East of the Sun, West of the Moon

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Not bad, not bad at all. 🙂

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: