Music Meme at Eighteen

This one I discovered Nick Mamatas doing (in public, yet!)

Instructions: Go to www.popCulturemadness.com and select the year you became 18. Paste the list of the top 75 songs. Bold the ones you liked; strike the ones you disliked; and italicize the ones you know but don't exactly like nor dislike. The ones you don't know will stay common text.

The year is 1987, and the radio is full of crap -- luckily, I'm off at college, so I'm not listening to Top 40 radio (or watching much MTV) at this point.

1. Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
2. Mony Mony - Billy Idol (1st released in 1981)
3. (I've Had) The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
4. Lean On Me - Club Nouveau
5. Songbird - Kenny G
6. Always - Atlantic Starr
7. Oh Yeah - Yello
8. La Bamba - Los Lobos
9. Faith - George Michael
10. You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
11. With Or Without You - U2
12. Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
13. Bad - Michael Jackson
14. It's Tricky - Run DMC
15. You Got It All - the Jets
16. U Got The Look - Prince
17. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
18. Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue
19. Didn't We Almost Have It All - Whitney Houston
20. Casanova - Levert
21. La Isla Bonita - Madonna
22. Funky Town - Pseudo Echo
23. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
24. Can't We Try - Dan Hill and Vonda Sheppard
25. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) - Beastie Boys
26. The Final Countdown - Europe
27. Open Your Heart - Madonna
28. Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley
29. In Too Deep - Genesis
30. Let's Wait Awhile - Janet Jackson
31. Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
32. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Genesis
33. Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott
34. Somewhere Out There - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
35. Talk Dirty To Me - Poison
36. Rhythm Is Gonna Get You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
37. Big Time - Peter Gabriel
38. The Finer Things - Steve Winwood
39. Land of Confusion - Genesis
40. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship
41. Luka - Suzanne Vega
42. Girls - Beastie Boys
43. The Lady In Red - Chris Deburgh
44. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
45. True Faith - New Order
46. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith
47. Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
48. Moonlighting Theme - Al Jarreau
49. Heart and Soul - T' Pau
50. Heartbreak Beat - Psychedelic Furs
51. Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
52. Caught Up In The Rapture - Anita Baker
53. Come Go With Me - Expose
54. Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
55. Day In, Day Out - David Bowie
56. Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards
57. Fascinated - Company B
58. Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room) - Paul Lekakis
59. I'm No Angel - Gregg Allman Band
60. Only In My Dreams - Debbie Gibson
61. Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
62. Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
63. When Smokey Sings - ABC
64. Graceland - Paul Simon
65. At This Moment - Billy Vera and the Beaters
66. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
67. I Just Can't Stop Loving You - Michael Jackson
68. Heart and Soul - The Monkees
69. Why Can't I Be You - The Cure
70. Downtown Train - Patty Smyth
71. Catch Me I'm Falling - Pretty Poison
72. Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle
73. Point Of No Return - Expose
74. I Want Your Sex - George Michael
75. I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany

I bet a lot of those plain-type titles would turn into strikethroughs if I remembered them; they mostly sound like things I would hate. In several cases, I know I never liked any song that particular group did, but I can't remember the one on this list -- so I didn't strike them out purely from lack of specific memory.