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WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988)

1. Alphaville - Forever Young

2. U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)

3. Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust

4. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

5. Modern English - I Melt with You

6. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

7. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

8. U2 - Bad

9. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

10. Erasure - Oh L'Amour

11. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

12. Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours

13. The B-52's - Rock Lobster

14. New Order - Blue Monday

15. U2 - I Will Follow

16. The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

17. Ministry - Everyday is Halloween

18. XTC - Dear God

19. U2 - New Year's Day

20. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?

21. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

22. Depeche Mode - Strangelove

23. The Police - Roxanne

24. Yaz - Only You

25. Talk Talk - It's My Life

26. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

27. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

28. Depeche Mode - People are People

29. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

30. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

31. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

32. When in Rome - The Promise

33. The Smiths - This Charming Man

34. The Cure - Let's Go to Bed

35. The Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

36. Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease

37. Killing Joke - Eighties

38. The Cure - In Between Days

39. U2 - With or Without You

40. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go?

41. New Order - Shellshock

42. Public Image Ltd. - Rise

43. The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out

44. Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy

45. Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

46. Big Audio Dynamite = E=MC2

47. The Cure - Close to Me

48. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

49. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

50. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

51. U2 - Gloria

52. New Order - True Faith

53. Time Zone - World Destruction

54. OMD - If You Leave

55. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go

56. INXS - Need You Tonight

57. The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma

58. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)

59. Depeche Mode - Route 66

60. The Cure - Hot! Hot! Hot!

61. Yaz - Situation

62. UB40 - Red Red Wine

63. The Clash - London Calling

64. Love and Rockets - Ball of Confusion

65. Billy Idol - White Wedding

66. U2 - The Sweetest Thing

67. Depeche Mode - Stripped

68. Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy - Kiss Me

69. Thrashing Doves - Jesus on the Payroll

70. The Romantics - What I Like About You

71. The Cure - The Lovecats

72. Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight

73. U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One

74. The Cult - Rain

75. New Order - Temptation

76. Cult Hero - I Dig You

77. INXS - Original Sin

78. Public Image Ltd. - This is Not a Love Song

79. New Order - The Perfect Kiss

80. Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind

81. The Cure - A Night Like This

82. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

83. Camouflage - The Great Commandment

84. The Replacements - Alex Chilton

85. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant

86. The Smiths - Panic

87. Yaz - Don't Go

88. Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey

89. Public Image Ltd. - The Body

90. The Clash - Rock the Casbah

91. The B-52's - Private Idaho

92. Psychedelic Furs - Heartbeat

93. Depeche Mode - A Question of Time

94. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

95. Shona Laing - Glad I'm Not a Kennedy

96. U2 - Out of Control

97. The Cure - One More Time

98. OMD - Enola Gay

99. The Police - Every Breath You Take

100. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

101. The Ramones - Rock n' Roll High School

102. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel

103. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust

104. Squeeze - Black Coffee in Bed

105. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

106. The The - Uncertain Smile

107. INXS - The One Thing

108. New Order - 1963

109. Faith No More - we Care a Lot

110. Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire

111. R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

112. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

113. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

114. Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat

115. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up

116. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking

117. Public Image Ltd. - Seattle

118. The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World Unite

119. The Cure - Push

120. Q-Feel - Dancing in Heaven

121. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

122. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Slowdive

123. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

124. The Clash - I Fought the Law

125. The Alarm - 68 Guns

126. The Cure - Catch

127. B-Movie - Nowhere Girl

128. Squeeze - Tempted

129. Echo & the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo

130. The Police - Don't Stand (So Close to Me)

131. New Order - Subculture

132. The Clash - This is Radio Clash

133. Kim Wilde - Kids in America

134. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

135. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

136. New Order - Thieves Like Us

137. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

138. Peter Godwin - Images of Heaven

139. The Smiths - Ask

140. Berlin - Sex (I'm a...)

141. U2 - A Celebration

142. Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself

143. Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink

144. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

145. Billy Bragg - A New England

146. The Clash - Train in Vain

147. Elvis Costello - Alison

148. Simple Minds - Love Song

149. New Order - Love Vigilantes

150. The Ramones - She's a Sensation

151. Doctor and the Medics - Spirit in the Sky

152. OMD - Tesla Girls

153. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

154. Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts

155. Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line

156. APB - Summer Love

157. Depeche Mode - Fly on the Windscreen

158. General Public - Tenderness

159. Dominatrix - The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

160. Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From a Shell)

161. Talking Heads - Take Me to the River

162. Echo & the Bunnyment - Do It Clean

163. INXS - Listen Like Thieves

164. Yaz - State Farm

165. U2 - Seconds

166. Pet shop Boys - It's a Sin

167. The Cure - Perfect Girl

168. The Ramones - Rockaway Beach

169. Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey - Electric Dreams

170. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

171. The Clash - The Magnificent Seven

172. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

173. Malcolm McLaren - Madame Butterfly

174. Lederknacken - Amok

175. Howard Jones - What Is Love

176. Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show

177. Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

178. INXS - Burn for You

179. Roxy Music - Avalon

180. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image

181. Duran Duran - Girls on Film

182. Madness - One Step Beyond

183. Devo - Whip It

184. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives

185. Ministry - Revenge

186. The Jam - A Town Called Malice

187. U2 - A Sort of Homecoming

188. Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

189. Intaferon - Get Out of London

190. The cramps - Goo Goo Muck

191. David Bowie - Changes

192. INXS - I Send a Message

193. The Normal - Warm Leatherette

194. Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better

195. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

196. Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place

197. Berlin - The Metro

198. Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia

199. Shriekback - Nemesis

200. Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi