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hnpccSo after my comment about how I am very bad at trivia questions involving bands from the mid-late 90s because I was pretty much exclusively listening to tripleJ during that period I read the mX on the way home and tested this on their Backchat charts. The charts have the top ten singles from this week, this week in 1998 and this week in 1988. My definition of "know" incidentally is that reading the name of the song triggers it with minimal thought into my brain.
Here we go:
This week - I know two. Pictures of you, pictures of me, something something, shut the fuck up already. Yes, I know it because it's currently being played to death everywhere. Still, at least that means that that horribly overplayed and overwrought Fergie thing may have finally bitten the dust. The other is "Sweet about Me", by Gabriella Cilmi.
1998 - 2 definitely, with two possibles (not sure they triggered the right song, but I think I would know them if I heard them. Maybe). The definites are:
"My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion - c'mon here, tribesmen in the backblocks of the Amazon know this song. People who've never seen Titanic and never plan to know this song. It was an earworm pandemic, this song. People who have no idea what else Celine Dion ever did (well, singing-wise - we all know she married some old bloke and went off to sing in Vegas) want to chuck her off a ship mid-Atlantic to test the heart theory.
"5, 6, 7, 8" by Steps. Heh. Bouncy!
The possibles:
"Never Ever" by All Saints. Me: "Is that that song where I want to slap that girl?" Dean: "How would I know? There's a lot of those." So, yeah, maybe.
"You're Still The One" by Shania Twain. One that I'm sure I should know, but it's triggering a sports show theme, and something that was on channel 9 some time ago. Both of which were sung by guys, so definitely not the actual song.
1988 - 6 definites. "I should be so lucky", by Kyles, "Get outta my dreams, get into my car" by Billy Ocean, "Stutter Rap" by Morris Minor and The Majors - it worries me that not only do I know this, I can remember most of the lyrics actually -, "Time of My Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - I should remember that, I'd no idea who actually sang it. Haven't seen the movie either -, "Love in the first degree" by Bananarama and "Hazy Shade of Winter" by the Bangles. Well, that version was by the Bangles at least. And yes, I can remember it.
The other four (again, I feel like I should know these, but I've got nothing) are:
"Whenever You Need Somebody" by Rick Astley - I think the problem is that all those songs sound kind of similar. And there's quite a few around with 'hey, if you need me I'm willing to sleep with you' kind of lyrics.
"Hungry Eyes" by Eric Carmen. I have a half-echo of a song, but it's mixing up with "Bette Davis Eyes", which is not helping.
"She's Like The Wind" by Patrick Swayze - that movie did really well, didn't it? No idea how this song goes offhand though.
"Sign Your Name" by Terence Trent D'Arby. Absolutely no idea about this one. And for some reason (OK, sad, sad reasons) I'm getting images of a very bad TV show called Chains of Love. Why? The premise was one guy and four girls (or vice versa) were chained to each other, while the guy worked out which of the girls he liked more and it all ended in wuv, twue wuv. Or, you know, money. There was slightly more to it, but not a lot. The TTD'A bit is because I first saw it late at night when I was really tired and wasn't wearing glasses, and so when the "Enforcer" guy came out to unchain whichever contestant had been eliminated I thought he was a man in a gorilla suit. Actually, he was a large Maori guy with dreads (he might even have been the guy who played Vulcan on Gladiators actually), in a black uniform which had a trenchcoat as part of it. Hence TTD'A. When I put my glasses on neither of them look like gorillas, and seriously I've no idea where that came from. But I did think for weeks that this show had a gorilla-Enforcer, which was kind of odd, even for very bad reality television. Moral of the story: turn the TV off and go to bed if you're that tired. Or wear glasses. Or don't watch Chains of Love. Take your pick.
I realise that there are two problems with this survey - I've had 20 and 10 years more to hear and remember the 1988 and 1998 songs respectively, but even so I'm doing way better on the late 80s than the late 90s.
The ones I had no clue on, just for the record, are:
now:
"Low" by Flo Rider, "4 minutes" by Madonna/Justin, "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat, "With You" by Chris Brown, "Tattoo" by Jordin Sparks, "Work" by Kelly Rowland, "Dream Catch Me" by Newton Faulkner and "Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna ([1]please God don't tell me that this is a rip off of the Village People song and [2] please God go away already, I just got that Umbrella thing out of my head). Actually I've only heard of three of the artists in that lot. Hm.
1998:
"Second Solution" by Living End (sorry guys, they all blur for me), "It's Like that" by Run-DMC vs Jason Nevins, "Lollipop" by Aqua, "You make me wanna" by Usher (was he around then? Really?), "All I have to Give" by the Backstreet Boys (the title's still making me giggle) and "Cherish" by Pappa Bear. Who?!?
