Top 106.7 KROQ Songs in the Year
1987

Rank Band Song
1 Cure Just Like Heaven
2 Smiths Girlfriend in a Coma
3 Depeche Mode Strangelove
4 Echo and the Bunnymen Lips Like Sugar
5 Cure Why Can’t I Be You
6 INXS Need You Tonight
7 XTC Dear God
8 New Order True Faith
9 U2 With or Without You
10 Depeche Mode Never Let Me Down Again
11 R.E.M. The One I Love
12 Bangles Hazy Shade of Winter
13 Love and Rockets No New Tale to Tell
14 U2 Where the Streets Have No Name
15 Gene Loves Jezebel The Motion of Love
16 Smiths Is It Really So Strange
17 Pet Shop Boys Rent
18 U2 Sweetest Thing
19 Depeche Mode Behind the Wheel
20 Alarm Rain in the Summertime
21 Bolshoi Please
22 Oingo Boingo We Close Our Eyes
23 Gene Loves Jezebel 20 Killer Hurts
24 Smiths Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
25 Public Image Limited Rules and Regulations
26 U2 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
27 Pet Shop Boys It’s a Sin
28 Icehouse Crazy
29 Faith No More We Care a Lot
30 Replacements Alex Chilton
31 Squeeze Hourglass
32 Dramarama It’s Still Warm
33 Siouxsie and the Banshees The Passenger
34 Cult Love Removal Machine
35 Private Domain with Pato Banton Absolute Perfection
36 Damned Alone Again Or
37 Oingo Boingo Not My Slave
38 Psychedelic Furs Heartbreak Beat
39 New Order Bizarre Love Triangle
40 X Fourth of July
41 Smiths I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish
42 U2 Bullet the Blue Sky
43 Tonio K I'm Supposed to Have Sex With You
44 Duran Duran Skin Trade
45 David Bowie Time Will Crawl
46 Pet Shop Boys What Have I Done to Deserve This
47 Dukes of Stratosphere Vanishing Girl
48 Cult Wild Flower
49 Erasure Victim of Love
50 U2 Silver and Gold
51 Beastie Boys Fight for Your Right to Party
52 Stranglers Always the Sun
53 Sting We’ll Be Together
54 David Bowie Never Let Me Down
55 Psychedelic Furs Shock
56 Cure Hot Hot Hot
57 World Party Private Revolution
58 Echo and the Bunnymen People Are Strange
59 Billy Idol Mony Mony (Live)
60 R.E.M. End of the World
61 Oingo Boingo Elevator Man
62 ABC When Smokey Sings
63 Icicle Works Understanding Jane
64 Billy Idol Sweet 16
65 Pseudo Echo Living in a Dream
66 Cars You Are the Girl
67 Public Image Limited Seattle
68 U2 In God’s Country
69 Gene Loves Jezebel Desire
70 Duran Duran Meet El Presidente
71 Lions & Ghosts Contradiction
72 Flesh for Lulu I Go Crazy
73 Love and Rockets All in My Mind
74 Erasure Sometimes
75 Jon Astley Jane’s Getting Serious
76 Bryan Ferry The Right Stuff
77 Smiths Ask
78 Echo and the Bunnymen New Direction
79 Oingo Boingo Pain
80 Siouxsie and the Banshees Wheels on Fire
81 Los Lobos La Bamba
82 Smiths Panic
83 INXS with Jimmy Barnes Good Times
84 OMD We Love You
85 Flesh for Lulu Siamese Twist
86 Sisters of Mercy This Corrosion
87 U2 Spanish Eyes
88 David Bowie 87 and Cry
89 The The Infected
90 Gary Numan Radio Heart
91 Cruzados Bed of Lies
92 Jesus and Mary Chain Happy When it Rains
93 Talking Heads Love for Sale
94 Mick Jagger Throw Away
95 Dramarama Anything, Anything
96 Squeeze Trust Me to Open My Mouth
97 Smiths Shoplifters of the World Unite
98 Bangles Walkin’ Down Your Street
99 Cult Lil’ Devil
100 Private Domain Don’t Need That Much
101 Fixx Don’t Be Scared
102 Love and Rockets Ball of Confusion
103 Silencers I See Red
104 Killing Joke Sanity
105 Walk the Moon Daddy’s Coming Home
106 Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper Elvis is Everywhere
106.7 Swinging Erudites Walk with an Erection