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Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)

1. New Order - Blue Monday

2. Modern English - I Melt With You

3. Alphaville - Forever Young

4. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

5. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

6. Ministry - Everyday is Halloween

7. Soft Cell - Tainted Love

8. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

9. The Cure - Let's Go to Bed

10. U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)

11. When in Rome - The Promise

12. The B-52's - Rock Lobster

13. Yaz - Situation

14. Cube - Love's Taboo

15. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

16. The Clash - London Calling

17. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

18. Devo - Whip It!

19. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

20. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

21. Peter Godwin - Images of Heaven

22. Erasure - Oh L'Amour

23. The English Beat - I Confess

24. Berlin - Sex (I'm a...)

25. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (tie)

25. Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy - Kiss Me (tie)

26. Depeche Mode - Route 66

27. Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

28. Squeeze - Tempted

29. Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire

30. INXS - The One Thing

31. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go

32. The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out

33. New Order - The Perfect Kiss

34. U2 - New Year's Day

35. Talk Talk - It's My Life

36. Roxy Music - More Than This

37. Yaz - Don't Go

38. The Cure - In Between Days

39. Tones on Tail - Go!

40. XTC - Dear God

41. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

42. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

43. Malcolm McLaren - Madam Butterfly

44. Re-flex - The Politics of Dancing

45. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

46. Depeche Mode - Strangelove

47. New Order - True Faith

48. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go

49. Camouflage - The Great Commandment

50. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter

51. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You

52. Freur - Doot Doot

53. Yaz - Only You

54. The Bolshoi - A Way

55. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes AGain

56. ABC - The Look of Love

57. The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.

58. Thompson Twins - If You Were Here

59. Dominatrix - Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight

60. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

61. Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours

62. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

63. David Bowie - Rebel Rebel

64. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

65. Kraftwerk - The Model

66. The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

67. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

68. UB40 - Red Red Wine

69. OMD - Secret

70. The Damned - In Dulce December

71. Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink

72. Time Zone - World Destruction

73. Elvis Costello - Alison

74. The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket

75. Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind

76. U2 - The Sweetest Thing

77. The Cure - The Lovecats

78. Barbie and the Kens - Just a Gigolo

79. Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You

80. Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust

81. The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma

82. English Beat - Tears of a Clown

83. Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant

84. INXS - Need You Tonight

85. D.A.F. - Voulez vous Couchez Avec Moi...Sex!

86. The Vapors - Turning Japanese

87. Sinéad O'Connor - Mandinka

88. Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You

89. The Police - Walking on the Moon

90. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

91. Tears for Fears - Mad World

92. Until December - Until December

93. Depeche Mode - People are People

94. Flying Lizards - Money

95. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One

96. Icicle Works - whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)

97. INXS - Don't Change

98. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking

99. Desireless - Voyage Voyage

100. Book of Love - Boy

101. Oingo Boingo - Only a Lad

102. The Romantics - What I Like About You

103. The Cure - Close to Me

104. Killing Joke - 80's

105. Depeche Mode - Get the Balance Right

106. Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face

107. The Housemartins - Happy Hour

108. Devo - Beautiful World

109. Thomas Dolby - Europa and the Pirate Twins

