Depths of Suckitude

The idea is to exam­ine, in glo­ri­ous detail, the Depths of Suck­i­tude of the music that was pop­u­lar when you got out of High School. Phi­los­o­phy being, I sup­pose, that the music that was pop­u­lar dur­ing the time you made that high school-to-college tran­si­tion is the music that shaped your Sonic Consciousness.

What­ever.

Any­way, here’s what you do. You go to the Music Out­fit­ters web­site and type your high school grad­u­a­tion year into the search tool. Select the “list of the 100 most pop­u­lar songs” and you will get the Raw Mate­r­ial for the next step in the process, which is to look through the list and decide which songs you hated, which ones you liked, and which one was your favorite.

Post the list on your Online Jour­nal, strik­ing through the songs you hated (or still hate) and bold­fac­ing the ones you liked (or still like). Bold and under­line your favorite song. No opin­ion? Leave it as-is.

Depths of Suck­i­tude for 1994
1. The Sign, Ace Of Base
2. I Swear, All-4-One
3. I’ll Make Love To You, Boyz II Men
4. The Power Of Love, Celine Dion
5. Hero, Mariah Carey
6. Stay (I Missed You), Lisa Loeb and Nine Sto­ries
7. Breathe Again, Toni Brax­ton
8. All For Love, Bryan Adams, Rod Stew­art and Sting
9. All That She Wants, Ace Of Base
10. Don’t Turn Around, Ace Of Base
11. Bump N’ Grind, R. Kelly
12. Again, Janet Jack­son
13. I’ll Remem­ber, Madonna
14. Whatta Man, Salt-N-Pepa
15. Wild Night, John Mel­len­camp and Me’shell Nde­geo­cello
16. With­out You / Never For­get You, Mariah Carey
17. You Mean The World To Me, Toni Brax­ton
18. Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Elton John
19. The Most Beau­ti­ful Girl In The World, Prince Sym­bol
20. Fan­tas­tic Voy­age, Coo­lio
21. Baby I Love Your Way, Big Moun­tain
22. Reg­u­late, War­ren G and Nate Dogg
23. If You Go, Jon Secada
24. Back and Forth, Aaliyah
25. Now And For­ever, Richard Marx
26. When Can I See You, Baby­face
27. Please For­give Me, Bryan Adams
28. So Much In Love, All-4-One
29. Shoop, Salt-N-Pepa
30. Any Time, Any Place / And On And On, Janet Jack­son
31. Shine, Col­lec­tive Soul
32. Said I Loved You…But I Lied, Michael Bolton
33. Return To Inno­cence, Enigma
34. All I Wanna Do, Sheryl Crow
35. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, Crash Test Dum­mies
36. Can We Talk, Tevin Camp­bell
37. Funkdafied, Da Brat
38. I’d Do Any­thing For Love (But I Won’t Do That), Meat Loaf
39. Gangsta Lean, Drs
40. Because The Night, 10,000 Mani­acs
41. Can­taloop, US3
42. Whoomp! (There It Is), Tag Team
43. Come To My Win­dow, Melissa Etheridge
44. Stroke You Up, Chang­ing Faces
45. I’m Ready, Tevin Camp­bell
46. 100% Pure Love, Crys­tal Waters
47. Any­time You Need A Friend, Mariah Carey
48. Because Of Love, Janet Jack­son
49. Linger, Cran­ber­ries
50. Loser, Beck
51. Found Out About You, Gin Blos­soms
52. Gin And Juice, Snoop Doggy Dogg
53. Never Lie, Imma­ture
54. Streets Of Philadel­phia, Bruce Spring­steen
55. Getto Jam, Domino
56. End­less Love, Luther Van­dross and Mariah Carey
57. I Miss You w/ Aaron Hall
58, Under­stand­ing, Xscape
59. This D.J., War­ren G
60. Cry For You, Jodeci
61. Keep Ya Head Up, 2Pac
62. Who Am I (What’s My Name?), Snoop Doggy Dogg
63. Another Night, Real McCoy
64. Your Body’s Callin’, R. Kelly
65. Toot­see Roll, 69 Boyz
66. I Can See Clearly Now, Jimmy Cliff
67. Never Keep­ing Secrets, Baby­face
68. Crazy, Aero­smith
69. Just Kickin’ It, Xscape
70. At Your Best (You Are Love), Aaliyah
71. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through, Meat Loaf
72 Amaz­ing, Aero­smith
73. Always, Era­sure
74. Groove Thang, Zhane
75. Dreams, Gabrielle
76. Mr. Vain, Cul­ture Beat
77. Mary Jane’s Last Dance, Tom Petty and The Heart­break­ers
78. Any­thing, SWV
79. Beau­ti­ful In My Eyes, Joshua Kadi­son
80. Stay, Eter­nal
81. Flava In Ya Ear, Craig Mack
82. U.N.I.T.Y., Queen Lat­i­fah
83. Prayer For The Dying, Seal
84. Secret, Madonna
85. Here Comes The Hot­step­per, Ini Kamoze
86. Every­day, Phil Collins
87. Don’t Take The Girl, Tim McGraw
88. Got Me Wait­ing, Heavy D and The Boyz
89. Decem­ber 1963 (Oh, What A Night), Four Sea­sons
90. Indian Out­law, Tim McGraw
91. Always, Bon Jovi
92. I’m The Only One, Melissa Etheridge
93. Back In The Day, Ahmad
94. Love Sneakin’ Up On You, Bon­nie Raitt
95. I’ll Take You There, Gen­eral Pub­lic
96. Always In My Heart, Tevin Camp­bell
97. What Is Love, Had­daway
98. And Our Feel­ings, Baby­face
99. Bop Gun (One Nation), Ice Cube
100. I Wanna Be Down, Brandy

Kudos to Kris for the meme. Also, if you’re like me and most of these songs don’t look at all famil­iar to you; the iTunes Music Store is your friend.

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