Edge 102's Top 200 Songs of the 90s: House of Pain's Meteoric Rise

Published by Toronto Mike on September 8, 2010 @ 11:30 in Edge 102 ~ CFNY, Radio

radioThis past weekend, CFNY / Edge 102 aired what they deem to be the top 200 songs from the 1990s.

They did the same thing last year. This year's top 200 is below.

  1. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Under The Bridge
  2. Nirvana · All Apologies
  3. House of Pain · Jump Around
  4. Nirvana · Smells Like Teen Spirit!
  5. The Tragically Hip · New Orleans is Sinking
  6. Pearl Jam · Jeremy
  7. Oasis · Wonderwall
  8. Nirvana · Come As You Are
  9. Radiohead · Creep
  10. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Give it Away
  11. Our Lady Peace · Is Anybody Home?
  12. Nirvana · In Bloom
  13. Beastie Boys · Sabotage
  14. Green Day · Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)
  15. Cypress Hill · Insane in the Brain/Loco En El Coco
  16. Nine Inch Nails · Closer
  17. Nirvana · Dumb
  18. The Smashing Pumpkins · 1979
  19. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Californication
  20. Stone Temple Pilots · Plush
  21. Oasis · Champagne Supernova
  22. Tool · Sober
  23. The Tragically Hip · At the Hundredth Meridian
  24. Nirvana · Heart-Shaped Box
  25. Pearl Jam · Alive
  26. The Offspring · Self-Esteem
  27. Our Lady Peace · Naveed
  28. The Smashing Pumpkins · Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  29. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Scar Tissue
  30. The Tragically Hip · Ahead by a Century
  31. Pearl Jam · Better Man
  32. Beastie Boys · Intergalactic
  33. Nirvana · Lithium
  34. Soundgarden · Black Hole Sun
  35. Radiohead · Karma Police
  36. Beck · Loser
  37. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Soul to Squeeze
  38. Weezer · Say it Ain't So
  39. Oasis · Don't Look Back in Anger
  40. Our Lady Peace · Superman's Dead
  41. Nirvana · The Man Who Sold the World
  42. Rage Against the Machine · Killing In The Name
  43. The Tragically Hip · Bobcaygeon
  44. Blur · Song 2
  45. Green Day · When I Come Around
  46. Stone Temple Pilots · Interstate Love Song
  47. Metallica · The Unforgiven
  48. Nirvana · Rape Me
  49. Finger Eleven · Above
  50. The Chemical Brothers · Block Rockin' Beats
  51. Blind Melon · No Rain
  52. Stone Temple Pilots · Creep
  53. Nirvana · Polly
  54. The Tragically Hip · Poets
  55. Oasis · (Whats the Story) Morning Glory?
  56. Big Wreck · That Song
  57. Rage Against the Machine · Testify
  58. The Matthew Good Band · Hello Time Bomb
  59. The Smashing Pumpkins · Today
  60. Tool · Stinkfist
  61. Green Day · Brain Stew
  62. Pearl Jam · Black
  63. The Tragically Hip · Courage
  64. Weezer · Buddy Holly
  65. Our Lady Peace · Clumsy
  66. Nirvana · On A Plain
  67. Sloan · The Good in Everyone
  68. Metallica · Nothing Else Matters
  69. The Tragically Hip · Fifty Mission Cap
  70. Rage Against the Machine · Guerilla Radio
  71. Our Lady Peace · One Man Army
  72. Pearl Jam · Even Flow
  73. The Tragically Hip · Little Bones
  74. The Smashing Pumpkins · Disarm
  75. Sloan · Everything You've Done Wrong
  76. The Verve · Bittersweet Symphony
  77. Green Day · Basket Case
  78. The Matthew Good Band · Apparitions
  79. Sublime · Santeria
  80. Bush · Machinehead
  81. The Tragically Hip · Locked In the Trunk of a Car
  82. Green Day · She
  83. Stone Temple Pilots · Big Empty
  84. Treble Charger · Red
  85. Pearl Jam · Daughter
  86. Our Lady Peace · Starseed
  87. Alice in Chains · Man in the Box
  88. R.E.M. · Losing My Religion
  89. The Offspring · Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)
  90. Foo Fighters · Learn to Fly
  91. Stone Temple Pilots · Vasoline
  92. Radiohead · High and Dry
  93. Big Wreck · The Oaf (My Luck is Wasted)
  94. Foo Fighters · My Hero
  95. I Mother Earth · Used to Be Alright
  96. Soundgarden · Spoonman
