KROQ Countdown Year

1988

1. Route 66 - Depeche Mode

2. Harley David - Bollock Brothers

3. Peek-A-Boo - Siouxsie and the Banshees

4. Desire - U2

5. Every Day is Like Sunday - Morrissey

6. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

7. Chains of Love - Erasure

8. Touched by the Hand of God - New Order

9. Wild Thing - Tone Loc

10. Kick - INXS

11. Wild World - Maxi Priest

12. Crash - Primitives

13. Tears Run Rings - Marc Almond

14. Prison Bound - Social Distortion

15. Stop This Car - Woodentops

16. Reach - Martini Ranch

17. Christine - House of Love

18. Always on My Mind - Pet Shop Boys

19. Suspicion - Gene Loves Jezebel

20. (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads

21. The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil

22. The Great Commandment - Camouflage

23. Balloon Man - Robyn Hitchcock

24. Cinderella Undercover - Oingo Boingo

25. Bedbugs and Ballyhoo - Echo and the Bunnymen

26. The Killing Jar - Siouxsie and the Banshees

27. Magic Carpet Ride - Grandmaster Flash

28. What I Am - Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

29. There Is No Love Between Us Anymore - Pop Will Eat Itself

30. Stand - REM

31. Wild Wild West - Escape Club

32. Only a Memory - Smithereens

33. Heart - Pet Shop Boys

34. Heart of Stone - Erasure

35. Big Hollow Man - Danielle Dax

36. Motorcrash - Sugarcubes

37. All That Money Wants - Psychedelic Furs

38. Breakfast in Bed - UB40/Chrissie Hynde

39. America - Killing Joke

40. Rev It Up - Jerry Harrison

41. I’ve Got a Feeling - The Screaming Tribesmen

42. Devil Inside - INXS

43. Dreaming - OMD

44. In Your Room - Bangles

45. This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy

46. Charlotte Anne - Julian Cope

47. So Important - Sparks

48. Suede Head - Morrissey

49. Airhead - Thomas Dolby

50. Take My Heart Away - Johnny Clegg

51. I Need a Man - Eurythmics

52. There’s a Barbarian in the Back of My Car - Voice of the Beehive

53. I Don’t Want Your Love - Duran Duran

54. Just Play Music - Big Audio Dynamite

55. Another Kind of Love - Hugh Cornwell

56. Presence of Love - The Alarm

57. Boom There She Was - Scritti Politti

58. What’s the Matter Here? - 10,000 Maniacs

59. What’s on Your Mind? - Information Society

60. Trash City - Joe Strummer

61. Electric Blue - Icehouse

62. Shame - Eurythmics

63. So Excited - Ranking Roger

64. Doctorin’ the Tardis - The Timelords

65. Carolyn’s Fingers - Cocteau Twins

66. Angel of Harlem - U2

67. I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones

68. Been There, Done That - Jon Astley

69. Tomorrow People - Ziggy Marley

70. Jane Says - Jane’s Addiction

71. Dad I’m in Jail - Was (Not Was)

72. Situations - Cetu Javu

73. Baby Doll - Devo

74. Broken Heart - Red Flag

75. Mirror People - Love and Rockets

76. I Want Your (Hands On Me) - Sinead O’Connor

77. Inside Out - Mighty Lemon Drops

78. Orange Crush - REM

79. A Little Respect - Erasure

80. Cat House - Danielle Dax

81. Winning Side - Oingo Boingo

82. Fiesta - Pogues

83. All Night Long - Peter Murphy

84. Man With a Gun - Jerry Harrison

85. Glad I’m Not a Kennedy - Shona Laing

86. Glamour Boys - Living Colour

87. Hairdresser on Fire - Morrissey

88. Def Con One - Pop Will Eat Itself

89. Disco Dancer - Devo

90. I’m an Adult Now - Pursuit of Happiness

91. Delicious Demon - Sugarcubes

92. Tubular Bells - Book of Love

93. Kidney Bingos - Wire

94. Don’t Turn Around - Aswad

95. Turquoise Jewelry - Camper van Beethoven

96. Kill Eye - Crowded House

97. Call Me Blue - A House

98. Bone Machine - Pixies

99. Sister I’m a Poet - Morrissey

100. Ornaments of Gold - Siouxsie and the Banshees

101. Tell That Girl to Shutup - Transvision Vamp

102. Surfin’ USA - Jesus and the Mary Chain

103. Turn Around and Count to Ten - Dead or Alive

104. Come Out to Play - UB40

105. Tumblin’ Down - Ziggy Marley

106. Dreamworld - Midnight Oil

106.7 Mother’s Day - Boy John Frost