Top 106.7 KROQ Songs in the Year
1988
| Rank | Band | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Depeche Mode | Route 66 |
| 2 | Bollock Brothers | Harley David |
| 3 | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Peek-A-Boo |
| 4 | U2 | Desire |
| 5 | Morrissey | Every Day is Like Sunday |
| 6 | Midnight Oil | Beds Are Burning |
| 7 | Erasure | Chains of Love |
| 8 | New Order | Touched by the Hand of God |
| 9 | Tone Loc | Wild Thing |
| 10 | INXS | Kick |
| 11 | Maxi Priest | Wild World |
| 12 | Primitives | Crash |
| 13 | Marc Almond | Tears Run Rings |
| 14 | Social Distortion | Prison Bound |
| 15 | Woodentops | Stop This Car |
| 16 | Martini Ranch | Reach |
| 17 | House of Love | Christine |
| 18 | Pet Shop Boys | Always on My Mind |
| 19 | Gene Loves Jezebel | Suspicion |
| 20 | Talking Heads | (Nothing But) Flowers |
| 21 | Midnight Oil | The Dead Heart |
| 22 | Camouflage | The Great Commandment |
| 23 | Robyn Hitchcock | Balloon Man |
| 24 | Oingo Boingo | Cinderella Undercover |
| 25 | Echo and the Bunnymen | Bedbugs and Ballyhoo |
| 26 | Siouxsie and the Banshees | The Killing Jar |
| 27 | Grandmaster Flash | Magic Carpet Ride |
| 28 | Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians | What I Am |
| 29 | Pop Will Eat Itself | There Is No Love Between Us Anymore |
| 30 | R.E.M. | Stand |
| 31 | Escape Club | Wild Wild West |
| 32 | Smithereens | Only a Memory |
| 33 | Pet Shop Boys | Heart |
| 34 | Erasure | Heart of Stone |
| 35 | Danielle Dax | Big Hollow Man |
| 36 | Sugarcubes | Motorcrash |
| 37 | Psychedelic Furs | All That Money Wants |
| 38 | UB40/Chrissie Hynde | Breakfast in Bed |
| 39 | Killing Joke | America |
| 40 | Jerry Harrison | Rev It Up |
| 41 | Screaming Tribesmen | I’ve Got a Feeling |
| 42 | INXS | Devil Inside |
| 43 | OMD | Dreaming |
| 44 | Bangles | In Your Room |
| 45 | Sisters of Mercy | This Corrosion |
| 46 | Julian Cope | Charlotte Anne |
| 47 | Sparks | So Important |
| 48 | Morrissey | Suede Head |
| 49 | Thomas Dolby | Airhead |
| 50 | Johnny Clegg | Take My Heart Away |
| 51 | Eurythmics | I Need a Man |
| 52 | Voice of the Beehive | There’s a Barbarian in the Back of My Car |
| 53 | Duran Duran | I Don’t Want Your Love |
| 54 | Big Audio Dynamite | Just Play Music |
| 55 | Hugh Cornwell | Another Kind of Love |
| 56 | Alarm | Presence of Love |
| 57 | Scritti Politti | Boom There She Was |
| 58 | 10,000 Maniacs | What’s the Matter Here? |
| 59 | Information Society | What’s on Your Mind? |
| 60 | Joe Strummer | Trash City |
| 61 | Icehouse | Electric Blue |
| 62 | Eurythmics | Shame |
| 63 | Ranking Roger | So Excited |
| 64 | Timelords | Doctorin’ the Tardis |
| 65 | Cocteau Twins | Carolyn’s Fingers |
| 66 | U2 | Angel of Harlem |
| 67 | Ramones | I Wanna Be Sedated |
| 68 | Jon Astley | Been There, Done That |
| 69 | Ziggy Marley | Tomorrow People |
| 70 | Jane’s Addiction | Jane Says |
| 71 | Was (Not Was) | Dad I’m in Jail |
| 72 | Cetu Javu | Situations |
| 73 | Devo | Baby Doll |
| 74 | Red Flag | Broken Heart |
| 75 | Love and Rockets | Mirror People |
| 76 | Sinead O’Connor | I Want Your (Hands On Me) |
| 77 | Mighty Lemon Drops | Inside Out |
| 78 | R.E.M. | Orange Crush |
| 79 | Erasure | A Little Respect |
| 80 | Danielle Dax | Cat House |
| 81 | Oingo Boingo | Winning Side |
| 82 | Pogues | Fiesta |
| 83 | Peter Murphy | All Night Long |
| 84 | Jerry Harrison | Man With a Gun |
| 85 | Shona Laing | Glad I’m Not a Kennedy |
| 86 | Living Colour | Glamour Boys |
| 87 | Morrissey | Hairdresser on Fire |
| 88 | Pop Will Eat Itself | Def Con One |
| 89 | Devo | Disco Dancer |
| 90 | Pursuit of Happiness | I’m an Adult Now |
| 91 | Sugarcubes | Delicious Demon |
| 92 | Book of Love | Tubular Bells |
| 93 | Wire | Kidney Bingos |
| 94 | Aswad | Don’t Turn Around |
| 95 | Camper van Beethoven | Turquoise Jewelry |
| 96 | Crowded House | Kill Eye |
| 97 | A House | Call Me Blue |
| 98 | Pixies | Bone Machine |
| 99 | Morrissey | Sister I’m a Poet |
| 100 | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Ornaments of Gold |
| 101 | Transvision Vamp | Tell That Girl to Shutup |
| 102 | Jesus and Mary Chain | Surfin’ USA |
| 103 | Dead or Alive | Turn Around and Count 2 Ten |
| 104 | UB40 | Come Out to Play |
| 105 | Ziggy Marley | Tumblin’ Down |
| 106 | Midnight Oil | Dreamworld |
| 106.7 | Boy John Frost | Mother’s Day |