Post your H.S. graduation date and Senior song: 1983 - Another Brick in the Wall

[callous taoboy]

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[Ptah]

1. 1969: Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LANwIgpha7k

[Heidi]

2. 1981: Kool and the Gang, "Celebration." (nt)

[MissMillie]

3. 1982: The Song is Over

by The Who

[PassingFair]

4. 1977: Diana Ross

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf4P6rGMxWs

"Do You Know"

I think 3 or 4 successive graduating classes
chose this one.

No. Originality. Ever.

(I wrote in Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah)

[SoxFan]

5. 1985: "Tender Years", John Cafferty

Obviously, they didn't listen to me. A few of us wanted to have the prom at Boston's late, great Rat, but that also fell on deaf ears.

[Spacemom]

6. 1990: Don Henley - The End of the Innocence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPEBWZ1EOY

[wickerwoman]

67. 1994- also The End of the Innocence

My parents were *thrilled* they picked that one.

[sakabatou]

7. 2006 - I have no idea what the song was

[GirlAfire]

27. 2003 - I also don't know what song it was n/t

[bigwillq]

8. 1996

Our prom song was "Never Say Goodbye" by Bon-Jovi.
Our senior song was unofficially "Crossroads" by Bone-Thugs and Harmony.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. 1998: Lean on Me

Yeah, kinda cliche.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. 1961---I don't think we were doing Senior songs then!

Yup...older than dirt am I...

;)

[elleng]

11. Maybe so, Peggy, it's not just California!

In NY, 1962. Song? Have to work on that!

[hippywife]

12. 1976

and we didn't have a "senior song" that I can recall...but then there isn't a whole lot about school I can recall about that time, either. :rofl:

[Lucian]

13. 2000 - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day

[elocs]

14. 1970 and I have absolutely no idea about the song.

I have never gone to any of my reunions because my class of 500+ was very snobbish and besides, most of the kids I grew up with were in the class behind me and we all hung out at the same park. In fact, on the year of my 10th reunion I organized a "park" reunion with the people who were my friends since grade school. We had it at the park's shelter house (this park is only a 1/2 block in size), a place where we skated, played football and softball, and where we just grew up together. It was a great time with some people coming from hundreds of miles away with their spouses and kids. Way better than any high school reunion.

[Old Troop]

81. I had to google it

[KG]

15. 1977 - and i have no idea.

by my Sr year, i had pretty much checked out of giving a shit about H.S.

[yankeepants]

16. 1975 --Black Dog Zepplin

[zx_3500]

34. probably my favorite zep tune

wish they played that at my graduation

[Corgigal]

17. 1976 Take It To The Limit by the Eagles

I remember that one playing. Also More More More Andrea True Connection.

[texanwitch]

18. It was 1973 and I have no idea what the song would have been..

I hated high school.

It was long 3 years, I was fianlly glad it was over.

What a waste of my time.

All I wanted was to take GED test and go to jc somewhere.

I was bored.

[Archae]

19. 1978, Styx, "Sailing Away," second verse.

I hated it too.

[Jokerman]

20. 1980: "Carry On My Wayward Son"

Why? I don't know.

[zx_3500]

35. hate that song

and kansas in general

[Tikki]

21. Mr. Tikki...1966..."We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"...The Animals

:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rROZlSRetBs

The Tikkis

[Pool Hall Ace]

22. 1979 - Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon

[WorseBeforeBetter]

76. "Reunited and it feels so goooooooooooood..."

Peaches and Herb -- I had to dig out the yearbook.

[liberaltrucker]

23. 1971-"For What it's Worth"

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

[dembotoz]

38. same year, i will go with same song.

[mitchum]

24. It was some Gregorian chant

[one_voice]

25. 1985..

Phil Collins..In the air tonight.


God I'm old.

[Rhythm]

30. Same here... got so tired of that song, too.

What the hell made anyone think that this creepy revenge song was a great couple's slow-dance tune, other than them using it in that hooker scene in "Risky Business"?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

26. 1972 Imagine

good thing the admins never listened to the words -- they woulda died had they heard "imagine no religion" :rofl:

[madmom]

55. LOL mine was too, same year, same song!

:toast:

[meeshrox]

28. 1999 - some shitty song I can't remember

I voted for Prince's 1999, but the assholes thought some other shit would be better...yes, I'm bitter!

[canoeist52]

29. 1973 "Clouds", Joni Mitchell, won over "Dead Skunk...."

[JTG of the PRB]

31. 2001, and I suppose the song would be "Yesterday."

I wanted to be up there singing it with the other choir kids and my friends, since I was in choir my last three years of high school, but... No such luck.

[MilesColtrane]

32. 1981 - "Dream On" by Aerosmith

Looking back, even though it was an 8 year old song at the time, I'm glad at least they didn't pick some stupid disco tune.

[zx_3500]

33. 2000 - another brick in the wall

[abq e streeter]

36. '68-I don't think we even had a senior song, but I wish Thunder Road had been written

it's a town full of losers and I'm pullin' outta here to win.

[stewartcolbert08]

37. 2000 Time of Your Life-Greenday

[Mad_Dem_X]

54. I think it's funny that the song is actually called "Good Riddence"

[backtoblue]

39. 1997- another brick in the wall....

