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Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990)

The all-time countdown (Memorial Day 1990) from Live 105 in San Francisco, CA ranks 299 songs, with “How Soon is Now?” by The Smiths at number one. The list features 160 different artists; Depeche Mode has the most entries with 15 songs. Position 300 is missing from the source list.

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1 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 106 #1
2 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 92 #1
3 I Melt With You Modern English 96 #2
4 Forever Young Alphaville 26 #1
5 Pictures of You The Cure 71 #4
6 Blue Monday New Order 96 #1
7 Just Like Heaven The Cure 104 #1
8 Tainted Love Soft Cell 76 #1
9 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 67 #2
10 Oh L'Amour Erasure 31 #3
11 Love's Taboo Cube 7 #1
12 Everyday is Halloween Ministry 33 #6
13 True Faith New Order 78 #3
14 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
15 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 69 #1
16 The Magician Secession 6 #16
17 In Between Days The Cure 81 #3
18 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
19 Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode 107 #2
20 Situation Yaz 46 #8
21 Rock Lobster The B-52's 87 #5
22 Kiss Me Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy 25 #13
23 The Promise When in Rome 24 #11
24 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 86 #1
25 It's My Life Talk Talk 61 #18
26 Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo 65 #1
27 World Destruction Time Zone 31 #17
28 Strangelove Depeche Mode 62 #2
29 Only You Yaz 20 #24
30 Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Dramarama 55 #2
31 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 90 #1
32 The One I Love R.E.M. 150 #5
33 Avalon Roxy Music 52 #33
34 Tenderness General Public 47 #1
35 AEIOU (and Sometimes Y) EBN-OZN 12 #13
36 Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 85 #4
37 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 96 #1
38 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash 163 #8
39 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 49 #30
40 Love Song The Cure 80 #1
41 Getting Away With It Electronic 18 #21
42 Love Shack The B-52's 79 #1
43 Pure The Lightning Seeds 37 #13
44 Close to Me The Cure 83 #11
45 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 138 #2
46 Always on My Mind Pet Shop Boys 17 #7
47 I Wanna Be Adored The Stone Roses 53 #10
48 Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths 62 #2
49 A Million Miles Away The Plimsouls 47 #44
50 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
51 A Forest The Cure 63 #4
52 Chains of Love Erasure 34 #7
53 Here's Where The Story Ends The Sundays 56 #3
54 What I Like About You The Romantics 92 #10
55 Strawberry Fields Forever Candy Flip 6 #39
56 The Different Story Peter Schilling 5 #33
57 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 102 #1
58 People are People Depeche Mode 66 #11
59 The Lovecats The Cure 60 #2
60 Let Me Go Heaven 17 25 #31
61 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 125 #4
62 I Confess The English Beat 40 #10
63 Lullaby The Cure 37 #3
64 Rock the Casbah The Clash 164 #1
65 Living in Oblivion Anything Box 3 #43
66 A Little Respect Erasure 50 #4
67 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 60 #2
68 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 50 #16
69 New Year's Day U2 182 #4
70 Nowhere Girl B-Movie 26 #5
71 Everything Counts Depeche Mode 43 #24
72 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 56 #5
73 Train in Vain The Clash 120 #10
74 West End Girls Pet Shop Boys 52 #11
75 Go! Tones on Tail 44 #35
76 White Lines (Don't Do It) Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel 17 #7
77 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
78 Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode 62 #1
79 Birdhouse In Your Soul They Might Be Giants 63 #4
80 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 69 #2
81 Bad U2 78 #5
82 Until December Until December 2 #82
83 God Save the Queen The Sex Pistols 72 #3
84 Star Erasure 6 #37
85 Fascination Street The Cure 52 #5
86 Jane Says Jane's Addiction 106 #2
87 Dear God XTC 92 #1
88 Headhunter Front 242 13 #63
89 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 53 #9
90 Fine Time New Order 11 #9
91 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics 72 #4
