OK Nubiana. Normally this sort of this sort of viral thing scares me but I’ll call it. Here are the rules:
- Go to www.popculturemadness.com/Music
- Pick the year you turned 18.
- Get yourself nostalgic over 5 of the songs of the year.
- Write something about how the songs affected you.
- Pass it on to 5 friends.
Here we go:
- Funky Cold Medina – Tone Loc – This track, and the whole album in fact, was exactly what I was looking for in the musical misery of the “Madchester” era. While everyone else was talking in a mock-manc accent and waving their arms about to a bunch of lame, derivative, half-arsed, psychedlia-lite claptrap, I was funking my 18-year-old (skinny at the time) arse off to this in Planet-X in Liverpool: the only club I’ve ever really liked. There’s not a dud on this album.
- Wild Thing – Tone Loc – See above. Same album.
- Buffalo Stance – Nenah Cherry – This is too easy. The catchiest Tim Simenon tune ever, fronted by someone with a superb voice and a body that did bad things with my excitable teenage hormones. My girlfriend at the time reluctantly bought me the album after a lot of pestering.
- Back to Life – Soul II Soul – This track and “Jazzie B’s theme” really helped provide a window of sanity in the jingle-jangle claptrap that I was trying, so hard, to avoid at the time. I was in Liverpool, and it was so London and so, so good.
- Me, Myself and I – De la Soul – I really don’t have to explain this one do I ? Come on. It’s a daisy age…
Oh shit – that’s my five! Runners up were Tom Petty and the Beastie Boys. Why weren’t Sonic Youth on the list ?
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