This topic is in part inspired by Your Favorite Songs From the Year You Graduated High School but expands on the idea.  Instead of focusing on a calendar year, it delimits by school year (including the summer that follows).  It's for any school years where you were old enough to follow the current music of the day.

The topic is about celebrating those special songs, the ones you loved as a student, the ones that take you back.  Post your entry, and not only might the rest of us get to know you more, you might just learn something new about yourself.

You can participate in one of two ways:

Option 1 - when you have the time and energy to be comprehensive.  For the selected school year, post your grade and also the calendar years.  If you like, tell a synopsis of the highlights/lowlights of that school year.  Then post a playlist of roughly 7 to 15 favorite songs that were your "soundtrack" that year.  Embed one or two special representative songs (i.e. make them clickable YouTubes).  You can hyperlink others if you like, or just list them, it's up to you.  That's about it.

Option 2 - if you want to post just one or two representative songs for a school year, or add on based on a prior post.  As in option 1, post the grade and calendar years, and optionally something descriptive.  Then embed your one (or two) song(s).  That's it.

(I recommend also listing the title separately on embedded YouTubes, as sometimes they disappear.)

You can always add to your list later in another post, even for the same school year, if that's easier.

One thing - please don't post you were in 1st Grade and then list all your fave Disney princess songs.  That's not the point.

My year - High School Sophomore (Fall 1974 - Summer 1975)

My sophomore year was challenging in that I changed schools that year.  So everyone and everything was new.  Plus I now had a long, complicated commute to and from school, unlike before.  It took some time to get acclimated.  But it was a great year for music.  That's the backdrop.

My playlist:

I had a hard time whittling down my list, but this is a pretty representative group of songs I loved then:

John Lennon - #9 Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8poht52GAs

LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY

Carole King - Jazzman
Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love
Harry Chapin - Cat's In The Cradle
Billy Swan - I Can Help
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Fallin' In Love
Eagles - Best Of My Love
Sugarloaf - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man
Sweet Sensation - Sad Sweet Dreamer
Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Queen - Killer Queen
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
David Bowie - Young Americans
Ace - How Long
Pilot - Magic
America - Sister Golden Hair
Wings - Listen To What The Man Said

1974-75 was the year I graduated . So many of those songs are very familiar to me :)
I will try and come up with a Different year in high school and list a few songs

10th grade (1978-1979):

I will do a list later but two songs jumped out at me that year in a strange way-and they were by the same group who I never heard of before.

The first one was at a party that I went with my then boyfriend. It was funny because his mother was there, too and I remember she was drinking bloody Marys. Anyway, someone turned on a new record they had and when the song started, I got up to dance. It could have been because I was a bit buzzed at the time. Everyone complemented me on my dancing when the song was done.

It was the following week and I was sitting in English class. It was a nice day and the windows were opened. I don't know if we were taking a test or just reading but the room was pretty quiet. But, there were people outside the school and they had their car radio going and a song come on. I KNEW it was the same group who sang that song that I danced to at the party but I had no idea what the name was.

To this day, whenever I hear either song, I think of the party and sitting in English hearing the music outside the window.

I later found out that the first song was Roxanne (for a short period of time, Roxanne became my nickname-not too sure how it started. Probably because of the party.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ

The other song was I Can't Stand Losing You. And of course both are done by the Police.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH0vjLwMyc4


Cat

10th grade (1978-1979):

I will do a list later but two songs jumped out at me that year in a strange way-and they were by the same group who I never heard of before.

The first one was at a party that I went with my then boyfriend. It was funny because his mother was there, too and I remember she was drinking bloody Marys. Anyway, someone turned on a new record they had and when the song started, I got up to dance. It could have been because I was a bit buzzed at the time. Everyone complemented me on my dancing when the song was done.

It was the following week and I was sitting in English class. It was a nice day and the windows were opened. I don't know if we were taking a test or just reading but the room was pretty quiet. But, there were people outside the school and they had their car radio going and a song come on. I KNEW it was the same group who sang that song that I danced to at the party but I had no idea what the name was.

To this day, whenever I hear either song, I think of the party and sitting in English hearing the music outside the window.

I later found out that the first song was Roxanne (for a short period of time, Roxanne became my nickname-not too sure how it started. Probably because of the party.)

The other song was I Can't Stand Losing You. And of course both are done by the Police.

Cat


O0 Love that story!

1972-73 school year
That's 50 years ago  :-[

11th grade for me
There were some great songs that school year. Included are

Tie a yellow ribbon - Tony Orlando
Reeling in the years - Steely Dan
Crocodile Rock- Elton John
You are the sunshine of my life - Stevie Wonder
Love Train - O'Jays
You're so vain - Carly Simon
I am woman - Helen Reddy
Clair- Gilbert O'Sullivan
Yesterday once more - Carpenters

Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon was released in 1973 I believe. Led Zeppelin's houses of the holy as well. I believe the Sears Tower in Chicago and World trade center in NY both opened up in 1973 .

The school year started off on a sad note with the shooting at the Munich summer Olympics.   
I cant remember what concerts I saw that year, just too long ago.  I had a girlfriend for part of the year, she didnt attend my school though, neighborhood girl.
It was one of the last music years I really liked, before disco arrived on the scene.

1972-73 school year
That's 50 years ago  :-[

11th grade for me
There were some great songs that school year. Included are

Tie a yellow ribbon - Tony Orlando
Reeling in the years - Steely Dan
Crocodile Rock- Elton John
You are the sunshine of my life - Stevie Wonder
Love Train - O'Jays
You're so vain - Carly Simon
I am woman - Helen Reddy
Clair- Gilbert O'Sullivan
Yesterday once more - Carpenters

Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon was released in 1973 I believe. Led Zeppelin's houses of the holy as well. I believe the Sears Tower in Chicago and World trade center in NY both opened up in 1973 .

