I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need. I love you more with every breath, truly madly deeply do I will be strong, I will be faithful 'cause I'm counting on a new beginning. A reason for living. A deeper meaning. I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me
There was this song when I was a senior in high school that had some lyrics that were occasionally misheard as, "and I would beat off a guy, I would beat off a guy". Not necessarily my absolute favorite but there have been some good remixes of it over the last two decades. lol.
I get you! Over the summer I listened to the R U TALKIN’ REM RE:ME podcast and it’s crazy how unintelligible the lyrics were on their early albums...still the best of the lot, though, imo.
+1 to Boo. Anyhow Pennsylvania 6-5000 was the real phone number of the hotel that is directly across the street from Madison Square Garden and i think was called the Pennsylvanian hotel in 1940 when the song was written by Glenn Miller. I knew it and stayed in it on bad nights as the Statler Hilton and I have no idea what it is now, but I'm certain its still there, remodeled.
High school was four years, how could I have just one favorite song?
Maybe it was something like Girl You Want by Devo or This Wreckage by Gary Numan. There was so much good and innovative movie back then.
I also discovered David Bowie in those year, pre-Let's Dance and I owuld play the heck out of any David Bowie album I could get my hands on, most of which didn't come out when I was in high school, so far as I'm aware. Our library had a copy of The Man Who Sold The World and this double album, (was it?) of a bunch of novelty songs Bowie recorded before becoming Bowie, stuff like The Laughing Gnome, Tony Day, and those other pre-Bowie songs, had a really cool cartoon cover.
Anyway, there cannot just be one favorite from that era.
I graduated in 1985 and became a club DJ. In high school I was deep into Blondie, Culture Club, Duran Duran, and the Police. Amongst many, many others, but two songs stick out for me and that would be "Heart of Glass" by Blondie and "Save a Prayer" by Duran Duran.
Nothing beats laying around naked in front of the fireplace. Until the manager at Cracker Barrel comes over and says you’re causing a scene
ReplyDeleteHahah a trick question from Enty who wants to measure the demographics of his readership.
ReplyDeleteThin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town" (graduated 1976)
ReplyDeleteTo make it easy. I graduated in 94.
ReplyDeleteI'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy.
ReplyDeleteI'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need.
I love you more with every breath, truly madly deeply do
I will be strong, I will be faithful 'cause I'm counting on a new beginning.
A reason for living. A deeper meaning.
I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me
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ReplyDelete'Jessica' by The Allman Brothers. It was released long before I was in high school.
ReplyDeletework it by missy elliott came out my freshman year of HS and it has haunted me since
ReplyDeletein a good way
Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven
ReplyDeleterhianna composed my college years tho.
ReplyDeleteOmg, I can't remember. I've blocked out a lot of my teen years. I liked something different every year.
ReplyDeleteFox on the Run of course.
ReplyDelete"Disarm" by Smashing Pumpkins comes to mind. But you're asking an awful lot to narrow it down to one.
ReplyDeleteI graduated in 2010.
ReplyDeletePennsylvania 6-5000👆
ReplyDeleteAnything by Heart. I was obsessed with the Wilson sisters all through my high school days.
ReplyDeleteThere was this song when I was a senior in high school that had some lyrics that were occasionally misheard as, "and I would beat off a guy, I would beat off a guy". Not necessarily my absolute favorite but there have been some good remixes of it over the last two decades. lol.
ReplyDeleteBaby come back
ReplyDeleteSailing
Ohhh we
I love Baby Come Back/Player.
DeleteOkay it everyday.
Mine is probably “perfect kiss/new order” and Avalon/Roxy Music
Impossible,but a good memory is putting "All the Young Dudes"on the school cafeteria record player and seeing the reaction.
ReplyDeleteHa, or better question, how old are you?
ReplyDeleteWay too many to choose! ‘71-‘75. It changed constantly depending on what I was drinking and drugging.
ReplyDeleteWonderwall by Oasis
ReplyDeleteFantasy w/ODB and Mariah
No particular song, just put any sublime CD on and press play.
ReplyDeleteDoug E Fresh and the get fresh crew - 'The Show'
ReplyDeleteIt would have been an Oasis song, but I changed my mind about my favorite every week. Maybe Supersonic held first place most often?
