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WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989)

The all-time countdown (Memorial Day 1989) from WOXY 97X in Cincinnati, OH ranks 500 songs, with “How Soon is Now?” by The Smiths at number one. The list features 194 different artists; The Smiths has the most entries with 13 songs.

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1 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 106 #1
2 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 138 #2
3 I Melt With You Modern English 96 #2
4 Blue Monday New Order 96 #1
5 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 83 #4
6 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 60 #2
7 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 92 #1
8 Never Say Never Romeo Void 59 #8
9 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 53 #9
10 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
11 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 96 #1
12 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 102 #1
13 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
14 Rock Lobster The B-52's 87 #5
15 Bela Lugosi's Dead Bauhaus 48 #3
16 88 Lines About 44 Women The Nails 35 #3
17 World Destruction Time Zone 31 #17
18 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones 158 #1
19 Dear God XTC 92 #1
20 The Lovecats The Cure 60 #2
21 Take The Skinheads Bowling Camper Van Beethoven 45 #21
22 Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) Icicle Works 32 #22
23 Bitchin' Camaro Dead Milkmen 35 #19
24 Pump It Up Elvis Costello & the Attractions 75 #24
25 Ball of Confusion Love and Rockets 41 #19
26 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 86 #1
27 Get On The Bus The Royal Crescent Mob 19 #27
28 Psycho Killer Talking Heads 98 #6
29 Making Plans For Nigel XTC 43 #29
30 Train in Vain The Clash 120 #10
31 Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode 62 #1
32 Dancing Horses Echo and the Bunnymen 1 #32
33 Radio Free Europe R.E.M. 77 #1
34 Save It For Later The English Beat 69 #9
35 God Save the Queen The Sex Pistols 72 #3
36 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
37 Situation Yaz 46 #8
38 Senses Working Overtime XTC 38 #23
39 Free Nelson Mandela The Special AKA 14 #31
40 In Between Days The Cure 81 #3
41 Confusion New Order 2 #41
42 London Calling The Clash 122 #1
43 Rise Public Image Ltd. 47 #24
44 (Don't Go Back To) Rockville R.E.M. 39 #2
45 Kundalini Express Love and Rockets 12 #45
46 Everyday is Halloween Ministry 33 #6
47 Uncertain Smile The The 51 #3
48 Close to Me The Cure 83 #11
49 Birth, School, Work, Death The Godfathers 32 #39
50 Sex (I'm a...) Berlin 40 #23
51 Love Vigilantes New Order 46 #1
52 Original Sin INXS 44 #19
53 Fashion David Bowie 25 #16
54 Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs 64 #10
55 Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) Squeeze 44 #42
56 Sweet Jane Lou Reed 31 #28
57 Is She Really Going Out With Him? Joe Jackson 44 #39
58 More Than This Roxy Music 48 #12
59 I Will Dare The Replacements 42 #50
60 Eighties Killing Joke 29 #37
61 Can't Stand Losing You The Police 52 #49
62 Power and the Passion Midnight Oil 28 #29
63 Change Tears for Fears 34 #32
64 10:15 Saturday Night The Cure 12 #43
65 Hungry Like the Wolf Duran Duran 58 #22
66 Dancing Barefoot The Patti Smith Group 31 #17
67 Jammin' Bob Marley 43 #2
68 People Who Died Jim Carroll Band 43 #17
69 Whip It Devo 78 #1
70 Can't Get There From Here R.E.M. 32 #33
71 I Will Follow U2 96 #9
72 Nemesis Shriekback 21 #11
73 Route 66 Depeche Mode 53 #1
74 Antmusic Adam & the Ants 34 #2
75 Inside Out Mighty Lemon Drops 14 #24
76 Sixty Eight Guns The Alarm 20 #59