The school year started off on a sad note with the shooting at the Munich summer Olympics.   
I cant remember what concerts I saw that year, just too long ago.  I had a girlfriend for part of the year, she didnt attend my school though, neighborhood girl.
It was one of the last music years I really liked, before disco arrived on the scene.


O0 Love this post!

As it happens, the time period of your 11th Grade lines up with my 8th Grade school year.  I may have to circle back and add a post about 8th Grade.  First, I'll cover another school year of mine.  :)

My year - 7th Grade (Fall 1971 - Summer 1972)

7th Grade was decent, despite that like my sophomore year, I was in a new school and everyone and everything was new.  Since the family had just moved, this change was expected and welcome.  A peculiarity of 7th Grade is that I had a "null" period where I had logistic challenges listening to the radio, as (for instance) my old transistor radio no longer picked up my stations; it took some time to work this out, and I missed some popular Top 40 music (until later).

My playlist:

Here's a pretty representative (and long) list of songs I love from then:

Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes (Early 1972)  :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsaxPaJSf24

Bill Withers - Lean On Me (Spring 1972)  :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaexjc-1os

Neil Young - Old Man
Elton John - Rocket Man
Van Morrison - Wild Night
Paul Simon - Mother And Child Reunion
Al Green - Look What You've Done For Me
T. Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On)
Yes - Roundabout
America - Horse With No Name
Don McLean - American Pie
Stylistics - Betcha By Golly Wow
Badfinger - Day After Day
Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
Cat Stevens - Peace Train
Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady
Jonathan Edwards - Sunshine
Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice

Okay, let me see if I'm doing this right...

The school year: 1993-94 (8th grade for me)

It was overall an enjoyable time for me; I admit I got hooked on listening to top 40 radio thanks to my mom who often played it in the car as she drove me to school... especially after the Northridge Earthquake which displaced us from our home for a three-month span.

"All That She Wants" Ace Of Base
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"Cantaloop/Flip Fantasia" by US3
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The rest (in no particular order):
Cryin' - Aerosmith
Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms
The Sign - Ace Of Base
Whatta Man - Salt N Pepa
Whoomp, There It Is! - Tag Team
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Mr. Vain - Culture Beat
Don't Turn Around - Ace Of Base
If You Go - Jon Secada
Loser - Beck
Wild Night - John Mellencamp featuring Me'shell Ndegeocello

Okay, let me see if I'm doing this right...

The school year: 1993-94 (8th grade for me)

It was overall an enjoyable time for me; I admit I got hooked on listening to top 40 radio thanks to my mom who often played it in the car as she drove me to school... especially after the Northridge Earthquake which displaced us from our home for a three-month span.

"All That She Wants" Ace Of Base
"Cantaloop/Flip Fantasia" by US3
The rest (in no particular order):
Cryin' - Aerosmith
Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms
The Sign - Ace Of Base
Whatta Man - Salt N Pepa
Whoomp, There It Is! - Tag Team
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Mr. Vain - Culture Beat
Don't Turn Around - Ace Of Base
If You Go - Jon Secada
Loser - Beck
Wild Night - John Mellencamp featuring Me'shell Ndegeocello


O0 Love your post!  Yes, it is exactly "right".

Interesting hearing about being affected by the '94 Northridge quake; some close relatives of mine were also heavily impacted by that dreadful quake.  :-\\

O0 Love your post!  Yes, it is exactly "right".

Interesting hearing about being affected by the '94 Northridge quake; some close relatives of mine were also heavily impacted by that dreadful quake.  :-\\

Thanks!!

Yes… I was living in a mobile home, which certainly was “mobile” when the quake struck! It got knocked off the foundation and needed serious repairs, so we spent the next three months living in hotels.

Full story in another thread: http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=8488.msg3781866#msg3781866

I entered Grade 9 for the 1991-1992 school year.  I wasn't a big music guy back then as I only really listened to what was on the radio and only even did that whenever I was in a place where a radio was on, so most of the songs I liked then, I didn't know the artist or song title (I've since rectified that).

My mom had this cassette tape called This is Music '92 that I liked listening to.  It was a various artist collection containing 14 Top 40 hits of the time, and the standout track for me was called Everybody Gets A Second Chance by Mike + The Mechanics.  As much as I am a die hard 80s fan, this will always be my favourite song by them

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Another standout track on that album for me was called Standing, Push and Fall by a Quebec band called World on Edge.  They looked like a hair metal act, but they did pop songs and ballads and at the time this song was massive in Canada and it still sounds great today!

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Interestingly enough, as many years had passed, that tape got lost but one day while I was in the parking lot of a Mr. Sub sandwich shop, suddenly that song Standing, Push and Fall randomly popped into my head, and I couldn't remember who performed it, so I googled it on my phone.  This was before you could just go on YouTube and get any song you wanted, so luckily, I had remembered seeing a World on Edge cassette tape at my local Goodwill thrift shop and sure enough, I did. 

Best 50c I ever spent as when I listened to it, there were 3 other songs on it that I remembered from radio, and one of my most favourite things ever is hearing a song I haven't heard in years!

1991-1992 was a real good time for music.  Here are some others in that time that I really enjoyed...

Rik Emmett - Saved By Love
Timmy T - One More Try
Kim Mitchell - America
Haywire - Buzz
Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss
Keven Jordan - Just Another Day
Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only
West End Girls - Not Like Kissing You
Stacy Earl - Romeo and Juliet
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
Celine Dion - Have A Heart
Prince and the New Power Generation - Cream
Harem Scarem - Slowly Slipping Away
Big House - Dollar In My Pocket (Pretty Things)

I'm going to make another contribution to this thread.

Moving on...to my 9th grade year, 1994-95. (For me that was my freshman year of high school.)

There were plenty of enjoyable songs that I enjoyed listening to during that span; it's kinda hard for me to pick a "top two" to embed. After a great deal of consideration, I've decided on these two:

"All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow
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"Lucky One" by Amy Grant
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(Both were popular in the late summer, right around the time my school year began.)

