When they hear a song from sometime around 2006, people usually say something along the lines of “OMG such a throwback, I haven’t heard this song in like, years.”
Here is a list of true throwbacks that were all made before my birthday: February 18, 1999.
The songs featured in this list can be played for a variety of activities, whether or not they are of the throwback variety—partying, eating ice cream alone, and exercising are all good options.
- “Superstition”: Stevie Wonder (1972)
- “Big Poppa” (Explicit): Notorious B.I.G (1996)
- “Take on Me”: a-ha (1985)
- “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)”: Pink Floyd (1979)
- “Under the Bridge”: Red Hot Chilli Peppers (1991)
- “Help”: The Beatles (1987)
- “Beast of Burden”: Rolling Stones (1978)
- “Suzie Q”: Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)
- “One”: U2 (1991)
- “C.R.E.A.M”: Wu:Tang Clan (1993)
- “Danke Schoen”: Wayne Newton (1962)
- “Africa”: Toto (1982)
- “Tears in Heaven”: Eric Clapton (1991)
- “When I Come Around”: Green Day (1994)
- “Don’t Stop Me Now”: Queen (1979)