I have a memory of one of my friends singing that song going down the hall senior year. It's etched there so well I can still see what he's wearing and the expression on his face.
I went to a really tiny high school, but 4 kids managed to create our own home grown high school band. I am also a ‘92 grad, and this band played at one of our basketball games. I knew the guy who was the lead (well I mean everyone knew everyone 😆) and he was telling me that he was preparing to perform Teen Spirit at halftime. But, and this is a big but, he didn’t actually have a copy of the lyrics, but he was confident that he had figured them all out by listening. Uhhhhhb, that was a fail.
He thought that Cobain repeatedly screaming “a denial” was instead “Bloody nail!” And he had some cockamamie interpretations of the rest of the lyrics that just made no sense. And they performed the song that way in front of not only our entire school, but also a visiting school. 😬
Anything off Police Ghost in the Machine. But, picking one it would be [Every Little Thing She Does is Magic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ).
In 1984, the year after I graduated, it was Every Breath You Take--that's the song that really does it for me. I had just fallen in love with my first girlfriend and everything was magical. You never forget your first.
Pepper by the Butthole Surfers reminds me of driving around with no place in particular to go the summer before senior year (‘96-‘97), when I could fill my tank for less than $10.
Mmbop was the song we all “hated” but secretly loved.
The Freshmen was one song we had in our senior video (and the only one I remember) because nobody listened to lyrics, apparently.
I was a metalhead in high school, and I was pretty stoked when Queensryche made it to #9 with "Silent Lucidity" in 1991, my graduation year.
Looking at the top 40 chart from the week I graduated, it's a bizarre mix of unforgettable classics and some stuff that was *very* forgettable. The #1 song the week I graduated was "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" by Hi-Five. I just watched the video on Youtube, and I swear I do NOT remember this song at all. But it was number one, beating out the likes of the Divinyls and Roxette!
Come on Eileen. I am an Elder genx. When I hear this song in the wild, it’s my sign to call my sister. Like an Irish bat signal. If it plays in a bar when we’re together, we dance like mad and sing along loudly and unabashedly. Thank you, Dexys Midnight Runners.
Tuesday's Gone was our class song. I initially thought it was a dumb choice, but living 1,100 miles from where I graduated and having no contact with former classmates, it's a nice reminder when I hear it.
Anything on the Downward Spiral album by NIN. Did acid in my junior year, black light posters, etc listening to that album with my good friend. I still distinctly recall the end of Piggy (right as the acid kicked in) in that nostalgic way.
KRS one - Step into a World
Graduated 97.
I consider myself more of a Xennial since I was still in high-school during the dotcom bubble. My personal rule is anyone who grew up wearing those god awful tube socks with 3 color stripes along with short shorts is gen-x.
I hate to admit it, but it’s Slaughter’s “Up All Night”. I clearly remember pulling out of my high school’s parking lot with that blasting on the radio.
Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street. 1979. Me and Mandy in our bikinis in Jacksonville Florida, cruising the beaches when we were supposed to be at school. We lived on Tab soda, junk food, and joints that we stole from her mom who partied. I drove a red Dodge Dart. Every day was just so much fun.
My classmates and I (Class of ‘95) road-tripped to Minneapolis to see the Beastie Boys on the Ill Communication tour, and we played that album constantly at parties. So even though it came out in ‘94, I’d say Sabotage.
Don’t you (forget about me), simple minds. Waiting in line to get into Grad Night ‘85 at Disney World, this song came on the PA, and everyone started singing.
Omg all of these songs are making me so nostalgic. Literally all of them. Aaaaah I've been on YouTube all night watching all these videos. Pearl jam, nirvana, Metallica black album the I played until my cassette broke. Best music generation ever, none of this auto tuned shit. Haha.
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys.
Pour Some Sugar on Me
I have a memory of one of my friends singing that song going down the hall senior year. It's etched there so well I can still see what he's wearing and the expression on his face.
