Whether it was playing in your headphones between classes, blasting in your best friend's car, or ringing out under the Friday night lights, share the soundtrack of your high school years.
JASCI319 shared theirsSee their picks and read the stories behind them.
Trying to pick the songs for this REALLY brought me back. First off I can 100% remember buying Kings of Leon’s Aha Shake Heartbreak at a Target in New Jersey. I played that cd NONSTOP and it’s still one of my favorite records. Graduation era Kanye was at the peak of his powers but still a rising star. I remember seeing him at a clothing store downtown and being completely star struck. There was an earlier version of Homecoming with a different vocal on the chorus - maybe John Mayer? I always preferred that version but it was never released. Killers and Strokes were on constant rotation and Amy!? She was a lightening bolt. I can’t remember when I first heard her but it must have been on MTV. There was no one like her for us then and still isn’t. I took the music for granted. What an INCREDIBLE era, 2005-2009.
"Freedom" by George Michael was the first solo I ever sang. I was 16, and sports had been my whole life until I got cut from the basketball team. I needed a new community, and I found it in choir. A few months in, I tried out for the "Freedom" solo, never expecting to get it. I did, and I sang it at our 90s-themed Pops Concert with my mom and dad in the audience. My dad was an athlete his whole life and had never been into performing or the arts, so I didn't know what he'd think. After the show, he hugged me and told me how proud he was. I'll always remember that moment, and it's a big reason I've kept singing and making music since.
Tainted Love always makes me think about a girl I was really in to in 11th and 12th grade. She didn’t really share my feelings then, but we’ve been close friends forever, so, ultimately, we lived happily ever after. Some things aren’t meant to be…the way you initially envision them.
The first time i heard stevie rays guitar, i was in high school. Theres something about his way of playing the guitar that makes music feel like time travel
Wow, that was fun. While I listened to a lot of older "classic rock" in high school (The Doors, Rolling Stones, etc.), these five songs felt like they defined that period of time and were always on the radio.
Jam on It is the outlier of my five tracks -- early rap that I just couldn't get out of my head. I used to always listen to it on my Walkman (!) to get hyped before football games (over and over again). Newcleus, the group that sang it, was definitely a one hit wonder of the time.
I spent a lot of weekends on hayrides, which were trailers pulled on the back of a car that were filled with hay. The trailers would be pulled through the fields and you’d be kissing your crush while music was playing. All your friends would be there with their dates too.
These were the hits from freshman year to senior year. Superfreak takes me back to my first high school dance. They remind me of my friends and classmates.
I remember wanting to BE David Bowie in 1974. I spent all my time with friends or in art class or in drama. But always there was music. David Bowie was my hero. I listened to the Diamond Dogs album pretty much nonstop. And just a few months before that was his Midnight Special episode entitled the Nineteen Eighty Floor Show. It was an absolute watershed cultural moment for me.
i just picked the first 5 songs/artists that came to mind from that time. The live version of I Just Can't Get Enough was a huge hit in the Netherlands back then...I also vivdly remember this song being played at one of our school parties....I just remember the excitement this song gave me...especially when played on loud speakers.
As a kid growing up in small town Geelong, Australia, my high school years began with religiously tuning in to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 on a Sunday evening and a weekly dose of Smash Hits magazine.
Everything changed seeing Paul Weller in an issue of that magazine and opening my eyes and ears to The Style Council and his previous band The Jam. This then sent me exploring to the British sound of bands like The Clash, U2, Joy Division,The Smiths, The Cure, New Order and so one. I was hooked, and forever grateful.
The Cure was never on the radio. We got our music from word of mouth or buy going to the record store and some music nerd behind the counter listening to the 1984 Japanese remix of Sig Sig Sputnik. Everyone ha d a copy of Disintegration on CD.