{"id":1112,"date":"2007-02-11T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/11\/chart-attack\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T10:57:08","slug":"chart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/11\/chart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s something a little lighter than the last couple of entries, seeing as it’s a weekend and all: Pop-music blogger Jason Hare has a regular Friday feature called “Chart Attack!” in which he posts the Top Ten songs from a past week ending on the same date, and goes through the songs. This week’s entry, from February 11, 1989<\/a> is right in my wheelhouse, or ought to be:<\/p>\n

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10. Walking Away – Information Society
\n9. She Wants To Dance With Me – Rick Astley
\n8. I Wanna Have Some Fun – Samantha Fox
\n7. The Lover In Me – Sheena Easton
\n6. All This Time – Tiffany
\n5. When The Children Cry – White Lion
\n4. Born To Be My Baby – Bon Jovi
\n3. Wild Thing – Tone-Loc
\n2. When I’m With You – Sheriff
\n1. Straight Up – Paula Abdul<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At the time, I was a senior in high school, mostly listening to Top 40 radio (because there wasn’t any other kind out in the sticks), smack in the middle of the prime pop-culture imprinting years (the block of years between ages 13-21 are teh time when you’re most likely to obsessively follow pop culture), so you’d think this would be prime nostalgia material for me…<\/p>\n

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You’d be wrong. <\/p>\n

I can confidently recall only four of those ten songs, and I hate, hate, hate<\/strong> two of them (“When the Children Cry” by the Great White Poisonous Lion-Snakes (though I don’t associate the song with 1989), and “Straight Up” by Simon Cowell). I think I might be able to place the Samantha Fox song (I haven’t watched the YouTube video to see if I’m right), but the other five are a total loss. I have absolutely no recollection of any of these songs, and they were evidently big hits.<\/p>\n

I’m not really sure whether this is a statement about the ephemeral nature of pop culture, or just an indication that I had other things on my mind (Feb. 11 would’ve been getting toward the end of basketball season, so I was a little preoccupied, plus I was waiting on college acceptance letters at around that time…). It’s sort of weird to see a Top Ten list from right in the heart of my era, and have it look so unfamiliar, though.<\/p>\n

(Contrast this with the previous installment, from 1985<\/a>, where I’m pretty sure I could sing the chorus of eight of the ten songs. Not that you would want me to do that. Believe me, nobody wants that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s something a little lighter than the last couple of entries, seeing as it’s a weekend and all: Pop-music blogger Jason Hare has a regular Friday feature called “Chart Attack!” in which he posts the Top Ten songs from a past week ending on the same date, and goes through the songs. This week’s entry,… Continue reading Chart Attack!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}