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Can you name the highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 from these bands?
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Band
Song
Peak (Year)
Nirvana
#6 (1992)
Oasis
#8 (1996)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
#2 (1992)
Spin Doctors
#7 (1993)
R.E.M.
#4 (1991)
Barenaked Ladies
#1 (1998)
Radiohead
#34 (1993)
Metallica
#10 (1996)
Aerosmith
#1 (1998)
The Offspring
#53 (1999)
Fatboy Slim
#36 (1999)
Garbage
#24 (1996)
The Black Crowes
#26 (1991)
Blind Melon
#20 (1992)
Marcy Playground
#8 (1998)
Band
Song
Peak (Year)
Beck
#10 (1994)
Collective Soul
#11 (1994)
Lit
#51 (1999)
Crash Test Dummies
#4 (1994)
Hole
#58 (1995)
Rage Against The Machine
#62 (1996)
Pearl Jam
#2 (1999)
The Prodigy
#30 (1996)
Better Than Ezra
#30 (1995)
Gin Blossoms
#9 (1996)
Third Eye Blind
#4 (1997)
Soul Asylum
#5 (1993)
The Verve Pipe
#5 (1997)
Alice in Chains
#48 (1994)
Blink 182
#6 (1999)
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'90s Bands: Highest Charting Single Quiz
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leviper
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Feb 15th, 2012 at 04:47 GMT
0 points
Freshman not Freshmen.
popkiller
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Feb 15th, 2012 at 18:17 GMT
6 points
Great quiz! But I'm really surprised about some of these (SPOILERS): "Lightning Crashes" wasn't Live's highest charting single? That song seemed inescapable at the time, and I feel like "I Alone" was a bigger hit than the answer. And I was really surprised at "Doin' Time" for Sublime over "What I Got", but I suppose it's possible.
rockgolf
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Feb 15th, 2012 at 23:33 GMT
3 points
Some overlap with my very similar Rocker's Greatest Hits that made the front page but certainly goes into more depth. I like it.
ambition
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 00:01 GMT
6 points
@popkiller: I was also very surprised it wasn't 'Lightning Crashes'. Also somewhat surprised that Gin Blossoms wasn't 'Hey Jealousy' and Nine Inch Nails wasn't Closer. Excellent quiz, turd_ferguson.
Alex951998
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 00:49 GMT
14 points
Interesting music trivia: Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" stayed at #1 for one week.
dolebanana
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 02:38 GMT
7 points
It's pretty amazing that one of the most popular, genre-defining bands of the 90s, Pearl Jam, had its biggest hit in the form of a remake.
jfeigen06
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 11:05 GMT
1 point
GREAT decade. Amazing how Smells Like Teen Spirit only reached #6 at the time, since I believe it ended up being the #1 played song of the decade.
turd__ferguson
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 15:40 GMT
1 point
@leviper... fixed. thanks for the heads up.
turd__ferguson
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 15:43 GMT
4 points
This quiz was definitely interesting to make to see all the great 90's songs snubbed. Live probably baffled me the most, as I thought their sound would be most appealing to mainstream charts. Green Day and Offspring had no charting singles from their earlier (good) work on the Hot 100. Most of these artists topped the billboard alternative chart instead.
D_FenestrationX
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 17:50 GMT
4 points
If I had to find something to criticize, it would be that some of these bands only ever had one hit so it's a pretty easy to just name it. Lit, Blind Melon, and Crash Test come to mind.
renfield75
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Feb 16th, 2012 at 21:31 GMT
11 points
Popkiller, this list only represents the Hot 100, which during the 90s required a physical commercial single be released to chart. Most rock acts didn't release singles in order to sell more albums. On the airplay chart, "Lightning Crashes" went to #12 and "What I Got" made the top 30. No Doubt's "Don't Speak" never charted since it was never released as a CD single but it spent 16 weeks on top of the airplay chart. Green Day's "When I Come Around" reached #6 in airplay but also couldn't chart on the Hot 100. Billboard wisely changed this rule in late 1998 to make the charts more accurate. The statistics used in this quiz are technically correct but a bit misleading. 90s chart watching was a confusing game!
adamnvillani
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Feb 18th, 2012 at 21:06 GMT
1 point
Man, I'd forgotten about "Peaches." I couldn't think of anything beyond "Lump."
popkiller
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Feb 20th, 2012 at 08:32 GMT
2 points
@renfield75 - Thanks for the awesome explanation! I figured it had something to do with the physical single, but I could have sworn there was one for both "Lightning Crashes" and "What I Got", but I may just be misremembering. Or perhaps they were imports.
trivial
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Feb 22nd, 2012 at 22:10 GMT
3 points
Anyone else think Aerosmith is kind of a strange band to include in this list?
Game published: Feb 24th, 2012 at 18:03 GMT
willwoodlen
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Feb 24th, 2012 at 20:03 GMT
3 points
Excellent quiz. Thanks for including The Gin Blossoms. It's a shame they are among the least-guessed.
Rayavi
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Feb 24th, 2012 at 21:54 GMT
7 points
I'd have never guessed that charted higher than Enter Sandman.
Quizmaster91
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Feb 25th, 2012 at 00:42 GMT
1 point
Or 'One'. Or 'Nothing Else Matters'. Or 'For whom the Bell Tolls'.
JimmyJazz25B
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Feb 25th, 2012 at 03:24 GMT
7 points
The band with the #31 spot in 1995 was simply known as Ezra (to paraphrase Norm McDonald).
Audioxslave
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Feb 26th, 2012 at 01:14 GMT
1 point
Pearl Jam FTW
stevoreno79
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Feb 26th, 2012 at 06:27 GMT
2 points
Love it, a quiz with the music I listened to as a teenager. I swear I tried every single Alice In Chains song they made a video for. Even tried songs that were never singles. Totally forgot that one.
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redhawk87
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Feb 26th, 2012 at 16:40 GMT
-12 points
ok like 90% of these songs are on my iTunes... and yet I thought of like 5... With that aside, who is Garbage and crash test dummies?!? Also, where the hell is Green Day? @Quizmaster91 no, its better than ezra. Go to iTunes and they are listed as "better than ezra". Go see them live and they introduce themselves as "better than ezra". People might of shortened their name to ezra b/c it was shorter to say but that is not the official name.
popkiller
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Feb 27th, 2012 at 17:28 GMT
4 points
@redhawk87 - @JimmyJazz25B (not @quizmaster91) was making a joke; as he mentioned, he was paraphrasing Norm McDonald, who was a popular comedian of the time. Just give it some thought and it'll make sense.
sonza68
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May 8th, 2012 at 14:06 GMT
1 point
Too bad Pearl Jam makes the list for a cover song and not any of their proper hits.
MetaMarth
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Jun 19th, 2012 at 00:38 GMT
1 point
About that whole Pearl Jam's highest charting song as a remake despite them being the grunge-defining band of the 90s, to quote Alanis Morissette, "isn't it ironic?"
Iai
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Jan 29th, 2013 at 12:04 GMT
1 point
The Alice in Chains one is a real shocker. The rest are pretty easy to guess by the year but that really threw me - I thought of Jar of Flies for '94 and immediately dismissed it because their best selling song would never be from an EP. Derp.
underwaterlemons
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Feb 23rd, 2013 at 05:15 GMT
1 point
Great quiz, but Fatboy Slim isn't a band. It's the stage name of Norman Cook.
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