Music Meme

Here are the rules:

1. Go to http://www.popculturemadness.com/
2. Pick the year you turned 18 (left column)
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

Here are a few of mine:

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
What I remember about this song is that there was a girl on my dorm floor (Hewitt Hall, 16th) that played this ENDLESSLY whenever she was home. Her room was right be the bathroom, so you had to hear it everytime you went over there. It got pretty old after the 50th “you-uuuuuu-uuuuu-uuuuuu” or so.

Come As You Are - Nirvana
Oh, Nirvana. You crazy guys, you. I remember my friend Missy introduced me to Nirvana, and we would listen to it in my 1979 Dodge Colt, full of angst and anger and suburban malaise. It was unlike anything we’d heard before, and it was dark and we loved it.

Caribbean Blue - Enya
I really liked Enya at this time. It was the summer before college, and I was working two jobs to save money, and not doing much else. I remember that I would listen to Enya on the way home from my second gig, windows down, smoking my crazy ultra menthol light 120s, feeling the summer wind, rocking out to Enya.
lol. that sounds hilarious, but I was feeling poetic and hopeful about leaving home soon, and Enya seemed to capture that feeling.

This Used To Be My Playground - Madonna
This song sucked. And it made me sad because I used to love Madonna so much, and I had all her albums and I knew all the words and it all seemed so important…and then suddenly she was pretty much irrelevant to my life. It was weird to let go of one of my biggest icons.

Take A Chance On Me - Erasure
my goodness. I loved this song. And I had no idea it was a cover. Me, totally unaware of such a band as Abba. Crazy. I think there was a whole abba cover album from Erasure. I was madly in love with it. Thankfully, I also discovered Abba not too much later.

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