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Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)

The all-time countdown (Memorial Day 1988) from Live 105 in San Francisco, CA ranks 501 songs, with “Blue Monday” by New Order at number one. The list features 257 different artists; Depeche Mode has the most entries with 15 songs.

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1 Blue Monday New Order 96 #1
2 I Melt With You Modern English 96 #2
3 Forever Young Alphaville 26 #1
4 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 106 #1
5 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 67 #2
6 Everyday is Halloween Ministry 33 #6
7 Tainted Love Soft Cell 76 #1
8 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
9 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 53 #9
10 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
11 The Promise When in Rome 24 #11
12 Rock Lobster The B-52's 87 #5
13 Situation Yaz 46 #8
14 Love's Taboo Cube 7 #1
15 The Killing Moon Echo and the Bunnymen 65 #9
16 London Calling The Clash 122 #1
17 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 92 #1
18 Whip It Devo 78 #1
19 Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo 65 #1
20 Just Like Heaven The Cure 104 #1
21 Images of Heaven Peter Godwin 10 #21
22 Oh L'Amour Erasure 31 #3
23 I Confess The English Beat 40 #10
24 Sex (I'm a...) Berlin 40 #23
25 West End Girls Pet Shop Boys 52 #11
25 Kiss Me Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy 25 #13
26 Route 66 Depeche Mode 53 #1
27 Love Like Blood Killing Joke 8 #27
28 Tempted Squeeze 89 #21
29 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 31 #6
30 The One Thing INXS 52 #10
31 Let Me Go Heaven 17 25 #31
32 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 90 #1
33 The Perfect Kiss New Order 43 #2
34 New Year's Day U2 182 #4
35 It's My Life Talk Talk 61 #18
36 More Than This Roxy Music 48 #12
37 Don't Go Yaz 27 #37
38 In Between Days The Cure 81 #3
39 Go! Tones on Tail 44 #35
40 Dear God XTC 92 #1
41 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 83 #4
42 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 59 #1
43 Madame Butterfly Malcolm McLaren 8 #43
44 The Politics of Dancing Re-Flex 17 #44
45 Smalltown Boy Bronski Beat 23 #36
46 Strangelove Depeche Mode 62 #2
47 True Faith New Order 78 #3
48 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash 163 #8
49 The Great Commandment Camouflage 15 #10
50 The Cutter Echo and the Bunnymen 35 #22
51 Why Can't I Be You? The Cure 60 #1
52 Doot Doot Freur 17 #28
53 Only You Yaz 20 #24
54 A Way The Bolshoi 2 #54
55 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 66 #3
56 The Look of Love ABC 25 #56
57 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 96 #1
58 If You Were Here Thompson Twins 6 #58
59 The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight Dominatrix 4 #59
60 I Want Candy Bow Wow Wow 53 #38
61 Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode 62 #1
62 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 86 #1
63 Rebel Rebel David Bowie 85 #63
64 Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus 48 #3
65 The Model Kraftwerk 6 #65
66 88 Lines About 44 Women The Nails 35 #3
67 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 154 #8
68 Red Red Wine UB40 49 #1
69 Secret Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 11 #48
70 In Dulce December The Damned 1 #70
71 Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs 70 #9
72 World Destruction Time Zone 31 #17
73 Alison Elvis Costello 66 #3
74 Brass in Pocket The Pretenders 102 #30
75 Always on My Mind Pet Shop Boys 17 #7
76 Sweetest Thing U2 50 #3
77 The Lovecats The Cure 60 #2
