This is Daryl's fault:
1. Go to http://www.popculturemadness.com/
2. Pick the year you turned 18
3. Get yourself nostalgic over the song’s of the year
4. Write something about how the songs affected you
5. Pass it on to 5 more friends
Sadly, 1989 was not a good year for Rock or Pop. Hair bands were passed their hair-day. MTV played "She Drives Me Crazy" by the Fine Young Cannibals into the ground. And, you'd have had to live under a rock not to know (just through repeated exposure) the lyrics to every New Kid of the Blocks song. Besides, what can one possibly say about Milli Vanilli that hasn't already been said?
Song #1: Love Shack--the B-52s
The first time Jack saw Clinton Kelly in a promo for TLC's What Not to Wear, he belted out: "Hop in my car! It's as big as a whale...and it's about. to set. SAIL. whoooOOO!" I don't quite see it, but I laughed so hard that I nearly committed a fashion faux pas (and I was wearing pajamas!).
Song #10: Kiss--The Art of Noise (featuring Tom Jones)
I didn't even know who Tom Jones was before this song came out. This video is so representative on the late 80s that I snickered while watching it. Think I better dance now.
Song #53: We Didn't Start the Fire--Billy Joel
Forever (and appropriately) immortalized at Blue Mountain Cards.
Despite its popularity, no one--and I mean NO ONE--knew all the lyrics to this song. A brief reenactment: "mumble-mumble, hum-hum, Marilyn Monroe...[unintelligible yammering throughout....until]...JFK! Blown away! What else do I have to say?" Of course, we all knew the chorus. I am sad to say, this song did not increase our knowledge of history. Neither did attending public school in south Louisiana.
That's my Top Three from 1989. I realize I can no longer lie about my age now. I'm 35. Thanks Daryl.
The end.
[Wisteria, ~J~, Doc, Poppins and Tricia]
5 comments:
35? A veritable child.
You just have to rub in how much younger you are.
Cute link on the Cafe.
Well, I listened to all three of those songs and they're all new to me.
Guess that's what comes of being o.l.d. as well as living outside the country in '89.
I did have a teenager in '88 (but he left home and went off to build helicopters) so I do know "Bad Medicine." :)
The only other song I remember from then is "Don't Give Candy to A Stranger." It was some country song that came on the radio in the next room (that the teenager had left playing when he went to work). The military radio station had switched, in its even-handed way, from pop to country. You could tell what time it was by what kind of music was on the radio. Eldest Son must've left just before the "top of the hour."
I had just slipped an exposed sheet of photo paper into the developer and couldn't leave the room to shut off that song because I had to agitate the paper, or open the door -- which would have rendered my darkroom undark. The three minutes it took to get the print through the developer, the stop bath and long enough into the fixer was agony. The print was well-agitated.
And now I've remembered that damned song.
That'll teach me to read blogs.
Valerie, if it makes you feel any better, Jack had "Puff the Magic Dragon" stuck in his head yesterday.
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you had never heard of Tom and his Jones...*shrugs*...it's not unusual.
~J~...loves Tom. And his Jones.
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