Thursday, January 8, 2009

Songs of your life meme

New meme time. The rules are pretty simple:
1. For each year you've been alive, post a song title (with performer name) that was released that year. There's some flexibility here - singles, albums, and Billboard Top Songs Chart will all be within a year of each other, but tend not to overlap. You have a song and a date, you're good to go.

2. You have to post songs that you own, or have owned in the past, or your parents owned when you were a child. If there's a year where you just don't have a song, then pick any old song from that year, but mark that year with an asterisk (*).

3. Ladies do not have to list more than the most recent 29 songs. A Gentleman never asks a Lady her age. If you want, though, list 'em all.

4. Once you've posted, tag 4 other bloggers.
Here are the bloggers I'm tagging:
JayG, because I suspect he's got some sweet Motorhead stuff. Or Brian Setzer, Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder).

DirtCrashr, because whatever he has, it isn't California Dreaming.

Brigid, to see if she has any Jefferson Airplane. Of course, that's more than 29 years, so you know I'm no Gentleman. Whatever it is, it should be yummy.

Edge, because I only have one Movie theme. He'll have a bunch.
Here are my songs. Since I'm really old, there are a lot. You've been warned. Big Redneck shift occurs around 1992.
1958 Duke Ellington, Autumn Leaves
1959 Tom Lehrer, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
1960* Ray Charles, Georgia on my mind
1961* Patsy Cline, I fall to pieces
1962* Roy Orbeson, Crying
1963 Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire
1964 The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night
1965 Shirley Bassey, Goldfinger
1966 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Zorba the Greek
1967 The Monkees, I'm a Believer
1968 The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
1969 Neil Diamond, Sweet Caroline
1970 Chicago, 25 or 6 to 4
1971 Gordon Lightfoot, If you could read my mind
1972 Don McLean, American Pie
1973 Pink Floyd, Money
1974 Ray Stevens, The Streak
1975 Queen, Killer Queen
1976 Boston, Foreplay/Long Time
1977 Pink Floyd, Sheep
1978 Meatloaf, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
1979 Dire Straights, Sultans of Swing
1980 George Benson, Give me the night
1981 Dan Fogelberg, Ghosts
1982 Men at Work, Down Under
1983 Bryan Adams Cuts Like A Knife
1984 Huey Lewis and the News, I Want A New Drug
1985 John Mellencamp, Small Town
1986 Genesis, Throwing It All Away
1987 10,000 Maniacs, Verdi Cries
1988 Bruce Hornsby and the Range, I Will Walk With You
1989 Indigo Girls, Southland in the Springtime
1990 Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Moon and St. Christopher
1991 R.E.M., Shiny Happy People
1992 Travis Tritt, T-R-O-U-B-L-E
1993 Garth Brooks, Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)
1994 Vince Gill, Go Rest High On That Mountain
1995 Alison Kraus and Union Station, When You Say Nothing At All
1996 Shania Twain, (If You're Not in It for Love) I'm Outta Here
1997 Toby Keith, Dream Walkin'
1998 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Mr. Pinstripe Suit
1999 Faith Hill, Breathe
2000 Santana, Smooth
2001 Lonestar, I'm Already There
2002 Johnny Cash, Hurt
2003 Matchbox 20, Unwell
2004 Tim McGraw, Live Like You Were Dying
2005 Breaking Benjamin, Rain
2006 Kellie Pickler, I Wonder
2007 Martina McBride, Anyway
2008 Miranda Lambert, Gunpowder and Lead
FYI, here's an excellent site that not only lists the Billboard Top 100 songs for each year, but they let you listen to them!

6 comments:

NotClauswitz said...

That's gonna be tough, and use-up a LOT of asterisks...

Anonymous said...

Dang. You are old. :)

blogger said...

Why thank you, chrisb.

;-)

Jay G said...

Thanks for the tag, Ted.

I'll *try* to have this up tomorrow... we shall see...

(WV: "depub". Sounds so wrong...)

the pistolero said...

Dude, I am SO jacking this meme later...

EDGE said...

Hey Ted,

I appreciate the tag my friend!