Comments | bibliotrope: 1968: It was a pretty good year for music, anyway

bibliotrope

1968: It was a pretty good year for music, anyway

Nov 25, 2006 04:29

The way I understand this meme, you're supposed to take the list of top songs (here) from the year you turned 18, or graduated from high school -- for most folks in the U.S. this will be the same year; it was for me -- and indicate which songs you liked and which ones you didn't.

This was real simple:

( The ones I like...: )

meme, music, 1968

Comments 7

countrycousin November 25 2006, 13:02:59 UTC

THe Smothers Brothers gave Honey an appropriate treatment. ;<)

There were some good songs that year. I enjoyed Classical Gas.

kip_w November 25 2006, 23:15:18 UTC

The '68 songs mean a lot more to me than the '74 ones that I'm supposed to respond to. Clearly, the golden age of pop music is 12 ( ... )

bibliotrope November 26 2006, 07:25:28 UTC

I actually remember that skit. Though not, admittedly, in that much detail, so thanks for reminding me of it! I need to see if the Smothers Brothers are on DVD yet -- it was a great show!

carbonelle November 26 2006, 04:39:47 UTC

I can never do these memes: the set of "...and songs you've never heard of" is too large!

carbonelle November 26 2006, 07:13:55 UTC

You'll notice I didn't have that problem with 1968 ( ... )

Oops bibliotrope November 26 2006, 07:23:22 UTC

P.S. That was me. I forgot I wasn't logged in. (I don't know why I wasn't logged in, but I wasn't.)

Re: Oops filkferengi November 30 2006, 19:08:30 UTC

It's interesting how one imprints on music. Because my mom was only 22 when I was born, I imprinted on music from the 1950s just as much as the more contemporary music of the 1960s & 1970s. We listened to the pop station all through elementary & high school [for me], but I was also raised on country, gospel, etc. When MTV actually did music and videos were new, it rocked. Even without cable, I kind of kept up with new pop music well into the late 1980s. [I can tell you the big hits all during dating ze spouse, & other life events.] You lasted longer with the pop music than I did; I finally quit following it in 1992, once I had a fulltime job, a new marriage, and no time to even follow dated videos on VH1. That's how music from the 1950s-1980s got to be the music of my youth, with a sharp drop-off in the 1990s ( ... )