Create your own Golden (half) hour

All from the one year? Berlimey ?

I'm going to choose '91, just because I think it was a top year for chooons. Am nicking from the Moyles to start and going with:

I Love Your Smile - Shanice
The One and Only - Chest Knee Hawkes
Dizzy - Vic Reeves and The Wonderstuff
Sit Down - James
Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
Let's Talk About Sex - Salt n Pepa
Baby Baby - Amy Grant

I could have picked looooooooooads more by the way, it was a great year <am now officially middle aged ?>

See, I was going for 1991 and got as far as

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

? I'm not good at this.

I'm going with 1992 (for no other reason than I like the songs).

My 6 are:

Blind Melon - No Rain

Nirvana - Lithium

Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

REM - Man on the Moon

U2 - One

17 years ago!!!

This is not easy - there were about 10 other tracks I could have chosen after I googled ?

1994 -

Welcome to Paradise - Green Day
Live Forever - Oasis
Spin the Black Circle - Pearl Jam
What's the Frequency Kenneth - REM
Zombie - The Cranberries
Roads - Portishead

1997 (I was 16) ?

Hanson - Mmmbop

Elton John - Candle in the Wind

Spice Girls - wannabe

Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)

Puff Daddy and Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You

LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live

OK, I'm going to add

REM - losing my religion and Texarkana (album track) for the associations [sniff] [sob]

EMF - unbelievable

Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now

The Clash - Should I Stay etc

Wonderstuff - Size of a Cow

1986

Smiths - There Is A Light (And It Never Goes Out)

JAMC - Some Candy Talking

Bodines - Therese

Smiths - Ask

Fuzzbox - Console Me

Primitives - Really Stupid

1989

Back to Life - Soul II Soul

Sam Brown - Stop

Martika - Toy Soldiers

Sowing the seeds of Love - Tears for Fears

Good thing - Fine Young cannibals

I'm every woman - Chaka Khan

I am going to go for 1988. I was 14! I remember taping these from the charts for my walkman.

Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson

Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson

Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen

She's like the Wind - Patrick Swayze

The Loco-Motion - Kylie

Tell it to my Heart - Taylor Dayne

I'm looking at everyone's list and just cringing with embarassment at what would be on my lists compared to yours for similar years! eek!

Stop by Sam Brown is one of my favourite songs of all time. Loving Martika too!

I'd like to choose 1994 too :

No Good (Start the Dance) - The Prodigy

I Like to Move it - Reel 2 Real

Parklife - Blur

N-Trance- Set You Free

Saturday Night - Whigfield

Let me be your Fantasy - Baby D

Ooh, Man in The Mirror is my favourite MJ song, this thread is going to cost me a fortune on iTunes ?

Looking at my list compared to others, I really am cheese personified and I just don't care ?

Now I'm singing 'Pink Pink Sunshine'!!

Choooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!

Hmm, I have to go for 1996 and the following selection:

Electrolite - REM

Wake Up Bomb - REM

Nancy Boy - Placebo

The Day We Caught the Train - Ocean Colour Scene

Peaches - Presidents of the United States of America

Charmless Man - Blur

This was the year I first started going out to pubs / clubs etc so I can agree with a few of your choices there for pure nostalgia ?

(I was far too young to be out though it has to be said)

I just downloaded The Experience and Music for the Jilted Generation.....I forgot how much Iove The Prodigy.......

Love it love it love it!!!

I really shouldn't have been lazy.... We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Going To Use It -Console Me

*shudder*

(although to be fair I was only 12 in 1994....)

How sad am I though - I also downloaded a few 'vintage' Scooter tunes from 1996ish?

I'll get me coat.....

That's the year I finished school.

I'm choosing 1993. My first year at uni, I discovered going out, started drinking far too much and snogging far too many people. A good year.

The Ship Song - Nick Cave

Go - Pearl Jam

*** - Dennis Leary

Linger - Cranberries

My Sister - Juliana Hatfield

Happy Birthday Helen - Things of Stone and Wood

So hard, there are at least 50 songs I could choose from that year, and I've changed a few of these already.

I take it you're not comparing your list against mine? ?

Oh, you can join me on the 'Cheesy and We Just Don't Care' list ?

My list could have been much worse Stock Aitken Waterman galore -

Kylie and Jason but I wasn't a big fan. And the classic SAW - I'd rather jack-Reynold Girls

Just looking through the list from that year, how could I miss

Baby I don't care - Transvision Vamp. I love this song.

I'm going to cheat, sorry. Probably none of these songs were actually released in 1991, nd there are only 4, but they remind me of that golden year (the year I was 18):

Love Cats - the Cure (1983)

The Love Shack - B52s (1989)

The Timewarp (I went to se the Rocky Horror Show in London with the school Arts Society and the very hot head boy of the boy's school came dressed in suspenders ?)

Ticket to Ride - the Beatles - reminds me of sitting late on summer night with my best friend, the boy I really fancied and his best mate while the boys played the Beatles on their guitars.

I loved being 18.

Following on from the other thread, i think i'll go for 1987.

blow the house down - living in a box

you're the voice - john farnham

something inside so strong - labi siffre

so cold the night - communards

the circus - erasure

i could probably add another 5 songs too ?

I LOVE that Libi Siffre song and you can't beat a bit of John Farnham!

Listening to 'the circus' set me on the path to embracing socialism. i was a very opinionated 16 year old. ?

i fit in well in north leeds in 1987, as you can probably guess. ?

Not necessarily my favourite year of all time as that would imply that it's all been downhill since then but 1977 was a fun year for me, musically and otherwise. The Queen's Silver Jubilee saw street parties and parades all over the place (and me in my very fetching red, white and blue jumpsuit ?); it was the year Star Wars burst onto the silver screen, not to mention Saturday Night Fever (although I was too young to see it then, I could appreciate the soundtrack). The year was marred for me by the death of my pin-ups Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley but I was distracted by punk bursting onto the scene in all its safety-pinned, tartan bum-flapped glory. There was still the tail end of glam rock to enjoy, disco was popular and punk was new and dangerous. Such variety back then.

Sound and vision - David Bowie

White Riot - The Clash

You sexy thing - Hot Chocolate

We will rock you/We are the champions - Queen

Way Down - Elvis Presley

Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees

1977 was a fab year for me, too- I was born!

Jaffacake's hour is pretty much perfect for me- particularly her last 3, which sum up my teenage Thursday/Friday/Saturday nights out. (About a fiver all night, walked home leathered and stayed up for hours after singing Baby D and N-Trance. Perfection.)

I will do my own tomorrow i think, as the bodka and red bull is clouding my mind at the moment!

Give or take a couple of years, did you grow up in Blackpool?!?

I'll report mine tomorrow - so many choices, too many years!