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Thu Feb-16-06 11:30 PM
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Let's peel scabs! What was your graduating class's theme song? |
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Mine: Best of Times by Styx, 1982.
There. I said it, and I'm trying not to be ashamed.
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Thu Feb-16-06 11:39 PM
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1. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" |
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Thu Feb-16-06 11:44 PM
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3. It's on the tip of my tongue but I can't name it |
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It was really dumb though.
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Thu Feb-16-06 11:46 PM
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4. Dunno - nobody to go with |
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You WOULD have to bring taht u p, wouldn't you. You know it upsets me but you keep bringing it up like it's fresh news and it's not. I didn't have anybody to go wtih because nobody liked me and I didn't have a girlfriend (even a fake one) and in that era if I'd brought a boyfriend I'd have been lynched.
I tried going solo to a dance-a-thon and got yelled at.
Why did you have to bring that upa gain?
I hate you
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
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Fri Feb-17-06 12:05 AM
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Got set up with my best friend's sister, paid for tickets and everything, and she stood me up at the last minute.
Feel any better? :)
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Fri Feb-17-06 01:09 PM
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Fri Feb-17-06 12:09 AM
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6. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses. |
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Fri Feb-17-06 12:13 AM
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7. 'School's Out' — Alice Cooper |
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That was EVerybody's in the early '70s.
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Fri Feb-17-06 12:15 AM
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8. Come Sail Away by Styx. |
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2nd verse.
I hated it. Still do. (1978)
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Fri Feb-17-06 12:25 AM
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9. "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan - 1999 |
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We actually had a choice between (off the top of my head and probably missing a couple or so):
"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day "When I See You Smile" by Bad English "1999" by Prince "Now and Forever" by Carole King
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Fri Feb-17-06 01:49 AM
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10. Kool & The Gang "Ladies Night" or "Too Hot," I can't quite remember |
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Edited on Fri Feb-17-06 01:50 AM by Hissyspit
which. "Celebration" didn't come out until later in the year.
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Fri Feb-17-06 02:12 AM
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11. "We Shall Never Pass This Way Again" |
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...by Seals & Crofts. :thumbsdown:
I've passed by my old High School hundreds of times since graduation.
G****** lying f****** song!
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Fri Feb-17-06 11:13 AM
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31. should NOT have played at DFW w/all the troops moving thru |
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It was my class song, too (go class of 1978), and I love it, but I noticed it playing on the Muzak in the airport, and I thought "I'm glad these kids have no idea what that song is, because it's not one I'd want to hear on my way to Iraq...
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Fri Feb-17-06 02:18 PM
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very sappy. But I kind of liked it. Probably because I didn't have to pass that way again! :D
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Fri Feb-17-06 03:06 AM
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12. I just graduated last year... |
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:blush:
Ours was "For Good," from the Wicked soundtrack.
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Fri Feb-17-06 03:08 AM
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13. we voted and chose "Imagine" |
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the school board vetoed it and substituted "We've Only Just Begun"
a few of us in choir and band were to perform "We've Only Just Begun" at graduation
instead, we played Imagine. they threatened to rescind our diplomas
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:38 AM
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Yes, the song from Annie.
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:48 AM
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15. Good Riddance (Time of your Life) by Green Day |
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2000.
Man...I'm gettin' old...
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:50 AM
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16. The Long and Winding Road 1980 |
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Yes, arguably Paul's sappiest number. :P Well, it was either that or Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall". Ah, the town elders wouldn't hear of that! :P But it was on the ballot and we could vote for it! :-)
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:50 AM
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17. Class of 1966: "Try to Remember" |
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I voted for "Eve of Destruction"
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Fri Feb-17-06 07:39 PM
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Climb Every Mountain from Sound of Music. :eyes: I like your idea better.
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:56 AM
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18. Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds |
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:59 AM
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19. "Time of Your Life" -Green Day, 1998 |
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:00 AM
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20. Theme from Mahogany, and I graduated in '85 from an all-white school |
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It was kinda surreal. Especially since "You've got Another Thing Coming" by Judas Priest was the song with the most votes (by a huge margin), but the school would not allow us to use it as our theme song. I have no idea how Theme from Mahogany was chosen (no one would say).
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:08 AM
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22. You just might get the Most Surreal vote. |
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:24 AM
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28. My brother's class had that as their theme song in '84 as well. |
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Fri Feb-17-06 01:37 PM
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41. We had the Mahogany theme in 77... |
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but I voted a write-in for Zippadeedodaa!
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:00 AM
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21. "A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker |
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Class of '94. We voted for the Beatles' version, but they wouldn't let us use it because of the "I get high with a little help from my friends" line.
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:10 AM
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23. Nine Inch Nails, "Closer." |
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I'm not kidding. They voted on it, and it says so, in the yearbook.:rofl: It's our ten-year reunion this summer- should be fun.
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:21 AM
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24. Mine was the same as yours, in 1982. |
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My brother graduated in 1981, and their theme was REO Speedwagon's "Time For Me To Fly".
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:23 AM
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25. Our prom's theme/song" "Open Arms" (Journey) |
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Fri Feb-17-06 06:25 PM
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:23 AM
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26. Imagine, John Lennon. |
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Fri Feb-17-06 05:07 PM
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51. Hey same here but ...1972 |
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:24 AM
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27. Kill the Poor by the Dead Kennedys |
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Fri Feb-17-06 09:26 AM
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29. 1988:INXS: Dont' Change....Needless to say, I have. |
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Fri Feb-17-06 10:53 AM
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30. Memories by Barbra Streisand |
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I graduated in 1979. One of the happiest days of my life. I hated high school.
