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KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996

The year-end countdown for 1996 from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 107 songs, with “Down” by 311 at number one. The list features 69 different artists; The Smashing Pumpkins has the most entries with six songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Down 311 71 #1
2 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
3 Spiderwebs No Doubt 56 #3
4 What I Got Sublime 106 #1
5 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 70 #5
6 Where It's At Beck 85 #2
7 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart Stone Temple Pilots 50 #1
8 Stupid Girl Garbage 54 #4
9 Tahitian Moon Porno for Pyros 15 #9
10 Machinehead Bush 78 #1
11 Don't Speak No Doubt 58 #3
12 Pepper Butthole Surfers 76 #1
13 Zero The Smashing Pumpkins 49 #3
14 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
15 All Mixed Up 311 64 #10
16 Just A Girl No Doubt 78 #2
17 Burden in My Hand Soundgarden 55 #4
18 Brain Stew Green Day 61 #8
19 Swallowed Bush 42 #16
20 Ironic Alanis Morissette 35 #20
21 The Distance Cake 91 #1
22 Big Bang Baby Stone Temple Pilots 44 #12
23 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Primitive Radio Gods 44 #8
24 #1 Crush Garbage 40 #24
25 People of the Sun Rage Against the Machine 19 #25
26 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 98 #4
27 Ladykillers Lush 20 #21
28 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
29 Happy Now No Doubt 9 #29
30 Santa Monica Everclear 90 #3
31 Guilty Gravity Kills 20 #5
32 You Learn Alanis Morissette 20 #7
33 Pretty Noose Soundgarden 28 #6
34 Who Will Save Your Soul Jewel 20 #18
35 Champagne Supernova Oasis 91 #11
36 Mother Mother Tracy Bonham 26 #11
37 Aneurysm Nirvana 29 #12
38 Angry Johnny Poe 31 #11
39 I Got Id Pearl Jam 28 #20
40 Head Over Feet Alanis Morissette 13 #29
41 Stinkfist Tool 73 #2
42 Only Happy When It Rains Garbage 69 #9
43 Muzzle The Smashing Pumpkins 17 #20
44 Novocaine for the Soul The Eels 39 #16
45 Lovefool The Cardigans 36 #14
46 Here in Your Bedroom Goldfinger 41 #12
47 In The Meantime Spacehog 60 #7
48 I Was Wrong Social Distortion 36 #29
49 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 92 #1
50 The Diamond Sea Sonic Youth 5 #42
51 Bound for the Floor Local H 59 #10
52 Ready To Go Republica 40 #26
53 Natural One Folk Implosion 58 #15
54 Cumbersome Seven Mary Three 59 #15
55 High and Dry Radiohead 55 #44
56 Devil's Haircut Beck 59 #29
57 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Marilyn Manson 26 #3
58 Salvation The Cranberries 31 #22
59 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
60 A Long December Counting Crows 45 #26
61 What Do I Have To Do? Stabbing Westward 28 #9
62 Mint Car The Cure 15 #24
63 Possum Kingdom Toadies 69 #4
64 Bluster Salt 2 #64
65 Blow Up the Outside World Soundgarden 34 #34
66 Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis 74 #1
67 Again Alice In Chains 16 #17
68 6th Avenue Heartache The Wallflowers 26 #18
69 The Beautiful People Marilyn Manson 41 #1
70 Counting Blue Cars Dishwalla 36 #1
71 Popular Nada Surf 29 #36
72 Scooby Snacks Fun Lovin' Criminals 24 #14
73 E-Bow the Letter R.E.M. 8 #71
74 Lump The Presidents of the United States of America 75 #2
75 No Woman, No Cry The Fugees 10 #75
76 My Friends Red Hot Chili Peppers 42 #6
77 Tiny Meat Ruby 5 #77
78 Walking Contradiction Green Day 6 #58
79 Who You Are Pearl Jam 23 #50
80 Santeria Sublime 92 #1
81 Free To Decide The Cranberries 14 #35
82 Photograph The Verve Pipe 23 #24
83 Thirty-Three The Smashing Pumpkins 33 #39
84 Angels of the Silences Counting Crows 14 #55
85 The Box Orbital 11 #7
86 The World I Know Collective Soul 38 #14
87 Fat Randy Voodoo Glow Skulls 1 #87
88 Bittersweet Me R.E.M. 8 #47
89 Tumble in the Rough Stone Temple Pilots 5 #62
90 If It Makes You Happy Sheryl Crow 25 #40
91 Big Me Foo Fighters 48 #14
92 Supervixen Garbage 3 #75
93 Heaven Beside You Alice In Chains 56 #39
94 Caught A Lite Sneeze Tori Amos 22 #41
95 Greedy Fly Bush 23 #20
96 Jealousy Natalie Merchant 10 #96
97 Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers 45 #28
98 Lady Picture Show Stone Temple Pilots 35 #36
99 Shadowboxer Fiona Apple 17 #73
100 Hail Hail Pearl Jam 16 #26
101 Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina) Sponge 9 #67
102 Shame Stabbing Westward 10 #30
103 Flood Jars of Clay 25 #36
104 Sucked Out Superdrag 20 #29
105 Smile Pearl Jam 3 #39
106 Open The Door Magnapop 6 #106
106.7 Let's Go Smoke Some Pot Dash Rip Rock 6 #69

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KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA). Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

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