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KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986

The year-end countdown for 1986 from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 107 songs, with “Suburbia” by Pet Shop Boys at number one. The list features 76 different artists; The Smiths has the most entries with four songs.

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1 Suburbia Pet Shop Boys 7 #1
2 A Question of Lust Depeche Mode 17 #2
3 Pain Oingo Boingo 7 #3
4 Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Dramarama 41 #2
5 Ask The Smiths 47 #5
6 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 19 #6
7 She Brakes For Rainbows The B-52's 2 #7
8 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 58 #2
9 Notorious Duran Duran 7 #9
10 Wild Wild Life Talking Heads 30 #4
11 Close to Me The Cure 72 #11
12 Brand New Lover Dead or Alive 15 #12
13 But Not Tonight Depeche Mode 16 #2
14 Ink and Paper Modern English 3 #14
15 To Be a Lover Billy Idol 7 #15
16 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 36 #14
17 Panic The Smiths 51 #5
18 French Kissing in the USA Deborah Harry 1 #18
19 What You Need INXS 52 #7
20 Dear God XTC 76 #1
21 Oh L'Amour Erasure 27 #3
22 Nothing in Common Thompson Twins 1 #22
23 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 76 #1
24 Rise Public Image Ltd. 41 #24
25 Don't Get Me Wrong The Pretenders 21 #8
26 Blood and Roses The Smithereens 38 #5
27 Walk Like an Egyptian The Bangles 19 #6
28 Ever Fallen in Love Fine Young Cannibals 3 #28
29 Look Away Big Country 13 #25
30 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 54 #2
31 The Calling Ken Heaven 1 #31
32 Summer of Love The B-52's 24 #8
33 Music That You Can Dance To Sparks 4 #33
34 Superman R.E.M. 48 #8
35 Big Time Peter Gabriel 31 #16
36 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 73 #1
37 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 60 #3
38 Love Missile F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 3 #38
39 Steal My Flame Arcadia 1 #39
40 Shellshock New Order 21 #9
41 Not My Slave Oingo Boingo 9 #21
42 A Question of Time Depeche Mode 9 #11
43 Digging Your Scene Blow Monkeys 14 #43
44 Forever Live and Die Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 6 #44
45 Kundalini Express Love and Rockets 11 #45
46 Puzzlin' Evidence Talking Heads 16 #46
47 Babies Real Life 3 #47
48 Secret Separation The Fixx 6 #48
49 Heartbreak Beat The Psychedelic Furs 34 #38
50 Addicted to Love Robert Palmer 16 #50
51 Suspicious Minds Fine Young Cannibals 12 #51
52 Alone Without You King 1 #52
53 Real Wild Child Iggy Pop 16 #53
54 Stay Oingo Boingo 9 #31
55 Too Much or Nothing General Public 1 #55
56 Hit That Perfect Beat Bronski Beat 4 #56
57 Manic Monday The Bangles 17 #57
58 You Know I Love You, Don't You? Howard Jones 3 #58
59 Love Comes Quickly Pet Shop Boys 4 #59
60 I've Been Losing You a-ha 1 #60
61 Venus Bananarama 4 #45
62 Behind the Wall of Sleep The Smithereens 22 #62
63 Missionary Man Eurythmics 23 #22
64 Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs 58 #9
65 Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 5 #46
66 A Man Inside My Mouth The Cure 2 #66
67 Cross the Border Icehouse 1 #67
68 Listen Like Thieves INXS 25 #44
69 All The Things She Said Simple Minds 18 #69
70 Love For Sale Talking Heads 17 #70
71 Invisible Touch Genesis 8 #71
72 Heartache Gene Loves Jezebel 9 #69
73 How Can a Laboring Man Find Time for Self-Culture? Martini Ranch 1 #73
74 Rock Me Amadeus Falco 9 #12
75 Absolute Beginners David Bowie 3 #3
76 Pleasure And Pain The Divinyls 22 #43
77 So Much for Love The Venetians 1 #77
78 Drive, She Said Stan Ridgway 3 #78
79 A Good Heart Feargal Sharkey 3 #7
80 Mothers Talk Tears for Fears 7 #80
81 Mad About You Belinda Carlisle 2 #81
82 E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 28 #40
83 Do What You Do INXS 1 #83
84 I Want to Be a Cowboy Boys Don't Cry 5 #84
85 I Do What I Do to Have You John Taylor 1 #85
86 Walk This Way Run DMC 7 #9
87 All in My Mind Love and Rockets 9 #32
88 I Didn't Mean to Turn You On Robert Palmer 2 #37
89 Romeo and Jane Tonio K 1 #89
90 Legs Art of Noise 3 #90
91 Why Don't We Live Together Pet Shop Boys 1 #91
92 Don Quichotte Magazine 60 3 #92
93 Kiss Prince 16 #34
94 Say the Word Arcadia 1 #94
95 Here Comes the Man Boom Boom Room 1 #95
96 Who Needs Love Like That Erasure 5 #83
97 Take it Easy Andy Taylor 1 #97
98 Kiss The Dirt INXS 2 #98
99 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 77 #1
100 Ruthless People Mick Jagger 1 #100
101 Candybar Express Love and Money 1 #101
102 Soul Standing By Billy Idol 3 #102
103 True to You Ric Ocasek 1 #103
104 Built for the Future The Fixx 1 #104
105 Time Waits for No One Robbie Nevil 1 #105
106 Hanging on a Heart Attack Device 1 #106
106.7 L.A. Dream Team is in the House LA Dream Team 1 #107

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KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986 was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA). 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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