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Fri Feb-17-06 11:19 AM
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Fri Feb-17-06 11:34 AM
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33. A High School Graduation Song classic: |
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The Animals...."We Got To Get Out Of This Place"....Class of 1966
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Fri Feb-17-06 11:55 AM
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34. We did not have one of which I'm aware. |
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But I graduated in 1984, so pick one.
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Fri Feb-17-06 06:24 PM
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55. Fucking. Awesome. Song. |
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Fri Feb-17-06 12:57 PM
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36. I have no idea, I was a dropout. |
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My G.E.D. theme song, however, was "Killing for Jesus" by the Circle Jerks, as I was listening to "Wonderful" in the car on my way to the test.
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Fri Feb-17-06 02:22 PM
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I would have thought you were afraid to go in your glam duds!
j/k
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Fri Feb-17-06 01:13 PM
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I never went to those things.
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Fri Feb-17-06 01:18 PM
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39. I believe it was that Boyz II Men acapella song -- 1992 |
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Edited on Fri Feb-17-06 01:20 PM by Cats Against Frist
"And I'll taaaaaaake with me the memoriiiiiiies, to be my su-unshine, after the rai-ai-ai-ai-oo-aa-aiiiiiiiii-ai-ai-ai-ai-hain...."
Can't remember the title, but the next line is "It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday," so maybe that was the title.
Wasn't hard to say good-bye, though. Good riddance to that uptight, racist, snooty-ass little motherfuckin' town.
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Fri Feb-17-06 01:21 PM
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40. It's was long, long ago |
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and far away, but I believe it was "Moon River."
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Fri Feb-17-06 01:57 PM
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Phil Collins :puke: However, a very fitting title for that particular class of '84.
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Fri Feb-17-06 02:09 PM
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43. "What song is it you wanna hear?" |
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Despite graduating twenty-seven years after its release, my class chose "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd as the class song. Now I actually like that song and Skynyrd, and listen to more sixties and seventies music than modern, but it still annoyed me that that was the class song; I wished we could have had something from around the time we were actually graduating. I think the "cowboys" at my school all got together and discussed beforehand that they were to vote for this one, and everybody else split among several others so the cowboys won out. Maybe it just irks me so much because now when I hear that song I involuntarily start thinking about the kids I graduated with...
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Fri Feb-17-06 02:27 PM
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46. "Hold On to the Night" by Richard Marx. Class of '90 n/t |
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Fri Feb-17-06 02:30 PM
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47. We didn't have a theme song that I remember |
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I DO remember that the Number One song when I graduated in 1973 was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree", by Tony Orlando and Dawn.
Heard it enough times to get sick of it in a VERY short period of time.
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Fri Feb-17-06 02:39 PM
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48. "Here's to the night" by Eve 6 |
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i fucking HATE that song. Everyone got guilt-tripped into it because a guy in our class got killed driving drunk; it's what he wanted as our song, so its what everyone voted for (except me and a few other people)
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Fri Feb-17-06 04:30 PM
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I remember it came out the same year that I graduated, too. It was one of those where I wondered if the group wrote it with the idea that it would end up being used by hundreds of graduating classes as a "class song" and thus would have a much longer shelf life than it deserved. I think it's definitely possible.
I think it was also on the ballot for my class. I guess I should be proud of "Free Bird"...!
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Fri Feb-17-06 04:47 PM
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50. Wasted on the way by CS&N |
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O.K., so it was "Time, we have wasted on the way..." but, hey it was 1983...
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Fri Feb-17-06 05:11 PM
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52. Our class song was actually an original piece written by a friend |
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Not a bad song, too, considering that my choice of NOFX's "Drugs Are Good" was unlikely to be chosen. :)
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Fri Feb-17-06 05:11 PM
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53. We didn't officially select one. |
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But the unofficial one had to be "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band.
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Fri Feb-17-06 05:48 PM
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54. "Don't you forget about me" |
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...I think that was the Simple Minds(?) song...from the class of 1986.
Ironic, as all I wanted to do after graduating was forget the nightmare that was high school.
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Fri Feb-17-06 07:42 PM
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58. Mine too, same shit same year. |
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Fri Feb-17-06 07:43 PM
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59. "Never Say Goodbye" by Bon Jovi, 1987 |
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Fri Feb-17-06 07:47 PM
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60. The Cheers theme song: |
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"Where Everybody Knows Your Name". The song was appropriate for more than one reason. LOL
This was in '96.
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:49 PM
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61. Ordinary World by Duran Duran |
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The song was definitely not put out in our year, though. But a depressing seven-year-old song was clearly appropriate for graduation. :eyes:
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Fri Feb-17-06 08:51 PM
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62. That one Garth Brooks song. |
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I don't know what it's called. I do know it was not the beer-drinking song.
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Sat Feb-18-06 01:22 AM
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If the chorus went:
"And I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end, the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance I could've missed the pain But I'd've had to miss The dance."
I'm just figuring that one 'cause it just sort of sounds like a class song. I've always liked it quite a bit. He also has one called "The River" that might have worked, but I figure "The Dance" is more likely...
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Sat Feb-18-06 03:59 PM
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I graduated in the early 90's.
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Sat Feb-18-06 01:32 AM
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64. Their Theme Song: "Comes A Time"- Neil Young |
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My Own Private Theme Song: "Final Solution"- Pere Ubu:)
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Sat Feb-18-06 09:37 AM
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65. just spent 2 hours searching. . Exodus |
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not a productive morning, but it was driving me nuts cuz I couldn't remember . . 1973
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Sat Feb-18-06 02:53 PM
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66. "Graduation" by Vitamin C (2000) |
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Real original, huh?
I had a lame high school that ran out of paper in my senior year and had milk at lunch in plastic bags.
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Sat Feb-18-06 03:16 PM
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67. "Learn To Fly" by the Foo Fighters - Class of 2001 |
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