Published by Tamara on 26 Feb 2007 at 09:12 am
Favors
I’m writing this thing that takes place in the 1993/1994 school year, and because I have a really bad memory and lost most of my mix tapes from that time, I’m wondering if you can help me out.
What would you have put on a mix tape then?
Did you listen to classic rock? What were the classic rock ballads of the time?
If you didn’t listen to grunge, what were you listening to?
If you listened to country, what was your favorite song both fast (for line dancing - ala “I’ve Got Friends” by Garth Brooks and ballady for couples dances)?
What rap song was your favorite (not including “Nothing but a G Thang)?
I’ve done some research on-line and I know what was in the top 100 in most of these categories, but I’m wondering what some of the older stuff was that you were listening to, or what kind of music that wasn’t necessarily Top 40, was on your mix tape (i.e. for some reason we loved Loggins and Messina’s “House on Pooh Corner” and “Danny’s Song”). If you’re too ashamed to say in public you can e-mail me your answers.
Thanks ever so.
5 Responses to “Favors”
Sally on 26 Feb 2007 at 12:19 pm #
God help me, I was living in Indiana then and the stuff I listened to was mostly country:
Brooks and Dunn (Boot Scoot Boogie)
Joe Diffie (John Deere Green; Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox)
Alan Jackson (can’t think of specific song)
John Michael Montgomery (Life’s a Dance)
Toby Keith (I want to be a cowyboy, I think it was called.)
Whenever I didn’t listen to country, it was on the regular pop music station and every fifth song was a Mellencamp standard, since we were living in the land of Mellencamp. Little Pink Houses all the way.
But that’s just Indiana in 1993-94.
Sally on 26 Feb 2007 at 12:20 pm #
OH and this site may be helpful to you in your research:
allmusic.com.
You can look up songs by title, artist and then reference the year and look up songs for that year, I believe. They list discography and biographies of the artists. Very informative.
Tamara on 26 Feb 2007 at 6:35 pm #
Oh man, these past several years when my ears weren’t be accosted by atrocities such as “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” should have been relished. Now I feel like I wasted that aural break. Thanks, Sally.
Sarah on 27 Feb 2007 at 5:45 am #
I was a sophmore in highschool. Let’s see…from my old highschool mix tapes from around that time-
The Proclaimers - 500 Miles
REM - Man on the Moon
Nuthin But a G Thang (you already had that one)
Ace of Base - The Sign
Crash Test Dummies - MMMMMMMM (or whatever that was called)
Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket
Hole - Violet
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Beck - Loser
R. Kelly - Bump N Grind
Madonna - Secret
Cranberries - that song that goes ‘my father….my father…’ (or something about family, I forget the name)
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
(all things Nirvana were really big because Kurt Cobain died around then)
Tamara on 27 Feb 2007 at 7:08 am #
Those are all good, Sarah. For some reason I couldn’t remember which Madonna was popular then, thank you!