What Were Your Favorite Songs In High School?

Wow, you really are a baby! ;) I thought I was, but dang, I graduated in 96. I'm feeling old now!

I can't think of any songs, isn't that sad? I'm like Shelley, I blocked out that entire time period! ;)
 
Pretty much what ever was being played on PYX 106 in Albany in the '80s. For some reason I remember a lot of AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, occasionally Peter Gabriel...

One oddball song I remember liking was "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I recently found a mashup of it with Wild Cherry's "Play that Funky Music". I know some people despise mashup bastardizations, but this has become one of my favorite workout tunes.

Funky Goes to Hollywood

http://djearworm.com/funky-goes-to-hollywood.htm
 
I looked up the top 100 songs during the years I was in high school, and listed my favs. They're not my favs of all time. Just the favs of what was on the radio in those particular years.
 
Shelly, I too have blocked high school out! I didn't enjoy it at all. But I remember some of the music as I starting all my "stages"

No Ones mentioned........ "Jump" VAN Halen (I think that was after high school)

Anything by David Bowie (I went through a "Ziggy" phase)
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk was released after high school, I think?
Abba was huge and I kinda liked them, but they were "Daggy"
Bat Outta Hell - Meatloaf
Def Leppard

I can mainly remember after high school and Leanne M has my list, but it needs to include,
Yazoo
Thompson Twins
Flock of Seagulls I ran
We had some good Australian bands that were very punky, new agy, new romantic that was my kinda stuff.

great thread, made me think and I definatly can't remember much of high school -don't want too!

Bay City Rollers - nah they were primary school. x(

Andrea
 
My pregnant brain can't handle favorite songs, but favorite bands I can do--in no particular order:

1. Iron Maiden
2. Judas Priest
3. Ozzy Osborne
4. Black Sabbath
5. Queensryche
6. Scorpians
7. AC/DC
9. Dio
10. White Snake
11. Led Zepplin
12. Robin Trower
13. The Rolling Stones
14. The Doors
15. Blue Oyster Cult
16. Billy Squire
17. Def Leppard
18. Van Halen (before Sammy Hagar)
19. Rush

There's more, but I'm drawing a blank

I was a hard rock/metal/classic rock fan--and I still enjoy it as a guilty pleasure on occasion, although I mostly listen to classical now.

Someone mentioned Metallica--I didn't discover them until college and became a huge fan--saw them 3 times in concert.

Fun thread.

Maggie:)
 
What a great thread! All I can say is ditto, ditto, ditto and ditto. I so loved the 80's music. I try and find it on the radio all the time. My second fave is the 70's. I recently saw Def Leppard. I was never into them at the height of their popularity but they now are at the top of my list along with my all time favorite band "Journey" but only with Steve Perry. My absolute favorite Journey song or favorite all time song is "Don't Stop, Believin'" I love Steve! :* Duran, Duran-Is There Something I Should Know; New Moon On Monday; Electric Barbarella; Styx-Lorelei; Come Sail Away; Blue Collar Man, and Hall & Oates-Family Man; Say It Isn't So and soooooo many more. Ahhhhhh, now THAT was music!:)
 
Wow...great thread!


Earth, Wind and Fire
Chaka Khan
Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Donna Summer
Whitney Houston...the only Power ballad singer of my time:)

Deb
 
Maggie, I love your list! I'm going to see Iron Maiden next Wednesday. My 13 year old daughter is now a huge Iron Maiden and Queensryche fan.
 
Oh my goodness--that is so cool. My 13 yo ds is now a huge Iron Maiden and Queensryche fan also. His dad just took him to see Rush and if I weren't so pregnant, I'd take him to see Iron Maiden in a couple of months.

Have fun!
Maggie:)
 
OK - graduated in the bicenntenial year here . . .

So I'm with Nancy and Gin for the most part.

