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KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989)

The all-time countdown (Memorial Day 1989) from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 495 songs, with “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell at number one. The list features 172 different artists; Oingo Boingo has the most entries with 16 songs. Positions 161, 221, 222, 281, 282 are missing from the source list.

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1 Tainted Love Soft Cell 64 #1
2 I Melt With You Modern English 71 #2
3 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 59 #2
4 Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Dramarama 41 #2
5 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 73 #1
6 Only a Lad Oingo Boingo 23 #6
7 Dear God XTC 76 #1
8 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 116 #2
9 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 85 #1
10 The One Thing INXS 44 #10
11 Don't Stand So Close to Me The Police 49 #11
12 Nowhere Girl B-Movie 26 #5
13 Love Removal Machine The Cult 40 #13
14 White Lines (Don't Do It) Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel 15 #7
15 Train in Vain The Clash 68 #10
16 Red Red Wine UB40 43 #1
17 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 80 #3
18 Girls on Film Duran Duran 46 #18
19 Wild World Maxi Priest 9 #11
20 People Are Strange Echo and the Bunnymen 33 #20
21 Just Like Heaven The Cure 82 #1
22 Blue Monday New Order 82 #1
23 Kiss Me Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy 19 #13
24 Everything Counts Depeche Mode 41 #24
25 Wild Thing X 10 #25
26 Rebel Yell Billy Idol 58 #8
27 Happy Birthday Altered Images 12 #27
28 What is Love Howard Jones 15 #10
29 Yellow Pills 20/20 5 #29
30 Tomorrow People Ziggy Marley 17 #23
31 Rock Lobster The B-52's 71 #5
32 Change Tears for Fears 33 #32
33 People are People Depeche Mode 59 #11
34 In Between Days The Cure 72 #3
35 Sex Dwarf Soft Cell 17 #3
36 Lil' Devil The Cult 6 #36
37 Oh L'Amour Erasure 27 #3
38 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 83 #1
39 I Ran A Flock of Seagulls 32 #32
40 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash 86 #8
41 I Got You Split Enz 45 #41
42 Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs 53 #10
43 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic The Police 42 #22
44 Suedehead Morrissey 51 #4
45 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics 53 #27
46 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 55 #1
47 Little Girls Oingo Boingo 11 #47
48 The Metro Berlin 21 #7
49 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 79 #1
50 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 69 #16
51 Get the Balance Right Depeche Mode 18 #42
52 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 51 #9
53 Situation Yaz 44 #8
54 Changes David Bowie 62 #54
55 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 53 #13
56 Panic The Smiths 51 #5
57 Mad World Tears for Fears 31 #5
58 Our House Madness 58 #15
59 Don't You Want Me The Human League 35 #5
60 And She Was Talking Heads 52 #21
61 Words Missing Persons 22 #4
62 The One I Love R.E.M. 91 #5
63 Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling 21 #8
64 London Calling The Clash 88 #1
65 Roxanne The Police 82 #10
66 It's My Life Talk Talk 55 #18
67 1999 Prince 29 #36
68 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 17 #42
69 Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo 59 #1
70 Sowing the Seeds of Love Tears for Fears 27 #5
