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Top 300 Songs of the 90s 500 Most Requested of All-Time (Memorial Day 2006) KROQ's Labor Day 90's 500 (2007) KROQ Memorial 500 (Memorial Day 2008)

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KROQ's 500 Most Requested Songs Of All-Time (Memorial Day 2006)

Ranking

Artist Name

Song Title

Album Title

Year

Click for sample

1.

Sublime

Date Rape

40 Oz. To Freedom

1995

Sublime - 40oz. to Freedom - Date Rape

2.

Nirvana

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nevermind

1991

Smells Like Teen Spirit

3.

Nine Inch Nails

Closer

The Downward Spiral

1994

Closer

4.

Beastie Boys

Fight For Your Right to Party

Licensed To Ill

1987

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - Fight for Your Right

5.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Under the Bridge

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

1992

Under the Bridge

6.

Dramarama

Anything, Anything

Cinéma Vérité

1986

Dramarama - Cinema Verite - Anything, Anything

7.

The Offspring

Self-Esteem

Smash

1994

Self Esteem

8.

No Doubt

Just A Girl

Tragic Kingdom

1995

Just a Girl

9.

Violent Femmes

Blister in the Sun

Violent Femmes

-

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes: Deluxe Edition - Blister in the Sun

10.

Green Day

Brain Stew

Insomniac

1996

Brain Stew

11.

Radiohead

Creep

Pablo Honey

1993

Radiohead - Pablo Honey - Creep (Clean Version)

12.

Rage Against the Machine

Killing in the Name

Rage Against the Machine

1993

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name

13.

Weezer

Buddy Holly

Weezer (Blue Album)

1994

Buddy Holly

14.

Beastie Boys

Girls

Licensed To Ill

-

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - Girls

15.

Suicidal Tendencies

Institutionalized

Suicidal Tendencies

1983

-

16.

Sublime

What I Got

Sublime

1996

What I Got

17.

Linkin Park

In the End

Hybrid Theory

2001

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Bonus Version) - In the End

18.

The Smiths

How Soon is Now?

Meat is Murder

1985

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow - How Soon Is Now?

19.

Green Day

Basket Case

Dookie

1994

Basket Case

20.

Violent Femmes

Add it Up

Violent Femmes

-

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes: Deluxe Edition - Add It Up

21.

The Offspring

Bad Habit

Smash

1995

Bad Habit

22.

Beck

Loser

Mellow Gold

1993

Loser

23.

Blink-182

Dammit

Dude Ranch

1997

Dammit

24.

Oingo Boingo

Dead Man's Party

Dead Man's Party

1985

Dead Man's Party

25.

Papa Roach

Last Resort

Infest

2000

Last Resort

26.

No Doubt

Spiderwebs

Tragic Kingdom

1996

Spiderwebs

27.

Sublime

Smoke 2 Joints

40 Oz. To Freedom

-

Sublime - 40oz. to Freedom - Smoke Two Joints

28.

Nirvana

Come As You Are

Nevermind

1992

Come As You Are

29.

The B-52's

Rock Lobster

The B-52's

-

-

30.

Weezer

Undone (the Sweater Song)

Weezer (Blue Album)

1994

Undone - The Sweater Song

31.

Green Day

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

American Idiot

2004

Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams

32.

Beastie Boys

Brass Monkey

Licensed To Ill

-

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - Brass Monkey

33.

Soft Cell

Sex Dwarf

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

1982

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing - Sex Dwarf

34.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Give it Away

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

1991

Give It Away

35.

King Missile

Detachable Penis

-

1993

-

36.

Blink-182

All the Small Things

Enema of the State

1999

All the Small Things

37.

Dynamite Hack

Boyz N the Hood

-

2000

-

38.

Korn

Got the Life

Follow The Leader

1998

Got the Life

39.

Sublime

Wrong Way

Sublime

1997

Wrong Way

40.

Pennywise

Fuck Authority

Land Of The Free?

2001

-

41.

Jane's Addiction

Been Caught Stealing

Ritual de lo Habitual

1990

Been Caught Stealing

42.

