JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

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Hit Me Baby One More Time!?!

I guess this is indicative of my opinion that music needs an upturn in its quality. been awhile....

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OMG!!! i am thinking like you now JD!! i thought of the same song!!

Yeah, you're right.  That was a more recent example.

It usually is the poppy songs that tend to garner that kind of attention.

disco strangler wrote:

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i was thinking for recently GREEN DAY --  Wake Me Up When September Ends

when VAN HALEN put out 1984!  OMG --  we couldn't get enough of JUMP!

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i loved JUMP!

Yep, JUMP was huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

And I'd put MY HEART WILL GO ON right up there with Macarena for a recent one, maybe higher. But it had the unfair advantage of also being part of a movie that swept the nation at the same time.

This is exactly what I mean though, it feels like it's been soooooooo long since we had a REALLY big one.

I think Green Days song was close, but didn't quite reach the level of a Macerena or My Heart Will Go On.

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

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Yep, JUMP was huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

And I'd put MY HEART WILL GO ON right up there with Macarena for a recent one, maybe higher. But it had the unfair advantage of also being part of a movie that swept the nation at the same time.

This is exactly what I mean though, it feels like it's been soooooooo long since we had a REALLY big one.

I think Green Days song was close, but didn't quite reach the level of a Macerena or My Heart Will Go On.

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You're right. It doesn't hurt that your song is in one of the highest grossing movies of all time.

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

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Awe Firefly,

Doooooon't Breaaaaaaaaaaak my Heeaaaaaaart

My aaaaaaaaaaaaaachy breaaaaaaaaaaaky heaaaaaaaaaaaaaart


-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 13:04, 2007-06-15

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lol.

Ok, one more note from TG. She's seeing all the negativity about Achy Breaky Heart and wanted me to point out that she didn't say she LIKED the song, just that it swept the nation.

Also, she added Ice Ice Baby.

Nirvana was HUGE at one point.

It's hard for me to say on a song like GOLD DIGGER.

I don't think it got as big as the ones we've been talking about, but then I might be biased because I so hate that style of music.

I'd have to admit that even though I never heard the song on the radio or sought it out, I was aware of it's existence.  In my "Insulated from Rap" world it managed to get noticed, so perhaps it was that big!

I know I saw editorials ripping it for it's lyrical content.  I saw comedy sketches on it.  I saw part of it performed on SNL (just until I could get to the remote to change it). 

It was definately the buzz for awhile.

"Jump" was huge here too. That song always reminds me of a guy from our school that was one grade behind me. I remember he had a pea green Monte Carlo that was all jacked up in the rear with wide tires and a killer stereo. He would cruise around the school with his stereo cranked playing Jump over and over.

I don't know if it was big everywhere, but anohter big one here was John Cougar's "Jack and Diane". Maybe it was more of a "small town anthem" for high school kids, but you didn't have to go far to hear someone playing that song around here.

About all I can think of for more recent ones is Smashmouth's "All Star". I heard that one a lot when it was popular.




-- Edited by WebGuy at 13:50, 2007-06-15

Oh how did I forget that James Blunt song?!

OK,

T-Gal swears she's done now, but she had to add two more to the fire.

Clearly this topic stuck a chord with her

She said to mention BORN IN THE USA, which yes, absolutely, it was EVERYWHERE, aided by Reagan's misguided use of it.

And LIVIN' LA VIDA LOCA, which ushered in the Latin invasion.  Very true as well.  For awhile that guy was everywhere, although his name escapes me at the moment.