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| Most successful song (46 votes) | ||
|---|---|---|
| November Rain | Guns n' Roses | 30,4% |
| Jeremy | Pearl Jam | 23,9% |
| Losing my Religion | R.E.M. | 19,6% |
| Paranoid Android | Radiohead | 15,2% |
| Tonight Tonight | The Smashing Pumpkins | 10,9% |
| Most emotional song (47 votes) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lightning Crashes | Live | 34,0% |
| No Surprises | Radiohead | 23,4% |
| Losing my Religion | R.E.M. | 17,0% |
| #1 Crush | Garbage | 10,6% |
| Last Kiss | Pearl Jam | 8,5% |
| Uninvited | Alanis Morissette | 6,4% |
| Best guitar solo (47 votes) | ||
|---|---|---|
| November Rain | Guns n' Roses | 38,3% |
| Paranoid Android | Radiohead | 21,3% |
| Bulls on Parade | Rage Against the Machine | 17,0% |
| Alive | Pearl Jam | 14,9% |
| You Could be Mine | Guns n' Roses | 8,5% |
| Best punk song (44 votes) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Basket Case | Green Day | 18,2% |
| Self Esteem | The Offspring | 15,9% |
| Dammit (Growing Up) | Blink 182 | 13,6% |
| Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) | The Offspring | 9,1% |
| What’s my Age Again? | Blink 182 | 9,1% |
| American Jesus | Bad Religion | 9,1% |
| Come Out and Play | The Offspring | 9,1% |
| The Meaning of Life | The Offspring | 4,5% |
| All I Want | The Offspring | 4,5% |
| Longview | Green Day | 4,5% |
| I Got a Girl | Tripping Daisy | 2,3% |
| Best grunge song (48 votes) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana | 37,5% |
| Heart-Shaped Box | Nirvana | 14,6% |
| Lithium | Nirvana | 10,4% |
| Bullet With Butterfly Wings | The Smashing Pumpkins | 10,4% |
| Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden | 8,3% |
| Glycerine | Bush | 6,3% |
| Everything Zen | Bush | 4,2% |
| Anthem for the Year 2000 | Silverchair | 2,1% |
| Israel’s Son | Silverchair | 2,1% |
| Would? | Alice in Chains | 2,1% |
| Violet | Hole | 2,1% |
| Best metal song (46 votes) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Enter Sandman | Metallica | 23,9% |
| Du Hast | Rammstein | 13,0% |
| Sad But True | Metallica | 9,0% |
| Got the Life | Korn | 6,5% |
| Freak on a Leash | Korn | 6,5% |
| More Human Than Human | White Zombie | 6,5% |
| The Beautiful People | Marilyn Manson | 6,5% |
| Symphony of Destruction | Megadeth | 6,5% |
| You Could be Mine | Guns n' Roses | 4,3% |
| Save Yourself | Stabbing Westward | 4,3% |
| Space Lord | Monster Magnet | 4,3% |
| Money Talks | AC/DC | 2,2% |
| Dragula | Rob Zombie | 2,2% |
| Them Bones | Alice in Chains | 2,2% |
| Liar | Rollins Band | 2,2% |
| Best alternative song (49 votes) | ||
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| Song 2 | Blur | 12,2% |
| Superman’s Dead | Our Lady Peace | 12,2% |
| 1979 | The Smashing Pumpkins | 8,2% |
| Iris | Goo Goo Dolls | 8,2% |
| Creep | Radiohead | 8,2% |
| Losing my Religion | R.E.M. | 6,1% |
| Sabotage | Beastie Boys | 6,1% |
| Loser | Beck | 6,1% |
| Karma Police | Radiohead | 4,1% |
| Until it Sleeps | Metallica | 4,1% |
| Push it | Garbage | 4,1% |
| Stupid Girl | Garbage | 4,1% |
| Only Happy When it Rains | Garbage | 2,0% |
| Tonight Tonight | The Smashing Pumpkins | 2,0% |
| All Over You | Live | 2,0% |
| Paranoid Android | Radiohead | 2,0% |
| Just | Radiohead | 2,0% |
| Ana’s Song (Open Fire) | Silverchair | 2,0% |
| My Name is Mud | Primus | 2,0% |
| Human Behavior | Björk | 2,0% |
| My Own Prison | Creed | 2,0% |