New Order

Blue Monday

Power, Corruption & Lies

1983

-

43.

Nine Inch Nails

Hurt

The Downward Spiral

1995

Hurt

44.

Beastie Boys

Intergalactic

Hello Nasty

1998

Intergalactic

45.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Today

Siamese Dream

1993

Today

46.

Social Distortion

Ball And Chain

Social Distortion

1990

Ball and Chain

47.

The Killers

Mr. Brightside

Hot Fuss

2004

-

48.

The Offspring

Come Out and Play

Smash

1994

Come Out and Play

49.

Oingo Boingo

Little Girls

-

-

-

50.

System of a Down

Chop Suey

Toxicity

2001

-

51.

Pearl Jam

Alive

Ten

1991

Alive

52.

The Cure

Pictures of You

Disintegration

1990

Pictures of You

53.

Green Day

Longview

Dookie

1994

Longview

54.

Depeche Mode

Personal Jesus

Violator

1989

Personal Jesus

55.

Gorillaz

Feel Good Inc.

Demon Days

2005

-

56.

Foo Fighters

Everlong

The Colour And The Shape

1997

Everlong

57.

Weezer

Say it Ain't So

Weezer (Blue Album)

1995

Say It Ain't So

58.

The Clash

Rock the Casbah

Combat Rock

1982

Rock the Casbah

59.

Sublime

Santeria

Sublime

1996

Santeria

60.

Linkin Park

One Step Closer

Hybrid Theory

2000

-

61.

Blink-182

What's My Age Again?

Enema of the State

1999

What's My Age Again?

62.

The Ramones

I Wanna Be Sedated

-

-

-

63.

Metallica

Enter Sandman

Metallica (Black Album)

1991

-

64.

Jane's Addiction

Jane Says

Nothing's Shocking

1988

Jane Says

65.

Berlin

Sex (I'm A...)

Pleasure Victim

1983

-

66.

Faith No More

Epic (What is It)

The Real Thing

1990

Faith No More - The Real Thing - Epic

67.

Rage Against the Machine

Bulls on Parade

Evil Empire

1996

-

68.

Soft Cell

Tainted Love

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

1982

-

69.

Blur

Song 2

Blur

1997

Blur - Blur - Song 2

70.

Pearl Jam

Black

Ten

1992

Black

71.

The Cure

Love Song

Disintegration

1989

Lovesong

72.

Beastie Boys

Sabotage

Ill Communication

1994

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication - Sabotage

73.

Violent Femmes

Kiss Off

Violent Femmes

-

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes: Deluxe Edition - Kiss Off

74.

Sublime

Doin' Time

Sublime

1997

Doin' Time

75.

White Zombie

Thunder Kiss '65

-

1993

-

76.

Depeche Mode

Blasphemous Rumours

Some Great Reward

1984

-

77.

Linkin Park

Numb

Meteora

2003

Linkin Park - Meteora (Bonus Version) - Numb

78.

Madness

One Step Beyond

-

-

-

79.

Limp Bizkit

Nookie

Significant Other

1999

Nookie

80.

Matisyahu

King Without a Crown

-

2005

-

81.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

1995

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

82.

Marcy Playground

Sex and Candy

Marcy Playground

1997

Sex and Candy

83.

The Offspring

Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

Americana

1998

Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

84.

The Prodigy

Smack My Bitch Up

The Fat Of The Land

1997

-

85.

Modern English

I Melt With You

-

1983

-

86.

Lit

My Own Worst Enemy

A Place in the Sun

1999

My Own Worst Enemy

87.

Nirvana

Rape Me

In Utero

1993

Rape Me

88.

Butthole Surfers

Pepper

-

1996

-

89.

U2

One

Achtung Baby

1991

One

90.

Stone Temple Pilots

Plush

Core

1993

Plush

91.

Bloodhound Gang

The Bad Touch

-

2000

-

92.

Korn

Freak On A Leash

Follow The Leader

1999

Freak On a Leash

93.

The Cure

Boys Don't Cry

-

1986

-

94.

Nine Inch Nails

Head Like a Hole

Pretty Hate Machine

1990

-

95.

