These days, it seems that VH1 shows two things: reality TV and retrospective shows. By retrospective, I mean stuff like I Love The 80s (or 70s, or 90s, or whatever). I’m not much on reality TV, but the retrospectives? Those are a freaking time sink. Black hole. I accidentally flip to an I Love The 80s Strikes Back marathon — and the next thing I know, it’s two hours later, and I’m wondering where my evening went.
My latest VH1 addiction is the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. Watching this show is like remembering all the highlights of high school and college on random. I started high school in August of 1990, and I graduated college in December of 2001, so the 90s were really where I came into my own. I know probably 95% of these songs (I’m not hip to the more hip-hop or rap tunes from the mid to late 90s), and all of those are associated with some time in my life. The Cranberries remind me of being home from college for a semester. Oasis reminds me of the early years of my relationship with Aaron (who used to say I was his Wonderwall, while he was my one Natural One).
You know what this means, right? Hell, yeah. New iPod playlist.
Luckily, they have the entire song list posted on their website. So far, I already have about 30 of the top 100 in my iTunes, anyway.
Some of the songs are kind of WTF — “Oh, God, I hated that fucking Spice Girls song!” — but I’ll probably put them on my iPod for completeness’s sake. And for the amusement factor.
OK, show’s back on. Gotta go. 🙂
Yeah, those shows are definately a time black hole. There’s a few shows on VH1 Classic such as the History of Metal which I have seen a few times. I particularly like the one with Dio talking about the devil symbol which is the Metal Symbol. He rags on Gene Simmons when he says, “if you ask Gene, he’ll say he invented it, along with heavy metal”. I think those shows and crap on HGTV such as “House Hunters” (Connie and I love that show) and Spice Up My Kitchen are great to kill otherwise productive time.