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[kcobweb]

So, we were listening in the car to ellinor's awesome new 90s mix (and it is awesome), so I was in a 90s kind of mood, and then we arrived at the diner for breakfast and someone was playing "Brown Eyed Girl" on the jukebox, and I said "This would be on the soundtrack for my freshman year of college."

And thus it was born - I started coming up with the list of songs would be my college soundtrack. Songs that instantly evoke for me (and likely, no one else) that place and time. (For those who don't know, the years in question are 1990-94.)

I'm still finessing the list. It was songs that popped into my head during discussion about it - and then I came home and dredged up old mix tapes, which had a few others I had forgotten. Funny thing: there is a strong core of songs that speak of My Freshman Year, and then the other 3 years kind of blur together - it's harder to remember whether I'm remembering sophomore or senior year or what..... Anyway, this was fun.


Roughly in my *personal* chronological order:

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Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
The Joker (Space Cowboy) - Steve Miller Band
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls
Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants
Hairdresser on Fire - Morrissey
Blister on the Sun - Violent Femmes
Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones
Why - Annie Lennox
Constant Craving - k d lang
Love Shack - The B52s
Groove is in the Heart - Deee-lite
End of the World as We Know It - REM
Birdhouse in your Soul - TMBG
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
If I had a Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies
Keep On Lovin' You - REO Speedwagon
Mysterious Ways - U2
Fridays I'm In Love - the Cure (or, Just Like Heaven)
An Angel Stepped Down - Jane Siberry
Watershed - Indigo Girls
Nightswimming - REM
Seven Days - Sting
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns 'n Roses
Verdi Cries - 10,000 Maniacs (or, Trouble Me)
Backdoor Man - Sarah McLachlan
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs
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Some of those remind me of dancing at parties at the row houses; some are in-jokes; some are songs my neighbors would blast so that the whole building could hear it; some are very specific memories. Gods, I might just have to make that. Because that would be beyond awesome.

I'd ask if I missed any, but that assumes y'all were right there in the same times and places with me. Which only a few of you actually were. *grin*

ETA: I almost forgot Nothing Compares 2 U, by Sinead O'Connor. I'm sure saltcod remembers why. :)

Comments

[samtheeagle.livejournal.com]

I want this mix!

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Let me work on compiling it. I'm thinking vaguely that I might cut some to get it all onto 1 CD - but that remains to be seen. Think of the above list as a rough draft.

But you can absolutely have a copy of the finished product!

[squirrelhaven.livejournal.com]

All but 5 of these songs are in my music library.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I may hit you up for some. I have yet to check this against our collection.

[boylawyer.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, some of the more esoteric ones are also categorized in my head as Thinking Of Williams songs - Groove Is In The Heart, Closer to Fine, Don't Lets Start and Birdhouse, BNL. I think that These Are Days reminds everyone of their time in college. :)

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I didn't say I was being particularly *original*. :)

[kouredios.livejournal.com]

Hee. This is where our small age difference shows up. Most of those songs mean high school for me.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

I got Bare Naked Ladies' CD for Christmas and I was instantly transported back to the spring of 1999, my sophomore year of college. It's amazing how music can do that to you.