where's my fuckin pumpkins?
Meme via
Ilyka: go to the webpage, enter the year you graduated high school, click the top 100 songs link.
Strikeout songs you hated, don't do anything to songs you don't remember or don't have any feeling about either way, underline your favorite, and bold the songs
you like I just bolded songs I would leave on the radio if it came on. The ones that don't make me want to stick pencils in my ears are bolded. Scan the list, comments at the end.
Breakout the earplugs and Y2K hat; let's party like it's
1999:
1. Believe, Cher
2. No Scrubs, TLC3. Angel Of Mine, Monica
4. Heartbreak Hotel, Whitney Houston
5. ...Baby One More Time, Britney Spears6. Kiss Me, Sixpence None The Richer
7. Genie In A Bottle, Christina Aguilera
8. Every Morning, Sugar Ray
9. Nobody's Supposed To Be Here, Deborah Cox
10. Livin' La Vida Loca, Ricky Martin
11. Where My Girls At?, 702
12. If You Had My Love, Jennifer Lopez13. Slide, Goo Goo Dolls14. Have You Ever?, Brandy
15. I Want It That Way, Backstreet Boys
16. I'm Your Angel, R. Kelly and Celine Dion
17. All Star, Smash Mouth
18. Angel, Sarah McLachlan
19. Smooth, Santana Featuring Rob Thomas
20. Unpretty, TLC
21. Bills, Bills, Bills, Destiny's Child22. Save Tonight, Eagle-Eye Cherry23. Last Kiss, Pearl Jam
24. Fortunate, Maxwell
25. All I Have To Give, Backstreet Boys
26. Bailamos, Enrique Iglesias
27. What's It Gonna Be?!, Busta Rhymes Featuring Janet28. What It's Like, Everlast29. Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz30. Someday, Sugar Ray
31. Lately, Divine
32. That Don't Impress Me Much, Shania Twain
33. Wild Wild West, Will Smith Featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee34. Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers
35. Heartbreaker, Mariah Carey Featuring Jay-Z
36. I Still Believe, Mariah Carey
37. The Hardest Thing, 98 Degrees
38. Summer Girls, LFO
39. Can I Get A..., Jay-Z Featuring Amil (Of Major Coinz) and Ja40. Jumper, Third Eye Blind
41. Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn Hill
42. Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...), Lou Bega
43. Sweet Lady, Tyrese
44. It's Not Right But It's Okay, Whitney Houston
45. (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You, 'N Sync
46. Lullaby, Shawn Mullins47. Anywhere, 112 Featuring Lil'Z
48. Tell Me It's Real, K-Ci and JoJo
49. Back 2 Good, Matchbox 20
50. 808, Blaque
51. She's So High, Tal Bachman
52. She's All I Ever Had, Ricky Martin
53. Miami, Will Smith54. Hands, Jewel
55. Who Dat, JT Money Featuring Sole
56. Please Remember Me, Tim McGraw
57. From This Moment On, Shania Twain
58. Love Like This, Faith Evans59. You, Jesse Powell
60. Trippin', Total Featuring Missy Elliott
61. If You (Lovin' Me), Silk
62. Ex-Factor, Lauryn Hill
63. Give It To You, Jordan Knight
64. Black Balloon, Goo Goo Dolls65. Spend My Life With You, Eric Benet Featuring Tamia
66. These Are The Times, Dru Hill
67. I Don't Want To Miss A Thing, Mark Chesnutt
68. I Do (Cherish You), 98 Degrees
69. Because Of You, 98 Degrees
70. I Will Remember You (Live), Sarah McLachlan71. Chante's Got A Man, Chante Moore
72. Happily Ever After, Case
73. My Love Is Your Love, Whitney Houston
74. All Night Long, Faith Evans Featuring Puff Daddy
75. Back That Thang Up, Juvenile Featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil' Wayne76. Almost Doesn't Count, Brandy
77. Man! I Feel Like A Woman!, Shania Twain
78. Steal My Sunshine, Len
79. I Need To Know, Marc Anthony80. So Anxious, Ginuwine
81. Faded Pictures, Case and Joe
82. Back At One, Brian McKnight
83. When A Woman's Fed Up, R. Kelly
84. How Forever Feels, Kenny Chesney
85. Amazed, Lonestar
86. Sometimes, Britney Spears
87. Ghetto Cowboy, Mo Thugs Family Featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
88. Out Of My Head, Fastball
89. Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem), Jay-Z90. Jamboree, Naughty By Nature Featuring Zhane
91. Take Me There, BLACKstreet and Mya Featuring Mase and Blinky Blink
92. Stay The Same, Joey McIntyre
93. Lesson In Leavin', Jo Dee Messina
94. Iris, Goo Goo Dolls95. Satisfy You, Puff Daddy Featuring R. Kelly
96. Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out), Citizen King
97. Music Of My Heart, 'N Sync and Gloria Estefan
98. Write This Down, George Strait
99. When You Believe, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
100. God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, Alabama Featuring 'N Sync
You'll notice that there isn't a whole lot of bold. That dosen't surprise me, but there are a few things about this list that do. First, is just how few of these songs I remember. I think I hit the strikeout on a few I don't really know just on principle: Whitney Huston? Nah. 98 Degrees? Forget about that.
I mean, we're talking about 1999 here. I didn't graduate high school fifty freaking years ago. But there's an awful lot on there I don't recognize by title, and a pretty good many I don't think I've ever heard at all.
Second is the complete lack of any type of alternative music whatsoever. I see the Goo Goo Dolls made the list, as well as Pearl Jam, but that's about it. I can stand the Goo Goo Dolls, or at least could at 18, but neither of these bands are favorites of mine. Even Dave Matthews, who I'm pretty sure released an album that year, didn't make the list. I loathe Dave Matthews, but I can't believe he didn't have one of the top one hundred songs of the year.
No Radiohead? No Smashing Pumpkins? Rage Against the Machine? Blur? Green Day? Not even the Beasty Boys? Hello? How did none of the Alternative
Grammy Nominees not make the list, over freaking Mambo Number Five, a song written to be sung by plastic frogs in the clearance aisle of your local department store? Or a song by Gloria Estefan, who was apparently still alive in 1999?
Give me a break. For that matter, look for rock songs period on that list. You know, electric guitars and singing and shit. I expected hip-hop to be heavily favored, they sell records like nobody's business. N'Sync and Brit'ny Spears sold alot of albums to people that were five years younger than me at the time. Country certainly has its following. But only one or two bands from one of the top music sectors out there? Nobody in the entire audience of Rolling Stone bought any albums that year? Music played by a huge number, perhaps even a majority of radio stations out there, and no representation in the top 100?
Anyway, enough ranting. If the list is correct, it's no wonder I didn't like High School. Jesus, look at what everybody was listening to. I'd prefer being poked to death 100 times by a dull spork than listening to all those songs in a row.
I never owned a single one of those songs. The only one I can think of the words to is the Everlast song, which wasn't half bad, and I'm sure the words to Iris are in my head somewhere as well. As you can see, the vast majority are songs that I was subjected to at school dances and functions.
I don't think I'm a music snob; there's alot of probably bad music I like. But holy crap, if there's anything to like about that list, I don't see what it is.
