End of Silence

I got this from Dru, who got it from Pandagon. Basically the meme is this–go to Music Outfitters, type the year of your high school graduation into the search function, select the top 100 most popular songs, cut and paste it onto your blog and then bold the ones you like, strike out the ones you hate, and leave alone the ones you don’t care about or don’t know.

1. Look Away, Chicago
2. My Prerogative, Bobby Brown
3. Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Poison
4. Straight Up, Paula Abdul
5. Miss You Much, Janet Jackson
6. Cold Hearted, Paula Abdul

7. Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler
8. Girl You Know Its True, Milli Vanilli
9. Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird, Will To Power
10. Giving You The Best That I Got, Anita Baker
11. Right Here Waiting, Richard Marx
12. Waiting For A Star To Fall, Boy Meets Girl

13. Lost In Your Eyes, Debbie Gibson
14. Don’t Wanna Lose You, Gloria Estefan
15. Heaven, Warrant
16. Girl I’m Gonna Miss You, Milli Vanilli
17. The Look, Roxette
18. She Drives Me Crazy, Fine Young Cannibals

19. On Our Own, Bobby Brown
20. Two Hearts, Phil Collins
21. Blame It On The Rain, Milli Vanilli
22. Listen To Your Heart, Roxette
23. I’ll Be There For You, Bon Jovi
24. If You Don’t Know Me By Now, Simply Red

25. Like A Prayer, Madonna
26. I’ll Be Loving You (Forever), New Kids On The Block
27. How Can I Fall?, Breathe
28. Baby Don’t Forget My Number, Milli Vanilli
29. Toy Soldier, Martika
30. Forever Your Girl, Paula Abdul

31. The Living Years, Mike and the Mechanics
32. Eternal Flame, The Bangles
33. Wild Thing, Tone Loc
34. When I See You Smile, Bad English
35. If I Could Turn Back Time, Cher
36. Buffalo Stance, Neneh Cherry

37. When I’m With You, Sheriff
38. Don’t Rush Me, Taylor Dayne
39. Born To Be My Baby, Bon Jovi
40. Good Thing, Fine Young Cannibals
41. The Lover In Me, Sheena Easton
42. Bust A Move, Young M.C.

43. Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Great White
44. Batdance, Prince
45. Rock On, Michael Damian
46. Real Love, Jody Watley
47. Love Shack, B-52’s
48. Every Little Step, Bobby Brown

49. Hangin’ Tough, New Kids On The Block
50. My Heart Can’t Tell You No, Rod Stewart
51. So Alive, Love and Rockets
52. You Got It (The Right Stuff), New Kids On The Block
53. Armageddon It, Def Leppard
54. Satisfied, Richard Marx

55. Express Yourself, Madonna
56. I Like It, Dino
57. Soldier Of Love, Donny Osmond
58. Sowing The Seeds Of Love, Tears For Fears
59. Cherish, Madonna
60. When The Children Cry, White Lion

61. 18 And Life, Skid Row
62. I Don’t Want Your Love, Duran Duran
63. Second Chances, .38 Special
64. The Way You Love Me, Karyn White
65. Funky Cold Medina, Tone Loc
66. In Your Room, Bangles

67. Miss You Like Crazy, Natalie Cole
68. Love Song, Cure
69. Secret Rendezvous, Karyn White
70. Angel Eyes, Jeff Healey Band
71. Patience, Guns N’ Roses
72. Walk On Water, Eddie Money

73. Cover Girl, New Kids On The Block
74. Welcome To The Jungle, Guns N’ Roses
75. Shower Me With Your Love, Surface
76. Stand, R.E.M.
77. Close My Eyes Forever, Lita Ford
78. All This Time, Tiffany

79. After All, Cher and Peter Cetera
80. Roni, Bobby Brown
81. Love In An Elevator, Aerosmith
82. Lay Your Hands On Me, Bon Jovi
83. This Promise, When In Rome
84. What I Am, Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians

85. I Remember Holding You, Boys Club
86. Paradise City, Guns N’ Roses
87. I Wanna Have Some Fun, Samantha Fox
88. She Wants To Dance With Me, Rick Astley
89. Dreamin’, Vanessa Williams
90. It’s No Crime, Babyface

91. Poison, Alice Cooper
92. This Time I Know It’s For Real, Donna Summer
93. Smooth Criminal, Michael Jackson
94. Heaven Help Me, Deon Estus
95. Rock Wit’cha, Bobby Brown
96. Thinking Of You, Sa-fire

97. What You Don’t Know, Expose
98. Surrender To Me, Ann Wilson and Robin Zander
99. The End Of The Innocence, Don Henley
100. Keep On Movin’, Soul II Soul

Wow. I never really liked the radio very much and looking at that list, it’s clear why. What a total line-up of crap. It’s hard even to get motivated to hate most of that stuff. I don’t recognize quite a few. There’s not a single song on there that I can honestly say that I really liked. Most of the bolded songs are songs that I liked well enough. I can’t be bothered to feel one way or the other about most of it and I actively hated quite a few. I thought this might be a cool meme, but now that I’ve gone through it, I’m left not feeling much of anything. I suppose that’s a good enough commentary on late 80’s pop.

This just in. People aren’t going to see movies in the theater because the majority of the movies that are being released suck ass.

Next up: Spending $1 trillion “to oust a contained, powerless, impotent two-bit dictator and help the remnants establish a pro-Iran Islamic Republic” (from dKos) may not have been such a good idea.

This started out as a post of one link, but I found a few other things in the entertainment world that needed some attention.

• Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci and Justin Timberlake in a movie called Black Snake Moan where Jackson plays an old blues guy who cures Ricci’s character of nymphomania? Sounds like trip out of remake hell to me.
• For the Stephen King fans out there, I just discovered that he writes a fairly regular column for Entertainment Weekly. I think the magazine is pretty much crap, but then a lot of people think King is crap too. Screw ’em. (P.S. It looks like you have to be an AOL or EW subscriber to read any of the columns prior to this year. Doh.)
• This op-ed on Hillary’s crusade against Rockstar and GTA:SA is getting a lot of link love today. I was so pissed at her about it that I had to add to the love. Leave that crap to Leiberman, Hillary.

I already knew that Brendan Canty is playing drums with Bob Mould right now, so it shouldn’t surprise me that that Ian MacKaye is off doing something else as well. Where have I been for the last 6-12 months? This interview pretty much covers it. What’s with the two person bands these days anyway? You can check out three of the songs here, courtesy of NPR. I have to agree with most of the assessments I’ve read. It sounds like the stuff from Instrument with a girl singing. That’s not a bad thing. I’ve generally liked Ian’s voice whether he’s doing something a little quieter or barking it out like a drill sargeant. I’m hoping I haven’t missed any local appearances. I guess we won’t see anything new from Fugazi for a while.

The NY Times and the Village Voice are giving favorable reviews to the movie version of Scott Heim’s 1995 novel, Mysterious Skin, that opens today in NYC. I met Scott at KGB around the time the book was released. We’ve remained friends since then and it’s very exciting to finally have the book translated to film. Unfortunately, if I want to see it in the theater, I’m going to have to travel to Dallas or Houston where it won’t open until July, according to the official site’s showtimes. Scott’s an amazing writer and is finishing up his third book, We Disappear.