Here’s a follow-up to the FFM post below.

If I look at the year I graduated from college (1990, I only own two of the songs on the list, and on;t Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ is one that I listen to with anty regularity (its on my MP3 player):

59. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven, Phil Collins
65. Free Fallin’, Tom Petty

If I do 1996, the year I completed grad school, the list of songs I have in some form is a bit longer:

3. Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion
13. Ironic, Alanis Morissette
18. It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion
39. Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Deep Blue Something
50. Time, Hootie and The Blowfish
76. As I Lay Me Down, Sophie B. Hawkins
99. Only Wanna Be With You, Hootie and The Blowfish

Certainly a longer list. Of course, I am not sure that it says much about 1990 v. 1996 except that in 1996 I was listening to far more pop radio than I was in 1990, when I essentially listenrd to none (which was largely true in 1986, for that matter).

Although, I will confess, my wife’s influence on CD buying/MP3 downloading is evident in some of these, tunes (especially Celine Dion), although I confess to liking all the tunes above, but none of them would make my Desert Island Playlist, except maybe Time by H&TBF–I have always really liked that song.