92 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 59 #1
93 Somebody Depeche Mode 16 #7
94 Madame Butterfly Malcolm McLaren 8 #43
95 The Perfect Kiss New Order 43 #2
96 Cuts You Up Peter Murphy 58 #10
97 Roam The B-52's 45 #18
98 Have in Mind Cetu Javu 5 #20
99 Kingdom of Rain The The 11 #22
100 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 66 #3
101 Save It For Later The English Beat 69 #9
102 She Drives Me Crazy Fine Young Cannibals 46 #4
103 Red Red Wine UB40 49 #1
104 Hello The Beloved 5 #66
105 Mad World Tears for Fears 38 #5
106 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 154 #8
107 I Got You Split Enz 50 #39
108 With or Without You U2 213 #3
109 Show Me Your Soul Red Hot Chili Peppers 21 #40
110 Orange Crush R.E.M. 76 #1
111 We Close Our Eyes Oingo Boingo 17 #22
112 Work for Love Ministry 18 #112
113 Compulsion Martin Gore 7 #20
114 Harley David (Son of a Bitch) Bollock Brothers 10 #2
115 The One Thing INXS 52 #10
116 Doot Doot Freur 17 #28
117 1963 New Order 14 #15
118 Fools Gold The Stone Roses 44 #1
119 Oliver's Army Elvis Costello & the Attractions 27 #35
120 Don't Change INXS 58 #28
121 Round and Round New Order 13 #7
122 And She Was Talking Heads 81 #21
123 Consolidated Consolidated 4 #55
124 Alison Elvis Costello 66 #3
125 Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House 61 #5
126 The Emperor's New Clothes Sinéad O'Connor 40 #12
127 We Got the Beat The Go-Go's 38 #3
128 Images of Heaven Peter Godwin 10 #21
129 Private Idaho The B-52's 58 #25
130 Psycho Killer Talking Heads 98 #6
131 Painkiller Westworld 6 #17
132 This Party Sucks The Slickee Boys 4 #1
133 Sex (I'm a...) Berlin 40 #23
134 Master and Servant Depeche Mode 44 #5
135 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 36 #6
136 London Calling The Clash 122 #1
137 The Look of Love ABC 25 #56
138 A Question of Lust Depeche Mode 17 #2
139 Kingston Town UB40 1 #139
140 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones 158 #1
141 Every Breath You Take The Police 124 #3
142 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 19 #29
143 Vienna Ultravox 33 #18
144 Why Can't I Be You? The Cure 60 #1
145 Fury Eyes The Creatures 4 #32
146 Deadbeat Club The B-52's 19 #87
147 Absolute Reality The Alarm 3 #147
148 Sowing the Seeds of Love Tears for Fears 33 #5
149 Uncertain Smile The The 51 #3
150 But Not Tonight Depeche Mode 16 #2
151 Indigo Eyes Peter Murphy 21 #31
152 Back on the Chain Gang The Pretenders 83 #15
153 Change Tears for Fears 34 #32
154 Russian Radio Red Flag 2 #154
155 In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel 123 #2
156 Tesla Girls Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 12 #100
157 Temptation New Order 22 #1
158 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 56 #5
159 So Alive Love and Rockets 61 #1
160 Mirror in the Bathroom The English Beat 64 #38
161 Where the Streets Have No Name U2 151 #3
162 Need You Tonight INXS 87 #5
163 Good Thing Fine Young Cannibals 19 #6
164 Planet Claire The B-52's 37 #62
165 88 Lines About 44 Women The Nails 35 #3
166 Planet Earth Duran Duran 17 #38
167 Thieves Like Us New Order 8 #7
168 Come On Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners 64 #5
169 The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight Dominatrix 4 #59
170 Route 66 Depeche Mode 53 #1
171 The Whole of the Moon The Waterboys 51 #14
172 Blue Savannah Erasure 4 #45
173 99 Luftballoons Nena 25 #15
174 Tempted Squeeze 89 #21
175 Obsession Xymox 2 #60
176 Mayor of Simpleton XTC 45 #3
177 Johnny Belinda Voice Farm 2 #84
178 Fade to Grey Visage 7 #127
179 Everywhere That I'm Not Translator 7 #88
180 If You Were Here Thompson Twins 6 #58
181 Dream Attack New Order 2 #15
182 Golden Brown The Stranglers 12 #10
183 Belfast Child Simple Minds 2 #8
184 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side The Smiths 16 #8
185 Stripped Depeche Mode 12 #24
186 Butterfly on a Wheel Mission U.K. 4 #74
187 Don't You Want Me The Human League 41 #5
188 My Girl and Me Gangway 2 #41
189 Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed 103 #12
190 Desire U2 96 #2
191 Brand New Lover Dead or Alive 15 #12
192 Changes David Bowie 128 #17
193 Legal Tender The B-52's 13 #65
194 A Donde Cetu Javu 1 #194
195 Original Sin INXS 44 #19
196 Din Da Da George Kranz 2 #196
197 Stand or Fall The Fixx 13 #63
198 Hungry Like the Wolf Duran Duran 58 #22
199 In Dulce Decorum The Damned 4 #199
