The Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998

1.

Beastie Boys

Intergalactic

Hello Nasty

2.

Eve 6

Inside Out

Eve 6

3.

Creed

My Own Prison

My Own Prison

4.

Everclear

I Will Buy You A New Life

So Much For The Afterglow

5.

Marcy Playground

Sex and Candy

Marcy Playground

6.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Ava Adore

Adore

7.

Green Day

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Nimrod

8.

Harvey Danger

Flagpole Sitta

-

9.

Dovetail Joint

Level On The Inside

-

10.

Fastball

The Way

All The Pain Money Can Buy

11.

Fuel

Shimmer

Sunburn

12.

Semisonic

Closing Time

-

13.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Perfect

Adore

14.

Pearl Jam

Wishlist

Yield

15.

Creed

What’s This Life For

My Own Prison

16.

Everclear

Father of Mine

So Much For The Afterglow

17.

Days of the New

Touch, Peel and Stand

Days of the New

18.

Barenaked Ladies

One Week

-

19.

Eagle Eye Cherry

Save Tonight

-

20.

Natalie Imbruglia

Torn

-

21.

The Verve

Bitter Sweet Symphony

Urban Hymns

22.

Goo Goo Dolls

Iris

Dizzy Up The Girl

23.

Lenny Kravitz

Fly Away

5

24.

Garbage

Push It

Version 2.0

25.

Pearl Jam

Given To Fly

Yield

26.

Barenaked Ladies

Brian Wilson

-

27.

Local H

All The Kids Are Right

-

28.

The Offspring

Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

Americana

29.

Our Lady Peace

Clumsy

-

30.

Third Eye Blind

Jumper

Third Eye Blind

31.

Foo Fighters

My Hero

The Colour And The Shape

32.

Everlast

What It's Like

Whitey Ford Sings The Blues

33.

Fatboy Slim

The Rockafeller Skank

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

34.

Third Eye Blind

How's It Going To Be

Third Eye Blind

35.

Hole

Celebrity Skin

Celebrity Skin

36.

Everclear

Everything To Everyone

So Much For The Afterglow

37.

Garbage

I Think I’m Paranoid

Version 2.0

38.

Cake

Never There

Prolonging The Magic

39.

Matchbox 20

Real World

Yourself or Someone Like You

40.

Crystal Method

Busy Child

-

41.

Goo Goo Dolls

Slide

Dizzy Up The Girl

42.

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

Zoot Suit Riot

-

43.

Soul Coughing

Circles

-

44.

Pearl Jam

In Hiding

Yield

45.

Blink-182

Dammit

Dude Ranch

46.

Dave Matthews Band

Don’t Drink the Water

Before These Crowded Streets

47.

Marilyn Manson

The Dope Show

Mechanical Animals

48.

Days of the New

Shelf in the Room

Days of the New

49.

Radiohead

Karma Police

OK Computer

50.

Smash Mouth

Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby

Astro Lounge

51.

Rob Zombie

Dragula

-

52.

Foo Fighters

Everlong

The Colour And The Shape

53.

Loreena McKennitt

The mummer’s Dance

-

54.

The Urge

Jump Right In

-

55.

Smoking Popes

I Know You Love Me

-

56.

Ben Folds Five

Brick

Whatever and Ever Amen

57.

Days of the New

The Down Town

Days of the New

58.

Dave Matthews Band

Stay

Before These Crowded Streets

59.

311

Beautiful Disaster

Transistor

60.

Liz Phair

Polyester Bride

-

61.

The Flys

Got You (Where I Want You)

-

62.

Wallflowers

Heroes

-

63.

Beastie Boys

Body Movin’

Hello Nasty

64.

Shawn Mullins

Lullaby

-

65.

Placebo

Pure Morning

-

66.

Third Eye Blind

Losing A Whole Year

Third Eye Blind

67.

The Getaway People

She Gave Me Love

-

68.

Foo Fighters

Walking After You

The Colour And The Shape

69.

Chumbawamba

Tubthumping

-

70.

The Verve

Lucky Man

Urban Hymns

71.

Bush

Mouth

Razorblade Suitcase

72.

Grant Lee Buffalo

Truly, Truly

-

73.

Matchbox 20

Long Day

Yourself or Someone Like You

74.

Sprung Monkey

Get ‘Em Outta Here

-

75.

Sublime

Doin’ Time

Sublime

76.

Foo Fighters

Baker Street

-

77.

Finley Quaye

Sunday Shining

-

78.

Creed

Torn

My Own Prison

79.

Alanis Morissette

Thank U

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

80.

Ben Folds Five

Song for the Dumped

Whatever and Ever Amen

81.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Pug

Adore

82.

Semisonic

Singing In My Sleep

-

83.

Smash Mouth

Walkin' on the Sun

Fush Yu Mang

84.

Oasis

All Around The World

Be Here Now

85.

Eve 6

Leech

Eve 6

86.

U2

The Sweetest Thing

-

87.

Dave Matthews Band

Crush

Before These Crowded Streets

88.

Athenaeum

What I Didn’t Know

-

89.

Tori Amos

Spark

From the Choirgirl Hotel

90.

Korn

Got the Life

Follow The Leader

91.

Fastball

Fire Escape

All The Pain Money Can Buy

92.

Vast

Touched

-

93.

Marcy Playground

Saint Joe on the School Bus

Marcy Playground

94.

Orgy

Blue Monday

Candyass

95.

Chris Cornell

Sunshower

-

96.

Beck

Tropicalia

Mutations

97.

The Specials

It’s You

-

98.

Fuel

Bittersweet

Sunburn

99.

Spacehog

Mungo City

-

100.

Dishwalla

Once In A While

-

101.

Stabbing Westward

Save Yourself

Darkest Days