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I’m a fan!  In most cases, several of this musical act’s songs appear on this chart, and many more were contenders
I’m a fan… but even though I like many of this musical act’s songs, few were contenders for my top 100
I would not necessarily consider myself a fan, but at least one song by this musical act is really good

Hot 100

TIER 23
1 “Open Season” (Die Mannequin, 2009)  11 YEARS AT #1 
2 “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (Nirvana, 1991)  23 YEARS AT #1 
3 “A Day in the Life” (the Beatles, 1967)  2 YEARS AT #1 
4 “Dark Dark World” (Poppy, 2021)  FORMER #2 
5 “Switch” (Poppy, leaked 2022)
TIER 22
6 “Shéa” (Scheer, 1996)
7 “Dirty Knives” (Bangs, 2002)
8 “Don’t Go Outside” (Poppy, 2020)
9 “Starting Over Again” (the Dollyrots, 2012)
10 “Cygnus (edit)” (Julie Christmas & Cult of Luna, 2016)
11 “Springtime” (Baby Gopal, 1996)
12 “Is This the Life?” (Cardiacs, 1988)
13 “Eat” (Poppy, 2021)
14 “Everybody Wants to Be Poppy” (Poppy, 2015)
15 “Metal” (Poppy, 2018)
16 “I Disagree” (Poppy, 2019)
17 “Time Is Up” (Poppy, 2018)
TIER 21
18 “Concrete” (Poppy, 2019)
19 “Stairway to Heaven” (Led Zeppelin, 1971)  FORMER #3 
20 “Her” (Poppy, 2021)
21 “Fatherpunk” (Die Mannequin, 2006)
TIER 20
22 “#1 Crush (Romeo + Juliet version)” (Garbage, 1996)
23 “Creature Comforted” (Local H, 2002)
24 “Go With the Flow” (Queens of the Stone Age, 2002)
25 “Vow” (Garbage, 1995)
26 “Outta Time” (Die Mannequin, 2014)
27 “Heart‐Shaped Box” (Nirvana, 1993)
28 “Millionaire Sweeper” (Kenickie, 1996)
29 “Breeders” (Poppy, 2021)
30 “How to Get Bigger” (Made Out of Babies, 2008)
31 “Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole” (Scarling, 2003)
32 “Rape Me” (Nirvana, 1993)  FORMER #2 
TIER 19
33 “Soft Rock Star (original mix)” (Metric, 2007)
34 “Can’t” (Scarling, 2004)  FORMER #2 
35 “New Way Out” (Poppy, 2024)
36 “You Know You’re Right” (Nirvana, 2002)  FORMER #2 
37 “Caribou and Cake” (Scarling, 2005)
38 “Suffer” (Die Mannequin, 2009)
39 “Gunt” (Made Out of Babies, 2006)
40 “Surgery” (Jack Off Jill, 2000)
41 “City Noise” (Scarling, 2005)
42 “Fill the Crown” (Poppy, 2019)
43 “Miss Americvnt” (Die Mannequin, 2009)
TIER 18
44 “There’ll Be Angels” (Audrey Gallagher, 2007)
45 “St. Peter” (Letters to Cleo, 1995)
46 “Scarborough Fair” (Simon & Garfunkel, 1966)
47 “Don’t Bother Me” (the Beatles, 1963)
48 “Daylight” (Failure, 1996)
49 “Pretty Noose” (Soundgarden, 1996)
50 “Stapled to the Mattress” (Scarling, 2005)
51 “Separate Ways” (Journey, 1983)
52 “Big Bang Baby” (Stone Temple Pilots, 1996)
53 “Cinnamon Spider” (Jack Off Jill, 2000)
54 “Bloodmoney” (Poppy, 2019)
55 “Anything Like Me” (Poppy, 2020)
56 “Let’s Go Surfing” (Sparks, 1994)
57 “Waves” (Metric, 2009)
TIER 17
58 “Hash Pipe” (Weezer, 2001)
59 “Have You Had Enough?” (Poppy, 2024)
60 “Call Me (7" version)” (Blondie, 1980)
61 “Time Will Stop” (the Dollyrots, 2012)
62 “Conspiracy of One” (the Offspring, 2000)
63 “Violet” (Hole, 1994)
64 “Swallow” (Krill, 2005)
65 “Vivica” (Jack Off Jill, 2000)
66 “I Ran” (A Flock of Seagulls, 1982)
67 “Sugar” (Made Out of Babies, 2005)
68 “Girls at the Mall” (Die Mannequin, 2014)
69 “I’ll Be Back” (the Beatles, 1964)
70 “Children With Machetes” (Die Mannequin, 2012)
71 “Disappear” (Letters to Cleo, 1997)
72 “Work in This Universe” (Fulflej, 1997)
73 “Holiday” (Green Day, 2004)
74 “Love Is Paranoid” (the Distillers, 2003)
75 “I Can See for Miles” (the Who, 1967)
76 “We’re in This Together” (Nine Inch Nails, 1999)
77 “Dark Therapy” (Echobelly, 1995)
78 “SOS” (ABBA, 1975)
79 “In a Hurricane” (the Color Guard, 2004)
80 “Union of the Snake” (Duran Duran, 1983)
(some of) TIER 16
81 “Use Once & Destroy” (Hole, 1998)
82 “Dead Honey” (Die Mannequin, 2009)
83 “Only Shallow” (My Bloody Valentine, 1991)
84 “Street Spirit” (Radiohead, 1995)
85 “White Chocolate Space Egg” (Liz Phair, 1998)
86 “Mayonaise” (Smashing Pumpkins, 1993)
87 “As Strange as It Seems” (Poppy, 2021)
88 “Guns & Gold” (Poppy, leaked 2018)
89 “In the Pretend World” (Scarling, 2005)
90 “Satellite Mind” (Metric, 2009)
91 “Serve the Servants” (Nirvana, 1993)
92 “Scentless Apprentice” (Nirvana, 1993)
93 “Tomorrow Never Knows” (the Beatles, 1966)
94 “Leon and the Game of Skin” (Local H, 2015)
95 “Hot Head (live)” (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 1980)
96 “What Would You Have Me Do?” (Local H, 2002)
97 “Change the World” (the Offspring, 1997)
98 “Adhesive” (Stone Temple Pilots, 1996)
99 “Hit That” (the Offspring, 2003)
 100  “Petals” (Hole, 1998)