ReplyDeleteSurrender by Cheap Trick and Slide by Slave
ReplyDeleteI Want You to Want Me by Cheap Trick or Total Eclipse of the Heart cuz I wasn't into 2000s pop but was clearly still an emotional teen lol
ReplyDeleteThis should prove that I am the oldest CDAN Poster on this site!
ReplyDelete“Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” (1970)
I hated High School. But, I was in from 1970 to 1974.
And during that time, I thought "Baba O'Riley" by The Who was about being in high school.
(I know, I was such a dumb-ass!)
Nice try ;)
ReplyDeleteSo. Central Rain - REM
ReplyDeleteAwesome choice, Dena— SCR is my favorite REM song by far. My high school choice was “Everybody Hurts” ... because adolescence. 😂
DeleteI get you! Over the summer I listened to the R U TALKIN’ REM RE:ME podcast and it’s crazy how unintelligible the lyrics were on their early albums...still the best of the lot, though, imo.
DeleteBeast of Burden - Stones
ReplyDeleteDarkness On The Edge Of Town- B.Springsteen
ReplyDeleteAnything Guns n Roses or AC DC
ReplyDeleteNo, Dave, I'm the oldest poster (unless Sandybrook isn't kidding about Pennsylvania 6-500).
ReplyDeleteHere's your proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQyB5buEV5s
I think Boo has us all beat Jim.
ReplyDelete+1 to Boo. Anyhow Pennsylvania 6-5000 was the real phone number of the hotel that is directly across the street from Madison Square Garden and i think was called the Pennsylvanian hotel in 1940 when the song was written by Glenn Miller. I knew it and stayed in it on bad nights as the Statler Hilton and I have no idea what it is now, but I'm certain its still there, remodeled.
ReplyDeleteYes ... still there.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a go to for locals who don’t want to get ona train or want to party pre/post concert (MSG)
Prisoner of Society by The Living End.
ReplyDeleteMan, I loved those guys. Still do. Their live shows are always gold.
+1 Tricia
ReplyDeleteI tried out for Jeopardy there once. I passed but they never called . Too ugly for television, I assume.
Like I said I stayed in it on bad nights😢
ReplyDeleteSoo hard to choose .
ReplyDeleteI suppose my top 2-3 would be
Billy Joel -Just the Way You Are;÷
Bee Gees- How Deep is Your Love (or Nights On Broadway)
I don't remember much about high school, but I know for a fact I never had a favourite song. Work with THAT, Enty.
ReplyDeleteThe Cult - Edie
ReplyDeleteAimee by Pure Prairie League. Loved a girl named Cindy but Aimee was my favorite song.
ReplyDeleteBrightside
ReplyDeleteLil PEEP
(RIP Gus!)
To Be With You by Mr. Big
ReplyDeleteGimme Shelter - always.
ReplyDeleteFox on the Run is pretty great btw. I had them play it at a recent HS reunion and we danced our asses off to it.
She’s got that Vibe by R Kelly. It plays and my friends from high school still say ‘this is Susie’s song!’
ReplyDeleteSmells like teen spirit
ReplyDelete"That's the way Love is..." Marvin Gaye, 1969
ReplyDeleteNo More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper.
ReplyDeleteHigh school was four years, how could I have just one favorite song?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was something like Girl You Want by Devo or This Wreckage by Gary Numan. There was so much good and innovative movie back then.
I also discovered David Bowie in those year, pre-Let's Dance and I owuld play the heck out of any David Bowie album I could get my hands on, most of which didn't come out when I was in high school, so far as I'm aware. Our library had a copy of The Man Who Sold The World and this double album, (was it?) of a bunch of novelty songs Bowie recorded before becoming Bowie, stuff like The Laughing Gnome, Tony Day, and those other pre-Bowie songs, had a really cool cartoon cover.
Anyway, there cannot just be one favorite from that era.
I graduated in 1985 and became a club DJ. In high school I was deep into Blondie, Culture Club, Duran Duran, and the Police. Amongst many, many others, but two songs stick out for me and that would be "Heart of Glass" by Blondie and "Save a Prayer" by Duran Duran.
ReplyDeleteAh, those were the days, the best in music.
Hey Jealousy by Gin Blossoms
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