77 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood 59 #1
78 Just Like Heaven The Cure 104 #1
79 Blood and Roses The Smithereens 40 #5
80 Watusi Rodeo Guadalcanal Diary 7 #80
81 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 83 #2
82 Rock the Casbah The Clash 164 #1
83 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 56 #5
84 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 31 #6
85 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 69 #2
86 Tenderness General Public 47 #1
87 What's The Matter Here 10,000 Maniacs 42 #21
88 Oblivious Aztec Camera 28 #29
89 Johnny Come Home Fine Young Cannibals 11 #68
90 Birthday The Sugarcubes 43 #1
91 Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo 65 #1
92 Fear Is Never Boring The Bears 16 #92
93 World Shut Your Mouth Julian Cope 24 #45
94 Fall On Me R.E.M. 60 #26
95 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears 90 #1
96 People are People Depeche Mode 66 #11
97 This Corrosion Sisters of Mercy 36 #7
98 Killing An Arab The Cure 11 #98
99 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 102 #3
100 Love is the Drug Roxy Music 52 #47
101 Medicine Show Big Audio Dynamite 15 #56
102 If It Happens Again UB40 12 #35
103 Prove My Love Violent Femmes 20 #103
104 Good Guys and Bad Guys Camper Van Beethoven 2 #104
105 Town Called Malice The Jam 62 #7
106 Jane's Getting Serious Jon Astley 12 #52
107 Reptile The Church 24 #13
108 Biko Peter Gabriel 32 #21
109 Golden Shower of Hits Circle Jerks 2 #109
110 Rapture Blondie 54 #31
111 Love Removal Machine The Cult 50 #13
112 Message of Love The Pretenders 40 #95
113 Tempted Squeeze 89 #21
114 And She Was Talking Heads 81 #21
115 No New Tale To Tell Love and Rockets 49 #13
116 Talk Talk Talk Talk 27 #9
117 Alex Chilton The Replacements 58 #8
118 Suedehead Morrissey 56 #4
119 I Got You Split Enz 50 #39
120 Private Idaho The B-52's 58 #25
121 Slave to Love Bryan Ferry 27 #30
122 Chains of Love Erasure 34 #7
123 Heroes David Bowie 125 #1
124 Gloria U2 48 #51
125 This Is The Sea The Waterboys 5 #86
126 Just Like Honey The Jesus and Mary Chain 30 #2
127 Superman R.E.M. 57 #8
128 Promised You a Miracle Simple Minds 16 #30
129 Real Wild Child (Wild One) Iggy Pop 28 #53
130 Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs 70 #9
131 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 67 #2
132 Balloon Man Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians 29 #23
133 Twenty Killer Hurts Gene Loves Jezebel 3 #133
134 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Clash 163 #8
135 Big Electric Cat Adrian Belew 2 #135
136 Girlfriend in a Coma The Smiths 62 #2
137 Tower of Strength Mission U.K. 6 #32
138 One Step Beyond Madness 42 #4
139 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics 72 #4
140 Desperate, But Not Serious Adam Ant 24 #140
141 Hot! Hot! Hot! The Cure 39 #17
142 She's Lost Control Joy Division 21 #20
143 Man with a Gun Jerry Harrison 4 #84
144 Hot You're Cool General Public 13 #51
145 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
146 Litany (Life Goes On) Guadalcanal Diary 13 #146
147 Bastards of Young The Replacements 31 #86
148 Lucretia Sisters of Mercy 6 #132
149 A Million Miles Away The Plimsouls 47 #44
150 Never Let Me Down Again Depeche Mode 58 #7
151 There is a Light That Never Goes Out The Smiths 90 #1
152 I Want Your Hands On Me Sinéad O'Connor 36 #29
153 Heaven The Psychedelic Furs 32 #50
154 Party Out of Bounds The B-52's 25 #91
155 Pretty Persuasion R.E.M. 35 #50
156 Soviet Snow Shona Laing 7 #25
157 The Wait The Pretenders 9 #2
158 Rain in the Summertime The Alarm 38 #19
159 The Perfect Kiss New Order 43 #2
160 Desire U2 96 #2
