The meme is out there, but Accordion Guy put a spin on it I dig so much I'm going to follow suit.
The challenge is to find the Top 100 songs from the year you graduated from high school, list 'em on your site, highlight the ones you like and cross out the ones you hate. You ignore the ones to which you're kind of indifferent. Accordion Guy did it with the CFNY year end chart from the year he graduated high school, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. It makes sense since that was my station in 1993 and there's a handy archive of old charts at The Spirit of Radio.
Using the Top 102 Albums of 1993 according to CFNY, here is the soundtrack from my personal coming-of-age film.
- *Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream : An awesome, play-through, tour de force, even after the piss off.
- *Nirvana - In Utero : You mean, this wasn't CFNY's number one?!?! WTF, what an album. I remember heading straight from class to Sam's to pick it up on the first day of its release.
- Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
- *Pearl Jam - Vs. : You mean, this wasn't CFNY's number one?!?! WTF, what an album. I remember heading straight from class to Sam's to pick it up on the first day of its release.
- New Order - Republic
- *Radiohead - Pablo Honey : The album that spawned "Creep", still one of my favourites of all time.
- Breeders - Last Splash
- Catherine Wheel - Chrome
- *U2 - Zooropa
- Porno For Pyros - Porno For Pyros
- James - Laid
- *Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy : This is the album that made me fall in love with Sarah. Don't tell Taryn, but if Sarah decides she wants me, I'm there.
- Bjork - Debut
- Pet Shop Boys - Very
- *Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine : This album holds a very special place in my heart. It's definitely one of my ten favourite of all time and every time I hear it I get so excited it's embarrassing.
- Suede - Suede
- The The - Dusk
- Juliana Hatfield Three - Become What You Are
- The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't I?
- Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads
- P.J. Harvey - Rid Of Me
- *Stone Temple Pilots - Core : And I feel it... Great album from a band that got an unfair rep for busting Ed's style. It's all good.
- Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
- Doughboys - Crush
- Adorable - Against Perfection
- Belly - Star
- Tea Party - Splendor Solis
- *Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way?
- hHead - Fireman
- *Tool - Undertow
- Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
- *I Mother Earth - Dig : My brothers made fun of me for liking this band, but I had a "So Gently We Go" moment at a cottage that summer and a "Levitate" moment during a wall ball game. Two future blogs perhaps?
- Dinosaur Jr- Where You Been
- Jane Siberry - When I Was A Boy
- *Various - 1993 CFNY New Music Search : This was a very cool mix that introduced me to Hayden. I blab and rave about "Take" here.
- *Tragically Hip - Fully Completely : The best album from my favourite band. Nuff said.
- *Blind Lemon - Blind Lemon
- Verve - A Storm In Heaven
- Frank Black - Frank Black
- Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
- Midnight Oil - Earth And Sun And Moon
- 13 Engines - Perpetual Motion Machine
- Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth
- Curve - Cuckoo
- Revolting Cocks - Linger Ficken' Good & Other...
- Swervedriver - Mescalhead
- Eric's Trip - Love Tara
- Wonder Stuff - Construction For The Modern Idiot
- Primus - Pork Soda
- *R.E.M - Automatic For The People : An album I dig for the haunting "Drive" and the introspective "Everybody Hurts".
- Concrete Blonde - Mexican Moon
- Front 242 - :06:21:03:11 Up Evil
- Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast
- Urge Overkill - Saturation
- Cocteau Twins - Four Calendar Cafe
- *Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union : A play through that Taryn and I played all the time during our brief dating period.
- Spirit Of The West - Faithlift
- World Party - Bang!
- *Cracker - Kerosene Hat : Damn "Low" is a cool tune. This is another of my wall ball tunes.
- New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Body Exit Mind
- Odds - Bedbugs
- (missing)
- Jesus Jones - Perverse
- Beloved - Conscience
- Cranes - Jewel
- The Watchmen - McLaren Furnace Room
- The Fall - Infotainment Scan
- Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Sport Fishin'
- Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Are You Normal?
- Hothouse Flowers - Songs From The Rain
- Mystery Machine - Glazed
- INXS - Full Moon Dirty Heart
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How To Party
- Hunters & Collectors - Cut
- House Of Love - Audience With The Mind
- Daniel Lanois - For The Love Of Wynona
- Tears For Fears - Elemental
- Acid Test - Drop
- Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
- Paul Weller - Wildwood
- Stereo MCs - Connected
- Ocean Blue - Beneath The Rhythm And Sound
- Revolver - Cold Water Flat
- Rose Chronicles - Dead And Gone To Heaven
- Waterboys - Dream Harder
- Machines Of Loving Grace - Concentration
- Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate
- *Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
- Peter Gabriel - Us
- Cowboy Junkies - Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
- UB40 - Promises & Lies
- Crash Vegas - Stone
- Dada - Puzzle
- Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
- Moxy Fruvous - Bargainville
- Mae Moore - Bohemia
- Various - Stone Free
- Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day
- *Various - Sweet Relief : "Crazy Mary" is one of my l0 tracks. Throw in that cool Soul Asylum tune and I'm in!
- Rymes With Orange - Peel
- Redd Kross - Phaseshifter
- Pursuit Of Happiness - The Downward Road
bold = Mike digs it the most!
crossed out = Mike hates it!
* = In my collection
