The Songs of Our Lives…

JayG over at Marooned has put a meme up… being that it happens to be music related, I have to do it.

Yeah, I tagged myself.  Big shock there.

Here are the rules:

1. For each year you’ve been alive, post a song title (with performer name) that was released that year. There’s some flexibility here – singles, albums, and Billboard Top Songs Chart will all be within a year of each other, but tend not to overlap. You have a song and a date, you’re good to go.

2. You have to post songs that you own, or have owned in the past, or your parents owned when you were a child. If there’s a year where you just don’t have a song, then pick any old song from that year, but mark that year with an asterisk (*).

3. Ladies do not have to list more than the most recent 29 songs. A Gentleman never asks a Lady her age. If you want, though, list ‘em all.

4. Once you’ve posted, tag 4 other bloggers. I’m not tagging anyone ;)  I’m a rebel like that.

FYI, here’s an excellent site that not only lists the Billboard Top 100 songs for each year, but they let you listen to them!

1976: Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby

1977: Heart – Barracuda

1978: Styx – Come Sail Away My Brother does an AMAZING version of this in the style of Cartman from SouthPark.

1979: Cheap Trick – I Want You to Want Me

1980: Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall Part 2

1981: Oak Ridge Boys – Elvira

1982: Journey – Open Arms (Yes, Journey!  I LOVE me some Journey!!!)

1983: Journey – Separate Ways (World’s Apart) (*Points to 1982*)

1984: Billy Joel – The Longest Time

1985: Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days

1986: Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name (The beginning of my Glam Hair band addiction)

1987: Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive (Yeah, I know.)

1988: Def Leppard – Love Bites

1989: New Kids On The Block – I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) (I was in the 8th grade, cut me some slack :))

1990: Bon Jovi – Blaze Of Glory

1991:  Extreme – More Than Words (Still one of my favorite songs)

1992: Mr. Big – To Be With You (Waiting on a line of greens and bluuuues…)

1993: Aerosmith – Cryin’

1994:  Neal McCoy – Wink  (Yeah, I discovered that I like country music.)

1995: Van Halen – I Can’t Stop Lovin’ You (It was Our song)

1996: Natalie Merchant – Wonder

1997: Tim Mcgraw & Faith Hill – It’s Your Love

1998: Jo Dee Messina -I’m Alright

1999:  Ricky Martin – Livin’ La Vida Loca (I don’t care if he’s gay, straight, white, black, yellow, purple, or pink.  That boy is HOT.)

2000:  Filter – Take a Picture (God is this song that old?  I watched them perform it in concert this past summer and it felt like yesterday I was singing along with it on the radio.)

2001: U2 – Beautiful Day

2002: Puddle Of Mudd – Blurry

2003: Mark Wills -19 Somethin’ I also know what’s inside of Stretch Armstrong.

2004:  Toby Keith – American Soldier

2005: Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends

2006:  If You’re Going Through Hell – Rodney Atkins (The song that ALMOST got me through medic school)

2007:  Big & Rich – Lost In This Moment

2008: Montgomery Gentry – Roll With Me (My daughter calls this “Mom-Mom’s song”

So that’s it.  That’s my thirty two years.  It’s a rather odd collection of music, but that’s me.

Odd.

Heh.

Let me know if you decide to play along, I’d love to read it.