This morning as I was driving to work listening to Radio 1′s Golden Hour (I was clearly a little bit late since the Golden Hour starts at 9am).

I love it when the hour is from way back and as soon as I heard the first few notes of Betty Boo‘s ‘Doing the Do’ I immediately thought 1990 (and then wavered between that and 1991 for the next 10 minutes)!

This was the year I was 14, I went out with a Spanish boy called Alex for about 2 months.  He said ‘te quiero’ but he didn’t really mean it because, well, he was 14.  It was the year I hung around the park with Sarah, sitting on the swings and talking about the things 14 year olds talk about (i.e. boys, school and other friends).

The next song to play was Deee-lite‘s ‘Groove is in the Heart’ – what a tune! At the time, this song got on my nerves for two reasons: a) it was played WAY too much and b) one of the band, a Miss Lady Kier, kinda looked like a girl I didn’t like called Janine.  It wasn’t always that complicated being 14.

The last song I heard before arrived at the office was I’m Free which I thought was by The Farm but a quick Google reminded me that it was in fact by The Soup Dragons – I forgotten they even existed.

Whenever I listen to the Golden Hour, I have to try to link the song with a particular event or memory if I have any hope of guessing the year.  If they had played Bryan Adams ‘Everything I Do’, then I would have been sure it was 1991 because it was number 1 for all those weeks in the summer I went to Majorca with my friend, her parents, her 18-year-old brother and 5 of his friends (it was a good holiday).  My friend and I were the only ones in the world who still loved that song every time it played, even after 16 weeks at number 1. Good times.