KROQ Countdown Year

1989

1. Love Song - The Cure

2. Love Shack - The B-52’s

3. Everlasting Love - U2

4. Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode

5. Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears

6. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals

7. So Alive - Love and Rockets

8. Fire Woman - The Cult

9. Stand - REM

10. Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies

11. Last Cigarette - Dramarama

12. Proud to Fall - Ian McCulloch

13. Round and Round - New Order

14. Mayor of Simpleton - XTC

15. Between Something and Nothing - Ocean Blue

16. Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers

17. Veronica - Elvis Costello

18. I’ll Be You - Replacements

19. Fascination Street - The Cure

20. Compulsion - Martin L. Gore

21. Don’t Crash the Car Tonight - Mary’s Danish

22. Last of the International Playboys - Morrissey

23. Way of the World - Max Q

24. Channel Z - The B-52’s

25. Kingdom of Rain - The The

26. Disappointed - Public Image Limited

27. Flesh and Blood - Oingo Boingo

28. No Myth - Michael Penn

29. Stop - Erasure

30. A Girl Like You - Smithereens

31. She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

32. Pop Song 89 - REM

33. Come Anytime - Hoodoo Gurus

34. Dancing Barefoot - U2

35. Everlasting Love - Howard Jones

36. Contact - Big Audio Dynamite

37. Pictures of Matchstick Man - Camper Van Beethoven

38. Interesting Drug - Morrissey

39. Let the Day Begin - The Call

40. Edie (Ciao Baby) - The Cult

41. Love is a Shield - Camouflage

42. Look Who’s Dancing - Ziggy Marley

43. Cult of Personality - Living Colour

44. I Want That Man - Deborah Harry

45. God is a Bullet - Concrete Blonde

46. Dear God - XTC

47. Into the Heart of Love - Mighty Lemon Drops

48. Southbound - Stan Ridgeway

49. Lullaby - The Cure

50. Oh Daddy - Adrian Belew

51. House - Psychedelic Furs

52. Sick of It - Primitives

53. God Part II - U2

54. No Big Deal - Love & Rockets

55. Lay All Your Love On Me - Information Society

56. Eat For Two - 10,000 Maniacs

57. Vanishing Point - New Order

58. Mountain Song - Jane’s Addiction

59. Love and Anger - Kate Bush

60. Angel of Harlem - U2

61. Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz

62. Eardrum Buzz - Wire

63. Blues from a Gun - Jesus and Mary Chain

64. Where Did I Go Wrong - UB40

65. Sun King - The Cult

66. Baby I Don’t Care - Transvision Vamp

67. King for a Day - XTC

68. Roam - The B-52’s

69. World Party - Waterboys

70. Bombers in the Sky - Thompson Twins

71. Do You Believe in Shame - Duran Duran

72. The Prisoner - Howard Jones

73. Don’t Ask Me Why - Eurythmics

74. Getting Away With It - Electronic

75. Regina - Sugarcubes

76. I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses

77. Self - Fuzzbox

78. Another World - Hoodoo Gurus

79. Beat of Love - Voice of the Beehive

80. Pure - Lightning Seeds

81. Achin’ To Be - Replacements

82. Cosmic Thing - The B-52’s

83. Nightmares - Violent Femmes

84. Brother and Sister - Erasure

85. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Pogues

86. Dirty Old Man - David Byrne

87. Standing There - The Creatures

88. Take a Step Back - Simple Minds

89. Who Will Be There - Ziggy Marley

90. I’m On My Way - The Proclaimers

91. Revival - Eurythmics

92. Madonna of the Wasps - Robyn Hitchcock

93. Strange Kind of Love - Peter Murphy

94. Dirty Blvd. - Lou Reed

95. Don’t Let Me Down Gently - Wonderstuff

96. Don’t Look Back - Fine Young Cannibals

97. Warrior - Public Image Limited

98. Run 2 - New Order

99. This Town - Elvis Costello

100. Year of the Knife - Tears for Fears

101. If it’s Love - Squeeze

102. Is This Love - King Swamp

103. Under the God - Tin Machine

104. She Bangs the Drums - Stone Roses

105. Happy Birthday - Concrete Blonde

106. Plastic Fantastic - Flesh for Lulu

106.7 Hey Ladies - Beastie Boys