KROQ-FM • THE ROQ OF THE 80s
KROQ-FM Top Songs
of 1989
The final 80s countdown.
Revisit KROQ-FM’s Top Songs for 1989, led by The Cure’s “Love Song.” Explore all 106 ranked tracks and the 106.7 bonus entry.
1989 / TOP 106.7
No. 1: “Love Song” by The Cure
THE 1989 COUNTDOWN
A Year on the ROQ
The 1989 list begins with The Cure, The B-52’s, U2, Depeche Mode and Tears for Fears. Browse every position in the original KROQ-FM ranking and explore the decade’s archive.
THE FULL LIST • 1989
KROQ-FM Top Songs of 1989
All 106 ranked songs from the original KROQJingles.com page, followed by its 106.7 “Hey Ladies” entry. Titles and artist names retain the original list’s wording.
01 – 027
- Love Song
The Cure - Love Shack
The B-52’s - Everlasting Love
U2 - Personal Jesus
Depeche Mode - Sowing the Seeds of Love
Tears for Fears - Good Thing
Fine Young Cannibals - So Alive
Love and Rockets - Fire Woman
The Cult - Stand
REM - Here Comes Your Man
The Pixies - Last Cigarette
Dramarama - Proud to Fall
Ian McCulloch - Round and Round
New Order - Mayor of Simpleton
XTC - Between Something and Nothing
Ocean Blue - Higher Ground
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Veronica
Elvis Costello - I’ll Be You
Replacements - Fascination Street
The Cure - Compulsion
Martin L. Gore - Don’t Crash the Car Tonight
Mary’s Danish - Last of the International Playboys
Morrissey - Way of the World
Max Q - Channel Z
The B-52’s - Kingdom of Rain
The The - Disappointed
Public Image Limited - Flesh and Blood
Oingo Boingo
28 – 054
- No Myth
Michael Penn - Stop
Erasure - A Girl Like You
Smithereens - She Drives Me Crazy
Fine Young Cannibals - Pop Song 89
REM - Come Anytime
Hoodoo Gurus - Dancing Barefoot
U2 - Everlasting Love
Howard Jones - Contact
Big Audio Dynamite - Pictures of Matchstick Man
Camper Van Beethoven - Interesting Drug
Morrissey - Let the Day Begin
The Call - Edie (Ciao Baby)
The Cult - Love is a Shield
Camouflage - Look Who’s Dancing
Ziggy Marley - Cult of Personality
Living Colour - I Want That Man
Deborah Harry - God is a Bullet
Concrete Blonde - Dear God
XTC - Into the Heart of Love
Mighty Lemon Drops - Southbound
Stan Ridgeway - Lullaby
The Cure - Oh Daddy
Adrian Belew - House
Psychedelic Furs - Sick of It
Primitives - God Part II
U2 - No Big Deal
Love & Rockets
55 – 080
- Lay All Your Love On Me
Information Society - Eat For Two
10,000 Maniacs - Vanishing Point
New Order - Mountain Song
Jane’s Addiction - Love and Anger
Kate Bush - Angel of Harlem
U2 - Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz - Eardrum Buzz
Wire - Blues from a Gun
Jesus and Mary Chain - Where Did I Go Wrong
UB40 - Sun King
The Cult - Baby I Don’t Care
Transvision Vamp - King for a Day
XTC - Roam
The B-52’s - World Party
Waterboys - Bombers in the Sky
Thompson Twins - Do You Believe in Shame
Duran Duran - The Prisoner
Howard Jones - Don’t Ask Me Why
Eurythmics - Getting Away With It
Electronic - Regina
Sugarcubes - I Wanna Be Adored
Stone Roses - Self
Fuzzbox - Another World
Hoodoo Gurus - Beat of Love
Voice of the Beehive - Pure
Lightning Seeds
81 – 106
- Achin’ To Be
Replacements - Cosmic Thing
The B-52’s - Nightmares
Violent Femmes - Brother and Sister
Erasure - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
The Pogues - Dirty Old Man
David Byrne - Standing There
The Creatures - Take a Step Back
Simple Minds - Who Will Be There
Ziggy Marley - I’m On My Way
The Proclaimers - Revival
Eurythmics - Madonna of the Wasps
Robyn Hitchcock - Strange Kind of Love
Peter Murphy - Dirty Blvd.
Lou Reed - Don’t Let Me Down Gently
Wonderstuff - Don’t Look Back
Fine Young Cannibals - Warrior
Public Image Limited - Run 2
New Order - This Town
Elvis Costello - Year of the Knife
Tears for Fears - If it’s Love
Squeeze - Is This Love
King Swamp - Under the God
Tin Machine - She Bangs the Drums
Stone Roses - Happy Birthday
Concrete Blonde - Plastic Fantastic
Flesh for Lulu
106.7 Hey Ladies
Beastie Boys
CONTINUE THE DECADE
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