28 songs for my 28 years on earth

I turned 28 today [January 3, 2017]. That means I have lived 10,220 days, 336 months, and have completed 28 rotations around the sun. Twenty-eight isn’t a significant birthday at all, but I wanted to start collecting a playlist of songs to represent each year of my life. It was hard to do because I only wanted an artist represented once. So this isn’t a “best of” or anything like that. Just a playlist… a playlist that will probably shift throughout time.

I made a YouTube playlist you can stream at work or what have you. Full playlist is below.

You can listen to the playlist on Spotify. Except 1990’s track was replaced with Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby.”

1989 – “Egg Man” – Beastie Boys

1990 – “Nothing Compares 2 U” – Sinead O’Connor

1991 – “Polly” – Nirvana

1992 – “No Rain” – Blind Melon

1993 – “I’d Do Anything For Love” – Meatloaf

1994 – “Say it Ain’t So” – Weezer

1995 – “You Oughta Know” – Alanis Morissette

1996 – “6th Avenue Heartache” – The Wallflowers

1997 – “One More Suicide” – Marcy Playground

1998 – “Tearin’ Up My Heart” – NSYNC

1999 – “I Want It That Way” – Backstreet Boys

2000 – “The Real Slim Shady” – Eminem

2001 – “Your House” – Jimmy Eat World

2002 – “A Better Son/Daughter” – Rilo Kiley

2003 – “Seven Nation Army” – The White Stripes

2004 – “All Falls Down” – Kanye West

2005 – “Andy, You’re a Star” – The Killers

2006 – “Crazy” – Gnarls Barkley

2007 – “Mother Make Me Golden” – Dear and the Headlights

2008 – “Don’t Let it Die” – Gospel Claws

2009 – “Alligator” – Tegan and Sara

2010 – “Lunatic, Lunatic, Lunatic” – Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s

2011 – “Rivers and Roads” – The Head and the Heart

2012 – “From Finner” – Of Monsters and Men

2013 – “Pusher Love Girl” – Justin Timberlake

2014 – “Sober” – Childish Gambino

2015 – “Gimme All Your Love” – Alabama Shakes

2016 – “Bed Case” – Tancred