| # | Artist | Single |
|---|
| 1 | R.E.M. | Superman |
| 2 | The Rainmakers | Government Cheese |
| 3 | Suzanne Vega | Left of Center |
| 4 | The Smiths | Frankly, Mr. Shankly |
| 5 | The Nails | Things You Left Behind |
| 6 | Paul Simon | Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes |
| 7 | David + David | Welcome to the Boomtown |
| 8 | UB40 | Sing Our Own Song |
| 9 | David Bowie | Underground |
| 10 | The Phones | Psycho |
| 11 | Laurie Anderson | Language Is a Virus |
| 12 | Translator | Ronnie Raygun Blues |
| 13 | The Special Guests | Cezanne |
| 14 | Uncle Bonsai | Cheerleader on Drugs |
| 15 | The Smithereens | In a Lonely Place |
| 16 | Joe Jackson | Soul Kiss |
| 17 | The Costello Show | Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood |
| 18 | Ramones | Bonzo Goes to Bitburg |
| 19 | Pogues | A Pair of Brown Eyes |
| 20 | Jane Siberry | 7 Steps to the Wall |
| 21 | BoDeans | Fadeaway |
| 22 | 54.40 | Go Blind |
| 23 | The Suburbs | Number 9 |
| 24 | Timbuk 3 | The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades |
| 25 | Peter Case | Steel Strings |
| 26 | Bruce Cockburn | Call It Democracy |
| 27 | The Pontiac Brothers | Brown Eyed Woman |
| 28 | The Johnsons | Sylvia Plath |
| 29 | Iggy Pop | Real Wild Child |
| 30 | R.E.M. | Cuyahoga |
| 31 | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Southern |
| 32 | Raymond Cushing | Stop Trading with South Africa |
| 33 | Watt’s Bald Head | Suitcase |
| 34 | Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth | It’ll All End Up in Tears |
| 35 | Hindu Love Gods | Narrator |
| 36 | Billy Bragg | Ideology |
| 37 | Martha Davis & Sly Stone | Love and Affection |
| 38 | Meat Puppets | Good Golly Miss Molly |
| 39 | Agent Orange | I Kill Spies |
| 40 | The Smiths | Bigmouth Strikes Again |
| 41 | Dead Milkmen | The Thing That Only Eats Hippies |
| 42 | The B-52’s | Wig |
| 43 | Latin Quarter | Radio Africa |
| 44 | Stan Ridgway | Drive, She Said |
| 45 | Phil Alvin | Someone Stole Gabriel’s Horn |
| 46 | The Chameleons | John, I’m Only Dancing |
| 47 | Modern English | Ink and Paper |
| 48 | Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Honey Are You Straight or Are You Blind? |
| 49 | Southside Johnny & the Jukes | Lorraine |
| 50 | Trip Shakespeare | Stop the Winter |
| 51 | Regular Guys | Framed |
| 52 | Tonio K | You Will Go Free |
| 53 | The Lucy Show | A Million Things |
| 54 | Sting | I Been Down So Long |
| 55 | Peter Gabriel | In Your Eyes |
| 56 | The Dream Syndicate | Slide Away |
| 57 | Van Morrison | Ivory Tower |
| 58 | Peter Stampfel | Drink American |
| 59 | Game Theory | Regenisraen |
| 60 | The Waterboys | Whole of the Moon |
| 61 | The Replacements | Swingin Party |
| 62 | Tom Paxton | Yuppies in the Sky |
| 63 | New Age Urban Squirrels | Get Down |
| 64 | Talking Heads | Puzzlin’ Evidence |
| 65 | Bob Dylan | You Wanna Ramble |
| 66 | Bim Skala Bim | Solitary Confinement |
| 67 | Timbuk 3 | Just Another Movie |
| 68 | Jimmy Cliff & Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Seven-Day Weekend |
| 69 | Classic Ruins | I Can’t Spell Romance |
| 70 | The Wallets | Vietnamese Cowboy |
| 71 | Bangles | Walk Like an Egyptian |
| 72 | Brian Setzer | Maria |
| 73 | Love and Rockets | Kundalini Express |
| 74 | Roy Buchanan | You Can’t Judge a Book |
| 75 | The Housemartins | Happy Hour |
| 76 | David + David | Swallowed by the Cracks |
| 77 | Jennifer Warnes | First We Take Manhattan |
| 78 | APB | Best of Our Love |
| 79 | Joady Guthrie | Fashionable Cynicism |
| 80 | Gil Scott-Heron | Johannesburg |
| 81 | Evan Johns and the H-Bombs | Love Is Murder |
| 82 | The Bolshoi | Modern Man |
| 83 | Shriekback | Gunning for the Buddha |
| 84 | Double | Captain of Your Heart |
| 85 | Ben Sidran | Space Cowboy |
| 86 | The Balancing Act | The Neighborhood Phrenologist |
| 87 | Chris Hickey | Man of Principle |
| 88 | World Party | Ship of Fools |