 #3
312 Wicked Garden Stone Temple Pilots 61 #23
313 Higher Ground Red Hot Chili Peppers 68 #9
314 Jealous Again Black Crowes 33 #171
315 More than Words Extreme 11 #4
316 Crazy Bitch Buckcherry 19 #5
317 Blue On Black Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band 26 #12
318 The Day I Tried To Live Soundgarden 22 #20
319 Let's Get Rocked Def Leppard 7 #313
320 Something in the Way Nirvana 18 #91
321 Sex and Candy Marcy Playground 88 #3
322 Pound Cake Van Halen 12 #314
323 She Hates Me Puddle of Mudd 31 #11
324 Rockin' In The Free World Neil Young 121 #8
325 Hash Pipe Weezer 66 #2
326 Runaway Train Soul Asylum 73 #6
327 Blind Korn 24 #4
328 You Candlebox 35 #35
329 Centerfield John Fogerty 42 #16
330 Second Chance Shinedown 33 #2
331 Close My Eyes Forever Ozzy Osbourne 5 #154
332 The Red Chevelle 38 #8
333 Gotta Get Away The Offspring 63 #18
334 Possum Kingdom Toadies 69 #4
335 Small Town John Mellencamp 62 #12
336 Cumbersome Seven Mary Three 59 #15
337 Cold Hard Bitch Jet 46 #3
338 Amazing Aerosmith 4 #253
339 American Woman Lenny Kravitz 33 #10
340 What You Need INXS 65 #7
341 Stinkfist Tool 73 #2
342 Beautiful Day U2 124 #1
343 Sail AWOLNATION 52 #1
344 The Rising Bruce Springsteen 24 #5
345 Down in a Hole Alice In Chains 38 #35
346 Poison Alice Cooper 14 #22
347 If You Could Only See Tonic 34 #3
348 The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails 54 #1
349 I Want It All Queen 2 #349
350 Scars Papa Roach 29 #10
351 Living Dead Girl Rob Zombie 27 #10
352 Something to Believe In Poison 7 #189
353 Been Caught Stealing Jane's Addiction 112 #1
354 Never Say Goodbye Bon Jovi 5 #253
355 Alive P.O.D. 39 #4
356 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 95 #2
357 Control Puddle of Mudd 33 #3
358 On the Turning Away Pink Floyd 38 #97
359 Be Yourself Audioslave 32 #4
360 Kiss Me Deadly Lita Ford 7 #138
361 Bawitdaba Kid Rock 44 #1
362 Lovin' Every Minute Of It Loverboy 12 #83
363 Champagne Supernova Oasis 91 #11
364 Never Too Late Three Days Grace 28 #4
365 Don't Cry Guns N Roses 34 #62
366 Savior Rise Against 41 #1
367 Smuggler's Blues Glen Frey 1 #367
368 The Kids Aren't Alright The Offspring 60 #3
369 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 102 #3
370 The Diary of Jane Breaking Benjamin 19 #6
371 Mas Tequila Sammy Hagar 2 #371
372 Nearly Lost You Screaming Trees 72 #21
373 Youth Gone Wild Skid Row 17 #147
374 Click Click Boom Saliva 12 #14
375 The Sky Is Crying Stevie Ray Vaughan 18 #93
376 Fake It Seether 25 #2
377 Seventeen Winger 5 #125
378 For You Staind 31 #1
379 Up All Night Slaughter 3 #132
380 Animal I Have Become Three Days Grace 23 #1
381 Everything About You Ugly Kid Joe 2 #381
382 Bother Stone Sour 24 #6
383 Turbo Lover Judas Priest 10 #176
384 Icky Thump The White Stripes 54 #1
385 Learning To Fly Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 73 #54
386 Slither Velvet Revolver 32 #1
387 Life Is A Highway Tom Cochrane 13 #32
388 Uprising Muse 81 #1
389 Lonely Ol' Night John Mellencamp 17 #270
390 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
391 Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody David Lee Roth 2 #391
392 Toxicity System of a Down 64 #1
393 Edge Of A Broken Heart Vixen 3 #393
394 Bound for the Floor Local H 59 #10
395 Harvestor of Sorrow Metallica 13 #99
396 Rockstar Nickelback 8 #22
397 Forty Six And 2 Tool 19 #30
398 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring 44 #1
399 Wait White Lion 5 #230
400 Thunder Kiss '65 White Zombie 34 #46

About this countdown

99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2025) was broadcast by 99.1 PLR (New Haven, CT) in May 2025. 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 Classic Rock rankings.

Source: 99.1 PLR, "99.1 PLR DiStefano Brothers Concrete Coatings Top 400 of the Last 40 Years 2025 List".

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