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Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991)

The all-time countdown (Memorial Day 1991) from Live 105 in San Francisco, CA ranks 302 songs, with “Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order at number one. The list features 168 different artists; The Cure has the most entries with 16 songs.

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1 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 76 #1
2 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 85 #1
3 Just Like Heaven The Cure 82 #1
4 I Melt With You Modern English 71 #2
5 Tainted Love Soft Cell 64 #1
6 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 59 #2
7 Blue Monday New Order 82 #1
8 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 116 #2
9 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 73 #1
10 True Faith New Order 69 #3
11 Love's Taboo Cube 7 #1
12 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 85 #1
13 Rock Lobster The B-52's 71 #5
14 (tie) Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 120 #1
14 (tie) Forever Young Alphaville 19 #1
15 Everyday is Halloween Ministry 31 #6
16 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 77 #1
17 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 67 #4
18 Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode 88 #2
19 So. Central Rain R.E.M. 26 #7
20 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush 43 #16
21 The Magician Secession 6 #16
22 In Between Days The Cure 72 #3
23 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash 86 #8
24 Route 66 Depeche Mode 50 #1
25 Jane Says Jane's Addiction 70 #2
26 Suedehead Morrissey 51 #4
27 Love Cats The Cure 10 #27
28 Wicked Game Chris Isaak 42 #7
29 Situation Yaz 44 #8
30 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones 81 #1
31 Strangelove Depeche Mode 58 #2
32 Dear God XTC 76 #1
33 Oh L'Amour Erasure 27 #3
34 Fall On Me R.E.M. 46 #26
35 Private Idaho The B-52's 51 #25
36 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 59 #4
37 Pictures of You The Cure 61 #4
38 Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo 59 #1
39 Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode 32 #1
40 Master and Servant Depeche Mode 43 #5
41 In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel 66 #10
42 Nowhere Girl B-Movie 26 #5
43 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 78 #1
44 Welcome Machine Gun Hubert KaH 1 #44
45 Kiss Me Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy 19 #13
46 Head Like a Hole Nine Inch Nails 65 #1
47 To the Sky The Cure 1 #47
48 Don't Change INXS 48 #28
49 Anything, Anything Dramarama 11 #6
50 AEIOU (and Sometimes Y) EBN-OZN 10 #13
51 Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus 46 #3
52 People are People Depeche Mode 59 #11
53 Alison Elvis Costello 49 #3
54 Perfect Kiss New Order 12 #9
55 It's My Life Talk Talk 55 #18
56 Never Say Never Romeo Void 53 #8
57 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 54 #2
58 Love Song The Cure 62 #1
59 London Calling The Clash 88 #1
60 This Corrosion Sisters of Mercy 34 #7
61 The Promise When in Rome 21 #11
62 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 83 #1
63 Avalon Roxy Music 39 #33
64 Go! Tones on Tail 42 #35
65 Right Here, Right Now Jesus Jones 49 #3
66 Tears The Chameleons UK 3 #66
67 A Forest The Cure 58 #4
68 Never Let Me Down Again Depeche Mode 51 #7
69 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 36 #14
70 Headhunter Front 242 12 #63
71 Train in Vain The Clash 68 #10
72 Ask The Smiths 47 #5
73 I Want Candy Bow Wow Wow 49 #60
74 88 Lines About 44 Women The Nails 34 #3
75 Tempted Squeeze 71 #21
76 Been Caught Stealing Jane's Addiction 73 #1
77 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 60 #2
78 Everything Counts Depeche Mode 41 #24
79 The One I Love R.E.M. 91 #5
80 Getting Away With It Electronic 16 #21
81 Senses Working Overtime XTC 35 #23
82 Down In It Nine Inch Nails 47 #47
83 Love is a Stranger Eurythmics 16 #62
84 Pure The Lightning Seeds 33 #13
85 What I Like About You The Romantics 39 #16
86 Last of the Famous International Playboys Morrissey 6 #18
87 But Not Tonight Depeche Mode 16 #2
88 More Sisters of Mercy 24 #23
89 This Charming Man The Smiths 43 #2
90 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 51 #9
91 With or Without You U2 123 #3
