Music memes seem to be all the rage lately, so here’s a new one…
- Go to musicoutfitters.com
- Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
- Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don’t remember (or don’t care about).
Here’s the list.
Believe, Cher- No Scrubs, TLC (Incubus version, anyway)
- Angel Of Mine, Monica
Heartbreak Hotel, Whitney Houston- …Baby One More Time, Britney Spears
- Kiss Me, Sixpence None The Richer
- Genie In A Bottle, Christina Aguilera
- Every Morning, Sugar Ray
- Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here, Deborah Cox
Livin’ La Vida Loca, Ricky Martin- Where My Girls At?, 702
If You Had My Love, Jennifer Lopez- Slide, Goo Goo Dolls
- Have You Ever?, Brandy
I Want It That Way, Backstreet Boys- I’m Your Angel, R. Kelly and Celine Dion
- All Star, Smash Mouth
- Angel, Sarah McLachlan
- Smooth, Santana Featuring Rob Thomas
Unpretty, TLCBills, Bills, Bills, Destiny’s Child- Save Tonight, Eagle-Eye Cherry
Last Kiss, Pearl Jam- Fortunate, Maxwell
- All I Have To Give, Backstreet Boys
Bailamos, Enrique Iglesias- What’s It Gonna Be?!, Busta Rhymes Featuring Janet
- What It’s Like, Everlast
- Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz
- Someday, Sugar Ray
- Lately, Divine
- That Don’t Impress Me Much, Shania Twain
- Wild Wild West, Will Smith Featuring Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee
- Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Heartbreaker, Mariah Carey Featuring Jay-Z
- I Still Believe, Mariah Carey
- The Hardest Thing, 98 Degrees
- Summer Girls, LFO
- Can I Get A…, Jay-Z Featuring Amil (Of Major Coinz)
- Jumper, Third Eye Blind
- Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn Hill
- Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…), Lou Bega
- Sweet Lady, Tyrese
It’s Not Right But It’s Okay, Whitney Houston(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You, ‘N Sync- Lullaby, Shawn Mullins
- Anywhere, 112 Featuring Lil’Z
- Tell Me It’s Real, K-Ci and JoJo
- Back 2 Good, Matchbox 20
- 808, Blaque
- She’s So High, Tal Bachman
- She’s All I Ever Had, Ricky Martin
- Miami, Will Smith
- Hands, Jewel
- Who Dat, JT Money Featuring Sole
- Please Remember Me, Tim McGraw
- From This Moment On, Shania Twain
- Love Like This, Faith Evans
- You, Jesse Powell
- Trippin’, Total Featuring Missy Elliott
- If You (Lovin’ Me), Silk
- Ex-Factor, Lauryn Hill
- Give It To You, Jordan Knight
- Black Balloon, Goo Goo Dolls
- Spend My Life With You, Eric Benet Featuring Tamia
- These Are The Times, Dru Hill
- I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing, Mark Chesnutt
- I Do (Cherish You), 98 Degrees
- Because Of You, 98 Degrees
- I Will Remember You (Live), Sarah McLachlan
- Chante’s Got A Man, Chante Moore
- Happily Ever After, Case
- My Love Is Your Love, Whitney Houston
- All Night Long, Faith Evans Featuring Puff Daddy
- Back That Thang Up, Juvenile Featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil’ Wayne
- Almost Doesn’t Count, Brandy
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!, Shania Twain(for it’s pure ability to get stuck in my head)- Steal My Sunshine, Len
I Need To Know, Marc Anthony- So Anxious, Ginuwine
- Faded Pictures, Case and Joe
- Back At One, Brian McKnight
- When A Woman’s Fed Up, R. Kelly
- How Forever Feels, Kenny Chesney
- Amazed, Lonestar
- Sometimes, Britney Spears
- Ghetto Cowboy, Mo Thugs Family Featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- Out Of My Head, Fastball
- Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem), Jay-Z
- Jamboree, Naughty By Nature Featuring Zhane
- Take Me There, BLACKstreet and Mya Featuring Mase and Blinky Blink
- Stay The Same, Joey McIntyre
- Lesson In Leavin’, Jo Dee Messina
- Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
- Satisfy You, Puff Daddy Featuring R. Kelly
- Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out), Citizen King
- Music Of My Heart, ‘N Sync and Gloria Estefan
- Write This Down, George Strait
- When You Believe, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
- God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, Alabama Featuring ‘N Sync
I really went more with what I thought of them then, but whatever.
[Via Jack Vinson]

“I’ll take every one you bolded, plus a few, Alex…”
I think I like the songs from your grad year better than my grad year.