Top 10 Alt-Rock Videos From 1998

Everlast used to be in the rap crew House of Pain (you may remember them from the excellent 'Jump Around'). By 1998 he restyled himself as a bluesy singer who combined front-porch acoustics with hip-hop beats. His first solo single stayed at No. 1 for nine weeks.

Part of the large group of '90s alt-rockers who had one big hit and then promptly disappeared, Fastball were a rootsy trio from Austin that managed to stay at No. 1 on the modern-rock chart for seven weeks in 1998 with the catchy 'The Way.'

'Closing Time' is one of the few songs on this list that has actually grown in stature since its No. 1 standing 15 years ago. It's since become a last-call anthem for barflies. Recently, Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson has written songs for Adele, Taylor Swift and Pink.

'Iris' is one of the few songs on this last that was also a massive hit on the pop chart, where it also reached No. 1. It stayed at the top of the modern-rock list for five straight weeks. It's the second of the Goo Goo Dolls' three No. 1s.

Say what you will about these Canadian goofballs -- they're cloying, annoying and not very good at what they do -- but 'One Week' packs one hell of a hook. Their only No. 1 modern-rock hit is also their only No. 1 song on the pop chart.

The debut single by these Los Angeles rockers sounds like a leftover from an earlier time -- like 1994. 'Inside Out''s crunchy guitars, generic alt-rock thrust and dirty production wouldn't sound out of place on an equally blah Stone Temple Pilots song.

It took Courtney Love four years to make Hole's follow-up to 1994's terrific 'Live Through This.' By then, she needed Billy Corgan's help and shinier production to get her through the rest of the decade. 'Celebrity Skin' is the tougher of the album's two singles.

If you would have told music fans in 1998 that Cake would be the only artist with a No. 1 modern-rock hit that year to still have some sort of chart presence 15 years later, they would have laughed at you. Seriously. 'Never There' is their only No. 1.

The Goo Goo Dolls followed up their hugely popular ballad 'Iris' with the ridiculously catchy 'Slide,' which stayed at No. 1 on the modern-rock chart for two weeks in 1998. The band has basically repeated the song's formula ever since.

Kravitz's retro-rock muscle crunch was still clicking with modern-rock fans in 1998, when 'Fly Away' hit No. 1 for two weeks (he's had almost 20 hits on the alt chart; this is his second No. 1). It's more classic rock than alternative, but whatever.