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Live 105 Top 105 Artists of All-Time (1989)

The all-time artists countdown (1989) is Live 105’s ranking of its listeners’ favorite artists in San Francisco, CA, with The Cure voted the number one artist.

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# Artist Entries
1 The Cure 1,236
2 Depeche Mode 1,040
3 The Smiths 646
4 New Order 574
5 U2 2,283
6 R.E.M. 1,579
7 Erasure 194
8 The B-52's 484
9 Echo and the Bunnymen listed as “Echo & the Bunnymen” 341
10 Love and Rockets 246
11 Siouxsie and the Banshees 333
12 Elvis Costello & the Attractions 416
13 Oingo Boingo 247
14 Talking Heads 737
15 Pet Shop Boys 164
16 The Police 727
17 Alphaville 43
18 INXS 649
19 Yaz 102
20 The Clash 986
21 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark listed as “OMD” 138
22 Morrissey 319
23 David Bowie 1,136
24 XTC 395
25 Devo 292
26 The Psychedelic Furs 323
27 The English Beat 195
28 Bauhaus 89
29 Roxy Music 176
30 Simple Minds 233
31 The Sex Pistols 232
32 Fine Young Cannibals 90
33 Joy Division 222
34 Eurythmics 248
35 The Ramones 443
36 Modern English 80
37 10,000 Maniacs 250
38 UB40 150
39 The Cult 271
40 Kate Bush 185
41 Public Image Ltd. 165
42 Tears for Fears 334
43 The Jesus and Mary Chain 211
44 Dead or Alive 59
45 The Alarm 197
46 Book of Love 20
47 The Church 148
48 Duran Duran 338
49 Billy Idol 291
50 Kraftwerk 25
51 Peter Gabriel 535
52 Cocteau Twins 92
53 Shriekback 44
54 Joe Jackson 244
55 Ministry 130
56 The Pretenders 470
57 Information Society 21
58 Violent Femmes 373
59 Howard Jones 60
60 The Fixx 120
61 Sisters of Mercy listed as “The Sisters of Mercy” 173
62 Soft Cell 107
63 A Flock of Seagulls 89
64 Crowded House 247
65 Secession 9
66 The Replacements 478
67 Blondie 352
68 Big Country 88
69 Voice Farm 7
70 Squeeze 366
71 Xymox 5
72 Bow Wow Wow 75
73 Gene Loves Jezebel 91
74 Sinéad O'Connor 257
75 Ultravox 60
76 Art of Noise listed as “The Art of Noise” 45
77 The Jam 231
78 Thomas Dolby 98
79 Mission U.K. 26
80 Thompson Twins 107
81 Nina Hagen 4
82 ABC 69
83 The Stranglers 79
84 Camouflage 29
85 Wall of Voodoo 61
86 Blancmange 35
87 Midnight Oil 314
88 Bronski Beat 35
89 The Damned 84
90 CCCP 4
91 Split Enz 93
92 Lene Lovich 23
93 The Specials 104
94 Adam Ant 150
95 X 142
96 Peter Schilling 38
97 The The 184
98 The Untouchables 11
99 The Human League 65
100 Icehouse 26
101 Yello 24
102 Talk Talk 103
103 Hubert KaH 5
104 Icicle Works 50
105 Pop Will Eat Itself 23

About this countdown

Live 105 Top 105 Artists of All-Time (1989) was broadcast by Live 105 (San Francisco, CA) in 1989. 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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