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Teq's 20 for 20 - A Look Back at 20 Years of Music

TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,875
edited December 2020 in Yellow Snow's Record Shoppe
I don't follow directions well and when I read about the 20 for 20 I thought it was a great idea ... the idea of trying to come up with 20 songs over 20 years just seemed like a lot of work to start with. But even more than that, as I started thinking about it, the more I realized how much music has change and how much life in general has changed. So with that I decided to change up the discussion a bit and take a look at things year by year with a little bit of commentary along the way ...

By and large, I'm going to leverage the ending Billboard Top 100 as my starting point.

I will give a little bit of commentary about what life looked like in those years ... particularly the further back in time I go as I think it will give some context as to why the songs are memorable to me for various reasons.

I will have some categories in each of the years as well as what my takeaway from the music of that year has as a legacy.

The goal will be to make it fun. I suspect the list will have some surprises on it ... some good and some bad. There will be some that will probably laugh at some of the picks ... and some that will nod and think that they forgot that song.

So with that ... I'll start with 2000 and work forward ... should be a fun ride.

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  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,875
    Year: 2001

    Where in the World Was Teq:

    I was entering my last year at UW working my way to graduation with still no real clue how to transition from college to the real world. I spent a lot of time traveling to/from school that year with one of my best friends who was engaged and getting married in the Spring of 2002 ... so lots of boy band sappy music on those rides. Lots of looking forward to the 2001 football season, defending the P12 championship, Reggie Williams coming into the program, and that early season game with Michigan ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0tVDmX5Qo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Qi0dt83ls

    ... then 3 days later the world changed on 9/11

    Teq's Musical Thoughts on 2001:

    You still had the influence of the boy band music but this to me was really the big rise up of the R&B scene taking over popular music. There really wasn't much in the terms of rock or anything like that. You still had the remnants of BS like Creed that still to this day you can't change the channel fast enough on. It's an interesting era when you go back through the lists and realize that you're really not getting a lot of these songs showing up in heavy rotation today from the Pop 100 ... that said, when you go back and look at the cross over that country started having we're right in the middle of the crossover of the lines being heavily blurred.

    Teq's Top Song of 2001: "Fallin'" by Alicia Keys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urdlvw0SSEc

    Teq's Runner Up Song of 2001: "Run" by George Strait

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1qYdGitX8

    Teq's Country Song of 2001: "It's A Great Day To Be Alive" by Travis Tritt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IKJa4ok83M

    Now is for some categories that are more out there when it comes to having some fun ...

    Teq's One Hit Wonder / Forgotten Artist of the Year: "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPQ_M3yJTA

    Teq's American Pie Themed Song of the Year: "Be Like That" by 3 Doors Down

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHpMtWtgUvc

    As mentioned previously, lots of really heavy hitters when it came to the R&B scene and there are really 4 songs that stand out to me when I look back as being songs that you largely remember all the words to 20 years later ...

    Teq's R&B Songs of the Year (4-pack): "Crazy" by K-Ci & JoJo, "Mrs Jackson" by Outkast, "U Remind Me" by Usher, and "Ride Wit Me" by Nelly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-KCd0guJI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxAiK6VnXw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxau9B3jOHM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec4AlLd6Evg

    Can't go through 2001 without the boy bands and the songs that are ones that you still don't want to admit that you know the words to:

    Teq's Boy Band Songs of the Year: "This I Promise You" by N'Sync and "Crazy For This Girl" by Evan and Jaron

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6thmPrTxBtI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZkM_nOJ3d4

    The best and worst part of aging is how there are songs that at the time that you absolutely hated at the time and then the older you get the more you find yourself liking a song and feel like kicking your own ass ...

    Teq's I Want to Kick My Own Ass Song: "Drops of Jupiter" by Train

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc

    And finally, you can't get through 2001 without the influence of 9/11 and the renewed feeling of patriotism that was in place. There wasn't blue or red ... or right vs left ... it was Americans uniting to say a collective fuck you to terrorism. Anytime I look back on 2001, I think about if the events of 9/11 happened in America today what the response would be and I truly don't know what the answer is ...

    The "America Fuck Yeah" Songs of the Year: "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood and "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" by Alan Jackson

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvPgYLhOq24

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAQ-M65Hjag
  • biak1biak1 Member Posts: 4,165
    Alan Jackson top 10 mullet HOF.
  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,498 Standard Supporter
    You mextended this to truly Teq lengths, and I’m cool with that.
  • LebamDawgLebamDawg Member Posts: 8,712 Standard Supporter

    You mextended this to truly Teq lengths, and I’m cool with that.

    only eighteen to go (no abbreviations or number short cuts for a Teq thread)
  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,875
    LebamDawg said:

    You mextended this to truly Teq lengths, and I’m cool with that.

    only eighteen to go (no abbreviations or number short cuts for a Teq thread)
    They will come in time ... probably on average if 1-2 per day
  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,498 Standard Supporter
    Tequilla said:

    LebamDawg said:

    You mextended this to truly Teq lengths, and I’m cool with that.

    only eighteen to go (no abbreviations or number short cuts for a Teq thread)
    They will come in time ... probably on average if 1-2 per day
    GIVE THE PEOPLE WANT THEY WANT
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 35,384 Founders Club
  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,875
    That’s why I gave you the songs prior to the video there Pisser
  • RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123
    Sk8er Boi is a great song.
  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,875

    Sk8er Boi is a great song.

    It was really a 1A and 1B for me

    I’m 1000x more likely to sing along to Sk8er Boi ... it’s truly a great song

    But looking back at it, there’s a uniqueness to Shakira that is really hard to describe (besides her exquisite hips) that just had me coming back to that being the song for the year

    Really amazed in hindsight how much strength there was during this time period for female music ... particularly coming off the 90s where there was some great talent but by and large it didn’t have the same appeal
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