Thought I'd steal the Hardline's idea and look up the number 1 songs in my first 21 years.

Sept 1960 It's Now or Never by Elvis Presley
Sept 1961 Michael by The Highwaymen
Sept 1962 Sherry by The Four Seasons
Sept 1963 My Boyfriend's Back by Angels
Sept 1964 House of the Rising Sun by Animals
Sept 1965 Help! by Beatles
Sept 1966 You Can't Hurry Love by Supremes
Sept 1967 Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
Sept 1968 People Got To Be Free by Rascals
Sept 1969 Sugar, Sugar by Archies
Sept 1970 Edwin Starr by War
Sept 1971 Go Away Little Girl by Donnie Osmond
Sept 1972 Black and White by Three Dog Night
Sept 1973 Delta Dawn by Helen Reddy
Sept 1974 I Shot the Sheriff by Eric Clapton
Sept 1975 Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell
Sept 1976 (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty by KC and the Sunshine Band
Sept 1977 Best Of My Love by Emotion
Sept 1978 Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste of Honey
Sept 1979 My Sharona by The Knack
Sept 1980 Upside Down by Diana Ross
Sept 1981 Endless Love by Endless Love

The obvious conclusion is that Top 40 Radio absolutely sucks absolutely!

I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a few guilty pleasures on this list, but still an incredibly gay list.

Dec 1977 – You Light Up my Life – Debby Boone - Sucks
Dec 1978 – Le Freak – Chic - Sucks
Dec 1979 – Babe – Styx - Sucks
Dec 1980 – Lady – Kenny Rogers - Greatness
Dec 1981 – Physical – Olivia Newton-John - Sucks
Dec 1982 – Truly – Lionel Richie - Guilty Pleasure
Dec 1983 – Say, Say, Say – Michael Jackson - I like it
Dec 1984 – Out of Touch – Hall and Oates - Not good
Dec 1985 – Broken Wings – Mister Mister - Meh
Dec 1986 – The Next Time I Fall – Peter Cetera & Amy Grant - Beating
Dec 1987 – Heaven is a Place on Earth – Belinda Carlisle - Sucks
Dec 1988 – Look Away – Chicago - I like it
Dec 1989 – We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel - Ok
Dec 1990 – Because I love you – Stevie B - Sucks
Dec 1991 – Black or White – Michael Jackson - Good
Dec 1992 – I Will Always Love you – Whitney Houston - Beats me
Dec 1993 – I’d Do anything for Love – Meat Loaf - Beating
Dec 1994 – On Bended Knee – Boyz II Men - Love this fucking song
Dec 1995 – One Sweet Day – Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - I could take it or leave it
Dec 1996 – Un Break My Heart – Tony Braxton - I liked it then, probably couldn't listen to it now
Dec 1997 – Candle in the Wind 1997 – Elton John - Beating
Dec 1998 – I’m Your Angel – R Kelly & Celine Dion - Surprised this was ever #1

I think it's more interesting to see what was #1 on the day you were born.

<---Tears of a Clown, Smokey Robinson

I got some shit by Dawn called Knock Three Times. Also, my parents decided to call me by my middle name instead of the 1st name wreaking havoc for a lifetime. Fuck birthdays.

Send them in.

<---What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
no wonder I love Michael McDonald impersonations

After exhaustively researching What a Fool Believes via googling and reading a wiki page, I see it was released in 1979 which would put you at like 32 or 33. Old you say in the baseball thread? Ha. I scoff at your idea of old.

Dudes in their early 30s can suck it.

but I have the back, belly and hairline of a 40 yo

As of January of this year, 40 is the new 30.

Number 1 when I was born: People Got to Be Free - The Rascals

For giggles I looked up the number one song exactly 9 months prior. Turns out my parents were getting sweaty and making O faces while listening to the Monkees "Daydream Believer".

I like Daydream Believer. I would've done your mom to it, too.

