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KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns by Year
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Top 300 Songs of the 90s 500 Most Requested of All-Time (Memorial Day 2006) KROQ's Labor Day 90's 500 (2007) KROQ Memorial 500 (Memorial Day 2008)

Countdown commentary

The KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989

Ranking

Artist Name

Song Title

Album Title

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1.

The Cure

Love Song

Disintegration

 Lovesong

2.

The B-52's

Love Shack

Cosmic Thing

 Love Shack

3.

U2

Everlasting Love

-

 -

4.

Depeche Mode

Personal Jesus

Violator

 Personal Jesus

5.

Tears for Fears

Sowing the Seeds of Love

The Seeds Of Love

 Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love - Sowing the Seeds of Love

6.

Fine Young Cannibals

Good Thing

The Raw & the Cooked

 Good Thing

7.

Love and Rockets

So Alive

Love and Rockets

 So Alive

8.

The Cult

Fire Woman

Sonic Temple

 Fire Woman

9.

R.E.M.

Stand

Green

 Stand

10.

The Pixies

Here Comes Your Man

-

 -

11.

Dramarama

Last Cigarette

-

 -

12.

Ian McCulloch

Proud to Fall

-

 -

13.

New Order

Round and Round

Technique

 Round and Round

14.

XTC

Mayor of Simpleton

Oranges & Lemons

 -

15.

The Ocean Blue

Between Something and Nothing

The Ocean Blue

 The Ocean Blue - The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing

16.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Higher Ground

Mother's Milk

 Higher Ground

17.

Elvis Costello

Veronica

Spike

 -

18.

The Replacements

I'll Be You

Don't Tell A Soul

 -

19.

The Cure

Fascination Street

Disintegration

 Fascination Street

20.

Martin Gore

Compulsion

-

 -

21.

Mary's Danish

Don't Crash the Car Tonight

-

 -

22.

Morrissey

The Last of the Famous International Playboys

Bona Drag

 The Last of the Famous International Playboys

23.

Max Q

Way of the World

-

 -

24.

The B-52's

Channel Z

Cosmic Thing

 Channel Z

25.

The The

Kingdom of Rain

Mind Bomb

 The The - Mind Bomb - Kingdom of Rain

26.

Public Image Ltd.

Disappointed

9

 Public Image Limited - The Greatest Hits So Far - Disappointed

27.

Oingo Boingo

Flesh 'N Blood

Dark at the End of the Tunnel

 Flesh 'n Blood

28.

Michael Penn

No Myth

-

 -

29.

Erasure

Stop!

-

 -

30.

The Smithereens

A Girl Like You

11

 A Girl Like You

31.

Fine Young Cannibals

She Drives Me Crazy

The Raw & the Cooked

 She Drives Me Crazy

32.

R.E.M.

Pop Song 89

Green

 Pop Song 89

33.

Hoodoo Gurus

Come Anytime

-

 -

34.

U2

Dancing Barefoot

-

 -

35.

Howard Jones

Everlasting Love

Cross That Line

 -

36.

Big Audio Dynamite

Contact

-

 -

37.

Camper Van Beethoven

Pictures of Matchstick Men

-

 -

38.

Morrissey

Interesting Drug

Bona Drag

 Interesting Drug

39.

The Call

Let the Day Begin

-

 -

40.

The Cult

Edie (Ciao Baby)

Sonic Temple

 Edie (Ciao Baby)

41.

Camouflage

Love is a Shield

-

 -

42.

Ziggy Marley

Look Who's Dancing

-

 -

43.

Living Colour

Cult of Personality

Vivid

Living Colour - Vivid - Cult of Personality

44.

Deborah Harry

I Want That Man

-

 -

45.

Concrete Blonde

God is a Bullet

Free

 -

46.

Midge Ure

Dear God

-

 -

47.

Mighty Lemon Drops

Into the Heart of Love

-

 -

48.

Stan Ridgeway

Going Southbound

-

 -

49.

The Cure

Lullaby

Disintegration

 Lullaby

50.

Adrian Belew

Oh Daddy

-

 -

51.

The Psychedelic Furs

House

Book Of Days

 -

52.

The Primitives

Sick of It

-

 -

53.

U2

God Part II

Rattle And Hum

 God, Pt. 2

54.

Love and Rockets

No Big Deal

Love and Rockets

 No Big Deal

55.

Information Society

Lay All Your Love On Me

-

 -

56.

10,000 Maniacs

Eat for Two

Blind Man's Zoo

 -

57.

New Order

Vanishing Point

Technique

 Vanishing Point

58.

