Ouvintes de rádio dos EUA escolhem 250 melhores músicas do rock alternativo nos 1990s

A rádio norte-americana Lithium, do sistema de rádio pago SiriusXM, propôs um desafio aos seus ouvintes: escolher as 250 melhores músicas do rock alternativo dos anos 1990. O número foi uma alusão aos 250 anos da independência dos Estados Unidos, celebrados no último dia 4 de julho. Eis a longa lista.

Melhores e Maiores - Mais Listas

01 – "Everlong" – Foo Fighters
02 – "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Nirvana
03 – "Sabotage" – Beastie Boys
04 – "Zombie" – Cranberries
05 – "Would?" – Alice in Chains
06 – "Black Hole Sun" – Soundgarden
07 – "Killing in the Name" – Rage Against The Machine
08 – "Black" – Pearl Jam
09 – "Man in the Box" – Alice in Chains
10 – "Creep" – Radiohead
11 – "Loser" – Beck
12 – "Rooster" – Alice in Chains
13 – "Nutshell" – Alice in Chains
14 – "You Oughta Know" – Alanis Morissette
15 – "Fade Into You" – Mazzy Star
16 – "Interstate Love Song" – Stone Temple Pilots
17 – "Iris" – Goo Goo Dolls
18 – "Possum Kingdom" – Toadies
19 – "No Rain" – Blind Melon
20 – "Closer" – Nine Inch Nails
21 – "Come as You Are" – Nirvana
22 – "Glycerine" – Bush
23 – "The Distance" – Cake
24 – "Linger" – Cranberries
25 – "Hunger Strike" – Temple of the Dog
26 – "Santa Monica" – Everclear
27 – "Alive" – Pearl Jam
28 – "Lithium" – Nirvana
29 – "What's Up" – Four Non Blondes
30 – "Far Behind" – Candlebox
31 – "Hey Jealousy" – Gin Blossoms
32 – "Wonderwall" – Oasis
33 – "Lightning Crashes" – Live
34 – "Song 2" – Blur
35 – "Bulls on Parade" – Rage Against the Machine
36 – "Even Flow" – Pearl Jam
37 – "River of Deceit" – Mad Season
38 – "Epic" – Faith No More
39 – "Pepper" – Butthole Surfers
40 – "Basket Case" – Green Day
41 – "Hey Man Nice Shot" – Filter
42 – "Mr. Jones" – Counting Crows
43 – "Down in a Hole" – Alice in Chains
44 – "1979" – The Smashing Pumpkins
45 – "Under the Bridge" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
46 – "Yellow Ledbetter" – Pearl Jam
47 – "Head Like a Hole" – Nine Inch Nails
48 – "Champagne Supernova" – Oasis
49 – "Good" – Better Than Ezra
50 – "Where Is My Mind?" – Pixies
51 – "Machinehead" – Bush
52 – "Intergalactic" – Beastie Boys
53 – "Sober" – Tool
54 – "My Hero" – Foo Fighters
55 – "Jeremy" – Pearl Jam
56 – "Plush" – Stone Temple Pilots
57 – "So What 'Cha Want" – Beastie Boys
58 – "Criminal" – Fiona Apple
59 – "Losing My Religion" – R.E.M.
