KROQ's Top 500 songs

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Yeah these lists are created to piss people off, and to kiss ass. But man. KROQ used to be the Roq of the 80s and many great songs are underrepresented here.

Strad, I know you will have thoughts on this, as we have similar music tastes.

http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2015/07/05/list-the-500-biggest-kroq-songs-of-all-time/

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

We counted down the 500 biggest KROQ songs of all time during the KROQ Firecracker 500 this 4th of July weekend, reminding us of the bands and songs that helped shape the station in to what it’s become today.

Take a look at the full list below and see where your favorite songs landed!

500 Biggest KROQ Songs Of All Time

1 Smells Like Teen Spirit (90’s) Nirvana

2 What I Got (90’s) Sublime

3 Under the Bridge (90’s) RHCP

4 Killing in the Name (90’s) Rage Against the Machine

5 Seven Nation Army (2000’s) The White Stripes

6 Everlong (90’s) Foo Fighters

7 In the End (2000’s) Linkin Park

8 Creep (90’s) Radiohead

9 Brain Stew/Jaded (2000’s) Green Day

10 Enjoy the Silence (90’s) Depeche Mode

11 Self Esteem (90’s) The Offspring

12 How Soon is Now (80’s) The Smiths

13 Come As You Are (90’s) Nirvana

14 Somebody Told Me (2000’s) The Killers

15 Santeria (90’s) Sublime

16 Today (90’s) The Smashing Pumpkins

17 Love Song (80’s) The Cure

18 Scar Tissue (90’s) RHCP

19 Fight For Your Right to Party (80’s) Beastie Boys

20 Alive (90’s) Pearl Jam

21 What I’ve Done (2000’s) Linkin Park

22 Viva La Vida (2000’s) Coldplay

23 Basketcase (90’s) Green Day

24 The Pretender (2000’s) Foo Fighters

25 Wrong Way (90’s) Sublime

26 Personal Jesus (80’s) Depeche Mode

27 Lithium (90’s) Nirvana

28 Say It Ain’t So (90’s) Weezer

29 Kids (2000’s) MGMT

30 Enter Sandman (90’s) Metallica

31 Uprising (2000’s) Muse

32 Come Out and Play (90’s) The Offspring

33 Soul to Squeeze (90’s) RHCP

34 Mr. Brightside (2000’s) The Killers

35 Anything Anything (80’s) Dramarama

36 Plush (90’s) Stone Temple Pilots

37 Just A Girl (90’s) No Doubt

38 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins

39 I Wanna Be Sedated (70’s) The Ramones

40 Closer (90’s) Nine Inch Nails

41 Dammit (90’s) Blink 182

42 Jammin (70’s) Bob Marley

43 Best of You (2000’s) Foo Fighters

44 When I Come Around (90’s) Green Day

45 Blister in the Sun (80’s) Violent Femmes

46 Even Flow (90’s) Pearl Jam

47 The Middle (2000’s) Jimmy Eat World

48 Loser (90’s) Beck

49 Disarm The Smashing Pumpkins

50 Bad Fish (90’s) Sublime

51 Chop Suey (2000’s) System of a Down

52 All My Life Foo Fighters

53 Buddy Holly (90’s) Weezer

54 Tell Me Baby RHCP

55 People Are People (80’s) Depeche Mode

56 Wonderwall (90’s) Oasis

57 In Bloom (90’s) Nirvana

58 No Woman No Cry (70’s) Bob Marley

59 Pardon Me (90’s) Incubus

60 Don’t Speak No Doubt

61 Sex on Fire (2000’s) Kings of Leon

62 What’s My Age Again? (90’s) Blink 182

63 Longview (90’s) Green Day

64 Feel Good Inc (2000’s) Gorillaz

65 Man in the Box (90’s) Alice in Chains

66 Date Rape (90’s) Sublime

67 Been Caught Stealing Jane’s Addiction

68 The Unforgiven (90’s) Metallica

69 Brass Monkey (80’s) Beastie Boys

70 You’re Gonna Go Far Kid (2000’s) The Offspring

71 Starlight (2000’s) Muse

72 Can’t Stop (2000’s) RHCP

73 April 29th, 1992 (90’s) Sublime

74 Welcome to The Black Parade My Chemical Romance

75 Black Hole Sun (90’s) Soundgarden

76 All the Small Things Blink 182

77 Are You Gonna Be My Girl? (2000’s) Jet

78 Radioactive (2010’s) Imagine Dragons

79 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day

80 Blue Monday (80’s) New Order

81 Bullet With Butterfly Wings (90’s) The Smashing Pumpkins

82 Little Lion Man (2000’s) Mumford & Sons

83 Faint (2000’s) Linkin Park

84 Smooth Criminal (2000’s) Alien Ant Farm

85 Little Talks Of Monsters and Men

86 Glycerine (90’s) Bush

87 Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked (2000’s) Cage the Elephant

