Top 10 Songs by 90s/00s Alternative Rock Artists

Thanks for making my Top 10 Songs list for Nu-metal/modern rock artists my most popular post (read here). Im also extremely proud of my Top 10 Songs for Classic Rock artists (read here). There was a gap left to fill and so I bring you the Top 10 Songs by 90s/00s Alternative Rock bands.

This was a lot of fun to put together and I rediscovered some great music researching my catalogues to create these lists. This was also a special time for music for me because I started moving away from my dad's record collection and buying my own through the old Columbia House mail-order in the mid-90s. If you have differing opinions, I'm open to listening. Listed alphabetically by artist first name:

ALANIS MORISSETTE
You Oughta Know
Ironic
Head Over Feet
Hand In My Pocket
You Learn
Baba
Eight Easy Steps
Bees of My Knees
Thank You
Underneath

ALICE IN CHAINS
Man in the Box
Them Bones
Would?
Angry Chair
Rooster
Down In a Hole
Again
No Excuses
Grind
Dirt

ALL_AMERICAN REJECTS
Swing, Swing
I Wanna
Paper Heart
Move Along
Dirty Little Secret
Damn Girl
Happy Endings
One More Sad Song
Don't Leave Me
Another Heart Calls


BEASTIE BOYS
Fight For Your Right
Sabotage
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Girls
So What'Cha Want
Brass Monkey
She's Crafty
Intergalactic
Sure Shot
Ch-Check It Out

BECK
Loser
Devil's Haircut
M**********r
Heart Is A Drum
I'm So Free
Where It's At
The New Pollution
Girl
Up All Night
Blue Moon

BLINK-182
What's My Age Again
All the Small Things
Dammit
Rock Show
Always

Dance With Me
I Miss You
Man Overboard
Dumpweed
First Date


BREAKING POINT
Coming of Age
27
Phoenix
All Messed Up
Show Me A Sign
Live For Today
Brother
Falling Down
Had Enough Of You
How Does It Feel


BUSH
Glycerine
Machine Head
Everything Zen
Comedown
Swallowed
The People That We Love (Speed Kills)
Little Things
Head Full Of Ghosts
Baby Come Home
Flowers on a Grave


EVE 6
Inside Out
Open Road Song
Without You Here
Here's to the Night
Think Twice
Amphetamines
On the Roof Again
Nocturnal
Promise
Rescue

EVERCLEAR
Santa Monica
Strawberry
You Make Me Feel Like A Whore
Father of Mine
Rockstar
Heroin Girl
All F****d Up
Slide
Heartspark Dollarsign

Everything to Everyone

FOO FIGHTERS

Everlong
Monkey Wrench
All My Life
My Hero
Times Like These
Best of You
Learn to Fly
Pretender
Word Forward
Run

GREEN DAY
Basket Case
When I Come Around
She
Welcome to Paradise
Brain Stew
Bab's Uvula Who?
Longview
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Jesus of Suburbia


HOOBASTANK
The Reason
Crawling in the Dark
Pieces
Out of Control
Same Direction
Remember Me
Running Away
Inside of You
Lucky
Never There


HOOTIE and the BLOWFISH
Only Wanna Be With You
Let Her Cry
Hold My Hand
I Go Blind
Time
Be the One
Tuckers Town
Hannah Jane
Hey Hey What Can I Do
One Love

INCUBUS

Pardon Me

Wish You Were Here
Drive 

Stellar
Privilege
Nice To Know You
I Miss You
Warning
Megalomaniac
The Warmth          

JIMMY EAT WORLD
A Praise Chorus
Bleed American
Here You Me
The Middle
Sweetness
Coffee and Cigarettes
Your House
Work
Just Tonight
If You Don't, Don't

KINGS OF LEON
Sex On Fire
Use Somebody
Radioactive
Fans
Waste a Moment
Manhattan
Molly's Chambers
On Call
Knocked Up
Razz


LESS THAN JAKE
Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts
Last One Out of Liberty City
Sugar in Your Gas Tank
Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore

Lockdown

Magnetic North

107

Shindo
Never Going Back to New Jersey

Lie To Me

LIT
My Own Worst Enemy
Over My Head
Four
Something to Someone
Addicted
Miserable
No Big Thing
Next Time Around
Zip-Lock
Going To Fast For a U-Turn

