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Go to popculturemadness.com, search the year you turned 18, and snip out the top 50 songs.

Bold = I like the song
Stricken out = I do not like the song
Italicized = don’t care one way or the other
Under lined = no idea what the song is

1. Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
   
2. Mony Mony - Billy Idol (1st released in 1981)
   
3. (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
   
4. Lean On Me - Club Nouveau
   
5. Songbird - Kenny G
6. Always - Atlantic Starr
   
7. Oh Yeah - Yello
   
8. La Bamba - Los Lobos
   
9. Faith - George Michael
   
10. You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
    
11. With Or Without You - U2
    
12. Don’t Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
    
13. Bad - Michael Jackson
    
14. It’s Tricky - Run DMC
15. You Got It All - the Jets
16. U Got The Look - Prince
    
17. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
    
18. Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crew
    
19. Didn’t We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
    
20. Casanova - Levert
21. La Isla Bonita - Madonna
    
22. Funky Town - Pseudo Echo
23. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
    
24. Can’t We Try - Dan Hill and Vonda Sheppard
    
25. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) - Beastie Boys
    
26. The Final Countdown - Europe
    
27. Open Your Heart - Madonna
    
28. Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley
    
29. In Too Deep - Genesis
    
30. Let’s Wait Awhile - Janet Jackson
    
31. Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
    
32. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Genesis
    
33. Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott
    
34. Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
    
35. Talk Dirty To Me - Poison
    
36. Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
    
37. Big Time - Peter Gabriel
    
38. The Finer Things - Steve Winwood
39. Land of Confusion - Genesis
    
40. Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship
    
41. Luka - Suzanne Vega
    
42. Girls - Beastie Boys
    
43. The Lady In Red - Chris Deburgh
    
44. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
    
45. True Faith - New Order
46. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith
    
47. Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
    
48. Moonlighting Theme - Al Jarreau
    
49. Heart and Soul - T’ Pau
    
50. Heartbreak Beat - Psychedelic Furs

Because my birthday is at the end of December, the next year is probably just as interesting (to me). Let’s have a look:

1. What A Wonderful World* - Louis Armstrong
2. It Takes Two - Rob Base & E-Z Rock
3. Da Butt - EU
4. Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
5. I’ll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne
6. Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
7. Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns N Roses
8. Red Red Wine - UB40
9. Just Got Paid - Johnny Kemp
10. Don’t Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
11. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
12. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
13. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses
14. Paradise - Sade
15. The Flame - Cheap Trick
16. 1 2 3 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
17. Kokomo - Beach Boys
18. Need You Tonight - INXS
19. Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
20. Roll With It - Steve Winwood
21. Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird (Medley) - Will To Power
22. Power Of Love - Laura Branigan
23. Push It - Salt N Pepa
24. One More Try - George Michael
25. Can’t Stay Away From You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
26. Wild, Wild West - Kool Moe Dee
27. One Moment In Time - Whitney Houston
28. Hot Hot Hot!!! - The Cure
29. The Promise - When In Rome
30. The Way You Make Me Feel - Micheal Jackson
31. Chains Of Love - Erasure
32. What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
33. Honestly - Stryper
34. Don’t Be Cruel - Bobby Brown
35. Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
36. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
37. Nothin’ But A Good Time - Poison
38. Angel - Aerosmith
39. Candle In The Wind - Elton John
40. Forever Young - Alphaville
41. Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole
42. Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
43. Tall Cool One - Robert Plant
44. Forever Young - Rod Stewart
45. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
46. Tomorrow People - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
47. I Know You’re Out There Somewhere - Moody Blues
48. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
49. Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
50. In God’s Country - U2

Keep in mind that a lot of the ones marked as “no idea what the song is” can be blamed on the fact that these charts are US oriented, as far as I can tell, and I grew up in the Netherlands!

Can you guess what the years are without checking various years on the website?

I blame this one on Annie, because I can.

Your Observation Skills Get A B

Your senses are pretty sharp (okay, most of the time) And it takes something big to distract you!

Pity it doesn’t tell me which ones I got wrong, though.

Picked up from Cartazon:

Goto Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Let’s see…

• Facts:
  • 800 - Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
  • 1776 - George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack Britain’s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
  • 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day).
• Born::
  • 1642 (O.S.) - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)
  • 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
• Died::
  • 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)

I wasn’t aware that Charlie Chaplin was English, you think the lack of accent helped?

Inspired by Lumi:

visited 13 states (25%)
create your own personalized map of the USA

I landed in Atlanta in ‘99 for my first visit to the US, visited some people in that area and let’s not forget I also flew to Chicago and saw some of Michigan. I’ve seen a bit more of Michigan since then, as well as the states between it and Kansas, partially visiting and partially roadtripping through them.

M has family on the east and west-coast so no doubt I’ll see more of that in the future. Definitely want to visit Hawaii and Alaska at some point.

Thankfully I’m not doing this for the money.

Update: Hmm, almost a month later I went back and checked again and now it’s just over $500. I guess the fact that the domain change has been picked might help.

Feeling a bit lazy and cleaning out browser-tabs that I had sitting around, I ran across this one:

The Veteran You scored 88%!

You’ve picked up the majority of the classic rock basics. You probably have a classic rock collection and can sing along with most of the songs on your local radio station. This is not the highest score, but it is arguably the best: that subtle combination of impressive knowledge and not being a pretentious geek.

Hmm, right. *hides the music collection*

Not a bad year, I’d say: