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Title: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: ReardenSteel on January 08, 2009, 08:55:17 PM: Back in the day. :evillaugh:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W9kcxdPPjk[/youtube]

I think this one was our class song, lol. (sigh)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtYBQXIeLRw[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Chris_ on January 08, 2009, 08:59:32 PM: Too embarrassing -- probably the worst songs ever (1976)
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: ReardenSteel on January 08, 2009, 09:06:20 PM: Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 08, 2009, 08:59:32 PM
Too embarrassing -- probably the worst songs ever (1976)

It's not that bad free. :cheersmate:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmH61C8cmG8[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Chris_ on January 08, 2009, 09:10:47 PM: Quote from: ReardenSteel on January 08, 2009, 09:06:20 PM
It's not that bad free. :cheersmate:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmH61C8cmG8[/youtube]

Oh, that makes everything so much gooder!
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Miss Mia on January 08, 2009, 09:21:57 PM: We had two class songs 1999

Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

[youtube=425,350]s00Kgm-Kjic[/youtube]

Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You

[youtube=425,350]nSz16ngdsG0[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Chris_ on January 08, 2009, 09:23:47 PM: let me put it this way... since almost all music sucked in my year of graduation, our class song was written and sung by a very talented classmate at a senior celebration and graduation. :p
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: NHSparky on January 08, 2009, 09:24:49 PM: Ah, knowing you can STILL pull the hot ones with this song/soundtrack...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2PmmEObVLU[/youtube]

Ah, playing this one going to boot camp after graduation:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8HudfbaTE[/youtube]

And of course, these guys were never the same after this album:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX2CyIH_ebE[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Chris_ on January 08, 2009, 09:34:59 PM: A couple of artists I still listen to and enjoy to this day...

Coldplay "Clocks"

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oc1BtjvvRA[/youtube]

Dido "White Flag"

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMB4xtnFlvo[/youtube]

I only tolerate some pop music if its from the British. :cheersmate:

All other pop from 2003 and other years before and after... yuck.
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Miss Mia on January 08, 2009, 09:37:11 PM: :-)

[youtube=425,350]K27d7Ut5bXo[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Chris_ on January 08, 2009, 09:42:09 PM: I found a website that lists the top 100 songs for different years.

I told you, my year SUCKS! (minus ColdPlay, Dido, 3 Doors Down, and Staind)

2003 Top 100 (and other years) (http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/2003.htm)
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Zeus on January 08, 2009, 09:42:37 PM: [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udjQwjq1Kok[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1aOYr-2KGw[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goHYC6sfS2Q[/youtube]
...
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: ReardenSteel on January 08, 2009, 10:42:14 PM: Found this old pick from my graduation day in '91. (yeah, that's an INXS concert t-shirt) :uhsure:

Grandpa had his 50th H.S. graduation reunion that year and my dad had his 25th.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/woncothesane/gradcake.jpg)

1941 song
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVPGoY[/youtube]

1966 song
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujO8ZalI37A[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: debk on January 08, 2009, 10:50:54 PM: 1970......

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTa8U0Wa0q8[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64_303eHaTM[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Wineslob on January 09, 2009, 10:05:56 AM: Not a song, but........

[youtube=425,350]<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dU7OqGCIcak&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dU7OqGCIcak&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Zeus on January 09, 2009, 10:23:34 AM: [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AK037wMyYQ[/youtube]
Judas Priest "Savage"From the 1978 Album "Stained Class"
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Thor on February 12, 2009, 03:31:04 PM: 1975..... (should have been 1976)

[youtube=425,350]-5lEIdpXSac[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]J-_30HA7rec[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Chris_ on February 12, 2009, 04:06:12 PM: 1989

Fine Young Cannibals
[youtube=425,350]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S_wzi-kTVOI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S_wzi-kTVOI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]

Guns n Roses
[youtube=425,350]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IaCHn5O5C9A&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IaCHn5O5C9A&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]

Tone Loc
[youtube=425,350]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zligio51yP4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zligio51yP4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Zeus on February 12, 2009, 04:12:24 PM: [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtFAeOBdX4[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VI0Qxyf2sQ[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO1XMcuHrGI[/youtube]
....
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: SVPete on December 19, 2009, 02:25:10 PM: Shouldn't have read this thread ... I'm feeling old, even though I'm still me. Don't remember music specific to the year I graduated, 1972. I was into CCR, and an obscure Brit hard rock band, Frijid Pink. Really liked Paul's first solo album, McCartney. Really like Malo's eponymous first album. Our class chose its class song in spring, 1969 - Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild". My avatar pic is of me wearing a t-shirt from a recent decade-of-the-70s reunion; our school colors are orange and white, hence the orange tie-dye; the cartoon wolf is Woodie, the school mascot.
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: ReardenSteel on December 19, 2009, 06:58:21 PM: Quote from: SVPete on December 19, 2009, 02:25:10 PM
Shouldn't have read this thread ... I'm feeling old, even though I'm still me. Don't remember music specific to the year I graduated, 1972. I was into CCR, and an obscure Brit hard rock band, Frijid Pink. Really liked Paul's first solo album, McCartney. Really like Malo's eponymous first album. Our class chose its class song in spring, 1969 - Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild". My avatar pic is of me wearing a t-shirt from a recent decade-of-the-70s reunion; our school colors are orange and white, hence the orange tie-dye; the cartoon wolf is Woodie, the school mascot.

Hey don't knock '72....
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighSddnnaPE[/youtube]

I happen to have been born that year. :uhsure: :tongue:

I put up the Neil Diamond cuz I'm I fan, however I prefer to think of 1972 as the year the whole world was introduced to My Ding-A-Ling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADTJ1W_XKYI&feature=fvw) :-)
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: littlelamb on December 19, 2009, 11:35:18 PM: I graduated in 93 and our song was Boys To Men End Of the Road
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Mike220 on December 21, 2009, 11:49:40 PM: 2002. I don't know any songs from that year that were worth remembering.
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Lord Undies on December 22, 2009, 12:23:20 AM: 1. Joy to the World, Three Dog Night
2. Maggie May/Find a Reason to Believe, Rod Stewart
3. It's Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move, Carole King
4. One Bad Apple, Osmonds
5. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?, Bee Gees
6. Indian Reservation, Raiders
7. Go Away Little Girl, Donny Osmond
8. Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver
9. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me), Temptations
10. Knock Three Times, Dawn
11. Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin
12. Tired of Being Alone, Al Green
13. Want Ads, Honey Cone
14. Smiling Faces Sometimes, Undisputed Truth
15. Treat Her Like a Lady, Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
16. You've Got a Friend, James Taylor
17. Mr. Big Stuff, Jean Knight
18. Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones
19. Do You Know What I Mean, Lee Michaels
20. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Joan Baez
21. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
22. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Paul McCartney
23. Aint No Sunshine, Bill Withers
24. Signs, Five Man Electrical Band
25. She's a Lady, Tom Jones
26. Superstar, Murray Head and The Trinidad Singers
27. I Found Someone Of My Own, Free Movement
28. Amos Moses, Jerry Reed
29. Temptation Eyes, The Grass Roots
30. Superstar, Carpenters
31. All Things Must Pass, George Harrison
32. Sweet and Innocent, Donny Osmond
33. Big Brass Band, Ocean
34. Chick-A-Boom, Daddy Dewdrop
35. For All We Know, Carpenters
36. Help Me Make It Through the Night, Sammi Smith
37. Rainy Days and Mondays, Carpenters
38. If You Could Read My Mind, Gordon Lightfoot
39. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, Cher
40. Never Can Say Goodbye, Jackson 5
41. Rose Garden, Lynn Anderson
42. Don't Pull Your Love, Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds
43. It Don't Come Easy, Ringo Starr
44. Mr. Bojangles, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
45. I Love You for All Seasons, Fuzz
46. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get, Dramatics
47. That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Carly Simon
48. If You Really Love Me, Stevie Wonder
49. Spanish Harlem, Aretha Franklin
50. I Don't Know How to Love Him, Helen Reddy
51. Yo-Yo, Osmonds
52. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Aretha Franklin
53. Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted, Partridge Family
54. Draggin' the Line, Tommy James
55. Proud Mary, Ike and Tina Turner
56. Beginnings/Color My World, Chicago
57. Stay Awhile, Bells
58. Sweet City Woman, Stampeders
59. Me and You and a Dog Named Boo, Lobo
60. Another Day/Oh Woman, Oh Why, Paul McCartney
61. If, Bread
62. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Marvin Gaye
63. One Toke Over The Line, Brewer and Shipley
64. She's Not Just Another Woman, 8th Day
65. Bring the Boys Home, Freda Payne
66. I Just Want to Celebrate, Rare Earth
67. Never Ending Song of Love, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends
68. Easy Loving, Freddy Hart
69. Liar, Three Dog Night
70. Stick-up, Honey Cone
71. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, Mac and Katie Kissoon
72. (Where Do I Begin) Love Story, Andy Williams
73. Wild World, Cat Stevens
74. When You're Hot, You're Hot, Jerry Reed
75. Funky Nassau, Beginning Of The End
76. If Not For You, Olivia Newton-John
77. Groove Me, King Floyd
78. Watching Scotty Grow, Bobby Goldsboro
79. Woodstock, Matthews' Southern Comfort
80. Amazing Grace, Judy Collins
81. I Hear You Knocking, Dave Edmunds
82. Lonely Days, Bee Gees
83. Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again, Fortunes
84. Won't Get Fooled Again, Who
85. Trapped By a Thing Called Love, Denise Lasalle
86. Mama's Pearl, Jackson 5
87. Timothy, Buoys
88. I Woke Up In Love This Morning, Partridge Family
89. Theme from "Shaft", Isaac Hayes
90. If I Were Your Woman, Gladys Knight and The Pips
91. I Am... I Said, Neil Diamond
92. Wedding Song (There Is Love), Paul Stookey
93. Don't Knock My Love, Pt. 1, Wilson Pickett
94. Love Her Madly, The Doors
95. Here Comes the Sun, Richie Havens
96. Sweet Mary, Wadsworth Mansion
97. Right On the Tip of My Tongue, Brenda and The Tabulations
98. One Less Bell to Answer, Fifth Dimension
99. Riders On the Storm, The Doors
100. It's Impossible, Perry Como
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Chris on December 22, 2009, 12:47:04 AM: make it stop... :bawl:

[youtube=425,350]ATIxxkdXwdA[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]q6E4Cs2H-xE[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]OIqMflhH1LY[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: SVPete on December 26, 2009, 12:01:59 PM: Quote
Hey don't knock '72....
Oh, I'm not. I just tend to associate particular songs with what I was doing when I heard the songs rather than particular years. Just don't get me :censored: started :censored: on :banghead: :hammer: KC and the Sunshine Band :hammer: :banghead: ... or :banghead: :hammer: late 70s Bee Gees :hammer: :banghead: .
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Splashdown on December 26, 2009, 12:15:04 PM: Ok. it looks like 1986, the year I graduated, might have been the worst musical year of the 1980s, which is saying a lot. The top song of the year is "That's What Friends Are For," by Dionne Warwick and Friends... :loser:

Eddie Murphy's "Party All the Time" was number 7. :loser:

Here's a great video...

"Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg[/youtube]
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Eupher on December 26, 2009, 12:21:22 PM: No. 79 on the list from 1974:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmIKcP7Nbc[/youtube]

This tune was no doubt made popular by the 1973 movie "The Exorcist."
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Wayne on December 26, 2009, 12:54:16 PM: Okay , have some fun :-) http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1958.htm
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: SVPete on December 26, 2009, 01:12:25 PM: From the 1972 page:

3. American Pie, Don McLean
5. The Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr.
20. Ben, Michael Jackson
28. A Horse With No Name, America
66. Coconut, Nilsson
68. Puppy Love, Donny Osmond
69. You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Jim Croce
70. Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Interesting range, though not as road as Wayne's 1958 list.
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: dandi on December 26, 2009, 06:47:59 PM: [youtube=425,350]drZZ28Kcga0[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]dl9IoIY7ghY[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]ichO7gAeOGE[/youtube]
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Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: SVPete on December 27, 2009, 08:45:32 AM: I'm not a big fan of mid- and late-70s pop music, but Croce was definitely an exception!
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Lord Undies on December 27, 2009, 09:29:24 AM: Quote from: SVPete on December 27, 2009, 08:45:32 AM
I'm not a big fan of mid- and late-70s pop music, but Croce was definitely an exception!

Croce died in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. His time living in the limelight was short and limited to the EARLY 1970's.
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Eupher on December 27, 2009, 09:45:22 AM: Quote from: Lord Undies on December 27, 2009, 09:29:24 AM
Croce died in a plane crash on September 20, 1973. His time living in the limelight was short and limited to the EARLY 1970's.

I'd disagree with that. The tragedy of his plane crash absolutely helped his career after his demise. His stuff kept in the top 100 several years afterwards.

Same thing can be said of many artists who died in plane/car crashes - Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton, and Ricky Nelson (briefly). Each tragedy seems to lend a nostalgic "oomph" to that artist's career, regardless how well received they were during life.
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: thundley4 on December 27, 2009, 09:45:59 AM: Quote from: SVPete on December 27, 2009, 08:45:32 AM
I'm not a big fan of mid- and late-70s pop music, but Croce was definitely an exception!

What about Harry Chapin?
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: Lord Undies on December 27, 2009, 10:05:21 AM: Quote from: Eupher on December 27, 2009, 09:45:22 AM
I'd disagree with that. The tragedy of his plane crash absolutely helped his career after his demise. His stuff kept in the top 100 several years afterwards.

Same thing can be said of many artists who died in plane/car crashes - Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton, and Ricky Nelson (briefly). Each tragedy seems to lend a nostalgic "oomph" to that artist's career, regardless how well received they were during life.

Disagree if you must, but I still insist a performer's death stops their time living in the limelight. Their work may live on and gather more steam, but the person is dead. Time is UP.

:) I know what you mean though.
Title: Re: Songs from the year you graduated High School
Post by: SVPete on December 27, 2009, 10:18:34 AM: I didn't mean to imply that Croce was the sole exception. My tastes tend to be less mellow - I'm listening to Dream Theater right now - but "Cat's in the Cradle" is utterly brilliant - musically good, and lyrically ... words like "truth" and "wisdom" come to mind. It helped shape my role in my kids' upbringing.

Tragic deaths - accidents and stupidity - have had serious influences on pop music by way of what could not happen. What might Buddy Holly done if he had not died so young? Nat King Cole? Jimi? Janis? Cass? Or any number of Big Bands and jazz artists, from Benny Goodman to Charlie Parker?