71 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 77 #1
72 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 67 #4
73 Prison Bound Social Distortion 21 #14
74 Favorite Shirts Haircut 100 8 #74
75 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 36 #14
76 Modern Love David Bowie 53 #12
77 Sex (I'm a...) Berlin 36 #23
78 What's On Your Mind Information Society 9 #4
79 De Do Do Do De Da Da Da The Police 10 #8
80 Rio Duran Duran 39 #18
81 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears 71 #9
82 Private Life Oingo Boingo 6 #82
83 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 60 #2
84 World Destruction Time Zone 30 #17
85 Dance Hall Days Wang Chung 10 #85
86 New Year's Day U2 100 #4
87 Space Age Love Song A Flock of Seagulls 19 #25
88 Don't Go Yaz 27 #37
89 Mony Mony Billy Idol 15 #34
90 Crash The Primitives 38 #12
91 Wrapped Around Your Finger The Police 14 #29
92 Save a Prayer Duran Duran 24 #14
93 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 83 #8
94 In a Big Country Big Country 63 #3
95 Stand or Fall The Fixx 11 #77
96 Cars Gary Numan 57 #11
97 Goodbye The Psychedelic Furs 2 #97
98 Devil Inside INXS 34 #42
99 Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly) Icicle Works 24 #22
100 Two Hearts Beat As One U2 40 #19
101 Winning Side Oingo Boingo 3 #31
102 Fascination Street The Cure 43 #5
103 Head Over Heels Tears for Fears 33 #16
104 Never Stop Echo and the Bunnymen 21 #17
105 Erotic City Prince 4 #5
106 Shock the Monkey Peter Gabriel 48 #21
107 Dancing in Heaven Q-Feel 15 #73
108 Every Breath You Take The Police 56 #3
109 Red Skies The Fixx 28 #102
110 Let's Dance David Bowie 61 #6
111 Need You Tonight INXS 52 #5
112 Route 66 Depeche Mode 50 #1
113 Shout Tears for Fears 60 #5
114 Where the Streets Have No Name U2 77 #5
115 Primary The Cure 22 #19
116 Ask The Smiths 47 #5
117 Just Another Day Oingo Boingo 15 #27
118 Stop This Car The Woodentops 2 #15
119 Turning Japanese The Vapors 49 #14
120 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 76 #1
121 Locomotion Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 6 #31
122 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 30 #6
123 Let's Go The Cars 13 #123
124 All Day and All of the Night The Stranglers 3 #124
125 Here Comes The Rain Eurythmics 13 #82
126 Pale Shelter Tears for Fears 16 #29
127 Tears of a Clown The English Beat 15 #82
128 Love Song The Cure 62 #1
129 Shellshock New Order 21 #9
130 (Keep Feeling) Fascination The Human League 6 #100
131 Message in a Bottle The Police 61 #24
132 Walking in L.A. Missing Persons 19 #11
133 Bad U2 59 #5
134 What You See Oingo Boingo 3 #63
135 Mothers Talk Tears for Fears 7 #80
136 Suburbia Pet Shop Boys 7 #1
137 Let's Go Crazy Prince 12 #3
138 Tenderness General Public 42 #1
139 Don't Change INXS 48 #28
140 Hold Me Now Thompson Twins 28 #10
141 Alive and Kicking Simple Minds 42 #1
142 She Drives Me Crazy Fine Young Cannibals 42 #4
143 Can't Stand Losing You The Police 38 #49
144 Send Me an Angel Real Life 20 #25
145 Poison Arrow ABC 17 #63
146 Head Over Heels The Go-Go's 4 #79
147 Peter Gunn Art of Noise 14 #80
148 Take On Me a-ha 33 #7
149 West End Girls Pet Shop Boys 42 #11
150 One Way or Another Blondie 52 #22
151 Gratitude Danny Elfman 7 #73
152 Rock the Casbah The Clash 87 #1
153 Gloria U2 41 #51
154 Listen Like Thieves INXS 25 #44
155 Whip It Devo 64 #1
156 Chains of Love Erasure 31 #7
157 King of Pain The Police 29 #17
158 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 72 #9
159 Living on Video Trans-X 12 #54
160 True Faith New Order 69 #3
