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KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns by Year
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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)

Countdown commentary

The KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1993

Ranking

Artist Name

Song Title

Album Title

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1.

Stone Temple Pilots

Plush

Core

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2.

Radiohead

Creep

Pablo Honey

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3.

Blind Melon

No Rain

Blind Melon

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4.

Pearl Jam

Daughter

Vs.

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5.

Duran Duran

Come Undone

Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

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6.

Gin Blossoms

Hey Jealousy

New Miserable Experience

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7.

The Cranberries

Linger

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

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8.

Soul Asylum

Runaway Train

Grave Dancers Union

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9.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Today

Siamese Dream

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10.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Soul To Squeeze

Coneheads Soundtrack

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11.

The Breeders

Cannonball

Last Splash

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12.

Tears for Fears

Break It Down Again

Elemental

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13.

Rage Against the Machine

Killing In The Name

Rage Against the Machine

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14.

Lenny Kravitz

Are You Gonna Go My Way

Are You Gonna Go My Way

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15.

Nirvana

Heart-Shaped Box

In Utero

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16.

Duran Duran

Ordinary World

Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

 

17.

Porno For Pyros

Pets

Porno For Pyros

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18.

Spin Doctors

Two Princes

-

-

19.

Cracker

Low

Kerosene Hat

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20.

Pearl Jam

Black

Ten

 

21.

U2

Numb

Zooropa

 

22.

Sting

Fields of Gold

Ten Summoner's Tales

 

23.

Stone Temple Pilots

Wicked Garden

Core

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24.

4 Non Blondes

What's Up?

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-

25.

The Lemonheads

Mrs. Robinson

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-

26.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Disarm

Siamese Dream

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27.

Ace of Base

All That She Wants

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-

28.

Alice in Chains

Rooster

Dirt

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29.

King Missile

Detachable Penis

Happy Hour

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30.

Belly

Feed the Tree

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-

31.

New Order

Regret

Republic

-

32.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Cherub Rock

Siamese Dream

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33.

UB40

Can't Help Falling In Love

Promises and Lies

34.

Depeche Mode

I Feel You

Songs Of Faith And Devotion

 

35.

Screaming Trees

Nearly Lost You

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-

36.

Stereo MC's

Connected

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-

37.

Sting

If I Ever Lose My Faith in You

Ten Summoner's Tales

 

38.

Machines of Loving Grace

Butterfly Wings

-

-

39.

R.E.M.

Man on the Moon

Automatic For The People

 

40.

The Juliana Hatfield 3

My Sister

-

-

41.

Porno For Pyros

Cursed Female

Porno For Pyros

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42.

Bjork

Human Behavior

Debut

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43.

Depeche Mode

Walking In My Shoes

Songs Of Faith And Devotion

 

44.

Tool

Sober

Undertow

-

45.

Lenny Kravitz

Believe

Are You Gonna Go My Way

-

46.

Shaggy

Oh Carolina

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-

47.

Dinosaur Jr.

Start Choppin'

-

-

48.

R.E.M.

Everybody Hurts

Automatic For The People

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49.

The Proclaimers

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

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-

50.

White Zombie

Thunder Kiss '65

La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1

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51.

New Order

World (Price of Love)

Republic

-

52.

Cypress Hill

Insane In The Brain

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-

53.

10,000 Maniacs

Candy Everybody Wants

Our Time in Eden

 

54.

Suede

Metal Mickey

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-

55.

Gin Blossoms

Found Out About You

New Miserable Experience

 

56.

10,000 Maniacs

These Are Days

Our Time in Eden

 

57.

Electroset

How Does It Feel?

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-

58.

The Posies

Dream All Day

-

-

59.

Pearl Jam

Go

Vs.

60.

Tasmin Archer

Sleeping Satellite

-

-

61.

Wailing Souls

Shark Attack

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-

62.

Soul Asylum

Black Gold

Grave Dancers Union

 

63.

Nirvana

Rape Me

In Utero

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64.

10,000 Maniacs

Because the Night

MTV Unplugged

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65.

Blind Melon

Tones of Home

Blind Melon

 

66.

The Cranberries

Dreams

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

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67.

Morrissey

Jack the Ripper

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-

68.

10,000 Maniacs

Every Day Is Like Sunday

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-

69.

Frank Black

Los Angeles

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-

70.

Sunscreem

Love U More

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-

71.

Primus

Mr. Krinkle

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-

72.

311

Do You Right

Music

-

73.

The Lemonheads

It's A Shame About Ray

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-

74.

UB40

Higher Ground

Promises and Lies

75.

Cop Shoot Cop

10 Dollar Bill

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-

76.

Beck

Loser

Mellow Gold

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77.

Dead Can Dance

The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove

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-

78.

The The

Dogs Of Lust

Dusk

79.

Boy George

The Crying Game

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-

80.

Nirvana

In Bloom

Nevermind

 

81.

House Of Pain

Shamrocks and Shenanigans

-

-

82.

The Cure

Halo

-

-

83.

Terence Trent D'arby

She Kissed Me

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-

84.

Goo Goo Dolls

We Are the Normal

Superstar Car Wash

-

85.

Tears For Fears

Elemental

Elemental

-

86.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin

Not Sleeping Around

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-

87.

Alice in Chains

Angry Chair

Dirt

 

88.

The Lemonheads

Into Your Arms

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-

89.

Jesus Jones

The Devil You Know

Perverse

90.

Pearl Jam

Crazy Mary

Vs.

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91.

The Cure

Purple Haze

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-

92.

Nirvana

Verse Chorus Verse

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93.

Duran Duran

Too Much Information

Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

 

94.

Arrested Development

Mr. Wendal

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-

95.

U2

Lemon

Zooropa

 

96.

Ween

Push Th' Little Daisies

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-

97.

Nick Heyward

Kite

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-

98.

Belly

Slow Dog

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-

99.

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Stuck

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-

100.

X

New Life

Hey Zeus!

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101.

The Boo Radleys

There She Goes

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-

102.

Stone Temple Pilots

Sex Type Thing

Core

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103.

Dig

Believe

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-

104.

Dr. Alban

It's My Life

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-

105.

Midnight Oil

Outbreak of Love

Earth And Sun And Moon

 

106.

808 State/UB40

One in Ten

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-

106.7.

Paul the 55-Year Old Intern

Paul on 45

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Commentary

bulletAm I the only guy who heard Nirvana's Heart-Shaped Box (#15) as a not-so thinly veiled diss on Courtney Love?  To me it sounds like him describing how she set her sights on him (to further her own career?) and then entrapped him by getting pregnant.
bulletThis was the Stone Temple Pilots' big breakout year with the Core album and Plush (#1).  I always felt STP got unfairly criticized as Nirvana wannabes.  Each of their albums are strong and distinctive in its own right.
bulletRadiohead also first gained notice with Creep (#2).  I've heard now that they have sort of disowned the song, I guess they were trying too hard to be commercial at that point or something.  I don't see what their problem is.
bulletDid anyone expect to see Duran Duran in the top 10 again (Come Undone at #5, plus Ordinary World at #16).  That was nice to see them again, although they quickly re-disappeared.