60 – "Jane Says" – Jane's Addiction
61 – "Cannonball" – Breeders
62 – "The Man Who Sold The World" – Nirvana
63 – "Name" – Goo Goo Dolls
64 – "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" – Smashing Pumpkins
65 – "Freak On A Leash" – Korn
66 – "Fell On Black Days" – Soundgarden
67 – "Mayonaise" – Smashing Pumpkins
68 – "Flagpole Sitta" – Harvey Danger
69 – "No Excuses" – Alice in Chains
70 – "Friday I'm In Love" – The Cure
71 – "Peaches" – Presidents Of The United States
72 – "Self Esteem" – The Offspring
73 – "Say It Ain't So" – Weezer
74 – "Cherub Rock" – The Smashing Pumpkins
75 – "I Stay Away" – Alice in Chains
76 – "Shimmer" – Fuel
77 – "Hook" – Blues Traveler
78 – "Santeria" – Sublime
79 – "My Own Worst Enemy" – Lit
80 – "Low" – Cracker
81 – "Don't Look Back in Anger" – Oasis
82 – "Heart-Shaped Box" – Nirvana
83 – "All The Small Things" – blink-182
84 – "Forty Six & Two" – Tool
85 – "Outshined" – Soundgarden
86 – "Semi-Charmed Life" – Third Eye Blind
87 – "Buddy Holly" – Weezer
88 – "Hurt" – Nine Inch Nails
89 – "Shine" – Collective Soul
90 – "Only Happy When it Rains" – Garbage
91 – "Comedown" – Bush
92 – "Laid" – James
93 – "Slide" – Goo Goo Dolls
94 – "Good Riddance" – Green Day
95 – "Dammit" – blink-182
96 – "Long Way Down" – Goo Goo Dolls
97 – "When I Come Around" – Green Day
98 – "Bound For the Floor" – Local H
99 – "What I Got" – Sublime
100 – "Karma Police" – Radiohead
101 – "Learn to Fly" – Foo Fighters
102 – "Monkey Wrench" – Foo Fighters
103 – "Down" – 311
104 – "Undone – The Sweater Song" – Weezer
105 – "Heaven Beside You" – Alice in Chains
106 – "What's My Age Again" – blink-182
107 – "Bittersweet Symphony" – Verve
108 – "All Apologies" – Nirvana
109 – "Everything Zen" – Bush
110 – "Them Bones" – Alice in Chains
111 – "One Headlight" – Wallflowers
112 – "Feel The Pain" – Dinosaur Jr.
113 – "Spoonman" – Soundgarden
114 – "Come Out and Play" – The Offspring
115 – "Enjoy The Silence" – Depeche Mode
116 – "In Bloom" – Nirvana
117 – "I Alone" – Live
118 – "Been Caught Stealing" – Jane's Addiction
119 – "Round Here" – Counting Crows
120 – "Brain Stew/Jaded" – Green Day
121 – "In the Meantime" – Spacehog
122 – "Californication" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
123 – "Fake Plastic Trees" – Radiohead
124 – "Inside Out" – Eve 6
125 – "Nothing Compares 2 U" (Sinead O'Connor cover) – Chris Cornell
126 – "Nearly Lost You" – Screaming Trees
127 – "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" – R.E.M.
128 – "Got You (Where I Want You)" – The Flys
129 – "Tomorrow" – Silverchair
130 – "#1 Crush" – Garbage
131 – "Personal Jesus" – Depeche Mode
132 – "Plowed" – Sponge
133 – "Violet" – Hole
134 – "You" – Candlebox
135 – "Paranoid Android" – Radiohead
136 – "Better Man" – Pearl Jam
137 – "Welcome to Paradise" – Green Day
138 – "Tonight, Tonight" – The Smashing Pumpkins
139 – "Celebrity Skin" – Hole
140 – "Dreams" – Cranberries
141 – "3 AM" – Matchbox Twenty
142 – "Stupid Girl" – Garbage
143 – "More Human Than Human" – White Zombie
144 – "Pardon Me" – Incubus
145 – "Longview" – Green Day
146 – "Sunshower" – Chris Cornell
147 – "Ironic" – Alanis Morissette
148 – "Disarm" – The Smashing Pumpkins
149 – "Give It Away" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
150 – "Corduroy" – Pearl Jam
151 – "The Beautiful People" – Marilyn Manson
152 – "Big Empty" – Stone Temple Pilots
153 – "Superman's Dead" – Our Lady Peace
154 – "Gone Away" – The Offspring
155 – "One Week" – Barenaked Ladies
156 – "Ænema" – Tool
157 – "Angry Chair" – Alice in Chains
158 – "Seether" – Veruca Salt
159 – "Sex Type Thing" – Stone Temple Pilots
160 – "The World I Know" – Collective Soul
