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

[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.