88 Undone (The Sweater Song) (90’s) Weezer

89 Just Like Heaven The Cure

90 Jeremy (90’s) Pearl Jam

91 Sweetness (2000’s) Jimmy Eat World

92 Semi Charmed Life (90’s) Third Eye Blind

93 Panic Switch (2000’s) Silversun Pickups

94 Rock the Casbah (80’s) The Clash

95 Bulls on Parade (90’s) Rage Against the Machine

96 Welcome to Paradise (90’s) Green Day

97 Use Somebody (2000’s) Kings of Leon

98 Drive (90’s) Incubus

99 Electric Feel (2000’s) MGMT

100 Ball and Chain (90’s) Social Distortion

101 Down (90’s) 311

102 Give it Away (90’s) RHCP

103 Lay Me Down (2010’s) The Dirty Heads

104 Kryptonite 3 Doors Down

105 Pumped Up Kicks (2010’s) Foster the People

106 Smoke Two Joints (90’s) Sublime

107 Mountain Sound Of Monsters and Men

108 Comedown (90’s) Bush

109 One U2

110 Numb (2000’s) Linkin Park

111 Float On Modest Mouse

112 Better Man (90’s) Pearl Jam

113 Sweater Weather (2010’s) The Neighbourhood

114 Heart Shaped Box (90’s) Nirvana

115 Dead Man’s Party (80’s) Oingo Boingo

116 Interstate Love Song (90’s) Stone Temple Pilots

117 It’s My Life No Doubt

118 Do I Wanna Know (2010’s) Arctic Monkeys

119 The Kids Aren’t Alright (90’s) The Offspring

120 Sweet Child ‘O Mine (80’s) Guns N’ Roses

121 Song 2 (90’s) Blur

122 Ho Hey (2010’s) The Lumineers

123 Love Song 311

124 Flagpole Sitta (90’s) Harvey Danger

125 Dani California (2000’s) RHCP

126 Pictures of You (80’s) The Cure

127 Spiderwebs (90’s) No Doubt

128 Sorrow (2000’s) Bad Religion

129 Shake Me Down (2010’s) Cage the Elephant

130 Nothing Else Matters (90’s) Metallica

131 No Rain (90’s) Blind Melon

132 Lonely Boy (2010’s) The Black Keys

133 We Are Young Fun

134 Story of My Life (90’s) Social Distortion

135 Madness (2010’s) Muse

136 Sabotage (90’s) Beastie Boys

137 Pompeii (2010’s) Bastille

138 Renegades of Funk (2000’s) Rage Against the Machine

139 Dreams The Cranberries

140 Snow (2000’s) RHCP

141 I Will Wait Mumford & Sons

142 Wish You Were Here (2000’s) Incubus

143 Bring Me to Life Evanescence

144 Sunday Bloody Sunday (80’s) U2

145 One Step Closer (2000’s) Linkin Park

146 The Distance (90’s) Cake

147 Toxicity (2000’s) System of a Down

148 Clocks Coldplay

149 It’s Time (2010’s) Imagine Dragons

150 All Apologies (90’s) Nirvana

151 Take Me Out (2000’s) Franz Ferdinand

152 Sunday Morning (90’s) No Doubt

153 Like a Stone (2000’s) Audioslave

154 Ready to Fall (2000’s) Rise Against

155 Black Pearl Jam

156 Get Lucky Daft Punk

157 Buffalo Soldier (80’s) Bob Marley

158 Island in the Sun (2000’s) Weezer

159 Come A Little Closer (2010’s) Cage the Elephant

160 Jumper (90’s) Third Eye Blind

161 Machinehead (90’s) Bush

162 Dog Days Are Over (2000’s) Florence + the Machine

163 Beautiful Disaster (90’s) 311

164 My Hero (90’s) Foo Fighters

165 Little Black Submarines (2010’s) The Black Keys

166 Alien (90’s) Pennywise

167 Lightning Crashes (90’s) Live

168 Knights of Cydonia Muse

169 Blitzkrieg Bop (70’s) The Ramones

170 Fix You Coldplay

171 What It’s Like (90’s) Everlast

172 Savior (2000’s) Rise Against

173 Love Hurts (2000’s) Incubus

174 Sail Awolnation

175 Sex and Candy (90’s) Marcy Playground

176 Howlin For You (2010’s) The Black Keys

177 No One Knows (2000’s) Queens of the Stone Age

178 Resistance (2000’s) Muse

179 Bittersweet Symphony (90’s) The Verve

180 Fell on Black Days (90’s) Soundgarden

181 Boyz N The Hood (90’s) Dynamite Hack

182 Rock Superstar (2000’s) Cypress Hill

183 The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie (2010’s) RHCP

184 Hash Pipe (2000’s) Weezer

185 Tongue Tied Grouplove

186 Dumb (90’s) Nirvana

187 Three Little Birds (70’s) Bob Marley

188 I Miss You Blink 182

189 Champagne Supernova (90’s) Oasis

190 Gold on the Ceiling (2010’s) The Black Keys

191 Bound For the Floor (90’s) Local H

192 Intergalactic (90’s) Beastie Boys

193 Elderly Woman Behind… Pearl Jam

194 Welcome to the Jungle Guns N’ Roses

195 I Write Sins Not Tragedies (2000’s) Panic! At the Disco

196 Zombie The Cranberries

197 Should I Stay or Should I Go (80’s) The Clash

198 All Mixed Up (90’s) 311

199 Demons Imagine Dragons

200 Last Resort (2000’s) Papa Roach

201 Such Great Heights (2000’s) The Postal Service

202 Bleed It Out (2000’s) Linkin Park

203 Strangelove (80’s) Depeche Mode

204 Josie Blink 182

205 Doin Time (90’s) Sublime

