What song most reminds you of your senior year in high school?

[exitseven]

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I remember "Don't Worry, Be Happy "

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11 mo

I feel really old. I never heard of most of these.

[WanderingLoveWizard]

Part Rock, because everyone my age was in love with it and I thought it was fucking stupid.
I hated highschool lol

[WanderingLoveWizard]

"Every body gonna have a good tiiiime!!"... oh shut the hell up

[AviatorTom]

Everybody wants to rule the world by Tears for Fears... Back then, I know I did

[abc3643]

My senior year in high school was 1980-1981. I graduated at the end of June 1981.

The song that reminds me the most of those times is "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes; it was a big hit that spring/summer of 1981 just as I was graduating. Over a 10-week period from mid-May through mid-July, that song was #1 for 9 weeks. (It was #2 for the week of 20 JUN 1981.)

Of course, because MTV would be launched on 01 AUG 1981, this was a frequent early video on MTV.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/EPOIS5taqA8

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However, with constant FM radio airplay, we were forced to endure John Lennon's insufferable "Double Fantasy" album with insipid songs like "Woman", "(Just Like) Starting Over", and "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)".

This is because the album was released in NOV 1980 after a 5-year hiatus and just 3 weeks before he was assassinated on 08 DEC 1980 at age 40.

So, for pretty much most of 1981, there was little escape from that living Hell.

Don't get me wrong - I like John Lennon and his earlier work both in The Beatles and as a solo artist, but this album was painful and we were forced to endure it all because he was assassinated by a nutjob fan, Mark David Chapman.

[abc3643]

Really, Lennon's getting assassinated drove sales of that album and made it win Album of the Year in 1982.

Perfect example of the death of the artist being his/her best career move.

[DubiousIntentions]

I thought you would have chosen this one.
https://youtu.be/JxpmbEATBH0

[exitseven]

@abc3643 yes, Elvis made way more money after he died. Too bad you can only do it once.

[abc3643]

@DubiousIntentions I'm not that old. BUT, that was a big hit song about 11 years earlier and I most definitely remember that.

In fact, I remember it from this Saturday morning TV show, ironically on the ABC network...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsxn6fwLEk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmi-hKOEdqM

[DubiousIntentions]

Never knew they had a cartoon show.

[abc3643]

@DubiousIntentions Old folks know things... ;)

[Lliam]

Maybe Highway Star by Deep Purple.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wr9ie2J2690

It's the kind of energy I had at that point.

It was also one of my signature songs when I was playing guitar and singing in three man garage bands. I could play the guitar lead almost perfectly and even improvise something approximating the keyboard solo while acting like a rock star.

A couple years later I got a souped up '72 El Camino and used to blast that song when I was driving.

[LiamJHayden]

Cool. Well before my time, but Ritchie's solo on this was the first somewhat difficult one I learned note-for-note.

[Lliam]

@LiamJHayden. Whoa, that's cool!

[Jaximus-Lion]

Let see, Eminem - without me. Nelly - hot in herre. The ketchup song. Missy Elliott - work it. P! nk - get the party started. Linkin park - in the end. I was hooked on linkin park and Eminem back then, nothing beats rock music bit Eminem is a very great contender and still after all these years

[exitseven]

This makes me feel old. I don't think I ever heard anything on the list.

[Jaximus-Lion]

13 years apart between us. What year was ot in your senior year? I litsen and i love 70's and 80's music.

[Cynicaldreamer]

Actually released a little before my senior year but still... first song that popped in my year when I thought of my senior year...

Not gonna lie, I was kind of weird growing up, I didn't start listening to music until I got to college. Why? Meh, just wasn't into it.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rZoD8JEFjAE

[Simslover92]

Teenage Dream-Katy Perry
Just the way you are-Bruno Mars
Good girls go bad- Cobra Starship
Fireflies-Owl City
You found me-The Fray
Need you now-Lady Antebellum

There's more but those are the ones I can think of at the top of my head

[Static_In_The_Attic]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wiCSSIEUukk

Hahaha!

[exitseven]

@Static_In_The_Attic Little known fact: Chuck Berry wrote the Beach Boys hit "Surfin USA".

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I love little known facts & in this case it was unknown to me & now it’s known.

[OlderAndWiser]

Without a doubt, the iconic song of 1972 was American Pie, by Don McLean. But I was never a senior in high school.

