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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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1987
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Ranking |
Artist Name |
Song Title |
Album Title |
Click for sample |
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1. |
The Cure |
Just Like Heaven |
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
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2. |
The Smiths |
Girlfriend in a Coma |
Strangeways, Here We Come |
- |
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3. |
Depeche Mode |
Strangelove |
Music For The Masses |
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4. |
Echo & the Bunnymen |
Lips Like Sugar |
Echo & The Bunnymen |
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5. |
The Cure |
Why Can't I Be You? |
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
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6. |
INXS |
Need You Tonight |
Kick |
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7. |
XTC |
Dear God |
Skylarking |
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8. |
New Order |
True Faith |
Substance |
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9. |
U2 |
With or Without You |
The Joshua Tree |
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10. |
Depeche Mode |
Never Let Me Down Again |
Music For The Masses |
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11. |
R.E.M. |
The One I Love |
Document |
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12. |
The Bangles |
Hazy Shade of Winter |
- |
- |
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13. |
Love and Rockets |
No New Tale to Tell |
Earth Sun Moon |
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14. |
U2 |
Where the Streets Have No Name |
The Joshua Tree |
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15. |
Gene Love Jezebel |
The Motion of Love |
- |
- |
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16. |
The Smiths |
Is It Really So Strange? |
Louder Than Bombs |
- |
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17. |
Pet Shop Boys |
Rent |
Actually |
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18. |
U2 |
The Sweetest Thing |
- |
- |
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19. |
Depeche Mode |
Behind the Wheel |
Music For The Masses |
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20. |
The Alarm |
Rain in the Summertime |
The Eye of the Hurricane |
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21. |
The Bolshoi |
Please |
- |
- |
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22. |
Oingo Boingo |
We Close Our Eyes |
Boi-ngo |
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23. |
Gene Loves Jezebel |
Twenty Killer Hurts |
The House Of Dolls |
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24. |
The Smiths |
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before |
Strangeways, Here We Come |
- |
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25. |
Public Image Ltd. |
Rules and Regulations |
Happy? |
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26. |
U2 |
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For |
The Joshua Tree |
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27. |
Pet Shop Boys |
It's a Sin |
Actually |
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28. |
Icehouse |
Crazy |
- |
- |
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29. |
Faith No More |
We Care a Lot |
Introduce Yourself |
- |
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30. |
The Replacements |
Alex Chilton |
Pleased To Meet Me |
- |
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31. |
Squeeze |
Hourglass |
Babylon and On |
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32. |
Dramarama |
It's Still Warm |
- |
- |
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33. |
Siouxsie and the Banshees |
The Passenger |
Through The Looking Glass |
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34. |
The Cult |
Love Removal Machine |
Electric |
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35. |
Private Domain with Pato Banton |
Absolute Perfection |
- |
- |
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36. |
The Damned |
Along Again Or |
- |
- |
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37. |
Oingo Boingo |
Not My Slave |
Boi-ngo |
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38. |
The Psychedelic Furs |
Heartbreak Beat |
Midnight To Midnight |
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39. |
New Order |
Bizarre Love Triangle |
Brotherhood |
- |
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40. |
X |
Fourth of July |
See How We Are |
- |
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41. |
The Smiths |
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish |
Strangeways, Here We Come |
- |
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42. |
U2 |
Bullet the Blue Sky |
The Joshua Tree |
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43. |
Tonio K |
Supposed to Have Sex With You |
- |
- |
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44. |
Duran Duran |
Skin Trade |
Notorious |
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45. |
David Bowie |
Time Will Crawl |
Never Let Me Down |
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46. |
Pet Shop Boys |
What Have I Done to Deserve This? |
Actually |
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47. |
Dukes of Stratosphere |
Vanishing Girl |
- |
- |
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48. |
The Cult |
Wild Flower |
Electric |
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49. |
Erasure |
Victim of Love |
The Circus |
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50. |
U2 |
Silver and Gold |
Rattle And Hum |
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51. |
Beastie Boys |
Fight for Your Right to Party |
Licensed To Ill |
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52. |
The Stranglers |
Always the Sun |
- |
- |
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53. |
Sting |
We'll Be Together |
Nothing Like The Sun |
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54. |
David Bowie |
Never Let Me Down |
Never Let Me Down |
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55. |
The Psychedelic Furs |
Shock |
Midnight To Midnight |
- |