November 1958: It's Only Make Believe, Conway Twitty-ok
November 1959: Mack the Knife, Bobby Darin-sucks and stabs
November 1960: Save the Last Dance for Me, the Drifters-love it
November 1961: Big Bad John, Jimmy Dean-kill me please
November 1962: He's a Rebel, the Crystals-sucks
November 1963: Sugar Shack, Jimmy Gilmer-stupid but ok
November 1964: Baby Love, Supremes-sucks black things
November 1965: Get off of My Cloud, Rolling Stones-ok
November 1966: Poor Side of Town, Johnny Rivers-meh
November 1967: To Sir with Love, Lulu-sucks
November 1968: Hey Jude, Beatles-this song will be torturing people on the PA system in hell
November 1969: Wedding Bell Blues, Fifth Dimension-rode in on the coattails of "Aquarius" and it sucks
November 1970: I'll Be There, Jackson 5-sucks
November 1971: Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves, Cher-the bastard baby in this song turned out to be Chaz Bono
November 1972: I Can See Clearly Now, Johnny Nash-played this at a piano recital, it sucks
November 1973: Keep on Truckin', Eddie Kendrix-He clearly says 'fuckin' instead of truckin' in this song, sucks
November 1974: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, BTO-Hell yeah
November 1975: Island Girl, Elton John-Hell no
November 1976: Tonight's the Night, Rod Stewart-I got pussy to this song but it sucks
November 1977: You Light up my Life, Debby Boone-Ditto
November 1978: MacArthur Park, Donna Summer-why is this bitch still alive?
November 1979: Heartache Tonight, Eagles-sucks

My list is eaten up with the gay and suck from top to bottom.

November 1975 - Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention - an instrumental with vocals only in the chorus, wishing my mom went with the rusty hanger.
November 1976 - Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart - eh, not terrible
November 1977 - You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone - suck
November 1978 - You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond - meh
November 1979 - No More Tears - Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer - suck
November 1980 - Lady - Kenny Rogers - badass
November 1981 - Physical - Olivia Newton John - terrible
November 1982 - Truly - Lionel Ritchie - love this black man ballad
November 1983 - All Night Long - Lionel Ritchie - one of young bigboy's favorites
November 1984 - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham! - fags
November 1985 - Separate Lives - Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin - dated a girl that was obsessed with Phil Collins, hate everything he's ever made.
November 1986 - You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi - awful, but 11 year old big boy rocked out to this one
November 1987 - The Time of My Life - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - nobody puts Baby in a corner
November 1988 - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley - Will to Power - gay
November 1989 - Blame It on the Rain - Milli Vanilli - everybody liked it until the lip syncing was discovered
November 1990 - I'm Your Baby Tonight - Whitney Houston - she is and was overrated
November 1991 - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss - PM Dawn - This is still one of meh all time favorite songs.
November 1992 - I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston - see above
November 1993 - I'd Do Anything for Love - Meatloaf - ???
November 1994 - On Bended Knee - Boyz 2 Men - by this point, I was done with black people music
November 1995 - One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey and Boyz 2 Men - see above
November 1996 - No Diggity - Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre - and again

This song was huge. It was a fucking beating though.

You gave up on black people music too early. I would say 2002 or so would have been a good time. Loved me some Boyz II Men in High School.

Around 1990, I discovered Q102 and The Edge and realized there was a whole world of music out there beyone what The Eagle (which was like Kiss FM is today) and Y95 were playing. Outside of PM Dawn and Arrested Development, I didn't have much use for that hippity hop stuff.

November 1992 - I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston - see above


Towards the end of The Bodyguard the tension between the then love of my life and myself was palpable. She had been putting off bad ju ju for the better part of a month and I was desperately trying to alter my personalty any which way possible to keep her love. It was exhausting. When the movie wound down towards the end and Whitney fired those pipes of hers up to this fucking song you could feel the break up energy flowing from Misty's pores. I went to grab for her hand but she pulled away which for my heart was like when Whitney's scarf floated down on Costner's sword blade and it cut in two on the floor. Bitch dumped me on the way home and used that song's lyrics as why. Chick logic. Damndest thing. Hate the song to this day. Dolly's version is even shittier what with the cry voice narration and all.

Whatev's pops.

I knew we were old, but never realized how nearly equally old. I've added my comments and 1 additional year... life has not been good...