162 That'll Do Nicely Bad Manners 2 #112
163 Europa and the Pirate Twins Thomas Dolby 9 #37
164 Pistol Erasure 1 #164
165 Dancing With Myself Billy Idol 47 #18
166 Walk Like an Egyptian The Bangles 19 #6
167 Bullet the Blue Sky U2 37 #35
168 Oblivious Aztec Camera 25 #29
169 Synchronicity II The Police 38 #15
170 Stand R.E.M. 52 #4
171 Electricity Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 7 #23
172 Love Plus One Haircut 100 22 #26
173 68 Guns The Alarm 13 #59
174 Be Near Me ABC 14 #18
175 Legal Tender The B-52's 13 #65
176 Strangelove Depehce Mode 1 #176
177 I Will Follow U2 69 #9
178 China Girl David Bowie 40 #61
179 Love is the Seventh Wave Sting 1 #179
180 No More Words Berlin 8 #127
181 The Walk The Cure 26 #49
182 Just What I Needed The Cars 29 #62
183 Flash and Blood Oingo Boingo 1 #183
184 Lies Thompson Twins 25 #50
185 Stay Up Late Talking Heads 36 #14
186 The Dead Heart Midnight Oil 29 #20
187 Spirits In The Material World The Police 20 #57
188 Dreaming Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 10 #26
189 Mustapha Dance The Clash 1 #189
190 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 42 #30
191 Big Time Peter Gabriel 31 #16
192 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones 81 #1
193 Promised You a Miracle Simple Minds 15 #30
194 Close to Me The Cure 72 #11
195 All She Wants Is Duran Duran 2 #44
196 Look Away Big Country 13 #25
197 Lover Come Back to Me Dead or Alive 4 #59
198 White Wedding Billy Idol 65 #7
199 Stay Oingo Boingo 9 #31
200 Tears Run Rings Marc Almond 6 #13
201 Life During Wartime Talking Heads 52 #64
202 Melting in the Sun INXS 2 #49
203 Summer of Love The B-52's 24 #8
204 I Fought the Law The Clash 47 #84
205 Talk Talk Talk Talk 25 #9
206 Forever Live and Die Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 6 #44
207 Orange Crush R.E.M. 59 #1
208 Hot You're Cool General Public 13 #51
209 Heartbreak Beat The Psychedelic Furs 34 #38
210 Don't Let's Start They Might Be Giants 47 #39
211 If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free Sting 6 #20
212 Opportunities Pet Shop Boys 13 #3
213 Pain Oingo Boingo 7 #3
214 Cosmic Thing The B-52's 5 #36
215 The Look of Love ABC 21 #56
216 One Thing Leads To Another The Fixx 38 #19
217 A Little Respect Erasure 41 #4
218 Rain in the Summertime The Alarm 36 #19
219 Bang on the Drum Bad Manners 3 #219
220 Radio Free Europe R.E.M. 62 #1
223 Back on the Chain Gang The Pretenders 45 #43
224 What's Gone Wrong The Untouchables 3 #18
225 The Safety Dance Men Without Hats 15 #2
226 New Toy Lene Lovich 9 #18
227 Absolute Perfection Private Domain 4 #35
228 Give Me Back My Man The B-52's 4 #5
229 Our Lips Are Sealed The Go-Go's 28 #32
230 Wild Flower The Cult 14 #28
231 Always the Sun The Stranglers 27 #16
232 Saved By Zero The Fixx 8 #44
233 We Close Our Eyes Oingo Boingo 14 #22
234 No New Tale To Tell Love and Rockets 47 #13
235 Lullaby The Cure 32 #3
236 Black and White INXS 3 #78
237 Good Times Roll The Cars 13 #90
238 Strength The Alarm 32 #20
239 Destination Unknown Missing Persons 13 #40
240 Bang a Gong (Get It On) Power Station 2 #77
241 One World (Not Three) The Police 5 #58
242 Good Thing Fine Young Cannibals 16 #6
243 Secret Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 11 #48
244 Wild Wild Life Talking Heads 30 #4
245 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 19 #6
246 All The Things She Said Simple Minds 18 #69
247 Do You Wanna Hold Me? Bow Wow Wow 5 #225
248 On the Outside Oingo Boingo 3 #6
249 Everlasting Love U2 11 #3
250 Flesh For Fantasy Billy Idol 11 #19
