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KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996)

The all-time countdown (Memorial Day 1996) from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 500 songs, with “Head Like a Hole” by Nine Inch Nails at number one. The list features 214 different artists; U2 has the most entries with 18 songs.

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1 Head Like a Hole Nine Inch Nails 89 #1
2 Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Dramarama 55 #2
3 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 86 #1
4 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 102 #1
5 Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode 62 #1
6 Jane Says Jane's Addiction 106 #2
7 The Metro Berlin 24 #7
8 Blue Monday New Order 96 #1
9 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
10 Tainted Love Soft Cell 76 #1
11 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
12 Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo 65 #1
13 Add It Up Violent Femmes 46 #8
14 Heart of Glass Blondie 54 #5
15 I Melt With You Modern English 96 #2
16 Just Like Heaven The Cure 104 #1
17 Sweet Jane Cowboy Junkies 57 #4
18 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 138 #2
19 Girls Beastie Boys 40 #6
20 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
21 Jammin' Bob Marley 43 #2
22 Our House Madness 66 #15
23 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
24 Pictures of You The Cure 71 #4
25 Been Caught Stealing Jane's Addiction 112 #1
26 Smoke Two Joints The Toyes 10 #22
27 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 67 #2
28 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 106 #1
29 Crash The Primitives 40 #12
30 Kiss Off Violent Femmes 47 #3
31 Nowhere Girl B-Movie 26 #5
32 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 92 #1
33 One Step Beyond Madness 42 #4
34 One Way or Another Blondie 74 #19
35 The Lovecats The Cure 60 #2
36 One Love Bob Marley 27 #36
37 With or Without You U2 213 #3
38 88 Lines About 44 Women The Nails 35 #3
39 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash 163 #8
40 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
41 Whip It Devo 78 #1
42 In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel 123 #2
43 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 59 #1
44 Rio Duran Duran 44 #18
45 Gone Daddy Gone Violent Femmes 41 #45
46 Close to Me The Cure 83 #11
47 The Safety Dance Men Without Hats 35 #2
48 You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party) Beastie Boys 86 #1
49 New Year's Day U2 182 #4
50 No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley 67 #17
51 Save a Prayer Duran Duran 26 #14
52 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears 90 #1
53 The One I Love R.E.M. 150 #5
54 Living on Video Trans-X 12 #54
55 Come On Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners 64 #5
56 A Million Miles Away The Plimsouls 47 #44
57 Love Song The Cure 80 #1
58 West End Girls Pet Shop Boys 52 #11
59 Doot Doot Freur 17 #28
60 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones 158 #1
61 Secret Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 11 #48
62 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 140 #9
63 Back on the Chain Gang The Pretenders 83 #15
64 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 48 #14
65 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
66 Give It Away Red Hot Chili Peppers 115 #3
67 Words Missing Persons 24 #4
68 Roxanne The Police 167 #10
69 London Calling The Clash 122 #1
70 Mirror in the Bathroom The English Beat 64 #38