Just goes to show, there'll undoubtedly be a question on him in the next month or so and I'll be sitting there going "well, I think I've heard it before, but I've no idea what it's called or who sings it..." As always.
Here we go:
This week - I know two. Pictures of you, pictures of me, something something, shut the fuck up already. Yes, I know it because it's currently being played to death everywhere. Still, at least that means that that horribly overplayed and overwrought Fergie thing may have finally bitten the dust. The other is "Sweet about Me", by Gabriella Cilmi.
1998 - 2 definitely, with two possibles (not sure they triggered the right song, but I think I would know them if I heard them. Maybe). The definites are:
"My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion - c'mon here, tribesmen in the backblocks of the Amazon know this song. People who've never seen Titanic and never plan to know this song. It was an earworm pandemic, this song. People who have no idea what else Celine Dion ever did (well, singing-wise - we all know she married some old bloke and went off to sing in Vegas) want to chuck her off a ship mid-Atlantic to test the heart theory.
"5, 6, 7, 8" by Steps. Heh. Bouncy!
The possibles:
"Never Ever" by All Saints. Me: "Is that that song where I want to slap that girl?" Dean: "How would I know? There's a lot of those." So, yeah, maybe.
"You're Still The One" by Shania Twain. One that I'm sure I should know, but it's triggering a sports show theme, and something that was on channel 9 some time ago. Both of which were sung by guys, so definitely not the actual song.
1988 - 6 definites. "I should be so lucky", by Kyles, "Get outta my dreams, get into my car" by Billy Ocean, "Stutter Rap" by Morris Minor and The Majors - it worries me that not only do I know this, I can remember most of the lyrics actually -, "Time of My Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - I should remember that, I'd no idea who actually sang it. Haven't seen the movie either -, "Love in the first degree" by Bananarama and "Hazy Shade of Winter" by the Bangles. Well, that version was by the Bangles at least. And yes, I can remember it.
The other four (again, I feel like I should know these, but I've got nothing) are:
"Whenever You Need Somebody" by Rick Astley - I think the problem is that all those songs sound kind of similar. And there's quite a few around with 'hey, if you need me I'm willing to sleep with you' kind of lyrics.
"Hungry Eyes" by Eric Carmen. I have a half-echo of a song, but it's mixing up with "Bette Davis Eyes", which is not helping.
"She's Like The Wind" by Patrick Swayze - that movie did really well, didn't it? No idea how this song goes offhand though.
"Sign Your Name" by Terence Trent D'Arby. Absolutely no idea about this one. And for some reason (OK, sad, sad reasons) I'm getting images of a very bad TV show called Chains of Love. Why? The premise was one guy and four girls (or vice versa) were chained to each other, while the guy worked out which of the girls he liked more and it all ended in wuv, twue wuv. Or, you know, money. There was slightly more to it, but not a lot. The TTD'A bit is because I first saw it late at night when I was really tired and wasn't wearing glasses, and so when the "Enforcer" guy came out to unchain whichever contestant had been eliminated I thought he was a man in a gorilla suit. Actually, he was a large Maori guy with dreads (he might even have been the guy who played Vulcan on Gladiators actually), in a black uniform which had a trenchcoat as part of it. Hence TTD'A. When I put my glasses on neither of them look like gorillas, and seriously I've no idea where that came from. But I did think for weeks that this show had a gorilla-Enforcer, which was kind of odd, even for very bad reality television. Moral of the story: turn the TV off and go to bed if you're that tired. Or wear glasses. Or don't watch Chains of Love. Take your pick.
I realise that there are two problems with this survey - I've had 20 and 10 years more to hear and remember the 1988 and 1998 songs respectively, but even so I'm doing way better on the late 80s than the late 90s.
The ones I had no clue on, just for the record, are:
now:
"Low" by Flo Rider, "4 minutes" by Madonna/Justin, "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat, "With You" by Chris Brown, "Tattoo" by Jordin Sparks, "Work" by Kelly Rowland, "Dream Catch Me" by Newton Faulkner and "Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna ([1]please God don't tell me that this is a rip off of the Village People song and [2] please God go away already, I just got that Umbrella thing out of my head). Actually I've only heard of three of the artists in that lot. Hm.
1998:
"Second Solution" by Living End (sorry guys, they all blur for me), "It's Like that" by Run-DMC vs Jason Nevins, "Lollipop" by Aqua, "You make me wanna" by Usher (was he around then? Really?), "All I have to Give" by the Backstreet Boys (the title's still making me giggle) and "Cherish" by Pappa Bear. Who?!?
Just goes to show, there'll undoubtedly be a question on him in the next month or so and I'll be sitting there going "well, I think I've heard it before, but I've no idea what it's called or who sings it..." As always.
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