I have all the chart info, and I'm killing time, so why not have some fun and type all this out for laughs and a trip down memory lane when music was still good and MTV still showed videos.

I admit, typing in Marcy Playground and Chumbawamba gave me a nauseous feeling I can't describe.

#1 Rock Radio hits in order (Jan-Dec):

1. Stone Temple Pilots-Lady Picture Show (1 week)
2. Wallflowers-One Headlight (5 weeks)
3. Aerosmith-Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees) (5 weeks)
4. Collective Soul-Precious Declaration (4 weeks)
5. The Offspring-Gone Away (2 weeks)
6. Sammy Hagar-White Lie (5 weeks)
7. Tonic-If You Could Only See (5 weeks)
8. Collective Soul-Listen (5 weeks)
9. Aerosmith-Pink (4 weeks)
10. Days Of The New-Touch, Peel And Stand (16 weeks!)

#1 Alternative Rock hits in order (Jan-Dec):

1. Garbage-#1 Crush (4 weeks)
2. U2-Discotheque (4 weeks)
3. Live-Lakini's Juice (1 week)
4. Wallflowers-One Headlight (5 weeks)
5. U2-Staring at The Sun (3 weeks)
6. The Verve Pipe-The Freshman (3 weeks)
7. Third Eye Blind-Semi-Charmed Life (8 weeks)
8. Mighty Mighty Bosstones-The Impression That I Get (1 week)
9. Matchbox 20-Push (1 week)
10. Sugar Ray-Fly (8 weeks)
11. Smash Mouth-Walkin' On The Sun (5 weeks)
12. Chumbawamba-Tubthumping (7 weeks)
13. Everclear-Everything To Everyone (1 week)
14. Marcy Playground-Sex And Candy (15 weeks!???)

Yep, this definitely looks like the line up of Big Shiny Tunes 3 or 4.

Of the list, #1 Crush and Gone Away are the only ones I would say I liked, although I am certainly familiar with a whole bunch of the rest of them.

And I have to think the guys in the video for Let the Music do the Talking would have used their baseball bats on the guys who wrote the Aerosmith songs on this list

Wow, other than the A-smith (which I didn't like) & POSSIBLY the STP, there's nothing in that list I've ever heard afaik.

Oh, man.

Literally the opposite for me. I've never heard of that Aerosmith song but I know all the rest of them.

...a lot of them are not GOOD, mind, but I know them.

Those douchebags, they wasted part of their 15 minutes appearing at a protest outside the base where I was stationed in the UK.

I was playing a 90s cassette tape I had made back then in my car on my drive back from NJ and man was the 90s the last great decade for rock. So many great tunes and groups.

What I remember most about them was the way they kept waving their "punk credentials" in every interview when that song became a hit. They were the last real punk group, the only ones who kept the original ideals, more legitimate than The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Jam put together, right on, blah, blah. I honestly had never heard of them before and couldn't remember them at all from the era that they were now supposedly the standard bearers for. But for a group so earnest and pure, they seemed awfully happy to become known by putting on makeup and recording a very commercial song.

I'd agree their was a of of great stuff in the 90's. Off the top of my head, the sad thing is the only parts of the quality music that actually sold was grunge. The charts were mostly pretty frightening.

I vaguely remember the song being played in pubs, but I don't recall any locals that actually liked them. I'm pretty sure everyone thought they were a bunch of wankers.

It was a big hit on NY radio, you still hear it occasionally.

I think the 2000s had some pretty great rock bands with the Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, etc. I feel like the 2010s have been severely lacking, on the other hand. It's the only decade of my life I haven't been able to really find anything to grab me. Including decades from before I was born!

I was the same. A lot of that stuff is....not great, IMO, but I remember the songs. I don't recall that Aersomith one at all, though.

Play sucked. I don't recall how any of the album sounded either.

The 97 album was Nine Lives.

And it sucked.

That Days Of The New song was inescapable.

16 weeks at #1-that is beyond impressive.

They were like an acoustic Pearl Jam, although if I recall it was really just one guy and not a band.

Yes, it sucked also. I bought it also (like Play). And sold it to the used record store also (like Play).

Dionne Warwick and other cheesy hit makers were writing all their stuff by then.

? I think Dionne Warwick was past her hit making prime by this point and she never was much of a writer. I think she had a few co-writing credits on album tracks. And I don't think she was much of a force in Rock and Alternative Rock Radio at any time anyway. Maybe I missed the time she fronted Limp Bizkit?
Or are you talking about Diane Warren writing for Aerosmith?

Yep. I get them mixed up.

The mental image this created when I read it made me laugh. A lot.