My middle daughter is graduating high school next week and I was thinking back to when I was a senior and how simpler life was then. It got me to thinking about cruising town with the windows down and music blaring and what kind of stuff I listened to. I actually liked a lot of music from George Strait to the Beach Boys to GNR but if there was 1 album that I probably listened to more than any my senior year it would have been Hysteria by Def Leppard. What about you guys? Is there any 1 album or song that when you hear it you go back to your high school days?
What song or album that takes you back to your senior year of High School?
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Cooleyhighharmony by Boyz II Men was the album I was listening to on repeat for my Junior and Senior years. Hysteria and Use Your Illusion(s) were still in the rotation as were various rap and R&B cassettes.
U2's Joshua Tree dropped a few months before graduation and got huge rotation on MTV and radio. So that comes to mind.
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I loved You give Affection a Bad Moniker, Desired Deceased or Living, and Surving on an Intercession from that album.
1961 Elvis Presley --- Blue Hawaii
High school class of 1977. I was obsessed with music and going to concerts. Back in the mid 70s there was an explosion of live albums from nearly every popular band. Those are the ones that tend to stand out most to me.
Two that I listened to most were Grand Funk “Caught In The Act”, and J Geils Band “Blow Your Face Out”. To a lesser extent Peter Frampton “Frampton Comes Alive”.
Of course there are dozens of other albums that take me back. The first two I ever bought (8-track tape) ZZ Top “Fandango” and Robin Trower “Bridge Of Sighs”. And albums that got tons of airtime on FM radio, like Boston’s first album, and Kansas “Leftoverture”.
Two that I listened to most were Grand Funk “Caught In The Act”, and J Geils Band “Blow Your Face Out”. To a lesser extent Peter Frampton “Frampton Comes Alive”.
Of course there are dozens of other albums that take me back. The first two I ever bought (8-track tape) ZZ Top “Fandango” and Robin Trower “Bridge Of Sighs”. And albums that got tons of airtime on FM radio, like Boston’s first album, and Kansas “Leftoverture”.
Frampton Comes Alive and Saturday Night Fever were both huge during Jr/Sr year of HS. And if I never hear another note from either one the rest of my life, it will be too soon.
'Back in Black' - AC/DC (came out in '80 but was still in heavy rotation the next year when I graduated)
'Tatoo You' - Stones
'October' - U2
Song: 'The Waiting' - TP and the Heartbreakers
'Tatoo You' - Stones
'October' - U2
Song: 'The Waiting' - TP and the Heartbreakers
I graduated in 2001. I was all about:
Incubus - Make Yourself
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Dave Matthews Band - Before these Crowded Streets
And everything Nirvana, despite Kurt offing himself when I was in 5th grade
Incubus - Make Yourself
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Dave Matthews Band - Before these Crowded Streets
And everything Nirvana, despite Kurt offing himself when I was in 5th grade
Juvenile - 400 Degreez
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
I graduated in 1994. Best selling album that year was Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish. Also on the list was Dookie by Green Day and the Nirvana Unplugged Album was huge too.
Mine is pretty fitting...it came out at the start of my Senior year (August 1997)....Graduate by Third Eye Blind.
Other songs/artist take me back to that time, but everytime I hear Graduate it really does...
Other songs/artist take me back to that time, but everytime I hear Graduate it really does...
Lots of them. I played Kansas "Carry on Wayward Son" and did a following drum solo to win the school talent show my senior year. So I guess I'll go with that one for the hell of it.
That’s a great song. I never get tired of it. My kids do, but not me.
True fact: The pic on the album cover was actually one of Eddie’s baby pics (minus the heater and angel wings, of course).
Class of 1984, clearly remember these
Thriller
Jump
Sister Christian
Dancing in the Dark
Edited to include When Doves Cry. That was played non-stop on the radio.
Thriller
Jump
Sister Christian
Dancing in the Dark
Edited to include When Doves Cry. That was played non-stop on the radio.
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Jackson Browne- Running On Empty
Steely Dan- Aja
Steely Dan- Aja
Sugar Sugar #1. Damn I thought music from 1969 was better than that.
Led Zeppelin (LZ 1) and The Who ("Tommy") both released albums in 1969. I am surprised that neither had any song that charted.
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Class of 78:
Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town
Boston-Don't Look Back
Styx-Pieces of Eight
Foreigner-Double Vision
The Cars-First Album
Rolling Stones-Some Girls
Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town
Boston-Don't Look Back
Styx-Pieces of Eight
Foreigner-Double Vision
The Cars-First Album
Rolling Stones-Some Girls
Gaucho: Steely Dan.
Back in Black: AC/DC
Against The Wind: Bob Segar
Back in Black: AC/DC
Against The Wind: Bob Segar
also a UK grad, 1982; college senior year, I know London Calling came out a year or two earlier, but we wore out Train in Vain by The Clash