The rest (in no particular order):
Living In Danger - Ace Of Base
Here Comes The Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
I'm The Only One - Melissa Etheridge
When I Come Around - Green Day
What Would You Say - Dave Matthews Band
Buddy Holly - Weezer
Hold My Hand - Hootie & The Blowfish
Secret - Madonna
You Gotta Be - Des'Ree
You Got It - Bonnie Raitt (cover of Roy Orbison's final hit)
I Alone - Live
Creep - TLC
No More I Love You's - Annie Lennox
I Know - Dionne Farris
Tootsee Roll - 69 Boyz
I'll Be There For You (Theme from 'Friends') - The Rembrandts

And a few notables left over from the summer of 1994:
I Swear - All 4 One (this one actually came out during my final months of 8th grade, but it was still on the charts in September, when I began 9th)
Until I Fall Away - Gin Blossoms
Shine - Collective Soul
I'll Remember - Madonna
Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John

I entered Grade 9 for the 1991-1992 school year.  I wasn't a big music guy back then as I only really listened to what was on the radio and only even did that whenever I was in a place where a radio was on, so most of the songs I liked then, I didn't know the artist or song title (I've since rectified that).

My mom had this cassette tape called This is Music '92 that I liked listening to.  It was a various artist collection containing 14 Top 40 hits of the time, and the standout track for me was called Everybody Gets A Second Chance by Mike + The Mechanics.  As much as I am a die hard 80s fan, this will always be my favourite song by them

Another standout track on that album for me was called Standing, Push and Fall by a Quebec band called World on Edge.  They looked like a hair metal act, but they did pop songs and ballads and at the time this song was massive in Canada and it still sounds great today!

Interestingly enough, as many years had passed, that tape got lost but one day while I was in the parking lot of a Mr. Sub sandwich shop, suddenly that song Standing, Push and Fall randomly popped into my head, and I couldn't remember who performed it, so I googled it on my phone.  This was before you could just go on YouTube and get any song you wanted, so luckily, I had remembered seeing a World on Edge cassette tape at my local Goodwill thrift shop and sure enough, I did. 

Best 50c I ever spent as when I listened to it, there were 3 other songs on it that I remembered from radio, and one of my most favourite things ever is hearing a song I haven't heard in years!

1991-1992 was a real good time for music.  Here are some others in that time that I really enjoyed...

Rik Emmett - Saved By Love
Timmy T - One More Try
Kim Mitchell - America
Haywire - Buzz
Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss
Keven Jordan - Just Another Day
Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only
West End Girls - Not Like Kissing You
Stacy Earl - Romeo and Juliet
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
Celine Dion - Have A Heart
Prince and the New Power Generation - Cream
Harem Scarem - Slowly Slipping Away
Big House - Dollar In My Pocket (Pretty Things)


O0 Nice list, whistledog!  Hyperlinking the songs is a nice touch.

1972-73 school year
...
11th grade for me
There were some great songs that school year. Included are

Tie a yellow ribbon - Tony Orlando
Reeling in the years - Steely Dan
Crocodile Rock- Elton John
You are the sunshine of my life - Stevie Wonder
Love Train - O'Jays
You're so vain - Carly Simon
I am woman - Helen Reddy
Clair- Gilbert O'Sullivan
Yesterday once more - Carpenters

Pink Floyd's dark side of the moon was released in 1973 I believe. Led Zeppelin's houses of the holy as well. I believe the Sears Tower in Chicago and World trade center in NY both opened up in 1973 .
...


Fall 1972 to Summer 1973 was my 8th Grade schoolyear.  Personally, 8th Grade was a little sad for me, let's call it a serious case of unrequited love.

I too loved the music!  By 8th Grade I listened constantly, and even bought a 45 or two.  The above list is excellent; some of my other favorites:

Chicago - Dialogue (Fall 1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kynzW7b0790

War - The Cisco Kid (early 1973)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu_YVswb3p4

Pink Floyd - Money
Leon Russell - Tight Rope
Skylark - Wildflower
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays The Fool
Moody Blues - I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)
Three Dog Night - Shambala
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
King Harvest - Dancing In The Moonlight
Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles
Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In Southern California

O0 Nice list, whistledog!  Hyperlinking the songs is a nice touch.

Doing so was a suggestion in the introductory post (and you've even done so). I for one have not taken the time to do it, but I have contemplated doing so in the next reply that I make. :)

Doing so was a suggestion in the introductory post (and you've even done so). I for one have not taken the time to do it, but I have contemplated doing so in the next reply that I make. :)


It's certainly not required - and I admit it does take more time.  But when you have the time to, it's a nice touch.  :)

Moving on to 1995-96, my sophomore year of high school.

This was when I started getting acquainted with Casey Kasem and his weekly countdown shows. The one he was hosting at the time, "American Hot 20", focused on Adult pop hits, and included several "long distance dedication" segments. I was still an avid listener of top 40 in general.

To start with...

"Roll To Me" by Del Amitri (this one jumped out at me at the time because it was one of the shortest hit songs, at just a shade over two minutes long):
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...and "Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman:
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Some left over from the summer months:
Runaround - Blues Traveler
Waterfalls - TLC
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
December - Collective Soul

And the rest (in no particular order):
One Of Us - Joan Osborne
Only Wanna Be With You - Hootie & The Blowfish
Till I Hear It From You - Gin Blossoms
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
Good - Better Than Ezra
As I Lay Me Down - Sophie B Hawkins ("Who loves tacos!")
Back For Good - Take That
Wonderwall - Oasis
The World I Know - Collective Soul
Time - Hootie & The Blowfish
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Follow You Down - Gin Blossoms
Runaway - Janet Jackson
Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
Hook - Blues Traveler
Name - Goo Goo Dolls
Closer To Free - Bodeans
Set U Free - Planet Soul
Tell Me - Groove Theory
Carnival - Natalie Merchant
Wonder - Natalie Merchant
Insensitive - Jann Arden
Somebody's Crying - Chris Isaak
Nobody Knows - Tony Rich Project
Just A Girl - No Doubt
Big Me - Foo Fighters
Alanis Morissette: "Hand In My Pocket", "Ironic" and "You Learn" (I decided not to link to these because I think I have plenty of them already)

Moving on to 1995-96, my sophomore year of high school.

