I'm going to guess you're 34? Because I heard an NPR piece that said the summer you were 14 is always the best summer in music, and it is clearly objectively 1996.
Me too but I don't even remember WTF came out in 1996. 1994 is easy - that was the year of Dookie lol. 1997 was easy too because that was the year of the Spice Girls. What the hell happened in between those years? Now I gotta go look this up.
ETA: First song I thought of was "Wonderwall" but then I realized I'm pretty sure that was 1995.
I knew he was too young to have been sexing it up in 1969, but I figured he just picked that year because it seems like a good year to wax nostalgic about your teenage dream, and it sounds a lot better as a lyric than, say, 78 or whatever year he was boning his high school sweetheart.
Also, I heard Everything I Do, I Do It For You on the radio last night, and I thought of you.
i wanted to write a letter to see if BA would play at our wedding in 2006. DH shot that down. i still think i could have plead my case enough for him to come play a VFW hall in BFE, IL for $300
When I was 10, I was dead set on Garth Brooks singing at my wedding. He was going to do a special version of "Friends in Low Places". I think I had the whole monologue written out, but I forget it now.
I have ALWAYS said this song was one huge metaphor for birth and everyone has always looked at me like I'm batshit fucking nuts!
JOKES ON YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! I WAS RIGHT! NEENER NEENER!
*ahem* Nothing to see here.
Sometime back in the 90's I heard it was a metaphor for a one-night stand, and I've spent 15 years trying to figure out how that works. I'm so glad to finally have the real answer.
I just went back and it's not as bad as I originally thought. But I don't ever need to hear Third Eye Blind, Natalie Imbruglia, or Goo Goo Dolls again.
There's 1994 (best year in music) then there's 1997 (worst year in music).
I'm going to guess you're 34? Because I heard an NPR piece that said the summer you were 14 is always the best summer in music, and it is clearly objectively 1996.
Oooooooh I like this theory! But no, I'm 31. So the summer of 1994 I was 11. Funny enough, according to this theory, 1997 would be my favorite year but 1997's music was TERRIBLE.
I'm going to have to look up 1996 to see if it was any better.
I think universally speaking, 14 is a pretty good damned year for teens in general. You're finally a teenager but not yet old enough for all the bullshit like driving and shit. You're just shy of those tormented high school years. Math is still mostly comprehensible. You get to develop your own tastes in movies, music, and tv. I mean 14 is pretty much where it's at.
I think universally speaking, 14 is a pretty good damned year for teens in general. You're finally a teenager but not yet old enough for all the bullshit like driving and shit. You're just shy of those tormented high school years. Math is still mostly comprehensible. You get to develop your own tastes in movies, music, and tv. I mean 14 is pretty much where it's at.
I mostly agree. However, 16 was pretty awesome too. You can drive to go have sex with your boyfriend in a parking lot.
I don't know what it says about me that I knew, or at least heard of, almost all of these "facts." I even knew that Poker Face was about bisexuality (bluffin' with my muffin). Some of these don't even go far enough.
For example, Robert Hazard is/was a member of the Hooters, of And We Danced fame. He and Eric Bazilian are actually talented songwriters who have written for a lot of other artists (Bazilian wrote One of Us for Joan Osbourne). Angel by Sarah McLaughlin is specifically about the dude from Smashing Pumpkins who died from ODing. I'm pretty sure Paul McCartney admitted that Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was in fact about LSD.
I've always liked the song The Way by Fastball, I think because it was an upbeat song during a really bad year in my life, but the lyrics clearly paint a bad picture.
I think universally speaking, 14 is a pretty good damned year for teens in general. You're finally a teenager but not yet old enough for all the bullshit like driving and shit. You're just shy of those tormented high school years. Math is still mostly comprehensible. You get to develop your own tastes in movies, music, and tv. I mean 14 is pretty much where it's at.
I mostly agree. However, 16 was pretty awesome too. You can drive to go have sex with your boyfriend in a parking lot.
yes but that's an extra complication. At 14, it's mostly lust with less heartbreak, less fear of pregnancy.
I've always liked the song The Way by Fastball, I think because it was an upbeat song during a really bad year in my life, but the lyrics clearly paint a bad picture.
I heard the lead singer say they saw the news flash about the old couple missing so he wrote the song with all the things that could have happened to them. (this was before he learned they were found dead)
Also 17 was the height of my teens. 14 I was still reeling from middle school bullshit and really kind of unhappy and friendless. By 17 I had found my people and had a car and had my long-distance NYC boyfriend and life was GOOD.
They should add John Mayer's "Daughters" to this list because for some reason people think this is a sweet song and play it to dance with their fathers at their weddings.
I've always liked the song The Way by Fastball, I think because it was an upbeat song during a really bad year in my life, but the lyrics clearly paint a bad picture.
