No. 80

Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots (1994) Video - As the sole STP entry on the list, it might seem odd that I selected one of their softer hits, but I much prefer the hard-soft variance (insert joke here) to the hard rock sound of Sex Type Thing or even Plush, though those two were very close to making the Top 100.

To sum up Early Alternative, you could take this, Pearl Jam's Jeremy, Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, Radiohead's Creep, Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun, throw in some R.E.M. and Smashing Pumpkins and you'd have done a pretty decent job. Throw in my No. 79 song and you'd have done an awesome job (see what I did there, building suspense).