WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (1999)

1. Alphaville - Forever Young

2. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

3. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

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

5. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

6. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

7. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

8. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

9. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

10. R.E.M. - The One I Love

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

12. The Clash - Train in Vain

13. Pearl Jam - Alive

14. Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right to Party

15. The B-52's - Rock Lobster

16. Modern English - I Melt With You

17. Erasure - A Little Respect

18. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

19. James - Laid

20. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

21. The Police - Roxanne

22. Blondie - One Way or Another

23. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

24. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

25. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

26. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

27. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

28. Squeeze - Tempted

29. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

30. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

31. The Sundays - Wild Horses

32. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

33. XTC - Dear God

34. Depeche Mode - Strangelove

35. The Police - Every Breath You Take

36. The Stray Cats - Rock this Town

37. Beck - Loser

38. Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

39. Oasis - Wonderwall

40. Sublime - What I Got

41. U2 - With or Without You

42. Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll

43. Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself

44. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up

45. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

46. Fatboy Slim - Praise You

47. Erasure - Oh L'Amour

48. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

49. Yaz - Don't Go

50. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf

51. No Doubt - Just a Girl

52. When in Rome - The Promise

53. Morrissey - Suedehead

54. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

55. The Police - Synchronicity II

56. Devo - Whip It!

57. Live - Selling the Drama

58. Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender

59. The Cure - Love Song

60. New Order - Blue Monday

61. Icicle Works - Whisper to a Scream

62. Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

63. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

64. EMF - Unbelievable

65. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

66. U2 - Bad

67. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

68. Radiohead - Creep

69. Monroes - What Do All the People Know

70. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

71. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

72. Nirvana - Come As You Are

73. Dave Matthews Band - What Would You Say?

74. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go

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

76. Sublime - Wrong Way

77. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

78. Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

79. The Ramones - Rockaway Beach

80. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

81. Pearl Jam - Jeremy

82. Duran Duran - The Reflex

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

84. Foo Fighters - Big Me

85. Oasis - Live Forever

86. Depeche Mode - Route 66

87. Elvis Costello - Alison

88. The Clash - Rock the Casbah

89. The Cardigans - Lovefool

90. Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)

91. The Smiths - This Charming Man

92. OMD - If You Leave

93. INXS - Need You Tonight

94. A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

95. U2 - I Will Follow

96. Pearl Jam - Black

97. Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye

98. Ministry - I Wanted to Tell Her

99. The Cure - In Between Days

100. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

101. Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey

102. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

103. R.E.M. - Man on the Moon

104. Smash Mouth - Walking on the Sun

105. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song

106. The Clash - London Calling

107. Split Enz - I Got You

108. Nirvana - All Apologies

109. Madness - Our House

110. Green Day - Time of Your Life

111. The B-52's - Love Shack

112. Pearl Jam - Even Flow

113. Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours

114. Alanis Morissette - You Oughtta Know

115. Chumbawuma - Tubthumping

116. The Romantics - What I Like About You

117. The Cars - Drive

118. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

119. Yaz - Situation

120. Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

121. U2 - Two Hearts Beat as One

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

123. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?

124. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

125. Suzanne Vega feat. DNA - Tom's Diner

126. Bob Marley - Jammin'

127. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

128. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

129. The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket

130. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight

131. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

132. Depeche Mode - People are People

133. R.E.M. - Orange Crush

134. The Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut

135. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

136. Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery

137. Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

138. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

139. David Bowie - Heroes

140. Big Country - In a Big Country

141. Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now

142. U2 - One

143. Pearl Jam - Daughter

144. 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry

145. Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face

146. The Cranberries - Linger

147. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

148. Big Audio Dynamite II - Rush

149. Nena - 99 Red Balloons

150. Sugar Ray - Fly

151. Dr. and the Medics - Spirit in the Sky

152. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

153. INXS - Devil Inside

154. The Cure - Pictures of You

155. Sublime - Santeria

156. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

157. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

158. R.E.M. - What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

159. Q-Feel - Dancing in Heaven

160. blink-182 - What's My Age Again

161. The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

162. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

163. Adam & the Ants - Antmusic

164. The Smashing Pumpkins - Today

165. New Order - True Faith

166. Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

167. Duran Duran - Rio

168. Oasis - Supersonic

169. The Human League - Don't You Want Me

170. Elvis Costello - Veronica

171. The Cure - Let's Go to Bed

172. UB40 - Red Red Wine

173. Beastie Boys - Girls

174. 311 - All Mixed Up

175. The Smiths - Ask

176. Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars

177. R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People

178. Alanis Morissette - Ironic

179. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go

180. The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat

181. Pearl Jam - Better Man

182. The Cars - Shake It Up

183. Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

184. The B-52's - Roam

185. Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirt

186. Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy - Kiss Me

187. Smash Mouth - All Star

188. Blur - There's No Other Way

189. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

190. The Replacements - Kiss Me on the Bus

191. Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust

192. Madness - One Step Beyond

193. The Church - Under the Milky Way

194. Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better

195. No Doubt - Don't Speak

196. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

197. R.E.M. - So. Central Rain

198. The Cure - The Lovecats

199. 10,000 Maniacs - Like the Weather

200. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

201. INXS - New Sensation

202. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

203. David Bowie - Let's Dance

204. Morrissey - Everyday is Like Sunday

205. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking

206. Adam Ant - Wonderful

207. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

208. Goo Goo Dolls - Name

209. Love and Rockets - Ball of Confusion

210. Sting - If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free

211. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy

212. Tears for Fears - Shout

213. Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

214. Live - I Alone

215. New Order - Shellshock

216. Duran Duran - Girls on Film

217. The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker

218. Beck - The New Pollution

219. Billy Idol - White Wedding

220. The Cure - Friday I'm in Love

221. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

222. Better than Ezra - Good

223. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One

224. Gary Numan - Cars

225. The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang

226. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

227. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

228. The New Radicals - You Get What You Give

229. Ian Dury - Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll

230. Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out

231. Roxy Music - More Than This

232. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You

233. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze

234. Living Colour - Cult of Personality

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

236. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get

237. Public Image Ltd. - Rise

238. Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now?

239. U2 - Desire

240. Divinyls - I Touch Myself

241. Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand

242. Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind

243. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

244. Squeeze - Black Coffee in Bed

245. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me

246. Folk Implosion - Natural One

247. Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy

248. The Wallflowers - One Headlight

249. Love and Rockets - So Alive

250. Porno for Pyros - Pets

251. Everlast - What It's Like

252. Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

253. Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching

254. The Cult - Love Removal Machine

255. New Order - Temptation

256. Blondie - Heart of Glass

257. Duran Duran - Come Undone

258. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.

259. Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon

260. Faith No More - Epic

261. Camouflage - The Great Commandment

262. The B-52's - Private Idaho

263. The Lemonheads - Mrs. Robinson

264. The Cure - Fascination Street

265. Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)

266. The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime

267. 10,000 Maniacs - Candy Everybody Wants

268. Lo-Fidelity All-Stars - Battle Flag

269. Republica - Ready to Go

270. Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat

271. Romeo Void - Never Say Never

272. Ministry - Everyday is Halloween

273. Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me

274. M - Pop Muzik

275. Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth

276. Kim Wilde - Kids in America

277. World Party - Way Down Now

278. Records - Starry Eyes

279. Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2

280. Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

281. Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind

282. U2 - Mysterious Ways

283. Patti Smith - Because the Night

284. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way

285. Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love

286. Crowded House - Somthing So Strong

287. INXS - Original Sin

288. Soup Dragons - I'm Free

289. The Charlatans - The Only One I Know

290. Peter Schilling - Major Tom

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

292. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

293. Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey

294. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

295. Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me

296. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

297. Orgy - Blue Monday

298. The Cure - Close to Me

299. They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start

300. Go West - We Close Our Eyes