Blast from the past

[seabird78]

Yeah, I should be doing something productive, but I've been wanting to do this for days. I'll try to indicate what my taste was at the time, but if I now feel strongly either way about anything I'll add a comment explaining why.


Go to Pop Culture Madness and select the year you became 18. Copy the list and paste it in your journal. Bold the ones you like, strike the ones you dislike, italicize the ones you know but neither like nor dislike and leave the ones you don't know as common text.


1. Grease Megamix - Olivia Newton John & John Travolta
2. Macarena - Los Del Rio I didn't refuse to dance to it, but not my fav.
3. Maria - Ricky Martin
4. California Love - 2Pac
5. Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion I had so many friends who swooned over this.
6. I Believe I Can Fly - R. Kelly Before he was peeing on girls, I thought he was alright. Plus it was in a michael jordan movie and I was a bulls nut at the time.
7. I Finally Found Someone - Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams
8. Be My Lover - La Bouche
9. Champagne Supernova - Oasis
10. Sweet Dreams - La Bouche
11. Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel She makes me indifferent
12. Missing - Everything But The Girl
13. Ready To Go - Republica
14. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan If this is the one i'm thinking of, it was way too sappy.
15. Last Night - Az Yet
16. Tha Crossroads - Bone thugs-n-harmony
17. Stayin' Alive - N-Trance Not bad for dancin but otherwise, eh.
18. Only You - 112
19. (Party Time) You'll Be Mine - Gloria Estefan
20. Wonderwall - Oasis
21. Killing Me Softly - Fugees
22. Betcha By Golly Wow - Prince I ignored prince during his symbol phase
23. Get Together - Big Mountain
24. Daughter - Pearl Jam It was grunge, but it was also pearl jam. feh.
25. Satellite - Dave Matthews Band
26. Name - Goo Goo Dolls
27. No Diggity - BLACKstreet I think I owned one of their albums because of this single. What was I thinking?
28. Set U Free - Planet Soul
29. Just A Girl - No Doubt
30. My Maria - Brooks & Dunn
31. Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
32. Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette
33. Ain't Nobody - Faith Evans
34. Jealousy - Natalie Merchant
35. I Remember - Boyz II Men
36. Wonder - Natalie Merchant
37. Aeroplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers
38. Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
39. What I Got - Sublime
40. Don't Speak - No Doubt I hated the video, hence I disliked the song.
41. C'Mon Ride The Train - Quad City DJ's
42. The World I Know - Collective Soul
43. That Girl - Maxi Priest
44. One Of Us - Joan Osborne
45. Closer To Free - BoDeans
46. Where It's At - Beck
47. Change The World - Eric Clapton
48. Blue - LeAnn Rimes
49. Spiderwebs - No Doubt In hindsight, this one doesn't hold up.
50. Too Much - Dave Matthews Band
51. Forever - Mariah Carey
52. Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
53. Stupid Girl - Garbage
54. Oh Virginia - Blessid Union Of Souls
55. Ironic - Alanis Morissette
56. Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage
57. Reach - Gloria Estefan
58. Caught A Lite Sneeze - Tori Amos
59. 1,2,3,4 (Sumpin New) - Coolio
60. Heartspeak Dollarsign - Everclear
61. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
62. Pepper - Butthole Surfers I saw them live that year, I think!
63. DJ Girl - Katalina
64. I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis
65. Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey
66. No Woman No Cry - Fugees
67. Flood - Jars Of Clay
68. The Distance - Cake
69. Old Man and Me - Hootie and the Blowfish
70. So Much To Say - Dave Matthews Band I blame it on the influence of the marquette kids I was around at the time.
71. Time - Hootie and the Blowfish
72. Whoever You Are - Geggy Tah
73. Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
74. You Learn - Alanis Morissette
75. Counting Blue Cars -Dishwalla

Comments

[mdatl.livejournal.com]

God, you make me feel old, child.

How did you do this? What's the link/URL? I went to a site called Pop Culture Madness but couldn't figure out the next step.

