Top Modern/Alternative Songs of 1989 (2024)

1989

Top Modern/Alternative Songs of 1989
by Alex Cosper

THE B-52's - Love Shack
DEPECHE MODE - Personal Jesus
THE CURE - Love Song
R.E.M. - Stand
U2 - Angel of Harlem
LOVE & ROCKETS - So Alive
TEARS FOR FEARS - Sowing the Seeds of Love
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS - Good Thing
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Higher Ground
XTC - Mayor of Simpleton

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FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS - She Drives Me Crazy
ELVIS COSTELLO - Veronica
U2 - Everlasting Love
EDIE BRICKELL & THE NEW BOHEMIANS - What I Am
NEW ORDER - Round and Round
THE CURE - Fascination Street
THE CULT - Fire Woman
THE PIXIES - Here Comes Your Man
U2 - All I Want Is You
INFORMATION SOCIETY - Walking Away
THE CURE - Lullaby
DURAN DURAN - All She Wants Is
THE REPLACEMENTS - I'll Be You
LENNY KRAVITZ - Let Love Rule
INDIGO GIRLS - Closer To Fine
MICHAEL PENN - No Myth
THE CULT - Edie (Ciao Baby)
HOWARD JONES - Everlasting Love
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Pictures of Matchstick Men
DEPECHE MODE - Everything Counts
COWBOY JUNKIES - Sweet Jane
U2 with B.B. KING - When Love Comes To Town
R.E.M. - Pop Song '89
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS - Don't Look Back
ELECTRONIC - Getting Away With It
INFORMATION SOCIETY - Repetition
LIGHTNING SEEDS - Pure
EURYTHMICS - Don't Ask Me Why
HOWARD JONES - The Prisoner
U2 - God Part II
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
ANIMOTION - Room To Move
THE ALARM - Sold Me Down The River
XYMOX - Imagination
KON KAN - I Beg Your Pardon
MORRISSEY - The Last of The Famous International Playboys
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED - Disappointed
THE REPLACEMENTS - Achin' To Be
THE SMITHEREENS - A Girl Like You
PETER GABRIEL - Shaking The Tree
BEASTIE BOYS - Hey Ladies
TRACY CHAPMAN - Crossroads
U2 - Unchained Melody
XYMOX - Obsession
INFORMATION SOCIETY - Lay All Your Love On Me
THOMPSON TWINS - Sugar Daddy
LENNY KRAVITZ - Mr. Cab Driver
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - The Killing Jar
LOU REED - Dirty Boulevard
THE FIXX - Driven Out
STONE ROSES - I Wanna Be Adored
R.E.M. - Turn You Inside Out
THE PRIMITIVES - Sick of It
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Knock Me Down
SIMPLE MINDS - Belfast Child
R.E.M. - Get Up
JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Blues From a Gun
THE STONE ROSES - Made of Stone
ART OF NOISE with TOM JONES - Kiss
U2 - Dancing Barefoot
10,000 MANIACS - Eat For Two
HOODOO GURUS - Come Any Time
PETER MURPHY - Strange Kind of Love
10,000 MANIACS - Trouble Me
FIGURES ON A BEACH - Accidentally 4th Street
LIVING COLOUR - Cult of Personality
WIRE - Eardrum Buzz
ERASURE - Drama
NEW ORDER - Fine Time
MARC ALMOND - Tears Run Rings
PET SHOP BOYS - Left To My Own Devices
THE DEAD MILKMEN - Punk Rock Girl
THE B-52's - Cosmic Thing
THE OCEAN BLUE - Between Something and Nothing
SIMPLE MINDS - This Is Your Land
XTC - King For a Day
TEXAS - I Don't Want a Lover
THE STONE ROSES - I Wanna Be Adored
THE B-52's - Channel Z
ENYA - Orinocco Flow (Sail Away)
MIDGE URE - Dear God
CHRIS ISAAK - Don't Make Me Dream About You
TOM TOM CLUB - Suboceana
JULIAN COPE - Charlotte Anne
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - I'm an Adult Now
EDIE BRICKELL & THE NEW BOHEMIANS - Little Miss S
THE RAMONES - Pet Sematary
THE THE - The Beaten Generation
JOE JACKSON - Nineteen Forever
THE PIXIES - Monkey Gone To Heaven
SIMPLE MINDS - Kick It In
EDIE BRICKELL & THE NEW BOHEMIANS - Circle
DEBORAH HARRY - I Want That Man
IAN McCULLOCH - Proud To Fall
THE THE - Kingdom of Rain
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - Contact
ROBYN HITCHco*ck & THE EGYPTIANS - Madonna of the Wasps
CONCRETE BLONDE - God is a Bullet
THE GO-BETWEENS - Was There Anything I Could Do?
SQUEEZE - If It's Love
BOB MOULD - See a Little Light