B-)

[blueamy66]

40. 1984: Southern Cross

:-)

[bamacrat]

41. 2001: Nelly: E.I. or really any song of his Country Grammar cd...

Or any song of of Ludacris' first album which came out same time.

[livetohike]

42. 1970: But what is a Senior song?

:shrug: I didn't go to the prom that year.

[Darth_Kitten]

43. 1986 - Dream on - Aerosmith

I think. :)

[tinymontgomery]

44. 75

Stairway to Heaven

[RobinA]

45. 1975 Seals & Croft

We May Never Pass This Way Again.

I didn't vote for the insipid ditty, and my reaction to its selection was "And we can thank the gods for that."

[RFKHumphreyObama]

46. This must be an American thing

My graduation was in 1999 but we didn't have a song:shrug:

[CBR]

47. 1998: Puff Daddy -- I'll Be Missing You nt

[hobbit709]

48. 1968 Born To Be Wild.

[Dulcinea]

49. Class of 1983 here too!

"We've Got Tonight" was our prom song. I was more of a New Waver.

[Writer]

50. 1993 - I don't remember a class song.

Right Said Fred was very popular around that time, though. And Jesus Jones. And Dee-Lite. :shrug:

"I'm too sexy for my shirt..."

[old mark]

51. 1965: Several songs: Turn, Turn, Turn - Byrds, Satisfaction-Stones,

it was a great year for music.
And I was so glad to be out of high school, I can't even tell you.....
Never been back, no plans to ever go there again.

mark

[ceile]

52. 1994 "Hero" Mariah Carey

:puke:

[Mad_Dem_X]

53. 1985, but I can't recall if we even had a Senior song.

[MorningGlow]

56. 1983: Only the Good Die Young

Actually I don't think each senior class selected a different song. I went to a Catholic girls school; our anthem was "Only the Good Die Young" EVERY year. I swear the nuns had coronaries when we included it in the senior slide show. Every. Goddamned. Year. :evilgrin:

[mokawanis]

57. 1976 - Stairway to Heaven n/t

[caraher]

58. 1982 No song, but...

someone in college said his class picked "Welcome to the Machine" (Pink Floyd) :)

[vixengrl]

59. 1990--can't recall if we had a senior song, but

I found a list of the top 100 from that year:

http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1990.htm

I listened to heavy metal, rap, classic rock--anything but the popular music back then. But damn if I don't know most of these songs from hearing them on Musak in stores! Although I totally still have Billy Joel's Storm Front in my music collection. I think it was the first CD I might have gotten. (I retired my 1981-issued boombox around then because it started to eat tapes.) And that was right around when my parents finally got basic cable when we'd had just HBO for years. MTV!

(I remember when I first saw the "Ice, Ice Baby" video--first thought--why is he dressed like a waiter? Second thought--Is this the differently-abled older NKOTB brother they don't like to talk about?)

[XemaSab]

60. 1995, and I don't think we had one

Looking at the top hits for the year, I can see why. :P

I think "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio would do quite well, however. :D

[TheKentuckian]

61. 91 and the songs where as I recall "The Humpty Dance" and even more sadly

the theme from "A Different World" which also against my adamant protest the theme of our yearbook (I was the editor).

[DFW]

62. 1970, but we didn't have a song--we quoted Martin Luther King

"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we're free at last!"

I, for one, was very happy to see the last of that place. I was only there my senior year.
I think I would have lost my mind if I had had to endure the place for four years.

(Most notorious alumnus: George W. Bush, so you get the idea that anyone who thought like I did,
did not exactly "fit in")

[Bombero1956]

63. 1975

The Long and Winding Road.

[Bossy Monkey]

64. 1980 and I have no idea, respectively

Our proms had themes (which I don't remember either), but I'm not sure there was an actual Senior song. We went to both the prom and the anti-prom, so maybe I missed it.

[PJPhreak]

65. 1976...Hair of the Dog,Nazareth

Lets just say the school board heads exploded when they heard the lyrics!

[UTUSN]

66. 1965: Moon River. Well, California Peggy are fine wine!1 n/t

[tigereye]

68. I think it was the Doobie Brothers' Black Water...although i don't remember

exactly.

[bluethruandthru]

69. 1976: Looking for Space n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

70. 1964, and I don't know if we even had a song.

The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the Number 1 song that year.

[Bennyboy]

71. 1973 "Schools Out" or "Truckin"...

depending on who you were.



And I was one of them...

[blockhead]

72. 1982, You Can Do Magic-America

[Oceansaway]

73. 1972: Don McLean - American Pie...n/t

[OffWithTheirHeads]

74. 69 Don't bogart that joint

[BulletproofLandshark]

75. 1994: Joe Cocker's version of "A Little Help From My Friends"

We wanted to use the Beatles' version but the admin wasn't crazy about the line about getting high.

[Arugula Latte]

77. 1984 -- Against All Odds

If you knew the dumbasses in our class you would see how that song was quite fitting.

[Huskerchub]

79. Exact same here

[Lilith Velkor]

78. 1986 - Big Balls

:woohoo:

[Old Troop]

80. 1972 The first time I ever saw your face