Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1981	21	John Peel (BBC Radio 1)	John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1981)	50
1982	43	John Peel (BBC Radio 1)	John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1982)	50
1988	365	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988)	496
1988	132	Live 105	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)	501
1991	297	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991)	302
1991	453	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991)	500
1991	903	CFNY 102.1 The Edge	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition)	1002
1992	125	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992)	500
1992	128	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992)	299
1994	341	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1994)	497
1994	487	Live 105	Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994)	500
1995	198	Live 105	Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995)	300
1998	349	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998)	488
1999	98	91X	91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999)	500
2001	117	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	500
2002	197	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	1624	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2004	30	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	500
2005	96	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	500
2005	28	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 100 Brit Songs of All-Time (May 2005)	100
2006	257	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006)	500
2006	99	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006)	500
2008	386	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008)	500
2019	617	KEXP	KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time	627
2022	275	KEXP	KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)	491

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