{"id":760,"date":"2005-09-05T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=760"},"modified":"2005-09-05T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T11:40:00","slug":"1981-was-a-shitty-year-for-pop-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"1981 Was a Shitty Year for Pop Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or so says <a href=\"http:\/\/roxanne.typepad.com\/rantrave\/2005\/08\/1981_was_a_shit.html\">Rox Populi<\/a>. The method? Find the Billboard top 100 from the year you graduated High School and \"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). \"<\/p>\n<p>I'm goning to take it a step further and put songs I don't remember in italics. So, to recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Favorite<\/u>\n<li><b>Like<\/b>\n<li><strike>Hate<\/strike>\n<li><i>Don't remember<\/i>\n<li>Ambivalent\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let's try 1988: <\/p>\n<p><strike>1. Faith, George Michael <\/strike><br \/>\n<u>2. Need You Tonight, INXS <\/u><br \/>\n<strike>3. Got My Mind Set On You, George Harrison <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>4. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley <\/strike><br \/>\n<strong>5. Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns N' Roses <\/strong><br \/>\n<strike>6. So Emotional, Whitney Houston <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>7. Heaven Is A Place On Earth, Belinda Carlisle <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>8. Could've Been, Tiffany<br \/>\n9. Hands To Heaven, Breathe <\/em><br \/>\n10. Roll With It, Steve Winwood<br \/>\n<em>11. One More Try, George Michael <\/em><strike><br \/>\n12. Wishing Well, Terence Trent d'Arby <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>13. Anything For You, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>14. The Flame, Cheap Trick <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>15. Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car, Billy Ocean <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>16. Seasons Change, Expose <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>17. Is This Love, Whitesnake <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>18. Wild, Wild West, Escape Club <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>19. Pour Some Sugar On Me, Def Leppard <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>20. I'll Always Love You, Taylor Dayne<\/em><br \/>\n<strike>21. Man In The Mirror, Michael Jackson <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>22. Shake Your Love, Debbie Gibson <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>23. Simply Irresistible, Robert Palmer <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>24. Hold On To The Nights, Richard Marx <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>25. Hungry Eyes, Eric Carnen <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>26. Shattered Dreams, Johnny Hates Jazz<\/em><br \/>\n<strike>27. Father Figure, George Michael <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>28. Naughty Girls (Need Love Too), Samantha Fox <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>29. A Groovy Kind Of Love, Phil Collins <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>30. Love Bites, Def Leppard <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>31. Endless Summer Nights, Richard Marx <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>32. Foolish Beat, Debbie Gibson <\/em><br \/>\n<em>33. Where Do Broken Hearts Go, Whitney Houston <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>34. Angel, Aerosmith <\/strike><br \/>\n<strong>35. Hazy Shade Of Winter, Bangles <\/strong><br \/>\n36. The Way You Make Me Feel, Michael Jackson<br \/>\n<strike>37. Don't Worry, Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>38. Make Me Lose Control, Eric Carmen <\/em><br \/>\n39. Red Red Wine, UB40<br \/>\n<strike>40. She's Like The Wind, Patric Swayze<\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>41. Bad Medicine, Bon Jovi <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>42. Kokomo, Beach Boys <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>43. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That, Elton John <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>44. Together Forever, Rick Astley <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>45. Monkey, George Michael <\/strike><br \/>\n<strong>46. Devil Inside, INXS <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>47. Should've Known Better, Richard Marx<\/em><br \/>\n<em>48. I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, Chicago<\/em><br \/>\n<strike>49. The Loco-Motion, Kylie Minogue <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>50. What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield <\/em><br \/>\n<em>51. Make It Real, Jets<\/em><br \/>\n<em>52. What's On Your Mind, Information Society <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>53. Tell It To My Heart, Taylor Dayne <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>54. Out Of The Blue, Debbie Gibson<br \/>\n55. Don't You Want Me, Jody Watley <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>56. Desire, U2 <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>57. I Get Weak, Belinda Carlisle<br \/>\n58. Sign Your Name, Terence Trent d'Arby<br \/>\n59. I Want To Be Your Man, Roger<br \/>\n60. Girlfriend, Pebbles<\/em><br \/>\n<strike>61. Dirty Diana, Michael Jackson <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>62. 1-2-3, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine<br \/>\n63. Mercedes Boy, Pebbles <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>64. Perfect World, Huey Lewis and the News <\/strike><br \/>\n<strong>65. New Sensation, INXS <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>66. Catch Me (I'm Falling), Pretty Poison<br \/>\n67. If It Isn't Love, New Edition<br \/>\n68. Rocket 2 U, Jets<br \/>\n69. One Good Woman, Peter Cetera <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>70. Don't Be Cruel, Cheap Trick <\/strong><br \/>\n<strike>71. Candle In The Wind, Elton John <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>72. Everything Your Heart Desires, Daryl Hall and John Oates <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>73. Say You Will , Foreigner <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>74. I Want Her, Keith Sweat<br \/>\n75. Pink Cadillac, Natalie Cole <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>76. Fast Car, Tracy Chapman <\/strong><br \/>\n<strike>77. Electric Blue, Icehouse <\/strike><br \/>\n78. The Valley Road, Bruce Hornsby and The Range<br \/>\n<em>79. Don't Be Cruel, Bobby Brown<br \/>\n80. Always On My Mind, Pet Shop Boys<br \/>\n81. Piano In The Dark, Brenda Russell Featuring Joe Esposito <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>82. When It's Love, Van Halen <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>83. Don't Shed A Tear, Paul Carrack <\/em><br \/>\n84. We'll Be Together, Sting<br \/>\n85. I Hate Myself For Loving You, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts<br \/>\n<strike>86. I Don't Want To Live Without You, Foreigner <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>87. Nite And Day, Al B. Sure<\/em><br \/>\n<strike>88. Don't You Know What The Night Can Do, Steve Winwood <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>89. One Moment In Time, Whitney Houston<br \/>\n90. Can't Stay Away From You, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine<br \/>\n91. Kissing A Fool, George Michael <\/em><br \/>\n92. Cherry Bomb, John Cougar Mellancamp<br \/>\n<em>93. I Still Believe, Brenda K. Starr<br \/>\n94. I Found Someone, Cher <\/em><br \/>\n95. Never Tear Us Apart, INXS<br \/>\n<em>96. Valerie, Steve Windwood <\/em><br \/>\n<strike>97. Just Like Paradise, David Lee Roth <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>98. Nothin' But A Good Time, Poison <\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>99. Wait, White Lion <\/strike><br \/>\n<em>100. Prove Your Love, Taylor Dayne<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Hmm... lots of stuff <em>I don't remember<\/em>, very few <b>likes<\/b>, and a bunch of stuff I'm kinda OK with. So, it seems 1988 was a shitty year for pop music, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so says Rox Populi. The method? Find the Billboard top 100 from the year you graduated High School and \"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). \" I'm goning to take it a step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}