Top 100 hard rock singles of the 90s

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I won't start more but just to be complete

1 Soundgarden - "Jesus Christ Pose"

2 Smashing Pumpkins - "Cherub Rock"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

3. In Bloom, Nirvana
4. Love's Sweet Exile, Manics
5. Song 2, Blur

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

6. Amen - The Price of Reality

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

7. "You Could Be Mine" Guns N Roses

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

8. I Got Erection, Turbonegro

(I am compelled to put this in every list)

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

9. Tonight Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins

10. Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog

11. Poison - Unskinny Bop

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

12. Afghan Whigs, "Honky's Ladder"

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

13. Girls Against Boys, "Super-Fire"

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

14. Shellac- Doris
15. Jesus Lizard- Puss
16. Fugazi- Reclamation

― earlnash, Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

12. Guns'N'Roses - Novemeber Rain

13. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole

14. Mudhoney - One More Time

15. Megadeth - Hangar 18

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

we are on 21 now!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

21. Howlin' Maggie, "How the West Was Lost"

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

22. Moby - "Come On Baby"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

23. Extreme - More Than Words (hehehehehehehehehehehe, sorry *closes door on way out*)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

24. The Melvins- Night Goat
25. Monster Magnet- Murder
26. Surgery- Feedback
27. The Cows- Chow

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

28. Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

29. "Smoke On The Water" - Pat Boone

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

30. Afghan Whigs "Retarded"
31. Urge Overkill "Sister Havana"

― webcrack (music=crack), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

32. Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia

― alexfack, Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

33. Mudhoney - Good Enough

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Alexfack is MY KIND OF POSTER.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

(opps I think good enough is the mudhoney song I meant!)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I love you Dan. However, must now undo previous good work with 34. The Almighty - All Sussed Out, because it's Wake Up Boo!

― alexfack, Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(Don't know if it was a single - it should have been.)

35. Hellacopters - Gotta Get Some Action Now!

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

36. Fishbone - "Sunless Saturday"

I have a theory that Fishbone has a song that would fit in every single top-100 category we come up with today. I'm testing it out as we speak.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, I see now, Jel - "One More Time".

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

37. Moby - That's When I Reach For My Revolver

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

38. The Monsoon Bassoon - The King Of Evil

― alexfack, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

39. Beastie Boys - Sabotage

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

earlnash: Were all of those released as singles?

40 The Gandharvas - "Downtime"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

41. Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

42. Sugar - A Good Idea

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

43 White Zombie - "More Human Than Human"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

44. Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

42. Everlong- foo fighters
43. Hum-Stars
44. Soundgarden-Black Hole Sun
45. Aphex Twin-Come to Daddy
46. Metallica-One

― scottstreat, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

47. Kylie Minogue - Did It Again

― alexfack, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

48. Belle and Sebastian - "Legal Man"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

49. Bjork - Army Of Me
50. Nic Endo - White Heat
51. Hole - Violet
52. P J Harvey - 50ft Queenie
53. Pet Shop Boys - Can You Forgive Her?

― alexfack, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, IIRC, you don't even like B&S, let alone consider them hard rock, do you? What's the deal with some of these answers?

54 KMFDM - "A Drug Against War"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

55. Boyzone - Picture Of You

― alexfack, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

56 Blind Melon - "No Rain"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

57. Amy Grant - "Baby Baby"

(I can't believe you haven't metaphorically kicked Alex and me in the nuts, Sundar.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

58. Orlando - Just For A Second

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't legal man out in 2000?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

59. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
(good call on Cherub Rock btw)
60. Nirvana - Come As You Are

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

61. Dubstar - Not So Manic Now

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

62. Pearl Jam - Alive

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

63. "Just" - Radiohead

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

64. Kiss - God Gave Rock'n'Roll To Ya

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

65. The Auteurs - Light Aircraft On Fire

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

66. Too Far (Junior Vasquez Mix), Kylie

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan: As I was discussing with my counsellor today, I have a havit of using extreme passive-aggression to deal with difficult people and difficult situations. To avoid confrontation, I can tend to simply behave as if the person/situation doesn't exist.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

(Nonexistent answers by nonexistent posters can of course not be included in any sort of final list.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a habit, that is

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

67. Bis - Sweet Shop Avengerz

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

68. descension- my middle name is funk 7'

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

69. Leila - Space Love

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

70. Redd Kross-Switchblade Sister
71. Stone Temple Pilots-Big Bang Baby
72. Daisy Chainsaw-Love Your Money

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

(my kylie post was serious Sundar, I wasn't trying to take the piss, just in case you thought maybe I was)

73. We Are The Boyz, Pulp

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly

― David Allen, Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

75. Kung Fu, Ash

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

76. Glam Metal Detectives - Everybody Up!

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

77. White Zombie - Thunder KIss '65

78. Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show

― omally, Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

79. The Mark Of Cain - LMA
80. Helmet - Wilma's Rainbow
81. At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor

― Mil, Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops, scratch #81, I am a fool.... ;)

― Mil, Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

55. Death In Vegas 'Dirt'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

32 Tool - "Sober"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)

(actually let's just go to 100 before replacing hi-LERR-ious answers)

81 Soundgarden - "Rusty Cage"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

82 Pantera - "Walk"

There's some good stuff on this thread. I think nickalicious is onto something with that Fishbone theory and whoever submitted Amy Grant deserves a medal. You can't argue with funny...