Sublime

Badfish

40 Oz. To Freedom

1998

Sublime - 40oz. to Freedom - Badfish

96.

Lo Fidelity Allstars

Battle Flag

How to Operate With a Blown Mind

1999

Lo Fidelity Allstars - How to Operate With a Blown Mind - Battle Flag (Feat. Pigeonhead)

97.

The Living End

Prisoner of Society

-

1999

-

98.

Cypress Hill

Insane In The Brain

Black Sunday

1993

-

99.

Depeche Mode

People Are People

Some Great Reward

1984

People Are People

100.

Green Day

When I Come Around

Dookie

1994

When I Come Around

101.

The Killers

Somebody Told Me

Hot Fuss

2004

Somebody Told Me

102.

The Clash

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Combat Rock

1982

Should I Stay or Should I Go

103.

Pearl Jam

Evenflow

Ten

1992

Even Flow

104.

Cake

The Distance

Fashion Nugget

1996

The Distance

105.

Echo & the Bunnymen

People Are Strange

-

1987

-

106.

White Zombie

More Human Than Human

-

1995

-

107.

Rancid

Time Bomb

...And Out Come The Wolves

1995

Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves - Time Bomb

108.

Simple Minds

Don't You Forget About Me

-

1985

-

109.

Alice in Chains

Man in the Box

-

-

-

110.

311

All Mixed Up

311

1996

All Mixed Up

111.

R.E.M.

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Document

1987

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

112.

Nirvana

Lithium

Nevermind

1992

Lithium

113.

No Doubt

Sunday Morning

Tragic Kingdom

1997

Sunday Morning

114.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Suck My Kiss

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

1991

Suck My Kiss

115.

The Cure

Just Like Heaven

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

1987

Just Like Heaven

116.

Pennywise

Alien

Straight Ahead

1999

-

117.

The Smashing Pumpkins

1979

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

1995

1979

118.

U2

Pride (In the Name of Love)

The Unforgettable Fire

1984

Pride (In the Name of Love)

119.

Beck

Where It's At

Odelay

1996

Where It's At

120.

The Cult

She Sells Sanctuary

Love

1986

The Cult - Love - She Sells Sanctuary

121.

System of a Down

Aerials

Toxicity

2002

-

122.

Sublime

29-Apr-92

Sublime

-

-

123.

Devo

Whip It

Freedom of Choice

1980

Whip It

124.

Pearl Jam

Yellow Ledbetter

-

1994

-

125.

Limp Bizkit

Break Stuff

Significant Other

2000

Break Stuff

126.

The Presidents Of The United States Of America

Lump

The Presidents Of The United States Of America

1995

Lump

127.

Depeche Mode

Enjoy the Silence

Violator

1990

Enjoy the Silence

128.

Tool

Sober

Undertow

1993

-

129.

Green Day

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Nimrod

1997

Good Riddance

130.

Gary Numan

Cars

-

1980

-

131.

The Offspring

The Kids Aren't Alright

Americana

1999

The Kids Aren't Alright

132.

Harvey Danger

Flagpole Sitta

-

1998

-

133.

The Police

Roxanne

Outlandos D'Amour

-

-

134.

Metallica

The Unforgiven

-

-

-

135.

Foo Fighters

All My Life

One By One

2002

All My Life

136.

Dash Rip Rock

Let's Go Smoke Some Pot

-

1996

-

137.

Social Distortion

Story of My Life

Social Distortion

1990

Story of My Life

138.

Slipknot

Wait & Bleed

-

2000

-

139.

New Order

Bizarre Love Triangle

Brotherhood

1986

-

140.

Stone Temple Pilots

Vasoline

Purple

1994

Vasoline

141.

Alien Ant Farm

Smooth Criminal

ANThology

2001

-

142.

Green Day

Welcome to Paradise

Dookie

1994

Welcome to Paradise

143.

Duran Duran

Save A Prayer

Rio

1983

Save a Prayer

144.

House of Pain

Jump Around

-

1992

-

145.

U2

Sunday Bloody Sunday

War

1983

Sunday Bloody Sunday

146.

