1. Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles 1/3 for 2 weeks
2. Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott 1/17 for 1 week
3. At This Moment - Billy Vera & The Beaters 1/24 for 2 weeks
4. Open Your Heart - Madonna 2/7 for 1 week
5. Livin' On a Prayer - Bon Jovi 2/14 for 4 weeks
6. Jacob's Ladder - Huey Lewis & The News 3/14 for 1 week
7. Lean On Me - Club Nouveau 3/21 for 2 weeks
8. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship 4/4 for 2 weeks
9. I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) - Aretha Franklin & George Michael 4/18 for 2 weeks
10. (I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew 5/2 for 2 weeks
11. With Or Without You - U2 5/16 for 3 weeks
12. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Kim Wilde 6/6 for 1 week
13. Always - Atlantic Starr 6/13 for 1 week
14. Head To Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 6/20 for 1 week
15. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston 6/27 for 2 weeks
16. Alone - Heart 7/11 for 3 weeks
17. Shakedown - Bob Seger 8/1 for 1 week
18. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 8/8 for 2 weeks
19. Who's That Girl? - Madonna 8/22 for 1 week
20. La Bamba - Los Lobos 8/29 for 3 weeks
21. I Just Can't Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson 9/19 for 1 week
22. Didn't We Almost have It All - Whitney Houston 9/26 for 2 weeks
23. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake 10/10 for 1 week
24. Lost In Emotion - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 10/17 for 1 week
25. Bad - Michael Jackson 10/24 for 2 weeks
26. I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany 11/7 for 2 weeks
27. Mony Mony "Live" - Billy Idol 11/21 for 1 week
28. (I've Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes 11/28 for 1 week
29. Heaven Is a Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle 12/5 for 1 week
30. Faith - George Michael 12/12 for 3 weeks

First the "GOOD?" news... **By my count, only 9 of the 30 or less than 1/3 of the #1 songs that year are legitimite and I am being very generous because only three of them are even listenable for me at this point. The two U2 tracks and Gregory Abbott's R&B slowjam. The other six songs I deem legit for varied 'generous' reasons. They are from Bon Jovi, Heart, Atlantic Starr, Whitesnake, George Michael & the 'Dirty Dancing' song.

Faith is a great Pop song but it's not for me. I'm a guy.

"Always" & "Time of My Life' are 'special occasion' songs which is in no way a compliment but at least I can understand how it became a #1 and the songs serve a purpose at weddings, etc.

"Alone", "Prayer" and "Go Again" are songs that the general public still enjoys for the most part. Plus the first two were #1s for 3 weeks or more so they can't be chart flukes.

Now the unbelievably embarassing truth, the bad news...

6 of them are Covers. 4 really bad covers.

The best song our country could produce, or at least the one's we liked the best overall were covers. Ugh. Los Lobos & Club Nouveau both updated a classic for a new generation without insulting the original artist. (1,2)

Did we really need to hear from Kim Wilde again? For a lame Supremes cover no less. Her only song/hit prior was We're the "Kids in America" and she's from England and that was back in '82 ????????!!!!!!????? (sigh, 3)

Huey Lewis & Co did a horrendous cover to a Bruce Hornsby song that sounds much better when BH plays on it the piano. (4)

And Tiffany and Billy Idol should be shot for what they both did to 2 Tommy James & The Shondells songs. Billy's 'live' version was never played. For more info about the story.. go to http://hubpages.com/hub/The-250-Greatest-80s-New-Wave-Songs-of-All-Time

2 awful songs each from...

Madonna, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and.....LIsa Lisa & Cult Jam? eeesh. Arguably Madonna's two worst songs too. AND another #1 for George Michael for the hideously unlistenable duet with Aretha. Pop stars get to meet their heroes and all we get are the awful songs.

Belinda Carlisle should know better but was deperate for a solo hit. But Shame on the The Bangles who didn't need the hit. Extra shame on Grace Slick who killed any credibility she had left. BUT MASSIVE SHAME on Bob Seger who records the worst record of his life just to cash in on a soundtrack to an Eddie Murphy Sequel? BBLLLaaaachhhht!

and finally CUTTING CREW & BILLY VERA. Rock n Roll was so very dead.