Today's AT40
Feb. 18th, 2007 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
2/27/1988.
Didn't start out well: #40 is Terrence Trent Darby. I hated that guy.
Senior in high school. I was hating most pop at the time, given that I was hitting my peak of "classic rock" worship. Earlier that season I'd seen Pink Floyd, Yes, and Rush in concert. My preferred "party" music was more goth-techno, but since I didn't hold too many parties I didn't bother to get my own until much later.
In spite of the dearth of "pop culture", this was actually the best time of my high school life, really. Rather than overstriving with too many AP classes, I took it easy in physics with a non-AP/non-GT class (aced easily), and a cool English teacher who introduced me to a James Burke, and to a fantastic production of Taming of the Shrew that I recently found was available on DVD (we watched it a few nights ago). Yes, THAT Mark Singer. I was doing well in my calc class, and I took a "teachers assistant" spot for my lunch class session that occasionally made for 90 minute lunch breaks, doing wonders to my sanity.
(whew...firefox crashed but recovered this post when i restarted it.)
Anyways, a few rock classics for what passed for modern rock at the time, Aerosmith's Angel (wow, Liv Tyler before being famous), INXS's Devil Inside, ...
All good songs, just not what I was into at the time, mostly because of how much crap ("Pebbles", or Jody Watley, for example) you had to go through on pop radio before a good song came up. It just wasn't worth the wait.
HAH - story, Springsteen once forgot the lyrics to Born to Run in concert in 1980, and then was able to go on with the concert 'cause all 13,000 fans were singing it for him. Tunnel of Love (the song in today's chart), on the other hand, was a song I didn't care for at all, but you Bruce fans can keep it.
more updates later. laundry time.
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"Long time ago when we was Fab..." -- Now, of course, I know what he means.
Such a change in attitude to today. Back then, "Girlfriend" by Pebbles was a song about one girl telling the other not to give in to the boy's sexual advances. Today, "Girlfriend" is a total slut saying "don't you wish your girlfriend would put out like me" in no uncertain terms. Subtlety is lost on the modern generation.
What do you do when you (as a woman) walk out into your living room and see two guys sleeping on the floor? Start a band! The (not so) sordid origins of Swing out Sister. English pop still had something going for it, between them, Pet Shop Boys, and Rick Astley.
"Get out of my dreams, get into my pants"! Sorry, Mr. Ocean, but you just made that WAY too easy.
Michael Bolton's cover of Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay. "Why should I have to change my name? He's the one who sucks!"
Histeria!
I hated that album at the time, merely because everybody else loved it. By '91, after the hype had *finally* died down, I could listen to it objectively and I think it's brilliant. My HD at college my freshman year had "HSTERIA" for his license plates. They got stolen. He found out the hard way that if custom plates are stolen, you couldn't use the same custom tag again for your replacements.
Sting, Be Still My Beating Heart. Another song I respected long after the album's popularity had dwindled. I was very turned off by "We'll Be Together" (still am) that I wasn't willing to risk the rest yet. It's a very dark, mature album, and most of it is really lost on 18 year olds who dug the music but probably didn't really know what he was saying, especially in They Dance Alone or Englishman in New York.
Yeesh, Gladys Knight and the Pips still had a hit that late in the game? Not terribly good (typical hip-hop dance for the time), though apparently it won a Grammy that year. I wonder if someone's made a t-shirt featuring her cousins that just says "Respect My Pips!"
Cher's big 80s hit, "I Found Someone", was actually a cover of a Laura Branigan song from 1986. Go fig. Based on the snippet, I'll take the late Branigan's version instead. Ironically, it was written by Mr. Sucks himself, Michael Bolton.
#1? George Michael's Father Figure. Didn't care for it then, don't care for it now.
Didn't start out well: #40 is Terrence Trent Darby. I hated that guy.
Senior in high school. I was hating most pop at the time, given that I was hitting my peak of "classic rock" worship. Earlier that season I'd seen Pink Floyd, Yes, and Rush in concert. My preferred "party" music was more goth-techno, but since I didn't hold too many parties I didn't bother to get my own until much later.
