music meme
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anotheranonThis one was too good to pass up:
1. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Bryan Adams
2. I Wanna Sex You Up, Color Me Badd
3. Gonna Make You Sweat, C+C Music Factory fun mainstream dance
4. Rush Rush, Paula Abdul
5. One More Try, Timmy T
6. Unbelievable, EMF lots of fun, took advantage of the Jesus Jones pop dance-rock hybrid
7. More Than Words, Extreme
8. I Like The Way (The Kissing Game), Hi-Five
9. The First Time, Surface
10. Baby, Baby, Amy Grant
11. Motownphilly, Boyz II Men
12. Because I Love You (The Postman Song), Stevie B
13. Someday, Mariah Carey ok, I get it, you have range. Shut up already!
14. High Enough, Damn Yankees
15. From A Distance, Bette Midler
16. All The Man That I Need, Whitney Houston
17. Right Here, Right Now, Jesus Jones This and "Real Real Real" were off their very good album "Doubt", but their first album "Liquidizer" was better. Any of Pop Will Eat Itself's first three albums blow both out of the water, but I didn't know that in high school :P
18. I Adore Mi Amor, Color Me Badd
19. Love Will Never Do (Without You), Janet Jackson
20. Good Vibrations, Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch Featuring Loleatta Holloway I liked Loleatta Holloway's bit
21. Justify My Love, Madonna appropriately shocking to my elders, and the 12" remixes were a good training tool for beatmatching
22. Emotions, Mariah Carey
23. Joyride, Roxette
24. Romantic, Karyn White
25. I Don't Wanna Cry, Mariah Carey
26. Hold You Tight, Tara Kemp
27. You're In Love, Wilson Phillips
28. Every Heartbeat, Amy Grant
29. Sensitivity, Ralph Tresvant
30. Touch Me (All Night Long), Cathy Dennis
31. I've Been Thinking About You, Londonbeat
32. Do Anything, Natural Selection
33. Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
34. Coming Out Of The Dark. Gloria Estefan
35. Here We Go. C+C Music Factory
36. It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over, Lenny Kravitz
37. Where Does My Heart Beat Now, Celine Dion
38. Summertime, D.J. Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
39. Wind Of Change, Scorpions
40. P.A.S.S.I.O.N., Rhythm Syndicate
41. The Promise Of A New Day, Paula Abdul
42. I'm Your Baby Tonight, Whitney Houston
43. Love Of A Lifetime, Firehouse
44. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave), Roxette
45. This House, Tracie Spencer
46. Hole Hearted, Extreme
47. Power Of Love-Love Power, Luther Vandross
48. Impulsive, Wilson Phillips
49. Love Is A Wonderful Thing, Michael Bolton
50. Rhythm Of My Heart, Rod Stewart
51. Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..., C+C Music Factory
52. I Touch Myself, Divinyls
53. Tom's Diner, DMA
54. Iesha, Another Bad Creation
55. Something To Talk About, Bonnie Raitt
56. After The Rain, Nelson
57. Play That Funky Music, Vanilla Ice
58. Temptation, Corina
59. Can't Stop This Thing We Started, Bryan Adams
60. I Can't Wait Another Minute, Hi-Five
61. 3 A.M. Eternal, The KLF yes, oh doG yes! Came around right on the heels of my discovery of 808 State/early 90's techno!
62. Time, Love and Tenderness, Michael Bolton
63. Saideness Part I, Enigma
64. Around The Way Girl, LL Cool J
65. I'll Be There, Escape Club
66. Cream, Prince and The N.P.G.
67. Now That We Found Love, Heavy D. and The Boyz
68. Show Me The Way, Styx
69. Love Takes Time, Mariah Carey
70. Cry For Help, Rick Astley
71. The Way You Do The Things You Do, UB40
72. Here I Am (Come and Take Me), UB40
73. Signs, Tesla
74. Too Many Walls, Cathy Dennis
75. Crazy, Seal first discovered Seal as the vocalist for Adamski's "Killer" single. Adamski should have kept him because his own voice is... well, NOT Seal...