110. Alphaville - Big in Japan

111. Aztec Camera - Oblivious

112. U2 - I Will Follow

113. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

114. Ministry - Work for Love

115. The Replacements - Alex Chilton

116. Morrissey - Suedehead

117. B-Movie - Nowhere Girl

118. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up

119. The Art of Noise - Moments in Love

120. The Stranglers - Golden Brown

121. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

122. Maurice and the Cliches - Soft Core

123. INXS - Original Sin

124. Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion

125. English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom

126. Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

127. Visage - Fade to Grey

128. The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like

129. The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

130. Public Image Ltd. - Seattle

131. R.E.M. - So. Central Rain

132. The Specials - Ghost Town

133. The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods

134. Iggy Pop - Cry for Love

135. The B-52's - Planet Claire

136. Clan of Xymox - Stranger

137. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant

138. David Bowie - Changes

139. The Clash - This is Radio Clash

140. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

141. Chris Isaak - Blue Hotel

142. Lene Lovich - Lucky Number

143. The Smiths - Ask

144. The Wild Swans - Young Manhood

145. Anne Clark - Hope Road

146. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

147. The Twins - Time Will Tel

148. Colourfield - Can't Get Enough of You Baby

149. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science

150. Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

151. Yaz - Nobody's Diary

152. Dramarama - Anything Anything

153. Divinyls - Pleasure and Pain

154. The Europeans - Animal Song

155. General Public - Tenderness

156. Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life

157. The Cure - Killing an Arab

158. Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me

159. Billy Idol - white Wedding

160. The Uptones - Burning Skies

161. Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home

162. Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe

163. Bryan Ferry - The Right Stuff

164. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

165. Talk Talk - Talk Talk

166. U2 - With or Without You

167. Wire Train - Chamber of Hellos

168. The The - Uncertain Smile

169. The Hurricanes - Only One Night

170. Talking Heads - Houses in Motion

171. X - Wild Thing

172. R.E.M. - The One I Love

173. Black - Wonderful Life

174. Romeo Void - Never Say Never

175. Roxy Music - Avalon

176. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust

177. The Polecats - Make a Circuit With Me

178. The Ramones - Rock n' Roll High School

179. Pet shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This

180. Rational Youth - Dancing on the Berlin Wall

181. Payolas - Eyes of a Stranger

182. Psychedelic Furs - Heartbeta

183. The Smihtereens - Blood and Roses

184. Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease

185. Oingo Boingo - Pain

186. New Order - 1963

187. The Pretenders - My City Was Gone

188. Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line

189. Blondie - Call Me

190. a-Ha - Take on Me

191. The Clash - The Magnificent Seven

192. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Radio Radio

193. The B-52's - Legal Tender

194. The Church - Unguarded Moment

195. David Bowie - Let's Dance

196. Chris and Cosey - October Love Song

197. China Crisis - Wishful Thinking

198. The Alarm - 68 Guns

199. Joe Strummer - Love Kills

200. Berlin - No More Words

201. The English Beat - I Can't Get Used to Losing You

202. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine

203. Falco - Der Kommisar

204. Blondie - Rapture

205. A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

206. Duran Duran - Girls on Film

207. Morrissey - Hairdresser on Fire

208. Book of Love - I Touch Rose

209. EBN-OZN - AEIOU (and Sometimes Y)

210. Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat

211. The Clash - Rock the Casbah

212. The db's - Love is for Lovers

213. Gang of Four - I Love a Man in Uniform

214. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Chelsea

215. Kraftwerk - Tour d'France

216. Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way

217. Love and Rockets - All in My Mind

218. Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities

219. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

220. The Stranglers - Always the Sun

221. The Jam - That's Entertainment

222. Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself

223. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?

224. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

225. CCCP - American Soviets

226. Midnight Oil - Power and the Passion

227. Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection

228. The Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me

229. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

230. Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

231. Robert Siedler - Christian Boy

232. XTC - Senses Working Overtime

233. New Model Army - 51st State

234. U2 - Bad

235. Simple Minds - Promised You a Miracle

236. Roman Holliday - Stand By

237. David Bowie - Young Americans

238. Split Enz - I Got You

239. The Smiths - Unhappy Birthday

240. The The - This is the Day

241. Siousxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence

242. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives

243. OMD - Enola Gay

244. The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang

245. Squeeze - Cool for Cats

246. Real Life - Send Me an Angel

247. R.E.M. - Ages of You

248. New Order - Age of Consent

249. Oingo Boingo - Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me

250. Prince - 1999

251. Ultravox - Vienna

252. The Waterboys - Whole of the Moon

253. U2 - Two Hearts Beat as One

254. Bow Wow Wow - Do You Wanna Hold Me

255. The Stray Cats - Rock this Town

256. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

257. Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

258. XTC - Making Plans for Nigel

259. Trans-X - Living on Video

260. Squeeze - Pulling Mussels from the Shell

261. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

262. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

263. The Smiths - Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before

264. English Beat - Save It for Later

265. Gary Numan - Cars

266. Grace Jones- Pull Up to the Bumper

267. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Blue Chair

268. The wild Swans - Mythical Beast

269. Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back

270. OMD - If You Leave

271. Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey

272. Bronski Beat - Why?

273. R.E.M. - Superman

274. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

275. Roxy Music - Dance Away

276. The Smiths - Panic

277. UB40 - Don't Break My Heart

278. Squeeze - Black Coffee in Bed

279. Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To

280. The Fixx - Red Skies

281. Frazier Chorus - Typical

282. Flash in the Pan - Walking in the Rain

283. David Bowie - China Girl

284. Gene Loves Jezebel - Gorgeous

285. Talking Heads - And She Was

286. Voice Farm - Seeing is Believing

287. Fun Boy Three - Our Lips are Sealed

288. They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start

289. Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2

290. The Cure - A Forest

291. General Public - Never You Done That

292. U2 - Gloria

293. Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

294. The Fixx - Secret Separation

295. Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

296. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Peace Love and Understanding

297. Tin Tin - Hold It

298. File 13 - Tastes So Good

299. Aztec Camera - All I Need is Everything

300. Soft Cell - It's a Mugs Game

301. The Call - The Walls came Down

302. The Cure - The Walk

303. Fake - Brick

304. The Jam - Town Called Malice

305. Iggy Pop - 5'1"

306. Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling

307. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny

308. Erasure - It Doesn't Have to Be

309. Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen in Love

310. Laurie Anderson - O Superman

311. Howard Jones - New Song

312. The Smiths - Half a Person

313. Human League - Don't You Want Me

314. The B-52's - Whammy Kiss

315. Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good

316. INXS - What You Need

317. Clan of Xymox - Louise

318. Nena Hagen - N.Y. N.Y.

319. Gene Loves Jezebel - Heartache

320. The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night

321. OMD - Dreaming

322. Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me

323. JoBoxxers - Just Got Lucky

324. Nick Lowe - I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass

325. Killer Pussy - Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage

326. Oingo Boingo - Just Another Day

327. The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime

328. Secession - The Magician

329. The Art of Noise - Close to the Edit

330. Adam and the Ants - Antmusic

331. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It)

332. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

333. Madness - One Step Beyond

334. Shriekback - Gunning for the Buddah

335. The Smiths - What Different Does it Make?

336. The Sterns - Man with a Golden Heart

337. Violent Femmes - Children of the Revolution

338. Talking Heads - Wild Life

339. The Wild Swans - Bitterness

340. The alarm - The Stand

341. Lords of the New Church - Live for Today

342. Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

343. Nena - 99 Luftballoons

344. Sparks/Jane Wiedlin - Cool Places

345. The Clash - Train in Vain

346. R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

347. Yello - I Love You

348. New Order - Touched By the Hand of God

349. Big Country - In a Big Country

350. Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be a Cowboy

351. Echo & the Bunnymen - People are Strange

352. The Cure - Primary

353. Electronic - Dancing on the Planet

354. The Fixx - Are We Ourselves

355. ABC - Poison Arrow

356. Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette

357. Oingo Boingo - Stay

358. Blue Nile - Stay

359. UB40 - Rat in the Kitchen

360. The Cars - Candy O

361. Erasure - Ship of Fools

362. Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals

363. Gene Loves Jezebel - Motion of Love

364. Boomtown Rats - Dave

365. George Kranz - Din Da Da

366. 10,000 Maniacs - Like the Weather

367. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

368. Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers

369. Eurythmics - I Need a Man

370. M - Pop Muzik

371. Steve Jones - Mercy

372. Shriekback - Nemesis

373. Bryan Ferry - Kiss and Tell

374. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream

375. The Cure - Hot Hot Hot

376. Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

377. Romeo Void - A Girl in Trouble

378. Love and Rockets - Ball of COnfusion

379. Wang Chung - Everyone Have Fun Tonight

380. Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep

381. Westworld - Painkiller

382. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About You)