[exitseven]

I heard it on the radio this morning.

[OlderAndWiser]

It's still a great song!

[exitseven]

I saw him perform at LL Bean in Freeport Maine. He lives in Maine.

[OlderAndWiser]

My father lived in Bucksport and Stockton Springs.

[jennifer_bloom]

I think the Vitamin C graduation song came out the year I finished high school. But I did not have a lot of close friendships so that song did not really apply to me, but I still thought it was a beautiful song.

[Sparkie460]

I don't remember the name of the song or who the artist was. It was our graduation theme song. I'd know it if I heard the song

[exitseven]

Oh yeah, I love that song. It's one of my faves.

[Sparkie460]

Wise ass

[exitseven]

Hahahaha

[Sparkie460]

That was one of the memories I was trying to block out. I hate the song

[exitseven]

Hahahaha that is too funny. I bet it will be days before you can get it out of your head.

[Sparkie460]

It's going to bother me now. I'm going to have to figure out what song it was

[Daniela1982]

Was it this?
https://youtu.be/n38-f39GNH4

[exitseven]

@Daniela1982 The Beach Boys do a cover of this song.

[Daniela1982]

I know. I liked the Arbors version better. Remember, they did this one too over the Boxtops.
https://youtu.be/gVyyokC_aAo

[exitseven]

@Daniela1982 I never heard this one.

[Sparkie460]

@Daniela1982 no that wasn't the song. It was a woman singer from around 1986

[Sparkie460]

It was " the greatest love of all " by Whitney Houston

[exitseven]

@sparkie460 Was that so hard?

[Sparkie460]

I googled the top hits in 1986

[Sparkie460]

Regarding update. Now you know how I feel

[lightbulb27]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqLwHP4y6Q

the 80's were so weird and the head cheerleader would do this in class...

[lightbulb27]

I wish I understood the song back then, it explains some important stuff about relationships. I was clueless. sorry girls...

[exitseven]

Did the head cheerleader have dirty knees?

[lightbulb27]

not that I noticed...

[LavLavLuv]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aatr_2MstrIhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/tk36ovCMsU8

:) :)

[Jazzy54]

I remember several. However, I’d have to say “Single Ladies“ is the one I remember the most. The radio played it every other song. 🙄

[Nikki1989]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6zpvlMp04D0

TOOL - Stinkfist.

[HM1189]

Oh boy, that's a tough one. I finished high school in 2007 and I'm a old schooler when the subject's music. Well, I was between Pink Floyd and Duran Duran at that time

[WanderingLoveWizard]

Young Lust is one of my favorite songs. Pink Floyd is the shit

[comekitty]

Still a favorite 💕

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7uEwCZrIOBk

[exitseven]

This was an interesting video. Not really something I would like but was very well done.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been waiting by little Peep, ILOVEMAKONNEN & Fall Out Boy

[stargazeraug1989]

You came of age in the 80s, I see. For me, it's a tie between Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston and Bartender by T-Pain. The nostalgia is very bittersweet. I miss those times more and more the older I get.

[sage2021]

I'd love you to want me

Artist was Lobo

[LiamJHayden]

An underappreciated artist. I really love his songs "A Simple Man" "A Big Red Kite" and "Rings."

[exitseven]

Yes, I remember him.

[sage2021]

@LiamJHayden
I have his CD and every single song on it is great!! He us one of very top music artist. If you get a chance to get some of his music, 🎵 you won't regret it.

[sage2021]

@exitseven
Yes, I have his CD and every single song brings back great memories of way the back. I still listen to my CD of him. His music 🎵 is so mellow and soothing to my soul. The CD I have has three extra songs that I like that he covered. It's all good 🎶🎵☮️📻

[ohsheeT]

https://youtu.be/-48Za7VZR_c

[ohsheeT]

https://youtu.be/baWTjg1QqS8

[ohsheeT]

https://youtu.be/vjWd_7OzO84

[ohsheeT]

https://youtu.be/ud96oaUH74w

[ohsheeT]

https://youtu.be/mWF1v7W70wU

[ohsheeT]

youtube.com/shorts/bdBO80lodkE?feature=share3

[Andres77]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JVlpm0eRs&list=PLvdr2fcSSucenvBTFkJaCTrRBNAxEUirB&index=43&pp=iAQB8AUB