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[grindmonkeh]

Go to http://www.musicoutfitters.com
In the search box in the upper right 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. The Sign, Ace Of Base
2. I Swear, All-4-One
3. I'll Make Love To You, Boyz II Men
4. The Power Of Love, Celine Dion
5. Hero, Mariah Carey
6. Stay (I Missed You), Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories
7. Breathe Again, Toni Braxton
8. All For Love, Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting
9. All That She Wants, Ace Of Base
10. Don't Turn Around, Ace Of Base
11. Bump N' Grind, R. Kelly
12. Again, Janet Jackson
13. I'll Remember, Madonna
14. Whatta Man, Salt-N-Pepa
15. Wild Night, John Mellencamp and Me'shell Ndegeocello
16. Without You / Never Forget You, Mariah Carey
17. You Mean The World To Me, Toni Braxton
18. Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Elton John
19. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, Prince Symbol
20. Fantastic Voyage, Coolio
21. Baby I Love Your Way, Big Mountain
22. Regulate, Warren G and Nate Dogg
23. If You Go, Jon Secada
24. Back and Forth, Aaliyah
25. Now And Forever, Richard Marx
26. When Can I See You, Babyface
27. Please Forgive Me, Bryan Adams
28. So Much In Love, All-4-One
29. Shoop, Salt-N-Pepa
30. Any Time, Any Place / And On And On, Janet Jackson
31. Shine, Collective Soul
32. Said I Loved You...But I Lied, Michael Bolton
33. Return To Innocence, Enigma
34. All I Wanna Do, Sheryl Crow
35. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, Crash Test Dummies
36. Can We Talk, Tevin Campbell
37. Funkdafied, Da Brat
38. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That), Meat Loaf
39. Gangsta Lean, Drs
40. Because The Night, 10,000 Maniacs
41. Cantaloop, US3
42. Whoomp! (There It Is), Tag Team
43. Come To My Window, Melissa Etheridge
44. Stroke You Up, Changing Faces
45. I'm Ready, Tevin Campbell
46. 100% Pure Love, Crystal Waters
47. Anytime You Need A Friend, Mariah Carey
48. Because Of Love, Janet Jackson
49. Linger, Cranberries
50. Loser, Beck
51. Found Out About You, Gin Blossoms
52. Gin And Juice, Snoop Doggy Dogg
53. Never Lie, Immature
54. Streets Of Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen
55. Getto Jam, Domino
56. Endless Love, Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey
57. I Miss You w/ Aaron Hall 58, Understanding, Xscape
59. This D.J., Warren G
60. Cry For You, Jodeci
61. Keep Ya Head Up, 2Pac
62. Who Am I (What's My Name?), Snoop Doggy Dogg
63. Another Night, Real McCoy
64. Your Body's Callin', R. Kelly
65. Tootsee Roll, 69 Boyz
66. I Can See Clearly Now, Jimmy Cliff
67. Never Keeping Secrets, Babyface
68. Crazy, Aerosmith
70. At Your Best (You Are Love), Aaliyah
71. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through, Meat Loaf
72 Amazing, Aerosmith
73. Always, Erasure
74. Groove Thang, Zhane
75. Dreams, Gabrielle
76. Mr. Vain, Culture Beat
77. Mary Jane's Last Dance, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
78. Anything, SWV
79. Beautiful In My Eyes, Joshua Kadison
80. Stay, Eternal
81. Flava In Ya Ear, Craig Mack
82. U.N.I.T.Y., Queen Latifah
83. Prayer For The Dying, Seal
84. Secret, Madonna
85. Here Comes The Hotstepper, Ini Kamoze
86. Everyday, Phil Collins
87. Don't Take The Girl, Tim McGraw
88. Got Me Waiting, Heavy D and The Boyz
89. December 1963 (Oh, What A Night), Four Seasons
90. Indian Outlaw, Tim McGraw
91. Always, Bon Jovi
92. I'm The Only One, Melissa Etheridge
93. Back In The Day, Ahmad
94. Love Sneakin' Up On You, Bonnie Raitt
95. I'll Take You There, General Public
96. Always In My Heart, Tevin Campbell
97. What Is Love, Haddaway
98. And Our Feelings, Babyface
99. Bop Gun (One Nation), Ice Cube
100. I Wanna Be Down, Brandy


I love and loathe all of these...the love is for the good memories and/or nostalgia that I can associate with most of them and the hate is for the craptasticity that beleaguers this list. Also, I'd have to explain why I love or hate each song if I went through and marked each one specifically and I don't have the ambition. And seriously...with the exception of a few songs on this list, this type of stuff wasn't at all my preference so there's not much love to spread around.