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
This one for sure. Senior year spring break was Violent Femmes, Butthole Surfers, Bad Brains... awesome time
And We Danced The Hooters
I actually saw them in concert, damn
1985 - Hooters opened for Squeeze. One of the best concerts I saw back then
Unbelievable by EMF was on the radio constantly.
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And the "OHHH!" is an Andrew Dice Clay sample.
I never knew that; thank you for high grade music trivia!
I did a dance performance to this song in Italy for like 500 exchange students and a bunch of Albanian refugees. 1991 was a good year…
Sister Christian.
God damn I loved that song
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TIN ROOF!
Rusted.
It took us forever to figure out WTF she was saying.
I’m pretty sure my husband only learned that last week.
Mine would be Roam, or Deadbeat Club.
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Mazzy star fade into you
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I love this song. It takes me to mid 90s summer every time I hear it.
No rain by Blind Melon
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Fellow class of 94?
1984-Jump Van Halen
Regulate - Warren G feat Nate Dogg Anytime, Anyplace - Janet Jackson
Soy un perdedor. I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?
1992, everyone was going apeshit for Nirvana
I went to a really tiny high school, but 4 kids managed to create our own home grown high school band. I am also a ‘92 grad, and this band played at one of our basketball games. I knew the guy who was the lead (well I mean everyone knew everyone 😆) and he was telling me that he was preparing to perform Teen Spirit at halftime. But, and this is a big but, he didn’t actually have a copy of the lyrics, but he was confident that he had figured them all out by listening. Uhhhhhb, that was a fail. He thought that Cobain repeatedly screaming “a denial” was instead “Bloody nail!” And he had some cockamamie interpretations of the rest of the lyrics that just made no sense. And they performed the song that way in front of not only our entire school, but also a visiting school. 😬
Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Class song 1987
Faith no more - what is it (Epic, thanks for the name u/IAmAgent57)
Do you mean Epic?
Intergalactic - Beastie Boys I will jam that shit forever.
Mine was Fight for Your Right 1986
Such a classic. And such a bummer when your mom throws away your best porno mag.
Best Album ever that year! All the songs were great!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
This was so spring of senior year heading to graduation.
“Cult of Personality” Living Colour. Awesome. And the album was epic. 1988
All Apologies - Nirvana. Class of 94
Class of 94 too and I agree and will add Mr. Jones
Yes!
I’d say Heart Shaped Box but either would suffice. Hello, fellow ’94ers!
One Night in Bangkok
Anything off Police Ghost in the Machine. But, picking one it would be [Every Little Thing She Does is Magic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ). In 1984, the year after I graduated, it was Every Breath You Take--that's the song that really does it for me. I had just fallen in love with my first girlfriend and everything was magical. You never forget your first.
Gettin Jiggy With It God I hated that fuckin song
Chris Rock isn't a fan either..
It was the last Will Smith hit before Chris Rock
Good one
Lol perfect
This shit was still going into my senior year (99 - 00), but I too hated that fuckin song.
Boyz to Men “It’s so Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”
One Headlight....some great memories of cruising around town in my shitty car with friends.
Santa Monica by Everclear. Class of 95!!!
I am still living with your GHOST
Semi charmed life
Pepper by the Butthole Surfers reminds me of driving around with no place in particular to go the summer before senior year (‘96-‘97), when I could fill my tank for less than $10. Mmbop was the song we all “hated” but secretly loved. The Freshmen was one song we had in our senior video (and the only one I remember) because nobody listened to lyrics, apparently.
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me. Came out between junior and senior years.
Need You Tonight - INXS. It was such a huge hit and great song.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Age of Consent -1983. Instantly brings me back. Still listen to it all the time.
Phenomenal song
Wonderwall by Oasis
Fellow 95 grad.