Some other musical acts of note

 Melissa Auf der Maur   Damone   Faith No More   Foo Fighters 
 Juliana Hatfield   Imperial Teen   Killola   Madder Rose   the Muffs 
 No Doubt   R.E.M.   the Soviettes   Spiderbait   Sugarcoma 
 the Sundays   Tuscadero   Veruca Salt   …and many more! 

Pantheon‐level albums

The “album score” for each record is the sum of the scores of all the songs, minus the number of tracks times six.  It doesn’t mean much by itself but provides a relative measure.

TIER 22
1 I Disagree (Poppy, 2020)  5 YEARS AT #1 
21 22 18 18 19 10 15 13 12 22 (11 12 13 13) = 110 (with bonus tracks: 135)
2 Negative Spaces (Poppy, 2024)
17 15 14 X 15 15 14 14 10 7 15 10 19 X 15 = 102
TIER 21
3 Fino + Bleed (Die Mannequin, 2009)  10 YEARS AT #1 
9 19 16 14 19 15 8 15 8 9 16 23 = 99
4 Clear Hearts Grey Flowers (Jack Off Jill, 2000)  8 YEARS AT #1 
14 13 13 13 14 10 17 5 18 6 19 12 8 14 10 = 96
TIER 20
5 In Utero (Nirvana, 1993)  5 YEARS AT #1 
16 16 20 20 13 9 10 15 8 14 7 9 = 85
TIER 19
6 Flux (Poppy, 2021)
15 15 12 11 9 21 14 16 15 = 74
TIER 18
7 Nevermind (Nirvana, 1991)  2 YEARS AT #1 
23 14 12 13 13 6 10 11 10 9 11 6 X = 66
8 So Long, Scarecrow (Scarling, 2005)
6 19 11 9 X 11 5 16 18 7 19 11 5 = 65
9 Eat (Poppy, 2021)
22 14 14 20 23 = 63
TIER 17
10 Celebrity Skin (Hole, 1998)  4 YEARS AT #1 
16 9 4 10 14 6 16 9 16 5 13 16 = 62
11 Wholesale Meats and Fish (Letters to Cleo, 1995)
15 11 9 9 9 12 12 18 13 7 3 15 = 61
12 Here Comes the Zoo (Local H, 2002)
13 12 9 11 7 10 10 20 12 16 = 60
13 Hallelujah! I’m a Bum (Local H, 2012)
6 14 12 10 10 11 8 5 7 8 10 8 8 10 10 13 11 = 59
14 My Way or the Highway (Tuscadero, 1998)
12 5 11 6 11 10 14 8 8 10 10 13 12 12 = 58
15 At the Club (Kenickie, 1997)
10 8 10 6 7 6 20 15 12 7 11 8 9 9 8 7 = 57
TIER 16
16 Live Through This (Hole, 1994)
17 13 13 14 13 9 9 5 9 5 12 8 = 55
17 Go! (Letters to Cleo, 1997)
11 10 11 9 16 8 8 8 6 16 16 = 53
18 Garbage (Garbage, 1995)
12 8 10 9 10 11 20 8 7 9 6 15 = 53
19 The Ruiner (Made Out of Babies, 2008)
16 10 15 8 8 9 11 7 20 = 50
20 Ghost Notes (Veruca Salt, 2015)
9 8 9 8 7 7 7 11 12 12 11 12 11 10 = 50

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