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That I wanted to share this in general, I guess it's pretty personal.
My general music interest range basically ends when Oasis is popular as well as N'sync.
Both those 2 bands were introduced to me by my younger brother, but I don't feel any real connection to that music, like I can't associate those song with the most dramatic/exciting times of my youth, where you hear that song in the background when you're with your friends, and hearing the song brings up just that feeling again, like a form of real time travel.
So I'm just list a bunch of songs which at the time where (and still are epic) which are pretty mainstream still but where if you weren't born in the mid-70's you may not have had any exposure to it. I mean, I'm not a music elitist, I like songs from everywhere, so I think it's kind of personal, but anyways I wanted to share. I think definitely, the songs do show some aspect of your personality.
In no particular order,
toto- africa
-probably the most coolest song ever made, like feeling absolute freedom
-can remember dancing to this on retro nights, when the DJ knew what they were doing
madona-cherish
-if I want to ever feel happy, a super cute adorable song, its the song that I most associated with when I was just content
madona- rain
-It was this song that brought be back to mainstream songs, the girl was the cutest sexiest Taiwanese I had ever met in my summer of grade 9, she loved this song and loved her
cheap trick-the flame
-A classic rock song when most rocks songs were no longer good
bonjovi- ill be there for you
-the most power of power ballads out there, many business contracts closed after killing this song at Karaoke
bonjovi- someday I'll be Saturday night
-the favorite song of someone who I was madly in love with, an older Japanese exchange student who over stayed her visa because I was in love with her, but left because her boyfriend who she was originally madly in love with back in Japan said he'd give her one more chance, and she took it and went back to Japan.
petshop boys- being boring
-my older brother's favorite song, probably one of the coolest cool kid songs ever
petshop boys- where the streets have no name
-an uplifting version of the original which made me feel just good.
petshop boys- always on my mind
-the same as the above, petshop boys just made me feel good.
depeche mode- enjoy the silence
-at my high school, most people loved depeche mode and I can still remember just dancing to it in a slow weird way in highschool
new order- true faith
-like toto, just one of those ultra cool songs that made me realize that music was something powerful
pixies- wave of mutilation
-just blew my mind, I still remember the day I heard it
pixies- here comes your man
-when I want to reset and just get lost in song, I listen to this, don't know why, I think it just reminds of a time when my life was really simple
bjork- possibly maybe
-probably the coolest human/alien on the planet, it took me years to really appreciate how awesome she is
U2- one
-my favorite song and the first one I did a cover for in a high school band.
U2- acrobat
-my high school fight anthem
U2- where the streets have no name
-just how cool are U2?
Eagles-love will keep us alive
-I'm a sucker for love songs, I can't think of many better than this one
Bread- if
-Probably as good as the Eagles one keke
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
-wow, this was the pinnacle time of the 'alternative music' scene the pivotal point where it lost something by being just too mainstream just shortly after...
Radio Head- Creep
-groundbreaking, I can still remember this on the radio, driving in the middle of the night between mad study sessions at coffee shops in high school
Radio Head- paranoid Android
-university and again just an awesome music moment to hear this
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Soul to Squeeze
-my favorite song, soulful, smooth, unique, powerful, subtle, I would listen to this on repeat all day as I would study
Read Hot Chili Peppers- Save the population
-my study anthem when I need to get into gear
Nirvana- Lithium
-powerful, image being at high school and we're all there and someone brings in this CD and we just are in awe how fucking awesome Nirvana is...
Erasure - chains of love
-sappy time, trying to learn how to be romantic, but failing hard
Stone Temple Pilots- Big Empty
-strong song, again, one of the real giants of that time and just brings me back
The Cure- A letter to Elise
-Another sappy song, but what did I know, I was just a love sick highschool kid
sarah mclachlan- Adia
-in university and the CD was the one that was my go-to mood maker for the ladies, but I really adored this singer.
Sarah McLachlan - Path Of Thorns
-she just great..
George Michael - One more Try
-I'd love to sing as well as him, I think for someone growing up in the 80's 90's, this was the voice...
George Michael- Older
-such honesty...
Starship- 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now'
-I can remember singing this in the car when I was a child, even as Child I could tell this was such an anthem
Queen & David Bowie - ‘Under Pressure’
-no one is cooler and listening to this made me feel as though I was cool..
Guns N' Roses -‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’
-no one knows how much they rocked the free world, they so ROCKED it hard.
Salt N' Pepa- 'Push It'
-The first R&B track where I was dancing to and realizing that I didn't need to have a slow song to get grinding with the ladies lol.
Michael Jackson -'Billie Jean'
-The epic of epic songs, I didnt' even know what it meant till years later.
Bon Jovi -'Livin’ On A Prayer'
-I think I was in middle school when this came out, can't remember but it was one of those songs like Billy Idol's mony mony
Pulp- Something Changed
-the love song I told my wife that when I thought about her, I thought about this song, at the time I didn't like this song too much, but once I had it on my playlist and I asked my wife to listen to it because as soon as I heard it, I thought of her.
Pulp- Disco 2000
-probably the coolest song that year in university, brit pop love
The cure- Friday I'm in love
-I can't help but feel good after I here this song...from all the depressing crap that came out of that band, this was epic...
The entire Pulp Fiction OS
-not only was this Quentin's break out movie, I think the entire US/Canada saw this movie in the theaters when it came out, if you're 40ish and you didn't see it in the theaters, you are a loser. The OS was one of those CDs you could just play over and over again.
Since I'm sharing,
I'm not going to link to youtube, etc, use google lol.
If I wrote this list even in the mid-90s you couldn't find these songs unless you when to HMV or a couple of years later was using Napster LOL.
I just wanted to write it out and take a break just cause it was one my mind... ^^
<3 
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