The horror...the horror...

[phosfate]

Stoled from telesilla

Go to: http://www.musicoutfitters.com/

In the search box in the upper left-hand corner, enter the year you graduated from high school. The first item returned should be the top 100 songs from that year. Cut and paste them into your journal.

Bold the ones you like.
Underline your favorite.
Strike through the songs you loathe.

1. Call Me, Blondie
2. Another Brick In The Wall, Pink Floyd
3. Magic, Olivia Newton-John
4. Rock With You, Michael Jackson
5. Do That To Me One More Time, Captain and Tennille
6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen
7. Coming Up, Paul McCartney
8. Funkytown, Lipps, Inc.
9. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me, Billy Joel
10. The Rose, Bette Midler
11. Escape (The Pina Colada Song), Rupert Holmes
12. Cars, Gary Numan
13. Cruisin', Smokey Robinson
14. Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl, Spinners
15. Lost In Love, Air Supply
16. Little Jeannie, Elton John
17. Ride Like The Wind, Cristopher Cross
18. Upside Down, Diana Ross
19. Please Don't Go, K.C. and The Sunshine Band
20. Babe, Styx
21. With You I'm Born Again, Billy Preston and Syreeta
22. Shining Star, Manhattans
23. Still, Commodores
24. Yes, I'm Ready, Teri De Sario With K.C.
25. Sexy Eyes, Dr. Hook
26. Steal Away, Robbie Dupree
27. Biggest Part Of Me, Ambrosia
28. This Is It, Kenny Loggins
29. Cupid-I've Loved You For A Long Time, Spinners
30. Let's Get Serious, Jermaine Jackson
31. Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer, Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes
32. Sailing, Christopher Cross
33. Longer, Dan Fogelberg
34. Coward Of The County, Kenny Rogers
35. Ladies Night, Kool and The Gang
36. Take Your Time, S.O.S. Band
37. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
38. Too Hot, Kool and The Gang
39. More Love, Kim Carnes
40. Pop Muzik, M
41. Brass In Pocket, Pretenders
42. Special Lady, Ray, Goodman and Brown
43. Send One Your Love, Stevie Wonder
44. The Second Time Around, Shalamar
45. We Don't Talk Anymore, Cliff Richard
47. Heartache Tonight , Eagles
48. Stomp, Brothers Johnson
49. Tired Of Toein' The Line, Rocky Burnette
50. Better Love Next Time, Dr. Hook
51. Him, Rupert Holmes
52. Against The Wind, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
53. On The Radio, Donna Summer
54. Emotional Rescue, Rolling Stones
55. Rise, Herb Alpert
56. All Out Of Love, Air Supply
57. Cool Change, Little River Band
58. You're Only Lonely, J.D. Souther
59. Desire, Andy Gibb
60. Let My Love Open The Door, Pete Townshend
61. Daydream Believer, Anne Murray
62. I Can't Tell You Why, Eagles
63. Don't Let Go, Isaac Hayes
64. Don't Do Me Like That, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
65. She's Out Of My Life, Michael Jackson
66. Fame, Irene Cara
67. Fire Lake, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
68. How Do I Make You, Linda Ronstadt
69. Into The Night, Benny Mardones
70. Let Me Love You Tonight, Pure Prairie League
71. Misunderstanding, Genesis
72. An American Dream, Dirt Band
73. One Fine Day, Carole King
74. Dim All The Lights, Donna Summer
75. You May Be Right, Billy Joel
76. Hurt So Bad, Linda Ronstadt
77. Should've Never Let You Go, Neil Sedaka and Dara Sedaka
78. Pilot Of The Airwaves, Charlie Dore
79. Off The Wall, Michael Jackson
80. I Pledge My Love, Peaches and Herb
81. The Long Run, Eagles
82. Stand By Me, Mickey Gilley
83. Heartbreaker, Pat Benatar
84. Deja Vu, Dionne Warwick
85. Drivin' My Life Away, Eddie Rabbitt
86. Take The Long Way Home, Supertramp
87. Sara, Fleetwood Mac
88. Wait For Me, Daryl Hall and John Oates
89. Jo Jo, Boz Scaggs
90. September Morn, Neil Diamond
91. Give Me The Night, George Benson
92. Broken Hearted Me, Anne Murray
93. You Decorated My Life, Kenny Rogers
>94. Tusk, Fleetwood Mac
95. I Wanna Be Your Lover, Prince
96. In America, Charlie Daniels Band
97. Breakdown Dead Ahead, Boz Scaggs
98. Ships, Barry Manilow
99. All Night Long, Joe Walsh
100. Refugee, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Comments

1988

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Whitney Houston, Tiffany, Rick Astley, Gloria Estefan, Terence Trent D'Arby, Taylor Dayne, Poison, Whitesnake, Debbie Gibson, Richard Marx, Bobby McFerrin, Chicago, Kylie Minogue, Pretty Poison, Bobby Brown, Cher, Foreigner, New Edition--fuck, no wonder I was so depressed all the time.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I was thinking much the same thing, but feared saying so because I didn't want to seem overly dramatic. On the other hand, "Fame," the song and the movie, literally followed me from the U.S. to the U.K., and made me contemplate setting fire to the West End.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

That's not drama, it's hard cold truth. *looks at 1988 list more closely* Oh, fuck, Peter Cetera? Patrick Swayze? Samantha Fox? ECCCH!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Patrick...Swayze? Oh, man, I'd hysterically blocked that out. That was an ugly time.