71 99 Luftballoons Nena 25 #15
72 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 173 #1
73 Mickey Toni Basil 8 #15
74 True Faith New Order 78 #3
75 Destination Unknown Missing Persons 16 #40
76 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 83 #4
77 My Sharona The Knack 41 #54
78 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 69 #2
79 Never Tear Us Apart INXS 48 #1
80 Dear God XTC 92 #1
81 Shout Tears for Fears 70 #5
82 Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 85 #4
83 South Central Rain R.E.M. 9 #83
84 Rock Lobster The B-52's 87 #5
85 Tempted Squeeze 89 #21
86 Sex (I'm a...) Berlin 40 #23
87 Let's Dance David Bowie 98 #6
88 Rock the Casbah The Clash 164 #1
89 I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls 49 #2
90 Just Another Day Oingo Boingo 15 #27
91 Obsession Animotion 16 #32
92 Sin Nine Inch Nails 20 #67
93 Red Red Wine UB40 49 #1
94 Never Say Never Romeo Void 59 #8
95 People Are Strange Echo and the Bunnymen 37 #20
96 Route 66 Depeche Mode 53 #1
97 Rebel Yell Billy Idol 143 #3
98 Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling 38 #8
99 So Alive Love and Rockets 61 #1
100 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 53 #9
101 People are People Depeche Mode 66 #11
102 Psycho Killer Talking Heads 98 #6
103 Stay Oingo Boingo 10 #31
104 Always Something There To Remind Me Naked Eyes 29 #70
105 Mountain Song Jane's Addiction 38 #43
106 The Look of Love ABC 25 #56
107 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 66 #3
108 Party At Ground Zero Fishbone 43 #65
109 Cars Gary Numan 66 #11
110 What I Like About You The Romantics 92 #10
111 The Promise When in Rome 24 #11
112 Goodbye Goodbye Oingo Boingo 3 #63
113 Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo 64 #9
114 Strip Adam Ant 27 #8
115 Somebody Depeche Mode 16 #7
116 Jeremy Pearl Jam 187 #1
117 Situation Yaz 46 #8
118 Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys 50 #6
119 Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths 62 #2
120 Girl U Want Devo 30 #48
121 Little Girls Oingo Boingo 11 #47
122 Turning Japanese The Vapors 52 #14
123 Where the Streets Have No Name U2 151 #3
124 China Girl David Bowie 49 #61
125 Rush Big Audio Dynamite 51 #5
126 Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode 107 #2
127 No More Words Berlin 8 #127
128 Come As You Are Nirvana 175 #1
129 Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House 61 #5
130 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 154 #8
131 Opportunities (Let's Make Lot's of Money) Pet Shop Boys 23 #3
132 Here's Where The Story Ends The Sundays 56 #3
133 Fascination Street The Cure 52 #5
134 Sex Dwarf Soft Cell 17 #3
135 Rock This Town The Stray Cats 40 #6
136 Ball and Chain Social Distortion 71 #2
137 Valley Girl Moon Unit Zappa 5 #137
138 Bad U2 78 #5
139 Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood 36 #1
140 Dear Prudence Siouxsie and the Banshees 36 #20
141 Head Over Heels Tears for Fears 42 #16
142 Master and Servant Depeche Mode 44 #5
143 Edie (Ciao Baby) The Cult 22 #15
144 Tenderness General Public 47 #1
145 Los Angleses X 1 #145
146 Whisper to a Scream Icicle Works 18 #59
147 Girls on Film Duran Duran 51 #18
148 White Wedding Billy Idol 152 #7
149 Voices Carry Til Tuesday 36 #28
150 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 49 #30
151 Everyday Is Like Halloween Ministry 4 #47
152 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 125 #4
153 I Touch Myself The Divinyls 36 #12
154 All I Want Is You U2 46 #6
155 Down In It Nine Inch Nails 53 #47
156 Policy of Truth Depeche Mode 63 #2