383. Modern English - Hands Across the Sea

384. Kazero - Thai Na Na

385. Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show

386. China Crisis - Arizona Sky

387. The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night

388. Oingo Boingo - Not My Slave

389. X - Burning House of Love

390. Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin

391. Bodeans - Fadeaway

392. Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

393. Martini Ranch - Reach

394. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

395. Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams

396. Lene Lovich - New Toy

397. The B-52's - Summer of Love

398. A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song

399. It's Immaterial - Driving Away from Home

400. Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

401. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel

402. Captain Sensible - Wot

403. The English Beat - Twist and Crawl

404. Blue System - Sorry Little Sarah

405. Fath No More - We Care a Lot

406. Oingo Boingo - We Close Our Eyes

407. The Clash - Police on My Back

408. Talking Heads - Take Me to the River

409. A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)

410. Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia

411. Propaganda - P-Machinery

412. Devo - Are You Experienced

413. The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

414. Secession - Touch

415. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Passenger

416. Uptones - KUSA

417. OMD - So in Love

418. Sharpe and Numan - Change Your Mind

419. Fishbone - Party at Ground Zero

420. Depeche Mode - Stripped

421. Dole - Slumberland

422. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Girls Talk

423. The Stranglers - Skin Deep

424. Josie Cotton - Jimmy Loves Maryanne

425. Dragon - Rain

426. Alphaville - Universal Daddy

427. Roxy Music - Love is the Drug

428. Faith Brothers - That's Just hte Way That It is With Me

429. R.E.M. - Fall on Me

430. BFG - Higher than Heaven Is

431. David Bowie - Fashion

432. Lou Reed - Vicious

433. Curiosity Killed the Cat - Down the Earth

434. Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

435. Vitamin Z - Burning Flame

436. The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

437. Thrashing Doves - Beautiful Imbalance

438. Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

439. Depeche Mode - Somebody

440. Burning Sensations - Belly of the Whale

441. The Primitives - Crash

442. Danse Society - Say It Again

443. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

444. The Christians - Forgotten Town

445. Special AKA - Free Nelson Mandela

446. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's OVer

447. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

448. Peter Schilling - Major TOm (I'm Coming Home)

449. Dead or Alive - Brand New Lover

450. The Stranglers - All Day and All of the Night

451. Yello - Oh Yeah

452. INXS - I Send a Message

453. Robert Gorf - Darling Don't Leave Me

454. Red Rockers - China

455. John Astley - Jane's Getting Serious

456. Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi

457. Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy

458. Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter

459. Alsan - Please Don't Stop

460. Dire Straits - Twisting By the Pool

461. Depeche Mode - Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead

462. The Pretenders - My Baby

463. Edwyn Collins - My Beloved Girl

464. The Damned - Alone Again Or

465. Hubert KaH - Military Drums

466. Flying Colar - Dear Friend

467. The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye

468. Psychedelic Furs - Angels Don't Cry

469. The Specials - A Message to You Rudy

470. The Stranglers - All Roads Lead to Rome

471. The Cars - Dangerous Type

472. Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals

473. Mighty Lemon Drops - Inside Out

474. Paul Kelly - Before Too Long

475. Lloyd Cole - Perfect Skin

476. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Song from the Edge of the World

477. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

478. INXS - This Time

479. Thompson Twins - Lies

480. Heaven 17 - Fascist Groove Thing

481. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shabby Doll

482. Madness - Our House

483. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains

484. Jerry Harrison - Man with a Gun

485. Missing Persons - Destination Unknown

486. Talk Talk - Life Is What You Make It

487. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

488. Tears for Fears - Mothers Talk

489. Eurythmics - Sisters Are Doing It

490. Real Life - Babies

491. Flesh for Lulu - Postcards from Paradise

492. Dire Straits - Industrial Disease

493. Gene Loves Jezebel - 20 Killer Hertz

494. The Cars - Just What I Needed

495. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

496. INXS - Listen Like Thieves

497. Shona Laing - Glad I'm Not a Kennedy

498. Paul Young - Love of the Common People

499. Book of Love - You Make Me Feel

500. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Waiting for the End