78 Just a Gigolo Barbie and the Kens 9 #35
79 Would I Lie To You? Eurythmics 34 #61
80 A Question of Lust Depeche Mode 17 #2
81 Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths 62 #2
82 Tears of a Clown The English Beat 16 #82
83 Nellie the Elephant Toy Dolls 13 #36
84 Need You Tonight INXS 87 #5
85 Voulez vous Couchez Avec Moi...Sex! Daf 1 #85
86 Turning Japanese The Vapors 52 #14
87 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 56 #5
88 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 49 #30
89 Walking on the Moon The Police 53 #63
90 Radio Free Europe R.E.M. 77 #1
91 Mad World Tears for Fears 38 #5
92 Until December Until December 2 #82
93 People are People Depeche Mode 66 #11
94 Money Flying Lizards 15 #94
95 Love Plus One Haircut 100 34 #26
96 Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) Icicle Works 32 #22
97 Don't Change INXS 58 #28
98 Alive and Kicking Simple Minds 46 #1
99 Voyage, Voyage Desireless 2 #19
100 Boy Book of Love 3 #100
101 Only a Lad Oingo Boingo 24 #6
102 What I Like About You The Romantics 92 #10
103 Close to Me The Cure 83 #11
104 80's Killing Joke 1 #104
105 Get the Balance Right Depeche Mode 18 #42
106 Eyes Without A Face Billy Idol 34 #26
107 Happy Hour The Housemartins 30 #6
108 Beautiful World Devo 23 #108
109 Europa and the Pirate Twins Thomas Dolby 10 #37
110 Big in Japan Alphaville 17 #23
111 Oblivious Aztec Camera 28 #29
112 I Will Follow U2 96 #9
113 Life During Wartime Talking Heads 87 #41
114 Work for Love Ministry 18 #112
115 Alex Chilton The Replacements 58 #8
116 Suedehead Morrissey 56 #4
117 Nowhere Girl B-Movie 26 #5
118 Pump It Up Elvis Costello & the Attractions 75 #24
119 Moments In Love Art of Noise 6 #59
120 Golden Brown The Stranglers 12 #10
121 Rebel Yell Billy Idol 143 #3
122 Soft Core Maurice and the Cliches 2 #102
123 Original Sin INXS 44 #19
124 This Corrosion Sisters of Mercy 36 #7
125 Mirror in the Bathroom The English Beat 64 #38
126 Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo 64 #9
127 Fade to Grey Visage 7 #127
128 I Know What Boys Like The Waitresses 31 #27
129 A Million Miles Away The Plimsouls 47 #44
130 Seattle Public Image Ltd. 16 #10
131 So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) R.E.M. 39 #7
132 Ghost Town The Specials 34 #21
133 My Ever Changing Moods The Style Council 34 #57
134 Cry For Love Iggy Pop 5 #25
135 Planet Claire The B-52's 37 #62
136 Stranger Clan of Xymox 1 #136
137 Master and Servant Depeche Mode 44 #5
138 Changes David Bowie 128 #17
139 This Is Radio Clash The Clash 29 #59
140 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 102 #1
141 Blue Hotel Chris Isaak 2 #141
142 Lucky Number Lene Lovich 10 #121
143 Ask The Smiths 48 #5
144 Young Manhood The Wild Swans 1 #144
145 Hope Road Anne Clark 5 #14
146 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
147 Time Will Tell The Twins 4 #38
148 Can't Get Enough of You Baby The Colourfield 8 #65
149 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 58 #13
150 I Don't Like Mondays Boomtown Rats 52 #47
151 Nobody's Diary Yaz 8 #75
152 Anything, Anything (I'll Give You) Dramarama 55 #2
153 Pleasure And Pain The Divinyls 22 #43
154 Animal Song Europeans 5 #154
155 Tenderness General Public 47 #1
156 Escalator of Life Robert Hazard 3 #156
157 Killing An Arab The Cure 11 #98
158 Always Something There To Remind Me Naked Eyes 29 #70
159 White Wedding Billy Idol 152 #7
160 Burning Skies Uptones 1 #160
161 Johnny Come Home Fine Young Cannibals 11 #68
162 Electric Cafe Kraftwerk 1 #162
163 The Right Stuff Bryan Ferry 7 #76
164 Everything Counts Depeche Mode 43 #24
165 Talk Talk Talk Talk 27 #9
166 With or Without You U2 213 #3
