On Friday afternoon at work, it tends to get a little quiet in regards to who is in the office. My department is always there and always busy, but not so true for other departments.
Working in the music industry, this means it is time to talk music memories. This Friday just gone was 90′s day, where the best and worst of the 90′s were pulled out to varying degrees of excitement, critique or mocking.
So I thought I would do a run through the decade, what are the songs of each year that define my memories of that year? I’m not going to try to be cool and pick songs that are still good now, but be honest – what was I listening to?
It has actually been a much harder task than I expected. I thought I had different phases where I like a style of music, and I would be able to pick that style. In reality though, there was a lot of crossover between say Pearl Jam and Boyz II Men – I find it a little hard to believe and it doesn’t seem right, but it’s true.
So in the end I think this is more just a list of songs that I enjoyed in days gone by and in some cases still do. Sorry that you tube makes you go to their site so often now and about all the stupid ads you tube puts on stuff now – but hey, they help me get paid, so I don’t mind too much.
1990 (The tail end of the great 80′s hair bands)
1991
1992 ( I think I started taking surfing a bit more seriously around about here)
1993 (Siamese Dreams is one of the greatest albums of all time, if you don’t agree, you’re wrong)
1994 (And yeah the white boy wanna be black phase was kicking in)
1995 (Seriously, I only knew one person that didn’t love this song (and man did he hate it))
1996 (I had left school, owned a car, these were happy times)
1997 (My first trip to work at camp in Wisconsin. I bought it there, got sick of it, came back to NZ just when it was released and felt like killing someone for it)
1998 (The beginning of the Dave Matthews phase)
1999 (I will let you know if the Dave Matthews phase ever ends)
So how was the 90′s for you?
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No vanilla ice?
Stormer knew the whole thing off by heart!!!
And Gansta’s paradise was hated by more than one person, i’m sure!
I still do know Ice Ice Baby by heart, and it was a close exclusion.
Maybe Gangstas Paradise was hated by more than one person outwardly, but secretly – you all loved it!