This was when I started getting acquainted with Casey Kasem and his weekly countdown shows. The one he was hosting at the time, "American Hot 20", focused on Adult pop hits, and included several "long distance dedication" segments. I was still an avid listener of top 40 in general.

To start with...

"Roll To Me" by Del Amitri (this one jumped out at me at the time because it was one of the shortest hit songs, at just a shade over two minutes long):
...and "Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman:
Some left over from the summer months:
Runaround - Blues Traveler
Waterfalls - TLC
Kiss From A Rose - Seal
December - Collective Soul

And the rest (in no particular order):
One Of Us - Joan Osborne
Only Wanna Be With You - Hootie & The Blowfish
Till I Hear It From You - Gin Blossoms
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
Good - Better Than Ezra
As I Lay Me Down - Sophie B Hawkins ("Who loves tacos!")
Back For Good - Take That
Wonderwall - Oasis
The World I Know - Collective Soul
Time - Hootie & The Blowfish
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Follow You Down - Gin Blossoms
Runaway - Janet Jackson
Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
Hook - Blues Traveler
Name - Goo Goo Dolls
Closer To Free - Bodeans
Set U Free - Planet Soul
Tell Me - Groove Theory
Carnival - Natalie Merchant
Wonder - Natalie Merchant
Insensitive - Jann Arden
Somebody's Crying - Chris Isaak
Alanis Morissette: "Hand In My Pocket", "Ironic" and "You Learn" (I decided not to link to these because I think I have plenty of them already)


O0 Great post!  There are songs in your list where I'd heard the song and like it but didn't know what it was til now.  I appreciate that!

O0 Great post!  There are songs in your list where I'd heard the song and like it but didn't know what it was til now.  I appreciate that!

Yeah, I had plenty of favorites during that fiscal year. I might insert a few because I just remembered there were others I liked from that span. Glad my links were helpful.

This time I'll cover my n-th year of college (long story) from Fall 1982 to Summer 1983.  Life changed so much for me during winter break, I'm only covering Fall 1982.  Before winter break, I was a "half and half" student, working part time at a government office and taking a part time load of college courses.  After winter break, I started my first semester of student "co-op" employment, basically a paid, repeated internship with a corporate employer.  I was delighted to co-op; I had to interview with several employers, and my "favorite" one hired me.  :)  I digress.

I had generally stopped listening to Top 40 radio by this time.  However, during Fall 1982 I took a Physics class with a lab; this lab had a radio continuously playing hit music.  The songs from that timeframe take me back to that semester:

Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0sha1XfHxw

The Clash - Rock The Casbah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

Supertramp - It's Raining Again
Hall & Oates - Maneater
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross
Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker
Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?
Alan Parsons Project - Eye In the Sky
Laura Branigan - Gloria
America - You Can Do Magic
Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
John Cougar (AKA Mellencamp) - Jack & Diane

^ Great selections, all of them!! O0 (I was only 2 then, but I know all those songs now!)

I have contemplated doing a post based on one of my college years, but I'd like to get through my highschool years first.

^ Yes, college counts!  So long as you had an avenue to listen to current (of the time) music.

(Many college students abandon current music in favor of "niche" sounds that grab them, myself included.  That even applies to younger students, though not as many.)

Moving on to my junior year of high school (1996-97).

Even though I was still aware of most hits that were current at the time, I also began getting acquainted with older songs (particularly those of the 1980s) and began enjoying them. Still, for the purpose of this thread, I will only keep it to songs from the fiscal year I'm focusing on.

First of all, a few hits left over from the summer that were still on the charts in September:
Change The World - Eric Clapton
Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis
Macarena - Los Del Rio (this one actually got its first share of radio airplay a year earlier, in summer 1995, but became a big hit a year later)
Flood - Jars Of Clay
Spiderwebs - No Doubt
Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel

And now, the two "representative" songs I'm selecting:
"If It Makes You Happy" by Sheryl Crow
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"How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes
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...and the rest, in no particular order:
Every Day Is A Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
A Change Would Do You Good - Sheryl Crow
Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette
I Go Blind - Hootie & The Blowfish
Don't Speak - No Doubt
No Diggity - Blackstreet
Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
Lovefool - The Cardigans
You Were Meant For Me - Jewel
Wannabe - Spice Girls
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Naked Eye - Luscious Jackson
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Push - Matchbox Twenty

Moving on to my junior year of high school (1996-97).

Even though I was still aware of most hits that were current at the time, I also began getting acquainted with older songs (particularly those of the 1980s) and began enjoying them. Still, for the purpose of this thread, I will only keep it to songs from the fiscal year I'm focusing on.

First of all, a few hits left over from the summer that were still on the charts in September:
Change The World - Eric Clapton
Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis
Macarena - Los Del Rio (this one actually got its first share of radio airplay a year earlier, in summer 1995, but became a big hit a year later)
Flood - Jars Of Clay
Spiderwebs - No Doubt
Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel

And now, the two "representative" songs I'm selecting:
"If It Makes You Happy" by Sheryl Crow
"How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes

...and the rest, in no particular order:
Every Day Is A Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
A Change Would Do You Good - Sheryl Crow
Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette
I Go Blind - Hootie & The Blowfish
Don't Speak - No Doubt
No Diggity - Blackstreet
Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
Lovefool - The Cardigans
You Were Meant For Me - Jewel
Wannabe - Spice Girls
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Naked Eye - Luscious Jackson
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai


O0 Great post, nally!  I enjoy reading it.  And like the previous posts, I found songs I've heard but didn't know what they are until now.