157 Save It For Later The English Beat 69 #9
158 I Want Candy Bow Wow Wow 53 #38
159 Modern Love David Bowie 84 #12
160 Train in Vain The Clash 120 #10
161 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics 72 #4
162 In Between Days The Cure 81 #3
163 Twilight Zone Golden Earring 98 #17
164 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 36 #6
165 Fire Woman The Cult 75 #6
166 Love Plus One Haircut 100 34 #26
167 Weird Science Oingo Boingo 32 #34
168 I Confess The English Beat 40 #10
169 Get the Balance Right Depeche Mode 18 #42
170 What's The Matter Here 10,000 Maniacs 42 #21
171 Life During Wartime Talking Heads 87 #41
172 Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs 64 #10
173 One U2 172 #1
174 American Music Violent Femmes 45 #14
175 Alive and Kicking Simple Minds 46 #1
176 Peek-A-Boo Siouxsie and the Banshees 51 #1
177 Dancing in Heaven Q-Feel 15 #73
178 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 96 #1
179 What is Love Howard Jones 17 #10
180 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 58 #13
181 Under Pressure Queen 130 #2
182 Bullet the Blue Sky U2 59 #16
183 I Want Your Hands On Me Sinéad O'Connor 36 #29
184 Strangelove Depeche Mode 62 #2
185 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic The Police 85 #20
186 Private Idaho The B-52's 58 #25
187 Never Let Me Down Again Depeche Mode 58 #7
188 Headhunter Front 242 13 #63
189 I Want to Be a Cowboy Boys Don't Cry 5 #84
190 Why Can't I Be You? The Cure 60 #1
191 Only the Lonely The Motels 8 #184
192 Don't You Want Me The Human League 41 #5
193 The Politics of Dancing Re-Flex 17 #44
194 Buffalo Soldier Bob Marley 39 #10
195 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
196 Walking in L.A. Missing Persons 22 #11
197 Black Pearl Jam 179 #1
198 Heartbreak Beat The Psychedelic Furs 36 #38
199 Desperate, But Not Serious Adam Ant 24 #140
200 Higher Ground Red Hot Chili Peppers 68 #9
201 Summer of Love The B-52's 24 #8
202 Space Oddity David Bowie 157 #8
203 What Difference Does It Make? The Smiths 36 #17
204 Kiss Me Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy 25 #13
205 Institutionalized Suicidal Tendencies 39 #3
206 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 83 #2
207 Dancing With Myself Billy Idol 84 #18
208 A Question of Lust Depeche Mode 17 #2
209 Change Tears for Fears 34 #32
210 I Eat Cannibals Toto Coelo 11 #55
211 Under the Milky Way The Church 85 #3
212 Rock Me Amadeus Falco 11 #12
213 What I Am Edie Brickell And New Bohemians 34 #9
214 867-5309/Jenny Tommy Tutone 27 #54
215 Stand R.E.M. 65 #4
216 Party Out of Bounds The B-52's 25 #91
217 Tomorrow People Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers 28 #23
218 Chains of Love Erasure 34 #7
219 It's My Life Talk Talk 61 #18
220 New Song Howard Jones 12 #28
221 Brass in Pocket The Pretenders 102 #30
222 Avalon Roxy Music 52 #33
223 Call Me Blondie 71 #6
224 Ask The Smiths 48 #5
225 Favorite Shirts Haircut 100 8 #74
226 Tom's Diner DNA 25 #14
227 Panic The Smiths 56 #5
228 Cool Places Sparks 13 #39
229 Stray Cat Strut The Stray Cats 31 #53
230 Everything Counts Depeche Mode 43 #24
231 Lithium Nirvana 150 #3
232 Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello 60 #25
233 White Lines (Don't Do It) Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel 17 #7
234 Tears of a Clown The English Beat 16 #82
235 Love Removal Machine The Cult 50 #13
236 Pop Muzik M 15 #81
237 Stop! Jane's Addiction 56 #6
238 Love Comes Quickly Pet Shop Boys 4 #59
239 Don't Change INXS 58 #28
240 We Got the Beat The Go-Go's 38 #3
