I love hip hop but I don’t know a lot of songs all the way through.  This one I do, and the song helped catapult this artist into superstardom.  Who knows where this rapper/actor would be today were it not for this song and how it made him a mainstream force.  Our #6 song released 30 years ago today is It Was a Good Day by Ice Cube.

One of my wife’s all time favorite songs, this is another track that still gets tremendous amounts of airplay everywhere you go.  It is probably this band’s biggest song, and there is just so much positive energy emanating from it, I dare you to not have it ringing in your head all day after listening.  The #6 song released in 1983 is Karma Chameleon by Culture Club.

He’s baaaack, this time with the title track of the album that became – for the longest time – the biggest selling album ever.  This track also redefined what it meant to do a music video, where it could be a mini-movie and tell a full story.  Also, the song (while likely not intended) is still one of the best Halloween songs ever.  Dropping in at #7 is Thriller by Michael Jackson.

Come on…I know you don’t want to…but try as you might, as soon as you hear this song, you’re going to want to move your head sideways.  Lots of songs conjure up multiple images, but sometimes, one song just has one image stuck with it. Yet its popularity today knows no bounds, so much so that this song deserves a place in this countdown, and it arrives at #7.  It’s What is Love by Haddaway.

The grunge era of Nirvana and Pearl Jam helped pave the way for bands like our next entrant.  This band ended up with lots of hits but this song stands out still as probably their best song from their debut album Core.  It’s still played a lot today and sounds just as fresh now as it did back then.  Our #8 1993 song is Plush by Stone Temple Pilots.

We now arrive at the second of two songs I rediscovered after combing back through the tracks, and boy!, was I positively stunned that I missed this one.  This pop goddess indicated she wanted to rule the world when this track first dropped, and she didn’t stop for years.  When I found the track, I weighed it against all other tracks as I reviewed the countdown, and it kept climbing and climbing until it finally rested at #8 – it’s Holiday by Madonna.