I enjoy reading it. And like the previous posts, I found songs I've heard but didn't know what they are until now.

Thanks again! :) And as I’ve said previously, I’m glad my links have been helpful to you.

This thread has been lots of fun to contribute to.


Jeffrey

Ninth grade:

(No order)

-We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions-Queen
-Thicker Than Water-Andy Gibb
-I Go Crazy-Paul Davis
-Don't Give Up On Us Baby-David Soul
-Landlord-David Soul
-Emotion-Samantha Sang
-If I Can't Have You-Yvonne Elliman
-Love Is Like Oxygen-Sweet
-It's A Heartache-Bonnie Tyler
-Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad-Meatloaf
-Sometimes When We Touch-Dan Hill
-Hot Blooded-Foreigner
-Long, Long Way From Home-Foreigner
-Feels Like The First Time-Foreigner
-Dust In The Wind-Kansas
-Come Sail Away-Styx
-Castle Walls-Styx
-Man In The Wilderness-Styx
-Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue-Crystal Gayle
-Because The Night-Patti Smith
-Copacabana-Barry Manilow (Yeah, I confess lol)
-Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood-Santa Esmeralda

I'm sure there were more from this year.

(And yeah, I know this dates me. I HATE when I do that.)


Cat

Ninth grade:

(No order)

-We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions-Queen
-Thicker Than Water-Andy Gibb
-I Go Crazy-Paul Davis
-Don't Give Up On Us Baby-David Soul
-Landlord-David Soul
-Emotion-Samantha Sang
-If I Can't Have You-Yvonne Elliman
-Love Is Like Oxygen-Sweet
-It's A Heartache-Bonnie Tyler
-Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad-Meatloaf
-Sometimes When We Touch-Dan Hill
-Hot Blooded-Foreigner
-Long, Long Way From Home-Foreigner
-Feels Like The First Time-Foreigner
-Dust In The Wind-Kansas
-Come Sail Away-Styx
-Castle Walls-Styx
-Man In The Wilderness-Styx
-Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue-Crystal Gayle
-Because The Night-Patti Smith
-Copacabana-Barry Manilow (Yeah, I confess lol)
-Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood-Santa Esmeralda

I'm sure there were more from this year.

(And yeah, I know this dates me. I HATE when I do that.)

Cat


O0 Great list!  The timeframe appears to be Fall 1977 to Summer 1978, as that lines up with when I was in my first year at University.

My year - High School Sophomore (Fall 1974 - Summer 1975)

My sophomore year was challenging in that I changed schools that year.  So everyone and everything was new.  Plus I now had a long, complicated commute to and from school, unlike before.  It took some time to get acclimated.  But it was a great year for music.  That's the backdrop.

My playlist:

I had a hard time whittling down my list, but this is a pretty representative group of songs I loved then:

John Lennon - #9 Dream

LaBelle - Lady Marmalade

Carole King - Jazzman
Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love
Harry Chapin - Cat's In The Cradle
Billy Swan - I Can Help
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Fallin' In Love
Eagles - Best Of My Love
Sugarloaf - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man
Sweet Sensation - Sad Sweet Dreamer
Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Queen - Killer Queen
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
David Bowie - Young Americans
Ace - How Long
Pilot - Magic
America - Sister Golden Hair
Wings - Listen To What The Man Said


High School Sophomore year revisited.  As I'd whittled down the original list so much, I decided to add additional tunes to the original list to round it out more.  Here are a few more special tunes from my Sophomore year:

Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SEGHvLElxc

Olivia Newton-John - Have You Never Been Mellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2S1nmxYmUg

Chicago - Wishing You Were Here
Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle
Frankie Valli - My Eyes Adored You
Ringo Starr - No No Song
Grand Funk - Bad Time
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Finally I've figured out, but it took a long long time...

Yes, I'm talking about my list for my high school senior year (1997-98). It was a busy time for me; still, there are plenty of notable songs I remember and enjoyed from that span. Fasten your seatbelts, this is gonna be a long list.

Starting with some summer 1997 hits that remained on the charts into September:
All For You - Sister Hazel (the opening line of which, begins this post; full song here so you can have a listen)
Building A Mystery - Sarah McLachlan
How Bizarre - O.M.C.
Men In Black - Will Smith
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
To The Moon And Back - Savage Garden
The Difference - The Wallflowers
Fly - Sugar Ray

And now, on to the school year months (September 1997 thru June 1998). Starting off with:
"Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden
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"Frozen" by Madonna
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...and the rest, in no particular order:
I Don't Want To Wait - Paula Cole
Walkin' On The Sun - Smash Mouth
Takes A Little Time - Amy Grant
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Brick - Ben Folds Five
How's It Going To Be - Third Eye Blind
I Will Buy You A New Life - Everclear
3 A.M. - Matchbox Twenty
Real World - Matchbox Twenty
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) - Green Day
Sweet Surrender - Sarah McLachlan
Adia - Sarah McLachlan
The Mummers' Dance - Loreena McKennitt
Gettin' Jiggy With It - Will Smith
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Sex & Candy - Marcy Playground
The Way - Fastball
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
Crush - Jennifer Paige
Kind And Generous - Natalie Merchant
Closing Time - Semisonic

Finally I've figured out, but it took a long long time...

Yes, I'm talking about my list for my high school senior year (1997-98). It was a busy time for me; still, there are plenty of notable songs I remember and enjoyed from that span. Fasten your seatbelts, this is gonna be a long list.

