MEME: Greatest Hits @ 18
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Go to Pop Culture Madness and select the year you became 18. Snip the best 50 songs from the list and paste it in your journal. Bold the ones you like and strike the ones you dislike, italic the ones you know but don't like nor dislike and the ones you don't know will stay common text.
OK so it's 1991 - a fairly shit year from music (don't agree? Two words for you: Bryan Adams) compared to 1987-1990, although not as bad as some years...certainly house had gone and rave had only just started so the mainstream charts were a bit crap.
Although this is the US Greatest Hits I suspect, as there was still quite a lot of dance/baggy/indie tracks in the UK at the time, from the US it was the era of the crappy drippy 'soul'-less ballad. Usually accompanied with slow-panning back and white or sepia video and the singer looking like they had indigestion while slowed down shots of water, crushed flowers, blotted love letters, things dropping/breaking and badly staged flashbacks (sometimes in colour!) to 'happier times' to the singer with some preposterously unlikely model as their partner, where they had the sexual chemistry of a bowl of chicken soup.
Which would then play for about 10,000 years on your local music channel/show and no-one you know had bought it and you couldn't work out who liked this shit.
Me? Bitter?
1. Unforgettable - Nat and Natalie Cole
2. Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
3. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
4. Gonna Make You Sweat - C + C Music Factory
5. More Than Words - Extreme
6. God Bless The USA - Lee Greenwood
7. Strike It Up - Black Box
8. Power of Love/Love Power - Luthor Vandross
9. O.P.P. - Naughty By Nature
10. True Companion - Marc Cohn
11. When A Man Loves A Woman - Michael Bolton
12. Its So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - Boys II Men
13. Enter Sandman - Metallica
14. Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) - Crystal Waters
15. Lets Talk About Sex - Salt N Pepa
16. Crazy - Seal
17. Unbelievable - EMF
18. Black Or White - Michael Jackson
19. Rico Suave - Gerardo
20. It Ain't Over Till It's Over - Lenny Kravitz
21. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
22. Here We Go - C+C Music Factory
23. P.A.S.S.I.O.N. - Rythm Syndicate
24. Coming Out Of The Dark - Gloria Estefan
25. Wind Of Change - Scorpions
26. Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... - C+C Music Factory
27. Coming Out Of The Dark - Gloria Estefan
28. Emotions - Mariah Carey
29. I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat
30. She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes
31. Baby Baby - Amy Grant
32. Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
33. Someday - Mariah Carey
34. I'll Be There - Escape Club
35. Joyride - Roxette
36. Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad
37. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
38. Something To Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
39. Set The Night To Music - Roberta Flack and Maxi Preist
40. Gett Off - Prince & The New Power Generation
41. Motownphilly - Boys II Men
42. Star Spangles Banner - Whitney Houston
43. Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones
44. Around The Way Girl - LL Cool J
45. Love Will Never Do (Without You) - Janet Jackson
46. Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn - much prefer Raving I'm Raving
47. Love Is A Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton
48. High Enough - Damn Yankees
49. I Don't Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey
50. Blowing Kisses In The Wind - Paula Abdul
tim_e_bearGo to Pop Culture Madness and select the year you became 18. Snip the best 50 songs from the list and paste it in your journal. Bold the ones you like and strike the ones you dislike, italic the ones you know but don't like nor dislike and the ones you don't know will stay common text.
OK so it's 1991 - a fairly shit year from music (don't agree? Two words for you: Bryan Adams) compared to 1987-1990, although not as bad as some years...certainly house had gone and rave had only just started so the mainstream charts were a bit crap.
Although this is the US Greatest Hits I suspect, as there was still quite a lot of dance/baggy/indie tracks in the UK at the time, from the US it was the era of the crappy drippy 'soul'-less ballad. Usually accompanied with slow-panning back and white or sepia video and the singer looking like they had indigestion while slowed down shots of water, crushed flowers, blotted love letters, things dropping/breaking and badly staged flashbacks (sometimes in colour!) to 'happier times' to the singer with some preposterously unlikely model as their partner, where they had the sexual chemistry of a bowl of chicken soup.
Which would then play for about 10,000 years on your local music channel/show and no-one you know had bought it and you couldn't work out who liked this shit.
Me? Bitter?
1. Unforgettable - Nat and Natalie Cole
2. Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
4. Gonna Make You Sweat - C + C Music Factory
6. God Bless The USA - Lee Greenwood
7. Strike It Up - Black Box
9. O.P.P. - Naughty By Nature
13. Enter Sandman - Metallica
15. Lets Talk About Sex - Salt N Pepa
16. Crazy - Seal
17. Unbelievable - EMF
18. Black Or White - Michael Jackson
21. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
22. Here We Go - C+C Music Factory
23. P.A.S.S.I.O.N. - Rythm Syndicate
25. Wind Of Change - Scorpions
26. Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... - C+C Music Factory
28. Emotions - Mariah Carey
29. I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat
30. She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes
32. Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
33. Someday - Mariah Carey
34. I'll Be There - Escape Club
35. Joyride - Roxette
36. Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad
38. Something To Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
39. Set The Night To Music - Roberta Flack and Maxi Preist
40. Gett Off - Prince & The New Power Generation
42. Star Spangles Banner - Whitney Houston
43. Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones
45. Love Will Never Do (Without You) - Janet Jackson
46. Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn - much prefer Raving I'm Raving
48. High Enough - Damn Yankees
49. I Don't Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey
50. Blowing Kisses In The Wind - Paula Abdul
and since they repeated Gloria twice - one more:
51. Justify My Love - Madonna
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