Go Ahead and Laugh: Songs of Adolescence Meme - from tanith_astlik

[johanna_hypatia]

The idea is to go here: http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php, and for every year you were in high school, pick your favorite then and now, and also the worst one

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[tanith_astlik]

Worst: "I'm In You" (I'm like, eeeww)

I had no idea what the song meant in 1977. All I know is that I must have liked it because my parents bought me the album. I thought it sucked.

[johanna_hypatia]

Can you tell I like Stevie Wonder?

[tanith_astlik]

Yeah, Stevie Wonder was hard not to pick. Donny and Marie always lose with me, too.

[kesnit]

"The Entertainer" - The piano piece, or is there another one that I didn't find on youtube?

"Love Hurts" - Uber emo angst. :)

[johanna_hypatia]

> "The Entertainer" - The piano piece, or is there another one that I didn't find on youtube?

That's the one... it was first published in 1902... I learned to play it as a thirteen-year-old during the Scott Joplin revival. I thought Treemonisha was fascinating... about a woman born to freed slaves in rural Arkansas who leads her people to education and enlightenment. She survives an assassination attempt.

[johanna_hypatia]

> "Love Hurts" - Uber emo angst. :)

We were all 16 once.

[tanith_astlik]

For me, Love Hurts is up there with I'm Not in Love, another one of my faves as a teen. I thought I knew a boy like that and it made me cry.