Category: Movies

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 10, 2020

Every 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH Friday of the month I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 15, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday July 10TH 2005:

“Don’t Mess With My Heart” – Black Eyed Peas
“Incomplete” – Backstreet Boys
“Behind These Hazel Eyes” – Kelly Clarkson
“Hollaback Girl” – Gwen Stefani
“Switch” – Will Smith

This was another forgettable week of pop music during a mostly forgettable summer of a mostly forgettable year. A few good songs came out in 2005. I just can’t remember any of them right now.

Let’s check-out the multiplex cinema scene from this month 15 years ago. I saw “War Of The Worlds”, “Rebound”, “Bewitched”, and “Wedding Crashers”. Surprisingly I rated “Rebound” as the only 4-star movie back then. That’s the one that starred Martin Lawrence as a former college basketball coach who got fired because of his bad temper. So he went to coach his former junior high school’s basketball team with great success. Nope. I don’t remember that movie. I had to look it up on Wikipedia.

You know sometimes history is not pretty – especially our own personal history. 2005 was not a good year for me; yet, I choose to look back at it once a month this year. It was a part of me. It existed. You can’t make a better future if you ignore or deny history – if you forget where you came from. Yeah 2005 was a dark year for me, but 2006 was coming, and there was light up ahead.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2000

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 19, 2020

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 18TH 2000:

“Higher” – Creed
“It’s Gonna Be Me” – ‘N Sync
“The One” – Backstreet Boys
“Back Here” – BBMak
“Oops ! … I Did It Again” – Britney Spears

Creed was at # 1 for the 5TH week in a row on this week exactly 20 years ago, and just below them – boy band – boy band – boy band – and teen pop star.

You know of the three boy bands BBMak were my favorite – and the most underrated. The British trio scored with a trio of hits on my chart – “Back Here” (# 3), “Still On Your Side” (# 11), and “Ghost Of You And Me” (# 13). A 4TH hit – “Out Of My Heart (Into Your Head)” – charted (nationally) too late in 2002 to make it onto my chart which had already flipped by that time from mainstream pop to electronic dance. That 4TH hit is my favorite of all of them, and it’s in medium rotation on my iPod Shuffles. (That’s right – I’m still rockin’ the iPod Shuffles a full decade after they peaked.)

So that was a fun pop chart back in the middle of June of 2000. Over at the multiplex I saw “Boys And Girls” – a forgettable Freddie Prinze, Jr. / Jason Biggs flick that had a lot of promise, but crash-landed. On the tube – “Survivor” debuted on CBS, and it was an instant out-of-the-box runaway summertime smash !

RETRO returns in 3 weeks, as I return back to July of 2005.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

Tags 2000, BBMak, Music, Radio

2000s Movies Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2000

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 15, 2020

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 14TH 2000:

“All The Small Things” – Blink 182
“Oops ! … I Did It Again – Britney Spears
“Bye, Bye, Bye” – ‘N Sync
“Higher” – Creed
“Thong Song” – Sisqo

I wasn’t the biggest fan of Britney Spears back in the day; although, most of her songs did hit my chart, and I did sing along to most of them whenever I heard them on the radio. She charted with 12 singles from 1998 to 2004. If I had to pick a favorite – then – and now – it would be “Oops ! … I Did It Again”. It was essentially a simple singalong song. Once the Top 40 radio station played it (every 2½ hours around the clock) you couldn’t help but singalong to it – no matter what you were doing at the time.

I also keep track of every movie I see at the box office, and 20 years ago next weekend I saw “Small Town Crooks” and “Road Trip” with my little brother in Jacksonville. The former was a low-budget Woody Allen flick, and the latter was a raunchy college guys romp.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2000

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday April 16TH 2000:

“(I’ll) Never Let You Go – Third Eye Blind
“All The Small Things” – Blink 182
“Thong Song” – Sisqo
“Say My Name” – Destiny’s Child
“Bye, Bye, Bye” – ‘N Sync

1 of those 5 hits is still a favorite 20 years later, and that’s Blink 182’s biggest hit ever “All The Small Things”. While it’s not currently in active rotation on my iPod Shuffles it has spent considerable time on them. According to my iTunes I purchased and added this track on New Year’s Eve 2009, and since then it’s garnered 527 plays – about 1 play per week. It was my # 6 hit overall of 2000 (out of 199 chart songs).

20 years ago this weekend I saw “Return To Me” at the Box Office, and I rated it 3 out of 4 stars – which is the equivalent of a “C” letter grade. Apparently I didn’t like it all that much. I don’t remember anything about that movie. Wikipedia tells me that David Duchovny and Minnie Driver starred in it.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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