Absolute fav was Stairway to Heaven that was played each and every night at 12 AM on the local radio station - the looonnnggg version - and then it was off to sleep. I sooo loved that song 'cuz it was an accoustical guitar player back then, Hmmmmm the old days.;( The other fav song was "Nights in White Satin".

Other than that it was just fav bands in high school:

Steely Dan
Fleetwood Mac
Doobies
Eagles
Chicago
Bread (OK, don't laugh, huh?)
CSN&Y
Jim Croce (Yep, the guitar thing again)
Grad nite concert: England Dan & John Ford Coley
1st live concert just outta high school: John Denver

I wasn't a radical, just a backward she-jock who didn't know much about music, but did love to sing & dance.

Course then came college and Disco fever nights along with alot of athletic friends from the hard core Los Angeles neighborhoods so,
Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever and "Play that Funky Music White Boy" moved to the top of the list.

Enter Heart, U2 (I named my first parrot Bono), Genesis & Phil Collins, Foreigner, Styx, REO Speedwagon, and on and on.

I am in heaven these days as I go to local concerts and just eat up the oldies but goodies. We have an absolutely wonderful old winery close by that is so serene and sits ontop of a hill that overlooks San Jose. Totally takes me to another place in time.

So funny that as I get older I love the different stages of life that I have known and it is a fun trip back for a short while. The days of no responsibility or stress, huh?

Thanks for the reminders Tneah and all who have posted!

On a sidenote: my kids belonged to a theater group for many years and their director was a total fan of the music that was played while I was growing up. So nice to have them loving the same wholesome (for the most part}( ) music that we knew and loved vs. some of the bunk that was out there while they were growing up.

A definite wonderful time to be growing up with the actors and actresses and musicians who have "stayed alive" while others in their lifetime have made it big and then taken a dive so quickly afterward.

I keep saying it has been a great time to be alive.

Wow - enough of my nostalgia already (sorry for rambling on and on), thanks again !
 
Wow! Leanne M. hit on a lot of the same bands I loved. How about Billy Idol??? I nearly was thrown out of that concert.

My first concert was---Rick Springfield!!!

Now there's not many bands I would pay money to see live, how sad.;(

Sharon
 
I graduated in 1998 and the songs we listened to was a wide variety mix

LL Cool J
Shaggy- Boombastic
I know Britney Spears (the good old days)
Warren G
Jay Z
Madonna
N'Sync
98 Degrees
Jessica Simpson
Nirvana
Dr Dre
MC Hammer
Puff Daddy (before P Diddy)
U2
Jennifer Lopez
Mariah Carey
Boys To Men
Marky Mark
Will Smith
 
Nancy's list is very familiar to me from my high school days. I'd also add:

1. Ain't So Sunshine - Bill Withers
2. Me and Bobby Mcgee - Janis Joplin
3. You've Got a Friend - James Taylor
4. Time of the Season - Zombies
5. Wild World - Cat Stevens
6. Touch Me - the Doors
7. Use Me - Bill Withers
8. Taxi - Harry Chapin
9. I saw the Light - Todd Rundgren
10. Roundabout - Yes
 
>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">


OMG! You did NOT just put Metallica in the same sentence as Falco! My eyes! Oh God, my eyes!

Say it ain't so.

Jeanine

We find beauty in the most incomprehensible places and the otherwise homely faces. It is our gift to see beyond the dirt, terror, sadness and defeat and find the true soul that lies within. We are Rescue.
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I do not post over here often, but here are my favorite bands. I cannot post favorite songs, there are too many.

The Cure
Depeche Mode
10,000 Maniacs
The Doors
Nine Inch Nails
Allman Brothers
REI
Smashing Pumpkins (saw them in concert)
Tom Petty
Steve Miller Band

Believe it or not I also love classical music and am a fan of Aaron Copeland and I wore out my Nutracker Ballet Suite Cd!
 
Oh, forgot about these:

Beastie Boys
Violent Femmes
Madonna (especially "Holiday" from the Immaculate Collection)
 
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