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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 2,283
2 Depeche Mode 1,040
3 The Cure 1,236
4 Pearl Jam 1,349
5 The Smashing Pumpkins 819
6 Rage Against the Machine listed as “Rage Against The Machine” 371
7 Nirvana 951
8 The Smiths 646
9 Oingo Boingo 247
10 Nine Inch Nails 560
11 R.E.M. 1,579
12 Beastie Boys 619
13 Jane's Addiction 402
14 Red Hot Chili Peppers listed as “Red Hot Chilli Peppers” 1,126
15 Bob Marley 418
16 Violent Femmes 373
17 Stone Temple Pilots 529
18 The Clash 986
19 David Bowie listed as “David Bowe” 1,136
20 No Doubt 263
21 The Police 727
22 Blondie 352
23 Tori Amos 288
24 Social Distortion 349
25 Duran Duran 338
26 Bush 376
27 Talking Heads 737
28 The Offspring 481
29 The Ramones 443
30 Sublime 293
31 New Order 574
32 Hole 203
33 Morrissey 319
34 Live 336
35 The B-52's 484
36 Alice In Chains 376
37 The Pretenders 470
38 The Psychedelic Furs 323
39 Alanis Morissette 172
40 Beck 518
41 Tears for Fears 334
42 Soundgarden 321
43 INXS 649
44 10,000 Maniacs 250
45 Green Day 885
46 Garbage 324
47 Erasure 194
48 Oasis 520
49 Siouxsie and the Banshees 333
50 The Sex Pistols 232
51 Peter Gabriel 535
52 Devo 292
53 The Cranberries 274
54 Echo and the Bunnymen listed as “Echo & the Bunnymen” 341
55 311 355
56 Billy Idol 291
57 The Go-Go's 97
58 Björk 131
59 Bad Religion 143
60 The English Beat 195
61 Pet Shop Boys 164
62 PJ Harvey 117
63 Simple Minds 233
64 Berlin 74
65 Rancid 142
66 The Cars 170
67 Elvis Costello & the Attractions 416
68 The Cult 271
69 Soft Cell 107
70 Sonic Youth 151
71 Missing Persons 69
72 Temple of the Dog 79
73 Madness 170
74 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark listed as “OMD” 138
75 Weezer 546
76 General Public 80
77 X 142
78 Natalie Merchant 48
79 Adam Ant 150
80 Tool 301
81 Love and Rockets 246
82 Thompson Twins 107
83 Counting Crows 270
84 Bow Wow Wow 75
85 Dead or Alive 59
86 The Presidents of the United States of America 111
87 Sinéad O'Connor 257
88 Midnight Oil 314
89 UB40 150
90 Foo Fighters 868
91 Radiohead 744
92 Marilyn Manson 93
93 Roxy Music 176
94 Lenny Kravitz 360
95 Peter Murphy 99
96 The Replacements 478
97 Ministry 130
98 XTC 395
99 Primus 119
100 Eurythmics 248
101 The Pixies 433
102 Seal 59
103 Culture Club 48
104 Elastica 65
105 Howard Jones 60
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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