206 Sober (90’s) Tool

207 My Own Worst Enemy (90’s) Lit

208 Safe and Sound Capital Cities

209 Losing My Religion REM

210 Rape Me (90’s) Nirvana

211 Time Bomb (90’s) Rancid

212 Midnight City M83

213 I Alone Live

214 Last Nite (2000’s) The Strokes

215 Infected (90’s) Bad Religion

216 When You Were Young (2000’s) The Killers

217 Hurt (2000’s) Johnny Cash

218 Tighten Up The Black Keys

219 Fell In Love With a Girl (2000’s) The White Stripes

220 Guerilla Radio (90’s) Rage Against the Machine

221 1901 Phoenix

222 Daughter (90’s) Pearl Jam

223 Gotta Get Away (90’s) The Offspring

224 Believe (2000’s) The Bravery

225 Are You Gonna Go My Way Lenny Kravitz

226 Learn to Fly (90’s) Foo Fighters

227 Anna Sun Walk The Moon

228 Crawling (2000’s) Linkin Park

229 Only Happy When it Rains (90’s) Garbage

230 Time is Running Out Muse

231 It’s Been Awhile (2000’s) Staind

232 Lose Yourself (2000’s) Eminem

233 Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2000’s) Green Day

234 Aerials (2000’s) System of a Down

235 Kiss Off (80’s) Violent Femmes

236 Sugar We’re Goin Down Fall Out Boy

237 With Or Without You (80’s) U2

238 The Cave Mumford & Sons

239 Insane in the Brain (90’s) Cypress Hill

240 The Boys of Summer (2000’s) The Ataris

241 Big Empty (90’s) Stone Temple Pilots

242 Bad Habit (90’s) The Offspring

243 Supermassive Black Hole Muse

244 Helena My Chemical Romance

245 Maps (2000’s) The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

246 Yellow Ledbetter (90’s) Pearl Jam

247 The Kill (2000’s) Thirty Seconds to Mars

248 A Sky Full of Stars (2010’s) Coldplay

249 Sleep Now in the Fire (90’s) Rage Against the Machine

250 Where It’s At (90’s) Beck

251 Icky Thump (2000’s) The White Stripes

252 Caress Me Down Sublime

253 Rooster (90’s) Alice in Chains

254 F Authority Pennywise

255 Just Can’t Get Enough (80’s) Depeche Mode

256 Blurry (2000’s) Puddle of Mudd

257 Young Blood The Naked and The Famous

258 People Are Strange (2000’s) Echo and the Bunnymen

259 Crazy (2000’s) Gnarls Barkley

260 Monkeywrench (90’s) Foo Fighters

261 Soul Meets Body (90’s) Death Cab For Cutie

262 Got the Life (90’s) Korn

263 Bathwater No Doubt

264 Don’t Stop (2010’s) Foster the People

265 Cherub Rock (90’s) The Smashing Pumpkins

266 Shut Up and Dance Walk The Moon

267 Yellow (2000’s) Coldplay

268 Unbelievers Vampire Weekend

269 Mrs. Robinson The Lemonheads

270 Spoonman (90’s) Soundgarden

271 Boys Don’t Cry The Cure

272 Stupid Girl Garbage

273 Jane Says (80’s) Jane’s Addiction

274 Some Nights (2010’s) Fun.

275 Corduroy Pearl Jam

276 All These Things That I’ve Done (2000’s) The Killers

277 Hurt (90’s) Nine Inch Nails

278 Lisztomania Phoenix

279 American Idiot (2000’s) Green Day

280 One Love (70’s) Bob Marley

281 Karma Police (90’s) Radiohead

282 Dashboard (2000’s) Modest Mouse

283 Tonight Tonight (90’s) The Smashing Pumpkins

284 Prayer of the Refugee (2000’s) Rise Against

285 Lake of Fire (90’s) Nirvana

286 Never There (90’s) Cake

287 She (90’s) Green Day

288 The One I Love (80’s) REM

289 All I Want The Offspring

290 Paradise Coldplay

291 Otherside (90’s) RHCP

292 Devil’s Haircut (90’s) Beck

293 Undisclosed Desires Muse

294 Stinkfist Tool

295 Trojans Atlas Genius

296 Read My Mind (2000’s) The Killers

297 Somebody That I Used to Know Gotye

298 Head Like a Hole (90’s) Nine Inch Nails

299 Adam’s Song (90’s) Blink 182

300 B.Y.O.B. System of a Down

301 Everybody Talks (2010’s) Neon Trees

302 Vaseline (90’s) Stone Temple Pilots

303 Girls (80’s) Beastie Boys

304 Lazy Eye (2000’s) Silversun Pickups

305 How’s It Going to Be Third Eye Blind

306 Cold Hard Bitch (2000’s) Jet

307 Holiday (2000’s) Green Day

308 Out of My League Fitz and the Tantrums

309 Stellar (90’s) Incubus

310 Time to Pretend ( 2000’s) MGMT

311 You Oughtta Know Alanis Morissette

312 Mysterious Ways (90’s) U2

313 Wake Me Up Avicii

314 #1 Crush Garbage

315 Zero (90’s) The Smashing Pumpkins

316 Sweet Disposition (2000’s) The Temper Trap

317 Everything Zen (90’s) Bush

318 The Rockafeller Skank (90’s) Fatboy Slim

319 I’m Not Okay My Chemical Romance

320 I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2000’s) Death Cab For Cutie

321 My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark Fall Out Boy

322 The Man Who Sold the World (90’s) Nirvana

