Kiss A Shark Day, January 10th

Kiss A Shark Day

Okay, so for me realizing that Hanson's "MMMMBop" is #20 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, beating out The Cranberries "Linger" (#86), Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do" (#61), Ricky Martin's "Livin' la Vida Loca" (#28) and Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" (#25) which were important songs of the 90s, much more important that "MMMBop," is much like kissing a shark. Also, realizing that all three members of Hanson are now married and have kids, makes me feel really, really old.

Also, I protest any list of best songs from the 90s that doesn't include more Collective Soul. And why they chose
Shine



instead of December,



or Needs...



I just can't understand.

But, I do understand VH1's pick for the number 1 song of the 90s, and I fully agree with it. I remember the first time I heard this song, and it is a significant memory for me. It was September of 1991, my senior year, I was sixteen and younger than most of my class. It was at the end of the first pep assembly of the year, and I think someone had gotten into the sound system when they shouldn't have, because we generally didn't end pep assemblies with teeny grunge music, mostly we ended with walk back to class quietly music. As soon as the music started, people started to mosh all around me. I didn't mosh. I couldn't. I was too stunned by what I was hearing. I loved it! I stood still trying to understand the words, because I felt like the song had just reached out at me with all seventeen of its tentacles and embraced me into the grunge movement. After that experience I started listen to the AM alternative stations, and I bought myself a flannel shirt or two. It only seemed right since I was attending high school in Oregon. But, I never did the black eyeliner thing or the clove cigarettes. Just in case you are were getting worried that you didn't truly know me.

Anyway, the number one song of the 90s is...



It's a great song, so don't go kissing sharks about it!

National One-Hit Wonder Day, September 25th

National One-Hit Wonder Day

Today is a day to sit back and ponder on those songs that you liked for about a week and then drove you crazy for a year. Yeah. Like the Macarena, by Los Del Rio in 1993, remixed by the Bayside Boys in 1996. According to VH1's Top 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders, the Macarena is the number one One Hit Wonder. But, this list didn't go back very far...

This list, only has 50 songs on it, includes British songs like Monte Python's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, and goes all the way back to Louie, Louie, by the Kingsmen, 1964.

Since it is Banned Books Week, it is interesting to note that Louie, Louie was under investigation by the F.B.I. and the F.C.C. for obscenity, and banned in the State of Indiana.

Check out this letter from an angry parent to the U.S. Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. It makes me wonder if there is an F.B.I. file on the Baha Men for their song.

Anyway, I hope that I didn't ruin your day by putting song lyrics in your head... and if I did just remember that "in every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double, don't worry, be happy!