Nirvana

Heart-Shaped Box

In Utero

1993

Heart Shaped Box

147.

No Doubt

Don't Speak

Tragic Kingdom

1996

Don't Speak

148.

Beastie Boys

Paul Revere

Licensed To Ill

-

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - Paul Revere

149.

Billy Idol

Dancing With Myself

Billy Idol

1983

Dancing With Myself

150.

Pearl Jam

Jeremy

Ten

1992

Jeremy

151.

Filter

Hey Man, Nice Shot

Short Bus

1995

Filter - Short Bus - Hey Man Nice Shot

152.

Daft Punk

Da Funk

-

1997

-

153.

X

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

1980

-

154.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Zero

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

1996

Zero

155.

Mazzy Star

Fade Into You

-

1994

-

156.

Face to Face

Disconnected

-

1995

-

157.

The Cure

Close to Me

The Head on the Door

1986

Close to Me

158.

Stone Temple Pilots

Sex Type Thing

Core

1993

Sex Type Thing

159.

The White Stripes

Fell In Love With a Girl

White Blood Cells

2002

-

160.

Blind Melon

No Rain

Blind Melon

1993

Blind Melon - Blind Melon - No Rain

161.

The Smiths

Bigmouth Strikes Again

The Queen Is Dead

1986

-

162.

Nirvana

In Bloom

Nevermind

1992

In Bloom

163.

Oasis

Champagne Supernova

(What's The Story) Morning Glory?

1996

Champagne Supernova

164.

Incubus

Pardon Me

Make Yourself

2000

Pardon Me

165.

Peter Schilling

Major Tom (Coming Home)

-

1983

-

166.

Linkin Park

Faint

Meteora

2003

Linkin Park - Meteora (Bonus Version) - Faint

167.

Jane's Addiction

Stop!

Ritual de lo Habitual

1990

Stop

168.

Bob Marley

Jammin'

-

-

-

169.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Disarm

Siamese Dream

1993

Disarm

170.

The Nails

88 Lines About 44 Women

-

-

-

171.

Green Day

American Idiot

American Idiot

2004

American Idiot

172.

Bloodhound Gang

Fire Water Burn

-

1996

-

173.

Depeche Mode

Just Can't Get Enough

Speak & Spell

1981

-

174.

Blink-182

Josie

Dude Ranch

1998

-

175.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Love Rollercoaster

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

1996

-

176.

Beastie Boys

So What'cha Want

Check Your Head

1992

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head - So What'cha Want

177.

Dead Or Alive

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

Youthquake

1985

You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)

178.

Bush

Glycerine

Sixteen Stone

1995

Glycerine

179.

System of a Down

Toxicity

Toxicity

2001

-

180.

Cracker

Low

Kerosene Hat

1993

-

181.

B-Movie

Nowhere Girl

-

1983

-

182.

Rancid

Ruby Soho

...And Out Come The Wolves

1995

Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves - Ruby Soho

183.

Rage Against the Machine

Sleep Now in the Fire

The Battle Of Los Angeles

2000

Sleep Now in the Fire

184.

The Clash

Train In Vain

London Calling

1980

-

185.

Live

Lightning Crashes

Throwing Copper

1995

Lightning Crashes

186.

Linkin Park

Crawling

Hybrid Theory

2001

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Bonus Version) - Crawling

187.

Primus

Jerry Was a Racecar Driver

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

1991

-

188.

Stone Temple Pilots

Wicked Garden

Core

1993

Wicked Garden

189.

Echo & the Bunnymen

Lips Like Sugar

Echo & The Bunnymen

1987

Lips Like Sugar

190.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Cherub Rock

Siamese Dream

1993

Cherub Rock

191.

She Wants Revenge

Tear You Apart

-

2005

-

192.

Coldplay

Yellow

Parachutes

2000

Yellow

193.

The White Stripes

Seven Nation Army

Elephant

2003

Seven Nation Army

194.

Weezer

My Name is Jonas

Weezer (Blue Album)

1995

My Name Is Jonas

195.

Korn

Blind

Korn

1995

-

196.