MXPX
Responsibility
Under Lock and Key
My Life Story
Prove It To the World
Play It Loud
Andrea
Heard That Sound
Wrecking Hotel Rooms
Let It Happen
Unsaid

NADA SURF
Popular
Sleep
Stalemate
Deeper Well
The Plan
Bacardi
Tree House
Hyperspace
The Voices
Blizzard of '77


NO DOUBT
I'm Just A Girl
Ex-Girlfriend
Spiderwebs
Don't Speak
Hey Baby
Hella Good
Running
Bathwater
Simple Kind of Life
Underneath It All


OFFSPRING
Self Esteem
Come Out and Play
Gotta Get Away
The Kids Aren't Alright
Gone Away
Nitro (Youth Energy)
Want You Bad
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
She's Got Issues
Defy You

OZMA
Domino Effect
Rocks
Battlescars
No One Needs to Know
The Ups and Downs
Spending Time
Maybe In An Alternate Dimension
Iceland
Natalie Portman
Just Tell Me When

PEARL JAM
Even Flow
Black
Jeremy
Last Kiss
Betterman
Daughter
Alive
Why Go
Go
Rearviewmirror

Presidents of the United States of America
Lump
Peaches
Ladybug
Mixed Up S.O.B
More Bad Times
Lunatic to Love
Volcano
Riot in the Sun
Scrappy Puppy
Tiny Explosions

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Snow (Hey Oh)
Under the Bridge
Otherside
Californication
Scar Tissue
Soul to Squeeze
Dani California
Give It Away
Aeroplane
Can't Stop

REM
Losing My Religion
It's the End of the World As We Know It
Everybody Hurts
Stand
Man on the Moon

Nightswimming

Strange Currencies
The One I Love
Mine Smell Like Honey

Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight

SEVEN MARY THREE
Cumbersome
Water's Edge
My My
Over Your Shoulder
Chasing You
Punch In Punch Out
Breakdown
Home Stretch
Rock Crown
Wait

SIMPLE PLAN
I'm Just A Kid
I'd Do Anything
The Worst Day Ever
You Don't Mean Anything
Addicted
Perfect
God Must Hate Me
Last One Standing
Take My Hand
Welcome To My Life

SMASHING PUMPKINS
Bulltet With Butterfly Wings
Zero
Cherub Rock
1979
Everlasting Gaze
Siva
Tonight, Tonight
Today
Eye
Disarm

SPIN DOCTORS

Two Princes
Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Jimmy Olsen's Blues
Yo Mamas a Pajama
Big Fat Funky Booty
Off My Line
Refrigerator Car
You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast
If the River Was Whiskey
Traction Blues

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
Plush
Dead and Bloated
Sex Type Thing
Wicked Garden
Interstate Love Song
Vasoline
Big Empty
Unglued
Creep
Lady Picture Show

STROKES
Last Night
Someday
Reptilia
Juicebox
12:51
Hard To Explain
Heart in a Cage
Electricityscape
Under Cover of Darkness
Vision of Division

TOADIES
Possum Kingdom
I Come From the Water
Song I Hate
Plane Crash
So Long Lovely Eyes
Flower
Heel
A Forest
Dollskin
Tyler

WHITE STRIPES
Blue Orchid
Seven Nation Army
Fell In Love With a Girl
Black Math
Hypnotize
The Hardest Button to Button
Icky Thump
My Doorbell
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Little Cream Soda

WEEZER (THIS HAS CAUSED ME MUCH ANXIETY AND I PROBABLY WILL DISAGREE WITH MYSELF AD INFINITUM)
Say It Ain't So
My Name Is Jonas
Put Me Back Together
Tired of Sex
Jamie
Don't Let Go
Perfect Situation
Across the Sea
Dope Nose
Mykel and Carli

Halloween Homecoming w/ ill Niño and 40 Below Summer

Halloween Homecoming/15 Years of Revolution: ill Niño, 40 Below Summer, Dope, (Hed)PE, Infinitis Mortis, Metal Life Crisis, Ender, Blue Lizard, Negative Sky

I had high hopes for this concert, but I was cautiously optimistic as the New Jersey homecoming of 40 Below and ill Niño was certainly bringing bands that I hadn't seen in several years and most people would say they are past their prime. After seeing this show, I'm not so sure those people would be right! I first saw ill Niño at Ozzfest '02 where I met a drunk Christian Machado (lead singer) stumbling out of a tour bus before his set. He refused to sign autographs because "I gotta fuckin' piss...I'll be back." Although he never returned to the same spot, he sobered up enough to play a blistering set. I first saw 40 Below Summer in March '03 headline a show at the old Birch Hill and then later in the year I saw them open for ill Niño at the same venue. Both times were awesome and lead singer Max Illidge was impressive with his smooth singing, powerful vocal range, and gutteral screams emphasized with his stylized microphone shaking.

