This 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.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Under The Bridge
- Nirvana · All Apologies
- House of Pain · Jump Around
- Nirvana · Smells Like Teen Spirit!
- The Tragically Hip · New Orleans is Sinking
- Pearl Jam · Jeremy
- Oasis · Wonderwall
- Nirvana · Come As You Are
- Radiohead · Creep
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Give it Away
- Our Lady Peace · Is Anybody Home?
- Nirvana · In Bloom
- Beastie Boys · Sabotage
- Green Day · Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)
- Cypress Hill · Insane in the Brain/Loco En El Coco
- Nine Inch Nails · Closer
- Nirvana · Dumb
- The Smashing Pumpkins · 1979
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Californication
- Stone Temple Pilots · Plush
- Oasis · Champagne Supernova
- Tool · Sober
- The Tragically Hip · At the Hundredth Meridian
- Nirvana · Heart-Shaped Box
- Pearl Jam · Alive
- The Offspring · Self-Esteem
- Our Lady Peace · Naveed
- The Smashing Pumpkins · Bullet With Butterfly Wings
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Scar Tissue
- The Tragically Hip · Ahead by a Century
- Pearl Jam · Better Man
- Beastie Boys · Intergalactic
- Nirvana · Lithium
- Soundgarden · Black Hole Sun
- Radiohead · Karma Police
- Beck · Loser
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Soul to Squeeze
- Weezer · Say it Ain't So
- Oasis · Don't Look Back in Anger
- Our Lady Peace · Superman's Dead
- Nirvana · The Man Who Sold the World
- Rage Against the Machine · Killing In The Name
- The Tragically Hip · Bobcaygeon
- Blur · Song 2
- Green Day · When I Come Around
- Stone Temple Pilots · Interstate Love Song
- Metallica · The Unforgiven
- Nirvana · Rape Me
- Finger Eleven · Above
- The Chemical Brothers · Block Rockin' Beats
- Blind Melon · No Rain
- Stone Temple Pilots · Creep
- Nirvana · Polly
- The Tragically Hip · Poets
- Oasis · (Whats the Story) Morning Glory?
- Big Wreck · That Song
- Rage Against the Machine · Testify
- The Matthew Good Band · Hello Time Bomb
- The Smashing Pumpkins · Today
- Tool · Stinkfist
- Green Day · Brain Stew
- Pearl Jam · Black
- The Tragically Hip · Courage
- Weezer · Buddy Holly
- Our Lady Peace · Clumsy
- Nirvana · On A Plain
- Sloan · The Good in Everyone
- Metallica · Nothing Else Matters
- The Tragically Hip · Fifty Mission Cap
- Rage Against the Machine · Guerilla Radio
- Our Lady Peace · One Man Army
- Pearl Jam · Even Flow
- The Tragically Hip · Little Bones
- The Smashing Pumpkins · Disarm
- Sloan · Everything You've Done Wrong
- The Verve · Bittersweet Symphony
- Green Day · Basket Case
- The Matthew Good Band · Apparitions
- Sublime · Santeria
- Bush · Machinehead
- The Tragically Hip · Locked In the Trunk of a Car
- Green Day · She
- Stone Temple Pilots · Big Empty
- Treble Charger · Red
- Pearl Jam · Daughter
- Our Lady Peace · Starseed
- Alice in Chains · Man in the Box
- R.E.M. · Losing My Religion
- The Offspring · Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)
- Foo Fighters · Learn to Fly
- Stone Temple Pilots · Vasoline
- Radiohead · High and Dry
- Big Wreck · The Oaf (My Luck is Wasted)
- Foo Fighters · My Hero
- I Mother Earth · Used to Be Alright
- Soundgarden · Spoonman
- Tool · Forty Six & Two
- The Tragically Hip · Looking for a Place to Happen
