In Retrospect

If I had the power, perhaps in an alternate timeline, the Top 40 would have been quite different...

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Number
1

You're One
Imperial Teen
From the album: Seasick
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
12
Number
2

Trampoline
Joe Henry
From the album: Trampoline
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
17
Number
3

Popular
Nada Surf
From the album: High / Low
Peak
3
Weeks
13
Number
4 Up by 4

If It Makes You Happy
Sheryl Crow
From the album: Sheryl Crow
Peak
4
Weeks
5
Number
5 Down by 1

Gift Shop
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
16
Number
6 Down by 1

Broken
Belly (band)
From the album: Twister (Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
1 (for 6 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
7 Up by 2

Only Talking Sense
The Finn Brothers
Peak
7
Weeks
14
Number
8 Up by 2

Throwaway
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
8
Weeks
13
Number
9 Down by 3

Down in Flames
Semisonic
From the album: Great Divide
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
10 Down by 3

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand
Primitive Radio Gods
From the album: Rocket
Peak
6
Weeks
18
Number
11 Up by 7

Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)
The Virgin-Whore Complex
Peak
11
Weeks
8
Number
12

Free to Decide
The Cranberries
From the album: To the Faithful Departed
Peak
9
Weeks
15
Number
13

The Golden Age
Cracker
From the album: The Golden Age
Peak
13
Weeks
15
Number
14

6th Avenue Heartache
The Wallflowers
From the album: Bringing Down the Horse
Peak
14
Weeks
15
Number
15 Down by 4

Rainfall
A Flock of Seagulls
Peak
10
Weeks
19
Number
16

All I Know
Screaming Trees
From the album: Dust
Peak
16
Weeks
13
Number
17 Up by 2

Novocaine For The Soul
Eels
From the album: Beautiful Freak
Peak
17
Weeks
8
Number
18 Up by 5

Ahead By A Century
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
18
Weeks
10
Number
19 Up by 8

Dark Secret
Matthew Sweet
From the album: The Craft Soundtrack
Peak
19
Weeks
5
Number
20 Up by 1

Some Kind Of Fun
Ass Ponys
From the album: The Known Universe
Peak
20
Weeks
14
Number
21 Down by 6

God Tells Me To
Ass Ponys
From the album: The Known Universe
Peak
15
Weeks
20
Number
22 Down by 5

Pepper
Butthole Surfers
From the album: Electriclarryland
Peak
7
Weeks
20
Number
23 Up by 2

Whoever You Are
Geggy Tah
Peak
23
Weeks
6
Number
24 Up by 2

E-Bow The Letter
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
24
Weeks
6
Number
25 Up by 5

Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get
The Low & Sweet Orchestra
From the album: Goodbye To All That
Peak
25
Weeks
4
Number
26 Up by 2

Soundtrack to Mary
Soul Coughing
From the album: Irresistible Bliss
Peak
26
Weeks
7
Number
27 Down by 7

Open the Door
Magnapop
Peak
1 (for 5 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
28 Down by 4

She Came On
Super Deluxe
Peak
24
Weeks
17
Number
29 Up by 6

This Misery
Wild Colonials
Peak
29
Weeks
3
Number
30 Debut

Power World
Sam Phillips
From the album: Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)
Peak
30
Weeks
1
Number
31 Down by 9

And She Drowned
Ass Ponys
From the album: The Known Universe
Peak
18
Weeks
16
Number
32

Gold Dust Woman
Hole
Peak
32
Weeks
10
Number
33

Big Chair
Reacharound
Peak
33
Weeks
9
Number
34

I Love You Always Forever
Donna Lewis
From the album: Now in a Minute
Peak
34
Weeks
7
Number
35 Up by 2

Bound For The Floor
Local H
From the album: As Good as Dead
Peak
35
Weeks
3
Number
36 Up by 4

Sleepy Maggie
Ashley MacIsaac
Peak
36
Weeks
2
Number
37 Up by 1

Don't Look Back in Anger
Oasis
From the album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, Time Flies... (1994 - 2009)
Peak
37
Weeks
3
Number
38 Up by 1

Mouth
Merril Bainbridge
From the album: The Garden
Peak
38
Weeks
2
Number
39 Debut

Devils Haircut
Beck
From the album: Odelay
Peak
39
Weeks
1
Number
40 Down by 4

Boy or a Girl
Imperial Drag
Peak
2
Weeks
22

Dropouts

Number
29 Dropout

Little Dudes
Pee Shy
Peak
17
Weeks
20
Number
31 Dropout

Under Cedars And Stars
Ass Ponys
From the album: The Known Universe
Peak
7
Weeks
24

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Date

September 28, 1996

Songs

40

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1 1 Imperial Teen – “You're One” 1(×2) 12

2 2 Joe Henry – “Trampoline” 1(×1) 17

3 3 Nada Surf – “Popular” 3 13

8 4 Sheryl Crow – “If It Makes You Happy” 4 5

4 5 The Tragically Hip – “Gift Shop” 1(×3) 16

5 6 Belly (band) – “Broken” 1(×6) 18

9 7 The Finn Brothers – “Only Talking Sense” 7 14

10 8 The Posies – “Throwaway” 8 13

6 9 Semisonic – “Down in Flames” 1(×1) 21

7 10 Primitive Radio Gods – “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand” 6 18

18 11 The Virgin-Whore Complex – “Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)” 11 8

12 12 The Cranberries – “Free to Decide” 9 15

13 13 Cracker – “The Golden Age” 13 15

14 14 The Wallflowers – “6th Avenue Heartache” 14 15

11 15 A Flock of Seagulls – “Rainfall” 10 19

16 16 Screaming Trees – “All I Know” 16 13

19 17 Eels – “Novocaine For The Soul” 17 8

23 18 The Tragically Hip – “Ahead By A Century” 18 10

27 19 Matthew Sweet – “Dark Secret” 19 5

21 20 Ass Ponys – “Some Kind Of Fun” 20 14

15 21 Ass Ponys – “God Tells Me To” 15 20

17 22 Butthole Surfers – “Pepper” 7 20

25 23 Geggy Tah – “Whoever You Are” 23 6

26 24 R.E.M. – “E-Bow The Letter” 24 6

30 25 The Low & Sweet Orchestra – “Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get” 25 4

28 26 Soul Coughing – “Soundtrack to Mary” 26 7

20 27 Magnapop – “Open the Door” 1(×5) 22

24 28 Super Deluxe – “She Came On” 24 17

35 29 Wild Colonials – “This Misery” 29 3

NE 30 Sam Phillips – “Power World” 30 1

22 31 Ass Ponys – “And She Drowned” 18 16

32 32 Hole – “Gold Dust Woman” 32 10

33 33 Reacharound – “Big Chair” 33 9

34 34 Donna Lewis – “I Love You Always Forever” 34 7

37 35 Local H – “Bound For The Floor” 35 3

40 36 Ashley MacIsaac – “Sleepy Maggie” 36 2

38 37 Oasis – “Don't Look Back in Anger” 37 3

39 38 Merril Bainbridge – “Mouth” 38 2

NE 39 Beck – “Devils Haircut” 39 1

36 40 Imperial Drag – “Boy or a Girl” 2 22

DROPOUTS:

29 -- Pee Shy – “Little Dudes” 17 20

31 -- Ass Ponys – “Under Cedars And Stars” 7 24

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