So, for the record this list is not in any particular order. It’s just a list of songs that I love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So (again). Here is my music evolution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First album: either the Cabbage Patch Doll album or Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next: Chicago, specifically Hard to Say I’m Sorry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, Phil Collins and Genesis for the rest of elementary school. Hated, hated, haaated boy bands like New Kids on the Block (which 2024 me finds funny).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next up, Fleetwood Mac (and their various solo albums), with a side of The Eagles. Mostly gave up on Phil Collins because that was too dorky even for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By junior high or high school, I’d learned about Kate Bush and Leonard Cohen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
College is when I started to listen to Kirsty MacColl and (to a lesser extent) the Pogues. One of my awesome roommates taught me a little bit about The Bee Gees and other disco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that was it, really. My musical tastes did not evolve at all from 1999 until at least a decade later, when I decided that I enjoyed some of the pop songs on the radio like Lady Gaga, “Some Nights” by Fun, and some British boy band’s song The Story of My Life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, during that time I did finally get a Sirius XM radio account and discovered the channel where they played 80’s New Wave music (hoping for a little Kate Bush or even, rarely, some Kirsty). A lot of the songs from that time in my life are on this list, including Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode. Something about that song just suited me. “All I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms”. Just a really great song. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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