167 Chamber of Hellos Wire Train 6 #167
168 Uncertain Smile The The 51 #3
169 Only One Night The Hurricanes 2 #101
170 Houses in Motion Talking Heads 2 #65
171 Wild Thing X 10 #25
172 The One I Love R.E.M. 150 #5
173 Wonderful Life Black 5 #72
174 Never Say Never Romeo Void 59 #8
175 Avalon Roxy Music 52 #33
176 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 60 #2
177 Make a Circuit With Me The Polecats 14 #21
178 Rock n' Roll High School The Ramones 32 #61
179 What Have I Done To Deserve This? Pet Shop Boys 25 #36
180 Dancing on the Berlin Wall Rational Youth 1 #180
181 Eyes of a Stranger The Payolas 15 #92
182 Heartbeta The Psychedelic Furs 1 #182
183 Blood and Roses The Smihtereens 1 #183
184 Shake the Disease Depeche Mode 38 #1
185 Pain Oingo Boingo 7 #3
186 1963 New Order 14 #15
187 My City Was Gone The Pretenders 44 #69
188 The Bottom Line Big Audio Dynamite 27 #15
189 Call Me Blondie 71 #6
190 Take On Me a-ha 46 #2
191 The Magnificent Seven The Clash 37 #93
192 Radio Radio Elvis Costello & the Attractions 49 #22
193 Legal Tender The B-52's 13 #65
194 The Unguarded Moment The Church 10 #42
195 Let's Dance David Bowie 98 #6
196 October Love Song Chris and Cosey 2 #161
197 Wishful Thinking China Crisis 3 #197
198 Sixty Eight Guns The Alarm 20 #59
199 Love Kills Joe Strummer 2 #199
200 No More Words Berlin 8 #127
201 I Can't Get Used to Losing You The English Beat 2 #201
202 Christine Siouxsie and the Banshees 15 #80
203 Der Kommisar Falco 7 #70
204 Rapture Blondie 54 #31
205 I Ran (So Far Away) A Flock of Seagulls 49 #2
206 Girls on Film Duran Duran 51 #18
207 Hairdresser on Fire Morrissey 11 #39
208 I Touch Roses Book of Love 7 #158
209 AEIOU (and Sometimes Y) EBN-OZN 12 #13
210 Hit That Perfect Beat Bronski Beat 4 #56
211 Rock the Casbah The Clash 164 #1
212 Love Is For Lovers The Db's 12 #212
213 I Love a Man in Uniform Gang of Four 12 #28
214 (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea Elvis Costello & the Attractions 4 #214
215 Tour d'France Kraftwerk 3 #215
216 Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs 64 #10
217 All in My Mind Love and Rockets 10 #32
218 Opportunities (Let's Make Lot's of Money) Pet Shop Boys 23 #3
219 Echo Beach Martha and the Muffins 10 #156
220 Always the Sun The Stranglers 28 #16
221 That's Entertainment The Jam 46 #4
222 Dancing With Myself Billy Idol 84 #18
223 Is She Really Going Out With Him? Joe Jackson 44 #39
224 The Safety Dance Men Without Hats 35 #2
225 American Soviets CCCP 2 #16
226 Power and the Passion Midnight Oil 28 #29
227 Love Resurrection Alison Moyet 6 #17
228 Don't Stand So Close to Me The Police 104 #7
229 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones 158 #1
230 Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed 103 #12
231 Christian Boy Robert Siedler 2 #231
232 Senses Working Overtime XTC 38 #23
233 51st State New Model Army 1 #233
234 Bad U2 78 #5
235 Promised You a Miracle Simple Minds 16 #30
236 Stand By Roman Holliday 5 #236
237 Young Americans David Bowie 69 #24
238 I Got You Split Enz 50 #39
239 Unhappy Birthday The Smiths 4 #41
240 This Is The Day The The 44 #45
241 Dear Prudence Siouxsie and the Banshees 36 #20
242 Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello 60 #25
243 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 19 #29
244 Back on the Chain Gang The Pretenders 83 #15
245 Cool for Cats Squeeze 34 #50
246 Send Me an Angel Real Life 22 #25
247 Ages of You R.E.M. 2 #40
248 Age of Consent New Order 31 #3
249 Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me Oingo Boingo 5 #161
250 1999 Prince 37 #1
251 Vienna Ultravox 33 #18
252 The Whole of the Moon The Waterboys 51 #14