  97. Tool · Forty Six & Two
  98. The Tragically Hip · Looking for a Place to Happen
  99. Sublime · What I Got
  100. Rage Against the Machine · Bulls on Parade
  101. Sloan · Money City Maniacs
  102. Pearl Jam · Yellow Ledbetter
  103. Econoline Crush · All that You Are
  104. Bush · Comedown
  105. Temple of the Dog · Hunger Strike
  106. Sloan · Coax Me
  107. The Offspring · Gotta Get Away
  108. Metallica · Until it Sleeps
  109. The Matthew Good Band · Load Me Up
  110. U2 · Mysterious Ways
  111. Nine Inch Nails · Hurt
  112. The Tragically Hip · Fully Completely
  113. The Smashing Pumpkins · Cherub Rock
  114. Metallica · Enter Sandman
  115. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Suck My Kiss
  116. Green Day · Hitchin' A Ride
  117. The Matthew Good Band · Indestructible
  118. Soundgarden · Fell on Black Days
  119. The Offspring · The Kids Aren't Alright
  120. Big Wreck · Blown Wide Open
  121. Foo Fighters · Monkey Wrench
  122. The Smashing Pumpkins · Thirty-Three
  123. Sloan · Losing California
  124. Green Day · Longview
  125. I Mother Earth · One More Astronaut
  126. Depeche Mode · Enjoy the Silence
  127. The Tragically Hip · Twist My Arm
  128. No Doubt · Just a Girl
  129. Sloan · Underwhelmed
  130. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Around the World
  131. Econoline Crush · You Don't Know What It's Like
  132. Foo Fighters · Everlong
  133. The Smashing Pumpkins · Zero
  134. Odds · Heterosexual Man
  135. The Matthew Good Band · Everything is Automatic
  136. Alice in Chains · Rooster
  137. Bush · Glycerine
  138. Econoline Crush · Sparkle and Shine
  139. Pearl Jam · Last Kiss
  140. Odds · It Falls Apart
  141. Rage Against the Machine · Sleep Now in the Fire
  142. The Tragically Hip · 700 ft. Ceiling
  143. The Smashing Pumpkins · Tonight Tonight
  144. Odds · Eat My Brain
  145. Soundgarden · Burden In My Hand
  146. The Tea Party · Temptation
  147. The Offspring · Gone Away
  148. The Tragically Hip · Fireworks
  149. Foo Fighters · Big Me
  150. The Matthew Good Band · Strange Days
  151. The Chemical Brothers · Let Forever Be
  152. 54.40 · Ocean Pearl
  153. Silverchair · Tomorrow
  154. The Tragically Hip · Nautical Disaster
  155. Pearl Jam · Dissident
  156. Big Sugar · Diggin' a Hole
  157. Stone Temple Pilots · Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
  158. Moist · Silver
  159. Hole · Doll Parts
  160. Big Sugar · Turn the Lights On
  161. Weezer · Undone (The Sweater Song)
  162. The Tragically Hip · So Hard Done By
  163. Sublime · Smoke Two Joints
  164. 54.40 · Love You All
  165. Depeche Mode · Personal Jesus
  166. The Tragically Hip · Wheat Kings
  167. Radiohead · Just
  168. The Age of Electric · Remote Control
  169. Stone Temple Pilots · Sex Type Thing
  170. Nirvana · Breed
  171. Nickelback · Leader of Men
  172. 54.40 · Nice to Luv You
  173. Soundgarden · Outshined
  174. Alice in Chains · No Excuses
  175. I Mother Earth · So Gently We Go
  176. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Breaking the Girl
  177. The Tea Party · The Messenger
  178. Filter · Hey Man Nice Shot
  179. Nickelback · Old Enough
  180. Alice in Chains · Heaven Beside You
  181. Killjoys · Today I Hate Everyone
  182. Green Day · Welcome to Paradise
  183. The Tragically Hip · Gift Shop
  184. Alice in Chains · Would?
  185. Nickelback · Breathe
  186. Tool · Prison Sex
  187. Sloan · People of the Sky
  188. Stone Temple Pilots · Big Bang Baby
  189. Moist · Push
  190. Jane's Addiction · Been Caught Stealing
  191. Sloan · All Used Up
  192. Fatboy Slim · Praise You
  193. I Mother Earth · Not Quite Sonic
  194. Nine Inch Nails · Down in It
  195. Pure · Anna is a Speed Freak
  196. Weezer · El Scorcho
  197. Bif Naked · Spaceman
  198. Stone Temple Pilots · Lady Picture Show
  199. Edwin · Trippin'
  200. Sublime · Wrong Way

Ryan B. wrote me the following email on the subject of CFNY / Edge 102 and their Top 200 Songs Of The 90's.

I've been reading your blog on and off over the years, especially as a source of news about CFNY. After turning on the radio this weekend and hearing "Inane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill come in as #16 on the top 200 songs of the 90's, when I don't ever recall hearing it on CFNY back then, I had to check for the final list and see how offended I'd be :) I'll confess that I'm shocked that Smells Like Teen Spirit was not #1 but was in fact #4 behind RHCP's Under the Bridge, Nirvana's All Apologies (If anything, I would have guessed Come As You Are), and, wait, I'm sorry, does this say "House of Pain - Jump Around" at number 3? 

Anyway, if you're interested, I put together a spreadsheet comparing this list to the "Top 1002 of All Time" posted at The Spirit of Radio - http://www.spiritofradio.ca/Top1002.asp. 41 songs were on this weekend's list that didn't appear back in 1999, including #3 Jump Around. A couple of them were borderline, as the album may have come out in late 1999, but the single wasn't officially released until 2000. Then there's #191, All Used Up by Sloan, which came out in umm, 2005? I'm not even sure why I try or care. It's just one of the 12 presets I hop between when driving. Anyways, if you're interested, feel free to use the data for a post on your blog, otherwise, you can just shake your head like I am.

Thanks for the blog,

Ryan

It really was a meteoric rise for House of Pain's "Jump Around", which was 90th one year ago, and now sits at #3. And yes, it's a song CFNY wouldn't touch when it was released.

Things certainly are different over there...

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29 Responses to "Edge 102's Top 200 Songs of the 90s: House of Pain's Meteoric Rise"

CQ
September 8, 2010 / 13:06

FYI, I posted an all-time 'back in tha day' true 1050 Chum chart based Year-end Best-of listing (two entries) over the weekend.

Godd Till
September 8, 2010 / 15:21

#5 on their list was released in the 1980s. Helluva job, etc.

Buffalo Boy Mike
September 8, 2010 / 16:43

This list is a joke, even if they did play Metallica back then what is Until it Sleeps doing on there ahead of Enter Sandman? There is a ton on this list that is on there to apease the masses....Not one Cure song, Not Friday Im in Love, no Mint Car? Was the Cure not a huge part of this stations history?
Its not even worth it anymore. Its just a nother rock station that is on my presets that I will tune into to see if they have a good song playing, otherwise they are just one of the others...There was a day when the personalities and the music made me listen continuously, not anymore. At the very least the station still needs to demonstrate knowledge of the music and a history of what the station has played that made it what it was. Im not asking for stellar on air personalities, just know the music

Lorne
September 8, 2010 / 18:33

Top 200 Songs of the 90s (by bands that have a new album out or fulfill our CanCon requirement).

Here's what I'd like to see, and I'd gladly generate it if I had the raw data. Take all their Thursday 30s from January 4th, 1990, until well into 2000.

Only count songs that ENTERED the list on or after January 4th. Do not count any song that ENTERED the list after December 30, 1999. (IE: Use any list from 2000s that contain 1990s songs)

Each time they appear on the list, give them a score of 31-[Their position]. Sum up those scores for each song.

Use that to generate the ACTUAL list, based on actual rankings. As a bonus, you only need to generate the list once. It's immutable after that point!

