![]() You can tell there’s a pretty significant period of time where I barely listened to anything in English. Roughly, my fads and phases: mid-90s = Britpop + chart music, late-90s to early-00s = Canto/Mandopop, Jpop, early to mid-00s = folk, country, acoustic singer-songwriter, mainstream rock, mid-00s to 2010 = Japanese indie, anisong, 2011-2014 = Kpop, 2014 onwards = moved back into Jpop, anisong & mainstream English-language music.And he’s also pinched a copy of this playlist (and the Japanese one too) for himself now Thank the Lord that my older brother was into the same kind of music at the time, so we had a shared record collection & could clue each other in on the latest tunes. I was never in step with my peers – when they were into Barbie dolls I was into Take That, when they were into Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls I had already moved on to Oasis and Radiohead.The show was hosted by Adrienne ‘Ace’ Walker and Joe Cipriano back then and introduced me to a whole new world of rap, dance and alternative music In the mid-90s my tastes were heavily influenced by radio – that would be Radio 4 in Malaysia, which happened to run episodes of The World Chart Show on weekends, which was my gateway to global contemporary hit music.Luckily my family members are all into music in some form and shape so I had plenty of influences to absorb and genres to explore, though it took me a long time to get my head around things like folk, bluegrass and country Not gonna do breakdown stats for this but it should be fairly obvious that I’m a kid of the 90s.There was a brief desire to stick to one song per artist bar collabs/duets/OSTs but abandoned the idea cos that would mean a whole goddamn trove of great songs missing out.I started off aiming for a 1000 but by 800 or so I realized it wasn’t anywhere near enough to fit everything I wanted to so instead of agonizing over what to leave off, I went ahead and expanded it to 1500 songs.Not quite ‘English’ since there are quite a few tracks in other languages, plus a couple of instrumentals thrown…left off the classical pieces though.Did it for Japanese songs, now I’m doing it for ‘Western’ music.
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