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