The Music Meme


"You've got trouble right here..." -- Whoops, wrong thing.

Picked up from Blue Gal, also seen as Respublica: A meme slowly making its way about, generally w/o tagging b/c lots of folks are agin' that (parenthetical by Blue Gal):

1. Go to http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/
2. Down the left column pick the year you turned 18
3. Get yourself nostalgic/enraged over the songs of the year
4. Write something about how the songs affected you
5. Pass it on to 5 more friends (And because I suck at picking five people, regular readers/commenters - You're IT! And you know who you are.)

On the webpage, you'll see the top 75 songs of the year, followed by the #1 songs in chronological order. I used this feature to look at the music of my senior year in high school (since I didn't turn 18 until the very end of it.) As usual, these are just screen caps not YouTube embeds. Clicking will take you to YouTube and you'll have to come back. (You have to, y'hear?)

To start we have what I considered the theme song of my senior year: My Sharona by The Knack. New Wave was just starting to affect Disco's grip on the pop charts (yay!):



Oh, my friends and I had tons of fun at an amusement park belting out Pop Muzik by M at the top of our lungs while waiting in line for what was, at the time, the world's fastest wooden coaster. We were on an out-of-town drum corps appearance, and even though it was a weekend, the crowds at the park were very light. We weren't in uniform, and we didn't annoy too many people:



Alas, but the winter holiday break was afflicted with one of the most obnoxious one-hit-wonders of all time: Escape (The Piña Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes . ZOMG, wasn't that an awful piece of dreck?



Then post-Spring-Break, to coincide with "senioritis," we had Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (Part II):



Finally, to round out the school year we got Call Me by Blondie. I give you her performance from The Muppet Show. Yeah, call me and let's do something this summer before I blow this burg.



Alas, the rest of the school year was a mix of power ballads and disco. I didn't think so at the time, but now I'm glad Queen was pumping out some music to break it up.

If anybody wishes to feel tagged, help yourself. Drop a linky in the comments, por favor, or if you don't has a blog you can reminisce right here.

Posted: Sat - June 16, 2007 at 09:24 PM   Home         | | View Technorati reactions

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