music meme 1997

[supercheesegirl]

- 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.

- Underline the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and bold your favorites. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember/care about.

Top 100 Hits of 1997/Top 100 Songs of 1997

1. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John
2. Foolish Games/You Were Meant For Me, Jewel
3. I'll Be Missing You, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans
4. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, Puff Daddy
6. I Believe I Can Fly, R. Kelly
7. Don't Let Go (Love), En Vogue
8. Return Of The Mack, Mark Morrison
9. How Do I Live, LeAnn Rimes
10. Wannabe, Spice Girls
11. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), Backstreet Boys (Shut up, it's catchy as hell, and I always sing it as "Quit playing games with my mom", which is much more entertaining than the actual lyrics.)
12. MMMBop, Hanson
13. For You I Will, Monica
14. You Make Me Wanna..., Usher
15. Bitch, Meredith Brooks
16. Nobody, Keith Sweat
17. Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind
18. Barely Breathing, Duncan Sheik
19. Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Az Yet Featuring Peter Cetera
20. Mo Money Mo Problems, Notorious B.I.G.
21. The Freshmen, Verve Pipe
22. I Want You, Savage Garden
23. No Diggity, BLACKstreet Featuring Dr. Dre
24. I Belong To You (Every Time I See Your Face), Rome
25. Hypnotize, Notorious B.I.G.
26. Every Time I Close My Eyes, Babyface
27. In My Bed, Dru Hill
28. Say You'll Be There, Spice Girls
29. Do You Know (What It Takes), Robyn
30. 4 Seasons Of Loneliness, Boyz II Men
31. G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T., Changing Faces
32. Honey, Mariah Carey
33. I Believe In You And Me, Whitney Houston
34. Da' Dip, Freaknasty
35. 2 Become 1, Spice Girls
36. All For You, Sister Hazel
37. Cupid, 112
38. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?, Paula Cole (So overplayed!)
39. Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin
40. It's Your Love, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
41. Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit, Gina G
42. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
43. All Cried Out, Allure Featuring 112
44. I'm Still In Love With You, New Edition
45. Invisible Man, 98 Degrees
46. Not Tonight, Lil' Kim
47. Look Into My Eyes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
48. Get It Together, 702
49. All By Myself, Celine Dion
50. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion
51. My Love Is The Shhh!, Somethin' For The People
52. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
53. I Finally Found Someon, Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams
54. I'll Be, Foxy Brown Featuring Jay-Z
55. If It Makes You Happy , Sheryl Crow
56. Never Make A Promise, Dru Hill
57. When You Love A Woman, Journey
58. Up Jumps Da Boogie, Magoo And Timbaland
59. I Don't Want To/I Love Me Some Him, Toni Braxton
60. Everyday Is A Winding Road, Sheryl Crow
61. Cold Rock A Party, Mc Lyte
62. Pony, Ginuwine
63. Building A Mystery, Sarah McLachlan
64. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
65. Your Woman, White Town
66. C U When U Get There, Coolio
67. Change The World, Eric Clapton
68. My Baby Daddy, B-Rock and The Bizz
69. Tubthumping, Chumbawamba
70. Gotham City, R. Kelly
71. Last Night, Az Yet
72. ESPN Presents The Jock Jam, Various Artists (WTF is this??)
73. Big Daddy, Heavy D
74. What About Us, Total
75. Smile, Scarface
76. What's On Tonight, Montell Jordan
77. Secret Garden, Bruce Springsteen
78. The One I Gave My Heart, w Aaliyah
79. Fly Like An Eagle, Seal
80. No Time, Lil' Kim
81. Naked Eye, Luscious Jackson
82. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
83. On and On, Erykah Badu
84. Don't Wanna Be A Player, Joe
85. I Shot The Sheriff, Warren G
86. You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time), Brian McKnight Featuring Mase
87. Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Madonna
88. Someone, SWV
89. Go The Distance, Michael Bolton
90. One More Time, Real McCoy
91. Butta Love, Next
92. Coco Jamboo, Mr. President
93. Twisted, Keith Sweat
94. Barbie Girl, Aqua (Similar to #11. You can change the lyrics to "Come on, Barbie, let's go potty".)
95. When You're Gone/Free To Decide, Cranberries
96. Let Me Clear My Throat, DJ Kool
97. I Like It, Blackout Allstars
98. You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
99. You Must Love Me, Madonna
100. Let It Go, Ray J

Wow. Some really damned annoying songs came out in 1997. That's impressive. And a lot of these I've never even heard of. But they're probably annoying too.

Comments

[piscosubito.livejournal.com]

Wow, 1997 was a crazy year. I used to creep people out with that Barbie Girl song.... somehow I was able to sound just like the song, and I kept scaring the crap out of my friends when I'd threaten to sing it when we'd go out for karaoke.... (of course, this wasn't 1997, but slightly later when I was actually old enough to get into a bar... so 99? When the song should have already been dead and buried...)

[piscosubito.livejournal.com]

oh, and I was just about to do this meme on my own page, but the first song on the list for 1996 was Macarena, so I think I'm going to go drown myself in the pond outside instead.
I just read through the whole list, and #98 is ALSO Macarena.

FOR SHAME, 1996, FOR SHAME.

[sleepyworm.livejournal.com]

weird, 72 is totally an album, not a single!

There's a lot of songs on that list that I am quite confident you'd know if you heard them. And they're all awful.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

"Quit Playing Games" was one of the warm-up songs on our kickboxing routine at the dojo, so whenever I hear it I have this nearly-unquenchable urge to step back and forth punching in the air.

"Tubthumping" is one of my guilty pleasures. I mean, soccer chants married to Trumpet Voluntary - at least it had the virtue of never having been tried before.

"Your Woman" is a song I never heard on the radio (imagine that) but there's a fantastic and bitter Highlander music video to it (Methos/Duncan, Methos/Kronos, except Methos is rejecting both).

I d/loaded the list for the year I graduated and I might do this one. I think eight of the first ten songs are disco (shudder).