Amy: A Life in Music
1995 – Michael Jackson – HIStory: Past, Present and Future
I’d be lying if I tell you that I grew up with Thriller, and I’d be really hiding information if I don’t tell you that I think this angry Michael Jackson isn’t my favorite. You know when Janet Jackson did her VMA Tribute and did Scream? I almost cried at that point, so angry, so powerful.
Plus, this album is the first CD I ever got. Before this, it was all TV or radio. This was it.
1996 – Salserin – Con Mucho Swing
To be honest, I wanted to choose Entre Tu y Yo in 1997, but the more shameful things I add in here, the most fun the list. Salserin is a Venezuelan salsa group, very much in the vain of boyband Menudo, which switched members once they turned 18. I got into the group in the period between Servando & Florentino (who left the group by the end of this year), and Rene & Renny (who came in to replace them).
A version of their song De Sol a Sol (From Sun to Sun) can now be heard on beer commercials. Of course, there was also the song Yo Sin Ti (Me Without You) on the album, which spawned a movie in 1997 starring Servando & Florentino… which also spawned that one song Una Fan Enamorada (A Fan in Love).
Runner-up: The Cranberries – To the Faithful Departed, but this one is not shameful, is it?
1997 – Torbellino – Torbellino
LOL, I just had to share more of my shameful past. Torbellino (Twister) was a Peruvian group that came about with the release of its own telenovela — very much in the vain of Rebelde Way and the like. Unlike future groups, Torbellino only ever released that one album, which contained the theme song called, well, Torbellino, alongside other hits like Poco a Poco (Little by Little), sung by Fiorella Cayo, and Solamente Tu (Only You), sung by her sister Barbara Cayo — the Cayo sisters also spawned another sister, Stephanie Cayo.
This telenovela also spawned the careers of Erika Villalobos, Pablo Saldarriaga, Santiago Maguill, Gianella Neyra and Daniela Sarfaty — who, by the way, was also featured on Nubeluz. LOL
1998 – Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
You know that moment when you listen to pure awesomeness and you just know it? And things like that happen only once, and I think that’s why we haven’t gotten any other Lauryn Hill album since then.
Runner-up: Robbie Williams – The Ego Has Landed
1999 – BackStreet Boys – Millennium / Faith Hill – Breathe / Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication / TLC – FanMail
Do not make me choose. I still think 1999 was the greatest year for music, and here we have the example. Four albums of different genres that are great. Pop, Country (and I’m not even counting the Dixie Chicks’ Fly album), Rock and R&B/Hip Hop.
Best mother-effing-year in music EVER~~~
Okay, my shame is out there. Never has been so public, at least the people that read my blog didn’t know me. Now? Now it’s official…
@amy, Isn’t it scary? I know my brother will get it cus I have thought him about music. But he is going to be “Where’s the Beatles on this list”
Btw, I owe the Rebelde Way album, the very first one. I love it to death, wanted to add it to my list but I couldn’t handle the shame…….
@Julili, yours is not as shameful as mine. LOL
But no way in hell did I grow up with GNR xD I even had to leave out Bjork’s Debut. There was a lot of “nooooooo, i canNOT take this album out!!!” going on, and it took me forever.
@amy, Two months due. Two months and me obsessing about it everyday. I had to check every single album I own. Do you have any idea how many albums I own? JFC&M.
GNR I didn’t get to love until I moved to Sweden but that album… gaaaah I have it hard and sloppy for 80’s glam rock. I was this close to add Europe hahahaha
Aw god, I also wanted to add the Dangerous album cus “Remember The Time” is also a song and MV that changed me forever. God how I love it!
Dude, Salserin? Hahah I laugh at your shame. I did listen to them and I remember the hysteria. My cousins that lived in Peru were so nuts about them.
@Julili, I laugh at your weakness for not showing your true self xD.
I was a pre-teen girl in a world pre-internet, any girl would be lying if they didn’t tell you that they weren’t into Salserin. Pretty sure it was at that time that Servando and Florentino got in trouble with that concert from hell they did.
I also liked Los Adolescent’s Orquesta buahaha. I was on a cab, and the driver was listening to a salsa station, when I heard this typical thing they do in the winds section. It struck me as familiar, and then I heard it – Adolescent’s! LOL I started giggling.
Salsa music sounds so similar to me now.
The only ones from your list that I really wanted to use were the MJ albums, especially Dangerous.
I knew you would use Salserín and I’m not so surprised… but Torbellino? Lulz. Greatest thing Torbellino did was introduce Vanessa Terkes. :)
@Rodrigo, Dangerous had Will You Be There – OMG, the spoken bit makes me sad more than ever! MJ sounds so deeply hurt in that.
Salserin is sooooo obvious if you were a teen girl in South America, while I was reading about it for this, found that they apparently they did a concert last year in Lima with 10,000 people? Did you hear about it? Because I didn’t…
I was researching music to add in the earlier years, and when I heard Torbellino – LOL, I still remember the lyrics. The other day I was cruising Miraflores, and saw an ad promoting Stephanie Cayo’s debut album? xD
You have… no public shame.
@ghost, oh shut up. It’s just more official now. I had blogged about my shames before, just in a more “anonymous” way. Not like my blog is any less anonymous, but no one I knew was reading it…
Dude… I’m gonna beat you up! You picked like three or four of the albums that I wanted to put on my list… HaHa. Just shows that we both have great taste in music, I suppose. I guess I’ll have to get creative and out-list you… HaHa.
@Camiele, You’re planning to do a Life in Music article? Osm!
@Julyssa Diaz, You’re next on my ass-kickin list! You picked like five albums that I was gonna choose.
But, yes, to answer your question, I’m doing a Life in Music thingy-majiggy. :P
@Camiele, I wish I could post a pic as an answer but since I can’t: *MERONG*
And yay! Going to be interesting to read your list!