253 Two Hearts Beat As One U2 52 #19
254 Do You Wanna Hold Me? Bow Wow Wow 6 #225
255 Rock This Town The Stray Cats 40 #6
256 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 125 #4
257 Dance Hall Days Wang Chung 14 #85
258 Making Plans For Nigel XTC 43 #29
259 Living on Video Trans-X 12 #54
260 Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) Squeeze 44 #42
261 Ziggy Stardust David Bowie 81 #37
262 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears 90 #1
263 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before The Smiths 19 #12
264 Save It For Later The English Beat 69 #9
265 Cars Gary Numan 66 #11
266 Pull Up to the Bumper Grace Jones 3 #266
267 The Blue Chair Elvis Costello 3 #81
268 Mythical Beast The Wild Swans 1 #268
269 I Want You Back Hoodoo Gurus 17 #223
270 If You Leave Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 48 #14
271 Shock the Monkey Peter Gabriel 61 #21
272 Why? Bronski Beat 13 #4
273 Superman R.E.M. 57 #8
274 I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend The Ramones 2 #180
275 Dance Away Roxy Music 14 #207
276 Panic The Smiths 56 #5
277 Don't Break My Heart UB40 3 #91
278 Black Coffee in Bed Squeeze 55 #55
279 Music That You Can Dance To Sparks 4 #33
280 Red Skies The Fixx 33 #102
281 Typical Frazier Chorus 1 #281
282 Walking in the Rain Flash and the Pan 5 #282
283 China Girl David Bowie 49 #61
284 Gorgeous Gene Loves Jezebel 3 #284
285 And She Was Talking Heads 81 #21
286 Seeing is Believing Voice Farm 1 #286
287 Our Lips Are Sealed Fun Boy Three 7 #287
288 Don't Let's Start They Might Be Giants 49 #39
289 E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 30 #40
290 A Forest The Cure 63 #4
291 Never You Done That General Public 7 #75
292 Gloria U2 48 #51
293 You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 36 #6
294 Secret Separation The Fixx 6 #48
295 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 69 #2
296 (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? Elvis Costello & the Attractions 35 #8
297 Hold It Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy 1 #297
298 Tastes So Good File 13 1 #298
299 All I Need is Everything Aztec Camera 4 #65
300 It's a Mug's Game Soft Cell 12 #37
301 The Walls Came Down The Call 32 #106
302 The Walk The Cure 27 #49
303 Brick Fake 2 #288
304 Town Called Malice The Jam 62 #7
305 5'1" Iggy Pop 1 #305
306 Living on the Ceiling Blancmange 10 #32
307 Shiny Shiny Haysi Fantayzee 9 #58
308 It Doesn't Have to Be Erasure 2 #47
309 Ever Fallen in Love Fine Young Cannibals 3 #28
310 O Superman Laurie Anderson 11 #34
311 New Song Howard Jones 12 #28
312 Half a Person The Smiths 6 #24
313 Don't You Want Me The Human League 41 #5
314 Whammy Kiss The B-52's 9 #38
315 Wouldn't It Be Good Nik Kershaw 11 #182
316 What You Need INXS 65 #7
317 Louise Clan of Xymox 1 #317
318 N.Y. N.Y. Nina Hagen 1 #318
319 Heartache Gene Loves Jezebel 9 #69
320 10:15 Saturday Night The Cure 12 #43
321 Dreaming Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 10 #26
322 Dance With Me Lords of the New Church 4 #81
323 Just Got Lucky JoBoxxers 6 #104
324 (I Love The Sound of) Breaking Glass Nick Lowe 16 #324
325 Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage Killer Pussy 10 #50
326 Just Another Day Oingo Boingo 15 #27
327 Rain in the Summertime The Alarm 38 #19
328 The Magician Secession 6 #16
329 Close (to the Edit) Art of Noise 13 #49
330 Antmusic Adam & the Ants 34 #2
331 White Lines (Don't Do It) Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel 17 #7
332 Video Killed The Radio Star The Buggles 50 #42
333 One Step Beyond Madness 42 #4
334 Gunning for the Buddah Shriekback 1 #334
