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WFNX Top 101 Songs of the Decade (December 1989)

The countdown of the '80s (December 1989) from WFNX in Boston, MA ranks 101 songs, with “How Soon is Now?” by The Smiths at number one. The list features 55 different artists; The Cure has the most entries with ten songs.

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1 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 85 #1
2 Just Like Heaven The Cure 82 #1
3 I Melt With You Modern English 71 #2
4 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 67 #4
5 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 116 #2
6 Love Shack The B-52's 61 #1
7 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 69 #2
8 In Between Days The Cure 72 #3
9 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 72 #9
10 Blue Monday New Order 82 #1
11 Radio Free Europe R.E.M. 62 #1
12 Bad U2 59 #5
13 Dear God XTC 76 #1
14 In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel 66 #10
15 London Calling The Clash 88 #1
16 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 83 #8
17 True Faith New Order 69 #3
18 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 83 #1
19 The Lovecats The Cure 52 #2
20 Uncertain Smile The The 45 #3
21 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 59 #4
22 Roam The B-52's 35 #22
23 I Will Follow U2 69 #9
24 Inside Out Mighty Lemon Drops 13 #24
25 Rise Public Image Ltd. 41 #24
26 Birthday The Sugarcubes 40 #1
27 A Night Like This The Cure 8 #6
28 Fall On Me R.E.M. 46 #26
29 Fast Car Tracy Chapman 43 #1
30 Everyday is Halloween Ministry 31 #6
31 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 50 #5
32 New Year's Day U2 100 #4
33 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 51 #9
34 Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies 59 #5
35 Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs 58 #9
36 So. Central Rain R.E.M. 26 #7
37 With You O Positive 1 #37
38 Age of Consent New Order 27 #3
39 Save It For Later The English Beat 55 #9
40 Close to Me The Cure 72 #11
41 Mayor of Simpleton XTC 33 #3
42 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 78 #1
43 E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 28 #40
44 Temptation New Order 19 #1
45 Why Can't I Be You? The Cure 54 #1
46 Turning Japanese The Vapors 49 #14
47 Alex Chilton The Replacements 46 #8
48 Mad World Tears for Fears 31 #5
49 The One Thing INXS 44 #10
50 Pretty Persuasion R.E.M. 32 #50
51 Slave to Love Bryan Ferry 25 #30
52 Swamp Thing The Chameleons UK 4 #52
53 Rock the Casbah The Clash 87 #1
54 The Whole of the Moon The Waterboys 28 #14
55 That's When I Reach For My Revolver Mission of Burma 7 #55
56 Blood and Roses The Smithereens 38 #5
57 Avalon Roxy Music 39 #33
58 Bittersweet Hoodoo Gurus 13 #58
59 Closer To Fine The Indigo Girls 28 #38
60 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 69 #16
61 Lullaby The Cure 32 #3
62 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 60 #3
63 So Alive Love and Rockets 54 #1
64 Red Rain Peter Gabriel 38 #28
65 Kingdom of Rain The The 9 #22
66 More Than This Roxy Music 38 #36
67 The Perfect Kiss New Order 27 #2
68 Precious The Pretenders 8 #68
69 Private Idaho The B-52's 51 #25
70 The Killing Moon Echo and the Bunnymen 53 #9
71 This Corrosion Sisters of Mercy 34 #7
72 With or Without You U2 123 #3
73 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 54 #2
74 Clampdown The Clash 36 #1
75 Bring on the Dancing Horses Echo and the Bunnymen 39 #21
76 Infected The The 23 #75
77 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 59 #2
78 Don't Change INXS 48 #28
79 Suedehead Morrissey 51 #4
80 Two Hearts Beat As One U2 40 #19
81 Fascination Street The Cure 43 #5
82 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 60 #2
83 Gigantic The Pixies 29 #7
84 Under the Milky Way The Church 66 #3
85 I Confess The English Beat 35 #10
86 Love Song The Cure 62 #1
87 Senses Working Overtime XTC 35 #23
88 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 58 #2
89 Need You Tonight INXS 52 #5
90 Abort Tribe 2 #90
91 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 80 #3
92 Birth, School, Work, Death The Godfathers 28 #39
93 White Wedding Billy Idol 65 #7
94 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 79 #1
95 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 42 #30
96 Devil Inside INXS 34 #42
97 Rapture Blondie 46 #31
98 Back on the Chain Gang The Pretenders 45 #43
99 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 53 #13
100 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 19 #6
101 Cat People David Bowie 4 #57

About this countdown

WFNX Top 101 Songs of the Decade (December 1989) was broadcast by WFNX (Boston, MA) in December 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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