92 Painkiller Westworld 6 #17
93 God Save the Queen The Sex Pistols 63 #3
94 I Confess The English Beat 35 #10
95 Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs 53 #10
96 Birdhouse In Your Soul They Might Be Giants 49 #4
97 Shake the Disease Depeche Mode 37 #1
98 Let Me Go Heaven 17 24 #31
99 A Night Like This The Cure 8 #6
100 Doot Doot Freur 16 #28
101 Magnificent Seven The Clash 5 #93
102 The Only One I Know The Charlatans 32 #6
103 No New Tale To Tell Love and Rockets 47 #13
104 Planet Claire The B-52's 33 #104
105 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 47 #5
106 Just Another Day Oingo Boingo 15 #27
107 Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths 57 #2
108 Superman R.E.M. 48 #8
109 Stripped Depeche Mode 12 #24
110 1963 New Order 14 #15
111 Close to Me The Cure 72 #11
112 Alone Again Or The Damned 27 #36
113 The Sweetest Thing U2 27 #3
114 Whisper to a Scream Icicle Works 16 #59
115 Uncertain Smile The The 45 #3
116 Just a Gigolo Barbie and the Kens 9 #35
117 Vienna Ultravox 26 #18
118 Only You Yaz 14 #24
119 Original Sin INXS 40 #19
120 I'm Free The Soup Dragons 42 #1
121 I Ran A Flock of Seagulls 32 #32
122 Heroes David Bowie 93 #1
123 Pump It Up Elvis Costello 20 #123
124 The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight Dominatrix 2 #124
125 A Question of Lust Depeche Mode 17 #2
126 New Year's Day U2 100 #4
127 Legal Tender The B-52's 13 #65
128 Rapture Blondie 46 #31
129 West End Girls Pet Shop Boys 42 #11
130 Psycho Killer Talking Heads 71 #6
131 Images of Heaven Peter Godwin 10 #21
132 Beautiful World Devo 21 #108
133 Here's Where The Story Ends The Sundays 48 #3
134 Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 69 #4
135 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 79 #1
136 Pale Shelter Tears for Fears 16 #29
137 Love Plus One Haircut 100 22 #26
138 I Got You Split Enz 45 #41
139 Heroine The Edge 2 #85
140 A Million Miles Away The Plimsouls 42 #44
141 Antmusic Adam & the Ants 33 #2
142 Make a Circuit With Me The Polecats 13 #21
143 True Spandau Ballet 11 #32
144 The Walk The Cure 26 #49
145 Major Tom Peter Schilling 11 #55
146 In a Big Country Big Country 63 #3
147 That's Entertainment The Jam 42 #4
148 Eyes of a Stranger The Payolas 14 #92
149 This Is The Day The The 36 #45
150 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 30 #6
151 Smalltown Boy Bronski Beat 18 #36
152 Eighties Killing Joke 28 #37
153 Bring on the Dancing Horses Echo and the Bunnymen 39 #21
154 Punk Rock Girl Dead Milkmen 36 #69
155 Bad U2 59 #5
156 Black Coffee in Bed Squeeze 44 #55
157 Dance This Mess Around The B-52's 21 #157
158 I Touch Roses Book of Love 7 #158
159 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 80 #3
160 E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 28 #40
161 October Love Song Chris and Cosey 2 #161
162 Genius of Love Tom Tom Club 32 #92
163 Brass in Pocket The Pretenders 54 #30
164 Hope Road Anne Clark 5 #14
165 Belly of the Whale Burning Sensations 24 #19
166 The Different Story Peter Schilling 5 #33
167 Girls on Film Duran Duran 46 #18
168 Rain The Cult 25 #74
169 Wot Captain Sensible 8 #143
170 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 55 #1
171 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 83 #8
172 Chains of Love Erasure 31 #7
173 Work for Love Ministry 18 #112
174 Suspicious Minds Fine Young Cannibals 12 #51
175 Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello 48 #25
176 Tenderness General Public 42 #1
177 Step On Happy Mondays 38 #8
178 Need You Tonight INXS 52 #5
179 Public Image Public Image Ltd. 17 #9
180 Love is the Drug Roxy Music 44 #47
181 One Step Beyond Madness 40 #4
182 Have in Mind Cetu Javu 5 #20
183 Madame Butterfly Malcolm McLaren 8 #43
184 Shock the Monkey Peter Gabriel 48 #21
185 White Wedding Billy Idol 65 #7
186 Always Something There To Remind Me Naked Eyes 26 #70
187 Ouija Board, Ouija Board Morrissey 8 #16
188 Temptation New Order 19 #1
189 Dreamworld Midnight Oil 8 #43
190 I Don't Like Mondays Boomtown Rats 48 #47
191 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 42 #30
192 The Great Commandment Camouflage 14 #10
193 Love Like Blood Killing Joke 8 #27
194 Peek-A-Boo Siouxsie and the Banshees 46 #1
195 It's a Mug's Game Soft Cell 12 #37
196 Oblivious Aztec Camera 25 #29
197 Don't Go Yaz 27 #37
198 Space Age Love Song A Flock of Seagulls 19 #25
