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I have found the WLIR top 100 songs of 1987 list on a few sites, but all are missing the name of the song that came in at #99. I'm hoping to complete the playlist for my favorite year in music. Does anyone recall what song was #99?

Suzanne Vega "Luka"

rewind wrote:Suzanne Vega "Luka"

The list I've been using has "Luka" as #98.

1. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You
2. Depeche Mode - Strangelove
3. U2 - With or Without You
4. New Order - True Faith
5. INXS - Need You Tonight
6. The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
7. Echo and the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
8. The Replacements - Alex Chilton
9. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
10. Public Image Limited - Seattle
11. XTC - Dear God
12. U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
13. R.E.M. - It's the End of the World as We Know It
14. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
15. When in Rome - The Promise
16. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
17. The Cure - Hot! Hot! Hot!
18. Love and Rockets - No New Tale to Tell
19. U2 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
20. Thrashing Doves - Jesus on the Payroll
21. Public Image Limited - The Body
22. Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy
23. Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
24. The Smiths - Panic
25. U2 - The Sweetest hing
26. INXS - New Sensation
27. The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait
28. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel
29. New Order - 1963
30. Gene Loves Jezebel - The Motion of Love
31. R.E.M. - The One I Love
32. Love and Rockets - All in My Mind
33. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Song from the Edge of the World
34. The Cure - Catch
35. U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
36. Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
37. Echo and the Bunnymen - New Direction
38. The Smiths - A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours
39. Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
40. Faith No More - We Care a Lot
41. Sting - We'll Be Together
42. The Ramones - I Wanna Live
43. David Bowie - Never Let Me Down
44. U2 - In God's Country
45. Depeche Mode - Pleasure Little Treasure
46. The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
47. New Order - Touched by the Hand of God
48. The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow
49. Squeeze - Hourglass
50. Camouflage - The Great Commandment
51. Love and Rockets - Lazy
52. Public Image Limited - Open and Revolving
53. M/A/R/R/S - Pump up the Volume
54. INXS - Kick
55. Elvis Costello - From Head to Toe
56. Shona Laing - Glad I'm Not a Kennedy
57. Belouis Some - Animal Magic
58. The Cure - One More Time
59. The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime
60. U2 - One Tree Hill
61. Aztec Camera - Deep and Wide and Tall
62. Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World
63. The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World Unite
64. U2 - Trip Through Your Wires
65. Love and Rockets - Mirror People
66. Alison Moyet - Weak in the Presence of Beauty
67. R.E.M. - Finest Worksong
68. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Passenger
69. Erasure - Victim of Love
70. The Cure - How Beautiful You Are
71. Los Lobos - La Bamba
72. Gene Loves Jezebel - 20 Killer Hurts
73. Pet Shop Boys - Heart
74. The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
75. Echo and the Bunnymen - Rollercoaster
76. Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory
77. INXS - Devil Inside
78. The Fall - Hit the North
79. Public Image Limited - Rules and Regulations
80. Depeche Mode - Sacred
81. Kissing The Pink - Certain Things are Likely
82. Nena Hagen and Lene Lovich - Don't Kill the Animals
83. U2 - Spanish Eyes
84. The Cult - Love Removal Machine
85. The Smiths - Half a Person
86. The Stranglers - Always the Sun
87. The The - Infected
88. T'Pau - Heart and Soul
89. Jon Astley - Jane's Getting Serious
90. Bryan Ferry - The Right Stuff
91. The Smiths - Is It Really So Strange?
92. Simply Red - The Right Thing
93. Wire - Ahead
94. Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka
95. U2 - Silver and Gold
96. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When it Rains
97. They Might Be Giants - Don't Lets Start
98. Suzanne Vega - Luka
99. ?
100. Tonio K - I'm Supposed to Have Sex With You

Actually at #98 is Pet Shop Boys "Always On My Mind" (which seems to be omitted from your list). Suzanne Vega definitely is at #99.

I have the authentic original studio list!

rewind wrote:Actually at #98 is Pet Shop Boys "Always On My Mind" (which seems to be omitted from your list). Suzanne Vega definitely is at #99.

I have the authentic original studio list!

Awesome! Thank you! I now have a complete 1987 playlist.

Do you have other WLIR/WDRE song lists? So far I've found the Top 100 of 87 and 88, top 200 of the 80s, top 300 at the end of 99, and the list of Screamers and Shrieks. It's been fun tracking down all the songs.