KROQ Countdown Year

1987

1. Just Like Heaven - The Cure

2. Girlfriend in a Coma - The Smiths

3. Strangelove - Depeche Mode

4. Lips Like Sugar - Echo and the Bunnymen

5. Why Can’t I Be You - The Cure

6. Need You Tonight - INXS

7. Dear God - XTC

8. True Faith - New Order

9. With or Without You - U2

10. Never Let Me Down Again - Depeche Mode

11. The One I Love - REM

12. Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles

13. No New Tale to Tell - Love and Rockets

14. Where the Streets Have No Name - U2

15. The Motion of Love - Gene Love Jezebel

16. Is It Really So Strange - The Smiths

17. Rent - Pet Shop Boys

18. The Sweetest Thing - U2

19. Behind the Wheel - Depeche Mode

20. Rain in the Summertime - The Alarm

21. Please - The Bolshoi

22. We Close Our Eyes - Oingo Boingo

23. 20 Killer Hurts - Gene Loves Jezebel

24. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before - The Smiths

25. Rules and Regulations - Public Image Limited

26. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2

27. It’s a Sin - Pet Shop Boys

28. Crazy - Icehouse

29. We Care a Lot - Faith No More

30. Alex Chilton - The Replacements

31. Hourglass - Squeeze

32. It’s Still Warm - Dramarama

33. The Passenger - Siouxsie and the Banshees

34. Love Removal Machine - The Cult

35. Absolute Perfection - Private Domain with Pato Banton

36. Alone Again Or - The Damned

37. Not My Slave - Oingo Boingo

38. Heartbreak Beat - Psychedelic Furs

39. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order

40. Fourth of July - X

41. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish - The Smiths

42. Bullet the Blue Sky - U2

43. Supposed to Have Sex With You - Tonio K

44. Skin Trade - Duran Duran

45. Time With Crawl - David Bowie

46. What Have I Done to Deserve This - Pet Shop Boys

47. Vanishing Girl - Dukes of Stratosphere

48. Wild Flower - The Cult

49. Victim of Love - Erasure

50. Silver and Gold - U2

51. Fight for Your Right to Party - Beastie Boys

52. Always the Sun - The Stranglers

53. We’ll Be Together - Sting

54. Never Let Me Down - David Bowie

55. Shock - Psychedelic Furs

56. Hot Hot Hot - The Cure

57. Private Revolution - World Party

58. People Are Strange - Echo and the Bunnymen

59. Mony Mony (Live) - Billy Idol

60. End of the World - REM

61. Elevator Man - Oingo Boingo

62. When Smokey Sings - ABC

63. Understanding Jane - Icicle Works

64. Sweet 16 - Billy Idol

65. Living in a Dream - Pseudo Echo

66. You Are the Girl - The Cars

67. Seattle - Public Image Limited

68. In God’s Country - U2

69. Desire - Gene Loves Jezebel

70. Meet El Presidente - Duran Duran

71. Contradiction - Lions and Ghosts

72. I Go Crazy - Flesh for Lulu

73. All in My Mind - Love and Rockets

74. Sometimes - Erasure

75. Jane’s Getting Serious - Jon Astley

76. The Right Stuff - Bryan Ferry

77. Ask - The Smiths

78. New Direction - Echo and the Bunnymen

79. Pain - Oingo Boingo

80. Wheels on Fire - Siouxsie and the Banshees

81. La Bamba - Los Lobos

82. Panic - The Smiths

83. Good Times - INXS with Jimmy Barnes

84. We Love You - OMD

85. Siamese Twist - Flesh for Lulu

86. This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy

87. Spanish Eyes - U2

88. 87 and Cry - David Bowie

89. Infected - The The

90. Radio Heart - Gary Numan

91. Bed of Lies - Cruzados

92. Happy When it Rains - The Jesus and Mary Chain

93. Love for Sale - Talking Heads

94. Throw Away - Mick Jagger

95. Anything Anything - Dramarama

96. Trust Me to Open My Mouth - Squeeze

97. Shoplifters of the World Unite - The Smiths

98. Walkin’ Down Your Street - The Bangles

99. Lil’ Devil - The Cult

100. Don’t Need That Much - Private Domain

101. Don’t Be Scared - The Fixx

102. Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets

103. I See Red - Silencers

104. Sanity - Killing Joke

105. Daddy’s Coming Home - Walk the Moon

106. Elvis is Everywhere - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

106.7 Walk with an Erection - Swinging Erudites