I heard the lead singer say they saw the news flash about the old couple missing so he wrote the song with all the things that could have happened to them. (this was before he learned they were found dead)
I used to think it was about parents who got fed up dealing with their kids and their lives, and just said "Fuck it." I've had days where I can relate.
Row Labels Sum of Score (by song) Sum of Score (by week) 1994 39 109 1995 36 134 1996 35 138 1997 29 118 1998 22 113
I'm intrigued but I don't quite know what I'm looking at.
I dropped a pivot and ran into a meeting
I started with Billboard magazine Modern Rock Tracks number one hits of each year. The Billboard top lists are full of poppy crap and R&B, so I had to narrow it to rock. I wanted a top 100 Rock list, but I could only find #1s.
I gave each song a ranking 1-3. 1 = can't remember it, 2 = nostalgia, 3 = awesome. The first #, Sum of Score (by song) is the total score for the #1 songs for each year. But each song has multiple weeks at #1, hence the second total, Sum of Score (by week).
Par example, 1996 had a lower Sum of Score (by song) but the highest Sum of Score (by week) because a relatively few number of awesome songs stayed at #1 for several weeks. Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova and Swallowed combined for 20 weeks at #1.
If someone can find me a Top 100 Rock songs by year, my company's books will not be closed on time and FPNA will be mad at me for making them late with their forecast.
I'm intrigued but I don't quite know what I'm looking at.
I dropped a pivot and ran into a meeting
I started with Billboard magazine Modern Rock Tracks number one hits of each year. The Billboard top lists are full of poppy crap and R&B, so I had to narrow it to rock. I wanted a top 100 Rock list, but I could only find #1s.
I gave each song a ranking 1-3. 1 = can't remember it, 2 = nostalgia, 3 = awesome. The first #, Sum of Score (by song) is the total score for the #1 songs for each year. But each song has multiple weeks at #1, hence the second total, Sum of Score (by week).
Par example, 1996 had a lower Sum of Score (by song) but the highest Sum of Score (by week) because a relatively few number of awesome songs stayed at #1 for several weeks. Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova and Swallowed combined for 20 weeks at #1.
If someone can find me a Top 100 Rock songs by year, my company's books will not be closed on time and FPNA will be mad at me for making them late with their forecast.
Would something like say...Beastie Boys and Regulate show up on Rock?
13. The song “Closing Time” by Semisonic is not about closing a bar, it’s about the birth of the lead singer’s daughter.
I call bullshit.
I actually heard an interview with him on NPR a few weeks ago. He did say that this was what it was about.
I am *way* late to this thread but wanted to throw in that I also heard this interview. I was utterly taken aback. Guy needs to work on his symbolism and metaphors.
Now I'll go read the rest of the thread and see how many people already said this.
"55. Bob Marley’s “I Shot The Sheriff” is about birth control. Bob Marley didn’t want his girlfriend to take birth control pills. The doctor who prescribed the pills was the sheriff."
I'm intrigued but I don't quite know what I'm looking at.
I dropped a pivot and ran into a meeting
I started with Billboard magazine Modern Rock Tracks number one hits of each year. The Billboard top lists are full of poppy crap and R&B, so I had to narrow it to rock. I wanted a top 100 Rock list, but I could only find #1s.
I gave each song a ranking 1-3. 1 = can't remember it, 2 = nostalgia, 3 = awesome. The first #, Sum of Score (by song) is the total score for the #1 songs for each year. But each song has multiple weeks at #1, hence the second total, Sum of Score (by week).
Par example, 1996 had a lower Sum of Score (by song) but the highest Sum of Score (by week) because a relatively few number of awesome songs stayed at #1 for several weeks. Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova and Swallowed combined for 20 weeks at #1.
If someone can find me a Top 100 Rock songs by year, my company's books will not be closed on time and FPNA will be mad at me for making them late with their forecast.
You are my new favorite poster.
I only got as far as looking up the top 100 songs for the summer I was 14. Definitely not the best year of music I remember. I do still love Bohemian Rhapsody, though. And I have a very soft spot in my heart for Friday I'm in Love.
"55. Bob Marley’s “I Shot The Sheriff” is about birth control. Bob Marley didn’t want his girlfriend to take birth control pills. The doctor who prescribed the pills was the sheriff."
Bull shit.
And if so, who is the Deputy (whom he did not shoot)?
"55. Bob Marley’s “I Shot The Sheriff” is about birth control. Bob Marley didn’t want his girlfriend to take birth control pills. The doctor who prescribed the pills was the sheriff."
Bull shit.
And if so, who is the Deputy (whom he did not shoot)?
The only source I can find for this is an ex girlfriend who also says she cowrote it. Bob has never said this.
I think I was conceived on Bob Marley. He is in my DNA.