As seen on Rachel the Liminal Librarian’s blog:
1. Go to the Billboard #1 Hits listings (scroll down and you’ll see them separated by decades on the left in the sidebar)
2. Pick the year you turned 18
3. Get yourself nostalgic over the songs of the year
4. Pick 5 songs and write something about how these songs affected you
5. Pass it on to 5 more people
Like Rachel I don’t actually really like any of the songs listed for my year, 1988. Except maybe Wild, Wild West by The Escape Club and Need You Tonight by INXS.
In 1988 I was listening to REM (Green, one of my favourite albums of all time), The Smiths (The World Won’t Listen), U2 (Joshua Tree; a 1987 release but I was still listening), Camper Van Beethoven (Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart), and a bit of Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth…
Thinking about all this music is making me nostalgic! Five songs that I remember from that year: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (U2), You Are The Everything (REM), Bigmouth Strikes Again and Shoplifters Of The World Unite (The Smiths) and O Death (Camper Van Beethoven).
Who shall I tag? Tom, TB, Woody, jl and Mooiness. (I do wonder, though, if everyone is happy to reveal the year of their birth…)
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Nothing I was listening to in 1993 is in the Billboard #1 hits, I can tell you that. Actually, my playlist was similar to yours–Green and Joshua Tree, and also the Pixies, the Indigo Girls, and whatever was playing on the student radio station.
In 1993 I think I was listening to the Indigo Girls too! Still do, in fact!
This has made me ponder the fact that I seem to have lost all my Dinosaur Jr and Camper Van Beethoven. And my Sonic Youth. (Heh a good pun 😉 )
No, I won’t reveal the year I was 18 (seems like a hundred years ago) but I enjoyed the nostalgic look at all the titles of the songs that made me swoon then. Thank goodness for happy memories.