Jane's Addiction

Mountain Song

Nothing's Shocking

 Mountain Song

59.

Kate Bush

Love and Anger

-

 -

60.

U2

Angel of Harlem

Rattle And Hum

 Angel of Harlem

61.

Lenny Kravitz

Let Love Rule

Let Love Rule

 -

62.

Wire

Eardrum Buzz

-

 -

63.

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Blues from a Gun

Automatic

 -

64.

UB40

Where Did I Go Wrong?

UB40

UB40 - UB40 - Where Did I Go Wrong

65.

The Cult

Sun King

Sonic Temple

 Sun King

66.

Transvision Vamp

Baby I Don't Care

-

 -

67.

XTC

King for a Day

Oranges & Lemons

 -

68.

The B-52's

Roam

Cosmic Thing

 Roam

69.

The Waterboys

World Party

-

 -

70.

Thompson Twins

Bombers in the Sky

Big Trash

 -

71.

Duran Duran

Do You Believe in Shame?

Big Thing

 Duran Duran - Big Thing - Do You Believe In Shame?

72.

Howard Jones

The Prisoner

Cross That Line

 -

73.

Eurythmics

Don't Ask Me Why

We Too Are One

 -

74.

Electronic

Getting Away With It

Electronic

 Electronic - Get the Message - The Best of Electronic - Getting Away With It (2006 Remastered)

75.

The Sugarcubes

Regina

Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!

The Sugarcubes - Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week - Regina

76.

The Stone Roses

I Wanna Be Adored

The Stone Roses

 I Wanna Be Adored

77.

Fuzzbox

Self

-

 -

78.

Hoodoo Gurus

Another World

-

 -

79.

Voice of the Beehive

Beat of Love

-

 -

80.

The Lightning Seeds

Pure

Cloudcuckooland

Lightning Seeds - Like You Do - Best of the Lightning Seeds - Pure

81.

The Replacements

Achin' To Be

Don't Tell A Soul

 -

82.

The B-52's

Cosmic Thing

Cosmic Thing

 Cosmic Thing

83.

Violent Femmes

Nightmares

-

 -

84.

Erasure

Brother and Sister

Wild!

 -

85.

The Pogues

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

-

 -

86.

David Byrne

Dirty Old Town

-

 -

87.

The Creatures

Standing There

-

 -

88.

Simple Minds

Take a Step Back

Street Fighting Years

 Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years - Take a Step Back

89.

Ziggy Marley

Who Will Be There

-

 -

90.

The Proclaimers

I'm On My Way

-

 -

91.

Eurythmics

Revival

We Too Are One

 -

92.

Robyn Hitchcock

Madonna of the Wasps

-

 -

93.

Peter Murphy

Strange Kind of Love

-

 -

94.

Lou Reed

Dirty Blvd.

-

 -

95.

Wonderstuff

Don't Let Me Down Gently

-

 -

96.

Fine Young Cannibals

Don't Look Back

The Raw & the Cooked

 Don't Look Back

97.

Public Image Ltd.

Warrior

9

 Public Image Limited - The Greatest Hits So Far - Warrior

98.

New Order

Run 2

Technique

 Run

99.

Elvis Costello

This Town…

Spike

 -

100.

Tears for Fears

Year of the Knife

The Seeds Of Love

 Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love - Year of the Knife

101.

Squeeze

If It's Love

Frank

 If It's Love

102.

King Swamp

It This Love

-

 -

103.

Tin Machine

Under the God

-

 -

104.

The Stone Roses

She Bangs the Drums

The Stone Roses

 She Bangs the Drums

105.

Concrete Blonde

Happy Birthday

Free

 -

106.

Flesh for Lulu

Plastic Fantastic

-

 -

106.7.

Beastie Boys

Hey Ladies

Paul's Boutique

 Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique - Hey Ladies

Commentary

bulletWho would've expected the B-52's to have a massive comeback like the Cosmic Thing album and the song Love Shack, which was #2 here but a huge smash nationwide, after losing their primary songwriter and guitarist Ricky Wilson?  I wasn't a huge fan of the album but I found it a nice feel-good story.
bulletI believe the version of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus (#4) here is not the version on Violator but actually an acoustic demo that they gave to KROQ in advance of the album.  But it took off--and it is at least as good as the album version in my view.
bulletLove and Rockets' So Alive (#7) was a #1 hit nationwide--who woulda thunkit?  As far as I could tell it not only marked the height of the band's popularity but the end of it as well.
bulletHey Ladies was the only song on the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique album that made the list--and it barely made the list.  Nobody realized how amazing this album was until a lot later.