Cheryl
September 8, 2010 / 19:35

Never even heard of any of these groups. I don't know any of these songs. No Bob Seger? No John Mellencamp? No Stampeders? No Trrooper? Come on. Get with it. Do a top 200 of bands I know and I will be more interested. Go habs.

Buffalo Boy Mike
September 8, 2010 / 20:23

How did Been Caught Stealing end up in the bottom 10 of the list? That song was huge...Sublime Wrong Way? Does that really even belong on the list? Im impressed they got Anna Is A Speed Freak, that song should be much higher though
And I LOVE The Hip but 17 songs give or take one as I was counting.....thats 10% of the list for one band, there was a lot of other deserving bands, no Neds Atomic Dustbin, Sisters of Mercy....come on....no knowledge of music, Mike you have to stop posting this stuff because it makes me hate the station even more for being complete idiots any more, the sad part is I don't want to hate 102, I want it to resemble something of a station that it used to be known for, playing real cutting edge tunes, not watered down crap.

Irvine
September 8, 2010 / 20:38

I'll make Ross Whiner a deal. If he can show me Metallica in rotation at 102.1 during that era (excluding Enter Sandman) I'll donate $1000 dollars to a charity of his choice.

If not, then I ask him to resign but not before firing everyone (excluding Fred).

Hey Ross..it's not CFOX dude.

LEW
September 8, 2010 / 21:47

Not a lot of brown sugar in the cupboard.

Army
September 8, 2010 / 21:55

Sort of like Cheryl. I have "heard" of a couple of these groups................but have no idea what these tunes are. Terrible to be stuck in the 60s, but happy I was!!

cpierson
September 8, 2010 / 22:46

Only one each from REM and U2, arguably the two biggest bands of the '90s? But three from Nickelback? I smell something funny.

Even among the Hip songs (and while I love the guys, 18 songs out of 200 seems a tad bit high, especially when 54.40 only has a couple and the Headstones aren't there AT ALL), I have to ask where the hell Grace, Too is. Looking for a Place to Happen ranks, but Grace doesn't? This makes no sense at all.

I would have expected more Beasties as well. I seem to remember them dominating the '90s, and the stuff holds up too. Same with No Doubt, who had a shocking number of hits once you add them up.

retfird
September 9, 2010 / 01:34

The chart was voted by listeners

Race_Coach
September 9, 2010 / 08:08

Ummmm? Modern Rock? Huh? Is the 102.1 calendar stuck?
The 90's ended almost 12 years ago. How 'bout a top 200 from THIS century?

Pezzy
September 9, 2010 / 10:16

Oh jeeze, don't even get me started with Jump Around. I listen to the Edge at work, and hear the song almost daily... sometimes even more than once a day!!

Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with the song, but is there not some new music we could listen to instead? Maybe mix it up a bit?

I see the edge digging a hole with their music rotation... and it's getting old.

Brodeo
September 9, 2010 / 10:19

As retfird said, the chart was voted by listeners.

The choices given for voting were the same 200 songs that made the list (maybe one or two more. I didn't actually count) and ONE empty spot for 'other'
There was a limit of 5 choices per entry.
Just thought I'd share this info for those of you who didn't see how the force feeding was conducted this time. (See "Fearless Five @ Five" on the Edge's website for a similar voting system)

Jason Paris
September 9, 2010 / 10:26

I think I said this last year too, but that list is basically ripe with the grunge-inspired type of music that CFNY decided was "their sound" somewhere between 1997 and 1999. There are so many artists that CFNY played for most of that decade that aren't part of that list.

Morrissey for starters!!!

Jason Paris
September 9, 2010 / 10:35

For a much, much better Best of the 90s list, check out Pitchfork's recent list here...

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7853-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-20-01/

Richard J
September 9, 2010 / 12:04

Did you catch VH1's Top 100 Hip-Hop Songs playing on MuchMoreMusic recently? Pretty good list, and yes, Jump Around was on it as well! =)

http://stereogum.com/24391/vh1s_100_greatest_hiphop_songs-2/list/

NMB Ryan
September 9, 2010 / 13:28

Who the hell cares?

