Mutated Musical Meme

[essentialsaltes]

thealmightyajax tipped me off to a music meme similar to the recent sf books one:

Go to Pop Culture Madness (http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Pop-Modern/2006.html) 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, 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.

I just can't face 1987. I just can't. I mean... #1 on the list... Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi. Of the rest of the top ten, 3 are covers. I hate everyone at my high school all over again.

So instead, you get the highly biased selective birth-year to 18-year comparison. (I would have done 36 as well, but I got to "My Humps" at #2 and my brain seized.)

1969	1987
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells	Mony Mony - Tommy James and the Shondells (cover: Billy Idol)
My Way - Frank Sinatra	Heart and Soul - The Monkees
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette	I Want Your Sex - George Michael
Touch Me - Doors	Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bad - Michael Jackson
Come Together - the Beatles	Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith
Get Back - Beatles	Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley	Graceland - Paul Simon
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash	Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crew
Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon	(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) - Beastie Boys
Kick Out The Jams - MC5	Songbird - Kenny G
Leaving On A Jet Plane - Peter Paul and Mary	Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - the 5th Dimension	Talk Dirty To Me - Poison
Pinball Wizard - The Who	Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle

Comments

[edgyspice.livejournal.com]

I tried to do the meme, but then I saw how many Spice Girls songs I had bolded and I hated myself all of a sudden.

[dogofthefuture.livejournal.com]

There's at least a few good songs in 1987, at least. I guess I gotta go check out 1990.

[oohbarracuda.livejournal.com]

Man, I checked 2001 and was feeling as disappointed as you.

[ajax.livejournal.com]

I glanced back at 1974 and was amazed at the number of honest-to-goodness classics in the top 75. Imagine that -- an era when you could turn on the radio at any given time and hear good music rather than flavors of the month! Where, oh where did we go astray...

--- Ajax.