What song or album that takes you back to your senior year of High School?

[Creed Bratton]

My middle daughter is graduating high school next week and I was thinking back to when I was a senior and how simpler life was then. It got me to thinking about cruising town with the windows down and music blaring and what kind of stuff I listened to. I actually liked a lot of music from George Strait to the Beach Boys to GNR but if there was 1 album that I probably listened to more than any my senior year it would have been Hysteria by Def Leppard. What about you guys? Is there any 1 album or song that when you hear it you go back to your high school days?

 

[funKYcat75]

Cooleyhighharmony by Boyz II Men was the album I was listening to on repeat for my Junior and Senior years. Hysteria and Use Your Illusion(s) were still in the rotation as were various rap and R&B cassettes.

 

[mustangman456]

Grease and You light up my life.

 

[J_Dee]

Three of many:

 

[DSmith21]

U2's Joshua Tree dropped a few months before graduation and got huge rotation on MTV and radio. So that comes to mind.

 

[TruBluCatFan]

The entire Slippery When Wet album by Bob Jovi.

 

[funKYcat75]

The entire Lubricious When Moist album by Bob Jovi.

I loved You give Affection a Bad Moniker, Desired Deceased or Living, and Surving on an Intercession from that album.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

1961 Elvis Presley --- Blue Hawaii

 

[argubs2]

 

[Tskware]

Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

 

[JDHoss]

 

[_Mav_]

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

High school class of 1977. I was obsessed with music and going to concerts. Back in the mid 70s there was an explosion of live albums from nearly every popular band. Those are the ones that tend to stand out most to me.

Two that I listened to most were Grand Funk “Caught In The Act”, and J Geils Band “Blow Your Face Out”. To a lesser extent Peter Frampton “Frampton Comes Alive”.

Of course there are dozens of other albums that take me back. The first two I ever bought (8-track tape) ZZ Top “Fandango” and Robin Trower “Bridge Of Sighs”. And albums that got tons of airtime on FM radio, like Boston’s first album, and Kansas “Leftoverture”.

 

[Tskware]

Frampton Comes Alive and Saturday Night Fever were both huge during Jr/Sr year of HS. And if I never hear another note from either one the rest of my life, it will be too soon.

 

[gamecockcat]

'Back in Black' - AC/DC (came out in '80 but was still in heavy rotation the next year when I graduated)
'Tatoo You' - Stones
'October' - U2
Song: 'The Waiting' - TP and the Heartbreakers

 

[Freetaxreturn]

Rush 2112 🎶🍺

 

[WildcatFan1982]

I graduated in 2001. I was all about:

Incubus - Make Yourself
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Dave Matthews Band - Before these Crowded Streets
And everything Nirvana, despite Kurt offing himself when I was in 5th grade

 

[MegaBlue05]

Juvenile - 400 Degreez
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

 

[funKYcat75]

@gobigbluebell

 

[vhcat70]

Byrds Turn, turn, turn

 

[TCurtis75]

I graduated in 1994. Best selling album that year was Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish. Also on the list was Dookie by Green Day and the Nirvana Unplugged Album was huge too.

 

[HagginHall1999]

Mine is pretty fitting...it came out at the start of my Senior year (August 1997)....Graduate by Third Eye Blind.

Other songs/artist take me back to that time, but everytime I hear Graduate it really does...

 

[IdaCat]

Lots of them. I played Kansas "Carry on Wayward Son" and did a following drum solo to win the school talent show my senior year. So I guess I'll go with that one for the hell of it.

 

[Mash 2.4]

 

[funKYcat75]

Lots of them. I played Kansas "Carry on Wayward Son" and did a following drum solo to win the school talent show my senior year. So I guess I'll go with that one for the hell of it.

That’s a great song. I never get tired of it. My kids do, but not me.

 

[funKYcat75]

That would’ve been a great time to be a high school senior.

 

[GrandePdre]

 

[_Mav_]

True fact: The pic on the album cover was actually one of Eddie’s baby pics (minus the heater and angel wings, of course).

 

[CAT Scratch FVR]

Class of 1984, clearly remember these
Thriller
Jump
Sister Christian
Dancing in the Dark

Edited to include When Doves Cry. That was played non-stop on the radio.

 

[UK82]

Jackson Browne- Running On Empty
Steely Dan- Aja

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1969 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sugar Sugar #1. Damn I thought music from 1969 was better than that.

 

[DSmith21]

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1969 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sugar Sugar #1. Damn I thought music from 1969 was better than that.

Led Zeppelin (LZ 1) and The Who ("Tommy") both released albums in 1969. I am surprised that neither had any song that charted.

 

[Blueisbest]

Class of 78:

Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town
Boston-Don't Look Back
Styx-Pieces of Eight
Foreigner-Double Vision
The Cars-First Album
Rolling Stones-Some Girls

 

[Funkjumper]

1988 HS Graduate. Prince and Prince acts albums only. HOWEVER, nothing takes me back to that roller rink in the early 80’s and that beautiful brunette like Der Kommissar by After the Fire.

 

[dukesince91]

1983
AC/DC Back in Black
38 Special - Caught up in you

 

[wildcatwelder]

Gaucho: Steely Dan.

Back in Black: AC/DC

Against The Wind: Bob Segar

 

[Kooky Kats]

Talking Heads : Once in A Lifetime
Yaz : Don’t Go
Squeeze : Tempted

 

[UK82]

Gaucho: Steely Dan.

Back in Black: AC/DC

Against The Wind: Bob Segar

Gaucho was their best. No question.

 

[Tskware]

Jackson Browne- Running On Empty
Steely Dan- Aja

also a UK grad, 1982; college senior year, I know London Calling came out a year or two earlier, but we wore out Train in Vain by The Clash

 

[the nail at the foul line]

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The summer B4 I was a Senior.