Everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine...

Between the iTunes gift card my cousin Missy gave me for Christmas, VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '90's," red wine, and...well, iTunes, I just bought a shitload of music.


First, the albums...

• Bob Dylan's Modern Times (I've been wanting this one since it freaking came out...I can't wait to hear my boyfriend's new sound)
• Bob Dylan's Another Side of Bob Dylan (The absolute last of his music from his early pre-motorcycle crash/love affair with Jesus years. It's kind of a scary notion that I'm about to plunge into the last of those depths. It makes me yearn for a time machine.)
• Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill (I owned this on cassette tape, sucka. I remember absolutely falling in love with every word of this album, so I'm excited to re-visit the old love)

It's odd how I feel such a deep, often emotional connection with the random, generally-all-alike "alternative" music of the '90's. Yes, it was the decade of my childhood, but...I barely remember any details of my childhood! I guess I'm just destined to be in love with this music, even if I heard most of it at age 9 with no idea at all of what the lyrics meant (this mostly applies to any Salt n Pepa or TLC songs)

'90's guilty pleasures and old flames:

• Alanis Morissette, Uninvited (I don't care if I get judged for this one, I think it's a gorgeous song)
• Goo Goo Dolls, Iris
• Goo Goo Dolls, Slide
• Goo Goo Dolls, Black Balloon (okay, I actually stole this from Carol last year, but I never listen to it. So now it's on my new '90's playlist)
• Oasis, Wonderwall
• Oasis, Champagne Supernova
• REM, Stand
• REM, Losing My Religion
• REM, It's the End of the World (As We Know It)

90's songs I bought to run to so DON'T JUDGE ME...

• Madonna, Vogue
  
• Salt n Pepa, Shoop
• Salt n Pepa, Whatta Man

I also bought an embarrassing Black Eyed Peas song for the purposes of inspired running.

And some Sting/John Dowand songs for the purposes of nostalgic Romeo + Juliet-ness.

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