Starting with some summer 1997 hits that remained on the charts into September:
All For You - Sister Hazel (the opening line of which, begins this post; full song here so you can have a listen)
Building A Mystery - Sarah McLachlan
How Bizarre - O.M.C.
Men In Black - Will Smith
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
To The Moon And Back - Savage Garden
The Difference - The Wallflowers
Fly - Sugar Ray

And now, on to the school year months (September 1997 thru June 1998). Starting off with:
"Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden
"Frozen" by Madonna
...and the rest, in no particular order:
I Don't Want To Wait - Paula Cole
Walkin' On The Sun - Smash Mouth
Takes A Little Time - Amy Grant
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Brick - Ben Folds Five
How's It Going To Be - Third Eye Blind
I Will Buy You A New Life - Everclear
3 A.M. - Matchbox Twenty
Real World - Matchbox Twenty
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) - Green Day
Sweet Surrender - Sarah McLachlan
Adia - Sarah McLachlan
The Mummers' Dance - Loreena McKennitt
Gettin' Jiggy With It - Will Smith
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Sex & Candy - Marcy Playground
The Way - Fastball
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
Crush - Jennifer Paige
Kind And Generous - Natalie Merchant
Closing Time - Semisonic


O0 Great list, Jeffrey!  I like how the summer of '97 leads into the schoolyear.  Wonderful!  It occurs to me that early 1998 is when I got married, so your list would include songs popular when I tied the knot.  I love it!

O0 Great list, Jeffrey!  I like how the summer of '97 leads into the schoolyear.  Wonderful!  It occurs to me that early 1998 is when I got married, so your list would include songs popular when I tied the knot.  I love it!

Thank you! :) Yep, I’ve been prefacing most of my lists with hits from the summer months, figuring that would make logical sense. And it just so happened that the opening lyrics of one such song (“All For You” by Sister Hazel) appropriately expressed the fact that preparing my list was not exactly an easy task. Still, all of these were popular all over the radio during my senior year. And I’m pretty sure I heard all of them at least once at my graduation party; I had the radio tuned to a particular station that I listened to regularly at the time.

And I’m glad to know that this list takes you back to a significant event in your life!! (That means you are fast approaching your 25th anniversary!!!)

...I’m glad to know that this list takes you back to a significant event in your life!! (That means you are fast approaching your 25th anniversary!!!)


Thanks for noticing our upcoming anniversary, Jeffrey!  :)  We're hoping to do something big...

This time I'll cover my 2nd year at University (unfortunately not my alma mater) from Fall 1978 to Summer 1979.  I had stopped listening to Top 40 radio by this time.  However, I took a weekly student job at the gym building that year; it had a radio playing current hits, primarily "soft rock" hits and little Disco.  So I got an earful.  (Although I did like Disco at that time, as I went out dancing most every weekend then.)  The songs from that timeframe take me back to that school year and that nice little gym building job:

Al Stewart - Time Passages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2g0hrrKLNw

George Harrison - Blow Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVhI5IqDmjc

Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)
Little River Band - Reminiscing
Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
Paul Davis - Sweet Life
Firefall - Strange Way
Dan Fogelberg - The Power Of Gold
Eric Clapton - Promises
Billy Joel - My Life
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
Poco - Crazy Love
Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman - Stumblin' In
England Dan & John Ford Coley - Love Is The Answer
Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out
Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute
John Stewart - Gold

This time I'll cover my 2nd year at University (unfortunately not my alma mater) from Fall 1978 to Summer 1979.  I had stopped listening to Top 40 radio by this time.  However, I took a weekly student job at the gym building that year; it had a radio playing current hits, primarily "soft rock" hits and little Disco.  So I got an earful.  (Although I did like Disco at that time, as I went out dancing most every weekend then.)  The songs from that timeframe take me back to that school year and that nice little gym building job:

Al Stewart - Time Passages

George Harrison - Blow Away


Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)
Little River Band - Reminiscing
Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
Paul Davis - Sweet Life
Firefall - Strange Way
Dan Fogelberg - The Power Of Gold
Eric Clapton - Promises
Billy Joel - My Life
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
Poco - Crazy Love
Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman - Stumblin' In
England Dan & John Ford Coley - Love Is The Answer
Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out
Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute
John Stewart - Gold

Very nice! I know a handful of those songs. O0 My mom spent some time working in radio before I was born, so she probably remembers some of them too.

Very nice! I know a handful of those songs. O0 My mom spent some time working in radio before I was born, so she probably remembers some of them too.


That's interesting - was your mom an "on-air" personality?

(Although many people work radio that never go on the air - plus, at that time there weren't as many women who had regular over-the-air jobs.)

That's interesting - was your mom an "on-air" personality?

(Although many people work radio that never go on the air - plus, at that time there weren't as many women who had regular over-the-air jobs.)

Yeah. She also sometimes did newscasts. This was in the L.A. market. I know about her work in radio because she’s told me lots of stories about it. She majored in journalism in college and even worked at the campus radio station back then. And after I was born, she decided to quit working in radio so she could be a stay-at-home mom for the next seven years.

High School Sophomore year revisited.  As I'd whittled down the original list so much, I decided to add additional tunes to the original list to round it out more.

You've inspired me to do the same with one of my lists. That said, before I post any memorable songs from my college years, I'm going to revisit one of my earlier posts.


The school year: 1993-94 (8th grade for me)

It was overall an enjoyable time for me; I admit I got hooked on listening to top 40 radio thanks to my mom who often played it in the car as she drove me to school... especially after the Northridge Earthquake which displaced us from our home for a three-month span.

"All That She Wants" Ace Of Base
"Cantaloop/Flip Fantasia" by US3

The rest (in no particular order):
Cryin' - Aerosmith
Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms
The Sign - Ace Of Base
Whatta Man - Salt N Pepa
Whoomp, There It Is! - Tag Team
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Mr. Vain - Culture Beat
Don't Turn Around - Ace Of Base
If You Go - Jon Secada
Loser - Beck
Wild Night - John Mellencamp featuring Me'shell Ndegeocello


I know I have been prefacing most of my lists with summer hits that remained popular into the month of September and beyond, but I did not think to do so with my 1993-94 (8th grade) list, mainly because I was not yet an avid listener of top 40 radio in the summer of 1993. However, I do realize that there are several songs from that span which were still on the charts in September (and I liked); so they should be mentioned. So here goes...