323 Elephant (2010’s) Tame Impala

324 The Scientist (2000’s) Coldplay

325 Father of Mine (90’s) Everclear

326 Parallel Universe (2000’s) RHCP

327 Add it Up (80’s) Violent Femmes

328 Alive (2000’s) P.O.D.

329 Steady As She Goes (2000’s) The Raconteurs

330 Sure Shot (90’s) Beastie Boys

331 Perfect Situation (2000’s) Weezer

332 Ex Girlfriend No Doubt

333 Testify (90’s) Rage Against the Machine

334 Walk (2010’s) Foo Fighters

335 Royals Lorde

336 Would? (90’s) Alice in Chains

337 Wicked Garden (90’s) Stone Temple Pilots

338 If You’re Wondering If I Want… Weezer

339 The Good Left Undone (2000’s) Rise Against

340 Someday (2000’s) The Strokes

341 Bad Luck (90’s) Social Distortion

342 Close to Me (80’s) The Cure

343 Graduate Third Eye Blind

344 Helena Beat Foster the People

345 Landslide (2000’s) The Smashing Pumpkins

346 Special Garbage

347 Sugar System of a Down

348 The New Pollution (90’s) Beck

349 M&M’s (90’s) Blink 182

350 Numb/Encore (2000’s) Linkin Park/Jay Z

351 Afraid The Neighbourhood

352 Around the World (90’s) RHCP

353 2am (2010’s) Slightly Stoopid

354 Prisoner of Society (90’s) The Living End

355 Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (90’s) The Offspring

356 Cannonball (90’s) The Breeders

357 Polly (90’s) Nirvana

358 A Praise Chorus Jimmy Eat World

359 Creep Stone Temple Pilots

360 Could You Be Loved (80’s) Bob Marley

361 Miss Murder (2000’s) AFI

362 Jump Around (90’s) House of Pain

363 All Over You Live

364 A-Punk (2000’s) Vampire Weekend

365 Anna Molly Incubus

366 Praise You (90’s) Fatboy Slim

367 Times Like These (2000’s) Foo Fighters

368 Where the Streets Have No Name (80’s) U2

369 People of the Sun (90’s) Rage Against the Machine

370 Amber (2000’s) 311

371 Take Me to Church Hozier

372 Jenny Was a Friend of Mine (2000’s) The Killers

373 By the Way (2000’s) RHCP

374 Animal (2010’s) Neon Trees

375 Wake Up Arcade Fire

376 Policy of Truth (90’s) Depeche Mode

377 Freak on a Leash (90’s) Korn

378 Riptide Vance Joy

379 Sex Type Thing (90’s) Stone Temple Pilots

380 Fade Into You Mazzy Star

381 No Sleep Til Brooklyn (80’s) Beastie Boys

382 Roll Away Your Stone Mumford & Sons

383 The Red Chevelle

384 Clint Eastwood (2000’s) Gorillaz

385 Beverly Hills (2000’s) Weezer

386 Outside Staind

387 Pain Jimmy Eat World

388 Friday I’m in Love (90’s) The Cure

389 Disconnected Face to Face

390 Young Folks (2000’s) Peter Bjorn and John

391 Paradise City (80’s) Guns N’ Roses

392 Smile Like You Mean It The Killers

393 Love Rollercoaster RHCP

394 Woman (2000’s) Wolfmother

395 Inside Out (90’s) Eve 6

396 Gone Away The Offspring

397 New Slang The Shins

398 New Divide Linkin Park

399 King Without a Crown (2000’s) Matisyahu

400 Epic (90’s) Faith No More

401 Move Along All American Rejects

402 Dancing Days Stone Temple Pilots

403

[Sully151]

A little too much Sublime and Greenday. Not enough REM. Of Monsters and Men shouldn't exist on the list.

[jimbo]

"The Red" at 383! Wtf?

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

I thought the same thing. They have an erection for Sublime. I'm sure this has to do more with promoting the bands that do all of their festival shows, and targeting the right demo audience of listeners, but there's so much missing here.

[Spencer]

I think this is how much airtime each song has gotten.

I picked up a free poster after a Queens of the Stone Age concert in like 2002, and numbers 1 and 2 were the same.

[Stradling]

Soto, I literally just saw this on here and don't really have time to digest it, also as much as I love the music of the 80's my memory for the names of songs and their artists isn't the greatest, even though so many of those songs I know word for word. Just glancing at it, I would probably put the top three KROQ songs of all time like this, and when I choose these they aren't my favorite they just happen to be the songs I think about when I think of KROQ

3. Anything Anything-Dramarama

2. Blister in the Sun- Violent Femmes

1. I Wanna be Sedated- Ramones

My top list of KROQ songs would be full of Oingo Boingo, Smiths/Morrisey, Depeche Mode, Love and Rockets, Echo and the Bunnymen, and U2. I'm sure I am missing a ton and I am equally sure that Brandon or Nate will tell me I am wrong and have terrible taste in music.

