songs that remind you of your high school years

Same age as the band.

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

Now that I think about it, when I bought my first car (in 1973), I installed an 8 track tape deck in it. You ever see one of those? A tape cartridge with 4 "sides." When you get to the end of track one, it switches to track two, even in the middle of a song, if the song extends beyond track one. So you're listening to some 11 minute guitar solo on track one (pre-punk era, after all), and at 8 minutes thirty seconds, the 8 track runs out of tape, so the song stops, the machine switches to track two, and the song picks up again where it left off. All very high tech, I can assure you.

Same from track two to track three, and track three to track four. It didn't always cut off songs-- only if the song extended beyond the length of the tape on that track.

Anyway, the 8 track was eventually replaced by the very high tech cassette tape.

Christ, I've become a geezer... "When I was a lad..."

1983-1988 my highschool time I was listenig to almost everything from 4AD. Geezus, has anyone time machine, I want to go back

Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me Mousse T - Horny New Radicals - You Get What You Give The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun Black Sabbath AC/DC Led Zeppelin Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out The Rolling Stones Nirvana Foo Fighters RHCP QOTSA Velvet Underground - First album Lou Reed - Transformer

In 2004, I listened to Guns N Roses non stop.

Early REM

Early Billy Idol

Early New Order

Joy Division

The Chameleons.

Oh songs? You figure...

1993-1997

"Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows (yeech!)

"Buddy Holly" - Weezer

"When I Come Around" - Green Day

"The Sign" - Ace of Base (double yeech!)

"Kryptonite" - Spin Docters

That's alll I got right now

Surely you mean "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" by the Spin Doctors, instead of the excellent "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down?

80-84

The Police The Cars The Doors The New York Dolls Adam and the Ants AC/DC Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd

I pretty much dropped all this shit within the first semester of college.

jesus. i totally forgot the most important song of my high school years: around the way girl by LL cool j.

what is weird is that the AOR rock radio station that i listened to when i was in junior high and high school still plays THE SAME EXACT MUSIC now! ... with less variety!

even thou i like some of the songs i can't stand to listen... it just seems so pathetic, so stagnant, i find it repulsive. i am so abnormal i guess

transvision vamp - i want your love.

Taboo # 7 wrote: 1993-1997

"Kryptonite" - Spin Docters

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Spin Doctors were pretty crap. So were Crash Test dummies. I was either in elementary or middle school, but the kids on the school bus always asked me to sing that damn Crash Test Dummies song. I hated it.

This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:

Taboo # 7 wrote: 1993-1997

"Kryptonite" - Spin Docters

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Spin Doctors were pretty crap. So were Crash Test dummies. I was either in elementary or middle school, but the kids on the school bus always asked me to sing that damn Crash Test Dummies song. I hated it.

:laughs:

We tortured our middle school orchestra conductor with our renditions of that Mmmm Mmmm song and the Juliana Hatfield Three song "My Sister".

i heard that on the radio last week. I hate my sister she's such a bitch.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin: Grey Cells Green Bad Brains: I Against I The Cure: KMKMKM/The Head On The Door/Lament Any Inspiral Carpets/Happy Mondays PJ Harvey: Dry and just about everything else on Agent;s list. I was looking for a mix tape my best friend made me in high school but couldn't find it anywhere.

Tanita Tikaram

John Sludden wrote: 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)

Same years & similar song memories for me John. Lasting memory tho' is going to a few 'debs' in '85 & having to dance to Colonel Abrahams - Trapped, at least twice each night

Milli Vanilli - Blameit on the rain New Order - Bizarrelove triangle KonKan - Harry Houdini Mike and the Mechanics - All i need is a miracle

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

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

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.

Ah thx... Hmm... That was about 1985-1990 then...

Simple Minds "Don't you forget about me" Peter Gabriel's "So"-Album Genesis "Invisible Touch" (album) New Order "True Faith" Van Halen "Why can't this be love" Sting's "Nothing like the sun"-album The Christians "Forgotten Town" Erasure "Sometimes" FGTH "Rage Hard" Mike & The Mechanics "Silent Running" & "All I need is a miracle" and of course the first Pet Shop Boys-album . . .

had to add a few as my memory comes back.

i said Dollar because the name of the thread was what songs "remind" you of school and i had to be honest and say they simply are the group that reminds me! I never bought their stuff ,Honestly! I really didn't get seriously into music til the last year of school when i first heard Power Corruption And Lies .Even that album doesn't remind me of school.Just all those early 80s new wave bands and crap like Adam And The Ants bring back memories of tatty text books,trying to avoid homework and ill fitting blazers

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

Same question for the French system. I think these are Gymnasium years as collège and lycée by us.

Last time I had a haircut the radio played always the sun by the Sranglers and that reminded me this time...

In most(not all, private systems and different states have seperate systems) American terms, high school is your period in school from the 9th to 12th year up to graduation from the primary system.

Bullshit other people were listening to in HS: Usher & Lil' Jon - Yeah (this was actually pretty catchy) Missy Elliot - Get Your Freak On Maroon 5 - Their massive breakthrough single that had the naked girl all over the video The Strokes - Someday (around the very end, say, graduation week) The Killers - Somebody Told Me The Faint - forgot the names

Bullshit I was listening to: New Order - Blue Monday, Ceremony Depeche Mode - Black Celebration, World in My Eyes Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain Joy Divsion - New Dawn Fades Japan - Burning Bridges, Ghosts BRMC - Six-Barrel Shotgun No I wasn't a goth, I was just disenfranchised.

Incidentally, during graduation practice, music was required and someone elected a copy of Violator. What a lark. I forgot what they played at the actual ceremony, but I have a feeling it was Don't You Forget About Me.

Besides NO/JD... (early-mid 90s) Felt New Model Army Therapy? Neds Stone Roses anything on Sarah Records, especially the Orchids, Field Mice, Even As We Speak, Brighter... Cocteau Twins Pavement Durutti Column REM Blur Boo Radleys Wildhearts

Snorri xxx

More music from 1969-1973:

The Who, Live at Leeds, Who's Next Mott The Hoople, Mott West Bruce & Laing, Whatever Turns You On John Entwistle, Smash Your Head Against The Wall Deep Purple, Machinehead Jethro Tull, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Thick As A Brick

let's start with low-life, brotherhood and technique...

AgentWood wrote: 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

We share the same high school years and your list is giving me horrible flashbacks. Make it stop!

any of that crap by Dire Straits

year 7 = Age 11 ior 12

to year 12 = Age 16 or 17

(at least it was in my high school)

(dropouts in between)