| Best acoustic rock song (49 votes) | ||
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| Wonderwall | Oasis | 20,4% |
| Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) | Green Day | 18,4% |
| About a Girl | Nirvana | 12,2% |
| High & Dry | Radiohead | 10,2% |
| Disarm | The Smashing Pumpkins | 10,2% |
| More Than Words | Extreme | 8,2% |
| Daughter | Pearl Jam | 8,2% |
| What it's Like | Everlast | 6,1% |
| Last Kiss | Pearl Jam | 4,1% |
| To Be With You | Mr. Big | 2,0% |
| Best slow rock song (49 votes) | ||
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| One | U2 | 18,4% |
| Nothing Else Matters | Metallica | 16,3% |
| (Everything I Do) I Do it for you | Bryan Adams | 10,2% |
| Everybody Hurts | R.E.M. | 8,2% |
| Wind of Change | Scorpions | 8,2% |
| Scar Tissue | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 8,2% |
| Street Spirit (Fade Out) | Radiohead | 8,2% |
| No Surprises | Radiohead | 4,1% |
| Creep | Stone Temple Pilots | 4,1% |
| Truly Madly Deeply | Savage Garden | 4,1% |
| Drive | R.E.M. | 2,0% |
| Daysleeper | R.E.M. | 2,0% |
| All Mine | Portishead | 2,0% |
| Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman | Bryan Adams | 2,0% |
| Building a Mystery | Sarah McLachlan | 2,0% |
| Best rock song (44 votes) | ||
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| Jeremy | Pearl Jam | 31,8% |
| Don't Cry | Guns n' Roses | 15,9% |
| November Rain | Guns n' Roses | 9,1% |
| Monkey Wrench | Foo Fighters | 9,1% |
| Are You Gonna go my Way? | Lenny Kravitz | 9,1% |
| Let’s Get Rocked | Def Leppard | 4,5% |
| Even Flow | Pearl Jam | 4,5% |
| Living on the Edge | Aerosmith | 4,5% |
| Falling in Love (is Hard on the Knees) | Aerosmith | 2,3% |
| Alive | Pearl Jam | 2,3% |
| You Oughta Know | Alanis Morissette | 2,3% |
| Ironic | Alanis Morissette | 2,3% |
| Big Bang Baby | Stone Temple Pilots | 2,3% |
| Best ska / swing song (35 votes) | ||
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| Sunday Morning | No Doubt | 37,1% |
| Wrong Way | Sublime | 17,1% |
| Zoot Suit Riot | Cherry Poppin' Daddies | 14,2% |
| Suits are Picking up the Bill | Squirrel Nut Zippers | 11,4% |
| Jump Right In | The Urge | 8,6% |
| You and me and the Bottle (Makes Three Tonight) | Big Bad Voodoo Daddy | 5,7% |
| Jump Jive (n’ Wail) | Brian Setzer Orchestra | 5,7% |
| Best pop-rock song (42 votes) | ||
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| All I Wanna Do | Sheryl Crow | 31,0% |
| To the Moon and Back | Savage Garden | 19,0% |
| The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead | Crash Test Dummies | 14,3% |
| Dangerous | Michael Jackson | 11,9% |
| The Only Thing That Looks Good on me is you | Bryan Adams | 7,1% |
| A Change (Would do you Good?) | Sheryl Crow | 7,1% |
| Joyride | Roxette | 4,8% |
| I Want You | Savage Garden | 2,4% |
| MmmBop | Hanson | 2,4% |
| Best techno-rock song (45 votes) | ||
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| Closer | Nine Inch Nails | 26,7% |
| Breathe | Prodigy | 15,6% |
| The Perfect Drug | Nine Inch Nails | 13,3% |
| Smack my Bitch Up | Prodigy | 11,1% |
| Praise You | Fatboy Slim | 11,1% |
| Setting Sun | The Chemical Brothers | 8,9% |
| Firestarter | Prodigy | 6,7% |
| (Can’t You?) Trip Like I Do | Filter & The Crystal Method | 4,4% |
| Army of Me | Björk | 2,3% |
| Best original song from a movie soundtrack (46 votes) | ||