251 Never Let Me Down Depeche Mode 1 #251
252 Heaven The Psychedelic Furs 30 #50
253 What Difference Does It Make? The Smiths 34 #17
254 I Send a Message INXS 20 #9
255 Sometimes Erasure 15 #27
256 Party At Ground Zero Fishbone 39 #65
257 Vanity Kills ABC 2 #55
258 Goody Two Shoes Adam Ant 40 #25
259 Lay Your Hands on Me Thompson Twins 9 #22
260 Jane's Getting Serious Jon Astley 12 #52
261 Never You Done That General Public 7 #75
262 I Want Candy Bow Wow Wow 49 #60
263 The Look Roxxette 1 #263
264 In God's Country U2 27 #44
265 Shoplifters of the World Unite The Smiths 9 #20
266 Only A Memory The Smithereens 21 #13
267 But Not Tonight Depeche Mode 16 #2
268 Come Out and Play UB40 1 #268
269 Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me Oingo Boingo 5 #161
270 Ship of Fools World Party 30 #45
271 Dreamworld Midnight Oil 8 #43
272 Mystify INXS 22 #82
273 Catch My Fall Billy Idol 5 #23
274 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 120 #1
275 Under the Milky Way The Church 66 #3
276 Is There Something I Should Know? Duran Duran 9 #1
277 Breakfast in Bed UB40 4 #26
278 Ink and Paper Modern English 3 #14
279 Love on Your Side Thompson Twins 5 #279
280 Channel Z The B-52's 13 #8
283 When Doves Cry Prince 19 #12
284 Don't Tell Me Blancmange 12 #38
285 Blasphemous Rumors Depeche Mode 24 #5
286 Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo 56 #9
287 Do Not Stand in the Shadows Billy Idol 1 #287
288 Vacation The Go-Go's 18 #8
289 Steppin' Out Joe Jackson 17 #66
290 Violent Love Oingo Boingo 3 #114
291 Private Idaho The B-52's 51 #25
292 New Sensation INXS 38 #6
293 Best Friend The English Beat 2 #103
294 It's a Mug's Game Soft Cell 12 #37
295 Rescue Me The Alarm 17 #295
296 Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs 58 #9
297 Our Lips Are Sealed Fun Boy Three 4 #287
298 I Got You Babe UB40 5 #29
299 Middle of the Road The Pretenders 32 #82
300 Behind the Wall of Sleep The Smithereens 22 #62
301 I Would Die 4 U Prince 14 #63
302 Pleasure And Pain The Divinyls 22 #43
303 Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 69 #4
304 The Perfect Kiss New Order 27 #2
305 Harley David (Son of a Bitch) Bollock Brothers 8 #2
306 Pump It Up Elvis Costello & the Attractions 43 #24
307 Do Wot You Do INXS 1 #307
308 So In Love Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 15 #17
309 Can't Get Enough of You Baby The Colourfield 7 #65
310 Blind Vision Blancmange 6 #93
311 Strobe Light The B-52's 15 #58
312 The Bottom Line Big Audio Dynamite 20 #15
313 All in My Mind Love and Rockets 9 #32
314 The More You Live, the More You Love A Flock of Seagulls 5 #30
315 Heartache Gene Loves Jezebel 9 #69
316 Don't Turn Around Aswad 4 #68
317 Slave to Love Bryan Ferry 25 #30
318 Kids In America Kim Wilde 16 #133
319 The Power and the Passion Midnight Oil 4 #158
320 What Soft Cell 1 #320
321 Master and Servant Depeche Mode 43 #5
322 The Reflex Duran Duran 15 #22
323 Clampdown The Clash 36 #1
324 Electric Blue Icehouse 6 #61
325 Stand and Deliver Adam & the Ants 19 #11
326 Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello & the Attractions 30 #34
327 What I Am Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians 11 #9
328 Hourglass Squeeze 7 #11
329 Mental Hopscotch Missing Persons 10 #1
330 We Love You Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 2 #84
331 Sweet 16 Billy Idol 3 #57
332 Christine Siouxsie and the Banshees 15 #80
333 Save It For Later The English Beat 55 #9
334 Alone Again Or The Damned 27 #36
335 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 47 #5
