In which we continue with 29-20, and learn that I am most definitely not a music snob.
29.
You'll Accompany Me, Bob Seger - I remember when my parents upgraded our stereo system in 1982 or 1983 to one lacking an eight-track player (boooooooo) and my dad playing Bob Seger on the new turntable. This song will always remind me of the smell of new speakers (it's a good smell, I promise)...and all the really awesome Smurf toys my parents bought me that day. This is the important content you guys come here for, I know.
28. Every Little Step, Bobby Brown - My go-to karaoke song. No, really.
27. Dancing With Myself, Billy Idol - This is basically the equivalent of musical caffeine. Also known as a waker-upper.
26. Crazy For You, Madonna - This is one of six songs on this list from spring 1985 (five were in the May 25, 1985 countdown, maybe my most favorite AT40 ever - it includes the crazy "I dated a firefighter who was secretly married while he was dating me, but I married him anyway" Long Distance Dedication), which pretty much rivals only summer 1984 for "greatest musical season of the 80s" in my mind. It's my favorite Madonna song, and my wish for, like, the past five years was to use this song in a YA book I envisioned set in the 80s when one character realizes she has feelings for another...and then GLOW (you know, that show you should all be watching) went and did preeeeeetty much the same thing, and I can't even be mad, because it was perfect (every music cue on that show is perfect, but I digress).
25. Dancing In the Dark, Bruce Springsteen - Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone thinks this is one of Bruce's weakest songs, but it's summer 84, you're 7, this song is on the radio all the time (along with When Doves Cry and Ghostbusters), and Bruce lives two towns over (seriously, a celebrity you've known about since basically birth thinking your area is cool enough to live in is really exciting to a kid), and you sometimes pass his house on the way to the beach. This song, therefore, IS summer and I can never hate on it. Especially since as an adult, "I'm sick of sittin' 'round here tryin' to write this book" has become one of my go-to lines when fed up with trying to, uh, write any book.
24. Goody Two Shoes, Adam Ant - I remember watching this video when I was like, 6, and being like "I don't know what's going on, but being a grown-up in England seems fun?" This is also one of the best walking songs, which I'm sure is exactly what Adam Ant was going for.
23. And We Danced, the Hooters - This song is the musical version of a natural high. Also known as instant-good-mood-putter.
22. Alone, Heart - One of the definitive 80s power ballads, one of the "never skip" songs when it comes up on shuffle. Ann Wilson's voice is just SICK.
21. Dance Hall Days, Wang Chung - Another song from summer 1984, and another "no-skip" song. I prefer it vastly to Everybody Have Fun Tonight, so there.
20. Tonight, Kool and the Gang
1980s KB: SOLID GOLD RULES! THIS SONG RULES!
21st Century KB: Just wait till you're living in the same city Kool and the Gang originated! And yes to everything above.
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