199 Fire Woman The Cult 32 #6
200 Nellie the Elephant Toy Dolls 12 #36
201 Mirror in the Bathroom The English Beat 54 #38
202 Under the Milky Way The Church 66 #3
203 Love Vigilantes New Order 38 #1
204 Get Up, Stand Up Bob Marley 26 #58
205 Biting My Nails Renegade Soundwave 2 #50
206 Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) Squeeze 29 #55
207 Dance Away Roxy Music 14 #207
208 Fire in Cairo The Cure 3 #208
209 We Close Our Eyes Oingo Boingo 14 #22
210 Strobe Light The B-52's 15 #58
211 Wasteland Mission U.K. 2 #211
212 Blue Hotel Chris Isaak 2 #141
213 Rock n' Roll High School The Ramones 24 #80
214 This Party Sucks The Slickee Boys 4 #1
215 Red Red Wine UB40 43 #1
216 Let's Dance David Bowie 61 #6
217 Don't Let's Start They Might Be Giants 47 #39
218 I Will Follow U2 69 #9
219 Kingdom of Rain The The 9 #22
220 Save It For Later The English Beat 55 #9
221 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 69 #2
222 Making Plans For Nigel XTC 40 #29
223 Love and Pride King 12 #16
224 Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo 56 #9
225 Joey Concrete Blonde 43 #15
226 Dancing With Myself Billy Idol 47 #18
227 Poison Arrow ABC 17 #63
228 Crash The Primitives 38 #12
229 Gone Daddy Gone Violent Femmes 34 #45
230 Our House Madness 58 #15
231 Harley David Bollock Brothers 2 #231
232 Come On Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners 55 #5
233 Slave to Love Bryan Ferry 25 #30
234 God Tonight Real Life 4 #29
235 Safety Dance Men Without Hats 17 #47
236 The Whole of the Moon The Waterboys 28 #14
237 Consolidated Consolidated 4 #55
238 If You Were Here Thompson Twins 3 #58
239 Half a Person The Smiths 6 #24
240 Fools Gold The Stone Roses 41 #1
241 Whip It Devo 64 #1
242 Rio Duran Duran 39 #18
243 Hot! Hot! Hot! The Cure 38 #17
244 Veronica Elvis Costello 29 #10
245 White Lines Grandmaster Flash 4 #80
246 What You Need INXS 52 #7
247 Things Can Only Get Better Howard Jones 17 #42
248 Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins 9 #156
249 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 50 #5
250 Radio Free Europe R.E.M. 62 #1
251 Just Got Lucky JoBoxxers 6 #104
252 Lucky Number Lene Lovich 10 #121
253 A Little Respect Erasure 41 #4
254 Love Removal Machine The Cult 40 #13
255 99 Luftballoons Nena 23 #15
256 Only Tongue Can Tell The Trash Can Sinatras 7 #7
257 Generals and Majors XTC 24 #62
258 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker The Ramones 55 #46
259 Heartbreak Beat The Psychedelic Furs 34 #38
260 Mad World Tears for Fears 31 #5
261 Orange Crush R.E.M. 59 #1
262 Twist And Crawl The English Beat 19 #261
263 Nobody's Diary Yaz 8 #75
264 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 19 #6
265 Turning Japanese The Vapors 49 #14
266 Fascination Street The Cure 43 #5
267 Rock the Casbah The Clash 87 #1
268 Head On The Jesus and Mary Chain 29 #21
269 Oh Yeah Yello 18 #79
270 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 72 #9
271 Strength The Alarm 32 #20
272 So Alive Love and Rockets 54 #1
273 Panic The Smiths 51 #5
274 Soviet Snow Shona Laing 7 #25
275 Sex (I'm a...) Berlin 36 #23
276 World Destruction Time Zone 30 #17
277 Time Will Tell The Twins 4 #38
278 Roxanne The Police 82 #10
279 Leader of the Pack The Joan Collins Fan Club 2 #106
280 Red Skies The Fixx 28 #102
281 Summer of Love The B-52's 24 #8
282 Christian Boy Robert Siedler 2 #231
283 Only a Lad Oingo Boingo 23 #6
284 Def.Con.One Pop Will Eat Itself 8 #25
285 Ball and Chain Social Distortion 56 #2
286 Mayor of Simpleton XTC 33 #3
287 Video Killed The Radio Star The Buggles 45 #42
288 Brick Fake 2 #288
289 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 53 #13
290 Driver 8 R.E.M. 36 #46
291 Where Did I Go Wrong? UB40 4 #8
292 Ziggy Stardust David Bowie 45 #61
293 (tie) Lullaby The Cure 32 #3
293 (tie) Medicine Show Big Audio Dynamite 14 #56
294 Tower of Strength Mission U.K. 6 #32
295 Shellshock New Order 21 #9
296 Gloria U2 41 #51
297 Ghost Town The Specials 26 #21
298 I Will Dare The Replacements 35 #50
299 The Killing Moon Echo and the Bunnymen 53 #9
300 I Wanna Be Adored The Stone Roses 47 #10

About this countdown

Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991) was broadcast by Live 105 (San Francisco, CA) in Memorial Day 1991. 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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