music can show your age

Do these songs look familiar to you ?

  • #1 Crush – Garbage
  • Discotheque – U2
  • One Headlight – The Wallflowers
  • Staring at the sun – U2
  • The Freshmen – The Verve Pipe
  • Semi Charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
  • The Impression that I get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • Push – Matchbox Twenty
  • Fly – Sugar Ray
  • Walking On the Sun – Smash Mouth
  • Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
    Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground

Those were the Billboard #1 Modern Rock tracks from 1997.

That’s ten years ago! I remember these songs like it’s yesterday !

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Infectioner said:

Dude, you’re old

 
ahbing said:

Damn I feel old too.

(singing *du du du* in background.. Semi Charmed Life’s chorus)

 

omg.. i don’t know any of these songs~
not coz i’m young but it’s coz i have STM! @_@

haha. but i think i remember Chumbawamba!! i still knoe how to dance the steps to that…

sigh.. no more count down clock huh?
sniff sniff…

it’s 103 days 23 hours 45 mins 30 seconds… ^_^

>> jasonphoon replied:

omg, how can you not know Semi charmed life ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=087pjPX3z_8

classic song! ahahha

 
 
Peter Varvel said:

Semi Charmed Life: best progressive Vespa scooter video ever, featuring two hot Asian chicks! (kinda’ rare, here, in the USA).

>> jasonphoon replied:

OOHHhh, so that’s a Vespa scooter ! I remember that video welll !

oh , the song is about drugs , you know … ehhehe

>> Peter Varvel replied:

THAT I did not know, that it was a tune about drugs. I’m gonna have to get on youtube and listen to the lyrics, again.

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>> jasonphoon replied:

Oh man ,the song is LOADED with drug references. check out the article :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Charmed_Life#Drug_references_in_the_song

 
 
 
 
lenniez said:

i wannna push u aroundd… :) – yea, i see some familiar ones. denying im old tho. i reckon i’d know more if it was the pop charts. 10 years ago… spice girls should be there! ;)

>> jasonphoon replied:

Push me around ??

see, I always knew you were the violent type ….

 
 
farah said:

as i went through the list, i could tell it was 1997, until you wrote 1997! wow!! i used to like that marcy playground and verve pipe song too. but they’re kinda one-hit wonders. only third eye blind has sustained or bettered their performance. why the sudden write up on this list though?

>> jasonphoon replied:

Because I want to go Matchbox Twenty concert !

Kinda grew up on them you know …

>> farah replied:

did i tell you i went for a matchbox 20 concert before? :P

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>> jasonphoon replied:

cool, it must have been awesome :(

 
 
 
 
ley0n said:

You should have a weekly section where you intro new music instead of looking at past hits. Then, once a month, have a voter-powered poll. Then put up a streaming music hit station based on those votes. Voila, instant net radio!

>> jasonphoon replied:

My music taste is too cool for the masses.

That , and I like Vampire Weekend. Not many do .. .LOL

 
 
Nux said:

these are my favs too…during my teenage years

 
jamez said:

I feel young again!

 
Stephanie said:

i still hvae some of these songs playing in my car !!

wtf ! need to change CD in the player now ….. :(

NNoooooooo I LIKE THEM !!

>> jasonphoon replied:

Oh your comment so crazyyyy

 
 
Michelle said:

My song list:

- Kim Possible theme song
-Spongebob Squarepants theme song

How old am I?

>> jasonphoon replied:

hey, I love spongebob squarepants tooo !!

you are probably … 11 ??

 
 
ee said:

Awwww my old favorites..uhh I mean new. Uhh I’m confused lol. I’m still young dammit!

>> jasonphoon replied:

hhehe , confused EE EE EE EE EEE EEEEE

 
 
Kurt said:

I only remember the Carebears theme song. It was awesome.

 
Deric said:

Those were the days mate.

Ahh, Matchbox 20….

 
::Nicole:: said:

garbage.. i love em’! :)

 
ken. said:

I guess this line fits in right. “You know you’re old when … “

 
tsuqi said:

helloo helloo….. these are the best songs in the world! LOL some can still make me cry > one headlight. and semi charmed life makes me remember my time studying in sg where everybody knows the same dance steps to this song. and garbage rox! spammed their songs whilst preparing for my a-levels. and and… *takes deep breath and calms down* …. gosh was it so long ago then?

>> jasonphoon replied:

I know ! I love the post-grunge alternative movement of the 90s. I wanna like download all the songs from 1995-1998 (right before nu-metal came along).

yes, it was 10 years ago ! :(

 
 
Cen Ni said:

I love those songs !

Eh I listen to 80’s songs when I was 10.
Who into 80’s here also? :D

>> jasonphoon replied:

hehehe , what 80s music are you talking about ?

 
 
Su Yin said:

I love 1997.

 
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