200 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears 90 #1
201 Everlasting Love U2 12 #3
202 Like the Weather 10,000 Maniacs 40 #15
203 It's a Mug's Game Soft Cell 12 #37
204 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 102 #3
205 New Gold Dream Simple Minds 7 #54
206 This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads 38 #2
207 Move Your Feet Hithouse 2 #59
208 Ask The Smiths 48 #5
209 Soviet Snow Shona Laing 7 #25
210 Stand R.E.M. 65 #4
211 So In Love Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 16 #17
212 Skin Oingo Boingo 3 #49
213 Love and Pride King 12 #16
214 New York New York Nina Hagen 1 #214
215 Subculture New Order 9 #18
216 Suedehead Morrissey 56 #4
217 Alone Again Or The Damned 29 #36
218 Whip It Devo 78 #1
219 Peek-A-Boo Siouxsie and the Banshees 51 #1
220 Our House Madness 66 #15
221 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah The Pogues 24 #85
222 Hairstyle of the Devil Momus 2 #32
223 Is She Really Going Out With Him? Joe Jackson 44 #39
224 Love Like Blood Killing Joke 8 #27
225 Do You Wanna Hold Me? Bow Wow Wow 6 #225
226 Down In It Nine Inch Nails 53 #47
227 What's The Matter Here 10,000 Maniacs 42 #21
228 Roxanne The Police 167 #10
229 I Love a Man in Uniform Gang of Four 12 #28
230 I Go Crazy Flesh for Lulu 24 #21
231 Suspicious Minds Fine Young Cannibals 13 #51
232 Fisherman's Blues The Waterboys 24 #57
233 Sometimes Erasure 16 #27
234 The Killing Moon Echo and the Bunnymen 65 #9
235 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 83 #2
236 Last Cigarette Dramarama 22 #11
237 Sex Dwarf Soft Cell 17 #3
238 Dangerous Depeche Mode 2 #46
239 Belly of the Whale Burning Sensations 25 #19
240 Ceremony New Order 16 #4
241 You Have Put a Chill in My. Eurythmics 1 #241
242 Atmosphere Joy Division 24 #1
243 Across the Sky Colour Scream 2 #100
244 You Owe Me Some Kind of Love Chris Isaak 9 #18
245 Will You Be There? Celebrate the Nun 2 #105
246 One Simple Thing The Stabilizers 1 #246
247 Smalltown Boy Bronski Beat 23 #36
248 Sex Daf 2 #199
249 Wonderful Life Black 5 #72
250 The Metro Berlin 24 #7
251 My Way The Sex Pistols 15 #75
252 Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus 48 #3
253 Room at the Top Adam Ant 6 #44
254 Drama Erasure 4 #23
255 Sweetest Thing U2 50 #3
256 A Message To You Rudy The Specials 39 #54
257 Elephant Stone The Stone Roses 4 #257
258 Love is a Stranger Eurythmics 18 #62
259 Gimme Hope Jo'anna Eddy Grant 4 #17
260 In a Big Country Big Country 77 #3
261 The Walk The Cure 27 #49
262 Don't Go Yaz 27 #37
263 I Love You Yello 4 #263
264 Senses Working Overtime XTC 38 #23
265 Burning Flame Vitamin Z 4 #265
266 Two Hearts Beat As One U2 52 #19
267 Dance This Mess Around The B-52's 24 #157
268 Accidentally 4th Street Figures on a Beach 1 #268
269 Genius of Love Tom Tom Club 40 #81
270 Nellie the Elephant Toy Dolls 13 #36
271 This Is The Day The The 44 #45
272 Skin Deep The Stranglers 12 #121
273 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now The Smiths 11 #24
274 Shake the Disease Depeche Mode 38 #1
275 Bible Dreams The Wild Swans 1 #275
276 Eyes of a Stranger The Payolas 15 #92
277 Red Skies The Fixx 33 #102
278 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 83 #4
279 Under the Milky Way The Church 85 #3
280 Eyes Without A Face Billy Idol 34 #26
281 The Stand The Alarm 23 #5
282 Shout Tears for Fears 70 #5
283 Love and Anger Kate Bush 6 #11
284 Talk Talk Talk Talk 27 #9
285 Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) Squeeze 44 #42
286 Dear Prudence Siouxsie and the Banshees 36 #20
287 Heroine Sinéad O'Connor/The Edge 1 #287
288 Never Say Never Romeo Void 59 #8
289 The Politics of Dancing Re-Flex 17 #44
290 Baby Doll Devo 2 #73
291 Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs 64 #10
292 Seattle Public Image Ltd. 16 #10
293 Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel 53 #20
294 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 48 #14
295 Wouldn't It Be Good Nik Kershaw 11 #182
296 Always Something There To Remind Me Naked Eyes 29 #70
297 So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) R.E.M. 39 #7
298 Blue Sky Mine Midnight Oil 42 #9
299 No Myth Michael Penn 36 #23

Position 300 is missing from the source list.

About this countdown

Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) was broadcast by Live 105 (San Francisco, CA) in Memorial Day 1990. 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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