Songs that I listened to non-stop on repeat throughout my childhood

I distinctly remember listening to this on my brother's walkman on our way to and from Hawaii (the first time). It was track #2. I was six years old. To this day, I still know most of the words. Until now I had never seen the music video and the funny part is, it's exactly how I pictured it would be.

Finding this video proved to be a little challenging, because all of the "official" videos had embedding "disabled by request" so I was forced to pick this crappy lyrics only one. Anyway, I remember listening to this song (again) on my brother's walkman, but this time on a car ride. I was blasting it through my headphones and singing along, quietly, I thought, but when I was asked to turn it down, I screamed "WHAT?" at my brother and proceeded to be lectured about the volume of my listening. I also remember that we were in the ugliest part of well, anywhere, I had ever seen. It was all desert-y and brown.

Another sound track to my childhood friendships, was this song. My friends Michelle and Mary (they were sisters) and I had a lip syncing band that sang Shania Twain and Smash Mouth. I remember running in circles around their house singing this song. We also had a real band that we called the "Doot Dot Babies". We were into playing babies. That's where that came from.

By this time, I think I inherited my brother's walkman for my own good. Right around the time of my 8th summer, I got this CD for my birthday and I listened to it nonstop in my new walkman. I remember sitting on the floor of the playroom and blasting it, telling Tim "It's a good thing I got this since otherwise I would be forced to sit in my room and listen to this. Now I can do it here!" I also remember looking through the glossy lyric book at the 4 beautiful people I wish I was. At the time, I didn't understand the ABBA reference, I just thought that it was cute how they came coupled.

That's right, two in one. When I looked up Simon & Milo I began to wonder how Tim and I stumbled upon this band--and then remembered the actual movie, Get a Clue. Oh, Lindsay. I wanted so badly to be Lindsay Lohan and figure out a real-life mystery and wear those white pants with over-sized cherries on them. This was around the time that Tim got an actual CD player, and I remember sitting on the floor of his room listening to this CD nonstop.

I got into No Doubt right after I read Meg Cabot's American Girl. I wanted to be exactly like Sam, and when I read the book I had no clue who Gwen Stefani was--in fact, I pronounced it like "Stephanie". Then I saw the music video for "It's my life" and fell in love with No Doubt. I immediately went out and bought their Greatest Hits CD. In about 5th grade, my Dad went on this skiing binge where we traveled to a TON of ski resorts, just for the weekend. No Doubt was my soundtrack for that. Spiderwebs remains one of my favorite songs today.

Around 6th grade, I discovered the radio, and consequently, Fall Out Boy. Instant classic. I bought the CD and was fascinated by the titles that held absolutely no meaning to the song (with the exception of Sugar We're Going Down and Dance, Dance, coincidentally also the popular radio songs). The lyrics were also a challenge--"We're going back down and you look like a man"? It wouldn't be until my junior year that I discovered their very first album, which is probably one of my top 3 albums, ever.

Fall Out Boy's 3rd album came out my freshman year, and they were the lyrics to me and my friend Hannah's friendship. I was going through a phase when I colored lyrics or sayings I liked during class (amateur calligraphy, if you will) instead of taking notes. This was (and is) by far my favorite song off the album, specifically for this one lyric: "I'll cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way I think of you, this is a love song in my own way, happily ever after below the waist."

I picked this song because it reminds me of chocolate covered pretzels with pink sprinkles. I ate them and listened to this song on repeat for like, a month straight.