Childhood alert again! The second Hall & Oates song to enter this countdown is one I worn out on my mom’s vinyl player. So upbeat, dance-able, it’s hard not to smile when you hear it, and it’s still being used today in commercials and dj parties. Coming in at #3 is You Make My Dreams by Daryl Hall & John Oates.
Boy, talk about a song that has a place with current events. How many quarantine videos have we seen with this song? Also, who old enough to remember this song could forget what this track spawned besides the famous hook? Baggy pants, the shuffle, “Hammer time!” This was one of the biggest songs of the early nineties, hands down, and it still carries on today; even my toddler son loves this song. Hitting #3 in this countdown is U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer.
What could beat out a rock anthem featuring an awesome guitar riff? A tune with an equally awesome bass riff, great production, a very singable chorus, Bootsy Collins, and a track that is still being played today in clubs and parties. When this song hits, everyone still jumps on the dance floor. That’s the power of a great song. Coming in at #4 is Groove is In The Heart by Deee-Lite.
Despite it being on the same 1979 album as Another Brick in the Wall, it wasn’t released as a single until January 4, 1980, thus passing the criteria for making it into this countdown. And boy does this song make an impact even today. It is one of the greatest guitar solos of all time, and the song is still as massive today as it was then. When you can listen to the song and end up singing back both the lyrics and the guitar solos, it’s not to place this at #4 in the countdown – Comfortably Numb by …..more →
We enter the top 5 with a song that is as much important today in its lyrical subject matter as it was back then. At a time when many 70s prog rock bands were dying out, the few that survived into the 80s changed with the times. This song was no different, but even better was it managed to stick to its prog rock roots while having enough crossover appeal in its sound. It is almost a rock masterpiece, lyrically and musically, and it’s the #5 song turning 40 years old, The Spirit of Radio by Rush.
We arrive now at the top 5 songs turning 30 years old, which was very difficult trying to figure out how to place these tracks. The first of these is one of the greatest guitar riffs of the 1990s and the kind of song that will make you go 90 down a 55 if you’re not careful. It also showed the band was not quite done making iconic rock anthems. The #5 song in this countdown is Thunderstruck by AC/DC.