Way down are the Mighty Mighty Bosstones up to are Red Hot Chili Peppers, the modern rock/alternative chart champs in the middle Lenny Kravitz and Pearl Jam. Although token non-American acts like Tears for Fears, OMD, Catherine Wheel, U2, and Midnight Oil still got reported (and Bjork’s first solo entry), the chart looks like a Triassic Period archosaur: you can spot traces of what will soon rule the earth. In January 1993, the modern rock chart looked like this six months later it looked like this. Almost two years after Nirvana topped the Billboard album chart, American college radio listeners were finally seeing the ripples returning to shore. “Oh, that’s the song about feeling it when the dogs begin to smell her,” a friend said the other night when I suggested I was going to write about Stone Temple Pilots’ breakthrough hit. PEAK CHART POSITION: #1 on Billboard Album Rock Tracks #39 on Hot 100 Airplay
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Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which I’m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesn’t mean that I won’t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup.
I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I don’t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance.
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