The Cornjob Memorial Library: Where Were You In 1992?
Go to www.popCulturemadness.com and select the year you became 18. Paste the list of the top 75 songs. Bold the ones you liked; strike the ones you disliked; and italicize the ones you know but don't exactly like nor dislike. The ones you don't know will stay common text.
Sadly for me, 1975 was not a year of going boldly. In fact, it was one big strikeout, musically and socially.
1975 Greatest Hits
1. Get Down Tonight – KC & The Sunshine BandNormally, I like him, but NOT THIS RECORD.
2. Thank God I'm A Country Boy – John Denver 3. That's the Way (I Like It) – K.C. and the Sunshine Band
4. Cut The Cake – Average White Band (AWB)
5. Lady Marmalade – Patti LaBelle "Voulez vouz coucher avec moi, c'est soir?"
6. Jive Talkin' – Bee Gees 7. You're The First, The Last, My Everything – Barry White
8. Shining Star – Earth Wind And Fire
9. Some Kind of Wonderful – Grand Funk 10. Send In The Clowns – Judy Collins
11. Boogie On Reggae Woman – Stevie Wonder
12. You Are So Beautiful – Joe Cocker 13. The Hustle – Van McCoy
14. Best Of My Love – The Eagles
15. Rock and Roll All Night (Studio) – Kiss
16. Low Rider – War 17. "They Just Can't Stop It" (Games People Play) – Spinners RRRIIIIIP!! Not This Record! Not This Record!!!
18. Lovin' You – Minnie Riperton
19. Someone Saved My Life Tonight – Elton John
20. SOS – ABBA 21. No No Song – Ringo Starr
22. Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
23. Nights On Braodway – Bee Gees
24. Pick Up The Pieces – Average White Band 25. How Sweet It Is – James Taylor
26. Saturday Night Special – Lynyrd Skynyrd
27. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights – Freddy Fender
28. Sun Goddess – Ramsey Lewis & Earth, Wind and Fire 29. It Only Takes A Minute – Tavares 30. Black Water – Doobie Brothersalso known as "Nine Mice o' Georgia." I was drunk.
31. Ballroom Blitz – Sweet
32. My Eyes Adored You – Frankie Valli 33. Shame, Shame, Shame – Shirley and Company
34. Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) – Leo Sayer 35. Why Can't We Be Friends? – War
36. Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
37. Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John 38. Harry Truman – Chicago
39. Sadie – the Spinners
40. Feel Like Makin' Love – Bad Company
41. Don't Call Us, Well Call You – Sugarloaf
42. Roll On Down The Highway – BTO – Bachman Turner Overdrive
43. Killer Queen – Queen
44. Stand By Me – John Lennon
45. The Entertainer – Billy Joel
46. I Only Have Eyes For You – Art Garfunkle 47. It's A Miracle – Barry Manilow
48. Magic – Pilot
49. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me) – Doobie Brothers
50. Dark Horse – George Harrsion
51. That's The Way Of The World – Earth Wind and Fire
52. Autobahn – Kraftwerk
53. Doctor's Orders – Carol Douglas 54. Tush – ZZ Top
55. Amie – Pure Prairie League Love this song. LOVED singing it in the dorms. 56. Attitude Dancing – Carly Simon
57. Get Dancin' – Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
58. Young Americans – David Bowie
59. Black Friday – Steely Dan 60. Good Lovin' Gone Bad – Bad Company
61. Mexico – James Taylor Actually like this one. Can't stand James Taylor otherwise.
62. Volare – Al Martino 63. Bertha Butt Boogie – Jimmy Castor Bunch Hate, hate, HATE THIS SONG.
64. Fire On The Mountain – Marshall Tucker Band
65. Mamacita – the Grass Roots 66. Struttin' – Billy Preston
67. Fly Robin Fly – Silver Convention
68. Part of the Plan – Dan Fogleberg
69. Fame – David Bowie
70. Rockin' All Over The World – John Fogerty 71. Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith Heard WAY TOO MUCH. Liked "Big 10 Inch," though. 72. There Goes Another Love Song – The Outlaws Hate. HATE!!!!
73. Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song – B.J. Thomas
74. Katmandu – Bob Seger
75. Hey You – Bachman Turner Overdrive
Sucks, doesn't it? What a terrible year for music. I turned 18 in September, the fall I was a senior. 1976, my actual graduation year, was MUCH better for music, and that fall I went off ot to college, which meant a lot of dorm dance parties. Thank God for Earth, Wind, and Fire:
1976 Greatest Hits
1. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry Awesome dance funk2. December 1963 (Oh What A Night) – Four Seasons UGH3. Shake Your Booty – KC and The Sunshine Band UGH 4. Afternoon Delight – the Starland Vocal Band UGH UGH UGH RIIIIP!! NTR! NTR! 5. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine – Lou Rawls
6. Get Up Offa That Thing – James Brown 7. Rock and Roll All Night (Live) – Kiss
8. Summer – War
9. Take The Money and Run – Steve Miller Band
10. Turn The Beat Around – Vicki Sue Robinson It sounds trite now, but it was a great song. 11. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) – Diana Ross
12. I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Creedence Clearwater Revival 13. You Should Be Dancin' – Bee Gees
14. Boogie Fever – The Sylvers
15. Rock N Me – Steve Miller Band
16. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel – Tavares
17. You Sexy Thing – Hot Chocolate
18. If You Leave Me Now – Chicago
19. The Rubberband Man – the Spinners
20. Baby I Love Your Way – Peter Frampton 21. Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer
22. Love Machine – The Miracles
23. Breezin' – George Benson
24. You're My Best Friend – Queen
25. Dream On – Aerosmith 26. Tonight's The Night – Rod Stewart
27. Sing A Song – Earth, Wind and Fire
28. More Than A Feeling – Boston
29. Show Me The Way – Peter Frampton
30. Love Rollercoaster – Ohio Players
31. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight – England Dan & John Ford Coley
32. Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) – Parliament
33. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen OMG!! I LOVE THIS SONG! Bismillah! 34. (Don't Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult 35. Fernando – Abba
36. Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers
37. Love Is The Drug – Roxy Music
38. Golden Years – David Bowie
39. Mamma Mia – Abba
40. Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
41. Wake Up Everybody – Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes 42. Love Hurts – Nazareth
43. Sara Smile – Hall and Oates
44. Magic Man – Heart 45. Let Her In – John Travolta
46. Fly Away – John Denver
47. Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon 48. Disco Duck – Rick Dees HATE with the fire of a thousand suns. I was an Oregon Duck.
49. One Piece At A Time – Johnny Cash How did I miss this one by the Man in Black?
50. Strange Magic – ELO
51. Kid Charlemagne – Steely Dan 52. Love Hangover – Diana Ross
53. Hurricane – Bob Dylan
54. Right Back Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale 55. Hold back The Night – The Trammps
56. A Fifth Of Beethoven – Walter Murphy
57. Can't Hide Love – Earth, Wind and Fire
58. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – Bruce Springsteen
59. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon 60. Takin It To The Streets – Doobie Brothers
61. It's Over – Boz Scaggs
62. This Masquerade – George Benson
63. Madamoiselle – Styx
64. Slow Ride – Foghat
65. Fool For The City – Foghat 66. Beth – Kiss
67. The Fez – Steely Dan
68. More, More, More – Andrea True Connection
69. Hot Stuff – The Rolling Stones
70. Shower The People – James Taylor
71. Don't Touch Me There – the Tubes 72. The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzie
73. Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull
74. Times of Your Life – Paul Anka Paul Anka??
75. TVC15 – David Bowie
Actually, I turned 18 in 1991, but since my birthday was in October, and since I was routinely the youngest guy in my grades, I just lumped myself with 1992. They had much better songs in 1992, believe it or not, what with the glut of Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, and Mariah Carey temporarily abating. And with Nirvana becoming popular. And Right Said Fred.
This still does not explain how it is that you claim “Bohemian Rhapsody” as one of “your” year’s songs, sir. It originally came out in “my” year. 😕