This is a fun thing I did on another web site.

Here's the basic idea: The ultimate CD has finally been created that can hold an infinite number of songs, be it 10 or 1000 (if you're willing to take the time to post 1000 songs)

Anyway, you're given the CD to burn and create your own album. The album must hold songs that either affect you some way (emotionally, etc.) or that represent the kind of person you are.

I'm currently working on mine, and will have it up later. Just create an Album that says something about yourself. You can continuously add and take away whenever you want. Go to it, and keep on Rockin'

P.S: You must give reasons for your choices.

Representing my life in timely order.. hmmm

When Doves Cry - Prince
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
(the first songs I remember liking when I was like 4 or something)
Cool It Now - New Edition
Bad - Michael Jackson
Single Life - Cameo
I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
One Love - Whodini
Funny How Time Flies - Janet (This song used 2 scare me when i was little..i didnt understand her and it sounded scary)
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Sweet Thing - New Edition
Tonight - Ready For The World
Just Good Friends - Michael Jackson
Signed Sealed Delivered - Stevie Wonder
Affection / Been Around The World - Lisa Stansfield
Papa Dont Preach - Madonna (she made some of the video by our apartment)
Open Your Heart - Madonna
Misdemenor - Foster Sylvers (the first 45 I remember liking)
Fingertips - Stevie Wonder
Nite & Day - Al B Sure
I Want Her - Keith Sweat
Sexy Mama - Moments
Let Me Love You Down - Ready For The World
Groove Me - Guy
I Like - Guy
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
It's No Crime - Babyface
Do The Bartman - Bart Simpson
Justify My Love - Madonna (I remember my cousins mom said she was going to whoop us if she saw us watching that video )
Rhythm Nation - Janet
Love Will Never Do Without You - Janet
Make You Sweat - Keith Sweat

woooh..thats all for right now

Great choices, PP4. Here's mine:

Ordinary - Train (My Theme Song)
Controversy - Prince
Leave you far Behind - Lunatic Calm
Shine - Sevendust
Here to Stay - Korn
Praise - Sevendust
Authority - Linkin Park
Purple Rain - Prince
Why - Stabbing Westward
Headstrong - Trapt
Change - Deftones
The Better Life - Three Doors Down
Rock is Dead - Marilyn Manson
Invisible Man - Theory of a Dead Man
Walk Away - Mad at Gravity
BANG ON! - Propellerheads
Wake Up - Rage against the Machine
Somebody Else - Bleu
If I was your Girlfriend - Prince
Time and Time Again - Mad at Gravity
Look Out Below - Closure
Baby I'm a Star - Prince

A lot of Rock, some Techno, and a dash of Funk.
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"Proud Mary"--first RnB song I remember singing and knowing all the lyrics

Original Soul Train theme song--Back when the show first started in Chicago. Don't know who performed it, though.

"TSOP"--MFSB's" Soul Train theme

"Zing Went the String of My Heart" by the Tramps--yet, another ST memory.

Lots of Otis, Sam, Jackie, Temptations, J5/Jacksons, Aretha....

All of "Songs in the Key of Life"--Stevie Wonder

All of "Dirty Mind" --P

"Sexy Dancer" --P

All of "I'm Still in Love With You"--Al Green

I could be here forever....

OfficerShockadelica said:

Alot of those songs I don't recognize cuz I didnt grow up around alternative, soft rock or hard rock in general. But Prince was always there..my mom bought that Lovesexy album and I was like "Mommy WHY is he neaked!?"

Sum mo from me just 2 let off steam I dont care who reads this..

Ghetto heaven - Family Stand
Playboy - Latoya Jackson (my mom's boyfriends friends were spinning me around and around in a chair until I wanted 2 throw up, it was after I finished watching that song)
Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli
In Living Color Theme
Same Old Love - Anita Baker
Aint 2 proud 2 Beg - TLC
What About Your Friends / Baby Baby Baby - TLC
Vision Of Love - Mariah Carey (I can see my cousin Brandy with her head on the speakers playing that song OVER AND OVER AND OVER)
I Will Always Love U - Whitney
The Bodyguard sountrack (My dad played that OUT)
my first albums ever were given at this time:
Michael Jackson Dangerous
Prince's Diamonds & Pearls
Michael Jackson - Thriller

Moved to Minnesota around this time from New York

A Chronological account of my life (Not necessarily in the order they were released)

I Saw Her Standing There--Beatles
I Wish—Stevie Wonder
Rhinestone Cowboy—Glen Campbell
Da Do Run Run—Shaun Cassidy
Rappers Delight—Sugarhill Gang
The Message—GMF & The Furious Five
Rockin’ the Paradise—Styx
Antmusic—Adam & the Ants
1999—Prince
Just Once—James Ingram
What’s Goin On—Marvin Gaye
I Am The Walrus—Beatles
Superstition—Stevie Wonder
Purple Haze—Jimi Hendrix
Back in Black—AC/DC
Roxanne—Police
Josie—Steely Dan
Lovesexy—Prince
Oh Mary—Take 6
Cult of Personality—Living Colour
Oliver’s Army—Elvis Costello
You Know What I Mean—Jeff beck
Comfortably Numb—Pink Floyd
Come Together—The Beatles
So What--Miles Davis
Moondance—Van Morrison
Welcome to the Jungle—Guns & Roses
In Bloom—Nirvana
Jane Says—Jane’s Addiction
P-Funk (Wants to get Funked Up)--P-Funk
Sexy MF--Prince
Nothin But A G Thing—Dre & Snoop
The Riddle—Steve Vai
Sweet Jane—Velvet Underground
Isolation—John Lennon
9th & Hennepin—Tom Waits
Idiot Wind—Bob Dylan
Santeria—Sublime
7 Nation Army—White Stripes
Musicology--Prince
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very cool thread.