"I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me" by Expose
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"Hey Jealousy" by Gin Blossoms
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"Fields Of Gold" by Sting
"Plush" by Stone Temple Pilots
"Break It Down Again" by Tears For Fears
"Regret" by New Order
"Shoop" by Salt N Pepa (ok, this one was actually released in September, shortly after the school year began, so I'll count it as an honorable mention)
Also during the summer I saw the movie Free Willy, the soundtrack of which featured "Will You Be There" by Michael Jackson. That one also stood out to me.

...I'm going to revisit one of my earlier posts.

I know I have been prefacing most of my lists with summer hits that remained popular into the month of September and beyond, but I did not think to do so with my 1993-94 (8th grade) list, mainly because I was not yet an avid listener of top 40 radio in the summer of 1993. However, I do realize that there are several songs from that span which were still on the charts in September (and I liked); so they should be mentioned. So here goes...

"I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me" by Expose
"Hey Jealousy" by Gin Blossoms
"Fields Of Gold" by Sting
"Plush" by Stone Temple Pilots
"Break It Down Again" by Tears For Fears
"Regret" by New Order
"Shoop" by Salt N Pepa (ok, this one was actually released in September, shortly after the school year began, so I'll count it as an honorable mention)
Also during the summer I saw the movie Free Willy, the soundtrack of which featured "Will You Be There" by Michael Jackson. That one also stood out to me.


O0 Great list, Jeffrey!  Thanks for including that you weren't an avid listener until 8th Grade.  For me, that was 6th Grade (Fall 1970).  IOW there were a lot of great tunes out before 6th Grade, for which I have no associations (unlike the songs I heard when I was a listener myself).  It makes a difference, doesn't it?  Those songs we heard when we were engaged listeners became our "soundtrack"; other songs, like them or not, just aren't in the same category.

10th grade:

No order:

-Roxanne-The Police (already wrote about it)
-Can't Stand Losing You-The Police (already wrote about it)
-Knock on Wood-Amii Stewart (mine & my then boyfriend's song)
-Logical Song-Supertramp (I actually used this song in a video I created about my life)
-My Sharona-The Knack
-Do You Think I'm Sexy-Rod Stewart
-Le Freak-Chic
-I Will Survive-Gloria Gaynor
-Y.M.C.A. -Village People
-Fire-Pointer Sisters
-Another Brick in the Wall-Pink Floyd
-Heart of Glass-Blondie
-Tragedy-The Bee Gees
-Don't Cry Out Loud-Melissa Manchester
-Paradise by The Dashboard Light-Meatloaf
-You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth-Meatloaf
-Gold-John Stewart
-Sultans of Swing-Dire Straits
-Double Vision-Foreigner
-The Devil Went Down to Georgia-Charlie Daniels Band
-Hold The Line-Toto
-I Want You-The Beatles. (I know this song was from early but that was the year the movie Sgt Pepper came out and I fell in love with the song.)

In French, every week, our teacher would have our lessons on tape. At the end of the lesson, he would always put music on and I fell in love with a lot of it. He FINALLY gave me a tape of a lot of the music that I bugged him for, for YEARS!  This song was my favorite. It is called The Rock Collection by Laurent Voulzy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT5FsQN2KR0

Yeah, my French teacher also taught us a whole bunch of French songs like this drinking folk song. Yup, this song and others takes me right back to 10th grade French Club.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHh0VVA9kE


Cat

O0 Great list, Jeffrey!  Thanks for including that you weren't an avid listener until 8th Grade.  For me, that was 6th Grade (Fall 1970).  IOW there were a lot of great tunes out before 6th Grade, for which I have no associations (unlike the songs I heard when I was a listener myself).  It makes a difference, doesn't it?

I did listen to some pop music on the radio before I was 13, but not frequently. Usually if there was a hit song out that I really liked, I'd turn the radio to the pop stations just to listen for that particular song. One such example was "Too Many Walls" by Cathy Dennis, which was a hit in 1991 (during the summer I turned 11; I still love that song to this day). And after I became an avid listener in early 1994 (as indicated in my very first reply to this thread), there were specific songs I would usually listen for... and while I still had a fondness for them, I would hear other songs which I would also develop a liking for! Hence the lists I came up with.


Those songs we heard when we were engaged listeners became our "soundtrack"; other songs, like them or not, just aren't in the same category.
So true.

I did listen to some pop music on the radio before I was 13, but not frequently. Usually if there was a hit song out that I really liked, I'd turn the radio to the pop stations just to listen for that particular song. One such example was "Too Many Walls" by Cathy Dennis, which was a hit in 1991 (during the summer I turned 11; I still love that song to this day). And after I became an avid listener in early 1994 (as indicated in my very first reply to this thread), there were specific songs I would usually listen for... and while I still had a fondness for them, I would hear other songs which I would also develop a liking for! Hence the lists I came up with...


O0 Good to know!

10th grade:

No order:

-Roxanne-The Police (already wrote about it)
-Can't Stand Losing You-The Police (already wrote about it)
-Knock on Wood-Amii Stewart (mine & my then boyfriend's song)
-Logical Song-Supertramp (I actually used this song in a video I created about my life)
-My Sharona-The Knack
-Do You Think I'm Sexy-Rod Stewart
-Le Freak-Chic
-I Will Survive-Gloria Gaynor
-Y.M.C.A. -Village People
-Fire-Pointer Sisters
-Another Brick in the Wall-Pink Floyd
-Heart of Glass-Blondie
-Tragedy-The Bee Gees
-Don't Cry Out Loud-Melissa Manchester
-Paradise by The Dashboard Light-Meatloaf
-You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth-Meatloaf
-Gold-John Stewart
-Sultans of Swing-Dire Straits
-Double Vision-Foreigner
-The Devil Went Down to Georgia-Charlie Daniels Band
-Hold The Line-Toto
-I Want You-The Beatles. (I know this song was from early but that was the year the movie Sgt Pepper came out and I fell in love with the song.)

