KROQ Countdown Year

1990

1. Nothing Compares 2 You - Sinead O’Connor

2. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

3. Been Caught Stealing - Jane’s Addiction

4. Pictures of You - The Cure

5. Fools Gold - The Stone Roses

6. Epic (What is It) - Faith No More

7. Only Tongue Can Tell - Trash Can Sinatras

8. Ball and Chain - Social Distortion

9. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

10. Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

11. Candy - Iggy Pop

12. World in My Eyes - Depeche Mode

13. Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode

14. The Only One I Know - Charlatans UK

15. Joey - Concrete Blonde

16. Suicide Blonde - INXS

17. Pure - The Lightning Seeds

18. Head Like a Hole - Nine Inch Nails

19. Cradle of Love - Billy Idol

20. Here’s Where the Story Ends - The Sundays

21. Head On - The Jesus and Mary Chain

22. The Way You Do the Things You Do - UB40

23. Cuts You Up - Peter Murphy

24. I’m Free - The Soup Dragons

25. Jealous - Gene Loves Jezebel

26. Loaded - Primal Scream

27. The Emperors New Clothes - Sinead O’Connor

28. Never Enough - The Cure

29. Night and Day - U2

30. King of the Mountain - Midnight Oil

31. This and That - Michael Penn

32. I Don’t Know Why I Love You - House of Love

33. Hippy Chick - Soho

34. Type - Living Color

35. Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants

36. Onion Skin - Boom Crash Opera

37. Star - Erasure

38. Stop - Jane’s Addiction

39. Roam - The B-52’s

40. Story of My Life - Social Distortion

41. Ouija Board, Ouija Board - Morrissey

42. Crystal Clear - The Darling Buds

43. Prodigal Blues - Billy Idol

44. Room at the Top - Adam Ant

45. Tomorrow Wendy - Concrete Blonde

46. House - Psychedelic Furs

47. Here I Am (Come and Take Me) - UB40

48. Tom’s Diner - DNA featuring Suzanne Vega

49. Skin - Oingo Boingo

50. Hello I Love You - The Cure

51. This is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets

52. Yesterday Girl - Smithereens

53. All I Want - The Lightning Seeds

54. Forgotten Years - Midnight Oil

55. Can’t Be Sure - The Sundays

56. More - Sisters of Mercy

57. Drifting Falling - The Ocean Blue

58. Step On - Happy Mondays

59. Brave New World - Michael Penn

60. Don’t Ask Me - Public Image Limited

61. Never Do That - The Pretenders

62. Dig for Fire - The Pixies

63. Getting Away With It - Electronic

64. Bitter Tears - INXS

65. I Built This Garden For Us - Lenny Kravitz

66. Hello - The Beloved

67. Unchained Melody - U2

68. Show Me Your Soul - Red Hot Chili Peppers

69. Metropolis - The Church

70. Good Morning Britain - Aztec Camera

71. Strawberry Fields Forever - Candy Flip

72. Obscurity Knocks - Trash Can Sinatras

73. Harold and Joe - The Cure

74. Falling to Pieces - Faith No More

75. Serious - Duran Duran

76. Move Mountains - Jesus Jones

77. Butterfly on a Wheel - Mission UK

78. November Spawned a Monster - Morrissey

79. Everybody Knows - Concrete Blonde

80. That’s a Lie - Too Much Joy

81. Downtown - Lloyd Cole

82. Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays

83. Gimme Hope Joanna - Eddy Grant

84. I’ll Be Your Chauffeur - David J.

85. Cubic - 808 State

86. Every Beat of the Heart - The Railway Children

87. Beatles and Stones - House of Love

88. Way Down Now - World Party

89. Heart Like a Wheel - Human League

90. One Love - The Stone Roses

91. Halo - Depeche Mode

92. Golden Bluders - The Posies

93. Fury Eyes - The Creatures

94. Unbelievable - EMF

95. So Hard - The Pet Shop Boys

96. When the River Runs Dry - Hunters and Collectors

97. Then - The Charlatans UK

98. Violence of Summer - Duran Duran

99. Disappear - INXS

100. Dreamtime - The Heart Throbs

101. World in Motion - New Order

102. Kool Thing - Sonic Youth

103. God Tonight - Real Life

104. Special One - Ultra Vivid Scene

105. Someone Take the Wheel - The Replacements

106. Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins

106.7 Silent Night - Lewisidal Tendencies