161 Work for Love Ministry 18 #112
162 Makes No Sense At All Husker Du 17 #37
163 Sleepwalk Ultravox 3 #163
164 The One Thing INXS 52 #10
165 Happy Hour The Housemartins 30 #6
166 Alison Elvis Costello 66 #3
167 Fast Car Tracy Chapman 60 #1
168 Don't Let's Start They Might Be Giants 49 #39
169 Mr. Pharmacist The Fall 3 #3
170 Cheerleaders The Minutemen 1 #170
171 The Queen Is Dead The Smiths 19 #7
172 Police and Thieves The Clash 29 #23
173 Peek-A-Boo Siouxsie and the Banshees 51 #1
174 Gunnin' For The Buddha Shriekback 2 #174
175 Get Up, Stand Up Peter Tosh 2 #175
176 Public Image Public Image Ltd. 18 #9
177 Don't You Want Me The Human League 41 #5
178 I'm The Man Joe Jackson 30 #178
179 Generals and Majors XTC 28 #62
180 Gloria Patti Smith 36 #52
181 Red Red Wine UB40 49 #1
182 Through Being Cool Devo 22 #53
183 Eye of Fatima Camper Van Beethoven 6 #60
184 Mirror in the Bathroom The English Beat 64 #38
185 Roxanne The Police 167 #10
186 I Send a Message INXS 21 #9
187 True Faith New Order 78 #3
188 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 49 #30
189 Black Coffee in Bed Squeeze 55 #55
190 Ask The Smiths 48 #5
191 Faith Violent Femmes 12 #191
192 The Killing Moon Echo and the Bunnymen 65 #9
193 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 125 #4
194 Church Not Made With Hands The Waterboys 5 #194
195 Shake the Disease Depeche Mode 38 #1
196 Come on Every Beatbox Big Audio Dynamite 2 #70
197 Rain The Cult 25 #74
198 Girls on Film Duran Duran 51 #18
199 Like the Weather 10,000 Maniacs 40 #15
200 Why Can't I Be You? The Cure 60 #1
201 Sidewalking The Jesus and Mary Chain 17 #3
202 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 66 #3
203 Troy Sinéad O'Connor 48 #4
204 The Motion of Love Gene Loves Jezebel 10 #15
205 Dirty Old Town The Pogues 13 #163
206 Praying Mantis Don Dixon 3 #82
207 (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? Elvis Costello & the Attractions 35 #8
208 Alive and Kicking Simple Minds 46 #1
209 Goody Two Shoes Adam Ant 41 #25
210 Rip Her To Shreds Blondie 19 #210
211 Vanishing Girl The Dukes of Stratosphear 6 #33
212 Happy at Home The Royal Crescent Mob 5 #212
213 Wind Out R.E.M. 2 #6
214 Precious The Pretenders 8 #68
215 Annalisa Public Image Ltd. 1 #215
216 So Lonely The Police 54 #94
217 Coldsweat The Sugarcubes 3 #21
218 Behind the Wheel Depeche Mode 25 #9
219 Quiche Lorraine The B-52's 7 #219
220 Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys 50 #6
221 Death Or Glory The Clash 9 #221
222 Oh L'Amour Erasure 31 #3
223 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side The Smiths 16 #8
224 Cry For Love Iggy Pop 5 #25
225 Only A Memory The Smithereens 22 #13
226 No Killing Violent Femmes 2 #226
227 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 154 #8
228 Avalon Roxy Music 52 #33
229 The Harder They Come Jimmy Cliff 7 #75
230 Ana Ng They Might Be Giants 39 #53
231 Got The Time Joe Jackson 16 #208
232 My Wife And My Dead Wife Robyn Hitchcock 7 #232
233 Stigmata Ministry 14 #61
234 Mystery Achievement The Pretenders 29 #19
235 Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello 60 #25
236 What You Need INXS 65 #7
237 Intoxication Shriekback 2 #214
238 Next To You The Police 11 #233
239 Sister Europe The Psychedelic Furs 16 #239
240 Strength The Alarm 33 #20
241 Reel Around the Fountain The Smiths 4 #6
242 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Devo 36 #12
243 Crash The Primitives 40 #12
244 Seven Languages Camper Van Beethoven 2 #244
245 Swamp Talking Heads 13 #224
246 Don't Wanna Know If You Are Lonely Husker Du 1 #246
247 Cha Cha Loco Joe Jackson 1 #247
248 Slow Turning John Hiatt 6 #248
249 Mirror People Love and Rockets 6 #65
