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Welcome to watchmojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 50 rock songs from the 1990s that deserve to be listened to a whole lot more than they are.

50 start Choppin'Dinosaur Junior Dinosaur Junior was at its weird and wonderful best with the release of 1991's Start Choppin.

The track was described as being as close to a radio hit as the band ever had, and

it was in many ways helped by the accompanying music video.

It is a zany piece of alternative rock genius that contains all of the oddball guitar work you'd expect from J.

It went on to become a hit, reaching the top 20 in the UK and number three on the US Alternative Airplay charts.

I ain't telling you a secret I ain't telling you goodbye Though this track won't be the band's only appearance on our list, Start Choppin is still played frequently to this day.

In fact, it is one of the most performed songs in their entire repertoire.

Powerpop never sounded quite as proud as it did when Jeff Tweedy and Wilco brought us Outta Sight Outta Mind, a single from their second album, Being There.

The whole thing is delivered with an infectious level of passion and the band is in top instrumental form.

It's a breezy number with some excellent guitar work that pops through in the mix during the chorus.

This was by no means the band's biggest chart success, not by a long stretch, actually

but it remains one of their most underrated releases.

Number 48 redundant Green Day Green Day well and truly brought punk music into a new era with 1994's Dookie.

However, Billie Joe and company were not content to rest on their laurels.

We're living an era British Shine Their follow up album, Insomniac was darker, heavier and altogether more abrasive, but

for most fans it was their pivot into a much wider array of sounds Choreographed.

Green Day wasn't looking to make a cohesive album with Nimrod, instead fleshing out their sound with a number of genres.

The single Redundant showcases the band writing the type of lovelorn ballad that would be a constant presence in the next two decades.

Now I cannot speak I've lost my voice Speechless and redundant.

For our money, they've rarely sounded as sincere as they did here.

47 Sweetest Thing U2 U2 frontman Bono Made the mistake of forgetting his wife's birthday during the recording of the album Joshua Tree.

Thankfully, this blunder resulted in him writing Sweetest Thing as an Apology.

Originally released as a B side to where the Streets have no name in 1987, the song was later re recorded in 1998, becoming a huge chart success in several countries.

It's a song about love, plain and simple, and

it just so happens to be one of U2's catchiest songs of the 90s.

The music video deserves a mention too, for its depiction of Bono taking a carriage ride through the streets of Dublin on his way to apologize to his wife.

The song is a perfectly succinct love letter in musical form.

New no Doubt don't let it go away the sweetness got tasty there's nothing quite like seeing one of your favorite bands ending their hiatus in style.

After four years without a studio album release, no Doubt returned with a bang in 1999.

New showcased Gwen Stefani and the band in top form, capturing the sound that made them a hit earlier in the decade while also updating it for the turn of the century.

It also came packed with one of the best musical videos of the year overall.

New might take you a few listens to fully get it to stick in your ear, but

when it does, it stands up to anything else they've done in their career.

Number 45i the Smashing Pumpkins the truly great bands are not afraid to try new things even when their formula is working well.

I lie, I wait despite being lauded as alternative rock heroes following the hugely successful Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, Billy Corgan refused to stay still.

Upon being asked to produce a song for the soundtrack to the David lynch movie Lost Highway, Corgan had his first submission rejected.

However, I its follow up stuck the landing.

It was so successful, in fact, that it had a part in convincing Corgan to stick with this electronica influenced direction on their next album.

You won't hear a more apt snapshot of the 90s as a decade than the funky sounds of Three Eleven's Down.

You can hear elements of hip hop in here, nu metal, the influence of groups like Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys, and

for its three minute runtime it never stops being fun.

It's a visceral track that never wanted to come packaged with a pretty bow.

On top of that you got a blue stock but don't look at me now Very funny cause I told you so you know the song arrives with a bang and departs in the exact same fashion.

