You make it hard for me to love you
Scott over at Moonshine Mountain has tagged me with another music meme. (I'm a little foggy on the rules, but whatever.)
I don't know why I keep getting tagged with music - it's my worst field of knowledge. You know when people play Trivial Pursuit and there's that one subject that you're weak on? An always elusive pie piece?
Music is my elusive piece of pie.
But in the year 1992 I was a a lass of eighteen. I remember a bunch of my friends took me to a divey Greek joint in downtown Indianapolis where we at flaming cheese and rocked out with some belly dancers.
I might have even rocked out to some of these songs.
10. I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston - I'm somewhat ashamed to say that this song hit about the time I broke up with my boyfriend. I drove around for a week listening to this song and crying. Driving and crying isn't what you learn about in driver's ed.
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana - I remember the first time I heard this song. I was driving, again a popular teen activity in Central Indiana. I still have a pretty visceral reaction when I hear it.
2. I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred - Man, 1992 was this perfect storm of end of 80s metal, the exploding rap and grunge scenes and of course bizarre one-hit-wonders like this. I might still sing this while doing laundry. I'm too sexy for folding socks.
45. All 4 Love by Color Me Badd - I think that extra D is for savings. This song reminds me that I also graduated from high school and college from the kids of Beverly Hills 90210.
3. End of the Road by Boyz II Men: This was the song I heard about 3 million times during graduation. I get it. We're like changing and stuff. Of course, that would assume I actually attended my high school graduation. I did not.
By the way, the people who choose this song to play over and over again for our graduation also tried to push really hard for a Tears in Heaven theme for prom. Songs about dead kids make for a highly skippable event.
Now you're it: Kristen, Grumpy Frump, Janna, Steve, and Nabbalicious.
Go nuts!
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LOL on "The End of the Road" and the dead kids thing! When I graduated from high school in Virginia Beach in 1979, the seniors were asked to pick a theme song for prom. I kept lobbying for "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. Not because I'm into dead-kid songs or even the least bit goth, but because I thought it would be funny. Can you picture kids rocking out to that in formalwear? Sadly, everyone thought I was joking (sort of, but I think they didn't get my humor--I was reading the cartoons in The New Yorker by the time I was 8), so they ended up picking some geeky ballad instead.
I don't even remember what song it was. But I had a good time at the prom anyway, so as the great Bill Murray would say, at least I have that goin' for me.