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56. |
The Cure |
Hot Hot Hot!!! |
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
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57. |
World Party |
Private Revolution |
- |
- |
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58. |
Echo & the Bunnymen |
People Are Strange |
- |
- |
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59. |
Billy Idol |
Mony Mony (Live) |
Vital Idol |
- |
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60. |
R.E.M. |
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) |
Document |
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61. |
Oingo Boingo |
Elevator Man |
Boi-ngo |
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62. |
ABC |
When Smokey Sings |
- |
- |
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63. |
Icicle Works |
Understanding Jane |
- |
- |
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64. |
Billy Idol |
Sweet Sixteen |
Whiplash Smile |
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65. |
Pseudo Echo |
Living in a Dream |
- |
- |
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66. |
The Cars |
You Are the Girl |
Door to Door |
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67. |
Public Image Ltd. |
Seattle |
Happy? |
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68. |
U2 |
In God's Country |
The Joshua Tree |
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69. |
Gene Loves Jezebel |
Desire (Come And Get It) |
Discover |
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70. |
Duran Duran |
Meet El Presidente |
Notorious |
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71. |
Lions and Ghosts |
Contradiction |
- |
- |
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72. |
Flesh for Lulu |
I Go Crazy |
- |
- |
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73. |
Love and Rockets |
All in My Mind |
Express |
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74. |
Erasure |
Sometimes |
The Circus |
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75. |
John Astley |
Jane's Getting Serious |
- |
- |
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76. |
Bryan Ferry |
The Right Stuff |
- |
- |
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77. |
The Smiths |
Ask |
Louder Than Bombs |
- |
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78. |
Echo & the Bunnymen |
New Direction |
Echo & The Bunnymen |
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79. |
Oingo Boingo |
Pain |
Boi-ngo |
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80. |
Siouxsie and the Banshees |
This Wheel's on Fire |
Through The Looking Glass |
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81. |
Los Lobos |
La Bamba |
- |
- |
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82. |
The Smiths |
Panic |
Louder Than Bombs |
- |
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83. |
INXS with Jimmy Barnes |
Good Times |
- |
- |
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84. |
OMD |
We Love You |
The Pacific Age |
- |
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85. |
Flesh for Lulu |
Siamese Twist |
- |
- |
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86. |
Sisters of Mercy |
This Corrosion |
- |
- |
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87. |
U2 |
Spanish Eyes |
- |
- |
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88. |
David Bowie |
'87 and Cry |
Never Let Me Down |
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89. |
The The |
Infected |
Infected |
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90. |
Gary Numan |
Radio Heart |
- |
- |
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91. |
Cruzados |
Bed of Lies |
- |
- |
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92. |
The Jesus and Mary Chain |
Happy When it Rains |
Darklands |
- |
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93. |
Talking Heads |
Love For Sale |
True Stories |
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94. |
Mick Jagger |
Throw Away |
- |
- |
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95. |
Dramarama |
Anything, Anything |
Cinéma Vérité |
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96. |
Squeeze |
Trust Me to Open My Mouth |
Babylon and On |
|
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97. |
The Smiths |
Shoplifters of the World Unite |
Louder Than Bombs |
- |
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98. |
The Bangles |
Walkin' Down Your Street |
Different Light |
- |
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99. |
The Cult |
Lil' Devil |
Electric |
|
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100. |
Private Domain |
Don't Need That Much |
- |
- |
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101. |
The Fixx |
Don't Be Scared |
React |
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102. |
Love and Rockets |
Ball of Confusion |
Express |
|
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103. |
Silencers |
I See Red |
- |
- |
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104. |
Killing Joke |
Sanity |
- |
- |
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105. |
Walk the Moon |
Daddy's Coming Home |
- |
- |
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106. |
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper |
Elvis is Everywhere |
- |
- |
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106.7. |
Swinging Erudites |
Walk with an Erection |
- |
- |
 | The only song from the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill to make the list is Fight for Your Right to Party at #51. On their second album only Hey Ladies charted (at #106.7!). Only with Ill Communication in 1998 did KROQ jump on the bandwagon. But what really annoys me is that they seem to be trying to rewrite history to make it seem they've always been big-time Beasties fans--they play songs from Licensed to Ill (Girls in particular) more now than when the album came out! |
| To me Faith No More's We Care a Lot (#29) is the first rap-rock song of the kind that was popular in the late 90s (Korn, Limp Bizkit, etc.), and I don't think they get the credit for it that they deserve. They vocalist here is different from the one on their later hits like Epic and Midlife Crisis. |
| I really like the guitar on the Cure's Just Like Heaven (#1) and the Damned's Along Again Or (#36). I guess they are a bit similar... |