Let's peel scabs! What was your graduating class's theme song?

[tuvor]

Mine: Best of Times by Styx, 1982.

There. I said it, and I'm trying not to be ashamed.

[u4ic]

1. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

2. I will survive

This was 1995, mind...

[yvr girl]

3. It's on the tip of my tongue but I can't name it

It was really dumb though.

[TrogL]

4. Dunno - nobody to go with

You WOULD have to bring taht u p, wouldn't you. You know it upsets me but you keep bringing it up like it's fresh news and it's not. I didn't have anybody to go wtih because nobody liked me and I didn't have a girlfriend (even a fake one) and in that era if I'd brought a boyfriend I'd have been lynched.

I tried going solo to a dance-a-thon and got yelled at.

Why did you have to bring that upa gain?

I hate you

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[tuvor]

5. Ah feel yer pain.

Got set up with my best friend's sister, paid for tickets and everything, and she stood me up at the last minute.

Feel any better? :)

[ThomCat]

37. :(

:grouphug:

[Lady Effingbroke]

6. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. 'School's Out' — Alice Cooper

That was EVerybody's in the early '70s.

[Archae]

8. Come Sail Away by Styx.

2nd verse.

I hated it. Still do. (1978)

[njdemocrat106]

9. "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan - 1999

We actually had a choice between (off the top of my head and probably missing a couple or so):

"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day
"When I See You Smile" by Bad English
"1999" by Prince
"Now and Forever" by Carole King

[Hissyspit]

10. Kool & The Gang "Ladies Night" or "Too Hot," I can't quite remember

which. "Celebration" didn't come out until later in the year.

[Scurrilous]

11. "We Shall Never Pass This Way Again"

...by Seals & Crofts. :thumbsdown:

I've passed by my old High School hundreds of times since graduation.

G****** lying f****** song!

[Patiod]

31. should NOT have played at DFW w/all the troops moving thru

It was my class song, too (go class of 1978), and I love it, but I noticed it playing on the Muzak in the airport, and I thought "I'm glad these kids have no idea what that song is, because it's not one I'd want to hear on my way to Iraq...

[tigereye]

44. me too!

very sappy. But I kind of liked it. Probably because I didn't have to pass that way again! :D

[deadparrot]

12. I just graduated last year...

:blush:

Ours was "For Good," from the Wicked soundtrack.

[leftofthedial]

13. we voted and chose "Imagine"

the school board vetoed it and substituted "We've Only Just Begun"

a few of us in choir and band were to perform "We've Only Just Begun" at graduation

instead, we played Imagine. they threatened to rescind our diplomas

[Orsino]

14. "Tomorrow" (1980)

Yes, the song from Annie.

[Fox Mulder]

15. Good Riddance (Time of your Life) by Green Day

2000.

Man...I'm gettin' old...

[supernova]

16. The Long and Winding Road 1980

Yes, arguably Paul's sappiest number. :P Well, it was either that or Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall". Ah, the town elders wouldn't hear of that! :P But it was on the ballot and we could vote for it! :-)

[Bridget Burke]

17. Class of 1966: "Try to Remember"

I voted for "Eve of Destruction"

[TheCentepedeShoes]

57. '66, too

Climb Every Mountain from Sound of Music. :eyes: I like your idea better.

[dolo amber]

18. Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

Class of '85. B-)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

19. "Time of Your Life" -Green Day, 1998

[mikeytherat]

20. Theme from Mahogany, and I graduated in '85 from an all-white school

It was kinda surreal. Especially since "You've got Another Thing Coming" by Judas Priest was the song with the most votes (by a huge margin), but the school would not allow us to use it as our theme song. I have no idea how Theme from Mahogany was chosen (no one would say).

mikey_the_rat

[supernova]

22. You just might get the Most Surreal vote.

Wow! :wtf:

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. My brother's class had that as their theme song in '84 as well.

:hi:

[PassingFair]

41. We had the Mahogany theme in 77...

but I voted a write-in for Zippadeedodaa!

[BulletproofLandshark]

21. "A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker

Class of '94. We voted for the Beatles' version, but they wouldn't let us use it because of the "I get high with a little help from my friends" line.

[LaraMN]

23. Nine Inch Nails, "Closer."

I'm not kidding. They voted on it, and it says so, in the yearbook.:rofl: It's our ten-year reunion this summer- should be fun.

[noonwitch]

24. Mine was the same as yours, in 1982.

My brother graduated in 1981, and their theme was REO Speedwagon's "Time For Me To Fly".

[LostinVA]

25. Our prom's theme/song" "Open Arms" (Journey)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

56. LOL!

:rofl:

[kick-ass-bob]

26. Imagine, John Lennon.

1991.

[madmom]

51. Hey same here but ...1972

[taterguy]

27. Kill the Poor by the Dead Kennedys

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. 1988:INXS: Dont' Change....Needless to say, I have.

For the better. ;)

[azmouse]

30. Memories by Barbra Streisand

I graduated in 1979. One of the happiest days of my life. I hated high school.

