The Best Singles of 1998

Top 50

1. Celebrity Skin - HOLE
2. Waltz #2 (XO) - ELLIOTT SMITH 
3. Goddess On A Hiway - MERCURY REV
4. Somethin' Hot - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
5. Space Lord - MONSTER MAGNET
6. Boys Better - THE DANDY WARHOLS
7. Intergalactic - BEASTIE BOYS
8. Sunday - SONIC YOUTH
9. A Perfect Day Elise - PJ HARVEY
10. Talk About The Blues - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
11. Park Avenue - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
12. Little Honda - YO LA TENGO
13. Pull The Wires From The Wall - THE DELGADOS 
14. Summer Here Kids - GRANDADDY
15. Come Together - SPIRITUALIZED
16. Monkey On Your Back - CLINIC
17. A Film For The Future - IDLEWILD
18. Push It - GARBAGE
19. Battleflag - LO FIDELITY ALLSTARS
20. I Love Rock N Roll - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
21. Masquerade - THE FALL
22. One More Hour - SLEATER-KINNEY
23. Send In The Clouds - SILVER JEWS
24. Sick Of Goodbyes - SPARKLEHORSE
25. Polyester Bride - LIZ PHAIR
26. Pure Morning - PLACEBO
27. For You - SIX BY SEVEN
28. Hello Tiger - URUSEI YATSURA
29. Time And Space EP - APPLIANCE
30. Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos EP - THE BETA BAND
31. Reunited - WU-TANG CLAN
32. Sauntry Sly Chic - CAMPAG VELOCET
33. Teardrop - MASSIVE ATTACK
34. Solex All Licketysplit - SOLEX
35. Sleep On The Left Side - CORNERSHOP
36. If They Move, Kill ’Em - PRIMAL SCREAM
37. Ava Adore - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
38. Given To Fly - PEARL JAM
39. California Stars - BILLY BRAGG & WILCO
40. Little Plastic Castle - ANI DIFRANCO
41. Like You - KRISTIN HERSH
42. Daysleeper - R.E.M.
43. Broken Homes - TRICKY
44. Rabbit In Your Headlights - UNKLE
45. Gimme The Nite - LAPTOP
46. Sexy Boy - AIR
47. Doo Wap (That Thing) - LAURYN HILL
48. He Got Game - PUBLIC ENEMY 
49. The Militia - GANG STARR
50. Mulder And Scully - CATATONIA

The Best Singles of 1997

Top 50

1. Song 2 - BLUR
2. The Trip - SWELL
3. Autumn Sweater - YO LA TENGO
4. Stereo - PAVEMENT
5. Electricity - SPIRITUALIZED
6. Take A Run At The Sun - DINOSAUR JR
7. Bitter Sweet Symphony - THE VERVE
8. Brimful Of Asha - CORNERSHOP
9. Autocade - PROLAPSE
10. Cowboys - PORTISHEAD
11. Block Rockin’ Beats - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
12. Triumph - WU-TANG CLAN
13. Everlong - FOO FIGHTERS
14. Insinuation - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
15. Breather - LAIKA
16. Chinese Burn - CURVE
17. Bruise Pristine - PLACEBO
18. Smack My Bitch Up - THE PRODIGY
19. Kool Roc Bass - LO FIDELITY ALLSTARS
20. I.P.C. Subeditors Dictate Our Youth - CLINIC
21. Miss Modular - STEREOLAB
22. Balancing Act / Galveston - THE LEMONHEADS
23. Wail - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
24. Don't Drag Me Down - SOCIAL DISTORTION
25. Off The Wagon - L7
26. Volcano Girls - VERUCA SALT
27. Mess Around - REDD KROSS
28. D’you Know What I Mean - OASIS
29. Kowalski - PRIMAL SCREAM
30. Richard III - SUPERGRASS
31. Ain’t That Enough - TEENAGE FANCLUB
32. Bulldog Skin - GUIDED BY VOICES
33. Strategic Hamlets - URUSEI YATSURA
34. European Me - SIX BY SEVEN
35. For Heaven's Sake - 16 HORSEPOWER
36. Into My Arms - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
37. Miss Misery - ELLIOTT SMITH
38. Risingson - MASSIVE ATTACK
39. Makes Me Wanna Die - TRICKY
40. Champion Versions EP - THE BETA BAND
41. Rapunzel - NOVAK
42. Paranoid Android - RADIOHEAD
43. Dog On Wheels - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
44. Pretty Deep - TANYA DONELLY
45. I Am The Mob - CATATONIA
46. The New Pollution - BECK 
47. Rocco - DEATH IN VEGAS
48. Digital - GOLDIE feat. KRS-ONE
49. Drinking In L.A. - BRAN VAN 3000
50. Woke Up This Morning - ALABAMA 3

