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"More than eight years after first appearing on a Billboard chart, Arctic Monkeys score their first No. 1 on Billboard's radio-based Alternative Songs survey, as "Do I Wanna Know?" rises 2-1", wrote Billboard tuesday. Great! I do love Arctic Monkeys' AM (likely my favourite album in 2013) and I think that's the right time to update an old Spotirama playlist collecting all the number one alternative hits in the US from 1988 to today. Source is Wikipedia. Browsing the list, some forgotten names and tunes made me suddenly remember when I used to spend long post-school afternoons watching MTV: Blind Melon's No Rain, Crash Test Dummies' Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, The Offspring's Come Out and Play, The Cranberries' Zombie, The Presidents of the USA, Bush, The Wallflowers, Chumbawamba... Oh. My. God.
Enjoy.
Previously on Spotirama:
BILLBOARD #1 ALTERNATIVE ROCK HITS
(from 1988 to 2014)
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1988
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
Big Audio Dynamite – Just Play Music
The Psychedelic Furs – All That Money Wants
U2 – Desire
R.E.M. – Orange Crush
1989
Julian Cope – Charlotte Anne
R.E.M. – Stand
Lou Reed – Dirty Blvd.
The Replacements – I'll Be You
Elvis Costello – Veronica
XTC – Mayor Of Simpleton
The Cure – Fascination Street
Love and Rockets – So Alive
Public Image Limited – Disappointed
The B-52's – Channel Z
Hoodoo Gurus – Come Anytime
The B-52's – Love Shack
Tears For Fears – Sowing The Seeds Of Love
Camper Van Beethoven – Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Ian McCulloch – Proud To Fall
Kate Bush - Love and Anger
Jesus And Mary Chain – Blues From A Gun
1990
The Psychedelic Furs – Alice's House
Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up
Sinéad O'Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mine
Church - Metropolis
Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence
Sinéad O'Connor – The Emperor's New Clothes
Midnight Oil – Forgotten Years
The Sundays – Here's Where The Story Ends
Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth
World Party – Way Down Now
Concrete Blonde – Joey
Gene Loves Jezebel – Jealous
David J – I’ll Be Your Chauffeur
Jane's Addiction – Stop
INXS - Suicide Blonde
The Cure – Never Enough
The Replacements – Merry Go Round
Jane's Addiction – Been Caught Stealing
Sisters Of Mercy – More
1991
Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro
Sting – All This Time
Jesus Jones – Right Here Right Now
R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
Simple Minds – See The Lights
Elvis Costello – The Other Side Of Summer
Electronic – Get The Message
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Kiss Them For Me
Big Audio Dynamite – Rush
Robyn Hitchcock - So You Think You're in Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
U2 – The Fly
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
U2 – Mysterious Ways
1992
Talking Heads – Sax And Violins
Lou Reed – What's Good
The Sugarcubes – Hit
U2 – One
The Cure – High
Cracker – Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)
The Charlatans – Weirdo
XTC – Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
The Cure – Friday I'm In Love
The B-52's – Good Stuff
Faith No More – Midlife Crisis
Morrissey – Tomorrow
Suzanne Vega – Blood Makes Noise
R.E.M. – Drive
10,000 Maniacs – These Are Days
Soul Asylum – Somebody To Shove
1993
Ned's Atomic Dustbin – Not Sleeping Around
Jesus Jones – The Devil You Know
Belly – Feed The Tree
Depeche Mode – I Feel You
New Order – Regret
Depeche Mode – Walking In My Shoes
Porno for Pyros – Pets
Tears For Fears – Break It Down Again
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze
Juliana Hatfield - My Sister
Blind Melon – No Rain
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
The Lemonheads – Into Your Arms
1994
Pearl Jam – Daughter
Gin Blossoms – Found Out About You
Nirvana – All Apologies/Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip
Beck - Loser
Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Tori Amos – God
Morrissey – The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get
Live – Selling The Drama
Green Day – Longview
Toad The Wet Sprocket – Fall Down
The Offspring – Come Out and Play
Counting Crows – Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)
Green Day – Basket Case
R.E.M. – What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
The Cranberries – Zombie
Nirvana – About A Girl
R.E.M. – Bang And Blame
1995
Green Day – When I Come Around
Live – Lightning Crashes
Better Than Ezra – Good
Soul Asylum – Misery
U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
Green Day - J.A.R.
