If you read my last blog https://timhon.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/my-life-in-birthday-songs/ you learned that I was not too happy with the song list that topped the charts on my birthday each year. So, I thought I’d make a list of what I would have been listening to on my birthday…Going back though, I would in most cases have to guess…because, well…I can’t remember what I listened to 44 years ago, but I like to think I was a cool baby so my best guess is what you get.
Here you go;
My top 44 of my life
1967 Light My Fire – Doors
1968 Hey Jude – Beatles
1969 These Eyes – The Guess Who
1970 Lola – The Kinks
1971 Rainy Days and Mondays – Carpenters
1972 American Pie – Don McLean
1973 We’re An American Band – Grand Funk Railroad
1974 Bennie and The Jets – Elton John
1975 Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John
1976 Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
1977 Jet Airliner – Steve Miller Band
1978 We Are The Champions / WE Will Rock You – Queen
1979 My Sharona – The Knack
1980 Don’t Do Me Like That – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
1981 Take It On The Run – REO Speedwagon
1982 Centerfold – J. Geils Band
1983 Photograph – Def Leppard
1984 Sister Christian – Night Ranger
1985 I’m On Fire – Bruce Springsteen
1986 West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
1987 Wanted Dead Or Alive – Bon Jovi
1988 Need You Tonight – INXS
1989 Love Song – The Cure
1990 Cradle of Love – Billy Idol
1991 Unbelievable – EMF
1992 Smell Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
1993 Ordinary World – Duran Duran
1994 Loser – Beck
1995 Misery – Soul Asylum
1996 1979 – Smashing Pumpkins
1997 Semi-Charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
1998 How’s It Going To Be – Third Eye Blind
1999 Slide – Goo Goo Dolls
2000 Kryptonite
2001 Drops of Jupiter – Train
2002 S8ter Boy – Avril Lavigne
2003 She Hates Me – Puddle Of Mudd
2004 Numb – Linkin Park
2005 Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day
2006 Move Along – All American Rejects
2007 Hey There Delilah – Plain White T ‘s
2008 Crushcrushcrush – Paramore / Check Yes Juliet – We The Kings
2009 Second Chance – Shinedown
2010 Snuf – Slipknot
2011 Diamond Eyes – Shinedown / The Catalyst – Linkin Park
That was hard…this list could have gone a lot of ways…I have some of the widest range in music taste of anyone you’ll know. At any given time I could be listening to Rock, Alternative, Country or Punk. I’ve listened to music throughout my life from Van Halen to Kenny Rodgers, Led Zeplin to The Sex Pistols and from AC/DC to Depeche Mode. I’ve seen Madonna in concert and attended the Vans Warped Tour. The past few years I’ve listened to Taylor Swift, Five Finger Death Punch and Death Cab For Cutie and all on one CD currently in my SUV’s player, you find Splipknot, Shinedown, Rise Against, Saving Abel and Miley Cyrus. I’m thinking I could have been a music critic for Rolling Stone 🙂
Who knows what I’ll be listening to come this April 8th….What do you listen to?
Tim
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