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The KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986
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Ranking |
Artist Name |
Song Title |
Album Title |
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1. |
Pet Shop Boys |
Suburbia |
Please |
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2. |
Depeche Mode |
A Question of Lust |
Black Celebration |
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3. |
Oingo Boingo |
Pain |
Boi-ngo |
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4. |
Dramarama |
Anything, Anything |
Cinéma Vérité |
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5. |
The Smiths |
Ask |
Louder Than Bombs |
- |
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6. |
Gene Loves Jezebel |
Desire (Come And Get It) |
Discover |
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7. |
The B-52's |
She Brakes for Rainbows |
Bouncing Off The Satellites |
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8. |
Peter Gabriel |
Sledgehammer |
So |
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9. |
Duran Duran |
Notorious |
Notorious |
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10. |
Talking Heads |
Wild, Wild Life |
True Stories |
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11. |
The Cure |
Close to Me |
The Head on the Door |
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12. |
Dead or Alive |
Brand New Lover |
- |
- |
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13. |
Depeche Mode |
But Not Tonight |
Black Celebration |
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14. |
Modern English |
Ink and Paper |
- |
- |
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15. |
Billy Idol |
To Be a Lover |
Whiplash Smile |
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16. |
OMD |
If You Leave |
- |
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17. |
The Smiths |
Panic |
Louder Than Bombs |
- |
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18. |
Deborah Harry |
French Kissing in the USA |
- |
- |
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19. |
INXS |
What You Need |
Listen Like Thieves |
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20. |
XTC |
Dear God |
Skylarking |
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21. |
Erasure |
Oh L'Amour |
Wonderland |
- |
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22. |
Thompson Twins |
Nothing in Common |
- |
- |
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23. |
New Order |
Bizarre Love Triangle |
Brotherhood |
- |
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24. |
Public Image Ltd. |
Rise |
Album |
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25. |
The Pretenders |
Don't Get Me Wrong |
Get Close |
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26. |
The Smithereens |
Blood and Roses |
Especially for You |
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27. |
The Bangles |
Walk Like an Egyptian |
Different Light |
- |
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28. |
Fine Young Cannibals |
Ever Fallen in Love? |
The Raw & the Cooked |
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29. |
Big Country |
Look Away |
- |
- |
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30. |
Siouxsie & the Banshees |
Cities in Dust |
Tinderbox |
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31. |
Ken Heaven |
The Calling |
- |
- |
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32. |
The B-52's |
Summer of Love |
Bouncing Off The Satellites |
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33. |
Sparks |
Music That You Can Dance To |
Music That You Can Dance To |
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34. |
R.E.M. |
Superman |
Lifes Rich Pageant |
- |
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35. |
Peter Gabriel |
Big Time |
So |
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36. |
The Cure |
Boys Don't Cry |
- |
- |
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37. |
The Smiths |
Bigmouth Strikes Again |
The Queen Is Dead |
- |
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38. |
Sigue Sigue Sputnik |
Love Missile F1-11 |
- |
- |
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39. |
Arcadia |
Steal My Flame |
- |
- |
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40. |
New Order |
Shellshock |
Substance |
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41. |
Oingo Boingo |
Not My Slave |
Boi-ngo |
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42. |
Depeche Mode |
A Question of Time |
Black Celebration |
- |
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43. |
The Blow Monkeys |
Digging Your Scene |
- |
- |
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44. |
OMD |
(Forever) Live and Die |
The Pacific Age |
- |
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45. |
Love and Rockets |
Kundalini Express |
Express |
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46. |
Talking Heads |
Puzzlin' Evidence |
True Stories |
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47. |
Real Life |
Babies |
- |
- |
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48. |
The Fixx |
Secret Separation |
Walkabout |
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49. |
The Psychedelic Furs |
Heartbreak Beat |
Midnight To Midnight |
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50. |
Robert Palmer |
Addicted to Love |
- |
- |
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51. |
Fine Young Cannibals |
Suspicious Minds |
Fine Young Cannibals |
- |
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52. |
King |
Alone Without You |
- |
- |
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53. |
Iggy Pop |
Real Wild Child |
Blah Blah Blah |
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54. |
Oingo Boingo |
Stay |
Dead Man's Party |
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55. |
General Public |
Too Much or Nothing |
Hand To Mouth |
- |
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56. |
Bronski Beat |
Hit That Perfect Beat |
Truthdare Doubledare |
- |
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57. |
The Bangles |
Manic Monday |
Different Light |
- |
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58. |
Howard Jones |
You Know I Love You...Don't You? |
One to One |
- |
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59. |
Pet Shop Boys |
Love Comes Quickly |
Please |
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60. |
A-ha |
I've Been Losing You |
- |
- |
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61. |
Bananarama |
Venus |
- |
- |
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62. |
The Smithereens |
Behind the Wall of Sleep |
Especially for You |
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63. |
Eurythmics |
Missionary Man |
Revenge |
- |
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64. |
The Psychedelic Furs |
Pretty in Pink |
- |
- |
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65. |
Wang Chung |
Everybody Have Fun Tonight |
- |
- |
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66. |
The Cure |
A Man Inside My Mouth |
- |
- |
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67. |
Icehouse |
Cross the Border |
- |
- |
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68. |
INXS |
Listen Like Thieves |
Listen Like Thieves |
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69. |
Simple Minds |
All the Things She Said |
Once Upon A Time |
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70. |
Talking Heads |
Love For Sale |
True Stories |
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71. |
Genesis |
Invisible Touch |
- |
- |
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72. |
Gene Loves Jezebel |
Heartache |
Discover |
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73. |