Friday Five: High School Nostalgia

[RibsAndWhiteBread]

Seven Mary Three- Water's Edge
Days of the New- Touch, Peel, Stand
Sublime- Smoke Two Joints
Verve Pipe- Freshman
Mo Thugs- Ghetto Cowboy

 

[argubs2]

New Found Glory - Better Off Dead
Brand New - Seventy Times 7
Blink 182 - Shut Up
Pearl Jam - Red Mosquito
Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A)

 

[wildcat1973]

Eazy-E - Boyz n the Hood
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
Metallica - Master of Puppets
GNR - Rocket Queen
LL Cool J - Boomin System

 

[mickeyb2679]

1. Land Of Tha Heartless (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

2. Ain't No Thang (Outkast)

3. Green Island (Redman)

4. I Seen A Man Die (Scarface)

5. Down Rodeo (Rage Against The Machine)

 

[WettCat]

Put together an old school R&B playlist on Monday and have been listening to it all week, a few of the standouts:

Let's Get Together, Al Green
Almost Persuaded, Etta James
If You Don't Love Me by Now, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Mercy, Mercy Me, Marvin Gaye
Ball of Confusion, Temptations

 

[RibsAndWhiteBread]

Wettcat, it appears, had a lot of back seat sex in high school

 

[buckmaster022]

311 - "Down"
311 - "All Mixed Up"
311 - "Transistor"
311 - "Beautiful Disaster"
311 - "Come Original"

OK, not really, those songs all suck and so does 311.

 

[BigBlueGuru1990]

Neil Young - Like a Hurricane

Queen - Under Pressure

Blake Shelton - Playboys of the Southwestern World

Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday

Rihanna - Oh Na, Na, What's My Name?

 

[argubs2]

buckmaster022

 

[cball225]

Sublime - Santeria
Next - Too Close
BTnH - Tha Crossroads
Collective Souls - The World I Know
Just a Girl - No Doubt

 

[funKYcat75]

2nd/3rd base Specials

Forever My Lady - Jodeci
I Do Need You - BBD
If I Ever Fall in Love - Shai
Freak Me - Silk
Sensitivity - Ralph Tresvant

 

[funKYcat75]

Neil Young - Like a Hurricane

Queen - Under Pressure

Blake Shelton - Playboys of the Southwestern World

Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday

Rihanna - Oh Na, Na, What's My Name?

You were in high school a very long time.

 

[Bonzo Cat]

Fall Down - Toad the Wet Sprocket
You - Candlebox
Same Song - Digital Underground
Remedy - Black Crowes
Prison Sex - Tool

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

If someone made a soundtrack for the class of '77 it would feature....

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Blinded By the Light"
Heart - "Barracuda"
Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever"
Box Scaggs - "Lido Shuffle"
Steve Miller Band - "Fly Like An Eagle"

 

[krazykats]

California Love - PAC
Hypnotize - BIG
Summertime in the LBC- Dove Shack
All on U - BG
One Luv - E40

Top 5 is hard for the high school days!

 

[2blue4u]

My sophomore year jams.

Lounge Act-- Nirvana
Bugging Out-- A Tribe Called Quest
Findem F*#kem and Flee-- NWA
Black-- Pearl Jam
My Mind is Playing Tricks on Me-- Geto Boys.

 

[O-Ville_CAT_FAN]

By the time I was in high school music was dead. (2005)

 

[Tskware]

Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
Show Me the Way - Frampton
Anything by Billy Joel (You Had to Be a Big Shot, probably his worst)
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John

No wait - those were the songs I freaking HATED in high school (and way too many more just like them), it is just that after hearing them on FM radio 100,000 times each the last 35 or 40 years, I can't get them out of my head.

 

[TriangleUKCat]

Geek USA - Smashing Pumpkins
Planet Telex - Radiohead
When You Sleep - My Bloody Valentine
Ocean Size - Jane's Addiction
Trigger Cut - Pavement

 

[BigBlueFan1963]

Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Bob Seger- Night Moves
REO - Time For Me To Fly
****Air Supply- Lost In Love/All Out Of Love

 

[BigBlueFan1963]

If someone made a soundtrack for the class of '77 it would feature....

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Blinded By the Light"
Heart - "Barracuda"
Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever"
Box Scaggs - "Lido Shuffle"
Steve Miller Band - "Fly Like An Eagle"

You lost me with Heart. I like all of the others though. Whenever I hear a Heart song on the radio I look for another station.

 

[catsfanbgky]

Love You Down - Read For The World (if you haven't heard this jam, listen to it, the ladies love this ) #1 closing song of all time, Keith Sweat jams are a close 2nd.

Secret Lover - Atlantic Star (this one is personal)

Let Go All The Way - Sly Fox

Get Down On It - Kool and The Gang (skating rink jam)

Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa ( club banger)

Lots of bigger, more popular joints, but these are just "different." Early - mid 80's was about the time Hip Hop starting rising up, and you had Super groups like New Edition. Michael Jackson, Prince, etc, hard to name five from the greats so I just listed less known popular favorites. Also had the 80"s hair bands, Whitney Houston (You Give Good Love), Lots of great country music, NWA, BBD, Just a great time for music. We will never have a decade like it. Even Hip hop greats like Whodini and Grand Master Flash (The Message), UTFO (Roxanne, Roxanne is still the jam).

 

[ram1955]

Baby I'ma Want You- (anything by Bread)
Just My Imagination (IMO maybe the best song in all of creation)- Temptations
Beginnings- Chicago
Let's Stay Together-Al Green
It's Impossible- P Como

Hard to pick 5 from the early 70's. IMO, after disco enterred the picture, not much "listenable" music was made. Wife and I were listening to WAKY on way home from Louisville last night. Talking about memories. For me, 1971 may be the best year for music.

Had a friend that borrowed my "Al GReen's Greatest Hits" 8-track whenever taking a girl out on a first date. Wanted to make the ultimate first impression I guess

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

You lost me with Heart. I like all of the others though. Whenever I hear a Heart song on the radio I look for another station.

I never claimed to like any of those songs. Even the Ted Nugent song (and I love The Motor City Madman) was his worst made-for-FM-radio tune. But if you think back to what was flooding the FM airwaves back then, the five I listed pop to mind pretty quickly.

 

[JDHoss]

If there had been an iPod in the 70's my top five on the playlist would have been:

Allman Brothers - You Don't Love Me (Fillmore East)
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Montrose - Rock Candy
Yes - Starship Trooper/Wurm (Yessongs tracks)
Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin' (Rainbow Bridge

 

[DrH. Lecter]

By the time I was in high school music was dead. (2005)

I agree with you.....sorry for your loss.