Saturday, January 10, 2009

Songs of Our Lives...

My blogson tagged me with the most interesting meme:

1. For each year you've been alive, post a song title (with performer name) that was released that year. There's some flexibility here - singles, albums, and Billboard Top Songs Chart will all be within a year of each other, but tend not to overlap. You have a song and a date, you're good to go.
2. You have to post songs that you own, or have owned in the past, or your parents owned when you were a child. If there's a year where you just don't have a song, then pick any old song from that year, but mark that year with an asterisk (*).
3. Ladies do not have to list more than the most recent 29 songs. A Gentleman never asks a Lady her age. If you want, though, list 'em all.
4. Once you've posted, tag 4 other bloggers.


Hmm. Let's see... There's going to be a lot of years, and some empty, because there are many years that I can't find a damn thing worth posting... Ted provides a handy link to a Top 100 site:

FYI, here's an excellent site that not only lists the Billboard Top 100 songs for each year, but they let you listen to them!





So here we go!


1971: Ringo Starr & George Harrison - It Don't Come Easy

1972: Don Mclean - American Pie

1973: Pink Floyd - Money

1974: Steve Miller Band - Joker

1975: Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

1976: Kiss - Rock And Roll All Night

1977: Aerosmith - Walk This Way

1978: Meat Loaf - Two out Of Three Ain't Bad

1979: Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia

1980: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Part 2

1981: Devo - Whip It

1982: Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now

1983: Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

1984: Van Halen - Jump

1985: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

1986: Run-DMC - Walk This

1987: Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right (to Party)

1988: Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me

1989: Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator

1990: Digital Underground - Humpty Dance

1991: Bonnie Raitt - Something to Talk About

1992: Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway

1993: Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain

1994: Pretenders - Ill Stand By You

1995: Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do

1996: Joan Osborne - One Of Us

1997: Chumbawumba - Tubthumping

1998: Will Smith - Gettin Jiggy Wit It

1999: Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5

2000: Toby Keith - How Do You Like Me Now

2001: Creed - With Arms Wide Open

2002: Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning

2003: alan jackson - its five o clock somewhere

2004: Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman

2005: Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl

2006: Life Is A Highway (Rascal Flatts)

2007: Trace Adkins - You're Gonna Miss This

2008: ?




It's funny. Some years were hard to choose - either I didn't know any of the songs, or I had a hard time determining which to pick. Some songs were chosen for purely sentimental reasons - "Arms Wide Open" happens to have been a hit the year my son was born, for example. "Safety Dance" is an inside joke in my group of closest friends. It's funny the impact a song can have - not represented on the list, for example, is Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", which makes my cry every time I hear it, because it reminds me of the first friend of mine to take his own life.





Phew! That's a lot of songs! I'm not going to specifically tag anyone, so if you'd like to play along, post in comments or shoot me a link...


That is all.

10 comments:

SpeakerTweaker said...

I'll be damned. You're the same age as my wife!



tweaker

Borepatch said...

Great list, and great commentary. Safety Dance made me smile - I'd completely forgotten it, but it was a particularly bittersweet time of my life.

You forgot to tag people, though.

Anonymous said...

I get the feeling that whoever came up with this meme had been listening to "We Didn't Start the Fire" rather too often...

Epijunky said...

I played.

I was honest. Unfortunately that means my list kinda stinks.

It forced me to realize that some of my choices in music are ridiculous. :) It was fun anyway.

Anonymous said...

Would a listing of the top 100 songs from 1950 through 2000 help?

I've got lots of mp3's.

MP5's too ... now that I think of it.

Borepatch said...

Wolfwalker, that would be me. And I can truthfully say that no, I didn't listen to that.

;-)

BobG said...

It's easier for you youngsters; my list would exceed the bandwidth.

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

Crap, you're younger than me.

Anonymous said...

"A Gentleman never asks a Lady her age."

Well to me, a gentleman never discriminates, in one way or the other. And treating women like they're poor fragile little things is certainly not putting them as men's equals, so f*ck that sh*t!

I'll think about this list. Later!

Anonymous said...

"A Gentleman never asks a Lady her age."

Well to me, a gentleman never discriminates, in one way or the other. And treating women like they're poor fragile little things is certainly not putting them as men's equals, so f*ck that sh*t!

I'll think about this list. Later!