[Hollyw00d]

KROQ of shit

[InsideThePark]

"The Red" at 383! Wtf?

I don't mind much that it isn't higher up on the list. But yes, that is a great song. That and Send The Pain Below is what got me into Chevelle.

[Tank]

i can't seem to find Love Will Keep Us Together by the captain and tenille. 

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

i can't seem to find Love Will Keep Us Together by the captain and tenille.

They came in at 501, in honor of the Captain's tight jeans.

Edited July 6, 2015 by SOTO

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Soto, I literally just saw this on here and don't really have time to digest it, also as much as I love the music of the 80's my memory for the names of songs and their artists isn't the greatest, even though so many of those songs I know word for word. Just glancing at it, I would probably put the top three KROQ songs of all time like this, and when I choose these they aren't my favorite they just happen to be the songs I think about when I think of KROQ

3. Anything Anything-Dramarama

2. Blister in the Sun- Violent Femmes

1. I Wanna be Sedated- Ramones

My top list of KROQ songs would be full of Oingo Boingo, Smiths/Morrisey, Depeche Mode, Love and Rockets, Echo and the Bunnymen, and U2. I'm sure I am missing a ton and I am equally sure that Brandon or Nate will tell me I am wrong and have terrible taste in music.

Yeah I'm with you. Not my favorites but definitely along the top played KROQ anthems.

I guess there are so many songs I feel aren't on here from the early 80s. I remember when shake the disease was the number 1 song in 84 or 85. That song was so massive.

There were a lot of one hit wonders too that aren't on here. Oh well.

[arch stanton]

i can't seem to find Love Will Keep Us Together by the captain and tenille.

i think that song predates KROQ. It's only been around since checkered Vans and OP shorts.

[wopphil]

Any list that fails to include the Chili Peppers' cover of "Higher Ground" shouldn't be taken very seriously.

[nate]

I thought the same thing. They have an erection for Sublime. I'm sure this has to do more with promoting the bands that do all of their festival shows, and targeting the right demo audience of listeners, but there's so much

missing here.

 

KROQ and Southern California in general has a hard on for Sublime.  I never understood it.  I feel the same about RHCP.  Both bands have songs I would listen to but never on purpose.

[Brandon]

Soto, I literally just saw this on here and don't really have time to digest it, also as much as I love the music of the 80's my memory for the names of songs and their artists isn't the greatest, even though so many of those songs I know word for word. Just glancing at it, I would probably put the top three KROQ songs of all time like this, and when I choose these they aren't my favorite they just happen to be the songs I think about when I think of KROQ

3. Anything Anything-Dramarama

2. Blister in the Sun- Violent Femmes

1. I Wanna be Sedated- Ramones

My top list of KROQ songs would be full of Oingo Boingo, Smiths/Morrisey, Depeche Mode, Love and Rockets, Echo and the Bunnymen, and U2. I'm sure I am missing a ton and I am equally sure that Brandon or Nate will tell me I am wrong and have terrible taste in music.

Noooooope.

I've never called someone's taste in music emo or tried to belittle what someone likes. To each their own. I don't care enough about KROW or what they've become to have an opinion. The list they created looks safe and appeasing to most.

[Stradling]

B it was more just me giving you a hard time about how you two went to war over a couple of bands a couple of weeks ago. You two should do a mean spirited point and counter point for the hangout forum.

[Glen]

KROQ and Southern California in general has a hard on for Sublime. I never understood it. I feel the same about RHCP. Both bands have songs I would listen to but never on purpose.

It's the chicks, man. Chicks dig Sublime.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

My initial thought is that is just panders to all of the bands that continually commit to all of their festival-type shows. Weenie Roast, AcoustinXmas, Inland Invasion etc.

This list sucks.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Here's the 84 list.

The KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984

Ranking

Artist Name

Song Title

Album Title

Click for sample

1.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Relax

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Relax

2.

General Public

Tenderness

All The Rage

General Public - Tenderness - Tenderness

3.

U2

Pride (In the Name of Love)

The Unforgettable Fire

Pride (In the Name of Love)

4.

Bronski Beat

Why?

The Age Of Consent

Bronski Beat - The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat and the Communards - Why?

5.

Prince

Erotic City

-

-

6.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Two Tribes

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Two Tribes

7.

The Vandals

Ladykiller

-

-

8.

Billy Idol

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell

9.

Echo & the Bunnymen

The Killing Moon

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain - The Killing Moon

10.

Thompson Twins

Hold Me Now

Into The Gap

Hold Me Now

11.

Pet Shop Boys

West End Girls

Please

West End Girls

12.

Depeche Mode

People are People

Some Great Reward

People Are People

13.

Scott Goddard

Cow Punk

-

-

14.

The Fixx

Less Cities, More Moving People

Phantoms

The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another: Greatest Hits - Less Cities, More Moving People

15.