76. I'll Give All My Love To You, Keith Sweat
77. Place In This World, Michael W. Smith
78. Something To Believe In, Poison
79. Wicked Game, Chris Issak
80. Get Here, Oleta Adams
81. Round and Round, Tevin Campbell
82. Silent Lucidity, Queensryche
83. I'm Not In Love, Will To Power
84. Piece Of My Heart, Tara Kemp
85. Real Real Real, Jesus Jones
87. Just Another Dream, Cathy Dennis
88. Everybody Plays The Fool, Aaron Neville
88. Strike It Up, Black Box more pop dance in the C&C M.C. vein, with cheesy gratuitious divage
89. Rico Suave, Gerardo
90. Disappear, INXS
91. Groove Is In The Heart, Deee-Lite my first dress pattern was an attempt to copy Lady Miss Kier's bell sleeved 'do from the video. I think I liked their style more than their sound
92. All This Time, Sting
93. The One and Only, Chesney Hawkes
94. O.P.P., Naughty By Nature
95. Freedom 90, George Michael again, was it the music, or just the stylish video?
96. I Saw Red, Warrent
97. Miles Away, Winger
98. Do You Want Me, Salt-N-Pepa
99. The Motown Song, Rod Stewart
100. Shiny Happy People, R.E.M.
No underlines - so many 12" under the bridge since I graduated that I'd be pressed to say which was my favorite then vs. what is my favorite now.
I don't know many of these because by senior year of high school I'd given up on most top 40 and was feeding off a steady stream of mixtapes from UK penpals. What I remember:
808 State's "Pacific" - got the 7" single for Xmas '89 along with Morrissey's "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" and though it took a couple of hearings, this was the single that destroyed my indie-kid identity forever. I about burned a hole in it until the album came out stateside, and was ached for raves which gratefully started taking off while I was in college.
Shamen "Move Any Mountain" - got the "En-Tact" import cassette (yes! We were still listening to cassettes then) out of curiosity and I remember listening to it in my beat up old Walkman on endless walks around the block.
Happy Mondays "Hallelujah" EP/ Inspiral Carpets "Life" - poisoned by Madchester on a family trip to England the summer between junior and senior years. Pressed these and 808 State on my school friends with an evangelical fervor.
Looking back I notice that often times I wasn't put off so much by the music itself as I was the fans involved - Cure fans seemed just so much cooler than, say, R.E.M. fans who were just a bit too mainstream for my 17 year old music snob tastes, especially when "The One I Love" went top 40 in the late 80s. This cut me off of a lot of stuff I might have liked otherwise.
- Go to musicoutfitters.com
- Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
- Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).
3. Gonna Make You Sweat, C+C Music Factory fun mainstream dance
4. Rush Rush, Paula Abdul
5. One More Try, Timmy T
6. Unbelievable, EMF lots of fun, took advantage of the Jesus Jones pop dance-rock hybrid
8. I Like The Way (The Kissing Game), Hi-Five
9. The First Time, Surface
10. Baby, Baby, Amy Grant
11. Motownphilly, Boyz II Men
12. Because I Love You (The Postman Song), Stevie B
14. High Enough, Damn Yankees
15. From A Distance, Bette Midler
16. All The Man That I Need, Whitney Houston
17. Right Here, Right Now, Jesus Jones This and "Real Real Real" were off their very good album "Doubt", but their first album "Liquidizer" was better. Any of Pop Will Eat Itself's first three albums blow both out of the water, but I didn't know that in high school :P
18. I Adore Mi Amor, Color Me Badd
19. Love Will Never Do (Without You), Janet Jackson
20. Good Vibrations, Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch Featuring Loleatta Holloway I liked Loleatta Holloway's bit
21. Justify My Love, Madonna appropriately shocking to my elders, and the 12" remixes were a good training tool for beatmatching
22. Emotions, Mariah Carey
23. Joyride, Roxette
24. Romantic, Karyn White
25. I Don't Wanna Cry, Mariah Carey
26. Hold You Tight, Tara Kemp
27. You're In Love, Wilson Phillips
28. Every Heartbeat, Amy Grant
29. Sensitivity, Ralph Tresvant
30. Touch Me (All Night Long), Cathy Dennis
31. I've Been Thinking About You, Londonbeat
32. Do Anything, Natural Selection
33. Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
34. Coming Out Of The Dark. Gloria Estefan
35. Here We Go. C+C Music Factory
36. It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over, Lenny Kravitz
37. Where Does My Heart Beat Now, Celine Dion
38. Summertime, D.J. Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
39. Wind Of Change, Scorpions
40. P.A.S.S.I.O.N., Rhythm Syndicate
41. The Promise Of A New Day, Paula Abdul
42. I'm Your Baby Tonight, Whitney Houston
43. Love Of A Lifetime, Firehouse
44. Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave), Roxette
45. This House, Tracie Spencer
46. Hole Hearted, Extreme
47. Power Of Love-Love Power, Luther Vandross
48. Impulsive, Wilson Phillips
49. Love Is A Wonderful Thing, Michael Bolton
50. Rhythm Of My Heart, Rod Stewart
51. Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..., C+C Music Factory
52. I Touch Myself, Divinyls
53. Tom's Diner, DMA
54. Iesha, Another Bad Creation
55. Something To Talk About, Bonnie Raitt
56. After The Rain, Nelson
58. Temptation, Corina
59. Can't Stop This Thing We Started, Bryan Adams
60. I Can't Wait Another Minute, Hi-Five
61. 3 A.M. Eternal, The KLF yes, oh doG yes! Came around right on the heels of my discovery of 808 State/early 90's techno!
62. Time, Love and Tenderness, Michael Bolton
63. Saideness Part I, Enigma
64. Around The Way Girl, LL Cool J
65. I'll Be There, Escape Club
66. Cream, Prince and The N.P.G.
67. Now That We Found Love, Heavy D. and The Boyz
68. Show Me The Way, Styx
69. Love Takes Time, Mariah Carey
70. Cry For Help, Rick Astley
71. The Way You Do The Things You Do, UB40
72. Here I Am (Come and Take Me), UB40
73. Signs, Tesla
74. Too Many Walls, Cathy Dennis
75. Crazy, Seal first discovered Seal as the vocalist for Adamski's "Killer" single. Adamski should have kept him because his own voice is... well, NOT Seal...
76. I'll Give All My Love To You, Keith Sweat
77. Place In This World, Michael W. Smith
78. Something To Believe In, Poison
79. Wicked Game, Chris Issak
80. Get Here, Oleta Adams
81. Round and Round, Tevin Campbell
82. Silent Lucidity, Queensryche
83. I'm Not In Love, Will To Power
84. Piece Of My Heart, Tara Kemp
85. Real Real Real, Jesus Jones
87. Just Another Dream, Cathy Dennis
88. Everybody Plays The Fool, Aaron Neville
88. Strike It Up, Black Box more pop dance in the C&C M.C. vein, with cheesy gratuitious divage
89. Rico Suave, Gerardo
90. Disappear, INXS
91. Groove Is In The Heart, Deee-Lite my first dress pattern was an attempt to copy Lady Miss Kier's bell sleeved 'do from the video. I think I liked their style more than their sound
92. All This Time, Sting
93. The One and Only, Chesney Hawkes
94. O.P.P., Naughty By Nature
95. Freedom 90, George Michael again, was it the music, or just the stylish video?
96. I Saw Red, Warrent
97. Miles Away, Winger
98. Do You Want Me, Salt-N-Pepa
99. The Motown Song, Rod Stewart
100. Shiny Happy People, R.E.M.
No underlines - so many 12" under the bridge since I graduated that I'd be pressed to say which was my favorite then vs. what is my favorite now.
I don't know many of these because by senior year of high school I'd given up on most top 40 and was feeding off a steady stream of mixtapes from UK penpals. What I remember:
808 State's "Pacific" - got the 7" single for Xmas '89 along with Morrissey's "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" and though it took a couple of hearings, this was the single that destroyed my indie-kid identity forever. I about burned a hole in it until the album came out stateside, and was ached for raves which gratefully started taking off while I was in college.
Shamen "Move Any Mountain" - got the "En-Tact" import cassette (yes! We were still listening to cassettes then) out of curiosity and I remember listening to it in my beat up old Walkman on endless walks around the block.
Happy Mondays "Hallelujah" EP/ Inspiral Carpets "Life" - poisoned by Madchester on a family trip to England the summer between junior and senior years. Pressed these and 808 State on my school friends with an evangelical fervor.
Looking back I notice that often times I wasn't put off so much by the music itself as I was the fans involved - Cure fans seemed just so much cooler than, say, R.E.M. fans who were just a bit too mainstream for my 17 year old music snob tastes, especially when "The One I Love" went top 40 in the late 80s. This cut me off of a lot of stuff I might have liked otherwise.
