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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 106 #1
2 Just Like Heaven The Cure 104 #1
3 I Melt With You Modern English 96 #2
4 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult 83 #4
5 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2 204 #2
6 Love Shack The B-52's 79 #1
7 It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M. 138 #2
8 In Between Days The Cure 81 #3
9 Once in a Lifetime Talking Heads 125 #4
10 Blue Monday New Order 96 #1
11 Radio Free Europe R.E.M. 77 #1
12 Bad U2 78 #5
13 Dear God XTC 92 #1
14 In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel 123 #2
15 London Calling The Clash 122 #1
16 Burning Down the House Talking Heads 154 #8
17 True Faith New Order 78 #3
18 Pride (In the Name of Love) U2 168 #1
19 The Lovecats The Cure 60 #2
20 Uncertain Smile The The 51 #3
21 Running Up That Hill Kate Bush 83 #2
22 Roam The B-52's 45 #18
23 I Will Follow U2 96 #9
24 Inside Out Mighty Lemon Drops 14 #24
25 Rise Public Image Ltd. 47 #24
26 Birthday The Sugarcubes 43 #1
27 A Night Like This The Cure 9 #6
28 Fall On Me R.E.M. 60 #26
29 Fast Car Tracy Chapman 60 #1
30 Everyday is Halloween Ministry 33 #6
31 Mandinka Sinéad O'Connor 56 #5
32 New Year's Day U2 182 #4
33 Let's Go to Bed The Cure 53 #9
34 Monkey Gone To Heaven The Pixies 67 #5
35 Pretty In Pink The Psychedelic Furs 70 #9
36 So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) R.E.M. 39 #7
37 With You O Positive 1 #37
38 Age of Consent New Order 31 #3
39 Save It For Later The English Beat 69 #9
40 Close to Me The Cure 83 #11
41 Mayor of Simpleton XTC 45 #3
42 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 102 #1
43 E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite 30 #40
44 Temptation New Order 22 #1
45 Why Can't I Be You? The Cure 60 #1
46 Turning Japanese The Vapors 52 #14
47 Alex Chilton The Replacements 58 #8
48 Mad World Tears for Fears 38 #5
49 The One Thing INXS 52 #10
50 Pretty Persuasion R.E.M. 35 #50
51 Slave to Love Bryan Ferry 27 #30
52 Swamp Thing The Chameleons 8 #52
53 Rock the Casbah The Clash 164 #1
54 The Whole of the Moon The Waterboys 51 #14
55 That's When I Reach For My Revolver Mission of Burma 10 #55
56 Blood and Roses The Smithereens 40 #5
57 Avalon Roxy Music 52 #33
58 Bittersweet Hoodoo Gurus 16 #58
59 Closer To Fine The Indigo Girls 43 #1
60 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 140 #9
61 Lullaby The Cure 37 #3
62 Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths 66 #3
63 So Alive Love and Rockets 61 #1
64 Red Rain Peter Gabriel 43 #28
65 Kingdom of Rain The The 11 #22
66 More Than This Roxy Music 48 #12
67 The Perfect Kiss New Order 43 #2
68 Precious The Pretenders 8 #68
69 Private Idaho The B-52's 58 #25
70 The Killing Moon Echo and the Bunnymen 65 #9
71 This Corrosion Sisters of Mercy 36 #7
72 With or Without You U2 213 #3
73 Cities in Dust Siouxsie and the Banshees 60 #2
74 Clampdown The Clash 51 #1
75 Bring on the Dancing Horses Echo and the Bunnymen 43 #21
76 Infected The The 23 #75
77 Just Can't Get Enough Depeche Mode 67 #2
78 Don't Change INXS 58 #28
79 Suedehead Morrissey 56 #4
80 Two Hearts Beat As One U2 52 #19
81 Fascination Street The Cure 52 #5
82 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen 69 #2
83 Gigantic The Pixies 37 #7
84 Under the Milky Way The Church 85 #3
85 I Confess The English Beat 40 #10
86 Love Song The Cure 80 #1
87 Senses Working Overtime XTC 38 #23
88 Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 95 #2
89 Need You Tonight INXS 87 #5
90 Abort Tribe 2 #90
91 Beds are Burning Midnight Oil 102 #3
92 Birth, School, Work, Death The Godfathers 32 #39
93 White Wedding Billy Idol 152 #7
94 Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds 125 #1
95 The Ghost In You The Psychedelic Furs 49 #30
96 Devil Inside INXS 43 #42
97 Rapture Blondie 54 #31
98 Back on the Chain Gang The Pretenders 83 #15
99 She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby 58 #13
100 Desire Gene Loves Jezebel 31 #6
101 Cat People (Putting Out Fire) David Bowie 18 #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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