Eurythmics

Sexcrime 1984

1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother)

-

16.

Depeche Mode

Master And Servant

Some Great Reward

Master and Servant

17.

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Dazzle

Hyæna

Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hyaena - Dazzle

18.

The Untouchables

What's Gone Wrong

Wild Child

-

19.

INXS

Original Sin

The Swing

-

20.

Wham!

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

-

-

21.

Duran Duran

Wild Boys

Arena

Duran Duran - Arena - Wild Boys

22.

The Smiths

How Soon is Now?

Meat is Murder

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow - How Soon Is Now?

23.

Alphaville

Big in Japan

-

-

24.

David Bowie

Blue Jean

Tonight

-

25.

Band Aid

Do They Know It's Christmas?

-

-

26.

Billy Idol

Flesh for Fantasy

Rebel Yell

Flesh for Fantasy

27.

Talk Talk

It's My Life

-

-

28.

The Human League

The Lebanon

Hysteria

-

29.

Duran Duran

The Reflex

Seven And The Ragged Tiger

The Reflex

30.

The Psychedelic Furs

The Ghost In You

Mirror Moves

The Ghost in You

31.

OMD

Locomotion

Junk Culture

-

32.

Animotion

Obsession

-

-

33.

Billy Idol

Catch My Fall

Rebel Yell

Catch My Fall

34.

INXS

I Send a Message

The Swing

I Send a Message

35.

Thompson Twins

Passion Planet

-

-

36.

Howard Jones

What is Love?

Human's Lib

-

37.

INXS

Burn for You

The Swing

Burn for You

38.

Blancmange

Don't Tell Me

Mange Tout

-

39.

Prince

When Doves Cry

Purple Rain

-

40.

Simple Minds

Waterfront

Sparkle In The Rain

Simple Minds - Sparkle In the Rain - Waterfront

41.

Killing Joke

Eighties

Night Time

-

42.

Big Country

Wonderland

Wonderland

Big Country - The Best of Big Country - Wonderland

43.

Bananarama

Wild Life

-

-

44.

Billy Idol

Eyes Without a Face

Rebel Yell

Eyes Without a Face

45.

Adam Ant

Apollo 9

Vive Le Rock

Adam Ant - Antics in the Forbidden Zone - Apollo 9

46.

Devo

Shout

Shout

Devo - Shout - Shout

47.

Thompson Twins

The Gap

Into The Gap

The Gap

48.

X

Wild Thing

-

-

49.

INXS

Melting in the Sun

The Swing

Melting in the Sun

50.

Prince

Let's Go Crazy

Purple Rain

-

51.

General Public

Hot You're Cool

All The Rage

General Public - Hot You're Cool - Single - Hot You're Cool

52.

Sparks

Pretending to be Drunk

Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat - Pretending to Be Drunk

53.

Thomas Dolby

Hyperactive!

The Flat Earth

-

54.

The Smiths

What Difference Does it Make?

The Smiths

-

55.

Shriekback

Hand on My Heart

-

-

56.

R.E.M.

So. Central Rain

Reckoning

-

57.

Style Council

My Everchanging Moods

-

-

58.

The Time

Jungle Love

-

-

59.

The Alarm

Sixty Eight Guns

Declaration

The Alarm - Declaration [1984-1985] Remastered - Sixty Eight Guns

60.

Lou Reed

I Love You, Suzanne

-

-

61.

Oingo Boingo

Something Isn't Right

-

-

62.

The Untouchables

Free Yourself

Wild Child

-

63.

Tones on Tail

Go!

-

-

64.

Simple Minds

Speed Your Love to Me

Sparkle In The Rain

Simple Minds - Sparkle In the Rain - Speed Your Love to Me

65.

Cyndi Lauper

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

-

-

66.

Julie Brown

The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun

-

-

67.

Duran Duran

New Moon on Monday

Seven And The Ragged Tiger

New Moon on Monday

68.

Spandau Ballet

Only When You Leave

-

-

69.

Depeche Mode

Everything Counts

Construction Time Again

-

70.

Hall and Oates

Out of Touch

-

-

71.

Sparks

Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat

Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat

72.

Talking Heads

Burning Down the House

Speaking in Tongues

Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues - Burning Down the House

73.

Ultravox

White China

-

-

74.

Simple Minds

Up On the Catwalk

Sparkle In The Rain

Simple Minds - Sparkle In the Rain - Up On the Catwalk

75.

Spandau Ballet

Revenge for Love

-

-

76.

Depeche Mode

Get the Balance Right

People Are People

-

77.

Duran Duran

Make Me Smile

-

-

78.

Romeo Void

A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)

-

-

79.

The Go-Go's

Head Over Heels

Talk Show

-

80.

Devo

Puppet Boy

Shout

Devo - Shout - Puppet Boy

81.

Cyndi Lauper

She Bop

-

-

82.

Blancmange

Game Above My Head

Mange Tout

-

83.

Thompson Twins

Doctor! Doctor!

Into The Gap

Doctor! Doctor!

84.

Eurythmics

Who's That Girl

Touch

Eurythmics - Touch - Who's That Girl

85.

