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Monday, January 16, 2017

FB Questionnaire: Top 10 Records of My Teens

Sixteen.
This latest Facebook questionnaire asks you to name the top ten records of your teen years. This one sparked more than a few, shall we say, enthusiastic discussions among my social network. There were some near-Unfriending incidents. Granted, mine is a particularly musically-charged gang of misfits. Dear friends absolutely demolish each other over hot button issues such as whether or not Billy Squire got robbed. (Update: Don't @ me.)

Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder


Colour By Numbers - Culture Club

Purple Rain - Prince
Rocky Horror Picture Show - soundtrack
Working Class Dog - Rick Springfield
Rapture - Anita Baker


Pretty in Pink - soundtrack
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Love Songs - The Beatles (compilation)

*Runners-Up
Dream Into Action - Howard Jones
No Parlez - Paul Young


Even Now - Barry Manilow
Afterburner - ZZ Top

Off the Coast of Me - Kid Creole and the Coconuts

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