Silverchair - Tomorrow
Bush - Comedown
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Alanis Morissette - Hand in My Pocket
The Presidents of the United States of America - Lump
Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends
Bush - Glycerine
Oasis – Wonderwall
1996
The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Alanis Morissette – Ironic
Oasis – Champagne Supernova
The Cranberries – Salvation
Tracy Bonham – Mother Mother
Butthole Surfers – Pepper
Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Pearl Jam – Who You Are
311 – Down
Eels – Novocaine For The Soul
Sublime – What I Got
Bush - Swallowed
1997
Garbage – #1 Crush
U2 – Discotheque
Live – Lakini's Juice
The Wallflowers – One Headlight
U2 – Staring At The Sun
The Verve Pipe - Freshmen
Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get
Matchbox Twenty – Push
Sugar Ray – Fly
Smash Mouth – Walkin' On The Sun
Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
Everclear – Everything To Everyone
Marcy Playground – Sex And Candy
1998
Semisonic – Closing Time
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
Eve 6 – Inside Out
Barenaked Ladies – One Week
Hole – Celebrity Skin
Goo Goo Dolls – Slide
Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
Cake – Never There
Everlast – What It's Like
1999
Sugar Ray – Every Morning
Lit – My Own Worst Enemy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
Creed - Higher
Bush - The Chemicals Between Us
Foo Fighters – Learn To Fly
Limp Bizkit – Re-Arranged
blink-182 – All The Small Things
2000
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Papa Roach - Last Resort
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Green Day – Minority
Fuel – Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
2001
Lifehouse – Hanging By A Moment
Crazy Town – Butterfly
Incubus – Drive
Staind – It's Been Awhile
Sum 41 – Fat Lip
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
Nickelback – How You Remind Me
2002
Linkin Park – In The End
Puddle Of Mudd – Blurry
P.O.D. – Youth Of The Nation
Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
Unwritten Law – Seein' Red
Chad Kroeger feat Josey Scott – Hero
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
System Of A Down – Aerials
Nirvana – You Know You're Right
Foo Fighters – All My Life
2003
Saliva – Always
Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
Linkin Park – Somewhere I Belong
Audioslave – Like A Stone
Trapt – Headstrong
Chevelle – Send The Pain Below
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Jane's Addiction – Just Because
Linkin Park – Faint
Staind – So Far Away
A Perfect Circle – Weak And Powerless
Linkin Park – Numb
2004
The Offspring – Hit That
Incubus – Megalomaniac
Blink 182 - I Miss You
Hoobastank - The Reason
Lostprophets - Last Train Home
Jet – Cold Hard Bitch
Linkin Park – Lying From You
Beastie Boys – Ch-Check It Out
Velvet Revolver – Slither
Modest Mouse – Float On
Three Days Grace – Just Like You
Linkin Park – Breaking The Habit
Green Day – American Idiot
U2 – Vertigo
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
2005
Beck – E-Pro
Audioslave – Be Yourself
Green Day – Holiday
Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds
Weezer – Beverly Hills
Foo Fighters – Best Of You
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
Nine Inch Nails – Only
Foo Fighters – DOA
2006
System Of A Down – Hypnotize
Weezer – Perfect Situation
10 Years - Wasteland
Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly the Same
Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
AFI - Miss Murder
Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
Killers - When You Were Young
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
Incubus - Anna-Molly
2007
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)
Three Days Grace - Pain
30 Seconds To Mars – From Yesterday
Nine Inch Nails – Survivalism
Linkin Park – What I've Done
The White Stripes – Icky Thump
Finger Eleven – Paralyzer
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
2008
Seether – Fake It
Foo Fighters – Long Road To Ruin
Puddle of Mudde - Psycho
Seether – Rise Above This
Weezer – Pork And Beans
Foo Fighters – Let It Die
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Staind – Believe
The Offspring – You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
2009
Shinedown – Second Chance
Incubus – Love Hurts
Pearl Jam – Brother
Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
Anberlin – The Feel Good Drag
Green Day – Know Your Enemy
Linkin Park – New Divide
Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
Kings Of Leon – Notion
Muse – Uprising
Alice In Chains – Check My Brain
2010
30 Seconds To Mars – Kings and Queens
Phoenix – 1901
Cage The Elephant – Back Against The Wall
Muse – Resistance
Stone Temple Pilots – Between The Lines
Thirty Seconds To Mars - This Is War
Cage the Elephant - In One Ear
Linkin Park - The Catalyst
Neon Trees - Animal
Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
Kings of Leon - Radioactive
The Black Keys - Tighten Up
2011
Linkin Park - Waiting For The End
Cage the Elephant - Shake Me Down
Foo Fighters - Rope
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
Death Cab For Cutie - You Are a Tourist
Foo Fighters - Walk
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Raindown Maggie
Bush - The Sound of Winter
Coldplay - Paradise
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
2012
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
Fun - We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe)
The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling
Grouplove - Tongue Tied
Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
Linkin Park - Burn It Down
Fun - Some Nights
Alex Clare - Too Close
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Muse - Madness
Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait
2013
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
Capital Cities - Safe and Sound
Lorde - Royals
Bastille - Pompeii
Cage the Elephant - Come a Little Closer
2014
Arctic Monkeys - Do You Wanna Know?