[Magrittes Pipe]

32. Life Is a Highway

:cry:

[Tikki]

33. A High School Graduation Song classic:

The Animals...."We Got To Get Out Of This Place"....Class of 1966






Tikki

[Left Is Write]

34. We did not have one of which I'm aware.

But I graduated in 1984, so pick one.

[Z_I_Peevey]

35. Black Water

by the Doobies.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

55. Fucking. Awesome. Song.

:thumbsup:

:D :D

[asthmaticeog]

36. I have no idea, I was a dropout.

My G.E.D. theme song, however, was "Killing for Jesus" by the Circle Jerks, as I was listening to "Wonderful" in the car on my way to the test.

[tigereye]

45. huh

I would have thought you were afraid to go in your glam duds!

j/k

[graywarrior]

38. Fuck if I know.

I never went to those things.

[Cats Against Frist]

39. I believe it was that Boyz II Men acapella song -- 1992

"And I'll taaaaaaake with me the memoriiiiiiies, to be my su-unshine, after the rai-ai-ai-ai-oo-aa-aiiiiiiiii-ai-ai-ai-ai-hain...."

Can't remember the title, but the next line is "It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday," so maybe that was the title.

Wasn't hard to say good-bye, though. Good riddance to that uptight, racist, snooty-ass little motherfuckin' town.

[Blue_In_AK]

40. It's was long, long ago

and far away, but I believe it was "Moon River."

[Arugula Latte]

42. "Against All Odds"

Phil Collins :puke: However, a very fitting title for that particular class of '84.

[last_texas_dem]

43. "What song is it you wanna hear?"

Despite graduating twenty-seven years after its release, my class chose "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd as the class song. Now I actually like that song and Skynyrd, and listen to more sixties and seventies music than modern, but it still annoyed me that that was the class song; I wished we could have had something from around the time we were actually graduating. I think the "cowboys" at my school all got together and discussed beforehand that they were to vote for this one, and everybody else split among several others so the cowboys won out. Maybe it just irks me so much because now when I hear that song I involuntarily start thinking about the kids I graduated with...

[Pithlet]

46. "Hold On to the Night" by Richard Marx. Class of '90 n/t

[Penndems]

47. We didn't have a theme song that I remember

I DO remember that the Number One song when I graduated in 1973 was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree", by Tony Orlando and Dawn.

Heard it enough times to get sick of it in a VERY short period of time.

[realisticphish]

48. "Here's to the night" by Eve 6

i fucking HATE that song. Everyone got guilt-tripped into it because a guy in our class got killed driving drunk; it's what he wanted as our song, so its what everyone voted for (except me and a few other people)

[last_texas_dem]

49. That one *was* bad

I remember it came out the same year that I graduated, too. It was one of those where I wondered if the group wrote it with the idea that it would end up being used by hundreds of graduating classes as a "class song" and thus would have a much longer shelf life than it deserved. I think it's definitely possible.

I think it was also on the ballot for my class. I guess I should be proud of "Free Bird"...!

[SpeedwayDemocrat]

50. Wasted on the way by CS&N

O.K., so it was "Time, we have wasted on the way..." but, hey it was 1983...

[ZombieNixon]

52. Our class song was actually an original piece written by a friend

Not a bad song, too, considering that my choice of NOFX's "Drugs Are Good" was unlikely to be chosen. :)

[mac56]

53. We didn't officially select one.

But the unofficial one had to be "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band.

[Mother Jones]

54. "Don't you forget about me"

...I think that was the Simple Minds(?) song...from the class of 1986.


Ironic, as all I wanted to do after graduating was forget the nightmare that was high school.

[Dave Reynolds]

58. Mine too, same shit same year.

I was VERY ashamed.

[no name no slogan]

59. "Never Say Goodbye" by Bon Jovi, 1987

:puke:

[Feron]

60. The Cheers theme song:

"Where Everybody Knows Your Name". The song was appropriate for more than one reason. LOL

This was in '96.

[philosophie_en_rose]

61. Ordinary World by Duran Duran

The song was definitely not put out in our year, though. But a depressing seven-year-old song was clearly appropriate for graduation. :eyes:

[xmas74]

62. That one Garth Brooks song.

I don't know what it's called. I do know it was not the beer-drinking song.

[last_texas_dem]

63. "The Dance" I bet

If the chorus went:

"And I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could've missed the pain
But I'd've had to miss
The dance."

I'm just figuring that one 'cause it just sort of sounds like a class song. I've always liked it quite a bit. He also has one called "The River" that might have worked, but I figure "The Dance" is more likely...

[xmas74]

69. That sounds right.

I graduated in the early 90's.

[enigmatic]

64. Their Theme Song: "Comes A Time"- Neil Young

My Own Private Theme Song: "Final Solution"- Pere Ubu:)

[shanine]

65. just spent 2 hours searching. . Exodus

not a productive morning, but it was driving me nuts cuz I couldn't remember . . 1973

[hopein08]

66. "Graduation" by Vitamin C (2000)

Real original, huh?

I had a lame high school that ran out of paper in my senior year and had milk at lunch in plastic bags.

[SmileyBoy]

67. "Learn To Fly" by the Foo Fighters - Class of 2001

[Puglover]

68. "Let It Be"

1972