250 Don't Change INXS 58 #28
251 Lookin' For Lewis and Clark The Long Ryders 2 #251
252 With or Without You U2 213 #3
253 Champagne Big Audio Dynamite 2 #236
254 Jump Aztec Camera 3 #250
255 I Shot the Sheriff Bob Marley 13 #205
256 Black Celebration Depeche Mode 7 #99
257 Bedbugs and Ballyhoo Echo and the Bunnymen 25 #25
258 Cattle Prod Guadalcanal Diary 4 #258
259 Fadeaway The Bodeans 10 #259
260 Accidents Will Happen Elvis Costello & the Attractions 24 #121
261 Aches and Pains The Bears 2 #261
262 I Confess The English Beat 40 #10
263 Love Kills Joe Strummer 2 #199
264 When The Generals Talk Midnight Oil 9 #264
265 The Hardest Part Blondie 4 #129
266 Subculture New Order 9 #18
267 I'm Sorry The Hothouse Flowers 12 #267
268 The Headmaster Ritual The Smiths 15 #29
269 Keep Moving Madness 2 #269
270 Forever Now The Psychedelic Furs 4 #270
271 New Sensation INXS 43 #6
272 Stay Up Late Talking Heads 38 #14
273 My City Was Gone The Pretenders 44 #69
274 Seattle Public Image Ltd. 16 #10
275 Cold Life Ministry 1 #275
276 Shadows in the Rain Sting 2 #262
277 Happy When It Rains The Jesus and Mary Chain 14 #43
278 A Little Respect Erasure 50 #4
279 Never You Done That General Public 7 #75
280 Brand New Friend Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 6 #9
281 Baccala Sicilian Vespers 1 #281
282 Wasteland Mission U.K. 2 #211
283 Frank's Wild Years Tom Waits 1 #283
284 Local Girls Graham Parker 11 #264
285 Jocko Homo Devo 15 #58
286 The Momur Adrian Belew 1 #286
287 Jumpin' Jive Joe Jackson 2 #287
288 Turquoise Jewelry Camper Van Beethoven 2 #95
289 Five Foot One Iggy Pop 2 #289
290 Flip Your Wig Husker Du 3 #284
291 Panic The Smiths 56 #5
292 This Time INXS 25 #8
293 Peace Dog The Cult 1 #293
294 Temptation New Order 22 #1
295 The Cutter Echo and the Bunnymen 35 #22
296 Rock Non Stop (All Night Long) Big Audio Dynamite 2 #279
297 Exodus Bob Marley 7 #285
298 Somebody Depeche Mode 16 #7
299 Motorcrash The Sugarcubes 8 #36
300 Understanding Jane Icicle Works 5 #63
301 Go! Tones on Tail 44 #35
302 Rat In The Kitchen UB40 12 #227
303 Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed 103 #12
304 I Love a Man in Uniform Gang of Four 12 #28
305 Lost In The Supermarket The Clash 43 #75
306 Turning Japanese The Vapors 52 #14
307 Blitzkrieg Bop The Ramones 81 #3
308 I Don't Like Mondays Boomtown Rats 52 #47
309 Burning House of Love X 10 #37
310 Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo 64 #9
311 Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello & the Attractions 50 #34
312 Take Me I'm Yours Squeeze 18 #306
313 The One I Love R.E.M. 150 #5
314 The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades Timbuk 3 14 #33
315 Ashes to Ashes David Bowie 49 #23
316 Cynical Girl Marshall Crenshaw 12 #225
317 Love Plus One Haircut 100 34 #26
318 Every Word Means No Let's Active 5 #199
319 We Got the Beat The Go-Go's 38 #3
320 Calling All Nations INXS 2 #320
321 Away The Feelies 4 #299
322 Dear Prudence Siouxsie and the Banshees 36 #20
323 Bad (Live) U2 20 #16
324 In Dulce Decorum The Damned 4 #199
325 Bitterest Pill I Ever Had to Swallow The Jam 1 #325
326 Would I Lie To You? Eurythmics 34 #61
327 Pearl in the Shell Howard Jones 2 #327
328 Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel 53 #20
329 Middle of the Road The Pretenders 53 #25
330 It's My Life Talk Talk 61 #18
331 Life During Wartime Talking Heads 87 #41
332 Love On A Farm Boy's Wages XTC 17 #306
333 My Boyfriend The Cucumbers 2 #26
334 Things You Left Behind The Nails 5 #134
335 Left of the Dial The Replacements 32 #33
336 Skin Deep The Stranglers 12 #121
337 Reap the Wild Wind Ultravox 12 #90
338 The Caterpillar The Cure 21 #338
