Another Thought About Pop Music
One more thought before I go get ready for rehearsal: I think the reason there were so many tunes on that Top 100 meme list that I couldn't remember, is that it's a "pop" (that is, "Top-40") list, and at that time I had already switched from "Top-40" radio to "Album Rock" format stations. Obviously there is some overlap between the two playlists, but the last time I can rebmember being able to enjoy more than a few minutes of Top-40 format at a time (or stand more than three quarters of an hour of it) was around eighth grade. I think the prevailing aesthetic of pop music changed more than my own tastes did, at first, but once I had been listening to album-rock stations a while, my tastes did shift a little more away from even the Top-40 I'd liked earlier. (Not that I ever outgrew ABBA, mind you!)
Eventually even mainstream album-rock radio became tiresome -- I wonder how much of that was that it changed away from what I liked, or simply stagnated, and how much was my having learned how much else is out there -- but that happened much later.
Okay, I'm off to go hum "Tiger", "Dancing Queen", and "Dum Dum Diddle" in the shower. Then to figure out how I'm getting the double bass out of the house.