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Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988

The year-end countdown for 1988 from Live 105 in San Francisco, CA ranks 106 songs, with “This Party Sucks” by The Slickee Boys at number one. The list features 96 different artists.

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# Song ListsBest
1 This Party Sucks The Slickee Boys 4 #1
2 Route 66 Depeche Mode 50 #1
3 Under the Milky Way The Church 66 #3
4 Suedehead Morrissey 51 #4
5 Ye Ke Ye Ke Mory Kante 2 #5
6 Orange Crush R.E.M. 59 #1
7 Always on My Mind Pet Shop Boys 14 #7
8 Just Play Music Big Audio Dynamite 19 #8
9 Desire U2 50 #2
10 Chains of Love Erasure 31 #7
11 Peek-A-Boo Siouxsie and the Banshees 46 #1
12 The Promise When in Rome 21 #11
13 Only A Memory The Smithereens 21 #13
14 What's On Your Mind Information Society 9 #4
15 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 80 #3
16 Harley David (Son of a Bitch) Bollock Brothers 8 #2
17 Painkiller Westworld 6 #17
18 Where Did I Go Wrong? UB40 4 #8
19 Doctorin' the Tardis The Timelords 4 #19
20 The Killing Jar Siouxsie and the Banshees 13 #20
21 Reach Martini Ranch 3 #16
22 Situations Cetu Javu 3 #22
23 All That Money Wants The Psychedelic Furs 7 #23
24 (Nothing But) Flowers Talking Heads 28 #20
25 Def.Con.One Pop Will Eat Itself 8 #25
26 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 50 #5
27 Bitterness The Wild Swans 2 #27
28 Tomorrow People Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers 10 #28
29 Inside Out Mighty Lemon Drops 13 #24
30 Fast Car Tracy Chapman 43 #1
31 Tears Run Rings Marc Almond 6 #13
32 Tower of Strength Mission U.K. 6 #32
33 Stop This Crazy Thing Coldcut 1 #33
34 Wild World Maxi Priest 9 #11
35 Glad I'm Not a Kennedy Shona Laing 5 #35
36 Im Nin'Alu ofra Haza 2 #36
37 Power to the People Patti Smith 1 #37
38 Crash The Primitives 38 #12
39 Don't Let's Start They Might Be Giants 47 #39
40 Never Tear Us Apart INXS 40 #1
41 My Girl and Me Gangway 2 #41
42 Wild Wild West Escape Club 7 #16
43 Happy When It Rains The Jesus and Mary Chain 14 #43
44 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 69 #2
45 The Dead Heart Midnight Oil 29 #20
46 Ship of Fools Erasure 4 #46
47 Soviet Snow Shona Laing 7 #25
48 My Brain is Like a Sieve Thomas Dolby 1 #48
49 Somewhere In My Heart Aztec Camera 6 #49
50 The Different Story Peter Schilling 5 #33
51 Ma and Pa Fishbone 3 #51
52 Disco Dancer Devo 2 #52
53 Answers to Nothing Midge Ure 1 #53
54 Cinderella Undercover Oingo Boingo 2 #24
55 So Important Sparks 3 #47
56 Tell that Girl to Shut up Transvision Vamp 4 #56
57 All Night Long Peter Murphy 7 #55
58 Go Bang Shriekback 1 #58
59 Sorry Little Sarah Blue System 2 #59
60 Motorcrash The Sugarcubes 8 #36
61 Kiss and Tell Bryan Ferry 10 #61
62 Call Me Blue A House 3 #62
63 So Excited Ranking Roger 3 #63
64 You Placed a Chill in My Heart Eurythmics 1 #64
65 Neighbors Camouflage 1 #65
66 Like the Weather 10,000 Maniacs 31 #15
67 Booby Trap The Dickies 1 #67
68 Don't Turn Around Aswad 4 #68
69 The Race Yello 1 #69
70 Carolyn's Fingers Cocteau Twins 6 #26
71 Sharkwalk Shriekback 1 #71
72 Kick INXS 21 #10
73 I'm An Adult Now The Pursuit of Happiness 23 #73
74 Charlotte Anne Julian Cope 6 #46
75 Sneakville Secession 1 #75
76 Streets of Your Town The Go-Betweens 3 #76
77 Trash City Joe Strummer 2 #60
78 Breakfast in Bed UB40 4 #26
79 High on You Iggy Pop 1 #79
80 Hey Matthew Karel Fialka 1 #80
81 Kiss The Art of Noise/Tom Jones 1 #81
82 Dreaming Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 10 #26
83 There is No Love Between Us Anymore Pop Will Eat Itself 5 #29
84 Johnny Belinda Voice Farm 2 #84
85 You Make Me Feel The Woodentops 1 #85
86 Orient Express CCCP 1 #86
87 Back to the Wall The Divinyls 1 #87
88 Broken Heart Red Flag 3 #74
89 Wishing Well Hunters And Collectors 1 #89
90 I Say Nothing Voice of the Beehive 2 #69
91 Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls Book of Love 3 #91
92 Suspicion of Love Chris Isaak 1 #92
93 Underneath the Radar Underworld 2 #70
94 I Beg Your Pardon Kon Kan 6 #13
95 Love Explosion The Three O'Clock 1 #95
96 What For James 2 #33
97 Beatnik Beach Beatnik Beach 1 #97
98 You Make My Head Explode The Groovy Little Numbers 1 #98
99 I Don't Want Your Love Duran Duran 5 #24
100 Across the Sky Colour Scream 2 #100
101 Only One Night The Hurricanes 2 #101
102 Hairdresser on Fire Morrissey 11 #39
103 Bedbugs and Ballyhoo Echo and the Bunnymen 25 #25
104 Balloon Man Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians 22 #41
105 Dumb Things Paul Kelly & the Messengers 1 #105
105.3 Leader of the Pack The Joan Collins Fan Club 2 #106

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Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988 was broadcast by Live 105 (San Francisco, 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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