Artist	Song
311	Down
from Greatest Hits '93-'03 (2004)
Soul Coughing	Super Bon Bon
from Irresistible Bliss (2010)
Limp Bizkit	Nookie
from Greatest Hits (2005)
Luscious Jackson	Naked Eye
from Luscious Jackson: Greatest Hits (2007)
Rancid	Time Bomb
from ...And Out Come the Wolves (2008)
Elastica	Connection
from Elastica (2007)
Cake	The Distance
from Fashion Nugget (Deluxe Version) (2007)
Filter	Hey Man Nice Shot
from The Very Best Things 1995-2008 (2009)
Urge Overkill	Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon
from Stull EP (1992)
Silverchair	Tomorrow
from Frogstomp (1995)
Meredith Brooks	Bitch
from Blurring The Edges (1997)
The Presidents of the United States of America	Lump
from The Presidents of the United States of America (10th Aniversary Edition) (2004)
Third Eye Blind	Semi-Charmed Life
from Third Eye Blind: A Collection (2006)
The Brian Setzer Orchestra	Jump, Jive an' Wail
from The Dirty Boogie (1998)
Fatboy Slim	The Rockafeller Skank
from You've Come a Long Way Baby (2005)
Joan Osborne	One of Us
from Relish (1995)
Dishwalla	Counting Blue Cars
from Pet Your Friends (1995)
Incubus	Drive
from Make Yourself (1999)
Fastball	The Way
from Painting the Corners: The Best of Fastball (2002)
Squirrel Nut Zippers	Hell
from Hot (1997)
Marcy Playground	Sex and Candy
from Marcy Playground (1997)
Cornershop	Brimful of Asha
from When I Was Born for the 7Th Time (2010)
The Verve Pipe	The Freshmen
from Villains (1996)
Paula Cole	Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
from Greatest Hits - Postcards from East Oceanside (2006)
blur	Song 2
from The Best of Blur (2000)

Comment:

Talk about a revolution: from college campus to commercial radio to industry colossus, alt rock broke its Seattle-based bonds and flew off in a dozen different directions. And like a kid in a candy store, we couldn’t help but stuff our pockets — and yours — with more of the best that it had to offer. The post-punk crunch of Everclear’s “Santa Monica” beats with the heart of SoCal’s yin/yang soul, with its shiny side up — [i]way[/i] up — and dark, dirty waves rolling underneath. Fusing riot grrrl attitude to hip-hop beats and rhymes, Luscious Jackson’s sleek, sexy, [i]damn[/i] funky single “Naked Eye” catapulted the band out from under the shadow of their mentors (and label heads), the Beastie Boys. Speaking of Grand Royal’s pooh-bahs, 311 unleashes the funk-fortified, rock-rigged, hip-hop hooks of the Beasties’ [i]Ill Communication[/i] in “Down,” pulled from their self-titled, multi-platinum breakthrough. And what the hell is a “Brimful of Asha,” anyway? Who cares, when Cornershop mixes guitar and sitar, putting the [i]indie[/i] in [i]Indian[/i] while frontman Tjinder Singh sprinkles some easy, breezy vocals over a can’t-dislodge-it groove. From Buckcherry to Urge Overkill, “Semi-Charmed Life” to “Hell,” we’ve got fistfuls more of the hits that made alt rock [i]mandatory[/i] listening.

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