335 What Difference Does It Make? The Smiths 36 #17
336 Man with a Golden Heart The Sterns 1 #336
337 Children of the Revolution Violent Femmes 7 #337
338 Wild Wild Life Talking Heads 39 #4
339 Bitterness The Wild Swans 2 #27
340 The Stand The Alarm 23 #5
341 Live for Today Lords of the New Church 2 #341
342 Institutionalized Suicidal Tendencies 39 #3
343 99 Luftballoons Nena 25 #15
344 Cool Places Sparks 13 #39
345 Train in Vain The Clash 120 #10
346 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 138 #2
347 I Love You Yello 4 #263
348 Touched by the Hand of God New Order 6 #8
349 In a Big Country Big Country 77 #3
350 I Wanna Be a Cowboy Boys Don't Cry 2 #262
351 People Are Strange Echo and the Bunnymen 37 #20
352 Primary The Cure 22 #19
353 Dancing on the Planet Electronic 1 #353
354 Are We Ourselves The Fixx 4 #354
355 Poison Arrow ABC 19 #63
356 Greetings to the New Brunette Billy Bragg 10 #38
357 Stay Oingo Boingo 10 #31
358 Stay Blue Nile 1 #358
359 Rat In The Kitchen UB40 12 #227
360 Candy-O The Cars 12 #184
361 Ship of Fools Erasure 4 #46
362 Buffalo Gals Malcolm McLaren 5 #86
363 The Motion of Love Gene Loves Jezebel 10 #15
364 Dave Boomtown Rats 3 #94
365 Din Da Da George Kranz 2 #196
366 Like the Weather 10,000 Maniacs 40 #15
367 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 83 #2
368 Sunday Papers Joe Jackson 28 #159
369 I Need A Man Eurythmics 13 #51
370 Pop Muzik M 15 #81
371 Mercy Steve Jones 1 #371
372 Nemesis Shriekback 21 #11
373 Kiss and Tell Bryan Ferry 11 #61
374 New Gold Dream Simple Minds 7 #54
375 Hot! Hot! Hot! The Cure 39 #17
376 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 102 #3
377 A Girl in Trouble (is a Temporary Thing) Romeo Void 25 #64
378 Ball of Confusion Love and Rockets 41 #19
379 Everyone Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1 #379
380 Behind the Wall of Sleep The Smithereens 23 #62
381 Painkiller Westworld 6 #17
382 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
383 Hands Across the Sea Modern English 1 #383
384 Thai Na Na Kazero 1 #384
385 Medicine Show Big Audio Dynamite 15 #56
386 Arizona Sky China Crisis 5 #73
387 All Day And All of the Night The Kinks 39 #68
388 Not My Slave Oingo Boingo 9 #21
389 Burning House of Love X 10 #37
390 It's a Sin Pet Shop Boys 23 #11
391 Fadeaway The Bodeans 10 #259
392 Gone Daddy Gone Violent Femmes 41 #45
393 Reach Martini Ranch 3 #16
394 Genius of Love Tom Tom Club 40 #81
395 Shattered Dreams Johnny Hates Jazz 2 #76
396 New Toy Lene Lovich 9 #18
397 Summer of Love The B-52's 24 #8
398 Space Age Love Song A Flock of Seagulls 23 #25
399 Driving Away from Home It's Immaterial 5 #48
400 Head Over Heels Tears for Fears 42 #16
401 Behind the Wheel Depeche Mode 25 #9
402 Wot Captain Sensible 8 #143
403 Twist And Crawl The English Beat 19 #261
404 Sorry Little Sarah Blue System 2 #59
405 We Care A Lot Faith No More 33 #29
406 We Close Our Eyes Oingo Boingo 17 #22
407 Police On My Back The Clash 27 #92
408 Take Me to the River Talking Heads 85 #6
409 Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) A Flock of Seagulls 12 #81
410 Suburbia Pet Shop Boys 7 #1
411 P-Machinery Propaganda 3 #29
412 Are You Experienced Devo 1 #412
413 Stop Your Sobbing The Pretenders 29 #42
414 Touch Secession 1 #414
415 The Passenger Siouxsie and the Banshees 11 #33
416 KUSA Uptones 1 #416
417 So In Love Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 16 #17
418 Change Your Mind Sharpe and Numan 3 #170
419 Party At Ground Zero Fishbone 43 #65
420 Stripped Depeche Mode 12 #24
421 Slumberland Dole 2 #29
422 Girls Talk Elvis Costello & the Attractions 2 #422
423 Skin Deep The Stranglers 12 #121
424 Jimmy Loves Maryanne Josie Cotton 1 #424
