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| # | Link to further information. Most of these pages include one or more additional song links. The following icons appear on these pages: | |
 | 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
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| 1 | “Open Season” (Die Mannequin, 2009) 11 YEARS AT #1 |
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| 2 | “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (Nirvana, 1991) 23 YEARS AT #1 |
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| 3 | “A Day in the Life” (the Beatles, 1967) 2 YEARS AT #1 |
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| 4 | “Dark Dark World” (Poppy, 2021) FORMER #2 |
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| 5 | “Switch” (Poppy, leaked 2022) | |
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| 6 | “Shéa” (Scheer, 1996) |
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| 7 | “Dirty Knives” (Bangs, 2002) |
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| 8 | “Don’t Go Outside” (Poppy, 2020) |
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| 9 | “Starting Over Again” (the Dollyrots, 2012) |
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| 10 | “Cygnus (edit)” (Julie Christmas & Cult of Luna, 2016) | |
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| 11 | “Springtime” (Baby Gopal, 1996) |
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| 12 | “Is This the Life?” (Cardiacs, 1988) |
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| 13 | “Eat” (Poppy, 2021) |
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| 14 | “Everybody Wants to Be Poppy” (Poppy, 2015) | |
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| 15 | “Metal” (Poppy, 2018) |
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| 16 | “I Disagree” (Poppy, 2019) |
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| 17 | “Time Is Up” (Poppy, 2018) |
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| 18 | “Concrete” (Poppy, 2019) |
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| 19 | “Stairway to Heaven” (Led Zeppelin, 1971) FORMER #3 |
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| 20 | “Her” (Poppy, 2021) |
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| 21 | “Fatherpunk” (Die Mannequin, 2006) |
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| 22 | “#1 Crush (Romeo + Juliet version)” (Garbage, 1996) |
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| 23 | “Creature Comforted” (Local H, 2002) |
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| 24 | “Go With the Flow” (Queens of the Stone Age, 2002) |
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| 25 | “Vow” (Garbage, 1995) |
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| 26 | “Outta Time” (Die Mannequin, 2014) |
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| 27 | “Heart‐Shaped Box” (Nirvana, 1993) |
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| 28 | “Millionaire Sweeper” (Kenickie, 1996) |
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| 29 | “Breeders” (Poppy, 2021) |
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| 30 | “How to Get Bigger” (Made Out of Babies, 2008) |
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| 31 | “Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole” (Scarling, 2003) |
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| 32 | “Rape Me” (Nirvana, 1993) FORMER #2 |
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| 33 | “Soft Rock Star (original mix)” (Metric, 2007) |
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| 34 | “Can’t” (Scarling, 2004) FORMER #2 |
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| 35 | “New Way Out” (Poppy, 2024) |
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| 36 | “You Know You’re Right” (Nirvana, 2002) FORMER #2 |
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| 37 | “Caribou and Cake” (Scarling, 2005) |
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| 38 | “Suffer” (Die Mannequin, 2009) |
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| 39 | “Gunt” (Made Out of Babies, 2006) |
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| 40 | “Surgery” (Jack Off Jill, 2000) |
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| 41 | “City Noise” (Scarling, 2005) |
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| 42 | “Fill the Crown” (Poppy, 2019) |
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| 43 | “Miss Americvnt” (Die Mannequin, 2009) |
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| 44 | “There’ll Be Angels” (Audrey Gallagher, 2007) | |
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| 45 | “St. Peter” (Letters to Cleo, 1995) |
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| 46 | “Scarborough Fair” (Simon & Garfunkel, 1966) |
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| 47 | “Don’t Bother Me” (the Beatles, 1963) |
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| 48 | “Daylight” (Failure, 1996) |
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| 49 | “Pretty Noose” (Soundgarden, 1996) |
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| 50 | “Stapled to the Mattress” (Scarling, 2005) |
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| 51 | “Separate Ways” (Journey, 1983) |
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| 52 | “Big Bang Baby” (Stone Temple Pilots, 1996) |
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| 53 | “Cinnamon Spider” (Jack Off Jill, 2000) |
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| 54 | “Bloodmoney” (Poppy, 2019) |
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| 55 | “Anything Like Me” (Poppy, 2020) |
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| 56 | “Let’s Go Surfing” (Sparks, 1994) |
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| 57 | “Waves” (Metric, 2009) |
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| 58 | “Hash Pipe” (Weezer, 2001) |
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| 59 | “Have You Had Enough?” (Poppy, 2024) |
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| 60 | “Call Me (7" version)” (Blondie, 1980) |
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| 61 | “Time Will Stop” (the Dollyrots, 2012) |
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| 62 | “Conspiracy of One” (the Offspring, 2000) |
