KROQ-FM • THE ROQ OF THE 80s
KROQ-FM Top Songs
of 1984
The 1984 countdown.
Revisit KROQ-FM’s Top Songs for 1984, led by Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax.” Explore all 106 ranked tracks and the 106.7 bonus entry.
1984 / TOP 106.7
No. 1: “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
THE 1984 COUNTDOWN
A Year on the ROQ
The 1984 list begins with Frankie Goes to Hollywood, General Public, U2, Bronski Beat and Prince. Browse every position in the original KROQ-FM ranking and continue through the decade.
THE FULL LIST • 1984
KROQ-FM Top Songs of 1984
All 106 ranked songs from the original KROQJingles.com page, followed by its 106.7 Erotic Egil entry. Titles and artist names retain the original list’s wording.
01 – 027
- Relax
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Tenderness
General Public - Pride (In the Name of Love)
U2 - Why?
Bronski Beat - Erotic City
Prince - Two Tribes
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Ladykiller
Vandals - Rebel Yell
Billy Idol - The Killing Moon
Echo & the Bunnymen - Hold Me Now
Thompson Twins - West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys - People are People
Depeche Mode - Cow Punk
Scott Goddard - Less Cities, More Moving People
The Fixx - Sexcrime 1984
Eurythmics - Master & Servant
Depeche Mode - Dazzle
Siouxsie & the Banshees - What’s Gone Wrong
Untouchables - Original Sin
INXS - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Wham - Wild Boys
Duran Duran - How Soon is Now
The Smiths - Big in Japan
Alphaville - Blue Jean
David Bowie - Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Band Aid - Flesh for Fantasy
Billy Idol - It’s My Life
Talk Talk
28 – 054
- The Lebanon
Human League - The Reflex
Duran Duran - Ghost In You
Psychedelic Furs - Locomotion
OMD - Obsession
Animotion - Catch My Fall
Billy Idol - I Send a Message
INXS - Passion Planet
Thompson Twins - What is Love
Howard Jones - Burn for You
INXS - Don’t Tell Me
Blancmange - When Doves Cry
Prince - Waterfront
Simple Minds - 80’s
Killing Joke - Wonderland
Big Country - Wild Life
Bananarama - Eyes Without a Face
Billy Idol - Apollo 9
Adam Ant - Shout
Devo - The Gap
Thompson Twins - Wild Thing
X - Melting in the Sun
INXS - Let’s Go Crazy
Prince - Hot You’re Cool
General Public - Pretending to be Drunk
Sparks - Hyperactive
Thomas Dolby - What Difference Does it Make
The Smiths
55 – 080
- Hand on My Heart
Shriekback - South Central Rain
R.E.M. - My Everchanging Moods
Style Council - Jungle Love
The Time - 68 Guns
The Alarm - Love You Suzanne
Lou Reed - Something Isn’t Right
Oingo Boingo - Free Yourself
The Untouchables - Go
Tones on Tail - Speed Your Love to Me
Simple Minds - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper - Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun
Julie Brown - New Moon on Monday
Duran Duran - Only When You Leave
Spandau Ballet - Everything Counts
Depeche Mode - Out of Touch
Hall & Oates - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
Sparks - Burning Down the House
Talking Heads - White China
Ultravox - Up On the Catwalk
Simple Minds - Revenge for Love
Spandau Ballet - Get the Balance Right
Depeche Mode - Make Me Smile
Duran Duran - Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)
Romeo Void - Head Over Heels
Go-Go’s - Puppet Boy
Devo
81 – 106
- She Bop
Cyndi Lauper - Game Above My Head
Blancmange - Doctor Doctor
Thompson Twins - Who’s That Girl
Eurythmics - The More You Live, the More You Love
A Flock of Seagulls - Cruel Summer
Bananarama - Heaven
Psychedelic Furs - General Public
General Public - The Only Flame In Town
Elvis Costello - That’s Love That it Is
Blancmange - Touch
Berlin - You Take Me Up
Thompson Twins - New Song
Howard Jones - Rain
Dragon - Robert DeNiro’s Waiting
Bananarama - Living on Video
Trans-X - If it Happens Again
UB40 - Where the Rose is Sown
Big Country - Blue Highway
Billy Idol - Tesla Girls
OMD - I’ll Do You
Wire Train - Magic
The Cars - Smalltown Boy
Bronski Beat - Romancing the Stone
Eddy Grant - Girl Waiting
Boy Waiting - Gratitude
Danny Elfman
106.7 Erotic Egil
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