― Julien Sandiford (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I was thinking of just asking people to explain/defend odd choices rather than just chucking them out right away. I was just feeling a little irritable at the time as well as suspecting that people were just being stupid. I'm all for creative genrefuck if that's what it is. (And there is some good stuff here - some of Arthur's and jel's choices are great. I'm glad someone else had the "Lovesick Pleasures" single. "Sick Of Sex" was sooo classic.)

83 Ministry - "Jesus Built My Hotrod"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 November 2002 04:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dirt" is 84, "Sober" is 85 for now.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 November 2002 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

86 Tool - "Opiate"
87 RATM - "The Year of tha Boomerang"
88 The Pixies - "Alec Eiffel"
89 NIN - "March of the Pigs"

― Julien Sandiford (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 22 November 2002 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

90 RATM - "No Shelter"

Maybe the only bright spot on the God-awful Godzilla soundtrack

― Julien Sandiford (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 22 November 2002 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

91 Blue Rodeo - "Diamond Mine"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

92. Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You

93. Love/Hate - Don't Fuck With Me

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

94 Alice In Chains - "Man In the Box"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll say the obvious one:

95. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

'nirvana' rules! i bought it in the supermarket! [/jel]

― Jeff W, Friday, 22 November 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

96. Bikini Kill - New Radio/Rebel Girl/DemiRep

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 22 November 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

c'mon ppl. we're nearly there.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

97. Weezer - El Scorcho

98. Metallica - the Unforgiven

99. Pond - Agatha

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

100. Therapy? - Screamager

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

some subs:

Dinosaur Jr - Feel the Pain

Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter

Bon Jovi - Someday I'll Be Saturday Night

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

OK here's the final list. I left in all of alexfack's and Dan's suggestions (except ones that weren't singles or weren't from the 90s). I'd thought that alexfack was maybe just making up band names but in fact he's just British, adding a good dose of local colour to this list. Research shows that they're all actual artists, mostly with some sort of hard guitar element. I threw out a few answers that weren't singles or were from a wrong year. They were replaced with duplicate-number answers (i.e. if someone already used a number but the next poster used the same number again). I'm quite pleased with the result. It's the most eclectic hard rock list I've ever seen.

