KROQ Countdown Year

1985

1. Shake the Disease - Depeche Mode

2. Vigilante - Felony

3. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Pet Shop Boys

4. In Between Days - The Cure

5. Shout - Tears for Fears

6. You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive

7. Take On Me - A-ha

8. This Time - INXS

9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears

10. Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo

11. Alive and Kicking - Simple Minds

12. The Perfect Kiss - New Order

13. Viva La Rock - Adam Ant

14. Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

15. The Bottom Line - Big Audio Dynamite

16. Love and Pride - King

17. So In Love - OMD

18. World Destruction - Time Zone

19. Flexible - Depeche Mode

20. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - Sting

21. Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears

22. Dancing in the Streets - Mick Jagger & David Bowie

23. Blue Kiss - Jane Weidlin

24. One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

25. Just Another Night - Mick Jagger

26. Kosciusko - Midnight Oil

27. Sussudio - Phil Collins

28. Good Bye Bad Times - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder

29. Stay Up Late - Talking Heads

30. Blowing Up Detroit - John Polumbo

31. Sun City - Artists United Against Apartheid

32. The Perfect Way - Scritti Politti

33. Be Near Me - ABC

34. Bring on the Dancing Horses - Echo & the Bunnymen

35. I Got You Babe - UB40 & Chrissie Hynde

36. Election Day - Arcadia

37. Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush

38. A View to a Kill - Duran Duran

39. Weird Science - Oingo Boingo

40. It's Called a Heart - Depeche Mode

41. Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads

42. Some Like it Hot - Power Station

43. My Heart Goes Bang - Dead or Alive

44. Close to Me - The Cure

45. Subculture - New Order

46. Say it Again - Danse Society

47. Just Another Day - Oingo Boingo

48. Secrets - OMD

49. King for a Day - Thompson Twins

50. Vienna Calling - Falco

51. Slave to Love - Brian Ferry

52. Won't You Hold My Hand Now - King

53. What You Need - INXS

54. Nemesis - Shriekback

55. Vanity Kills - ABC

56. Strength - The Alarm

57. Communication - Power Station

58. Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins

59. Lover Come Back to Me - Dead or Alive

60. Fire in the Twilight - Wang Chung

61. Would I Lie to You - Eurythmics

62. Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones

63. The Sun Always Shines on TV - A-ha

64. Castles in Spain - The Armory Show

65. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

66. Bang a Gong - Power Station

67. Sanctify Yourself - Simple Minds

68. Face the Face - Pete Townshend

69. Don't Mess With Dr. Dream - Thompson Twins

70. Black Cars - Gino Vanelli

71. Burning House of Love - X

72. How to be a Millionaire - ABC

73. Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals

74. A Sort of Homecoming - U2

75. Tonight She Comes - The Cars

76. Gratitude - Oingo Boingo

77. Loving the Alien - David Bowie

78. Life in One Day - Howard Jones

79. Never You Done That - General Public

80. Universal Radio - Nena Hagen

81. Love Parade - Dream Academy

82. Radioactive - The Firm

83. Eye to Eye - Go West

84. Break Them Down - Graham Parker

85. Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

86. Born in East LA - Cheech Marin

87. Raspberry Beret - Prince

88. Perfect Skin - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions

89. Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves

90. In Too Deep - Dead or Alive

91. America - Prince

92. Love is the 7th Wave - Sting

93. Colleen - Living Daylights

94. Dave - Boomtown Rats

95. Love You Like a Ball & Chain - Eurythmics

96. Cities in Dust - Siouxsie & the Banshees

97. Broken Wings - Mr. Mister

98. Hits of the Year - Squeeze

99. Don't Lose My Number - Phil Collins

100. Midnight Man - Flash in the Pan

101. Warning Sign - Nick Heyward

102. This is not America - David Bowie

103. Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

104. An Act of War - Elton John

105. East of Eden - Lone Justice

106. Kat Box Beach - Living Daylights

106.7 Woodpeckers in Space - Video Kids