90s Alternative Rock Playlist

Nostalgia! When my favorite local radio station changed formats around 1999, I bought a PMP and made this playlist of all the songs I could remember them playing. Sorry audiophiles -- This list was largely compiled during the dial-up/p2p days, so don't be surprised if some of these aren't the greatest copies ever heard. All 128kbps. Please feel free to point out embarrassing oversights in the comments. I'm always looking to make additions. These have been tagged for better sorting in my Zune HD. Album Artist: Various Artists. Song Artist: (actual artist name) Genre: Alternative 311 - Down 311 - Transistor 3rd Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life Alanis Morrissette - You Ought To Know Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole Alice In Chains - Got Me Wrong (Live) Alice In Chains - Grind Alice In Chains - Heaven Beside You Alice in Chains - I Stay Away Alice In Chains - Man In The Box Alice In Chains - No Excuses Alice In Chains - Rooster Alice N Chains - Would Artificial Joy Club - Sick And Beautiful Babes In Toyland - Sweet '69 Bad Religion - 21st Century Digital Boy Bare Naked Ladies - Old Apartment Beastie Boys - You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party Beck - Devil's Haircut Beck - Loser Beck - The New Pollution Beck - Where It's At Better Than Ezra - At The Stars Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting Better Than Ezra - Good Better Than Ezra - King Of New Orleans Better Than Ezra-In The Blood Blind Melon - No Rain Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn Blues Traveler - Run Around Blur - Song 2 Breeders - Cannonball Bush - Comedown Bush - Everything Zen Bush - Glycerine Bush - Greedy Fly Bush - Little Things That Kill Bush - Machinehead Bush - Mouth Bush - Swallowed Butthole Surfers - Pepper Cake - Never There cake - rock 'n' roll lifestyle Cake - The Distance Candlebox - Far Behind Candlebox - You Cardigans - Love Fool Cardigans - My Favorite Game Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun Cherry Poppin Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Collective Soul - December Collective Soul - Gel Collective Soul - Heavy Collective Soul - Listen Collective Soul - Precious Declaration Collective Soul - Shine Collective Soul - The World I Know Collective Soul - Where The River Flows Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (on the 45) Counting Crows - Einstein on the Beach Counting Crows - Hanging Around Counting Crows - Long December Counting Crows - Mr. Jones Counting Crows - Round Here Cowboy Mouth - Jenny Says Cracker - Get Off This Cracker - Low Cracker - Teen Angst Cranberries - Free To Decide Cranberries - Linger Cranberries - Salvation Cranberries - Zombie Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Creed - Higher Creed - My Own Prison Creed - What If Creed - With Arms Wide Open Dambuilders - Shrine Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth Dave Mathews Band - Crash Into Me Dave Matthews Band - Too Much Deftones - Change in the House of Flies Del Amitri - Roll To Me Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Dinosaur Jr - Feel the Pain Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars Dog's Eye View - Everything Falls Apart Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight Eels - Novacaine For The Soul Elastica - Connection Elastica - Stutter Eve6 - Inside Out Everclear - Santa Monica Everlast - Put Your Lights On Everlast - Who Got the Hooch Faith No More - Epic Faith No More - Last Cup of Sorrow Fastball - The Way Fatboy Slim - Praise You Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot Filter - Take a Picture Fiona Apple - Criminal Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly Flys - Got You Where I Want You Folk Implosion - Natural One Foo Fighters - Everlong Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench Foo Fighters - My Hero For Squirrels - The Mighty K.C Four Non-Blondes - What's Up Freedy Johnston - Bad Reputation Fuel - Shimmer Garbage - #1 Crush Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains Garbage - Push It Garbage - Queer Garbage - Special Garbage - Stupid Girl Garbage - Vow Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy Gin Blossoms - Till I Hear It From You Goldfinger - Here In Your Bedroom Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway Goo Goo Dolls - Iris Goo Goo Dolls - Name Goo Goo Dolls - Slide Gravity Kills - Guilty Green Day - Basket Case Green Day - Time of Your Life Green Day - Welcome to Paradise Green Day - When I Come Around Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta Helmet - Unsung Hole - Celebrity Skin Hole - Doll Parts Hole - Violet Hum - Stars Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing Janes Addiction - Jane Says Jennifer Trynin - Better than Nothing Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul K's Choice - Not An Addict Kid Rock - Bawitdaba Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why Leah Andreone -It's Alright It's Ok Lemonheads - Into Your Arms Len - Steal My Sunshine Letters From Cleo - Here and Now Limp Bizkit - Faith Lisa Lobe - Everybody Shove Me in Shallow Water Lisa Lobe - I Do Lisa Lobe - You Say Lisa Loeb - Do You Sleep Live - All Over You Live - Century Live - I Alone Live - Lightning Crashes Live - Secret Samadhi - Lankins Juice Live - Selling The Drama Live - The Dolphins Cry Live - Turn My Head Liz Phair - Polyester Bride Liz Phair - Supernova Local H - Bound For The Floor Local H - Eddie Vedder Lucious Jackson - Naked Eye Mad Season - River of Deceit Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People Matchbox 20 - 3am Matchbox 20 - If You're Gone Matchbox 20 - Long Day Matchbox 20 - Push Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself Matthew Sweet - Where You Get Love Mazzy Star - Fade Into You Mazzy Star - Sweet Jane Meat Puppets - Backwater Meredith Brooks - I'm A Bitch Metallica - Hero of the Day Metallica - King Nothing Might Mighty BossTones - Knock On Wood Moby - Porcelain Mono - Life In Mono Monster Magnet - Space Lord