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JohnT
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Capitalist
Mar 1999
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I was giving my wife one of her standard 2-hour massages tonight while we were in bed watching TV. Since nothing was on, we turned the "dial" (digital cable) to the band of channels that covers the various music genres, from a Big Band channel to a Hip Hop channel to "decade" channels, etc.
Anyway, towards the end of the rub/scratch/hairbrushing One Sweet Day came on, a 1995 song by Mariah Carey and Boys II Men. I remark first...
"Huh. I've never heard this song."
"... You've never heard this song?!?"
"Did I stutter?", with a wink, "No, it doesn't sound familiar at all."
"No way! This song was HUGE!"
Her surprise seemed a little out of proportion for what was sounding like a pretty basic ballad with a fair amount of caterwauling, so I decided to look it up in my copy of Joel Whitburn's The Billboard Book of Top-40 Hits, an invaluable reference guide to what was hot and what was not in the world of pop music.
Holy freakin' Shiite, this song was big! Apparently, not only did it spend 16 weeks at #1, not only was it just the biggest song of 1995 (coulda fooled me), but according to this book, it was the biggest charting song of all time*, beating out Elvis, the Beatles, and the Macarena (which I had heard  ).
Who knew?
So, what big songs or other pop-culture things did you totally miss out on? Not because you weren't interested ("I have no desire in seeing that boat movie... we all know that it sinks in the end"), but because, well, you weren't paying attention. Or you were too busy. Or something.
*However, I think the all-time list is a little suspect because the top-9 songs are all post 1992. Did Billboard change the way they figured their charts or something?
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Flip McWho
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New Zealand
May 2002
time: 17:35
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quote:
I never got into Survivor. At all. |
Yeah thats not missing out. Thats showing extremely good taste.
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Flip McWho
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New Zealand
May 2002
time: 17:35
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Black Eyed Peas and the song called Shut Up by any chance. That song gets overrated very quickly.
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OzzyKP
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Rockville, MD
Oct 1999
time: 00:35
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"Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton.
A friend of mine had a "music riddle" in his AIM profile, something like a song name using 1 and 2. He said to me that since I knew music I should get this right away. So with that introduction, I put myself into it. But I had absolutely no idea what it was.
I spent a few weeks turning it over in my brain, and I was totally clueless. Finally he revealed it to some friends and I. My friends who knew of the riddle, but weren't really putting much time into figuring it out, all said "oh yea, of course"
I said, "Wonderful Tonight? Who is that by?"
Everyone looked at me like I had three heads, "Alex, of all people you should know it, its Eric Clapton."
Then I learned it was big at dances in middle school. Considering I never go to dances, I guess that explains it. But now I hear it all the time.
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