336 There is No Love Between Us Anymore Pop Will Eat Itself 5 #29
337 Antmusic Adam & the Ants 33 #2
338 Mystery Achievement The Pretenders 21 #19
339 A Girl in Trouble (is a Temporary Thing) Romeo Void 14 #64
340 No Promises Icehouse 10 #86
341 Baby Oh No Bow Wow Wow 7 #80
342 Rock This Town The Stray Cats 30 #6
343 I'll Be You The Replacements 44 #8
344 Obsession Animotion 13 #32
345 Scenario Dramarama 4 #294
346 Eighties Killing Joke 28 #37
347 Hot! Hot! Hot! The Cure 38 #17
348 The Big Heat Stan Ridgway 1 #348
349 Up All Night Boomtown Rats 20 #92
350 Cindereella Undercover Oingo Boingo 1 #350
351 We Got the Beat The Go-Go's 30 #3
352 Original Sin INXS 40 #19
353 Manic Monday The Bangles 17 #57
354 I Don't Want Your Love Duran Duran 5 #24
355 Stories For Boys U2 10 #287
356 Reap the Wild Wind Ultravox 11 #90
357 Sanctify Yourself Simple Minds 19 #4
358 Charlie Don't Surf The Clash 3 #257
359 Beautiful World Devo 21 #108
360 Road to Nowhere Talking Heads 28 #2
361 Secret Separation The Fixx 6 #48
362 Bad Case of Loving You Robert Palmer 6 #298
363 Institutionalized Suicidal Tendencies 37 #3
364 Absolute Beginners David Bowie 3 #3
365 Always on My Mind Pet Shop Boys 14 #7
366 Rapture Blondie 46 #31
367 Big in Japan Alphaville 13 #23
368 So. Central Rain R.E.M. 26 #7
369 The Wait The Pretenders 8 #2
370 Don't Look Back Fine Young Cannibals 5 #62
371 The Lovecats The Cure 52 #2
372 Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood 34 #1
373 Flexible Depeche Mode 3 #19
374 Driven To Tears The Police 13 #83
375 Deeper and Deeper The Fixx 3 #375
376 I've Got Mine UB40 1 #376
377 Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) Bananarama 2 #377
378 All You Ever Think About is Sex Sparks 4 #88
379 Tumbling Down Ziggy Marley 2 #379
380 Would I Lie To You? Eurythmics 32 #61
381 Who Needs Love Like That Erasure 5 #83
382 Tempted Squeeze 71 #21
383 All That Money Wants The Psychedelic Furs 7 #23
384 Heart Pet Shop Boys 4 #33
385 A Million Miles Away The Plimsouls 42 #44
386 Addicted to Love Robert Palmer 16 #50
387 Smoke Two Joints The Toyes 7 #22
388 Planet Earth Duran Duran 13 #38
389 Generals and Majors XTC 24 #62
390 Only When You Leave Spandau Ballet 5 #56
391 King for a Day Thompson Twins 3 #49
392 Hairdresser on Fire Morrissey 11 #39
393 Love and Pride King 12 #16
394 Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys 47 #6
395 Night You Murdered Love ABC 1 #395
396 Smalltown Boy Bronski Beat 18 #36
397 Domino Dancing Pet Shop Boys 4 #47
398 Walking Away Information Society 4 #33
399 Don't Need That Much Private Domain 2 #100
400 10:15 Saturday Night The Cure 9 #43
401 Cool Places Sparks 13 #39
402 Heartbeat The Psychedelic Furs 6 #61
403 Vanishing Girl The Dukes of Stratosphear 5 #33
404 I Know What Boys Like The Waitresses 27 #27
405 Right and Wrong Joe Jackson 3 #405
406 Skin Trade Duran Duran 3 #44
407 One Night in Bangkok Murray Head 9 #24
408 Mirror Man The Human League 5 #381
409 Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) A Flock of Seagulls 7 #81
410 When The World Is Running Down The Police 10 #410
411 Just Got Lucky JoBoxxers 6 #104
412 Warm Leatherette The Normal 11 #193
413 Homosapien Pete Shelley 9 #13
414 Love Comes Quickly Pet Shop Boys 4 #59
415 I Predict Sparks 5 #7
416 Never Say Never Romeo Void 53 #8
417 88 Lines About 44 Women The Nails 34 #3
418 Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel 39 #20
419 In the Name of Love Thompson Twins 10 #83
420 No Thugs in Our House XTC 3 #406
421 Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths 57 #2