425 Rain Dragon 2 #94
426 Universal Daddy Alphaville 1 #426
427 Love is the Drug Roxy Music 52 #47
428 That's Just hte Way That It is With Me Faith Brothers 1 #428
429 Fall On Me R.E.M. 60 #26
430 Higher than Heaven Is BFG 1 #430
431 Fashion David Bowie 25 #16
432 Vicious Lou Reed 18 #401
433 Down the Earth Curiosity Killed the Cat 1 #433
434 Bring on the Dancing Horses Echo and the Bunnymen 43 #21
435 Burning Flame Vitamin Z 4 #265
436 Don't Leave Me This Way The Communards 3 #436
437 Beautiful Imbalance Thrashing Doves 2 #52
438 People Who Died Jim Carroll Band 43 #17
439 Somebody Depeche Mode 16 #7
440 Belly of the Whale Burning Sensations 25 #19
441 Crash The Primitives 40 #12
442 Say It Again Danse Society 3 #46
443 Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel 53 #20
444 Forgotten Town The Christians 1 #444
445 Free Nelson Mandela The Special AKA 14 #31
446 Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House 61 #5
447 Never Let Me Down Again Depeche Mode 58 #7
448 Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling 38 #8
449 Brand New Lover Dead or Alive 15 #12
450 All Day and All of the Night The Stranglers 3 #124
451 Oh Yeah Yello 20 #79
452 I Send a Message INXS 21 #9
453 Darling Don't Leave Me Robert Gorf 1 #453
454 China Red Rockers 11 #40
455 Jane's Getting Serious Jon Astley 12 #52
456 Ca Plane Pour Moi Plastic Bertrand 24 #200
457 I Go Crazy Flesh for Lulu 24 #21
458 Pale Shelter Tears for Fears 20 #29
459 Please Don't Stop Alsan 1 #459
460 Twisting By the Pool Dire Straits 3 #13
461 Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead Depeche Mode 1 #461
462 My Baby The Pretenders 11 #83
463 My Beloved Girl Edwyn Collins 1 #463
464 Alone Again Or The Damned 29 #36
465 Military Drums Hubert KaH 2 #75
466 Dear Friend Flying Colar 1 #466
467 Never Can Say Goodbye The Communards 1 #467
468 Angels Don't Cry The Psychedelic Furs 2 #66
469 A Message To You Rudy The Specials 39 #54
470 All Roads Lead to Rome The Stranglers 1 #470
471 Dangerous Type The Cars 18 #104
472 I Eat Cannibals Toto Coelo 11 #55
473 Inside Out Mighty Lemon Drops 14 #24
474 Before Too Long Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls 3 #79
475 Perfect Skin Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 11 #88
476 Song from the Edge of the World Siouxsie and the Banshees 3 #33
477 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 140 #9
478 This Time INXS 25 #8
479 Lies Thompson Twins 25 #50
480 Fascist Groove Thing Heaven 17 5 #29
481 Shabby Doll Elvis Costello & the Attractions 3 #481
482 Our House Madness 66 #15
483 Happy When It Rains The Jesus and Mary Chain 14 #43
484 Man with a Gun Jerry Harrison 4 #84
485 Destination Unknown Missing Persons 16 #40
486 Life's What You Make It Talk Talk 17 #115
487 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 95 #2
488 Mothers Talk Tears for Fears 7 #80
489 Sisters Are Doing It Eurythmics 1 #489
490 Babies Real Life 3 #47
491 Postcards from Paradise Flesh for Lulu 6 #192
492 Industrial Disease Dire Straits 11 #166
493 20 Killer Hertz Gene Loves Jezebel 3 #23
494 Just What I Needed The Cars 109 #23
495 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 49 #23
496 Listen Like Thieves INXS 27 #44
497 Glad I'm Not a Kennedy Shona Laing 5 #35
498 Love of the Common People Paul Young 1 #498
499 You Make Me Feel Book of Love 1 #499
500 Waiting for the End Elvis Costello & the Attractions 1 #500

About this countdown

Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) was broadcast by Live 105 (San Francisco, CA) in Memorial Day 1988. 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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