This afternoon, I have been compiling a list of songs, both catchy and actually good, from the past eight years of ARIA sales information - ARIA being the Australian recording industry association, or something like that. The actual ARIA site itself only has the yearly lists, but the Rage playlist sites have actually week to week information from 1998.
It is kind of a fun task, why I am doing it I have no idea - well, yes I do, if I get a sampling of good and catchy tunes, I will be able to download them off the net sometime or another - and interesting, such as knowing that there was a time in the past where there was no Britney Spears in the charts. Or the one with talent, Christina LOL.
And also figuring out when the songs came out as to what was happening in my personal life, such as 1998 I was still over in England, enjoying the heck out of myself - apart from perhaps the Antipodean bars and the fact that the All Blacks lost five in a row, which I have written about elsewhere on the blog.
However, the funniest in a strange sense thing is that now I am in 2000, looking at the music trends there, and it is with a sinking heart that I am lining up these charts with what was happening in my personal life - the November 2000 trip to Vancouver Island, which went well, and the February 2001 trip to Northern Ireland, which went less so.
For some reason it was like a punch to the stomach when I saw the first song I associate with that time - Vitamin C's Friends Forever - come up in the charts. I still like the song, but personal experience of it was watching the video flying home, on the LA to Auckland leg of the trip, after the whole Irish experience. And wanting to believe that me and H would be friends forever.
Yeah, soppy moments ahead I am sure. The trip over to Vancouver on the first trip was good though, Coyote Ugly on the movie screen on the plane. There was a time before Coyote Ugly was released, believe it or not :)
Will be interesting when I get to the early 2001 charts, what songs I can remember from that time - and if I can remember any happy positive songs. That was pretty much a train wreck period of my life, for at least six months...
Pauly
It is kind of a fun task, why I am doing it I have no idea - well, yes I do, if I get a sampling of good and catchy tunes, I will be able to download them off the net sometime or another - and interesting, such as knowing that there was a time in the past where there was no Britney Spears in the charts. Or the one with talent, Christina LOL.
And also figuring out when the songs came out as to what was happening in my personal life, such as 1998 I was still over in England, enjoying the heck out of myself - apart from perhaps the Antipodean bars and the fact that the All Blacks lost five in a row, which I have written about elsewhere on the blog.
However, the funniest in a strange sense thing is that now I am in 2000, looking at the music trends there, and it is with a sinking heart that I am lining up these charts with what was happening in my personal life - the November 2000 trip to Vancouver Island, which went well, and the February 2001 trip to Northern Ireland, which went less so.
For some reason it was like a punch to the stomach when I saw the first song I associate with that time - Vitamin C's Friends Forever - come up in the charts. I still like the song, but personal experience of it was watching the video flying home, on the LA to Auckland leg of the trip, after the whole Irish experience. And wanting to believe that me and H would be friends forever.
Yeah, soppy moments ahead I am sure. The trip over to Vancouver on the first trip was good though, Coyote Ugly on the movie screen on the plane. There was a time before Coyote Ugly was released, believe it or not :)
Will be interesting when I get to the early 2001 charts, what songs I can remember from that time - and if I can remember any happy positive songs. That was pretty much a train wreck period of my life, for at least six months...
Pauly
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