In spite of the dearth of "pop culture", this was actually the best time of my high school life, really. Rather than overstriving with too many AP classes, I took it easy in physics with a non-AP/non-GT class (aced easily), and a cool English teacher who introduced me to a James Burke, and to a fantastic production of Taming of the Shrew that I recently found was available on DVD (we watched it a few nights ago). Yes, THAT Mark Singer. I was doing well in my calc class, and I took a "teachers assistant" spot for my lunch class session that occasionally made for 90 minute lunch breaks, doing wonders to my sanity.
(whew...firefox crashed but recovered this post when i restarted it.)
Anyways, a few rock classics for what passed for modern rock at the time, Aerosmith's Angel (wow, Liv Tyler before being famous), INXS's Devil Inside, ...
All good songs, just not what I was into at the time, mostly because of how much crap ("Pebbles", or Jody Watley, for example) you had to go through on pop radio before a good song came up. It just wasn't worth the wait.
HAH - story, Springsteen once forgot the lyrics to Born to Run in concert in 1980, and then was able to go on with the concert 'cause all 13,000 fans were singing it for him. Tunnel of Love (the song in today's chart), on the other hand, was a song I didn't care for at all, but you Bruce fans can keep it.
more updates later. laundry time.
----
"Long time ago when we was Fab..." -- Now, of course, I know what he means.
Such a change in attitude to today. Back then, "Girlfriend" by Pebbles was a song about one girl telling the other not to give in to the boy's sexual advances. Today, "Girlfriend" is a total slut saying "don't you wish your girlfriend would put out like me" in no uncertain terms. Subtlety is lost on the modern generation.
What do you do when you (as a woman) walk out into your living room and see two guys sleeping on the floor? Start a band! The (not so) sordid origins of Swing out Sister. English pop still had something going for it, between them, Pet Shop Boys, and Rick Astley.
"Get out of my dreams, get into my pants"! Sorry, Mr. Ocean, but you just made that WAY too easy.
Michael Bolton's cover of Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay. "Why should I have to change my name? He's the one who sucks!"
Histeria!
I hated that album at the time, merely because everybody else loved it. By '91, after the hype had *finally* died down, I could listen to it objectively and I think it's brilliant. My HD at college my freshman year had "HSTERIA" for his license plates. They got stolen. He found out the hard way that if custom plates are stolen, you couldn't use the same custom tag again for your replacements.
Sting, Be Still My Beating Heart. Another song I respected long after the album's popularity had dwindled. I was very turned off by "We'll Be Together" (still am) that I wasn't willing to risk the rest yet. It's a very dark, mature album, and most of it is really lost on 18 year olds who dug the music but probably didn't really know what he was saying, especially in They Dance Alone or Englishman in New York.
Yeesh, Gladys Knight and the Pips still had a hit that late in the game? Not terribly good (typical hip-hop dance for the time), though apparently it won a Grammy that year. I wonder if someone's made a t-shirt featuring her cousins that just says "Respect My Pips!"
Cher's big 80s hit, "I Found Someone", was actually a cover of a Laura Branigan song from 1986. Go fig. Based on the snippet, I'll take the late Branigan's version instead. Ironically, it was written by Mr. Sucks himself, Michael Bolton.
#1? George Michael's Father Figure. Didn't care for it then, don't care for it now.
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Date: 2007-02-18 08:33 pm (UTC)And before Liv, Alisha Silverstone, who was in the the videos for "Amazing" and "Cryin"
I hated that album at the time, merely because everybody else loved it. By '91, after the hype had *finally* died down, I could listen to it objectively and I think it's brilliant. My HD at college my freshman year had "HSTERIA" for his license plates. They got stolen. He found out the hard way that if custom plates are stolen, you couldn't use the same custom tag again for your replacements.
Well, I was already a Def Leppard fan, so I got into Hysteria before it got played to death. Yeah, I did have to give it a rest for a while, but I knew from the beginning it was a great album.
Unfortunately, for heavy metal fans, Hysteria was a mixed bag. While it was a great album, it was basically the end of their "metal" phase. While they still rock, they went more toward the pop ballad direction, in a lot of ways trying to repeat what they did with Hysteria. Really, the only album of consequence that Def Leppard did since then was "Slang", where they really did try to do something different. Unfortunately, that was the same time their record company pretty much stopped pushing them.