Nada Surf - Popular Natalie Imbruglia - Torn Natalie Merchant - Carnival Natalie Merchant - Jealousy Natalie Merchant - Kind And Generous Natalie Merchant - These Are the Days Natalie Merchant - Wonder Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole Nine Inch Nails - Hurt Nirvana - About A Girl Nirvana - All Apologies (unplugged) Nirvana - Come As You Are Nirvana - Dumb Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box Nirvana - Lake Of Fire Nirvana - Lithium Nirvana - Rape Me Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World Nirvana - Verse Chorus Verse Nixons - Baton Rouge Nixons - Sister No Doubt - Are You Happy Now No Doubt - Dont Speak No Doubt - Simple Kind of Life No Doubt - Spiderwebs No Doubt - Sunday Morning Oasis - Champaign Supernova Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger Oasis - Live Forever Oasis - Wonderwall Offspring - Mota Offspring - All I Want Offspring - Come Out And Play Offspring - Cool To Hate Offspring - Gone Away Offspring - Self Esteem Orgy - Blue Monday Our Lady Peace - Clumsy Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead Pearl Jam - Alive pearl jam - better man Pearl Jam - Black Pearl Jam - Daughter Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in an Old Town Pearl Jam - Even Flow Pearl Jam - Jeremy Pearl Jam - Last Kiss Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter Peter Gabriel - Salisbury Hill PJ Harvey - Big Fish Little Fish Placebo - Pure Morning Poe - Hello Poe - Trigger Happy Jack Porno For Pyros - Pets Porno For Pyros - Tahitian Moon Portishead - Sour Times Presidents - Peaches Presidents of the United States of America - Lump Presidents of the United States of America - Video Killed the Radio Star Primatives - Crash Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand Primus - Winona's Big Brown Beaver Prodigy - Breathe Prodigy - Firestarter Radiohead - Creep Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back Rancid - Ruby Soho Rancid - Time Bomb Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers - City of Angels Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Give It Away Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Love Rollercoaster Red Hot Chilli Peppers - My Friends Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Soul To Squeeze Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Where I Go Reel Big Fish - Sell Out Refreshments - Banditos Refreshments - Down Together REM - Bang And Blame REM - Bittersweet Me REM - Crush With Eyeliner REM - Drive REM - E-Bow The Letter REM - Everybody Hurts REM - Losing My Religion REM - Man On The Moon REM - Orange Crush REM - Stand REM - Strange Currencies REM - The Great Beyond REM - The One I Love REM - What's The Frequency Kenneth Replacements - I'll Be You Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous Republica - Ready to Go Save Ferris - Come On Eileen School of Fish - 3 Strange Days Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You Semisonic - Closing Time Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome Silverchair - Abuse Me Silverchair - Anthem For The Year 2000 Silverchair - Freak Silverchair - Tomorrow Sister Hazel - All For You Sister Hazel - Happy Smash Mouth - Walking On The Sun Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide Smashing Pumpkins - The End is the Beginning is the End Smashing Pumpkins - Today Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight Smashing Pumpkins - Zero Smiths - How Soon Is Now Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar Social Distortion - Ball and Chain Social Distortion - I Was Wrong Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire Soul Asylum - Black Gold Soul Asylum - Just Like Anyone Soul Asylum - Misery Soul Asylum - Runaway Train Soul Coughing - Soundtrack To Mary Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun Soundgarden - Blow Up The Outside World Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days Soundgarden - Outshined Soundgarden - Pretty Noose Soundgarden - Spoonman Space - Female of the Species Space Hog - In the Mean Time Sponge - Have You Seen Mary Sponge - Molly Sponge - Plowed Sponge - Wax Ecstatic Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell Squirrel Nut Zippers - Put A Lid On It Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself Stabbing Westward - Shame Stabbing Westward - What Do I Have To Do Stone Roses - Love Spreads Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty Stone Temple Pilots - Creep Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots - Lady Picture Show Stone Temple Pilots - Plush Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing stone temple pilots - Vasaline Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden Sublime - Date Rape Sublime - Santeria Sublime - What I Got Sublime - Wrong Way Sugar Ray - Fly Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends Superdrag - Who Sucked Out The Feeling Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Third Eye Blind - How Its Gonna Be Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean Toadies - Possum Kingdom Tonic - If You Could Only See Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes Tonic - You Wanted More Tool - Aenima Tool - Eulogy Tool - Forty-Six and 2 Tool - Schism Tool - Sober Tool - Stinkfist Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl Tori Amos - God Tori Amos - Silent All These Years Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother Tracy Chapman - Fast Car U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 - New Year's Day U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday Veruca Salt - Seether Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls Verve Pipe - Photograph Verve Pipe - The Freshman Violent Femmes - American Music Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone Violent Femmes - Kiss Off Wallflowers - 6th Avenue Heartache Wallflowers - One Headlight Wallflowers - Three Marlenas Weezer - Buddy Holly Weezer - Undone White Town - Your Woman White Zombie - I'm Your Boogie Man White Zombie - More Human Than Human

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bigbruver (2011-09-21)

Thank you! Good quality and speed. Excellent selection.

dragonbandit314 (2011-10-08)

Where are the seeds? A whole load of us stuck at 99.8%, How rude to hit and run. 3 seeds who will not connect to allow the rest to complete. PLEASE set to forced seeding and allow the rest of us to share.

Oxenfree (2011-10-17)

Stuck at 99.8% for the last three days.. What a shame. Very frustrating.

 Squiddy82 (2011-10-20)

I'm seeding the whole thing, so you shouldn't be stuck at 99.8 for any reason I know of. Is there one particular file that will not complete?

Oxenfree (2011-10-21)

Garbage # 1 Crush and Garbage - Only happy when it rains...

Oxenfree (2011-10-21)

Garbage - Only hapy when it rains and Garbage #1 crush

Oxenfree (2011-10-21)

I canned those 2 songs and now I'm complete. Thank you for sharing! Great collection. I'll try to log on everyday from 6-10pm Eastern time.

 Squiddy82 (2011-10-21)

I was trying to upload a zipped version so people who wanted the entire collection would have a higher rate or success completing the download. I believe piratebay is blocking me, though. It keeps saying filename error. It's probably just a safeguard to avoid double posts and spammers.

cutemom2jen (2011-12-26)

I don't know you or your background but thank you thank you thank you! love it!!

emtjennifer51 (2012-08-05)

i need someone to seed this! i so want this and it get to 99% and quits!

hrvocals (2012-08-22)

Thanks for the torrent! You mentioned songs missing... here are some more that the station in my city used to play:
Brother Cane - And Fools Shine On
Buckcherry - Lit Up
Days of the New - Touch, Peel, and Stand
Dynamite Hack - Boyz n the Hood
Fountains of Wayne - Radiation Vibe & Sink to the Bottom
Jerry Cantrell - Leave Me Alone & Cut You In
Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage (Soundgarden cover)
L7 - Pretend We're Dead
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy & Miserable
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
The Rentals - Friends of P
Rob Zombie - Dragula & Living Dead Girl
Sebadoh - Ocean
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Talk Show - Hello Hello
Tripping Daisy - I Got a Girl
And since you have the Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun, here are a couple older ones they'd play:
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

Nights_Like_These (2012-08-23)

Hrmmm, just so we're clear about the Violent Femmes. The song American Music is from the 90's, but the other 3 songs are actually from the early 80's (from their first album in 1983 I think?) lol. Not to be anal or anything haha! Otherwise it looks like a good collection!

calicu_gno (2012-10-19)

SICK torrent but no seeders? DAMN! Come on people! Will seed after I finish downloading for 2 weeks.

arturgordonpim (2012-10-19)

Hey man this is a great list,everything needed is here! ....BIG THANKS!

calicu_gno (2012-10-19)

I am stuck at 99.8% ! What the hell!

desertshaman (2013-04-05)

Your torrent is AMAZING! This is a hot list of the best songs of that time. Thanks Squiddy82!!!

Joe3W (2013-09-04)

Please seed, I'm stuck at 99.8%, Thanks for the great upload.