The Best Singles of 1996

Top 50

1. Beauty Of The Ride - SEBADOH
2. Nude As The News - CAT POWER
3. Disco Six Six Six - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
4. Honky's Ladder - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
5. Shark - THROWING MUSES
6. Easy Way Down - SNOWPONY
7. Teenage Angst - PLACEBO
8. Two Clear Eyes - GALLON DRUNK
9. Race - TIGER
10. Plug Myself In - D.O.S.E. feat. MARK E. SMITH
11. Stupid Girl - GARBAGE
12. 1979 - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
13. C'mon Kids - THE BOO RADLEYS
14. 2Kindsa Love - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
15. All I Know - SCREAMING TREES
16. E-Bow The Letter - R.E.M.
17. Black Soul Choir - 16 HORSEPOWER
18. Henry Lee - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS feat. P.J HARVEY
19. That Was My Veil - JOHN PARISH & P.J. HARVEY
20. Encyclopedi-ite - SAMMY
21. If I Could Talk I'd Tell You - THE LEMONHEADS
22. Pepper - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
23. On A Rope - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
24. Please Return It - THE POSIES
25. Little Trouble Girl - SONIC YOUTH
26. I Come From Another Planet Baby - JULIAN COPE
27. The Chiselers - THE FALL
28. The Official Ironmen Rally Song - GUIDED BY VOICES
29. Cybele's Reverie - STEREOLAB
30. Ladykillers - LUSH
31. Goodnight - BABYBIRD
32. Devils Haircut - BECK
33. Naked Eye - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
34. Pearl's Girl - UNDERWORLD
35. Setting Sun - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
36. Firestarter - THE PRODIGY
37. California Love - 2PAC
38. If I Ruled The World - NAS
39. Christiansands - TRICKY
40. Sister Pain - ELECTRAFIXION
41. Don't Took Back In Anger - OASIS
42. Charmless Man - BLUR
43. Punka - KENICKIE
44. The Box - ORBITAL
45. The Light Will Stay On - THE WALKABOUTS
46. Flowers In December - MAZZY STAR
47. Tahitian Moon - PORNO FOR PYROS
48. This Family - MAGNAPOP
49. Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt EP - VERUCA SALT
50. Bis vs. the D.I.Y. Corps EP - BIS

The Best Singles of 1995

Top 50

1. Down By The Water - P.J. HARVEY
2. Violet - HOLE
3. Bullet With Butterfly Wings - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
4. Born In '69 - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
5. Bellbottoms - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
6. Vow - GARBAGE
7. Waking Up - ELASTICA
8. Born Slippy - UNDERWORLD
9. Natural One - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
10. Glamourizing Cigarettes - SCARCE
11. Superball+ - HELIUM
12. Range Life - PAVEMENT
13. T.C.R. - PROLAPSE
14. Heads Of Dead Surfers (feat. Mark E. Smith) - LONG FIN KILLIE
15. Common People - PULP
16. Wonderwall - OASIS
17. Negasonic Teenage Warhead - MONSTER MAGNET
18. Dragon Lady - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
19. Kings Of The Inland Empire EP - SAMMY
20. Kung Fu - ASH
21. Sparky's Dream - TEENAGE FANCLUB
22. Wake Up, Boo! - THE BOO RADLEYS
23. Now They'll Sleep - BELLY
24. Tipp City - THE AMPS
25. This Is A Call - FOO FIGHTERS
26. Harnessed In Slums - ARCHERS OF LOAF
27. Tom Courtenay - YO LA TENGO
28. Liquid Swords - GZA/GENIUS
29. Criminology - RAEKWON
30. Black Steel - TRICKY
31. Leave Home - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
32. Ono Soul - THURSTON MOORE
33. Scum - MEAT PUPPETS
34. Summer - BUFFALO TOM
35. Where The Wild Roses Grow - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS & KYLIE MINOGUE
36. The Traitors' Gate EP - GALLON DRUNK
37. I Hate Rock 'N' Roll - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
38. Ride - THE DANDY WARHOLS
39. Root Down EP - BEASTIE BOYS
40. Crush With Eyeliner - R.E.M.
41. The Diamond Sea - SONIC YOUTH
42. Kill The Sexplayer - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
43. The Pod - HUM
44. Buddy Holly - WEEZER
45. Country House - BLUR
46. Alright - SUPERGRASS
47. Universal Heart-Beat - JULIANA HATFIELD
48. Born With A Tail - SUPERSUCKERS
49. Heroin Girl - EVERCLEAR
50. Drink the Elixir - SALAD

The Best Singles of 1994

Top 50

1. Bright Yellow Gun - THROWING MUSES
2. Miss World - HOLE
3. Seether - VERUCA SALT
4. Rebound - SEBADOH
5. I Want You - INSPIRAL CARPETS feat. MARK E. SMITH
6. Supersonic - OASIS
7. Sabotage - BEASTIE BOYS
8. Do You Love Me? - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
9. Bull In The Heather - SONIC YOUTH
10. Connection - ELASTICA
11. Girls & Boys - BLUR
12. Debonair - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
13. Gold Soundz - PAVEMENT
14. All Sideways - SCARCE
15. Supernova - LIZ PHAIR
16. 15 Ways EP - THE FALL
17. Sexy Sam - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
18. Dark & Long - UNDERWORLD
19. Renegade Soundwave - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
20. Ping Pong - STEREOLAB
21. Fade Into You - MAZZY STAR
22. Your Ghost - KRISTIN HERSH
23. A Girl Like You - EDWYN COLLINS
24. Hypocrite - LUSH
25. Caught By The Fuzz - SUPERGRASS
26. Head To Toe EP - THE BREEDERS
27. I Am A Scientist - GUIDED BY VOICES
28. Backwater - MEAT PUPPETS
29. Zephyr - ELECTRAFIXION
30. Life's A Bitch - NAS
31. C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) - WU-TANG CLAN
32. Aftermath - TRICKY
33. Sour Times - PORTISHEAD
34. What's The Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
35. Disarm - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
36. Feel The Pain - DINOSAUR JR.
37. Panic On - MADDER ROSE
38. Stripteaser - JUNE
39. Just A Misdemeanor - DONE LYING DOWN
40. Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc - PROLAPSE
41. Jack Names The Planets - ASH
42. Orange Moon - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
43. Around - LOTION
44. Do You Remember the First Time? - PULP
45. Love Spreads - THE STONE ROSES
46. Caliente / 400 Bucks - THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT / SUPERSUCKERS
47. Bring the Pain - METHOD MAN
48. Come Out and Play - THE OFFSPRING
49. Welcome To Paradise - GREEN DAY
50. Delicious - SLEEPER