What Were Your Favorite Songs In High School?

tneah

tneah

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I was perusing itunes today looking for those oldies but goodies, and started thinking about the stuff I loved to listen to in high school...so what did you guys listen to? And doesn't hearing those songs bring back sooo many memories? Here is my list.
I graduated in 1985! Oh boy. The Madonna wannabe era!:p

1. Melt With You...Modern English? Was that the band? Reminds me of my "first";) boyfriend who was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen. We listened to this song as we rode around in his 4x4 pickup truck.

2. Lucky Star-Madonna. Ah yes, I remember seeing her in concert, it was her very first tour, before the biceps and the attitude, she was really shy onstage actually!:)This was my favorite song in high school.

3. Safety Dance-Men Without Hats...my friend Danny and I would go to the dance clubs and dance wildly to this song! :)

4.Friends-Whodini..anyone remember them? A very cool rap group, my friend and I knew all the lyrics and would rap right along with them.:7

5.Pyromania--Def Lepard...I went to a redneck high school so everyone would carry a boombox blaring Def Lepard..loved that band!

6. Islands in the Stream-Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton..."our song"...my friend Danny and I attempted romance (he was gay but I was gonna make him love me like that anyway;) and it was before he came out ) we would listen to this over and over again...

OK, there are more, but will stop my musings and am curious about you all?:7
 
Tneah,
This is a funny question because it just makes me smile so big when I hear an "oldie" from the 80's on my iPod when I'm running!

1. Safety Dance -- loved it!!! Do you remember the video? It sort of runs through my head every time I hear the song. iTunes didn't have it for the longest time.
2. Hold on Loosely by .38 Special
3. Workin' for the Weekend by Loverboy
4. Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
5. Anything at all by Journey (they were my very first concert in the summer of 1983; a very young and unknown Bryan Adams opened for them)
6. I Love Rock 'n Roll by Joan Jett
7. The Stroke by Billy Squier
8. Most Pat Benatar, Heart, & The Go-Go's
9. What I Like About You by The Romantics
Fun thread! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.:)

ETA:
10. Almost anything by Nightranger
11. I Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis
Oh, I could go on and on!
 
I graduated in 1979 so disco was in fashion when I was in high school.

1. Anything by the Bee Gees
2. Peg - Steely Dan
3. I'm In You - Peter Frampton
4. Babe - Styx
5. We Are The Champions - Queen
6. Heart of Glass - Blondie
7. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
8. Hot Child In the City - Nick Glider
9. I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
10. My Sharona - The Knack

I could go on and on but I'll stop there.
 
tneah, I was (and am still) a Def Leppard fan...:D...as far as High School, let me think:

1. Long Distance Run Around: Yes
2. Anything by Boston
3. Stairway to Heaven: Led Zepplin
4. Big 10 Inch: Aerosmith...:D
5. Anything by Chicago

I graduated in 1977 so yes, Disco was in fashion, and I still enjoy Barry White...:)
 
Wow, some of the songs you listed are my all time favorites. Tneah, I love "Lucky Star"!

Anything by Prince. (I graduated the year his "symbol album" 0(+> was released).

"Gett Off," "Cream," and "Diamonds and Pearls" were big while I was in high school, but I was also listening to some of his earlier stuff. He was, is, and will always be my favorite.

"November Rain" by Guns N Roses. I really liked "Use Your Illusion" and "Use Your Illusion II." I remember taking the bus to the mall to buy the CDs!!

U2's "Achtung Baby," particularly "One" and "Mysterious Ways."

"Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix A Lot

"To Be With You" by Mr. Big. Yes, I admit it.
 
I'm way older than you, so some of my favorite top 100 radio songs in high school were:

1. Help Me by Joanie Mitchell
2. Frankenstein by the Edgar Winter Group
3. Layla by Derek and the Dominos
4. Saturday in the Park by Chicago
5. Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot
6. The Joker by Steve Miller Band
7. Rocket Man by Elton John
8. Who's That Lady by the Isley Brothers
9. Ramblin' Man by the Allman Bros.
10. Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me by Elton John
11. I've Been Searching So Long by Chicago
12. Free Ride by the Edgar Winter Group
13. Let's Stay Together by Al Green
14. Go All The Way by the Raspberries
15. Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Browne

And the list goes on and on......
 
Very fun thread.....

Wonderful Tonight- Eric Clapton
Paradise by the Dashboard Light- Meatloaf
Only the Good Die Young- Billy Joel
3 Times a Lady- Commodores
We are Family- Sister Sledge
The Rose- Bette Midler
Stairway to Heaven
Free bird


Anything by Earth, Wind and Fire, Doobie Brothers, Styx, Peter Frampton, Pat Benatar, Queen, and Genesis.
 
Nancy, you'd dig my Frankenstein ringtone!


I was pretty much listening to CSNY, the Doors, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Yes, Pink Floyd (the Syd Barrett days rocked), Melanie, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Country Joe McDonald and the Fish, Canned Heat, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Edgar Winter Group, Allman Brothers Band, Eric Burdon, Blue Cheer (I had a 8th grade social studies teacher who fed my habit with cassettes copied form his vinyl just for me. Now Amazon hooks me up)

and then.....

Slayer (I love how even the cheerleader girly girls are now into retro death metal and wear Rhinestone Slayer baby doll Tees), Metallica (I still love Kill 'Em All), Testament (ROFLMAO at seeing them on MTV as of late), Black Flag (I still love anything Henry Rollins), Blondie, Danzig..oh, and Falco "schau! schau! der Kommissar geht um! Oh oh oh" (I miss Falco!)


Told you I was weird <skips out of thread singing .... "Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high, DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind">
 
What a fun thread, Tneah! I graduated in 1989 (gulp! my 20th reunion will be next year!), and was into "alternative" music -- or whatever it was called! I can't think of particular songs, so here are my favorite bands from back in the day! ;-)

1. The Smiths
2. The Cure (more doom and gloom)
3. New Order
4. Depeche Mode

Now going back into junior high, it would have to be:

1. Culture Club (I was a huge Boy George fan, and --I can't believe I'm openly admitting this in public! -- dressed like him for Halloween when I was in the 7th grade!)
2. Duran Duran
3. The Go-Gos (my first concert!)
4. Cyndi Lauper (girls just want to have fun, after all! :))
5. Spandau Ballet
6. Adam Ant
 
Definitely not. ;-) Also, I went to high school in three different countries, so the music was different everywhere. Most of it was in England, and many of the big hits in the U.S. just didn't make it over there. I'm having some faint memories of loving Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Spandau Ballet (but only the first album, before they went all wishy-washy). White Lines by Grandmaster Flash. Jammin' by Bob Marley. Oh, I remember loving Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. I didn't start liking The Cure until later, but I loved Depeche Mode (more so after Vince Clark left and Martin Gore started writing).
 
Hey, Shelley -- I didn't realize that you had lived all over during high school! OK, how could I forget Spandau Ballet and Depeche Mode? I'll have to go back and add them to my list!

I love "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush! I actually brought the CD in and played it for my students this past semester when we were reading Bronte's novel in class -- and they *hated* the song! They said Bush's voice was "creepy," whereas I was trying to tell them that it was "haunting"! UG! No taste at all in these youngsters nowadays!;-)
 
Nancy,
We must be close to the same age. I remembered all of the songs you listed!!:)

I loved to listen to Led Zepelin, ZZ Top, Allman Bros., Rolling Stones, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young.

Gin:)
 
God, it was so long ago. These are the ones I can remember

Madman Across the Water...Elton John
Hello, It's Me....Todd Rundgren
There Ain't No Shoestrings on Louise....Elton John
Every Picture Tells A Story....Rod Stewart
Reason to Believe....Rod Stewart
Ooh La La....The Small Faces
Sorrow...David Bowie
Waited Too Long...Carly Simon (that line: "Daddy, I'm no virgin
And I've already waited too long" seemed SOOO risqué to me at the time!!!)
And I had a real thing for Cat Stevens: Oh Very Young, Father & Son, Wild World.
 
I too blocked everything out except the music, my first boyfriend and Danny! I went to a small redneck high school--the kids didn't appreciate my "unique form of dressing" and my best friend Danny.;) I hated high school actually. Thank god for music.

All of you guys listed stuff I listen to all the time..Depeche Mode comes to mind especially..Rocket Man....Metallica...
 
I liked a lot of different things in high school but the songs/music I most associate with the time are:

1. The Smiths(Strangeways, here we come was the most current for me at the time...of course The Queen is Dead is their best album ever:) )

2. Depeche Mode(again, most current was Music for the Masses...Violator was my first concert and Songs of Faith and Devotion came out right before I started college.)

3. Erasure(I LOVED Two Ring Circus, The Innocents and Wild!)

4. The Cure(this started earlier so I don't have a ton of associations specifically with high school, although Pictures of You always reminds me of my first boyfriend.)

Fun thread!:)
 
>>I love "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush! I actually brought
>the CD in and played it for my students this past semester
>when we were reading Bronte's novel in class -- and they
>*hated* the song! They said Bush's voice was "creepy,"
>whereas I was trying to tell them that it was "haunting"! UG!
> No taste at all in these youngsters nowadays!;-)


My 11th grade English teacher did this too! Except we got the Pat Benatar version which, honestly, I think is much better than the Kate Bush version. Kate Bush sounds too animated to me and I would have preferred her to use her natural voice rather than *doing* a voice. Plus whenever I hear her version I think of the video with the interpretive dance and it cracks me up.:7
 
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