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| Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me, Kill me | U2 | 19,6% |
| The Perfect Drug | Nine Inch Nails | 19,6% |
| Iris | Goo Goo Dolls | 15,2% |
| (Everything I Do) I Do it For You | Bryan Adams | 10,9% |
| Kiss Me | Sixpence None the Richer | 10,9% |
| #1 Crush | Garbage | 6,5% |
| Eye | The Smashing Pumpkins | 6,5% |
| James Bond Theme | Moby | 6,5% |
| The End is the Beginning is the End | The Smashing Pumpkins | 4,3% |
| Song that most have worth more success (39 votes) | ||
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| About a Girl | Nirvana | 25,6% |
| Paranoid Android | Prodigy | 15,4% |
| No Surprises | Radiohead | 15,4% |
| Anthem For the Year 2000 | Silverchair | 15,4% |
| Daughter | Pearl Jam | 7,7% |
| Electrolite | R.E.M. | 7,7% |
| Torn | Creed | 7,7% |
| Army of Me | Björk | 5,1% |
| Best "almost-unnoticed on the charts" song (41 votes) | ||
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| Dumb | Nirvana | 39,0% |
| Street Spirit (Fade Out) | Radiohead | 26,8% |
| Du Riescht So Gut | Rammstein | 7,3% |
| Delicious | Catherine Wheel | 7,3% |
| Go | Pearl Jam | 7,3% |
| Hail, Hail | Pearl Jam | 4,9% |
| Vow | Garbage | 4,9% |
| Jump Right In | The Urge | 2,4% |
| Best cover song (remake) (42 votes) | ||
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| The Man Who Sold the World | Nirvana | 33,3% |
| I Will Survive | Cake | 19,0% |
| Blue Monday | Orgy | 19,0% |
| Sweet Dreams (are Made of This) | Marilyn Manson | 16,7% |
| Live and Let Die | Guns n' Roses | 9,5% |
| Since I Don’t Have you | Guns n' Roses | 2,4% |
| Best non-single song (44 votes) | ||
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| Bad Habit | The Offspring | 25,0% |
| Polly | Nirvana | 20,4% |
| Serve the Servants | Nirvana | 11,4% |
| Sehnsucht | Rammstein | 9,1% |
| Brain of J | Pearl Jam | 9,1% |
| My Iron Lung | Radiohead | 9,1% |
| Shaking | Our Lady Peace | 6,8% |
| Hammering in my Head | Garbage | 6,8% |
| Surefire | Econoline Crush | 2,2% |
| Best lyrics for a song (40 votes) | ||
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| Heart-Shaped Box | Nirvana | 25,0% |
| Ava Adore | The Smashing Pumpkins | 22,5% |
| Fake Plastic Trees | Radiohead | 22,5% |
| Dumb | Nirvana | 15,0% |
| Wishlist | Pearl Jam | 10,0% |
| Delicious | Catherine Wheel | 5,0% |
| Most legendary song (51 votes) | ||
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| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana | 45,1% |
| Losing my Religion | R.E.M. | 5,9% |
| Everybody Hurts | R.E.M. | 5,9% |
| Enter Sandman | Metallica | 5,9% |
| Nothing Else Matters | Metallica | 5,9% |
| Closer | Nine Inch Nails | 5,9% |
| Under the Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 3,9% |
| Tonight Tonight | The Smashing Pumpkins | 3,9% |
| Wonderwall | Oasis | 3,9% |
| Jeremy | Pearl Jam | 2,0% |
| Alive | Pearl Jam | 2,0% |
| Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden | 2,0% |
| November Rain | Guns n' Roses | 2,0% |
| When I Come Around | Green Day | 2,0% |
| One | U2 | 2,0% |
| Cryin’ | Aerosmith | 2,0% |
| Best "however already almost forgotten" song (34 votes) | ||
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| Popular | Nada Surf | 38,2% |
| Unbelievable | E.M.F. | 26,5% |
| Ready to Go | Republica | 17,6% |
| Whoever you are | Geggy Tah | 14,7% |
| Lies | E.M.F. | 2,9% |
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