Musical Progression (or, Make Up Your Frickin Mind Buddy) (or, An Ongoing Nightmare in a CSS2 World)

legend: red genres have stayed in strong favor black genres are still nostalgic and acceptable blue genres have lost favor dates & eras may not be entirely even be remotely accurate

elementary school 1) the first song Wham - Wake me up before you go go; in Los Angeles,CA, watched with cousin wei-wei on MTV 2) 80s pop Michael Jackson, Def Leppard, Weird Al, Kokomo, Bobby Brown,etc; with cousin Andy 3) new wave Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Anything Box, the Cure, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, etc middle school 4) 90s pop Martika, Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Milli Vanilli, etc 5) heavy metal Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeath, Judas Priest, Ozzy Ozbourne, etc (the skater days) high school 6) classic rock/hard rock Rush, the Doors, Led Zepplin, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Faith No More, etc 7) rap Cypress Hill (puff puff), Snoop, Dr. Dre, Ahmad, Ice Cube, Bone Thugs & Harmony, etc 8) mainstream (i.e. radio) house music "Sweet Dreams remix", Nightcrawlers, Artie the 1 Man Party, etc college 9) a bit less mainstream (i.e. non-radio) house music Sasha, Armand Van Helden, etc. 10) chinese music Faye Wong, Jackie Cheung, Alex To, etc. 11) trance Kay Cee, Paul Van Dyk, Chicane, BT, etc. 12) r&b and slow jams Peter Cetera, Babyface, Jon B, Luther Vandross, Maxwell, Jagged Edge, Art of Noise, etc. after college 13) nujazz acid jazz stuff (no idea who the artists are)