(Finished June 30th, 2025) Part 2 of The Best Songs From 36 Years Ago: 1989

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I took Billboard’s Hot 100 from 36 years ago and selected the songs I like best. Those songs are the songs on this blog, the numbers indicated where that song was ranked that week.

59) The Cure “Fascination Street”:

56) Milli Vanilli “Girl You Know It’s True”:

52) Real Life “Send Me An Angel”:

The type of songs that will kill the parents and eat the kids. This song is fierce. 51) Martika “Toy Soldiers”:

50) Warrant “Down Boys”:

47) Roxette “The Look”:

For some reason I thought this song was much older. 46) The Doobie Brothers “The Doctor”:

45) Expose “What You Don’t Know”:

44) The Bangles “Be With You”:

43) Samantha Fox “I Only Wanna Be With You”:

42) Stevie Nicks “Rooms On Fire”:

This song is a classic, but it’s more on the side of creepy than romantic. 41) Benny Mardones “Into The Night”:

40) Simply Red “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”:

36) Elvis Costello “Victoria”:

35) Fine Young Cannibals “She Drives Me Crazy”:

34) Tone-Loc “Funky Cold Medina”:

33) Cyndi Lauper “I Drove All Night”:

“You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.” 32) Tom Petty “I Won’t Back Down”:

31) Living Colour “The Cult of Personality”:

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