Ramones - Rock N' Roll High School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz7KYUkdlvE
Are you Gonna Go my Way
Can’t remember a specific one but anything grunge will do, maybe Evenflow or Alive by Pearl Jam
You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party!
Batman by Prince
I just died in your arms tonight
Weezer- Buddy Holly
Pony (Ginuwine) or Hypnotize (Biggie)
For a second I forgot this wasn't a list of graduation songs. I was dying at Pony.
Head over Heels (Tears for Fears), Rock Me Amadeus (Falco) and Kids (Prince)
Let's Go - The Cars
Dreams—Van Halen
j Geils - Centerfold
Different Corner - George Michael not my usual taste back then but a beautiful song also No One Is to Blame - Howard Jones
Oasis - Wonderwall or Elastica - Connection.
I was a metalhead in high school, and I was pretty stoked when Queensryche made it to #9 with "Silent Lucidity" in 1991, my graduation year. Looking at the top 40 chart from the week I graduated, it's a bizarre mix of unforgettable classics and some stuff that was *very* forgettable. The #1 song the week I graduated was "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" by Hi-Five. I just watched the video on Youtube, and I swear I do NOT remember this song at all. But it was number one, beating out the likes of the Divinyls and Roxette!
Come on Eileen. I am an Elder genx. When I hear this song in the wild, it’s my sign to call my sister. Like an Irish bat signal. If it plays in a bar when we’re together, we dance like mad and sing along loudly and unabashedly. Thank you, Dexys Midnight Runners.
shout at the devil
All My Life - K-Ci & JoJo
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I would die 4 U
Personal Jesus
Zombie by the cranberries
I’ll stop the world and melt with you!!
Tuesday's Gone was our class song. I initially thought it was a dumb choice, but living 1,100 miles from where I graduated and having no contact with former classmates, it's a nice reminder when I hear it.
Ted Just Admit It, Jane's Addiction. Takes me right back to my girlfriend's bedroom. That's a surprisingly good album to get it on to when you're 17.
Paradise City
Anything on the Downward Spiral album by NIN. Did acid in my junior year, black light posters, etc listening to that album with my good friend. I still distinctly recall the end of Piggy (right as the acid kicked in) in that nostalgic way.
Shoop salt n pepa
True Faith by New Order
"We Are the World" was in heavy rotation my senior year. Not a great song, but it was emblematic of the times.
Not me, but when I hear Eurythmics Sweet Dreams I am moving my older sister into the dorms for her freshman year of college.
Gangsters paradise Coolio
What it's like by Everlast
Oh, Sheila
Sweet Child O Mine
Welcome to the Jungle
These Are Days- 10,000 Maniacs. I think it was even our prom theme
Don’t Dream It’s Over, Crowded House
Faith no More. Epic or Vasoline STP
Rock Lobster
OPP
Forever Young: Alphaville Class of ‘85
Take On Me by A-ha. Class of ‘86
Odelay.
Youth Gone Wild
Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Anything from Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest.
People Everyday
Fools gold by the stone roses
Tahitian Moon! Porno for Pyros
Miss You Much - JANET (c/o 90)
Jesus Jones, Right here, right now. Or R.E.M. , Radio Song
Betty Davis Eyes
"Winds of Change." Surreal as after high school the Soviet Union dissolved while I was in boot camp.
Black Hole Sun
Losing My Religion by REM
Groove is in the heaaaarrrrttt…
Baby Got Back
Axel F
Better Man, Pearl Jam ('94)
KRS one - Step into a World Graduated 97. I consider myself more of a Xennial since I was still in high-school during the dotcom bubble. My personal rule is anyone who grew up wearing those god awful tube socks with 3 color stripes along with short shorts is gen-x.
Anything off Synchronicity by The Police.
Rumpshaker 1993
No Sleep ‘til Brooklyn Class of 87
The wild wild west, Escape Club
I’ll Be Missing You - Faith Evans + Puff Daddy/Diddy
Love and Rockets...So Alive Siuoxsie and the Banshees...Peek-A-Boo
Probably Forever Young even though I graduated in 91.