It's not a scientific survey -it can't be because it's based on listener votes from today..and today's listeners for the most part are 22 year olds into white noise..which means they haven't even heard of, nor care about, bands like morrissey or the cure or ned's atomic dustbin.

folks, it's not about what you and i loved about the edge back in the day, it's about trying to generate a listener spike for the weekend. it's not empirical data, it's ratings, which further proves the point about the station not respecting it's history.

they simply don't care about the past.

bottom line: get over it. the station as we knew it is no more. end of story.

Sammi
September 9, 2010 / 17:37

A bullshit list made up of Ross's picks. RHCP number one???? Come on!

Cheryl
September 9, 2010 / 19:40

Well, I never listened to CFNY or the Edge and never will. I know none of these songs. Yes, bring back the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I like modern music as well, but mostly modern country.

Hector
September 10, 2010 / 15:51

WOW....Cheryl...most of the songs on the list are Top 40 bands. How clueless are you?

andrewS
September 11, 2010 / 14:26

"Jump Around" is because of that damn Telus ad that was in heavy rotation earlier this year.

That's right, the Edge is influenced by cell phone ads.

A.R.
September 12, 2010 / 00:37

In one of their lists of top songs of the 2000s, Linkin Park's "In the End" ended up in the top 5. Only one Broken Social Scene song made the list, "Cause = Time" at 195. How pathetic, especially given the fact that one of the best bands of the decade that happened to be from Toronto was ignored by this Toronto station. At that point, I assumed that payola was a factor in putting together the list. (Apparently, it's put together by the lowest common denominator audience which they've nurtured over the years.)

jason | getyouroj.com
September 12, 2010 / 07:49

Thanks for this post Mike I am not sure what I would do without you. Surely I would have forgot The Edge existed by now... just liek we've forgotten Jason Barr ever existed... but I digress...

CQ
September 12, 2010 / 09:50

New house, same furniture:
Given their physical move I'm surprised that they didn't bother to run 228 celebrated song lists of the 90s and 00s instead.

Irvine
September 13, 2010 / 15:08

Not sure what the big issue with Jump Around from House of Pain being in the Top 10. The song was a mainstay on 102.1 & hit Top 40 in Toronto. When the song was released in 1992 it was a fusion of rock & rap, something that was still new in music (the first being Run DMC and Aerosmith doing Walk This Way).

The song was a ground breaker in music. It hit just as Hiphop was becoming mainstream and alt rock was at it's peak (the Nirvana years). It was a one hit wonder (excluding Boom Shalakcka Boom or whatever). So what, it was a club filler & got airplay on Energy 108.

Jump Around is a FAR more innovative and unique than most of the generic white bread shit that makes up this list.

The thing about this list is it shows with absolute proof why the Alternative rock format is a basement dweller even on stations like Seattle's 107,7 The End. I was in Vancouver listening to it and thought wow..how far this format has fallen. Guess that's what you get when RHCP is all you've got.

Alt rock radio is dead.

Karim
December 22, 2010 / 21:54

This sounds like a HTZ FM countdown, they put "Jump Around," at #3, "Loco En El Coco," at #15 and 6 Oasis songs to make them "distinctive" and "Edgy." Actually, I think HTZ FM and Y108 would actually do a way better list, they'd probably include Space Lord (Monster Magnet), Possum Kingdom (Toadies), much of the solid stuff from the 90's that this countdown misses. They even forgot Jane Says and have Been Caught Stealing at # 190 (Go Figure!, there's 3 Nickelback's here all higher than Jane's Addiction.) If this truly was voted for by the listeners, I'm concerned.

Natalie
December 23, 2010 / 15:34

I listened to 102.1 The Edge throughout the 90s and Canadian bands like Our Lady Peace, The Tea Party, Econoline Crush, Matthew Good Band, Tragically Hip, I Mother Earth, etc. were played all the time. These bands are definitely not represented enough in the list.

And as for when they do come up, well, how did OLP's "Is Anybody Home?" beat anything from their Clumsy album? Clumsy was the Edge's #1 of the year in 1996/1997. Their other albums weren't as successful.

Also, no Alanis Morisette, Garbage, Goo Goo Dolls, Everclear!? Smashing Pumpkins at #57?! These bands were hugely popular on both 102.1 the edge and Muchmusic in the 90s. And how about those 1-hit wonders like Chumbawumba??

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