Hits of the Year You Turned 18 Meme

[erikred]

I am a slave to the memes. Damn you, rimrunner!

Go to http://popculturemadness.com and find the Greatest USA Hits of the year you turned 18.

Select the first 50.
Bold the ones you like.
Strike out the ones you hate.
Italicize the ones you are familiar with but neither like nor hate.
Leave the ones you don't know as is.

1. What A Wonderful World* - Louis Armstrong

2. It Takes Two - Rob Base & E-Z Rock

3. Da Butt - EU

4. Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter

5. I'll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne

6. Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson

7. Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns N Roses

8. Red Red Wine - UB40

9. Just Got Paid - Johnny Kemp

10. Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

11. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard

12. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison

13. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses

14. Paradise - Sade

15. The Flame - Cheap Trick

16. 1 2 3 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

17. Kokomo - Beach Boys

18. Need You Tonight - INXS

19. Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S

20. Roll With It - Steve Winwood

21. Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird (Medley) - Will To Power

22. Power Of Love - Laura Branigan

23. Push It - Salt N Pepa

24. One More Try - George Michael

25. Can't Stay Away From You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

26. Wild, Wild West - Kool Moe Dee

27. One Moment In Time - Whitney Houston

28. Hot Hot Hot!!! - The Cure

29. The Promise - When In Rome

30. The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson

31. Chains Of Love - Erasure

32. What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society

33. Honestly - Stryper

34. Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown

35. Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi

36. Strangelove - Depeche Mode

37. Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison

38. Angel - Aerosmith

39. Candle In The Wind - Elton John

40. Forever Young - Alphaville

41. Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole

42. Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys

43. Tall Cool One - Robert Plant

44. Forever Young - Rod Stewart

45. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

46. Tomorrow People - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers

47. I Know You're Out There Somewhere - Moody Blues

48. Just Like Heaven - The Cure

49. Wild Wild West - The Escape Club

50. In God's Country - U2

I don't know about you, but what I get from this is that I was not the target audience even back then.

Comments

my brilliant u2 cents

[eumenide.livejournal.com]

What a hot hot hot year.

Re: my brilliant u2 cents

[anavolena.livejournal.com]

especially in the wild, wild west.

Re: my brilliant u2 cents

[eumenide.livejournal.com]

O, jeez, how did I miss that? Goodness, goodness.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'm more familiar with most of those than the songs on my own list. Probably because, embarrassingly enough, I had a hair-metal phase, and this was clearly its heyday. By the time I graduated, grunge was at its apex (seriously, why do people think it's still a defining characteristic of Seattle NOW, 15 years after Nirvana broke out?) and hip hop was on its way in.

Meanwhile, back in the jungle, things were getting hot, hot, hot.

[abazureonna.livejournal.com]

David Johansen has had a really strange career. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Poindexter)

[mkb-cbr.livejournal.com]

These typography-based meemes are a bummer. Tables, I say!