241 Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs 70 #9
242 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 60 #2
243 I Will Follow U2 96 #9
244 Promises Promises Naked Eyes 8 #244
245 Mental Hopscotch Missing Persons 10 #1
246 Perfect Way Scritti Politti 12 #32
247 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 56 #5
248 God Save the Queen The Sex Pistols 72 #3
249 Only a Lad Oingo Boingo 24 #6
250 In the Name of Love Thompson Twins 10 #83
251 Red Rain Peter Gabriel 43 #28
252 So In Love Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 16 #17
253 Don't Go Yaz 27 #37
254 Life In A Northern Town The Dream Academy 30 #145
255 Valerie Loves Me Material Issue 46 #19
256 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Devo 36 #12
257 Let Me Go Heaven 17 25 #31
258 World In My Eyes Depeche Mode 35 #5
259 Two Hearts Beat As One U2 52 #19
260 We Close Our Eyes Oingo Boingo 17 #22
261 De Do Do Do De Da Da Da The Police 32 #8
262 Even Flow Pearl Jam 145 #2
263 Oh Yeah Yello 20 #79
264 Is This Love? Bob Marley 26 #142
265 Original Sin INXS 44 #19
266 Suedehead Morrissey 56 #4
267 Doctor Doctor Thompson Twins 6 #47
268 Can't Stand Losing You The Police 52 #49
269 Take Me to the River Talking Heads 85 #6
270 Kiss Them for Me Siouxsie and the Banshees 55 #3
271 And She Was Talking Heads 81 #21
272 Three Little Birds Bob Marley 46 #2
273 I Don't Like Mondays Boomtown Rats 52 #47
274 Dreaming Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 10 #26
275 Good Times Roll The Cars 81 #17
276 World Destruction Time Zone 31 #17
277 Heaven The Psychedelic Furs 32 #50
278 Everlasting Love U2 12 #3
279 Be Near Me ABC 16 #18
280 Space Age Love Song A Flock of Seagulls 23 #25
281 Planet Claire The B-52's 37 #62
282 This is Radio The Clash The Clash 10 #145
283 She Drives Me Crazy Fine Young Cannibals 46 #4
284 Wild Flower The Cult 17 #28
285 Here Comes The Rain Again Eurythmics 38 #82
286 Mony Mony Billy Idol 46 #13
287 Lies Thompson Twins 25 #50
288 What You Need INXS 65 #7
289 Poison Arrow ABC 19 #63
290 One Night in Bangkok Murray Head 13 #24
291 Bad Luck Social Distortion 41 #22
292 I Know What Boys Like The Waitresses 31 #27
293 King of Pain The Police 49 #17
294 Head On The Jesus and Mary Chain 31 #21
295 Rapture Blondie 54 #31
296 Eighties Killing Joke 29 #37
297 Fame David Bowie 91 #34
298 I Send a Message INXS 21 #9
299 No Sleep Til Brooklyn Beastie Boys 55 #6
300 Rain in the Summertime The Alarm 38 #19
301 In God's Country U2 42 #44
302 Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage Killer Pussy 10 #50
303 Forever Young Alphaville 26 #1
304 No New Tale To Tell Love and Rockets 49 #13
305 Oh L'Amour Erasure 31 #3
306 Red Skies The Fixx 33 #102
307 The Cutter Echo and the Bunnymen 35 #22
308 Lover Come Back to Me Dead or Alive 5 #59
309 Don't Let's Start They Might Be Giants 49 #39
310 Antmusic Adam & the Ants 34 #2
311 Eyes Without A Face Billy Idol 34 #26
312 Brass Monkey Beastie Boys 48 #2
313 The Perfect Kiss New Order 43 #2
314 Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Culture Club 13 #11
315 Cuts You Up Peter Murphy 58 #10
316 Warm Leatherette The Normal 12 #193
317 Every Breath You Take The Police 124 #3
318 Lust For Life Iggy Pop 92 #1
319 Middle of the Road The Pretenders 53 #25
320 Talk Talk Talk Talk 27 #9
321 Shake the Disease Depeche Mode 38 #1
322 Wild Thing X 10 #25
323 Belly of the Whale Burning Sensations 25 #19
324 The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun Julie Brown 6 #66
325 Love and Pride King 12 #16
326 Goody Two Shoes Adam Ant 41 #25
327 Steppin' Out Joe Jackson 32 #66
