While listening to the new album by Alice In Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, I suddenly felt an overwhelming need for grunge. The one from the good ol' times, from the 90s: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Staley's Alice In Chains... Then I decided to surf for some good genre charts online. I found plenty of them. Not from the big media side of the Web, but rising from the land of blogs, radios, fans, communities. All smelling like a warm memory of teen spirit. So I played a game: I picked 12 of these charts and I assigned some points to each song. 100 points for #1, 99 for #2, 98 for #3 and so on.
The result is the following Top 50, that I soon spotified and that now is lovely soundtracking a little insomniac mid-june night.
Grungely enjoy!
THE CHART
| 1 |
Pearl Jam |
Jeremy |
942 |
| 2 |
Pearl Jam |
Alive |
934 |
| 3 |
Nirvana |
Smells Like Teen Spirit |
889 |
| 4 |
Alice In Chains |
Would? |
871 |
| 5 |
Soundgarden |
Black Hole Sun |
852 |
| 6 |
Pearl Jam |
Black |
809 |
| 7 |
Nirvana |
Come As You Are |
780 |
| 8 |
Stone Temple Pilots |
Plush |
775 |
| 9 |
Nirvana |
Heart Shaped Box |
732 |
| 10 |
Temple of the Dog |
Hunger Strike |
721 |
| 11 |
Stone Temple Pilots |
Interstate Love Song |
673 |
| 12 |
Pearl Jam |
Even Flow |
672 |
| 13 |
Alice In Chains |
Man in the Box |
614 |
| 14 |
Nirvana |
Lithium |
587 |
| 15 |
Screaming Trees |
Nearly Lost You |
583 |
| 16 |
Soundgarden |
Spoonman |
576 |
| 17 |
Soundgarden |
Outshined |
573 |
| 18 |
Alice In Chains |
Rooster |
556 |
| 19 |
Mudhoney |
Touch Me I'm Sick |
534 |
| 20 |
Stone Temple Pilots |
Sex Type Thing |
492 |
| 21 |
Nirvana |
All Apologies |
484 |
| 22 |
Alice In Chains |
Nutshell |
438 |
| 23 |
Toadies |
Possum Kingdom |
397 |
| 24 |
Nirvana |
About a Girl (live) |
393 |
| 25 |
Stone Temple Pilots |
Big Empty |
392 |
| 26 |
Mother Love Bone |
Chlow Dancer/Crown of Thorns |
386 |
| 27 |
Alice In Chains |
No Excuses |
385 |
| 28 |
Temple of the Dog |
Say Hello 2 Heaven |
376 |
| 29 |
Bush |
Comedown |
367 |
| 30 |
Alice In Chains |
Got Me Wrong (live) |
362 |
| 31 |
Nirvana |
You Know You're Right |
357 |
| 32 |
Pearl Jam |
Yellow Ledbetter |
340 |
| 33 |
Blind Melon |
No Rain |
329 |
| 34 |
Soundgarden |
Jesus Christ Pose |
300 |
| 35 |
Nirvana |
Rape Me |
300 |
| 36 |
Stone Temple Pilots |
Wicked Garden |
295 |
| 37 |
Pearl Jam |
Betterman |
289 |
| 38 |
Mad Season |
River of Deceit |
287 |
| 39 |
Nirvana |
In Bloom |
286 |
| 40 |
Bush |
Glycerine |
282 |
| 41 |
Collective Soul |
Shine |
281 |
| 42 |
Smashing Pumpkins |
Cherub Rock |
280 |
| 43 |
Soundgarden |
Burden In My Hand |
274 |
| 44 |
Hole |
Doll Parts |
264 |
| 45 |
Bush |
Everything Zen |
253 |
| 46 |
Mother Love Bone |
Star Dog Champion |
251 |
| 47 |
Nirvana |
Drain You |
246 |
| 48 |
Alice In Chains |
Them Bones |
244 |
| 49 |
Pearl Jam |
Rearview Mirror |
239 |
| 50 |
L7 |
Pretend We're Dead |
237 |
THE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
TRIVIA
These are the single charts I datamined. As you can see, sources are quite different: blogs, radios, even youtube users. I followed just one rule: at least 25 songs for chart. I assumed it as a proof of love and, somehow, quality. Making a Top 10 is a quick and easy shot, making a Top 25 requires you some more time & passion.
