The Core’s Top 50 Songs of 1996

Place Artist Song Album
1 Tool Forty Six & 2 Ænima
2 Soundgarden Burden In My Hand Down On the Up Side
3 Alice In Chains No Excuses (Acoustic) Unplugged
4 Stone Temple Pilots Trippin On a Hole… Tiny Music…
5 Metallica King Nothing Load
6 Soundgarden Blow Up the Outside World Down On the Up Side
7 Staind Mudshovel Tormented
8 Alice In Chains Over Now (Acoustic) Unplugged
9 Smashing Pumpkins Zero This Airplane Flies High
10 Rage Against The Machine Bulls on Parade Evil Empire
11 Alice In Chains Nutshell (Acoustic) Unplugged
12 Metallica Hero of the Day Load
13 Sponge Have You Seen Mary Wax Ecstatic
14 Stone Temple Pilots Big Bang Baby Tiny Music…
15 Red Hot Chili Peppers Love Rollercoaster Bevis & Butthead Do America
16 Tool Stinkfist Ænima
17 Tonic Open Up Your Eyes Lemon Parade
18 Marilyn Manson The Beautiful People Antichrist Superstar
19 The Wallflowers One Headlight Bringing Down The House
20 Sublime Santeria Sublime
21 Tonic If You Could Only See Lemon Parade
22 Sponge Wax Ecstatic Wax Ecstatic
23 Tool H. Ænima
24 Sublime What I Got Sublime
25 Metallica Until It Sleeps Load
26 Metallica Ain’t My Bitch Load
27 Tool Ænima Ænima
28 Local H Bound For the Floor As Good As Dead
29 Stone Temple Pilots Tumble In the Rough Tiny Music…
30 Soundgarden Pretty Noose Down On the Up Side
31 Cake The Distance Fashion Nugget
32 Stone Temple Pilots Lady Picture Show Tiny Music…
33 Beck Where It’s At Odelay
34 Beck Devil’s Haircut Odelay
35 Social Distortion I Was Wrong White Light/White Heat/White Trash
36 Stabbing Westward What Do I Have to Do? Wither Blister Burn & Peel
37 Pearl Jam Hail Hail No Code
38 The Verve Pipe Freshmen Villians
39 Rage Against The Machine People of the Sun Evil Empire
40 Goo Goo Dolls Long Way Down Twister (Soundtrack)
41 Pearl Jam Who You Are No Code
42 Type O-Negative Cinnamon Girl October Rust
43 Pantera Suicide Note The Great Southern Trendkill
44 King’s X Sometime Ear Candy
45 Nirvana Aneurysm From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
46 Butthole Surffers Pepper Electric Larryland
47 Bush Greedy Fly Razorblade Suitcase
48 Weezer The Good Life Pinkerton
49 Gravity Kills Guilty Gravity Kills
50 Screaming Trees All I Know Dust

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The Core Playlist – Week Of 3/26/17

Segment 1:  

Supersonic – Oasis

Them Bones – Alice In Chains

Core Data/News:

H – Tool

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Head Like A Hole – Nine Inch Nails

Sex Type Thing – Stone Temple Pilots

Artist Evolution:

Can’t Change Me – Chris Cornell

The Promise – Chris Cornell

Come As You Are – Nirvana

Where The River Flows – Collective Soul

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

In The Meantime – Spacehog

Mysterious Ways – U2

With Arms Wide Open (Acoustic) – Creed

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Frail & Bedazzled – Smashing Pumpkins

Alive – Pearl Jam

Core Sample:

Shimmer – Fuel

Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

No Rain – Blind Melon

Comedown – Bush

Core Artist Profile With Mike Einziger:

Nimble Bastard – Incubus

Brain Stew – Green Day

Been Caught Stealing – Jane’s Addiction

My Own Worst Enemy – Lit

Peace Pipe – Cry Of Love

Under The Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Close With Request:

Teen Angst (What The World Needs) – Cracker

The Core Playlist – Week Of 3/20/17

Segment 1:  

Hash Pipe – Weezer

The World I Know – Collective Soul

Core Data/News:

Go – Pearl Jam

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Wicked Garden – Stone Temple Pilots

Never Gonna Stop – Rob Zombie

Artist Evolution:

Last Resort – Papa Roach

Help – Papa Roach

Hurt – Nine Inch Nails

Got Me Wrong – Alice In Chains

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Nookie – Limp Bizkit

American Badass – Kid Rock

Seasons – Chris Cornell

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Schism – Tool

Bulls On Parade – Rage Against The Machine

Core Sample:

Starseed – Our Lady Peace

All Apologies – Nirvana

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Have You Seen Mary – Sponge

Welcome To Paradise – Green Day

Core Artist Profile With Axl Rose:

Dead Horse – Guns N Roses

Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Voodoo – Godsmack

Guilty – Gravity Kills

Today – Smashing Pumpkins

Close With Request:

Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground

The Core Playlist – Week Of 3/13/17

Segment 1:  

Love Spreads – The Stone Roses

When I Come Around – Green Day

Core Data/News:

Got The Life – KoRn

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

The Kids Aren’t Alright – The Offspring

If You Could Only See – Tonic

Artist Evolution:

Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2

One (Live) – U2

Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine

Wonderwall – Oasis

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Everlong – Foo Fighters

Iris – Live

Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

All Messed Up – 311

Big Empty – Stone Temple Pilots

Core Sample:

Thunder Kiss ’65 – White Zombie

Bleed The Freak – Alice In Chains

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana

Wasting My Time – Default

Core Artist Profile With Art Alexakis:

Santa Monica – Everclear

Yesterdays – Guns N Roses

Black – Pearl Jam

Santeria – Sublime

Whiskey In The Jar – Metallica

Close With Request:

Always On The Run – Lenny Kravitz

The Core Playlist – Week Of 3/6/17

Segment 1:  

Intergalactic – Beastie Boys

In Bloom – Nirvana

Core Data/News:

Jesus Christ Pose – Soundgarden

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Forty Six & 2 – Tool

Rollin – Limp Bizkit

Artist Evolution:

Pardon Me – Incubus

Nimble Bastard – Incubus

Shine – Collective Soul

Unsung – Helmet

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town – Pearl Jam

Counting Blue Cars – Dishwalla

Electric Head Pt 2 – White Zombie

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Sad But True – Metallica

Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots

Core Sample:

Losing My Religion – R.E.M.

Naked – Goo Goo Dolls

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Glycerine – Bush

My Hero – Foo Fighters

Core Artist Profile With Rich Robinson:

Hard To Handle – Black Crowes

Inside Out – Eve 6

Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hey Man, Nice Shot – Filter

Man In The Box – Alice In Chains

Close With Request:

A Small Victory – Faith No More

The Core Playlist – Week Of 2/27/17

Segment 1:  

Heaven Besides You – Alice In Chains

Santeria – Sublime

Core Data/News:

Bad Religion – Godsmack

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

The World I Know – Collective Soul

Let It Die – Foo Fighters

Artist Evolution:

Comedown – Bush

Mad Love – Bush

Daughter – Pearl Jam

The Fly – U2

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Backwater – Meat Puppets

Soul To Squeeze – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Longview – Green Day

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Long Way Down – Goo Goo Dolls

Bawitdaba – Kid Rock

Core Sample:

Loser – Beck

Tumble In The Rough – Stone Temple Pilots

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction

Come Out & Play – The Offspring

Core Artist Profile With Scott Stapp:

Higher – Creed

Bullet With Butterfly Wings – Smashing Pumpkins

Mood For Trouble – Soundgarden

About A Girl (Unplugged) – Nirvana

Cumbersome – 7Mary3

Prison Sex – Tool

Close With Request:

Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground – White Stripes

The Core Playlist – Week Of 2/20/17

Segment 1:  

Disarm – Smashing Pumpkins

Spacelord – Monster Magnet

Core Data/News:

What’s My Age Again? – Blink 182

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Gel – Collective Soul

Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz

Artist Evolution:

Say It Ain’t So – Weezer

Thank God For Girls – Weezer

Cowboy – Kid Rock

My Wave – Soundgarden

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Loser – Beck

Down In A Hole – Alice In Chains

Change (In The House Of Flies) – Deftones

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Down – 311

Wicked Garden – Stone Temple Pilots

Core Sample:

Walk – Pantera

Breed – Nirvana

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Low – Cracker

Yellow Ledbetter – Pearl Jam

Core Artist Profile With Dave Mustaine:

A Tout Le Monde – Megadeth

Give It Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers

I Was Wrong – Social Distortion

Far Behind – Candlebox

The Beautiful People – Marilyn Manson

Close With Request:

Black Sunshine – White Zombie

The Core Playlist – Week Of 2/13/17

Segment 1:  

Basketcase – Green Day

Alone – Pearl Jam

Core Data/News:

You Could Be Mine – Guns N Roses

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Plowed – Sponge

So What’cha Want – Beastie Boys

Artist Evolution:

Come As You Are – Nirvana

Lake Of Fire (Unplugged) – Nirvana

Today – Smashing Pumpkins

Found Out About You – Gin Blossoms

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Never Gonna Stop – Rob Zombie

Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots

Cemetery Gates – Pantera

Rollin – Limp Bizkit

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

The Day I Tried To Live – Soundgarden

Boom – P.O.D.

Core Sample:

Lakini’s Juice – Live

Sleep Now In The Fire – Rage Against The Machine

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Closer – Nine Inch Nails

The Distance – Cake

Core Artist Profile With Anthony Kiedis:

Scar Tissue – Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Way – Fastball

Got The Life – KoRn

Fuel – Metallica

Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters

Close With Request:

Change – Candlebox

The Core Playlist – Week Of 2/6/17

Segment 1:  

Thunder Kiss ’65 – White Zombie

Re-Arranged – Limp Bizkit

Core Data/News:

Nice To Know You – Incubus

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Self Esteem – The Offspring

Artist Evolution:

Far Behind – Candlebox

Vexatious – Candlebox

One – U2

Know Your Enemy – Rage Against The Machine

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

No Excuses – Alice In Chains

Little Things – Bush

Rockin In The Free World (Live) – Pearl Jam

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Banditos – The Refreshments

Supersonic – Oasis

Core Sample:

Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down

Higher Ground – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins

What’s The Life For – Creed

Core Artist Profile With Jerry Gaskill:

Pillow – King’s X

Heart-Shaped Box – Nirvana

Mother – Danzig

Bound For The Floor – Local H

I Am The Highway – Audioslave

Close With Request:

Creep (Unplugged) – Radiohead

The Core Playlist – Week Of 1/30/17

Segment 1:  

Where The River Flows – Collective Soul

Santa Monica – Everclear

Core Data/News:

High and Dry – Radiohead

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

King Nothing – Metallica

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These) – Marilyn Manson

Artist Evolution:

This Is A Call – Foo Fighters

Savior Breath – Foo Fighters

Under The Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Again – Alice In Chains

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

I Alone – Live

Got The Life – KoRn

Escape From The Prison Planet – Clutch

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Hunger Strike – Temple Of The Dog

Hash Pipe – Weezer

Core Sample:

When I Come Around – Green Day

Hard To Handle – The Black Crowes

About A Girl – Nirvana

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Inside Out – Eve 6

Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz

Core Artist Profile With Kenny Hickey:

Christian Woman – Type O Negative

Machinehead – Bush

Crackerman – Stone Temple Pilots

Estranged – Guns N Roses

Bulls On Parade – Rage Against The Machine

Close With Request:

Corduroy – Pearl Jam

The Core Playlist – Week Of 1/23/17

Segment 1:  

I’ll Stick Around – Foo Fighters

No Rain – Blind Melon

Core Data/News:

Judith – A Perfect Circle

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Alive – Pearl Jam

Say It Ain’t So – Weezer

Artist Evolution:

Shine – Collective Soul

This – Collective Soul

Vasoline – Stone Temple Pilots

Guilty – Gravity Kills

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

The Day I Tried To Live – Soundgarden

Stop – Jane’s Addiction

Gone Away – The Offspring

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

Tomorrow – Silverchair

One – Creed

Core Sample:

Superman’s Dead – Our Lady Peace

I Stay Away – Alice In Chains

Return To The Core With Meltdown:

21st Century Digital Boy – Bad Religion

Everything Zen – Bush

Core Artist Profile With David Draiman:

Stupify – Disturbed

Lithium – Nirvana

Take A Picture – Filter

Break Stuff – Limp Bizkit

Sad But True – Metallica

Close With Request:

Pets – Porno For Pyros