422 Won't You Hold My Hand Now King 3 #52
423 This Town The Go-Go's 4 #50
424 A Question of Lust Depeche Mode 17 #2
425 Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello 48 #25
426 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 39 #23
427 Brand New Lover Dead or Alive 15 #12
428 Driven Out The Fixx 4 #53
429 (Nothing But) Flowers Talking Heads 28 #20
430 Infected The The 23 #75
431 One More Shot C-Bank 5 #35
432 Kiss and Tell Bryan Ferry 10 #61
433 Big Hollow Man Danielle Dax 4 #35
434 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 59 #4
435 You Know I Love You, Don't You? Howard Jones 3 #58
436 Jane Says Jane's Addiction 70 #2
437 The Politics of Dancing Re-Flex 15 #44
438 Senses Working Overtime XTC 35 #23
439 Eyes of a Stranger The Payolas 14 #92
440 This Time INXS 25 #8
441 Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 5 #46
442 A Town Called Malice The Jam 32 #7
443 Let Me Go Heaven 17 24 #31
444 We Care A Lot Faith No More 29 #29
445 Ladykiller The Vandals 8 #7
446 Kundalini Express Love and Rockets 11 #45
447 Victim of Love Erasure 5 #49
448 Johnny Come Home Fine Young Cannibals 10 #68
449 Pleasure Little Treasure Depeche Mode 2 #45
450 The Perfect Way Scritti Politti 7 #32
451 Trust Me to Open My Mouth Squeeze 2 #96
452 To Be a Lover Billy Idol 7 #15
453 Kick INXS 21 #10
454 Mirror in the Bathroom The English Beat 54 #38
455 The Sweetest Thing U2 27 #3
456 Shock The Psychedelic Furs 2 #55
457 Living on the Ceiling Blancmange 10 #32
458 Free Yourself The Untouchables 5 #62
459 Walking Down Your Street The Bangles 2 #263
460 Why? Bronski Beat 12 #4
461 Little Red Corvette Prince 11 #86
462 Blowing Up Detroit John Palumbo 3 #30
463 Breathless X 4 #207
464 Fields of Fire Big Country 5 #55
465 Medicine Show Big Audio Dynamite 14 #56
466 Up on the Catwalk Simple Minds 7 #74
467 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 58 #2
468 Hot in the City Billy Idol 10 #106
469 Right By Your Side Eurythmics 4 #465
470 Make a Circuit With Me The Polecats 13 #21
471 White China Ultravox 5 #73
472 Hyperactive Thomas Dolby 8 #53
473 Balloon Man Robyn Hitchcock 4 #23
474 Seconds The Human League 4 #51
475 Simply Irresistible Robert Palmer 5 #42
476 In Your Room The Bangles 4 #44
477 Subculture New Order 9 #18
478 Bring on the Dancing Horses Echo and the Bunnymen 39 #21
479 Music That You Can Dance To Sparks 4 #33
480 Hot Lava The B-52's 1 #480
481 Wild Wild West Escape Club 7 #16
482 Brass in Pocket The Pretenders 54 #30
483 I'm An Adult Now The Pursuit of Happiness 23 #73
484 Notorious Duran Duran 7 #9
485 It's a Sin Pet Shop Boys 22 #11
486 Behind the Wheel Depeche Mode 19 #19
487 Not My Slave Oingo Boingo 9 #21
488 Hero Takes a Fall The Bangles 7 #88
489 Dog Eat Dog Adam & the Ants 5 #43
490 Tesla Girls Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 11 #100
491 Burn for You INXS 4 #37
492 Canary In A Coalmine The Police 21 #61
493 Communication Spandau Ballet 3 #94
494 Samson and Delilah Bad Manners 1 #494
495 Popularity Sparks 1 #495
496 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes Ultravox 11 #76
497 A Question of Time Depeche Mode 9 #11
498 Friend or Foe Adam Ant 12 #221
499 Dirty Creature Split Enz 2 #499
500 So Excited Ranking Roger 3 #63

Positions 161, 221, 222, 281, 282 are missing from the source list.

About this countdown

KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA) in Memorial Day 1989. 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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