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Queen - I Want It All (1989)

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"I Want It All" is a song by English rock band Queen, featured on their 1989 thirteenth studio album The Miracle. Written by guitarist and backing vocalist Brian May (but credited to Queen) and produced by David Richards, the song was released as the lead single from the album on 2 May 1989. " I Want It All " reached number three on both the UK Singles Chart and the American Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one in other European territories, including Spain, where Los 40 Principales regularly played the song during the month of July 1989. Read more about song

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere (1985)

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" Road to Nowhere " is a song by Talking Heads, from the 1985 album Little Creatures. It also appeared on Best of Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, the Once in a Lifetime box set and the Brick box set. The song was released as a single in 1985 and reached number 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 6 in the British and German singles chart. It also made number 8 on the Dutch Top 40. Read more about song

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (1981)

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" Bette Davis Eyes " is a classic hit song written by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, and made popular by American singer-songwriter Kim Carnes. It spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Billboard's biggest hit of the entire year for 1981. The recording won the 1982 Grammy Awards for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Read more about song

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train (1993)

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"Runaway Train" is a song by American rock band Soul Asylum. It was released in June 1993 as the fourth single from their 1992 album, Grave Dancers Union and became a big success all-around the world in the summer of 1993, it reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, number two on the U.S. Top 40 mainstream and climbed to the top position on the Canadian Singles Chart. The song led Soul Asylum to international status, and helped bring their album, Grave Dancers Union to a multi-platinum level. The track won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1994. Read more about song

Suzanne Vega - Luka (1987)

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" Luka " is a song recorded by Suzanne Vega and released as a single in 1987. It remains her highest-charting hit in the United States, reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Vega also recorded a Spanish-language version of the song, featured on the single. Luka earned Vega nominations at the 1988 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Read more about song

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (1997)

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"Tubthumping" , informally known by its prominent lyric " I Get Knocked Down ", is a song released by the British anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba on 11 August 1997. It was their most successful single, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland and peaked at number six in the United States. It was also used as a theme song for Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. Read more about song

Spin Doctors - Two Princes (1993)

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"Two Princes " is a song by the New York City-based pop rock band Spin Doctors. As a single, it reached #7 in the United States, #2 in Canada, and #3 in the United Kingdom. It was the band's highest-charting single internationally. The song has divided retrospective critical opinion. It was ranked #41 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s"; conversely, it was ranked #21 on Blender magazine's "50 Worst Songs Ever".  Read more about the song

New Radicals - You Get What You Give (1998)

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" You Get What You Give " is a 1998 song by the New Radicals. It was an international hit, the first and most successful single from their album Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too. It reached number 30 on Billboard Hot 100 Airplay in January 1999, number 36 on the overall Hot 100 and number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.[1] It reached number five in the United Kingdom and number one in Canada and New Zealand. It has been played over 1 million times on U.S. radio. This song appeared on the 1999 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 2 (U.S. series) and on the soundtrack album of the 2004 Warner Bros. Movie Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, as well as the Sony Pictures animated movie Surf's Up in 2008 and the movie Click in 2006. Read More about the Song

Billy Idol - White Wedding (1982)

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" White Wedding " is a song by Billy Idol that appeared on his album Billy Idol (1982). Although " The Big 80's: Episode I " of VH1's Pop-Up Video trivia show claims Idol wrote the song to voice his displeasure with his sister's fiancé (who impregnated her before marrying her), on an episode of VH1 Storytellers, Idol claimed that there was never any family resentment towards his sister, and that the song was simply heightened fantasy and nothing more. Read More about song

Joan Osborne - One Of Us (1995)

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"One of Us" is a song written by Eric Bazilian (of The Hooters) and originally released by Joan Osborne. Released in March 1995 on the album Relish and produced by Rick Chertoff, it became a Top 40 hit in November of that year. The song is the theme song for the American television series Joan of Arcadia. Read More about song