Criteria:
These songs were chosen for their influence, impact and popularity in the Alternative music genre.
Edited By: Piper
Last Updated: 10-13-2011
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 2. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division 3. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M. 4. Blue Monday - New Order 5. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 6. How Soon is Now? - The Smiths 7. Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth 8. Paranoid Android - Radiohead 9. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes 10. Jeremy - Pearl Jam 11. Losing My Religion - R.E.M. 12. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads 13. Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies 14. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley 15. Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers 16. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve 17. I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses 18. Closer - Nine Inch Nails 19. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus 20. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden 21. Waiting Room - Fugazi 22. Here Comes Your Man - Pixies 23. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 24. There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths 25. Creep - Radiohead 26. Going Underground - The Jam 27. Tonight, Tonight - The Smashing Pumpkins 28. Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode 29. Common People - Pulp 30. Last Nite - The Strokes 31. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes 32. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? - Elvis Costello & the Attractions 33. Wonderwall - Oasis 34. Atmosphere - Joy Division 35. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead 36. Loser - Beck 37. All Apologies - Nirvana 38. Under the Milky Way - The Church 39. Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain 40. There She Goes - The La's 41. Just Like Heaven - The Cure 42. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode 43. Song for the Siren - This Mortal Coil 44. The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen 45. Come as You Are - Nirvana 46. Cut Your Hair - Pavement 47. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses 48. Clocks - Coldplay 49. Song 2 - Blur 50. 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins 51. This Charming Man - The Smiths 52. Linger - The Cranberries 53. Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants 54. She's Lost Control - Joy Division 55. Alison - Elvis Costello 56. Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney 57. Bull in the Heather - Sonic Youth 58. The One I Love - R.E.M. 59. Live Forever - Oasis 60. Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction 61. Tempted - Squeeze 62. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr. 63. Better Man - Pearl Jam 64. Higher than the Sun - Primal Scream 65. New Year's Day - U2 66. Mr. Brightside - The Killers 67. Today - The Smashing Pumpkins 68. Everlong - Foo Fighters 69. Totally Wired - The Fall 70. This is Not a Love Song - Public Image Ltd. 71. Karma Police - Radiohead 72. 100% - Sonic Youth 73. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones 74. Lovesong - The Cure 75. Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails 76. Bastards of Young - The Replacements 77. Peek-a-Boo - Siouxsie & the Banshees 78. Where Is My Mind? - Pixies 79. I Will Follow - U2 80. It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M. 81. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil 82. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure 83. Celebrated Summer - Husker Du 84. Outdoor Miner - Wire 85. Hyperballad - Bjork 86. That's Entertainment - The Jam 87. Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine 88. Heaven Beside You - Alice in Chains 89. Left of the Dial - The Replacements 90. Buddy Holly - Weezer 91. So Alive - Love and Rockets 92. Sour Times - Portishead 93. True Faith - New Order 94. Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins 95. When I Come Around - Green Day 96. Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips 97. Senses Working Overtime - XTC 98. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 99. Ghost Town - The Specials 100. Float On - Modest Mouse 101. The Drowners - Suede 102. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand 103. Fell in Love with a Girl - The White Stripes 104. Cattle and Cane - The Go-Betweens 105. Beetlebum - Blur 106. Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers 107. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four 108. What the World is Waiting For - The Stone Roses 109. Idioteque - Radiohead 110. Birth, School, Work, Death - The Godfathers 111. Faster - Manic Street Preachers 112. Indian Summer - Beat Happening 113. Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack 114. Think for a Minute - The Housemartins 115. You Get What You Give - New Radicals 116. Son of a Gun - The Vaselines 117. Plush - Stone Temple Pilots 118. Don't Speak - No Doubt 119. Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants 120. Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma 121. About A Girl - Nirvana 122. The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen 123. Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz 124. Ship of Fools - World Party 125. Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
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