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| 63 | “Violet” (Hole, 1994) |
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| 64 | “Swallow” (Krill, 2005) |
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| 65 | “Vivica” (Jack Off Jill, 2000) |
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| 66 | “I Ran” (A Flock of Seagulls, 1982) |
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| 67 | “Sugar” (Made Out of Babies, 2005) |
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| 68 | “Girls at the Mall” (Die Mannequin, 2014) |
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| 69 | “I’ll Be Back” (the Beatles, 1964) |
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| 70 | “Children With Machetes” (Die Mannequin, 2012) |
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| 71 | “Disappear” (Letters to Cleo, 1997) |
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| 72 | “Work in This Universe” (Fulflej, 1997) | |
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| 73 | “Holiday” (Green Day, 2004) |
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| 74 | “Love Is Paranoid” (the Distillers, 2003) |
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| 75 | “I Can See for Miles” (the Who, 1967) |
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| 76 | “We’re in This Together” (Nine Inch Nails, 1999) |
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| 77 | “Dark Therapy” (Echobelly, 1995) |
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| 78 | “SOS” (ABBA, 1975) |
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| 79 | “In a Hurricane” (the Color Guard, 2004) |
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| 80 | “Union of the Snake” (Duran Duran, 1983) |
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| 81 | “Use Once & Destroy” (Hole, 1998) |
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| 82 | “Dead Honey” (Die Mannequin, 2009) |
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| 83 | “Only Shallow” (My Bloody Valentine, 1991) |
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| 84 | “Street Spirit” (Radiohead, 1995) |
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| 85 | “White Chocolate Space Egg” (Liz Phair, 1998) |
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| 86 | “Mayonaise” (Smashing Pumpkins, 1993) |
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| 87 | “As Strange as It Seems” (Poppy, 2021) |
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| 88 | “Guns & Gold” (Poppy, leaked 2018) | |
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| 89 | “In the Pretend World” (Scarling, 2005) |
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| 90 | “Satellite Mind” (Metric, 2009) |
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| 91 | “Serve the Servants” (Nirvana, 1993) |
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| 92 | “Scentless Apprentice” (Nirvana, 1993) |
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| 93 | “Tomorrow Never Knows” (the Beatles, 1966) |
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| 94 | “Leon and the Game of Skin” (Local H, 2015) |
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| 95 | “Hot Head (live)” (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, 1980) | |
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| 96 | “What Would You Have Me Do?” (Local H, 2002) |
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| 97 | “Change the World” (the Offspring, 1997) |
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| 98 | “Adhesive” (Stone Temple Pilots, 1996) |
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| 99 | “Hit That” (the Offspring, 2003) |
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| 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.
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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) |
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Negative Spaces (Poppy, 2024) 17 15 14 X 15 15 14 14 10 7 15 10 19 X 15 = 102 |
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Fino + Bleed (Die Mannequin, 2009)
10 YEARS AT #1 9 19 16 14 19 15 8 15 8 9 16 23 = 99 |
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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 |
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In Utero (Nirvana, 1993)
5 YEARS AT #1 16 16 20 20 13 9 10 15 8 14 7 9 = 85 |
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Flux (Poppy, 2021) 15 15 12 11 9 21 14 16 15 = 74 |
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Nevermind (Nirvana, 1991)
2 YEARS AT #1 23 14 12 13 13 6 10 11 10 9 11 6 X = 66 |
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So Long, Scarecrow (Scarling, 2005) 6 19 11 9 X 11 5 16 18 7 19 11 5 = 65 |
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Eat (Poppy, 2021) 22 14 14 20 23 = 63 |
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Celebrity Skin (Hole, 1998)
4 YEARS AT #1 16 9 4 10 14 6 16 9 16 5 13 16 = 62 |
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Wholesale Meats and Fish (Letters to Cleo, 1995) 15 11 9 9 9 12 12 18 13 7 3 15 = 61 |
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Here Comes the Zoo (Local H, 2002) 13 12 9 11 7 10 10 20 12 16 = 60 |
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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 |
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My Way or the Highway (Tuscadero, 1998) 12 5 11 6 11 10 14 8 8 10 10 13 12 12 = 58 |
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At the Club (Kenickie, 1997) 10 8 10 6 7 6 20 15 12 7 11 8 9 9 8 7 = 57 |
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Live Through This (Hole, 1994) 17 13 13 14 13 9 9 5 9 5 12 8 = 55 |
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Go! (Letters to Cleo, 1997) 11 10 11 9 16 8 8 8 6 16 16 = 53 |
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Garbage (Garbage, 1995) 12 8 10 9 10 11 20 8 7 9 6 15 = 53 |
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The Ruiner (Made Out of Babies, 2008) 16 10 15 8 8 9 11 7 20 = 50 |
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Ghost Notes (Veruca Salt, 2015) 9 8 9 8 7 7 7 11 12 12 11 12 11 10 = 50 |
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