Every lyric is delivered with attitude, and

even though it was a big hit, it was far from their only success on the charts.

REM was a band that went through several different eras, mastering multiple genres with ease and producing some of the finest music of the 1980s and 90s.

One song that doesn't get spoken about enough is 1999's The Great Beyond.

The track was released for the soundtrack of the movie man on the Moon, an Andy Kaufman biopic that actually got its name from REM's 1992 single of the same name.

It has all the hallmarks of an rem, A powerful vocal delivery from Michael Stipe and a measured but effective performance from the band I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs.

It's no surprise that the band kept this song as a staple of their live set right up until their eventual split it in 2011.

Glory Box Portishead Portishead is deservedly regarded as one of the most underrated bands of their era, trip hop trailblazers whose three albums to date have been highly acclaimed.

Out of their entire catalog, though, no single song has stood the test of time quite as much as Glory Box Move over and given some room, yeah.

Making use of a beautifully integrated Isaac Hayes sample, the band succeeded in bringing out the very best in their sound with this one.

This is the beginning of Forever I'm down everything from the guitar work to Beth Gibbons painting vocals weaves together perfectly to produce easily the most immediate sounding track in Portishead's discography.

Lovesick Bob Dylan in his youth, Bob Dylan could do a lot with just an acoustic guitar in his hands, but

as he aged, his instrumentation certainly grew a lot more atmospheric.

Through streets that are dead with producer Daniel Lanois behind him for his 1997 time out of Mind album, Dylan came through with one of the punchiest songs he ever wrote on Lovesick.

Lyrically, the best way to describe this one is as a love song in a minor key.

Dylan's definitely in love, but he's sick of it.

It's an odd way to kick off an album, but

looking back, this was easily one of his finest efforts of the decade in question.

Got yout Where I Want yout the Flies music found new ways to utilize angst in the 1990s with genres like grunge pop punk and alt rock, allowing artists to find new ways to make disillusionment feel beautiful.

The Flies pretty much hit the nail on the head with the very frank and honest Got you where I want you, Maybe just a smile.

The track begins with some pretty raw and vulnerable moments, not taking long to sink its hooks in.

Then, just as you get comfortable, the chorus hits.

Got you where I want you and from the falsettos that kick it off to the refrain that features the song's title, it is a slice of 90s rock anthem gold.

39 say it ain't so Weezer Weezer tapped into something truly special when they burst onto the scene with their self titled debut in 1994, Somebody's Hiding.

Pretty much every song on the record is considered among the band's very best, but

there is certainly something special about say It Ain't so flip on the telly.

Wrestle with Jimmy It's a song filled with angst and dread as Rivers Cuomo describes his possibly misplaced suspicions that his mother's new husband might have an alcohol use disorder.

Say it like so Cuomo revealed that he believed his parents initial marriage broke apart due to his father's alcohol use disorder and so the song takes on new meaning with that context.

To this day it is considered one of Weezer's definitive tracks and maybe the one that features their best guitar work.

My Love is a night ticket 38 Holland 1945 Neutral Milk Hotel if you haven't indulged your ears with a listen to Neutral Milk Hotel's seminal album in the Aeroplane over the Sea, don't just take our word for it.

The album has become a critical darling more and more with each passing year, one of the finest examples of underground indie music ever recorded.

Now she's a little boy in Spain Lane creators filled with Blaine the band's famously reclusive frontman Jeff Mangum has barely been seen in public in recent decades, too something that only adds to their mythical status.

1945 is easily the most radio ready track on there, a folk punk masterpiece with lyrics that concern Anne Frank and the end of World War II.

It's pretty heavy stuff in more ways than one.

Number 37 Coffee and TV blur blur guitarist Graham Coxon stepped in to finish the song Coffee and TV when Damon Albarn was struggling to do so.

Practically floor he ended up turning the track into a perfect conduit for his own experience with quitting drinking, eventually taking lead vocal duties as well.

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