The Best Alternative Rock Songs, 1976-1993

1. The Clash, “London Calling”
2. The Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the UK”
3. The Cure, “Boys Don’t Cry”
4. The Smiths, “How Soon is Now?”
5. Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
6. U2, “New Year’s Day”
7. The Ramones, “Blitzkrieg Bop”
8. R.E.M., “Radio Free Europe”
9. Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
10. Pearl Jam, “Alive”
11. Sonic Youth, “Teenaged Riot”
12. The Replacements, “Alex Chilton”
13. Violent Femmes, “Blister in the Sun”
14. Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
15. XTC, “Dear God”
16. Modern English, “I Melt With You”
17. Mission of Burma, “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”
18. Echo and the Bunnymen, “Lips Like Sugar”
19. The Buzzcocks, “Ever Fallen in Love”
20. The Jam, “That’s Entertainment”
21. Jane’s Addiction, “Been Caught Stealing”
22. R.E.M., “It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
23. The B-52’s, “Rock Lobster”
24. The Church, “Under the Milky Way”
25. The Stone Roses, “I Wanna Be Adored”
26. Depeche Mode, “Never Let Me Down Again”
27. The Cure, “Just Like Heaven”
28. The Clash, “White Riot”
29. Husker Du, “Dreams Reoccurring”
30. New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle”
31. Richard Hell and the Voidoids, "Blank Generation"
32. Psychedelic Furs, “Pretty in Pink”
33. Social Distortion, “Story of My Life”
34. Dramarama, “Anything, Anything”
35. Madness, “One Step Beyond”
36. The English Beat, “Save it for Later”
37. Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Under the Bridge”
38. The Cult, “She Sells Sanctuary”
39. Television, “Marquee Moon”
40. X, “Los Angeles”
41. Dead Kennedys, “California Uber Alles”
42. Wire, “Practice Makes Perfect”
43. The Call, “Walls Came Down”
44. The Pixies, “Wave of Mutilation”
45. Pearl Jam, “Jeremy”
46. The Waterboys, "The Whole of the Moon"
47. The Smiths, “The Queen is Dead”
48. The Feelies, “Crazy Rhythms”
49. Romeo Void, “Never Say Never”
50. Mission of Burma, “Academy Fight Song”
51. My Bloody Valentine, “Shallow”
52. The Ramones, “Sheena is a Punk Rocker”
53. Butthole Surfers, “Who Was In My Room Last Night?”
54. Ministry, “(Everyday is) Halloween”
55. The Replacements, “Unsatisfied”
56. Camper Van Beethoven, “Take the Skinheads Bowling”
57. Black Flag, “TV Party”
58. Yazoo/Yaz, “Situation”
59. Oingo Boingo, “Dead Man’s Party”
60. Faith No More, “Epic”
61. Kate Bush, "Running up that Hill"
62. Radiohead, “Creep”
63. Depeche Mode, “Personal Jesus”
64. New Order, “Blue Monday”
65. Public Image Limited, “Public Image”
66. The Minutemen, “History Lesson, Part II”
67. The Sundays, “Here’s Where the Story Ends”
68. Suicidal Tendencies, “Institutionalized”
69. The Cure, “Let’s Go to Bed”
70. Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Creepshow”
71. The Tragically Hip, “Courage”
72. 10,000 Maniacs, “Like the Weather”
73. Depeche Mode, “People are People”
74. Roxy Music, “More than This”
75. Bronski Beat, “Small Town Boy”
76. The Dead Milkmen, “Bitchin’ Camaro”
77. INXS, “The One Thing”
78. R.E.M., “Losing My Religion”
79. Soundgarden, “Outshined”
80. The Pogues, “Fairytale of New York”
81. Suzanne Vega, “Luka”
82. Front 242, “Headhunter”
83. Bare Naked Ladies, “Be My Yoko Ono”
84. Violent Femmes, “Add it Up”
85. Alphaville, “Forever Young”
86. Happy Mondays, “Kinky Afro”
87. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Mercy Seat”
88. Smashing Pumpkins, “Rhinoceros”
89. B-52’s, “Private Idaho”
90. The Wedding Present, “Go Out and Get Em, Boy”
91. R.E.M., “Fall on Me”
92. James, “Sit Down”
93. Echo and the Bunnymen, “Bring on the Dancing Horses”
94. Husker Du, “Divide and Conquer”
95. The Godfathers, "Birth School Work Death"
96. Sugarcubes, “Birthday”
97. The Boomtown Rats, “I Don’t Like Mondays”
98. Nine Inch Nails, “Head Like a Hole”
99. Cocteau Twins, “Caroline’s Fingers”
100. Psychedelic Furs, “Ghost in You”
101. The Dream Syndicate, “Tell Me When It’s Over”
102. Love and Rockets, "No New Tale to Tell"
103. The Replacements, “Kids Don’t Follow”
104. Primal Scream, “Loaded”
105. Tones on Tail, "Go!"
106. Bad Religion, “American Jesus”
107. They Might Be Giants, “Birdhouse in Your Soul”
108. Lemonheads, “It’s a Shame about Ray”
109. The Alarm, "The Stand"
110. Aztec Camera, "Birth of the True"
111. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, "Electricity"
112. Sisters of Mercy, "This Corrosion"

113. The Vapors, “Turning Japanese”
114. Ministry, “Stigmata”
115. Teenage Fanclub, “The Concept”

116. The Minutemen, “Corona”
117. Jesus and Mary Chain, “Some Candy Talking”
118. The Smiths, “This Charming Man”
119. The Throwing Muses, “Dizzy”
120. The Plimsouls, “A Million Miles Away”
121. Fugazi, “Waiting Room”
122. The Mighty Lemon Drops, “The Other Side”
123. Wolfgang Press, “Shut that Door”
124. Public Image Limited, “Rise”
125. The Clash, “Rock the Casbah”
126. Dead Milkmen, “You’ll Dance to Anything”
127. Pulp, “My Legendary Girlfriend”
128. Circle Jerks, “When the Shit Hits the Fan”
129. Dinosaur Jr., “No Bones”
130. The Pogues, “Transmetropolitan”