[mdatl.livejournal.com]

Just figured it out, I think--never mind.

Since I don't use my own LJ space, I'll just briefly comment on a few. The year in question, by the way, is '86.

1. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne & Friends--I sympathize with the impetus, but gaw, it's sappy.
5. Living In America - James Brown--We knew you when, JB.
10. You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi--The funnest of their trash.
11. Higher Love - Steve Winwood--Could live the rest of my life without hearing it again.
13. Greatest Love Of All - Whitney Houston--I knew she sang treacle, even before The Bodyguard.
15. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel--Do I still like this more for the video than the song? No, I don't think so.
21. Word Up - Cameo--Yeah, baby!
26. Dancing On The Ceiling - Lionel Richie--When I felt cynical (often), I referred to this as "Hanging from the Ceiling."
30. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco--A friend of mine actually bought Falco 3. Bought!
31. I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz--Holds up well.
34. Crush On You - The Jets--Anything by the Jets or by Debarge can kiss my ass.
38. R.O.C.K. In The USA - John "Cougar" Melloncamp--From 50s nostalgia to singin' for Ford. OK, I still like this. Had Scarecrow like the rest of 'em.
42. I'm Your Man - Wham!--Yeah! My one favorite Wham! song. I wanna do this at karaoke sometime.
48. Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung--Never knew "wang chung" was a verb until this one.
63. Sex As A Weapon - Pat Benatar--Big mistake, Pat; you were a fine, gutsy rocker until you got serious.
64. Superbowl Shuffle - Chicago Bears--Bring back the Fridge!!

God, pop music was dismal. Still is, overall.

[seabird78.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to make you feel old. But you actually made me jealous, because you would have been old enough to appreciate the early 90's stuff when it was just breaking through, unlike me who didn't discover it until after Cobain died. As for your selections...I have some comments on them as well.

1. I remember my class (probably fourth grade) had to sing this as a group for some sort of performance that we invited parents to. We stood in a large mass, slung arms around each other's shoulders, and swayed back and forth. I'm sure it was horribly off-key.
5. Makes me think of the Rocky movie with the evil russian. Then again, Rocky has been on the brain lately.
10. This will always be a karaoke classic.
15. I remember liking the video because I knew there was something dirty about it but didn't quite comprehend the innuendo.
34. Shameful admission: I created a dance sequence to this in my backyard with some other girls. Lots of pantomime and pointing for the "on you" line.
38. There was a copy of Scarecrow around my house when this came out. It got heavy rotation on our stereo, and I remember sitting on the couch with the liner notes following the lyrics as the songs played.
42. I might hold you to your karaoke desire if we can find some while AWP is happening.
63. I like Benatar, but I don't think I remember this one.

[ladysankofa.livejournal.com]

Like Michael, I couldn't figure it out, either.
Unlike Michael, I still haven't been able to figure it out.

If anyone cares to help an old fart figure out how to get to the right place to do this, it would be most appreciated

[seabird78.livejournal.com]

I'll try to explain. Go to popculturemadness.com, and hover your mouse over the link called Pop Music. A string of decades will appear on the line below the link, and you need to click on the one in which the date you turned 18 falls. This will take you to a new page where on the left side, you'll see links to the hits for each year. Click your year, and voila, you'll have your list. Let me know how this turns out, I'd love to see your results! Always so interesting to learn people's taste in music.

[claudine3000.livejournal.com]

1996 I was really into alternative rock and punk rock and R&B and dance, I loved listening to late nights on a Connecciccut (sp) radio station that did interviews with famous rock stars. The host, Tom Calderone, now is the president of VH1.

I'll just pick my favorites. I turned 18 in 2001:

Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Pink, Lil Kim, and Mya
Get The Party Started - Pink
Bootylicious - Destiny's Child
Pop - N Sync
Fallin' - Alicia Keys

I felt too old by that time and didn't like a lot of pop songs from that year.

[seabird78.livejournal.com]

Pink is the best! And I just realized that you were turning 18 the year I got my bachelor's degree.