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KROQ Top 106.7 Artists of All-Time (Memorial Day 1997)

The all-time artists countdown (Memorial Day 1997) is KROQ’s ranking of its listeners’ favorite artists in Los Angeles, CA, with U2 voted the number one artist.

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# Artist Entries
1 U2 3,464
2 Depeche Mode 1,209
3 The Cure 1,447
4 Pearl Jam 2,372
5 The Smashing Pumpkins 1,191
6 Rage Against the Machine listed as “Rage Against The Machine” 551
7 Nirvana 1,670
8 The Smiths 725
9 Oingo Boingo 261
10 Nine Inch Nails 775
11 R.E.M. 2,090
12 Beastie Boys 894
13 Jane's Addiction 542
14 Red Hot Chili Peppers listed as “Red Hot Chilli Peppers” 1,797
15 Bob Marley 560
16 Violent Femmes 429
17 Stone Temple Pilots 1,066
18 The Clash 1,325
19 David Bowie listed as “David Bowe” 1,793
20 No Doubt 342
21 The Police 1,294
22 Blondie 444
23 Tori Amos 383
24 Social Distortion 438
25 Duran Duran 386
26 Bush 675
27 Talking Heads 1,072
28 The Offspring 831
29 The Ramones 607
30 Sublime 486
31 New Order 657
32 Hole 269
33 Morrissey 373
34 Live 514
35 The B-52's 559
36 Alice In Chains 895
37 The Pretenders 671
38 The Psychedelic Furs 360
39 Alanis Morissette 227
40 Beck 884
41 Tears for Fears 409
42 Soundgarden 731
43 INXS 743
44 10,000 Maniacs 309
45 Green Day 1,537
46 Garbage 425
47 Erasure 218
48 Oasis 657
49 Siouxsie and the Banshees 360
50 The Sex Pistols 261
51 Peter Gabriel 785
52 Devo 332
53 The Cranberries 359
54 Echo and the Bunnymen listed as “Echo & the Bunnymen” 377
55 311 575
56 Billy Idol 563
57 The Go-Go's 119
58 Björk 188
59 Bad Religion 178
60 The English Beat 228
61 Pet Shop Boys 188
62 PJ Harvey 165
63 Simple Minds 292
64 Berlin 80
65 Rancid 211
66 The Cars 698
67 Elvis Costello & the Attractions 539
68 The Cult 356
69 Soft Cell 116
70 Sonic Youth 187
71 Missing Persons 77
72 Temple of the Dog 152
73 Madness 189
74 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark listed as “OMD” 161
75 Weezer 972
76 General Public 89
77 X 164
78 Natalie Merchant 75
79 Adam Ant 149
80 Tool 471
81 Love and Rockets 260
82 Thompson Twins 115
83 Counting Crows 416
84 Bow Wow Wow 80
85 Dead or Alive 64
86 The Presidents of the United States of America 155
87 Sinéad O'Connor 303
88 Midnight Oil 349
89 UB40 160
90 Foo Fighters 1,636
91 Radiohead 1,086
92 Marilyn Manson 163
93 Roxy Music 221
94 Lenny Kravitz 482
95 Peter Murphy 111
96 The Replacements 567
97 Ministry 138
98 XTC 439
99 Primus 179
100 Eurythmics 271
101 The Pixies 533
102 Seal 71
103 Culture Club 56
104 Elastica 83
105 Howard Jones 69
106 Jewel 106.7 They Might Be Giants 1

About this countdown

KROQ Top 106.7 Artists of All-Time (Memorial Day 1997) was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA) in Memorial Day 1997. 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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