Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Well no wonder I was a Hendrix fan

Music Wonkery

In my high school, there were basically 2 sorts of people: the kids who listened to crap, and the ones who didn’t. 

We were too small to have a distinct division between the usual clans.  The heads and jocks, for example, were oftentimes indistinct as the top athletes smoked dope or juiced.  Since I wasn’t into drugs or sports, or combining one with the other, I found I identified most with people who listened to similar musics.  As an interesting side note, most of us had little musical talent; the band kids listened to the pop/pap.

Via Begging to Differ and about three other people comes a harmless, yet peculiarly irritating little music game. 

Instructions:

A.) Go to musicoutfitters.com
B.) Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
C.) Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don’t remember (or don’t care about).

After looking at the list, is it any wonder that Zeppelin and Sabbath were among the most popular bands to the music clan?  Is it wrong that the B52s had the least-offensive track in the entire year?  I ought to disclose that sure, I dug G ‘n R when I was 17.  But today I can’t even bear to hear a snippet of “Appetite” flipping between stations. 

My list below the fold.


Posted by GeekLethal on 08/30/05 at 03:59 PM
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