For Perusal Purposes

Just finished a week of mom and two weekends of guests (which totally kicked ass) (but left me a bit tuckered out) ('cause we stay up all night and dang it, the kids still want to get up and eat in the morning), so I thought I would share a list of cassette tapes I found in my apparently never-ending quest to go through all of my schtuff from my childhood.  Just in case you need some ammo to make fun of me, here is a list of what I've found so far, divided into nifty categories for you:

I Have No Memories of These, Maybe They Belong to My Parents?:

• Heart - Brigade
• Henry Lee Summer - I've Got Everything
• Foreigner - Agent Provocateur
• Somewhere in Time - a soundtrack?
• Michael Bolton - The One Thing - pleaseletthisbemoms, pleasepleaseplease

Bought for One Song:

• Will To Power - Baby I Love Your Way
• Bryan Adams  - So Far So Good - Summer of '69.  Just kidding, clearly this was for Everything I Do.  I was obsessed with Robin Hood and probably saw it three times in the theater.  I was too young to drive so someone's mom was "suffering" right along with me.
• Richard Marx - Repeat Offender - Right Here Waiting 

Singles, Probably Didn't Have Enough $$ To Buy Whole Album:

• Paula Abdul - Straight Up
• Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted
• Snap - Rhythm is a Dancer
• Keedy - Save Some Love
• Glenn Medeiros featuring Bobby Brown - She Ain't Worth It
• Amy Grant - House of Love
• Billy Ray Cyrus - don't make me say it
• Shanice - I Love Your Smile
• Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Wildside
• Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper
• Xscape - Understanding
• Lisa Loeb - Stay

Whole Albums, Probably Choreographed Dances to Most of the Songs:

• MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em - U Can't Touch This.  'Nuff said.
• Richard Marx - Hazard - who grows up in a small town and doesn't want out?
• Starship - Knee Deep in the Hoopla - This is the cassette with the song Sara on it, so I had at least seven copies at one point, teenage boys thinking they were being original
• Boyz II Men - Christmas Interpretations
• Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
• Today's Hot Movie Hits - I Will Always Love You, Unchained Melody, A Whole New World, Everything I Do, Dances with Wolves theme, Beauty and the Beast theme, My Girl theme, Unforgiven theme, Can't Help Falling in Love With You (these were performed by a cover band.  I don't think I ever realized that) (until just now)
• Madonna - I'm Breathless - Dick Tracy was one of the first movies I got to see sans parental units 
• Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl - I had a bit of a thing for Paula
• Color Me Badd - CMB
• En Vogue - Funky Divas - can you tell I am finally getting fundage from somewhere to buy my own music?
• Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
• Miami Sound Machine
• Young Guns II
• and the ultimate tape, that I knew the words to every single song although I had NO IDEA what most of them meant - George Michael - Faith

And of course my NKOTB oeuvre:

• NKOTB - Hangin' Tough (x2)
• NKOTB - Merry Merry Christmas
• NKOTB - Step by Step

Mix Tapes:

• Kathryn's Late '80's tape that seems to feature Wham, Mr. Mister, Kenny Loggins, U2 and more - I have no idea who Kathryn is
• Commercials - uhh, had to learn how to tape from the radio somehow
• Love Will Find A Way - from unrequited boy crush
• Real Love I - Side A - I Don't Have the Heart, Side B  - How Can I Fall - these came from a boooooyfrieeeeeend
• Real Love II - Side A - Real Love, Side B - My Lovin'
• Dazzy Duks - Knockin' Boots, Whoop! Dazzey Duks, Hot Sex, One Last Cry, Weak, Freak Me, Slam, etc

I really should be ashamed of these, but come on, it was the late '80s and early '90s.  I don't have the heart.