161 – "Something In The Way" – Nirvana
162 – "Unsung" – Helmet
163 – "Cumbersome" – Seven Mary Three
164 – "Black Balloon" – Goo Goo Dolls
165 – "Dead & Bloated" – Stone Temple Pilots
166 – "Rusty Cage" – Soundgarden
167 – "Today" – The Smashing Pumpkins
168 – "Rearviewmirror" – Pearl Jam
169 – "Just A Girl" – No Doubt
170 – "Got The Life" – Korn
171 – "Fire Water Burn" – Bloodhound Gang
172 – "A Long December" – Counting Crows
173 – "Creep" – Stone Temple Pilots
174 – "The Day I Tried to Live" – Soundgarden
175 – "Zero" – The Smashing Pumpkins
176 – "Don't Speak" – No Doubt
177 – "Drive" – Incubus
178 – "Daughter" – Pearl Jam
179 – "Where It's At" – Beck
180 – "Stars" – Hum
181 – "Crash Into Me" – Dave Matthews Band
182 – "Stinkfist" – Tool
183 – "Pretty Fly" – The Offspring
184 – "Backwater" – Meat Puppets
185 – "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" – Crash Test Dummies
186 – "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter in a Small Town" – Pearl Jam
187 – "Ants Marching" – Dave Matthews Band
188 – "These Are the Days" – 10,000 Maniacs
189 – "Thunder Kiss '65" – White Zombie
190 – "Doll Parts" – Hole
191 – "Lumo" – Presidents Of The United States
192 – "Say Hello 2 Heaven" – Temple of the Dog
193 – "Take A Picture" – Filter
194 – "Heavy" – Collective Soul
195 – "Popular" – Nada Surf
196 – "Father of Mine" – Everclear
197 – "Counting Blue Cars" – Dishwalla
198 – "December" – Collective Soul
199 – "Got Me Wrong" – Alice in Chains
200 – "Sour Girl" – Stone Temple Pilots
201 – "Drain You" – Nirvana
202 – "Terrible Lie" – Nine Inch Nails
203 – "March of the Pigs" – Nine Inch Nails
204 – "Are You Gonna Go My Way" – Lenny Kravitz
205 – "Joey" – Concrete Blonde
206 – "Desperately Wanting" – Better Than Ezra
207 – "Beautiful Disaster" – 311
208 – "Trippin' On A Hole in a Paper Heart" – Stone Temple Pilots
209 – "Burden In My Hand" – Soundgarden
210 – "The Kids Aren't Alright" – The Offspring
211 – "Sex & Candy" – Marcy Playground
212 – "Brick" – Ben Folds Five
213 – "Ruby Soho" – Rancid
214 – "The Perfect Drug" – Nine Inch Nails
215 – "Steal My Sunshine" – Len
216 – "Runaway Train" – Soul Asylum
217 – "Seasons" – Chris Cornell
218 – "Sea of Sorrows" – Alice in Chains
219 – "The Freshman" – Verve Pipe
220 – "Man on the Moon" – R.E.M.
221 – "Live Forever" – Oasis
222 – "Found Out About You" – Gin Blossoms
223 – "One" – U2
224 – "Blow Up The Outside World" – Soundgarden
225 – "Dragula" – Rob Zombie
226 – "Girlfriend" – Matthew Sweet
227 – "Push" – Matchbox Twenty
228 – "Mountain Song" – Jane's Addiction
229 – "The Way" – Fastball
230 – "Come Undone" – Duran Duran
231 – "All Mixed Up" – 311
232 – "High and Dry" – Radiohead
233 – "Rock' N 'Roll Lifestyle" – Cake
234 – "Vasoline" – Stone Temple Pilots
235 – "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver" – Primus
236 – "Swallowed" – Bush
237 – "Banditos" – Refreshments
238 – "Everybody Hurts" – R.E.M.
239 – "Rape Me" – Nirvana
240 – "Tubthumping" – Chumbawamba
241 – "I Will Survive" – Cake
242 – "Scar Tissue" – Red Hot Chili Peppers
243 – "Naked Eye" – Luscious Jackson
244 – "Sure Shot" – Beastie Boys
245 – "If You Could Only See" – Tonic
246 – "Doin' Time" – Sublime
247 – "Here Comes Your Man" – Pixies
248 – "State of Love and Trust" – Pearl Jam
249 – "Spiderwebs" – No Doubt
250 – "The Impression That I Get" – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

"Everlong" faz parte do segundo álbum do Foo Fighters, "The Colour and the Shape" (1997). A música se tornou a mais popular da carreira da banda. O single ganhou disco de platina dupla nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil.