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Year-end countdown · KROQ · 1987

KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1987

The year-end countdown for 1987 from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 107 songs, with “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure at number one. The list features 61 different artists; U2 has the most entries with eight songs.

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1 Just Like Heaven The Cure 82 #1
2 Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths 57 #2
3 Strangelove Depeche Mode 58 #2
4 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 60 #2
5 Why Can't I Be You? The Cure 54 #1
6 Need You Tonight INXS 52 #5
7 Dear God XTC 76 #1
8 True Faith New Order 69 #3
9 With or Without You U2 123 #3
10 Never Let Me Down Again Depeche Mode 51 #7
11 The One I Love R.E.M. 91 #5
12 Hazy Shade of Winter The Bangles 15 #12
13 No New Tale To Tell Love and Rockets 47 #13
14 Where the Streets Have No Name U2 77 #5
15 The Motion of Love Gene Loves Jezebel 6 #15
16 Is It Really So Strange The Smiths 8 #16
17 Rent Pet Shop Boys 2 #17
18 The Sweetest Thing U2 27 #3
19 Behind the Wheel Depeche Mode 19 #19
20 Rain in the Summertime The Alarm 36 #19
21 Please The Bolshoi 3 #21
22 We Close Our Eyes Oingo Boingo 14 #22
23 20 Killer Hertz Gene Loves Jezebel 3 #23
24 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before The Smiths 16 #12
25 Rules and Regulations Public Image Ltd. 2 #25
26 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 69 #16
27 It's a Sin Pet Shop Boys 22 #11
28 Crazy Icehouse 6 #28
29 We Care A Lot Faith No More 29 #29
30 Alex Chilton The Replacements 46 #8
31 Hourglass Squeeze 7 #11
32 It's Still warm Dramarama 2 #32
33 The Passenger Siouxsie and the Banshees 10 #33
34 Love Removal Machine The Cult 40 #13
35 Absolute Perfection Private Domain 4 #35
36 Alone Again Or The Damned 27 #36
37 Not My Slave Oingo Boingo 9 #21
38 Heartbreak Beat The Psychedelic Furs 34 #38
39 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 76 #1
40 Fourth of July X 7 #40
41 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish The Smiths 2 #40
42 Bullet the Blue Sky U2 37 #35
43 Supposed to Have Sex With You Tonio K 1 #43
44 Skin Trade Duran Duran 3 #44
45 Time Will Crawl David Bowie 4 #45
46 What Have I Done To Deserve This? Pet Shop Boys 17 #36
47 Vanishing Girl The Dukes of Stratosphear 5 #33
48 Wild Flower The Cult 14 #28
49 Victim of Love Erasure 5 #49
50 Silver And Gold U2 19 #50
51 Fight for Your Right to Party Beastie Boys 22 #1
52 Always the Sun The Stranglers 27 #16
53 We'll Be Together Sting 11 #24
54 Never Let Me Down David Bowie 4 #43
55 Shock The Psychedelic Furs 2 #55
56 Hot! Hot! Hot! The Cure 38 #17
57 Private Revolution World Party 14 #57
58 People Are Strange Echo and the Bunnymen 33 #20
59 Mony Mony (Live) Billy Idol 1 #59
60 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 69 #2
61 Elevator Man Oingo Boingo 2 #61
62 When Smokey Sings ABC 4 #50
63 Understanding Jane Icicle Works 5 #63
64 Sweet 16 Billy Idol 3 #57
65 Living in a Dream Pseudo Echo 1 #65
66 You Are the Girl The Cars 1 #66
67 Seattle Public Image Ltd. 13 #10
68 In God's Country U2 27 #44
69 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 19 #6
70 Meet El Presidente Duran Duran 1 #70
71 Contradiction Lions and Ghosts 1 #71
72 I Go Crazy Flesh for Lulu 22 #21
73 All in My Mind Love and Rockets 9 #32
74 Sometimes Erasure 15 #27
75 Jane's Getting Serious Jon Astley 12 #52
76 The Right Stuff Bryan Ferry 5 #76
77 Ask The Smiths 47 #5
78 New Direction Echo and the Bunnymen 5 #37
79 Pain Oingo Boingo 7 #3
80 This Wheel's on Fire Siouxsie and the Banshees 3 #80
81 La Bamba Los Lobos 5 #26
82 Panic The Smiths 51 #5
83 Good Times INXS 7 #46
84 We Love You Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 2 #84
85 Siamese Twist Flesh for Lulu 2 #85
86 This Corrosion Sisters of Mercy 34 #7
87 Spanish Eyes U2 6 #40
88 87 and Cry David Bowie 1 #88
89 Infected The The 23 #75
90 Radio Heart Gary Numan 3 #74
91 Bed of Lies Cruzados 1 #91
92 Happy When It Rains The Jesus and Mary Chain 14 #43
93 Love For Sale Talking Heads 17 #70
94 Throw Away Mick Jagger 1 #94
95 Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Dramarama 41 #2
96 Trust Me to Open My Mouth Squeeze 2 #96
97 Shoplifters of the World Unite The Smiths 9 #20
98 Walkin' Down Your Street The Bangles 1 #98
99 Lil' Devil The Cult 6 #36
100 Don't Need That Much Private Domain 2 #100
101 Don't Be Scared The Fixx 2 #85
102 Ball of Confusion Love and Rockets 39 #19
103 I See Red The Silencers 1 #103
104 Sanity Killing Joke 2 #60
105 Daddy's Coming Home Walk the Moon 1 #105
106 Elvis Is Everywhere Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper 10 #29
106.7 Walk With an Erection The Swinging Erudites 2 #80

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About this countdown

KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1987 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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