I remember some girl once trying to explain to me that I shouldn't be scared to see Dirty Dancing, because it really wasn't a dirty movie at all, and I couldn't quite figure out how to say that I didn't want to see it because it looked like a total piece of shit.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Mary and I once rented Roadhouse because after all the jokes about it on MST we thought it'd be a bad movie laugh riot, and instead we ended up sad and vulnerable and afraid. And the only redeeming feature of my class song list is that it doesn't have any Sheena Easton. (God, "Red Red Wine"--all the indie-rock fucks at my college professed to love that one, and the whiny whiny vocal nearly drove me to homicide.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

"...instead we ended up sad and vulnerable and afraid."

*nods* I felt that way about the last two Star Treks I saw. It's horrible. You hate the perpetrators, and yet you pity them. They're like brainwashed suicide bombers of bad art.

"Red Red Wine" wasn't bad in and of itself, but there was only a set number of times I could listen to it. Then...deep heart hatred rose up.

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

You think 1980 was bad?? What about 1999? At least your list doesn't feature Britney Spears!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Have you ever heard "Coward of the County?"

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

How about Jennifer Lopez...R. Kelly...LFO, which stands for "Lyte Funky Ones" (!!!?!one) for God's sake?!

But I do think that older horible music is more uniquely horrible than modern horrible music, which sucks but is usually too generic to really hurt.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Trust us old-timers, sucky seventies and eighties music is so much worse. That's why everyone my age lies through their teeth and claims they were the first kid in Shady Acres to have that Gang of Four 12" or whatever (though I also hate Gang of Four).

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

God, I bought so many British comedy albums... I used to go through the weird-ass import 45s at Dirt Cheap looking for anything that looked like it might not make me vomit.

I don't think I've ever heard Gang of Four. Um...I liked Devo. Can I get kewl kid points for Devo? Or the No Strings Attached EP with all the Gerry Anderson show theme tunes?

Nah, I didn't think so.



_{Steeleye Span, maybe?}

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Remember "Ahhh love uh MAAAAAN in UNI-FORRRRM?!" No? Well, anyway, that was Gang of Four, who I thought were so fucking lame based on their one sort-of hit that I was later shocked to discover they had the Kewl Kidz Indie/Punk Cred oozing from their ears. (I still think they're lame, don't tell.) I loved X and the Dead Kennedys, but I didn't get the memo about going out and valiantly rejecting my plastic bourgeois existence or whatever--I would have had to give up all my Steely Dan albums if I did that.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Remember "Ahhh love uh MAAAAAN in UNI-FORRRRM?!"

*blank*

Not at all. We were lucky that our local station played The Cars.

I need some Dead Kennedys. But no, Steely Dan cannot be done without. If we have to give up "Doctor Wu," then fuck the revolution.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

"If we have to give up 'Doctor Wu,' then fuck the revolution."

Now I want to go put that on a bumper sticker.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

And people will pull up next to you in traffic, pointing at the rear of your car, and shout, "YOU SPELLED 'WHO' WRONG!"

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Or they'll presuppose that this "Doctor Wu" fella must perform abortions, and then I'll really be in trouble.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

There's a higher standard of middling now, I think, in that the crappy records tend to be crappy in a uniform way. It's a lot easier to tune out "Jenny from the Block" than "With You I'm Born Again." On the other hand, "With You I'm Born Again" is much, much funnier.

But early-70s bad, like Bloodrock, or Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, or early Cher, is so hilarious that it dulls the pain.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

*embraces icon* I want that show on DVD with all the songs, fucking RIAA and DMCA. And I've heard it. And would willingly undergo surgery to scrub the memory from my brain.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Supposedly the people who did the Freaks and Geeks set are interested, but if they do it, it will take ages and cost the Earth. Which I will happily pay, because, I thought the first syndicated cuts were bad...but then I saw the versions with the overdubbed music...oy.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Now I vaguely wonder if the estate of Warren Zevon is what's holding up any release of Action. C'mon, guys, if you'll do it for Profit...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh, but think how lovely it will be when Action is inevitably released.

I'm still bummed by the missing Greatest American Hero songs, but at least they took some trouble with the re-dubbing.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I think Teh Big Powerz are only now figuring out what a goldmine their little stables of canceled critical darlings can be, so I am optimistic. In the meantime, I clutch my bootleg GvsE and Max Headroom contentedly to my bosom.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Word. Give me Q.E.D., or give me death.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Tripods for life! Police Squad and Danger UXB forever! (Oooh, Sam Waterston was in Q.E.D.? I wanna see.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Yup, and George Innes from Danger UXB. It's rad.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

You know, I ran across the Q.E.D. musical flourish just a few days ago and desperately wanted to find the show somewhere so I could see it.

Sadly, my eyesight sucks, and I couldn't find anything, much less see it.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

I'm too young for this meme, seeing as how my list isn't even up there yet.

Still. Dionne Warwick? Really? Those must have been some dark times.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Yup. And not even good, fizzy, sweet Dionne Warwick. We're talking self-important diva Dionne.

[ramalama.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I was subjected to that thing in person. She hollered at the audience for not demanding an encore.

[anxietygrrl.livejournal.com]

Having seen a number of these lists now, I have to conclude that 90 of the top 100 songs of any year will inevitably suck ass.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I think you may be right. All that varies is the intensity of the hate.

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

Sailing, Christopher Cross

I hate this song so, so much. Out of the few pop songs we could get on Kuwaiti radio, and this had to be one of them. Grrr!

[ramalama.livejournal.com]

And most of those songs are on the Muzak mix I am subjected to every damn night and weekend.

But yo, "Tusk"? I loved the Mac, but I found that particular song a tad too...what's the word?...stupid.