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KROQ-FM Top Songs
of 1987

The 1987 countdown.

Revisit KROQ-FM’s Top Songs for 1987, led by The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” Explore all 106 ranked tracks and the 106.7 bonus entry.
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1987 / TOP 106.7

No. 1: “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure

THE 1987 COUNTDOWN

A Year on the ROQ

The 1987 list begins with The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen and INXS. Browse every position in the original KROQ-FM ranking and continue through the decade.
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THE FULL LIST • 1987

KROQ-FM Top Songs of 1987

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

01 – 027

  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 – 054

  1. Crazy
    Icehouse
  2. We Care a Lot
    Faith No More
  3. Alex Chilton
    The Replacements
  4. Hourglass
    Squeeze
  5. It’s Still Warm
    Dramarama
  6. The Passenger
    Siouxsie and the Banshees
  7. Love Removal Machine
    The Cult
  8. Absolute Perfection
    Private Domain with Pato Banton
  9. Alone Again Or
    The Damned
  10. Not My Slave
    Oingo Boingo
  11. Heartbreak Beat
    Psychedelic Furs
  12. Bizarre Love Triangle
    New Order
  13. Fourth of July
    X
  14. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
    The Smiths
  15. Bullet the Blue Sky
    U2
  16. Supposed to Have Sex With You
    Tonio K
  17. Skin Trade
    Duran Duran
  18. Time With Crawl
    David Bowie
  19. What Have I Done to Deserve This
    Pet Shop Boys
  20. Vanishing Girl
    Dukes of Stratosphere
  21. Wild Flower
    The Cult
  22. Victim of Love
    Erasure
  23. Silver and Gold
    U2
  24. Fight for Your Right to Party
    Beastie Boys
  25. Always the Sun
    The Stranglers
  26. We’ll Be Together
    Sting
  27. Never Let Me Down
    David Bowie

55 – 080

  1. Shock
    Psychedelic Furs
  2. Hot Hot Hot
    The Cure
  3. Private Revolution
    World Party
  4. People Are Strange
    Echo and the Bunnymen
  5. Mony Mony (Live)
    Billy Idol
  6. End of the World
    REM
  7. Elevator Man
    Oingo Boingo
  8. When Smokey Sings
    ABC
  9. Understanding Jane
    Icicle Works
  10. Sweet 16
    Billy Idol
  11. Living in a Dream
    Pseudo Echo
  12. You Are the Girl
    The Cars
  13. Seattle
    Public Image Limited
  14. In God’s Country
    U2
  15. Desire
    Gene Loves Jezebel
  16. Meet El Presidente
    Duran Duran
  17. Contradiction
    Lions and Ghosts
  18. I Go Crazy
    Flesh for Lulu
  19. All in My Mind
    Love and Rockets
  20. Sometimes
    Erasure
  21. Jane’s Getting Serious
    Jon Astley
  22. The Right Stuff
    Bryan Ferry
  23. Ask
    The Smiths
  24. New Direction
    Echo and the Bunnymen
  25. Pain
    Oingo Boingo
  26. Wheels on Fire
    Siouxsie and the Banshees

81 – 106

  1. La Bamba
    Los Lobos
  2. Panic
    The Smiths
  3. Good Times
    INXS with Jimmy Barnes
  4. We Love You
    OMD
  5. Siamese Twist
    Flesh for Lulu
  6. This Corrosion
    Sisters of Mercy
  7. Spanish Eyes
    U2
  8. 87 and Cry
    David Bowie
  9. Infected
    The The
  10. Radio Heart
    Gary Numan
  11. Bed of Lies
    Cruzados
  12. Happy When it Rains
    The Jesus and Mary Chain
  13. Love for Sale
    Talking Heads
  14. Throw Away
    Mick Jagger
  15. Anything Anything
    Dramarama
  16. Trust Me to Open My Mouth
    Squeeze
  17. Shoplifters of the World Unite
    The Smiths
  18. Walkin’ Down Your Street
    The Bangles
  19. Lil’ Devil
    The Cult
  20. Don’t Need That Much
    Private Domain
  21. Don’t Be Scared
    The Fixx
  22. Ball of Confusion
    Love and Rockets
  23. I See Red
    Silencers
  24. Sanity
    Killing Joke
  25. Daddy’s Coming Home
    Walk the Moon
  26. Elvis is Everywhere
    Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

106.7 Walk with an Erection
Swinging Erudites

CONTINUE THE DECADE

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