Top 50 Grunge Songs (YouTube user Th3offspring)
Best Grunge Songs (YouTube user Beckonor)
Best Grunge Songs of All Time (The Top Tens)
Top 50 Greatest Grunge Songs - The Best Filth Ever (RYM user headfullaled333)
Greatest Grunge Songs... (Ranker)
Top50 Stats
Top bands
10 songs: Nirvana
7 songs: Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam
5 songs: Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots
3 songs: Bush
2 songs: Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog
1 song: Blind Melon, Collective Soul, Hole, L7, Mad Season, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins, Toadies
68% of the playlist is made by the first 5 bands (Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots)
Multi-songs albums
5 songs: Nevermind (Nirvana)
4 songs: Ten (Pearl Jam)
3 songs: Core (Stone Temple Pilots), Sixteen Stone (Bush)
2 songs: Badmotorfinger (Soundgarden), Dirt (Alice In Chains), In Utero (Nirvana), Jar of Flies (Alice In Chains), MTV Live In New York (Nirvana), Purple (Stone Temple Pilots), Singles (original soundtrack, Alice In Chains' Would? was included in Dirt, too), Stardog Champion (Mother Love Bone), Superunknown (Soundgarden), Temple of the Dog (Temple of the Dog)
Sorry prize: The Man Who Sold The World (Nirvana). #51, just out of the chart... :-(
Full data stats
web charts: 12
total different tracks: 316
#1s:
4 charts: Alive (Pearl Jam)
3 charts: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
1 chart: Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden), Hunger Strike (Temple of the Dog), Lithium (Nirvana), Nutshell (Alice In Chains), Down In A Hole (Alice In Chains, #67 in the aggregated chart)
Frequent flyers
Present in 11 charts: Jeremy (Pearl Jam), Alive (Pearl Jam)
10 charts: Would? (Alice In Chains), Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
9 charts: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), Black (Pearl Jam), Come As You Are (Nirvana), Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)
8 charts: Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana), Hunger Strike (Temple of the Dog), Interstate Love Songs (Stone Temple Pilots), Even Flow (Pearl Jam), Nearly Lost You (Screaming Trees), Touch Me I'm Sick (Mudhoney)
7 charts: Man in the Box (Alice In Chains), Lithium (Nirvana), Spoonman (Soundgarden), Outshined (Soundgarden), Rooster (Alice In Chains), Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots), All Apologies (Nirvana)
Top bands (by number of songs)
30 songs: Pearl Jam
29 songs: Alice In Chains
28 songs: Nirvana
23 songs: Soundgarden
15 songs: Stone Temple Pilots
12 songs: Bush
8 songs: Mudhoney
6 songs: Temple of the Dog
7 songs: Candlebox, Smashing Pumpkins
6 songs: Screaming Trees, Silverchair
5 songs: Hole, Mother Love Bone, Pixies
Top bands (by points)
6842 Nirvana
6533 Pearl Jam
5502 Alice In Chains
4279 Soundgarden
3498 Stone Temple Pilots
1518 Temple of the Dog
1397 Bush
998 Mudhoney
966 Screaming Trees
811 Mother Love Bone
Not-very-grunge names mentioned in the charts (besides Blind Melon and Smashing Pumpkins, who made the Top50): Beastie Boys, Beck, Cake, Flaming Lips, Interpol, Jimi Hendrix, Mazzy Star, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Pavement, Pixies, Porno for Pyros, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sonic Youth, Tool, Verve, Weezer.
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