The Cure

Let's Go to Bed

-

1983

-

197.

Staind

Outside

Break The Cycle

2001

Outside

198.

The Crystal Method

Busy Child

-

1998

-

199.

Rage Against The Machine

Guerilla Radio

The Battle Of Los Angeles

1999

Guerrilla Radio

200.

The Cult

Edie (Ciao Baby)

Sonic Temple

1989

Edie (Ciao Baby)

201.

The Killers

All These Things That I've Done

Hot Fuss

2005

All These Things That I've Done

202.

Toadies

Possum Kingdom

-

1995

-

203.

Eminem

Lose Yourself

8 Mile Original Soundtrack

2002

-

204.

Pearl Jam

Corduroy

Vitalogy

1994

Corduroy

205.

OMD

If You Leave

-

1986

OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) - The OMD Singles - If You Leave

206.

Stone Temple Pilots

Interstate Love Song

Purple

1994

Interstate Love Song

207.

Fall Out Boy

Sugar, We're Goin' Down

From Under The Cork Tree

2005

Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree - Sugar, We're Goin Down

208.

The Strokes

Last Nite

Is This It

2001

Last Nite

209.

Talking Heads

Burning Down the House

Speaking in Tongues

1983

Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues - Burning Down the House

210.

Nine Inch Nails

Sin

Pretty Hate Machine

-

-

211.

Tool

Stinkfist

Ćnima

1996

-

212.

Weezer

Hash Pipe

Weezer (Green Album)

2001

Hash Pipe

213.

Depeche Mode

Somebody

-

-

-

214.

The Offspring

Gotta Get Away

Smash

1994

Gotta Get Away

215.

Marilyn Manson

The Beautiful People

Antichrist Superstar

1996

-

216.

Romeo Void

Never Say Never

-

1981

-

217.

The Postal Service

Such Great Heights

Give Up

2004

The Postal Service - Give Up - Such Great Heights

218.

Foo Fighters

My Hero

The Colour And The Shape

1998

My Hero

219.

311

Beautiful Disaster

Transistor

1997

Beautiful Disaster

220.

Billy Idol

White Wedding

Billy Idol

1982

White Wedding, Pt. 1

221.

Folk Implosion

Natural One

-

1995

-

222.

Green Day

She

Dookie

1995

She

223.

No Doubt

Ex-Girlfriend

Return Of Saturn

2000

Ex-Girlfriend

224.

The Smiths

Panic

Louder Than Bombs

1986

-

225.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Higher Ground

Mother's Milk

1989

Higher Ground

226.

Cake

Never There

Prolonging The Magic

1998

Never There

227.

Nirvana

Verse Chorus Verse

-

1993

-

228.

XTC

Dear God

Skylarking

1987

XTC - Skylarking - Dear God

229.

Primus

Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

Tales From The Punchbowl

1995

-

230.

Pearl Jam

Daughter

Vs.

1993

Daughter

231.

Wall of Voodoo

Mexican Radio

-

1982

-

232.

My Chemical Romance

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

2004

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

233.

Oasis

Wonderwall

(Whats The Story) Morning Glory?

1995

Wonderwall

234.

Bad Religion

Infected

Stranger Than Fiction

1994

Infected

235.

Fishbone

Party at Ground Zero

Fishbone

-

-

236.

Bush

Everything Zen

Sixteen Stone

1995

Everything Zen

237.

Lit

Miserable

A Place in the Sun

2000

-

238.

Pet Shop Boys

West End Girls

Please

1984

West End Girls

239.

The Offspring

Why Don't You Get a Job

Americana

1999

Why Don't You Get a Job?

240.

System of a Down

Sugar

System of a Down

1999

-

241.

The Breeders

Cannonball

-

1993

-

242.

The Cure

Friday I'm in Love

Wish

1992

Friday I'm in Love

243.

Blink-182

The Rock Show

Take Off Your Pants And Jacket

2001

The Rock Show

244.

Beastie Boys

No Sleep Til Brooklyn

Licensed To Ill

-

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - No Sleep Till Brooklyn

245.

Duran Duran

Girls On Film

Duran Duran