A Flock of Seagulls

The More You Live, the More You Love

-

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran - The Best of a Flock of Seagulls - The More You Live, the More You Love

86.

Bananarama

Cruel Summer

-

-

87.

The Psychedelic Furs

Heaven

Mirror Moves

Heaven

88.

General Public

General Public

All The Rage

General Public - General Public - Single - General Public

89.

Elvis Costello

The Only Flame In Town

Goodbye Cruel World

-

90.

Blancmange

That's Love That it Is

Mange Tout

-

91.

Berlin

Touch

Love Life

-

92.

Thompson Twins

You Take Me Up

Into The Gap

You Take Me Up

93.

Howard Jones

New Song

Human's Lib

-

94.

Dragon

Rain

-

-

95.

Bananarama

Robert de Niro's Waiting

-

-

96.

Trans-X

Living on Video

-

-

97.

UB40

If it Happens Again

Geffery Morgan

UB40 - Geffery Morgan - If It Happens Again

98.

Big Country

Where the Rose is Sown

Steeltown

Big Country - The Best of Big Country - Where the Rose Is Sown

99.

Billy Idol

Blue Highway

Rebel Yell

Blue Highway

100.

OMD

Tesla Girls

Junk Culture

-

101.

Wire Train

I'll Do You

-

-

102.

The Cars

Magic

Heartbeat City

The Cars - The Cars: Complete Greatest Hits - Magic

103.

Bronski Beat

Smalltown Boy

The Age Of Consent

Bronski Beat - The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat and the Communards - Smalltown Boy

104.

Eddy Grant

Romancing the Stone

-

-

105.

Boy Waiting

Girl Waiting

-

-

106.

Danny Elfman

[arch stanton]

When I was working in the Boston area a few years ago they did a tourney-style 64 band playoff and Sublime actually won. I don't really get it either.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

When I was working in the Boston area a few years ago they did a tourney-style 64 band playoff and Sublime actually won. I don't really get it either.

I think it must be a younger douche bag kind of thing.

[halobob]

Here's the 84 list.

The KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984

Ranking

Artist Name

Song Title

Album Title

Click for sample

1.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Relax

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Relax

2.

General Public

Tenderness

All The Rage

General Public - Tenderness - Tenderness

3.

U2

Pride (In the Name of Love)

The Unforgettable Fire

Pride (In the Name of Love)

4.

Bronski Beat

Why?

The Age Of Consent

Bronski Beat - The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat and the Communards - Why?

5.

Prince

Erotic City

-

-

6.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Two Tribes

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Two Tribes

7.

The Vandals

Ladykiller

-

-

8.

Billy Idol

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell

9.

Echo & the Bunnymen

The Killing Moon

Ocean Rain

Echo And The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain - The Killing Moon

10.

Thompson Twins

Hold Me Now

Into The Gap

Hold Me Now

11.

Pet Shop Boys

West End Girls

Please

West End Girls

12.

Depeche Mode

People are People

Some Great Reward

People Are People

13.

Scott Goddard

Cow Punk

-

-

14.

The Fixx

Less Cities, More Moving People

Phantoms

The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another: Greatest Hits - Less Cities, More Moving People

15.

Eurythmics

Sexcrime 1984

1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother)

-

16.

Depeche Mode

Master And Servant

Some Great Reward

Master and Servant

17.

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Dazzle

Hyæna

Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hyaena - Dazzle

18.

The Untouchables

What's Gone Wrong

Wild Child

-

19.

INXS

Original Sin

The Swing

-

20.

Wham!

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

-

-

21.

Duran Duran

Wild Boys

Arena

Duran Duran - Arena - Wild Boys

22.

The Smiths

How Soon is Now?

Meat is Murder

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow - How Soon Is Now?

23.

Alphaville

Big in Japan

-

-

24.

David Bowie

Blue Jean

Tonight

-

25.

Band Aid

Do They Know It's Christmas?

-

-

26.

Billy Idol

Flesh for Fantasy

Rebel Yell

Flesh for Fantasy

27.

Talk Talk

It's My Life

-

-

28.

The Human League

The Lebanon

Hysteria

-

29.

Duran Duran

The Reflex

Seven And The Ragged Tiger

The Reflex

30.

The Psychedelic Furs

The Ghost In You

Mirror Moves

The Ghost in You

31.

OMD

Locomotion

Junk Culture

-

32.

Animotion

Obsession

-

-

33.

Billy Idol

Catch My Fall

Rebel Yell

Catch My Fall

34.

INXS

I Send a Message

The Swing

I Send a Message

35.

Thompson Twins

Passion Planet

-

-

36.

Howard Jones

What is Love?

Human's Lib

-

37.

INXS

Burn for You

The Swing

Burn for You

38.

Blancmange

Don't Tell Me

Mange Tout

-

39.

Prince

When Doves Cry

Purple Rain

-

40.

Simple Minds

Waterfront

Sparkle In The Rain

Simple Minds - Sparkle In the Rain - Waterfront

41.

Killing Joke

Eighties

Night Time

-

42.

Big Country

Wonderland

Wonderland

Big Country - The Best of Big Country - Wonderland

43.

Bananarama

Wild Life

-

-

44.

