Whatever I Feel LikeGosh!

Rob and I are going out on a date tonight. Since we have Grace, it probably won’t be much more than dinner, but that’s okay. The kids are sleeping over my parents’ and we get the house all to ourselves. Weeeeeee! If it wasn’t 12 degrees, we might run around naked. Okay, maybe we wouldn’t do that even in the summer. But you never know - that possibility always exists.

I got this idea the other night when I was driving and I heard the song Cherry Bomb by John Mellencamp. Is it John Cougar Mellencamp or just plain Mellencamp for that song? Who knows? Why did he do that with his name, anyway? So annoying. Anyway, I heard that song and it immediately took me back to the time when Rob and I first started dating. It was then when the brainstorm hit me: I’d make a mix CD of all the songs we listened to or that were popular at that time and we’d listen to it in the car on our date. How sweet is that?

So today I’ve been feeling very nostalgic as I’ve been gathering music for my CD. I just burned it, too. Want to know what’s on it? You can’t laugh at some of these songs - we had no control over what the radio was playing! Okay, you can laugh. I’m sure we’ll laugh when we hear some of these come on. I hope Rob likes my idea and the songs I picked. Here’s the tracklist - I’ll add MP3s to it on request. :-) Anyone want to guess the time frame when we dated? It should be pretty easy with the songs listed below, although not all of these songs fit the same period for various reasons.

Tommy Conwell - I’m Not Your Man
George Michael - Faith
Bruce Hornsby - Valley Road
John Mellencamp - Check it Out
Bon Jovi - Wanted (Dead or Alive)
Breathe - How Can I Fall
George Michael - Monkey
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
George Harrison - I’ve Got my Mind Set on You
U2 - Angel of Harlem
Aerosmith - Angel
Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life Again
U2 - Desire
Richard Marx - Don’t Mean Nothing
Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
George Michael - Faith
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Richard Marx - Hold on to the Nights
Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
George Michael - I Want Your Sex
Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Def Leppard - Let’s Get Rocked
U2 - Love Rescue Me
George Thorogood - Move it on Over
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
INXS - New Sensation
George Michael - One More Try
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
Cheap Trick - The Flame
John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
U2 - All I Want is You
George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
Peter Gabriel - Big Time
U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
John Mellencamp - Cherry Bomb
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Eric Johnson - Desert Rose
INXS - Devil Inside
Cheap Trick - Don’t be Cruel
Van Halen - Dreams
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Belinda Carlisle - I Get Weak
Tiffany - I Think We’re Alone Now
U2 - In God’s Country
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Samantha Fox - Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)
INXS - Need You Tonight
Duran Duran - Notorious
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
U2 - Running to Stand Still
Patrick Swayze - She’s Like the Wind
Crowded House - Should Have Known Better
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Crowded House - Something So Strong
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
Whitesnake - When It’s Love
George Harrison - When We Was Fab
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
George Thorogood - Who Do You Love
Terence Trent D’Arby - Wishing Well
U2 - With or Without You

[tags]80’s music, U2, Duran Duran, Peter Gabriel, Def Leppard, nostalgia[/tags]