In honor of our retro-love series, I was thinking about what albums/songs came out roughly 10 years ago (when I was a citizen of the purgatory called dating).
This is a list of 6 songs that would have been most frequently played on my iPod (if there had been such a new-fangled thing when I was a youngster) during that era.
Instead they were on my mix tapes.
Remember, this was 10 years ago! I’m much holier now!

Smashing Pumpkins-Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Billy Corgan’s whiny-ness was so endearing to me. I had and still have no idea what this song is about. But it’s beautiful.

Stone Temple Pilots-Seven Caged Tigers
Weiland came into his own with this album, and no longer sounded like a wussier version of Eddie Vedder. And the DeLeo brothers-wow. They always played the perfect notes, and left the other ones alone.

Pearl Jam-Smile
I miss you al-ready, eady, eady, hey yeah… .
3 crooked hearts, swirls all around…
I saw these guys in concert around this time… which immortalized my love for them.

Hootie and the Blowfish-So Strange
I’m from Charleston, and I make no apologies for my unabashed love for the boys who put my home state on the pop-music map, and played happy fun music when it wasn’t trendy to admit in your music that you were happy about anything.
And my love for the Hammond B-3 was born with Peter Holsapple.

Green Day-Armatage Shanks
Billie Joe taught me everything I know about writing melodies. I’m serious. And I played his Strat one time. I’m serious about that too.

Rancid-Avenues & Alleyways
Tim Armstrong made me feel so hardcore, even though I wasn’t, not even a little bit. It was fun to pretend.

Does anybody else remember this blissful 18 month period in music?

Everyone was coming down from the Cobain Kool-Aid, and even the Seattle bands were experimenting with happier overtones.

I was discovering punk rock, and thought I could take over the world with my 3 chords and my Peavey 5150.

I sure don’t miss those days.
But I loved the tunes.

One day I’m going to do a sermon series called:
Everything I need to know about theology I learned from late 80s and early 90s Rock.

(I’m sure Damion will come up with a catchier title that will fit on one side of the worship guide.)