339 Locomotion Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 8 #31
340 Pulled Up Talking Heads 6 #340
341 Up on the Catwalk Simple Minds 7 #74
342 Pale Blue Eyes The Velvet Underground 25 #24
343 Planet Claire The B-52's 37 #62
344 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 58 #13
345 A Spy in the House of Love The Db's 17 #126
346 Shock the Monkey Peter Gabriel 61 #21
347 Is It Really So Strange The Smiths 8 #16
348 I Wanna Be a Flintstone Screaming Blue Messiahs 6 #37
349 Stop Your Sobbing The Pretenders 29 #42
350 Bittersweet Hoodoo Gurus 16 #58
351 In a Big Country Big Country 77 #3
352 My Lips are Sealed Fun Boy Three 1 #352
353 Da Da Da Trio 40 #16
354 Canary In A Coalmine The Police 29 #61
355 The Lebanon The Human League 2 #28
356 Will The Wolf Survive? Los Lobos 21 #238
357 Sunday Papers Joe Jackson 28 #159
358 I Go Crazy Flesh for Lulu 24 #21
359 Under the Milky Way The Church 85 #3
360 Homosapien Pete Shelley 10 #13
361 Towers of London XTC 4 #356
362 Seconds U2 20 #165
363 Teenage Lobotomy The Ramones 12 #206
364 Cat People (Putting Out Fire) David Bowie 18 #57
365 The Look of Love ABC 25 #56
366 The Modern World The Jam 6 #126
367 Method To Our Madness Lords of the New Church 1 #367
368 Up on the Sun Meat Puppets 2 #368
369 Love on Your Side Thompson Twins 5 #279
370 I Still Want You Del Fuegos 1 #370
371 This is Not a Love Song Public Image Ltd. 28 #12
372 Swimming Horses Siouxsie and the Banshees 3 #326
373 Do It Clean Echo and the Bunnymen 18 #162
374 (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes Elvis Costello 32 #272
375 Annie Get Your Gun Squeeze 11 #362
376 Hero Takes a Fall The Bangles 8 #88
377 Sing Our Own Song UB40 2 #377
378 Kidney Bingos Wire 2 #93
379 Hungry Like the Wolf X 1 #379
380 Fell Let's Active 1 #380
381 Here Comes a Regular The Replacements 12 #374
382 I Fought the Law The Clash 62 #13
383 Whenever You're On My Mind Marshall Crenshaw 4 #383
384 All Night Long Peter Murphy 7 #55
385 Take Me to the River Talking Heads 85 #6
386 Shout Tears for Fears 70 #5
387 Stay Oingo Boingo 10 #31
388 Love and Tunafish The Royal Crescent Mob 4 #388
389 Fight Like a Brave Red Hot Chili Peppers 11 #389
390 Sharkey's Night Laurie Anderson 2 #390
391 Tear Stained Letter Richard Thompson 3 #391
392 Modern Love Peter Gabriel 9 #392
393 Oh Yeah Roxy Music 3 #262
394 This Is The Day The The 44 #45
395 Seconds The Human League 4 #51
396 Behind the Wall of Sleep The Smithereens 23 #62
397 I Love You Suzanne Lou Reed 21 #7
398 A Message To You Rudy The Specials 39 #54
399 Radio Radio Elvis Costello & the Attractions 49 #22
400 The Walls Came Down The Call 32 #106
401 Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 19 #29
402 Lively Up Yourself Bob Marley 22 #248
403 The Dead Heart Midnight Oil 33 #20
404 Temptation Joan Armatrading 1 #404
405 Time The Avenger The Pretenders 18 #275
406 No Thugs in Our House XTC 3 #406
407 Ship of Fools World Party 44 #45
408 Trip Through Your Wires U2 9 #64
409 Figure it Out The Bears 1 #409
410 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before The Smiths 19 #12
411 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) David Bowie 23 #76
412 Opportunities (Let's Make Lot's of Money) Pet Shop Boys 23 #3
413 Life's What You Make It Talk Talk 17 #115
414 You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) Joe Jackson 13 #244
415 My Ever Changing Moods The Style Council 34 #57
416 Stray Fetchin' Bones 2 #407
417 Heartache Gene Loves Jezebel 9 #69
418 You'll Dance To Anything Dead Milkmen 1 #418
419 Love is a Stranger Eurythmics 18 #62
420 Orange Crush R.E.M. 76 #1
421 Message in a Bottle The Police 127 #24
422 New Song Howard Jones 12 #28