Billy Idol

Eyes Without a Face

Rebel Yell

Eyes Without a Face

45.

Adam Ant

Apollo 9

Vive Le Rock

Adam Ant - Antics in the Forbidden Zone - Apollo 9

46.

Devo

Shout

Shout

Devo - Shout - Shout

47.

Thompson Twins

The Gap

Into The Gap

The Gap

48.

X

Wild Thing

-

-

49.

INXS

Melting in the Sun

The Swing

Melting in the Sun

50.

Prince

Let's Go Crazy

Purple Rain

-

51.

General Public

Hot You're Cool

All The Rage

General Public - Hot You're Cool - Single - Hot You're Cool

52.

Sparks

Pretending to be Drunk

Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat - Pretending to Be Drunk

53.

Thomas Dolby

Hyperactive!

The Flat Earth

-

54.

The Smiths

What Difference Does it Make?

The Smiths

-

55.

Shriekback

Hand on My Heart

-

-

56.

R.E.M.

So. Central Rain

Reckoning

-

57.

Style Council

My Everchanging Moods

-

-

58.

The Time

Jungle Love

-

-

59.

The Alarm

Sixty Eight Guns

Declaration

The Alarm - Declaration [1984-1985] Remastered - Sixty Eight Guns

60.

Lou Reed

I Love You, Suzanne

-

-

61.

Oingo Boingo

Something Isn't Right

-

-

62.

The Untouchables

Free Yourself

Wild Child

-

63.

Tones on Tail

Go!

-

-

64.

Simple Minds

Speed Your Love to Me

Sparkle In The Rain

Simple Minds - Sparkle In the Rain - Speed Your Love to Me

65.

Cyndi Lauper

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

-

-

66.

Julie Brown

The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun

-

-

67.

Duran Duran

New Moon on Monday

Seven And The Ragged Tiger

New Moon on Monday

68.

Spandau Ballet

Only When You Leave

-

-

69.

Depeche Mode

Everything Counts

Construction Time Again

-

70.

Hall and Oates

Out of Touch

-

-

71.

Sparks

Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat

Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat - Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat

72.

Talking Heads

Burning Down the House

Speaking in Tongues

Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues - Burning Down the House

73.

Ultravox

White China

-

-

74.

Simple Minds

Up On the Catwalk

Sparkle In The Rain

Simple Minds - Sparkle In the Rain - Up On the Catwalk

75.

Spandau Ballet

Revenge for Love

-

-

76.

Depeche Mode

Get the Balance Right

People Are People

-

77.

Duran Duran

Make Me Smile

-

-

78.

Romeo Void

A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)

-

-

79.

The Go-Go's

Head Over Heels

Talk Show

-

80.

Devo

Puppet Boy

Shout

Devo - Shout - Puppet Boy

81.

Cyndi Lauper

She Bop

-

-

82.

Blancmange

Game Above My Head

Mange Tout

-

83.

Thompson Twins

Doctor! Doctor!

Into The Gap

Doctor! Doctor!

84.

Eurythmics

Who's That Girl

Touch

Eurythmics - Touch - Who's That Girl

85.

A Flock of Seagulls

The More You Live, the More You Love

-

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran - The Best of a Flock of Seagulls - The More You Live, the More You Love

86.

Bananarama

Cruel Summer

-

-

87.

The Psychedelic Furs

Heaven

Mirror Moves

Heaven

88.

General Public

General Public

All The Rage

General Public - General Public - Single - General Public

89.

Elvis Costello

The Only Flame In Town

Goodbye Cruel World

-

90.

Blancmange

That's Love That it Is

Mange Tout

-

91.

Berlin

Touch

Love Life

-

92.

Thompson Twins

You Take Me Up

Into The Gap

You Take Me Up

93.

Howard Jones

New Song

Human's Lib

-

94.

Dragon

Rain

-

-

95.

Bananarama

Robert de Niro's Waiting

-

-

96.

Trans-X

Living on Video

-

-

97.

UB40

If it Happens Again

Geffery Morgan

UB40 - Geffery Morgan - If It Happens Again

98.

Big Country

Where the Rose is Sown

Steeltown

Big Country - The Best of Big Country - Where the Rose Is Sown

99.

Billy Idol

Blue Highway

Rebel Yell

Blue Highway

100.

OMD

Tesla Girls

Junk Culture

-

101.

Wire Train

I'll Do You

-

-

102.

The Cars

Magic

Heartbeat City

The Cars - The Cars: Complete Greatest Hits - Magic

103.

Bronski Beat

Smalltown Boy

The Age Of Consent

Bronski Beat - The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat and the Communards - Smalltown Boy

104.

Eddy Grant

Romancing the Stone

-

-

105.

Boy Waiting

Girl Waiting

-

-

106.

Danny Elfman

A lot of KROQ listeners today weren't even born in 1984, of course you aren't going to see much from the 80's on the list.  When they do this 30 years from now I'm sure I'll be saying there is not enough Green Day or RHCP on the list.  

Edited July 6, 2015 by halobob

[halobob]

I love sublime.

Annie's 12 years old, in 2 more she'll be a whore.  

[Make Angels Great Again]

I'm liking KROQ less and less these days, sadly.

 

They play too much weird ass indie shit.