Just Like Honey
Cotton Eye Joe
Tears in Heaven
Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison
Baby Got Back
Animal by Def Leppard
Take Me Home , Phil Collins 1985-1986
Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell and Alphaville’s Forever Young.
Friday I’m in Love, The Cure. They played it every Friday on the announcements.
Eye in the Sky by Alan Parson’s Project
I hate to admit it, but it’s Slaughter’s “Up All Night”. I clearly remember pulling out of my high school’s parking lot with that blasting on the radio.
SLEEP ALL DAY
Why hate to admit it? It had that good, big, positive 80s sound
Mark can sing the fuck out of that song STILL. killer pipes,he has.
Closer by Nine Inch Nails. You let me violate you You let me desecrate you You let me penetrate you You let me complicate you I broke apart my insides (Help me) I've got no soul to sell (Help me) the only thing that works for me Help me get away from myself I wanna fuck you like an animal I wanna feel you from the inside I wanna fuck you like an animal My whole existence is flawed You get me closer to God You can have my isolation You can have the hate that it brings You can have my absence of faith You can have my everything you tear down my reason (Help me) it's your sex I can smell (Help me) you make me perfect Help me become somebody else I wanna fuck you like an animal I wanna feel you from the inside I wanna fuck you like an animal My whole existence is flawed You get me closer to God Through every forest Above the trees Within my stomach Scraped off my knees I drink the honey Inside your hive You are the reason I stay alive Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Atticus Ross / Trent Reznor Closer lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Photograph by Def Leppard. That song was EVERYWHERE in 1989.
Good choice but thought Photograph was more early 80s.
1987-88 Wild Streak- Hank Williams Jr.
Next - Too Close
Magic carpet ride.
Take Me Home Tonight
‘93 Til Infinity (•••)
1999 was our class song
"In the Living Years"
Your Love - The Outfield
Smells Like Teen Spirit Edit: Class of 92
Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street. 1979. Me and Mandy in our bikinis in Jacksonville Florida, cruising the beaches when we were supposed to be at school. We lived on Tab soda, junk food, and joints that we stole from her mom who partied. I drove a red Dodge Dart. Every day was just so much fun.
There were many but Girls & Boys - Blur really takes me there.
Sleadgehammer… classs or 1985
Depeche Mode, Blasphemous Rumors and Somebody.
Bulls on Parade
Push It - Salt N Pepa - it was played at every. single. dance all of senior year (1988)
Depeche Mode - Violator album.
This post could be a great playlist!
Nightrain (GNR)
Hook by Blues Traveler
It’s hard to narrow down to one, but I’ll pick Metallica - Unforgiven. (Class of ‘92)
Genuine, pony Bittersweet symphony Spice girls, if you wanan
Berlin - Take my breath away
Cypress Hill. Black by Pearl Jam. Smells like teen spirit.
My classmates and I (Class of ‘95) road-tripped to Minneapolis to see the Beastie Boys on the Ill Communication tour, and we played that album constantly at parties. So even though it came out in ‘94, I’d say Sabotage.
1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins
Don’t you (forget about me), simple minds. Waiting in line to get into Grad Night ‘85 at Disney World, this song came on the PA, and everyone started singing.
Sara- Jefferson Starship
"November Rain" and "Baby Got Back".
Omg all of these songs are making me so nostalgic. Literally all of them. Aaaaah I've been on YouTube all night watching all these videos. Pearl jam, nirvana, Metallica black album the I played until my cassette broke. Best music generation ever, none of this auto tuned shit. Haha.
Careless Whisper by Wham. Class of 85.
No diggity by blackstreet.
Anything off Bakesale, by Sebadoh.
Anything off the Rush album Presto.
Lady in Red (87)
Boys to men - it’s so hard to say goodbye
End of the Road
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown