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songs that remind you of your high school years

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between 1988-1992 (in no order), and what comes to mind at the moment (i keep remembering more and more):

nine inch nails--head like a hole, down in it B-52s--topaz, love shack mighty lemon drops--at midnight, inside out the ocean blue--drifting, falling nirvana--smells like teen spirit the smiths--bigmouth strikes again, stop me if you think you've heard this one before REM--superman, orange crush, texarkana new order--BLT, subculture, round and round, fine time depeche mode--everything counts, enjoy the silence, halo, black celebration peter murphy--cuts you up rob base and DJ ez rock--it takes two guns 'n' roses--sweet child o' mine, patience heavy d and the boys--now that we've found love bobby brown--don't be cruel, my prerogative digital underground--the humpty dance pearl jam--alive, evenflow happy mondays--step on, hallelujah soup dragons--i'm free the church--under the milky way, reptile the clash--train in vain ned's atomic dustbin--happy, grey cell's green the charlatans--the only one i know the stone roses--she bangs the drums, i wanna be adored, fools gold extreme--more than words kriss kross--jump boyz II men--motownphilly simple minds--real life queen--bohemian rhapsody dead milkmen--bitchin' camaro, punk rock girl pop will eat itself--dance of the mad; wise up, sucker!; touched by the hand of cicciolina front 242--tragedy for you boy meets girl--waiting for a star to fall will to power--baby i love your way when in rome--the promise lightning seeds--pure inspiral carpets--this is how it feels, commercial rain milli vanilli--girl you know it's true siouxsie and the banshees--cities in dust, kiss them for me they might be giants--birdhouse in your soul, don't let's start danielle dax--tomorrow never knows red hot chili peppers--knock me down the theme to twin peaks michael penn--no myth the cure--killing an arab, in between days big audio dynamite--contact james--born of frustration 10,000 maniacs--hey jack kerouac, eat for two LL cool j--around the way girl de la soul--3 is the magic number, jennifa taught me erasure--a little respect electronic--get the message max q--ghost of the year jane's addiction--the mountain song, jane says sonic youth--kool thing throwing muses--counting backwards the sundays--here's where the story ends public enemy--fight the power, 911 is a joke ian mcculloch--proud to fall cocteau twins--heaven or las vegas, iceblink luck midnight oil--the dead heart, blue sky mining joy division--LWTUA snap--the power technotronic--pump up the jam c&c music factory--everybody dance now

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Pulp- All of Different Class but esp. Common people, Disco 2000, and Misshapes.

The Early Oasis stuff.

My last uear of high school i listened to nothing but REM, Automatic For the People, Up (which was relased halfway through my 5th year), Green and Document.

and of course Substance.

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my word agent. that is an impressive list.

for me it is nothing quite so specific. I can just put on any 80s compiation and i'm there. sountracks like pretty in in pink and the wedding singer are also good.

then there' of course New Order the smiths siouxsie and the banshees etc

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Strangely enough, this pair circa 1981 -1982

:laugh:

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Eventhough I was in high school from 1998 to 2002, most of the music I listened to wasn't released then. Smashing Pumpkins - most of their output, but especially Machina 1 and 2. I remember when a friend and I were 16 and went to meet SP at a signing. A local radio station had Machina 1 playing. A friend and I also skipped school to see them live. Then a few months later, a friend from school made me a copy of the Machina 2 album and I copied it and other SP bootlegs onto tape and spread them around before Napster became popular. The Cure - Bloodflowers, Disintegration, Show, Pornography. I really got into the Cure in high school and would often listen to them when I had a bad day at school, which was quite often. New Order - Crystal, Perfect Kiss, Round and Round, BLT. A guy and I did service learning together and in the office we worked in, we'd play music. He'd play some metal other than Metallica for me to listen to and I'd play him some NO. He seemed to get into the basslines. Three doors Down - Kryptonite. It's a crap song, but a girl I liked and I cut school once and went to the record store near our school. This song was playing in there as she looked for their album. Nelly, Hot in Herre, anything by Eminem,and Sisqo - The thong song. I just have bad memories of these over played songs.

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80-85

New Order - Blue Monday Smiths - This Charming Man Associates - Party Fears Two & Club Country Spear Of Destiny - Liberator Kraftwerk - The Model & Tour De France Jam - A Town Called Malice Specials - Ghost Town Psychedelic Furs - Heaven The Cure - The Walk Killing Joke - Love Like Blood Bauhaus - She's In Parties Big Country - Chance The Clash - Rock The Casbah Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter Icicle Works - Love Is A Wonderful Colour PIL - This Is Not A Love Song Soft Cell - Tainted Love Lotus Eaters - First Picture Of You Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime Visage - Fade To Grey Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (played at every school disco)

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You don't want to know. Or I don't want to tell you. :shrug:

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Comrade Shampanyov wrote: You don't want to know. Or I don't want to tell you. :shrug:

earth wind and fire?

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Ronald Kirsch wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: You don't want to know. Or I don't want to tell you. :shrug:

earth wind and fire?

:rofl:

Zing! And we have a winner!

OK, without much thought, here's what immediately comes to mind:

Music I listened too: The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers The Beatles, Abbey Road Santana, Santana, Abraxas Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Deja Vu Creedence Clearwater Revival, Green River Canned Heat, Boogie With Canned Heat Cream, Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, Wheels of Fire, Goodbye, Live & Live Volume II. Cream was the one band that I listened to every single day and night throughout high school. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II Black Sabbath, Paranoid

Music I loathed: Earth, Wind and Fire War Cold Blood Barry fuckin' Manilow Neil fuckin' Sedaka Terry fuckin' Jacks The Crapenters

Music I loathed then but grew to appreciate: War

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first part sounded exactly like Dazed And Confused, the rest was Ramones, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Clash, Buzzcocks, Damned, Stranglers.

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Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

Music I loathed: Earth, Wind and Fire

you cannot appreciate one of the greatest funk bands of the '70s. bastard.

how did you play your music? had the victrola been invented yet?

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Wax cylinders.

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Comrade Shampanyov wrote: Wax cylinders.

good format.

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AgentWood wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: Wax cylinders.

good format.

yeh isn't that going to be utilised for one of the upcoming new order releases?

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Johnny wrote: Strangely enough, this pair circa 1981 -1982

:laugh:

Why the :laugh:?! I had Hand Held in Black and White by them...!

Only three songs conjure up my school days: Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star Vapors - News at Ten Elton John - Song for Guy

Good music only started after i left school you see.. :shrug:

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94-98

New Order - Republic / The Other Two (OT & You)/Monaco - Music for Pleasure

10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days 4 Non Blondes - What's Going On The PSB releasing Very/Relentless, by which Relentless became my most spun "party" disc

Big Audio Dynamite - Rush Blur's Girls and Boys & End of a Century Pulp. Lots of Pulp. Crowded House - Distant Sun Inspiral Carpets - Two Worlds Collide James 'Laid' Pixies/Frank Black/etc Semisonic - Closing Time Belle & Sebastian - Electronic Renaissance The Beloved - Hello Stone Roses - Love Spreads Sneaker Pimps/ Trip Hop/ Whathaveyou.

That Means to an End disc, Trainspotting & Hackers soundtrack.. any and all trance I got my hands on.

And a lot of weird industrial/ebm/german new wave. I just had a variable taste thing going on.

(edit - my brother is agentwood's age, so basically tack hers onto my list as well, because he was my greatest influence. :P )

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melly wrote: (edit - my brother is agentwood's age, so basically tack hers onto my list as well, because he was my greatest influence. :P )

are you implying that i'm old, melly? ;)

and i forgot about 10,000 maniacs. i listened to in my tribe quite a bit after it first came out when i was in junior high. same with blind man's zoo when i was in high school.

and also big audio dynamite's megatop phoenix album. especially contact.

oh, and james--born of frustration. definitely reminds me of high school.

gotta add those to my list.