1 Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose

2 Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

3 Nirvana - In Bloom

4 Manic Street Preachers - Love's Sweet Exile

5 Blur - Song 2

6 Amen - The Price of Reality

7 Guns N Roses - You Could Be Mine

8 Turbonegro - I Got Erection

9 Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight

10 Temple Of the Dog - Hunger Strike

11 Poison - Unskinny Bop

12 Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder

13 Girls Against Boys - Super-Fire

14 Foo Fighters - Everlong

15 Hum - Stars

16 Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

17 Guns N Roses - November Rain

18 Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole

19 Mudhoney - Good Enough

20 Megadeth - Hangar 18

21 Howlin' Maggie - How the West Was Lost?

22 Moby - Come On Baby

23 Extreme - More Than Words

24 The Melvins - Night Goat

25 Monster Magnet - Murder

26 Surgery - Feedback

27 The Cows - Chow

28 Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People

29 Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy

30 Afghan Whigs - Retarded

31 Urge Overkill - Sister Havana

32 Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia

33 Mudhoney - One More Time

34 The Almighty - All Sussed Out

35 Hum - Stars

36 Fishbone - Sunless Saturday

37 Moby - That's When I Reach For My Revolver

38 Monsoon Bassoon - "King Of Evil"

39 Beastie Boys - Sabotage

40 The Gandharvas - Downtime

41 Rage Against the Machine - Killing In the Name

42 Sugar - A Good Idea

43 White Zombie - More Human Than Human

44 Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

45 Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy

46 Metallica - One

47 Kylie Minogue - Did It Again

48 Metallica - One

49 Bjork - Army Of Me

50 Nic Endo - White Heat

51 Hole - Violet

52 PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie

53 Pet Shop Boys - Can You Forgive Her?

54 KMFDM - A Drug Against War

55 Boyzone - Picture Of You

56 Blind Melon - No Rain

57 Amy Grant - Baby Baby

58 Orlando - Just For a Second

59 Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

60 Nirvana - Come As You Are

61 Dubstar - Not So Manic Now

62 Pearl Jam - Alive

63 Radiohead - Just

64 Kiss - God Gave Rock N Roll To Ya

65 The Auteurs - Light Aircraft On Fire

66 Kylie - Too Far (Junior Vasquez Mix)

67 Bis - Sweet Shop Avengerz

68 Descension - My Middle Name Is Funk

69 Leila - Space Love

70 Redd Kross - Switchblade Sister

71 Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby

72 Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money

73 Pulp - We Are the Boyz

74 Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly

75 Ash - Kung Fu

76 Glam Metal Detectives - Everybody Up!

77 White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65

78 Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show

79 LMA - The Mark Of Cain

80 Helmet - Wilma's Rainbow

81 Soundgarden - Rusty Cage

82 Pantera - Walk

83 Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

84 Death In Vegas - Dirt

85 Tool - Sober

86 Tool - Opiate

87 Rage Against the Machine - The Year Of the Boomerang

88 The Pixies - Alec Eiffel

89 Nine Inch Nails - March Of the Pigs

90 Rage Against the Machine - No Shelter

91 Blue Rodeo - Diamond Mine

92 Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You

93 Love/Hate - Don't Fuck With Me

94 Alice In Chains - Man In the Box

95 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

96 Bikini Kill - New Radio/Rebel Girl/DemiRep

97 Weezer - El Scorcho

98 Metallica - The Unforgiven

99 Pond - Agatha

100 Therapy? - Screamager

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 23 November 2002 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Pet Shop Boys?????????????????????? Are you kidding?

― man, Saturday, 23 November 2002 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Like I said, though, I'd be interested to hear explanations for some of these choices (PSB, Kylie, Amy Grant, Boyzone).

Some notable omissions (for me):

13 Engines - Smoke & Ashes

Gandharvas - First Day Of Spring

The Tragically Hip - Fifty Mission Cap, Locked In the Trunk Of a Car

Varga - Freeze Don't Move

Doughboys - Shine

Guess I didn't have my Cancon hat on.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 23 November 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

48 should be "Feel the Pain" by Dinosaur Jr, sorry.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 23 November 2002 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it's quite hard rock by PSB standards, which shouldn't detract from what an impossibly excellent track it is. Ditto 'Did It Again' by Kylie, Boyzone-shite probably pushing it a bit. Many thanks for yr patience, Sundar.

― alexfack (alexfack), Saturday, 23 November 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I love genrefuck as much as the next nerd, but the Pet Shop Boys totally don't belong here. If vampy keyboards between the chorus and verse mean yer hard rock, than the horns on "New York, New York" make THAT hard rock. It's absurd.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 23 November 2002 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

YES it conceivably makes it hard rock if you're in the mood to consider it so, YES it's maybe absurd, GENRE BE DAMNED, etc. Curious that everyone questions the inclusion of PSBs while totally overlooking Dubstar and Orlando, mind.

― alexfack (alexfack), Saturday, 23 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

(I'm well aware that when I say things like "YES it's maybe absurd" I sound not unlike Su Pollard on Esther defending her very existence)

― alexfack (alexfack), Saturday, 23 November 2002 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Sundar, 19 and 33 are the same Mudhoney song, "Good Enough". There is no "One More Time" by them. Might I suggest you fill the vacancy by reinstating The Hellacopters' "(Gotta Get Some Action) Now!", which I have since confirmed was indeed a single. Thank you kindly. Rock on.

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 23 November 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

well, for me at least, it's because I've never heard Dubstar or Orlando.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 23 November 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, yes, that's a very good reason.

― alexfack (alexfack), Saturday, 23 November 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Curt: Sure. AMG didn't list the Hellacopters song as a single, which is why I didn't include it. #33 = Hellacopters - "Gotta Get Some Action Now!"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 23 November 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Aphex's "Come To Daddy" is in the final 100 twice. My suggestion for a substitute:
Propellerheads - "Bang On!"

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Sunday, 24 November 2002 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

i remember when helmet were popular and it was always about the guitar player's phd in guitar meaning that if you thought helmet crap it was because you were too stupid to get it.

gandharvas are the worst thing ever and when it comes down for the canadian content law they should be exhibit a for the prosecution.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 24 November 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I was completely being an ass when I suggested B&S and Amy Grant, although you could say "Legal Man" rocked a surf vibe in a rugged (for B&S) way and "Baby Baby" was by definition hard rock as Amy Grant was giving up her Queen of Christian Music crown to do stuff she'd been dying to perform for years but was afraid of alienating her audience to do. (That song was WAY MORE of a middle finger to Christian rock than people might realize; when it came out, there was a significant outcry from her core audience who started calling her slutty and a tool of the devil, all because she released a sweet little pop song about her soon-to-be fiance.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 24 November 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

45 = Iron Maiden - "Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter".

Helmet should have been mentioned in the "I remember them but what did they do?" thread for me.

I thought "Baby Baby" was actually about her baby?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 24 November 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hum - Stars is at #15 and #35.

― guavabends, Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

35 = Bon Jovi - "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 25 November 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

101. "No Voices in the Sky," Motorhead.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

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