KROQ-FM • THE ROQ OF THE 80s

KROQ-FM Top Songs
of 1986

The 1986 countdown.

Revisit KROQ-FM’s Top Songs for 1986, led by Pet Shop Boys’ “Suburbia.” Explore all 106 ranked tracks and the 106.7 bonus entry.

1986 / TOP 106.7

No. 1: “Suburbia” by Pet Shop Boys

THE 1986 COUNTDOWN

A Year on the ROQ

The 1986 list begins with Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo, Dramarama and The Smiths. Browse every position in the original KROQ-FM ranking and continue through the decade.

THE FULL LIST • 1986

KROQ-FM Top Songs of 1986

All 106 ranked songs from the original KROQJingles.com page, followed by its 106.7 LA Dream Team entry. Titles and artist names retain the original list’s wording.

01 – 027

Suburbia
Pet Shop Boys
A Question of Lust
Depeche Mode
Pain
Oingo Boingo
Anything, Anything
Dramarama
Ask
The Smiths
Desire
Gene Loves Jezebel
She Brakes for Rainbows
B-52’s
Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel
Notorious
Duran Duran
Wild, Wild Life
Talking Heads
Close to Me
The Cure
Brand New Lover
Dead or Alive
But Not Tonight
Depeche Mode
Ink and Paper
Modern English
To Be a Lover
Billy Idol
If You Leave
OMD
Panic
The Smiths
French Kissing in the USA
Deborah Harry
What You Need
INXS
Dear God
XTC
Oh L’Amour
Erasure
Nothing in Common
Thompson Twins
Bizarre Love Triangle
New Order
Rise
PIL
Don’t Get Me Wrong
Pretenders
Blood and Roses
Smithereens
Walk Like an Egyptian
Bangles

28 – 054

Ever Fallen in Love
Fine Young Cannibals
Look Away
Big Country
Cities in Dust
Siouxsie & the Banshees
The Calling
Ken Heaven
Summer of Love
B-52’s
Music That You Can Dance To
Sparks
Superman
REM
Big Time
Peter Gabriel
Boys Don’t Cry
The Cure
Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Smiths
Love Missile F1-11
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Steal My Flame
Arcadia
Shellshock
New Order
Not My Slave
Oingo Boingo
A Question of Time
Depeche Mode
Digging Your Scene
Blowmonkeys
Forever Live and Die
OMD
Kundalini Express
Love & Rockets
Puzzling Evidence
Talking Heads
Babies
Real Life
Secret Separation
The Fixx
Heartbreak Beat
Psychedelic Furs
Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer
Suspicious Minds
Fine Young Cannibals
Alone Without You
King
Real Wild Child
Iggy Pop
Stay
Oingo Boingo

55 – 080

Too Much of Nothing
General Public
Hit That Perfect Beat
Bronski Beat
Manic Monday
Bangles
You Know I Love You
Howard Jones
Love Comes Quickly
Pet Shop Boys
I’ve Been Losing You
A-ha
Venus
Bananarama
Behind the Wall of Sleep
Smithereens
Missionary Man
Eurythmics
Pretty in Pink
Psychedelic Furs
Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Wang Chung
A Man Inside My Mouth
The Cure
Cross the Border
Ice House
Listen Like Thieves
INXS
All the Things She Said
Simple Minds
Love For Sale
Talking Heads
Invisible Touch
Genesis
Heartache
Gene Loves Jezebel
How Can a Laboring Man Find Time for Self-Culture
Martini Ranch
Rock Me Amadeus
Falco
Absolute Beginners
David Bowie
Pleasure & Pain
Divinyls
So Much for Love
Venetians
Drive She Said
Stan Ridgeway
A Good Heart
Feargal Sharkey
Mothers Talk
Tears for Fears

81 – 106

Mad About You
Belinda Carlisle
E=MC2
Big Audio Dynamite
Do Wot You Do
INXS
I Want to Be a Cowboy
Boys Don’t Cry
I Do What I Do to Have You
John Taylor
Walk This Way
Run DMC
All in My Mind
Love & Rockets
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
Robert Palmer
Romeo and Jane
Tonio K
Legs
Art of Noise
Why Don’t We Live Together
Pet Shop Boys
Don Quichotte
Magazine 60
Kiss
Prince
Say the Word
Arcadia
Here Comes the Man
Boom Boom Room
Who Needs Love Like That
Erasure
Take it Easy
Andy Taylor
Kiss the Dirt
INXS
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths
Ruthless People
Mick Jagger
Candybar Express
Love and Money
Soul Standing By
Billy Idol
True to You
Ric Ocasek
Built for the Future
The Fixx
Time Waits for No One
Robbie Nevil
Hanging on a Heart Attack
Device

106.7 LA Dream Team

CONTINUE THE DECADE

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