Mine will be a history of my love of music, in sections.

SECTION ONE:
- the early years -

These are songs that I listened to growing up, thanks to my folks who were both big music fans. I was much more likely to be camped in front of my parent's stereo than playing with toys when I was a kid.

1. Come Together - The Beatles
2. My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
3. Band on the Run - Paul McCartney
4. Run For Your Life - The Beatles
5. Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
6. The Show Must Go On - Three Dog Night
7. If - Bread
8. Have You Ever Seen the Rain? - CCR
9. Witchy Woman - The Eagles
10. I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
11. If I Fell - The Beatles
12. Certain Kind of Fool - The Eagles
13. China Grove - Doobie Brothers
14. Yesterday - The Beatles
15. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

SECTION TWO
- entering the 80's/ Before MTV -

This section represents the end of my period before I started really discovering my "own" music. This was the tail end of my early childhood, songs that my dad's band played, and also songs that I was starting to hear from other sources.

16. Hard Luck Woman - Kiss
17. Voyeur - Kim Carnes
18. Don't Stop Believin - Journey
19. Eye In the Sky - Alan Parsons Project
20. Say Goodbye to Hollywood - Billy Joel
21. Tryin' To Live My Life Without You - Bob Segar
22. Don't Know Where to Start - Eddie Rabbit
23. Starting Over - John Lennon


SECTION THREE
(early music DISCOVERY phase)

These were the first singles I bought with my own money (well, allowance money anyway), and the songs that really formed the background for my own tastes going forward. Early days of MTV, etc. I would have been 10 and 13 years old for most of these. I consider this to be my "golden age" of music, hehe.

24. Nobody - Sylvia
25. Gloria - Laura Branigan
26. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
27. Gold - Spandau Ballet
28. Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
29. Mirror Man - Human League
30. Sweet Dreams (are made of this) - Eurythmics
31. Fascination - Human League
32. Every Breath You Take - The Police
33. Love is a STranger - Eurythmics
34. Beat It - Michael Jackson
35. Don't Pay the Ferryman - Chris Deburgh
36. Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes


SECTION FOUR
- early to MID 80's -

This is my older elementary years, going into Jr. High

37. Karma Chamelian - Culture Club
39. When Doves Cry - Prince
40. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
41. Take On Me - a-ha
42. Better Be Good to Me - Tina Turner
43. One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
44. Erotic City - Prince
45. Paisley Park - Prince
46. One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
47. China Girl - David Bowie
48. Would I Lie to You? - Eurythmics
49. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
50. Separate Ways - Journey
51. Rock this Town - Stray Cats
52. The Lebanon - Human League
53. Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
54. Raspberry Beret - Prince
55. Borderline - Madonna
56. Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
57. Who's That Girl - Eurythmics
58. Dancing in the DArk - Bruce Springsteen
59. Who's Behind the Door - Zebra
60. Street of Dreams - Rainbow
61. All Through the Night - Cyndi Lauper
62. Jeanny - Falco


whew... that's enough for now. Trying to limit it to really KEY songs... more later.

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paisleypark4 said:

I love that song (as with other sweat tracks)

"u say no, i say yes girl I bet I can make u sweat"

I love that chorus. I was sad enough as a kid to say that chorus to girls.


I still say that chrous to girls.

Where is "rub u the right way" by Johnny Gill? Another song I used to impress my dance moves and singing to girls.
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My second album i bought was Jacko's "dangerous".....as if kids envied me 4 having that album (it was soo expensive to a six year old. I got it 4 my 6th birthday)..... I'd blast the cassette into my ancient boombox and out to the street I'd go with my mates. Ahhh happy USA days.....
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Album Title-----> Creation Of A Genius


these r songs (some old, some new) by some of the artists that I hold very dear to me


1.Patti Labelle--If U Only Knew
2.Al Green--Love And Happiness
3.Al Green--4 The Good Times
4.Prince--Purple Rain
5.Prince--When Doves Cry
5.Prince--Kiss
6.Prince--Do Me Baby
7.Prince--If I Was Ur Girlfriend
8.Bill Withers--Aint No Sunshine
9.Bill Withers--Lean On Me
10.Brook Benton--Rainy Night In Georgia
11.Anita Baker--My Everything
12.Anita Baker--Apologize
13.Gap Band--Burn Rubber On Me
14.Gap Band--Early In The Morning
15.The Staple Singers--Lets Do It Again
16.Chaka Khan--Through The Fire
17.Patti LaBelle--New Attitude
17.Patti LaBelle--Over The Rainbow
18.Alicia Keys--If I Aint Got U
19.Alicia Keys--Diary
20.Billl Withers--Just The Two Of Us
21.Marvin Gaye--Say Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
22.Lou Rawls--Ull Never Find Another Love Like Mine
23.Woman To Woman--Shirley Brown
24.The Manhattans--Shining Star
25.Prince--Dear Mr.Man



these are 4 right now,and in no particular order

thesexofit said:[quote][quote]

Rub U The Right Way was in my life but it didnt have a strong hold until 1997 when i re-discovered it. Just like alot of songs from the New Jack era. After watching the documentary on Teddy Riley I discovered
Dont Take My Mind On A Trip"
the whole Guy album
I Dont Wanna Fall In Love remix - Jane Child
I Like The Way (Kissing Game) - Hi Five
just 2 name a few.

Yes I blasted that Dangerous cassette until it finally warped 2 DEATH.

I also started 2 buy my first Prince albums with my allowance in 1992/93. The first being "Sign O The Times & Grafitti Bridge I think.

I could never have the patience to create an mp3 of my life worth of songs wooh shit.