423 Telecommunication A Flock of Seagulls 5 #92
424 Pair of Long Brown Eyes The Pogues 2 #424
425 Happy Boy The Beat Farmers 9 #4
426 Legal Tender The B-52's 13 #65
427 Grimly Fiendish The Damned 2 #427
428 Dreams The Bodeans 5 #233
429 Memphis in the Meantime John Hiatt 7 #109
430 Drive, She Said Stan Ridgway 3 #78
431 Anchorage Michelle Shocked 10 #89
432 Thieves Like Us New Order 8 #7
433 Goodbye Girl Squeeze 18 #433
434 Elvis Is Everywhere Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper 12 #29
435 President Gas The Psychedelic Furs 13 #426
436 I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down Elvis Costello & the Attractions 12 #70
437 Strangelove Depeche Mode 62 #2
438 Perfect Skin Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 11 #88
439 Slippin' Into Something The Feelies 1 #439
440 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 95 #2
441 Lost Meat Puppets 1 #441
442 Ways to Be Wicked Lone Justice 3 #88
443 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes Ultravox 14 #76
444 Waterfront Simple Minds 8 #40
445 Always the Sun The Stranglers 28 #16
446 Police On My Back The Clash 27 #92
447 Sheena Is A Punk Rocker The Ramones 67 #46
448 Kid The Pretenders 11 #270
449 I'll Be You The Replacements 49 #8
450 I'll Do Anything Dead or Alive 1 #450
451 The Unguarded Moment The Church 10 #42
452 American Heavy Metal Weekend Circle Jerks 2 #412
453 Seven Seas Echo and the Bunnymen 11 #4
454 Shakin' Shakin' Shakes Los Lobos 2 #371
455 Crosseyed And Painless Talking Heads 36 #37
456 Penthouse and Pavement Heaven 17 3 #436
457 Guns In The Sky INXS 10 #215
458 Mayor of Simpleton XTC 45 #3
459 John I'm Only Dancing David Bowie 10 #459
460 Close (to the Edit) Art of Noise 13 #49
461 Shake Dog Shake The Cure 2 #461
462 Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood 36 #1
463 Russian Roulette Lords of the New Church 1 #463
464 Blue Line Let's Active 4 #70
465 What Difference Does It Make? The Smiths 36 #17
466 Lies Thompson Twins 25 #50
467 Institutionalized Suicidal Tendencies 39 #3
468 Infected The The 23 #75
469 I Want You Back Hoodoo Gurus 17 #223
470 So In Love Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 16 #17
471 Let It All Hang Out The Nails 2 #377
472 Dodge Vedge-O-Matic Jonathan Richman 5 #237
473 Summer of Love The B-52's 24 #8
474 I Threw a Brick U2 1 #474
475 See How We Are X 10 #43
476 Cool for Cats Squeeze 34 #50
477 Arabian Nights Siouxsie and the Banshees 1 #477
478 Different Kind of Tension The Buzzcocks 1 #478
479 Someday Some Way Marshall Crenshaw 21 #184
480 Baby's Got Rockets Dancing Hoods 1 #480
481 Look Sharp Joe Jackson 17 #269
482 Boom Boom Trio 4 #403
483 Cab It Up The Fall 2 #14
484 I Touch Roses Book of Love 7 #158
485 Hyperactive Thomas Dolby 9 #53
486 Cult of Personality Living Colour 89 #42
487 Here Comes the Weekend The Jam 2 #487
488 Black Light Trap Shriekback 2 #476
489 Lifeline Spandau Ballet 4 #52
490 Don't Run Wild Del Fuegos 2 #490
491 For the Singer of R.E.M. fIREHOSE 1 #491
492 Jane Says Jane's Addiction 106 #2
493 Kosciusko Midnight Oil 4 #26
494 Amplifier The Db's 4 #494
495 The Bottom Line Big Audio Dynamite 27 #15
496 Snowman XTC 1 #496
497 Teenage Riot Sonic Youth 32 #19
498 Mystery Dance Elvis Costello 15 #498
499 The Strange Case of Frank Cash T-Bone Burnett 1 #499
500 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) The Proclaimers 36 #34

About this countdown

WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) was broadcast by WOXY 97X (Cincinnati, OH) in Memorial Day 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.

Contributed by Craig Froehle. Thank you!

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