Mom picked...she has a weakness for "Backstabbers"...she was very impressed with the boxes and art, too. And I owe y'all fic, huh? As well as mad props, dawg. That's some serious shit, right there. I might have to ease my sanctions on thank-you notes, too. Also, seconding JZ's "green, not brown" emotions in re The Artist Currently known as Corwood(It's a Wire thing.)

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Now? I'm still a dwarf, and Corwood's the same age as my baby brother.

HEY! Some of us are Corwood's age, too. (Well, I will be on the 22nd of this month, at least.)

I found out today that one of the most knowledgable baseball guys I know is the same age as MY baby brother.

(N.B.: I have very little confidence that any of these don't actually suck; this may in fact just be a list of the only songs from the entire list that I actually recognize, but for some reason each of these pinged a faint Oh, yeah, I kinda liked that not-quite-memory)

1986 was a far better and more musically interesting year than 1990.

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1986 was a far better and more musically interesting year than 1990

Just heard the soundtrack to that year on the new Fox show Reunion, which begins in 1986. Weird.

Songs from 1985, my graduating year, that I wouldn't turn off:

I Feel For You, Chaka Khan
Crazy For You, Madonna
Don't You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds
Sea of Love, The Honeydrippers
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Tears for Fears
Raspberry Beret, Prince and the Revolution
Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen
Voices Carry, 'Til Tuesday
Would I Lie to You, The Eurythmics
Jungle Love, The Time

Amazing how many songs I liked then didn't make it to the pop charts.

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Hec! Mix arrived and is being ripped presently, again I say "gracias."

Songs I would not turn off from the year I graduated (haven't we done this before?) 1992.

Baby Got Back, Sir Mix A-lot

I was so lucky to have this song on the radio constantly my senior year.

Jump Around, House Of Pain

Come on! It's irresistible.

Diamonds and Pearls, Prince and The N.P.G.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana

Again, lucky = me.

Tennessee, Arrested Development

I still have this album though I haven't listened to it in an age.

All I Want, Toad The Wet Sprocket

You would have thought TtWS had 15 albums the way people were talking about them my freshman year of college. I am not a fan but this song has the memories.

People Everyday, Arrested Development

Friday I'm In Love, Cure

I never had this album but I wouldn't change the station because - it's the Cure.

Out of curiosity: I bet the year I graduated from college, 1997, I have fewer songs that would keep from changing stations.

Mo Money Mo Problems, Notorious B.I.G.

Because it's so true...

Tubthumping, Chumbawamba

I'm one of two people in the country who hasn't heard this song enough.

Naked Eye, Luscious Jackson

This song (in fact this whole album) is on my iPod!

Yeah - that was a pretty sad list.

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Hec! Mix arrived and is being ripped presently, again I say "gracias."

Right on. 1992 was a good year.

The early 90s are all about the 3 Gs: Grunge, Gangsta and Garth.

(I'll note that Garth was so popular one radio station tried an All Garth All The Time format. Something which previously had only been attemped with The Beatles and, I think, Elvis.)

Then came the boy band world domination.

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Songs I still like from top 100 '91 Shiny Happy People- REM

Something To Talk About- Bonnie Raitt

I Touch Myself- The Divinyls

Still Like Boys II Men although I apparently don't remember their biggest hit.

Losing My Religion-REM

Guess that's it, although I remember being fond of "Summertime" by the Fresh Prince when it came out for its "back in the day" feeling, but I've not heard it since...does it still count? Cute video, too, iirc.

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1992 was a good year.

It really was. Boyz II Men was really the only big boy band and they weren't half bad. I remember listening to Nirvana for the first time when I was up at a college party in Lawrence that fall and then (perfect memory of this - even remember what I was wearing and that I was fixing myself a microwave quesadilla) watching the video for Teen Spirit in my kitchen a few weeks later.

Gish was the album we listened to everyday. And Mudhoney and Screaming Trees. And I saw Pearl Jam live that spring in front of the biggest crowd they had ever played in front of. Ooh and Jellyfish opening for the Black Crowes was fun. Check Your Head came out that summer. It was the first album I ever bought on CD. Oh - and I remember lining up for the midnight release of Automatic for the People (but that was in college, we were listening to Out of Time still my senior year). Good times - well, sorta.

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Something which previously had only been attemped with The Beatles and, I think, Elvis.

There was a station in Florida that did it with Zeppelin, I am pretty sure.

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Three in a row?

Did y'all know that wikipedia has entries for each year in music? 1992: [link]

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Just back from Sufjan Stevens live at the Somerville Theater. Go See Him! [link] He's got a seven piece band with everyone switching off on instruments ranging from guitar to banjo to trombone to xylophone. Great vocal harmonies. Great arrangements. They wore matching orange and blue "I" cheerleader outfits and occasionally broke into cheers for various Illinois towns like Peoria, Jacksonville and Metropolis. The sound was amazing, but it was a local guy doing the mix so I don't know that the show in your town will sound as good.

There were two songs in particular that I need to ID. The first song of the set listed (nearly?) all the 50 states. Later, he did a twisted version of the Star Spangled Banner. Completely different melody but the same lyrics... up until the "rockets red glare" bridge where the lyrics wandered off into some disturbing imagery of blood on the hands and on the flag. I didn't catch them all which is one of the reasons I want to know if it's been recorded. Anyone? Bueller?

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