3 on the pop singles chart, but Billy Idol's 1987 live version went all the way to No.

Dance parties just weren’t the same before Lady Gaga took the music industry by storm with “Just Dance,” the debut single off of 2008’s The omnisexual twirls and splits Prince busts in the official video for this sleek 1986 jam might convert the most hardened disbeliever, but honestly, he had us at the tingly guitar licks, the tighter-than-a-duck’s-ass beat and the instantly memorable chorus: “You don’t have to be rich to be my girl / You don’t have to be cool to rule my world.” You don’t believe him, of course—but you want to.

Then: “Life is a mystery / Everyone must stand alone / I hear you call my name / And it feels like…”—wait for it—“Home.” And lo, the drumbeat kicks in and we’re thrust right into the chorus. The sexy, flirtatious, slightly leering lyrics made it a popular party singalong as well.Surf guitar is clearly present, but it is the drum track on the instrumental classic "It is difficult to understand exactly how a disco song that celebrates men hanging out with men at the YMCA turned into an all-purpose massive crowd celebratory singalong, but that is what happened to the Village People's hit single "YMCA."

Try another? It doesn’t matter whether it seems unattainable or even downright crazy. Now tell me baby, do you like it like this?” You want more?

"Brown Eyed Girl" has been inducted into the Grammy Awards Hall of Fame. What kind of life would be music to your ears? (Oh, oh, oh! Because they are hesitant to plunge into the unknown, they believe their only option is to stay put where they are in life. Avoid overheating your brain on conundrums like this by just turning your stereo up really loud, hitching up your low-slung trousers and throwing some shapes.—Naughty by Nature’s hits have become a bit of an inside joke as of late, childhood memories of repetitively watching “Hip Hop Hooray” on MTV surging back into contemporary existence. But the Scottish revivalists have a much poppier sensibility, and this 2004 track is a hook-laden toe tapper, sure to entice even your snootiest “I don’t dance” friend onto the dance floor.Britpop’s foremost ambassadors changed their tune—quite literally—with their self-titled 1997 LP, embracing the crunchy guitars and lo-fi ethos of American grunge and indie rock that frontman Damon Albarn had once railed against. The monologue is just so cool.After we go to the bathroom, can we go smoke a cigarette?This is just a lovely idea to suck on the lollipop haha!This just speaks our minds when we want some slack time.The original Katy Perry version is nice, but I’d also recommend you to try the Chipette version!You’re up then you’re down You’re wrong when it’s right It’s black and it’s whiteI can’t even remember other lyrics in the song besides Dub-I-Dub. “I could use just a little help.” (Use this Weirdly enough, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was originally written by a dude, Robert Hazard, and sung from the perspective of a girl-crazy badboy. Tommy James succeeded in creating one of the most successful party rock songs of all time.Deee-Lite had only one major pop hit, but "Groove Is in the Heart is a monster. Of course it’s “can’t touch this”!Ladies and gentlemen, just a list of ladies in his life, okay? The threesome (with a little help from ringers Q-Tip, Maceo Parker and Bootsy Collins) come up with “Groove Is in the Heart,” a sweetly innocent percolator of a tune that, against all odds, becomes the worldwide club smash of 1990. Add in a dollop of worldwide scandal, objections from the Vatican and the sickest gospel coda ever to feature in a pop song—and you have the greatest party song ever recorded. But its brash beat would whip a dance floor into frenzied energy anywhere in the world.“I could learn to like this,” Janet Jackson breathily announces over the hammer-blow beat of the second single from 1986’s The Beastie Boys' breakout hit was originally meant to poke fun at the drunk antics of meathead party boys, but it ultimately became one of the outfit's best-known anthems. These folks don’t need to stifle you any longer (although they often still do) because your inner critic does it for them.