Dope was actually the first band I ever saw live at my first concert in NYC's Roseland Ballroom on 2/8/00. Though my friend warned me that they were "the scummiest guys ever," I ended up appreciating their brand of nu/industrial metal. (Hed)PE I have blogged about before, and are another favorite. This was a great lineup for a very reasonable ticket price. Here are some notes from headliner on down:

ill Niño setlist:

1. God Save Us

2. If You Still Hate Me

3. Unreal

4. Nothing's Clear

5. What Comes Around

6. Liar

7. Rumba

8. Predisposed

9. No Murder

10. Rip Out Your Eyes

11. Revolution/Revolucion

12. Te Amo...I Hate You

13. How Can I Live

14. This Is War

(Played All of Revolution/Revoluçion except With You - crossed it off the setlist probably because it was a slow song)
At one point Christian took a backwards dive toward the drum riser, but it was more of a trip than a drunken stumble. At a couple points his mic stopped working, seemingly due to a wire connection problem. Besides these minor stumbles, the band sounded tight. They maybe weren't as energetic as in their younger days, but they interacted well with the crowd and playing the old songs was a refreshing sound!

40 Below Summer setlist:

1. Bottom Feeder

2. Rope

3. Falling Down

4. Snake Charmer

5. Rain

6. My Name is Vengeance

7. Monday Song

8. Wither Away

9. F.E. (f/Christian Machado of ill Niño)

10. Step Into the Sideshow

40 Below were also not as violently in-your-face as I remember from the old days, but they sounded as good or better. They didn't play my favorite song "Self-Medicate." However, hearing "Wither Away" and having Max call out Christian from backstage to play "F.E" was so friggin cool, especially with me being near the stage rail.

Dope
Again, I saw Dope at my first concert in 2000 and I hadn't seen them since 2004. They have several different members now, but they still sound great. They played a mix of old and new songs including
F*ck the Police, Die MF Die, Bitch, and Blood Money

(Hed)PE
I love Hed PE, but not as much as when they were heavier back in the day. Jared sounded better than the last time they played Starland when he was really high and drunk. He seemed to be having fun on stage. They played a very similar set to last time with their reggae re-working of songs like Bartender and Killing Time. Guitar player Gregzilla is out and Will Von Arx is in, which I think is a downgrade because Greg could shred and his solo was the highlight of their set the last time I saw them. I also got to meet Greg at Stanhope House and he was a really nice, chill dude. Bassist KB sounded good and was impressed when I called him out by name and dapped him after the set. The surprise highlight this time around was a full on rap-metal version of 2009's Renegade.
https://www.facebook.com/jason.bink.3/videos/1779386922103872/

Infinitis Mortis
They are fronted by a female singer with a pretty good voice. The band is a motley crew. They weren't bad, but suffer from immature song writing in my opinion.

Metal Life Crisis
They have a black lead singer that sounds a lot like Ronnie James Dio. They were definitely my favorite of the openers and spiced up their set with an Iron Maiden cover.

Ender were kind of posers. They had a bleach blonde brown guy singing and you couldn't understand the lyrics. The entire band was dressed in their own t-shirts. 'Nuff said.

Blue Lizard
These guys were pretty good. They had their own songs which were decent and they worked in covers of Helmet and Rage Against the Machine. Pretty awesome for openers.

Negative Sky
This band had a tatooed guy with a shaved head singing hardcore scream vocals. Their lead guitar player was great and the lyrics had positive messages about living your life. I saw the singer in the crowd after their set and told him I liked them and he was appreciative and seemed like a cool guy.

From the Depths I came in to the venue while they were wrapping up. They sounded pretty hardcore as well.