Re-meme...

[bovil]

Go to popCulturemadness and select the Billboard top hits for year you became 18 (the Billboard listings are buried in the left-hand column). Paste the list of the top 75 songs. Bold the ones you like now

1988, still.

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 - Micheal 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
51. So Emotional - Whitney Houston
52. Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
53. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D"Arby
54. It's Money That Matters - Randy Newman
55. Under The Milky Way - The Church
56. Like The Weather - 10,000 Maniacs
57. Tell It To My Heart - Taylor Dayne
58. Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford
59. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
60. It's The End Of The World As We Know It - R.E.M.
61. Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
62. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark - Robert Cray Band
63. Never Can Say Goodbye - Communards
64. What's The Matter Here? - 10,000 Maniacs
65. Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins
66. Fat - Weird Al Yankovic
67. Piano In The Dark - Brenda Russell
68. Monkey - George Michael
69. Rocket 2 U - Jets
70. Tell That Girl To Shut Up - Transvision Vamp
71. I Found Someone - Cher
72. Spotlight - Madonna
73. Englishman In New York - Sting
74. When Will I Be Famous? - Bros
75. Hazy Shade of Winter - the Bangles

As you can see, not much of a change. Mostly music that I wouldn't have heard at the time because I wasn't somewhere that I'd be hearing Erasure or the Communards. 1988 was sucktacular for the stuff that charted high.

Comments

[dakron.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's when I turned 18. I thought you were younger than me. :-)
1. What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
14. Paradise - Sade
31. Chains Of Love - Erasure
32. What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
42. Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
46. Tomorrow People - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
53. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D"Arby
60. It's The End Of The World As We Know It - R.E.M.
63. Never Can Say Goodbye - Communards
66. Fat - Weird Al Yankovic
75. Hazy Shade of Winter - the Bangles