And while I must confess that I've always had a thing for Sheryl Crow, Natalie Merchant, and the singer of the Cranberries (you know I'm such a fool for youuuu!) and that I owned or possibly still own their albums, here is a list of my favorite albums of 1994. I listened the hell out of these during my last year of high school and first year of college, and owned all of the following on cassette at that time (11 years ago!) and now cd.

Death - Symbolic
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Obituary - World Demise
Carcass - Heartwork
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.*
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven*
Dream Theater - Awake
Helmet - Betty
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Entombed - Wolverine Blues

(*I saw Pantera, Sepultura, and Biohazard that summer touring those albums. A week later I saw the Scorpions.)

I used to buy tons of cd's, and most of my friends and girlfriends have never much cared for my general taste in music. It has always been amusing to watch someone as they see my large cd collection for the first time, approach it, and then stand there and boggle at the overall lack of anything deemed remotely cool by MTV. (...though I've never claimed that my own tastes have merit.)

Comments

[kingnuthing.livejournal.com]

It has always been amusing to watch someone as they see my large cd collection for the first time, approach it, and then stand there and boggle at the overall lack of anything deemed remotely cool by MTV.

I get that shit a lot, especially here at work where I work with 98% women. They'll browse through my cd case and be like "Amon...Am...Amarth? Decapitated? Bloodbath?! Oh my.... Oh hey, Black Sabbath, I know them!" lol

[kingnuthing.livejournal.com]

Oh and thanks for getting that stupid Cranberries song stuck in my head.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

You've got me wropped aroond yor fingrrrrrrrr.....

[jellabella.livejournal.com]

added ya :)

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

1994 was a good year in music for you. In 1994 I just moved to Nashville, I was 22 then.
Demanufacture, Burn My Eyes, Chaos AD, Fear Emptiness Despair, Betty, Awake, Symbolic, Far Beyond Driven...weren't people still saying metal was dead then? I guess they didn't know what they were talking about after all!

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

And holy shit, "Cleansing" from Prong came out that year as well. Fuck, there were some classic metal records released that year.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I forgot about that Cleansing....Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck...Whose Fist...I played the shit out of that and then got burned out on it pretty quickly.

I saw them open up for Ozzy on the Rude Awakening tour in like...uh...'96 I think. Filter played that show too but were just really awful.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

That was such a great year for metal and no one I knew was into it. I actually met one of my best friends of today in late '93 because he saw my Fear Factory shirt and struck up a convo.

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

I saw Prong on the Rude Awakening tour as well...bad, very bad. They were trying to do the industrial metal thing and it just wasn't working. I did see them in Nashville on the "Cleansing" tour and Drown opened for them. I loved that drown record at the time but it hasn't stood the test of time. About half of "Cleansing" is amazing but that half is fucking brilliant! It was just a much needed kick in the ass at the time.

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

Nice! I had one of my first "gay" experiences in 94 or 95 at a Machine Head show. It wasn't a huge crowd but I was up front and pressed against a guy in front of me. I never intentionally felt him up but I guess he took my pressing against him as a come on and returned the favor and squeezed my crotch like 3 times during the band's set. It kinda freaked me out at the time. Now I wish I had just made out with him at the show. He was hot!

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

HA!...Drown! Scars don't heal...when they grow on the inside! The first time I heard Marilyn Manson (Antichrist Superstar I think) I thought they sounded a lot like drown. Prong wasn't great live, but I actually liked the Rude Awakening album almost as much as Cleansing.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Sadly I've never been sexually advanced upon at a metal show, although the woman to guy ratio is usually pretty despicable. That happened to me at a party once though in 95 by a girl who was about 4 years older than me at the time...being only 18 at the time I was so shocked that I really dropped the ball by not being a little more "pressing". She was hot too!