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AgentWood wrote:

are you implying that i'm old, melly? ;)

:abovelol: Hardly old. :D Though, I admit, I have to wonder how time started speeding up so fast, feels like just the other day I was hearing about River Pheonix dying at the Viper Room and running out to go to see Soundgarden play at a local club. I sure didn't envision myself doing this at this age, that's for sure. :P

(For one, I didn't know computers would ever get this fast. :laugh: )

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time stops for nobody. enough of the philosophical crap. i know i'm really only 18 years old.

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A great thread.

  1. NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit
  2. ERASURE - I Love To Hate You
  3. DR ALBAN - It's My Life
  4. SNAP - Rhythm Is A Dancer
  5. MEAT LOAF - ...
  6. PET SHOP BOYS - So Hard / Go West
  7. BOY GEORGE - Hare Krishna or something like that
  8. REAL MCCOY - ... :(

Plus I was into the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Jones. Only in my last high school year I discovered the Velvet Underground (they trasmitted on the radio the entire 1966 album and I taped it); then I heard the Sex Pistols (it was a total music shock to me) and Nick Cave, then Billy Brag and finally I bought a Joy Division LP, without even having heard of that band before. A woman who sold the LP (Closer) on the street told me there was a guy from the Doors on that record and that was the only reason I bought it. :)

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:clap: Ron's got the right idea. Only you're better than the average 18 year old male. You're not obnoxious, for one. You've got a really good music collection, for two. And you're intelligent. :D

18 year old males oughta aspire to be like Ronald!

(Actually, 18 year old males could take a page out of any male NOOL's book, really, because they'd be better for it in the end.)

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melly wrote: :clap: Ron's got the right idea. Only you're better than the average 18 year old male. You're not obnoxious, for one. You've got a really good music collection, for two. And you're intelligent. :D

18 year old males oughta aspire to be like Ronald!

(Actually, 18 year old males could take a page out of any male NOOL's book, really, because they'd be better for it in the end.)

thanks melly. yes and being a new order fans makes us infinitely better in the eyes of the female noolers. for one you don't have to explain who this quaint english band is, with which you seem to have some sort of strange obsession.

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I only was listening uk radio and watching english channel's like super channel and sky channel ! I discovered many bands from there, I was watching every day a show called "the Nino Firetto show" (if my memory isn't poor) ! Iloved New Order of course but many english pop songs, I rememberd bands like "fairground attraction" or "deacon blue" ! I met Ricky few years ago now, nice personn ! And I discovered the amazing band of New Order with Bizarre Love triangle in a dance club there I spent a lot of time every week-end !

Can not detail allthe songs, too many, too many souvenirs:)

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melly wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

are you implying that i'm old, melly? ;)

:abovelol: Hardly old. :D Though, I admit, I have to wonder how time started speeding up so fast, feels like just the other day I was hearing about River Pheonix dying at the Viper Room and running out to go to see Soundgarden play at a local club.

this happened during my sophomore year at university. only instead of running out to a soundgarden show i went to the vault, the S&M club featured in madonna's 'sex' book. i was there purely out of curiosity, however. both times. ;)

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What are high school years translated to the german school system? :confused2:

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The stand out ones are:

World In Motion - Englandneworder Everybody in the place - Prodigy Teardrops - Womack And Womack 3AM Eternal - KLF Im Free - Soup Dragons Killer - Adamski Toms Diner - Suzanne Vega Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance Wont talk about it and Dub be good to me - Beats International Sit Down - James

Anything by Pet Shop Boys

Most of the shit that Stock, Aitken and Waterman churned out in the late 80s (the thread title doesnt stipulate liking the music)

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Bere wrote: What are high school years translated to the german school system? :confused2:

Do you mean age? Or years in school?

Age is 14-17 (approximately), years in school are 9th through 12th. I think the German equivalent of high school is gymnasium, or whatever you call it.

I forgot to put it in my post like other NOOLers did, but I was in high school from 1969-1973.

:faint:

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AgentWood wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

Music I loathed: Earth, Wind and Fire

you cannot appreciate one of the greatest funk bands of the '70s. bastard.

Stop the presses! A kid who was blasting Black Sabbath on his phonograph wasn't into '70s funk? What are the odds?

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Comrade Shampanyov wrote: I was in high school from 1969-1973.

:eek:

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I know.

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