328 For What It's Worth The Candy Skins 22 #49
329 Suburbia Pet Shop Boys 7 #1
330 In a Big Country Big Country 77 #3
331 Jukebox The Flirts 4 #331
332 Cruel Summer Bananarama 14 #81
333 Sixty Eight Guns The Alarm 20 #59
334 Der Kommissar Falco 3 #334
335 Alone Again Or The Damned 29 #36
336 One Thing Leads To Another The Fixx 48 #19
337 AEIOU (and Sometimes Y) EBN-OZN 12 #13
338 Epic Faith No More 109 #6
339 Talk of the Town The Pretenders 31 #59
340 Hungry Like the Wolf Duran Duran 58 #22
341 My Ever Changing Moods The Style Council 34 #57
342 Right Here, Right Now Jesus Jones 58 #3
343 Ladykiller The Vandals 8 #7
344 Our Lips Are Sealed The Go-Go's 33 #32
345 Ship of Fools World Party 44 #45
346 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 22 #42
347 Legal Tender The B-52's 13 #65
348 Don't Stand So Close to Me The Police 104 #7
349 Saved By Zero The Fixx 11 #44
350 Radio Free Europe R.E.M. 77 #1
351 Paul Revere Beastie Boys 24 #30
352 Pump It Up Elvis Costello & the Attractions 75 #24
353 Hold Me Now Thompson Twins 31 #10
354 A Little Respect Erasure 50 #4
355 Gloria U2 48 #51
356 Postcards from Paradise Flesh for Lulu 6 #192
357 The Way You Do The Things You Do UB40 22 #20
358 Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz 37 #15
359 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 56 #5
360 Walking on the Moon The Police 53 #63
361 The One Thing INXS 52 #10
362 It's a Mug's Game Soft Cell 12 #37
363 Down Under Men At Work 36 #2
364 Stay Up Late Talking Heads 38 #14
365 Electric Avenue Eddy Grant 23 #104
366 A Girl Like You The Smithereens 51 #30
367 The Killing Moon Echo and the Bunnymen 65 #9
368 Orange Crush R.E.M. 76 #1
369 Clampdown The Clash 51 #1
370 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) Information Society 16 #4
371 Let's Go The Cars 64 #89
372 Hot You're Cool General Public 13 #51
373 Take On Me a-ha 46 #2
374 Uncertain Smile The The 51 #3
375 Suffragette City David Bowie 79 #60
376 Let's Go All The Way Sly Fox 2 #376
377 We Care A Lot Faith No More 33 #29
378 Lay Your Hands on Me Thompson Twins 11 #22
379 Kids In America Kim Wilde 20 #98
380 Wild Wild Life Talking Heads 39 #4
381 Genius of Love Tom Tom Club 40 #81
382 Big in Japan Alphaville 17 #23
383 My Best Friend's Girl The Cars 80 #69
384 Hot! Hot! Hot! The Cure 39 #17
385 Mystery Achievement The Pretenders 29 #19
386 Kiss and Tell Bryan Ferry 11 #61
387 Jerry Was A Race Car Driver Primus 62 #26
388 Power and Passion Midnight Oil 1 #388
389 Desire U2 96 #2
390 I Got You Split Enz 50 #39
391 Beat on the Brat The Ramones 22 #105
392 Peter Gunn Art of Noise 17 #80
393 Finest Worksong R.E.M. 25 #67
394 Baby Oh No Bow Wow Wow 7 #80
395 Synchronicity II The Police 78 #15
396 One More Shot C-Bank 5 #35
397 Never Stop Echo and the Bunnymen 21 #17
398 Hot in the City Billy Idol 11 #106
399 Shock the Monkey Peter Gabriel 61 #21
400 Sometimes Erasure 16 #27
401 Rise Public Image Ltd. 47 #24
402 The Walk The Cure 27 #49
403 Birdhouse In Your Soul They Might Be Giants 63 #4
404 I'll Be You The Replacements 49 #8
405 Stripped Depeche Mode 12 #24
406 Happy Birthday Altered Images 13 #27
407 China Red Rockers 11 #40
408 So Lonely The Police 54 #94
409 Johnny Are You Queer? Josie Cotton 6 #5
410 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 102 #3
411 Go! Tones on Tail 44 #35
412 Biko Peter Gabriel 32 #21
413 White Girl X 10 #16
414 Need You Tonight INXS 87 #5
415 Spanish Eyes U2 6 #40
416 Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA Devo 2 #254
417 Smash It Up The Damned 5 #42