NEW ORDER - Vanishing Point
THE CALL - Let The Day Begin
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED - Warrior
CREATURES - Standing There
ADRIAN BELEW - Oh Daddy
PROCLAIMERS - I'm On The Way
SIMPLE MINDS - Let It All Come Down
STAN RIDGWAY - Goin' Southbound
NEW ORDER - Run 2
THE PRIMITIVES - Sick of It
TEARS FOR FEARS - Year of the Knife
EURYTHMICS - Revival
THE WATERBOYS - Fisherman's Blues
JULIAN COPE - Five O'Clock World
TIN MACHINE - Heaven's In Here
DANIELLE DAX - Cat House
ERASURE - Stop
MARY'S DANISH - Don't Crash The Car Tonight
PSYCHEDELIC FURS - House
JANE'S ADDICTION - Mountain Song
THOMPSON TWINS - Bombers In The Sky
MORRISSEY - Interesting Drug
SYD STRAW - Future 40s (String of Pearls)
BANGLES - Be With You
TRACY CHAPMAN - All That You Have Is Your Soul
THE THE - Kingdom of Rain
PERE UBU - Waiting For Mary
ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS - Who Will Be There
JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Blues From a Gun
LOVE AND ROCKETS - No Big Deal
SUGARCUBES - Regina
FLESH FOR LULU - Plastic Fantastic
THE WATERBOYS - World Party
CONCRETE BLONDE - Happy Birthday
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - Contact
ERASURE - Brother and Sister
THROWING MUSES - Dizzy
TANITA TIKARAM - Twist In My Sobriety
SIMPLE MINDS - Take a Step Back
ELVIS COSTELLO - This Town
THE CULT - Sun King
DURAN DURAN - Do You Believe In Shame
THE POGUES - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
THE THE - Armageddon Days are Here (Again)
THE INNOCENCE MISSION - Black Sheep Wall
KATE BUSH - Love and Anger
THE THE - Gravitate To Me
RICKIE LEE JONES - Satellites
MINISTRY - Burning Inside
MORRISSEY - Ouija Board, Ouija Board
VIOLENT FEMMES - Nightmares
THE STONE ROSES - She Bangs The Drums
GUADALCANAL DIARY - Always Saturday
ANIMOTION - Calling It Love
THE CONNELLS - Something To Say
THE WONDER STUFF - Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More
HOODOO GURUS - Another World
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE - Beat of Love
STAN RIDGWAY - Goin' Southbound
THE REPLACEMENTS - Back To Back
MAX Q - Way of the World
WONDER STUFF - Don't Let Me Down Gently
DAVID BYRNE - Dirty Old Town
DURAN DURAN - Do You Believe in Shame
EDELWEISS - Bring Me Edelweiss
A HOUSE - Call Me Blue
EASTERHOUSE - Come Out Fighting
THE SAINTS - Music Goes Round My Head
JANE'S ADDICTION - Ocean Size
CONCRETE BLONDE - Scene of a Perfect Crime
CAMOUFLAGE - Love Is a Shield
THE STONE ROSES - Fools Gold
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - James Brown
FIREHOUSE - Time With You
PETER MURPHY - The Line Between the Devil's Teeth
HOUSE OF FREAKS - Sun Gone Down
STAN RIDGWAY - Calling Out To Carol
DAVID BYRNE - Make Believe Mambo
SONIC YOUTH - Candle
DEAD OR ALIVE - Come Home With Me Baby
THE GODFATHERS - She Gives Me Love
TIN MACHINE - Under The God
LOU REED - Busload of Faith
10,000 MANIACS - Poison in the Well
FUZZBOX - Self!
BORIS GREBENSHIKOV - Radio Silence
HOODOO GURUS - Axegrinder
THE POGUES - Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
LOVE AND ROCKETS - Motorcycle
SONIC YOUTH - Providence
THRASHING DOVES - Angel Visit
THE PROCLAIMERS - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
THE WATERBOYS - And a Bang On The Ear
FIRE TOWN - The Good Life
LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Making Time
DEAD OR ALIVE - Baby Don't Say Goodbye
FETCHIN BONES - Love Crushing
PET SHOP BOYS - It's Alright
FLESH FOR LULU - Decline and Fall
STAN RIDGWAY - Lonely Town
THE POGUES - White City
C.C.C.P. - United States of Europe
LOU REED - Romeo Had Juliette
CATERWAUL - The Sheep's a Wolf
SONIC YOUTH - Touch Me I'm Sick
SIMPLE MINDS - Mandela Day
MARIA McKEE - I've Forgotten What It Is In You
MIGHTY LEMON DROPS - Into The Heart of Love
OINGO BOINGO - Flesh and Blood
ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS - Look Who's Dancing
THE SAINTS - Grain of Sand
SIDEWINDERS - Witch Doctor

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