- Sublime · What I Got
- Rage Against the Machine · Bulls on Parade
- Sloan · Money City Maniacs
- Pearl Jam · Yellow Ledbetter
- Econoline Crush · All that You Are
- Bush · Comedown
- Temple of the Dog · Hunger Strike
- Sloan · Coax Me
- The Offspring · Gotta Get Away
- Metallica · Until it Sleeps
- The Matthew Good Band · Load Me Up
- U2 · Mysterious Ways
- Nine Inch Nails · Hurt
- The Tragically Hip · Fully Completely
- The Smashing Pumpkins · Cherub Rock
- Metallica · Enter Sandman
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Suck My Kiss
- Green Day · Hitchin' A Ride
- The Matthew Good Band · Indestructible
- Soundgarden · Fell on Black Days
- The Offspring · The Kids Aren't Alright
- Big Wreck · Blown Wide Open
- Foo Fighters · Monkey Wrench
- The Smashing Pumpkins · Thirty-Three
- Sloan · Losing California
- Green Day · Longview
- I Mother Earth · One More Astronaut
- Depeche Mode · Enjoy the Silence
- The Tragically Hip · Twist My Arm
- No Doubt · Just a Girl
- Sloan · Underwhelmed
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Around the World
- Econoline Crush · You Don't Know What It's Like
- Foo Fighters · Everlong
- The Smashing Pumpkins · Zero
- Odds · Heterosexual Man
- The Matthew Good Band · Everything is Automatic
- Alice in Chains · Rooster
- Bush · Glycerine
- Econoline Crush · Sparkle and Shine
- Pearl Jam · Last Kiss
- Odds · It Falls Apart
- Rage Against the Machine · Sleep Now in the Fire
- The Tragically Hip · 700 ft. Ceiling
- The Smashing Pumpkins · Tonight Tonight
- Odds · Eat My Brain
- Soundgarden · Burden In My Hand
- The Tea Party · Temptation
- The Offspring · Gone Away
- The Tragically Hip · Fireworks
- Foo Fighters · Big Me
- The Matthew Good Band · Strange Days
- The Chemical Brothers · Let Forever Be
- 54.40 · Ocean Pearl
- Silverchair · Tomorrow
- The Tragically Hip · Nautical Disaster
- Pearl Jam · Dissident
- Big Sugar · Diggin' a Hole
- Stone Temple Pilots · Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
- Moist · Silver
- Hole · Doll Parts
- Big Sugar · Turn the Lights On
- Weezer · Undone (The Sweater Song)
- The Tragically Hip · So Hard Done By
- Sublime · Smoke Two Joints
- 54.40 · Love You All
- Depeche Mode · Personal Jesus
- The Tragically Hip · Wheat Kings
- Radiohead · Just
- The Age of Electric · Remote Control
- Stone Temple Pilots · Sex Type Thing
- Nirvana · Breed
- Nickelback · Leader of Men
- 54.40 · Nice to Luv You
- Soundgarden · Outshined
- Alice in Chains · No Excuses
- I Mother Earth · So Gently We Go
- Red Hot Chili Peppers · Breaking the Girl
- The Tea Party · The Messenger
- Filter · Hey Man Nice Shot
- Nickelback · Old Enough
- Alice in Chains · Heaven Beside You
- Killjoys · Today I Hate Everyone
- Green Day · Welcome to Paradise
- The Tragically Hip · Gift Shop
- Alice in Chains · Would?
- Nickelback · Breathe
- Tool · Prison Sex
- Sloan · People of the Sky
- Stone Temple Pilots · Big Bang Baby
- Moist · Push
- Jane's Addiction · Been Caught Stealing
- Sloan · All Used Up
- Fatboy Slim · Praise You
- I Mother Earth · Not Quite Sonic
- Nine Inch Nails · Down in It
- Pure · Anna is a Speed Freak
- Weezer · El Scorcho
- Bif Naked · Spaceman
- Stone Temple Pilots · Lady Picture Show
- Edwin · Trippin'
- 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...