418 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker The Ramones 67 #46
419 Give Me Back My Man The B-52's 5 #5
420 What Have I Done To Deserve This? Pet Shop Boys 25 #36
421 Can't Get Enough of You Baby The Colourfield 8 #65
422 Town Called Malice The Jam 62 #7
423 Love is the Drug Roxy Music 52 #47
424 Video Killed The Radio Star The Buggles 50 #42
425 Road to Nowhere Talking Heads 36 #2
426 Make a Circuit With Me The Polecats 14 #21
427 Stand or Fall The Fixx 13 #63
428 Bang on the Drum Bad Manners 3 #219
429 Stir It Up Bob Marley 24 #12
430 When The Walls Come Down The Call 1 #430
431 Shellshock New Order 22 #9
432 Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel 53 #20
433 Message in a Bottle The Police 127 #24
434 No Big Deal Love and Rockets 6 #22
435 Rhinoceros The Smashing Pumpkins 33 #64
436 Don't Tell Me Blancmange 13 #38
437 Lucky Number Lene Lovich 10 #121
438 Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello & the Attractions 50 #34
439 Send Me an Angel Real Life 22 #25
440 Viva Las Vegas Dead Kennedys 4 #440
441 Dance This Mess Around The B-52's 24 #157
442 The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em) Greg Kihn Band 24 #184
443 I Fought the Law The Clash 62 #13
444 Are Friends Electric? Gary Numan 4 #6
445 Too Shy Kajagoogoo 15 #54
446 Infected The The 23 #75
447 Tesla Girls Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 12 #100
448 Always on My Mind Pet Shop Boys 17 #7
449 Changes David Bowie 128 #17
450 Primary The Cure 22 #19
451 Rock n' Roll High School The Ramones 32 #61
452 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 19 #29
453 The Globe Big Audio Dynamite 37 #9
454 Canary In A Coalmine The Police 29 #61
455 Round and Round New Order 13 #7
456 Life's What You Make It Talk Talk 17 #115
457 Money Flying Lizards 15 #94
458 TV Party Black Flag 16 #42
459 Eyes of a Stranger The Payolas 15 #92
460 More Than This Roxy Music 48 #12
461 Public Image Public Image Ltd. 18 #9
462 Pop Song '89 R.E.M. 26 #32
463 Solsbury Hill Peter Gabriel 126 #9
464 Age of Consent New Order 31 #3
465 Killing An Arab The Cure 11 #98
466 Wild World Maxi Priest 9 #11
467 Uncontrollable Urge Devo 10 #92
468 Blitzkrieg Bop The Ramones 81 #3
469 I Could Be Happy Altered Images 3 #304
470 Young Americans David Bowie 69 #24
471 Medicine Show Big Audio Dynamite 15 #56
472 Black Coffee in Bed Squeeze 55 #55
473 Strobe Light The B-52's 15 #58
474 Pale Shelter Tears for Fears 20 #29
475 About the Weather Magazine 2 #475
476 Work for Love Ministry 18 #112
477 Alex Chilton The Replacements 58 #8
478 Slave to Love Bryan Ferry 27 #30
479 President Am I Slow Children 3 #479
480 Ball of Confusion Love and Rockets 41 #19
481 The Wait The Pretenders 9 #2
482 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 31 #6
483 Star Erasure 6 #37
484 Superman R.E.M. 57 #8
485 The Telephone Call Kraftwerk 2 #485
486 Loaded Primal Scream 10 #26
487 Christine Siouxsie and the Banshees 15 #80
488 Don't Get Me Wrong The Pretenders 26 #8
489 A Sort of Homecoming U2 21 #57
490 This Corrosion Sisters of Mercy 36 #7
491 Janitor Suburban Lawns 7 #12
492 Heroes David Bowie 125 #1
493 Windpower Thomas Dolby 1 #493
494 Get Up, Stand Up Bob Marley 34 #58
495 Mothers Talk Tears for Fears 7 #80
496 Quiche Lorraine The B-52's 7 #219
497 True Spandau Ballet 14 #32
498 Fall On Me R.E.M. 60 #26
499 Amoeba The Adolescents 3 #106
500 I Do the Roq Tim Curry 1 #500

About this countdown

KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA) in Memorial Day 1996. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

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