In French, every week, our teacher would have our lessons on tape. At the end of the lesson, he would always put music on and I fell in love with a lot of it. He FINALLY gave me a tape of a lot of the music that I bugged him for, for YEARS!  This song was my favorite. It is called The Rock Collection by Laurent Voulzy.

The Rock Collection

Yeah, my French teacher also taught us a whole bunch of French songs like this drinking folk song. Yup, this song and others takes me right back to 10th grade French Club.

Chevaliers De La Table Ronde

Cat


Great list!  This timeframe overlaps with my 2nd year at University.  Your French teacher sounds awesome; there's something extra special about cool teachers.  I enjoyed the two tunes, BTW.  :)

Great list!  This timeframe overlaps with my 2nd year at University.  Your French teacher sounds awesome; there's something extra special about cool teachers.  I enjoyed the two tunes, BTW.  :)


Yeah, he was. I had the hots for him. (Ooh la, la.  ;) :D ;D ;D ) But, I know I am not the only one. I think almost EVERY girl in his classes-even in the school did. (Tried to find a pic of him online but the only ones I could find were tiny but man, he was mighty fine.) He used to bum cigs off me all the time. lol. I was going to make a comment when I made that list as to how the song "You Took The Words Out of My Mouth" reminds me of him. (No, it is not what you think it is. lol) Like I said, I was in French Club. He used to bring a bunch of us kids home afterward. One day, he brought me and another person home when that song came on (I think he had the album on tape in his car). At the beginning of the song where it goes, "On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses...", he made some comments about how you could just see him devouring her. And yeah, when he dropped me off, he said something in French and the only thing I could understand was "un cigarette." Yeah, he bummed another one from me. To this day, I can't listen to that song without thinking of him.


Cat

Yeah, he was. I had the hots for him. (Ooh la, la.  ;) :D ;D ;D ) But, I know I am not the only one. I think almost EVERY girl in his classes-even in the school did. (Tried to find a pic of him online but the only ones I could find were tiny but man, he was mighty fine.) He used to bum cigs off me all the time. lol. I was going to make a comment when I made that list as to how the song "You Took The Words Out of My Mouth" reminds me of him. (No, it is not what you think it is. lol) Like I said, I was in French Club. He used to bring a bunch of us kids home afterward. One day, he brought me and another person home when that song came on (I think he had the album on tape in his car). At the beginning of the song where it goes, "On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses...", he made some comments about how you could just see him devouring her. And yeah, when he dropped me off, he said something in French and the only thing I could understand was "un cigarette." Yeah, he bummed another one from me. To this day, I can't listen to that song without thinking of him.

Cat


O0 I don't recall any specific teachers I had that reaction to, even though there were several teachers I was fond of.  When I took Spanish as a Freshman, several young men I knew well enough told me she (my Spanish teacher) was very attractive.

This time I'll cover my 2nd year at University (unfortunately not my alma mater) from Fall 1978 to Summer 1979.  I had stopped listening to Top 40 radio by this time.  However, I took a weekly student job at the gym building that year; it had a radio playing current hits, primarily "soft rock" hits and little Disco.  So I got an earful.  (Although I did like Disco at that time, as I went out dancing most every weekend then.)  The songs from that timeframe take me back to that school year and that nice little gym building job:


Al Stewart - Time Passages
George Harrison - Blow Away

Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)
Little River Band - Reminiscing
Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
Paul Davis - Sweet Life
Firefall - Strange Way
Dan Fogelberg - The Power Of Gold
Eric Clapton - Promises
Billy Joel - My Life
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
Poco - Crazy Love
Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman - Stumblin' In
England Dan & John Ford Coley - Love Is The Answer
Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out
Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute
John Stewart - Gold



I'm revisiting my post from my 2nd year at university (78/79), but with an entirely different emphasis.  I was, for better or worse, "party girl" during that school year.  Of course this was at the height of Disco.  Every weekend, often more than once, I'd put on my party clothes around 10pm (yes) and then make my way to one of the many campus parties, meeting some friends there (or sometimes not).  I have to say this activity had a negative effect on my studies.  Live and learn.  But it was fun!  For brevity I'm sticking to Disco (leaving out the slow songs).  I danced (sometimes extensively) at campus parties to all of these (and more) that year:

Chic - Le Freak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXgSHL7efKg

Earth, Wind & Fire - September
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk

Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing
Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
Kleeer - Keep Your Body Workin'
Sylvester - Dance (Disco Heat)
Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer
Musique - In The Bush
Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
GQ - Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)
Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real
Ashford & Simpson - It Seems To Hang On
Foxy - Get Off
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove (Pt. 1)
Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman

I'm revisiting my post from my 2nd year at university (78/79), but with an entirely different emphasis.  I was, for better or worse, "party girl" during that school year.  Of course this was at the height of Disco.  Every weekend, often more than once, I'd put on my party clothes around 10pm (yes) and then make my way to one of the many campus parties, meeting some friends there (or sometimes not).  I have to say this activity had a negative effect on my studies.  Live and learn.  But it was fun!  For brevity I'm sticking to Disco (leaving out the slow songs).  I danced (sometimes extensively) at campus parties to all of these (and more) that year:

Chic - Le Freak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXgSHL7efKg




I had this one on my 10th grade list. The funny thing was, we were taught a dance to this in gym class and also learned another one in dance class. So, I was getting confused between the two different choreographies to the same song. 



Cat

I had this one on my 10th grade list. The funny thing was, we were taught a dance to this in gym class and also learned another one in dance class. So, I was getting confused between the two different choreographies to the same song. 

Cat


O0 I absolutely had noticed that "Le Freak" was on your list.  It was one of the most popular party songs to dance to, especially when new.  Upon hearing the opening shout of "Awww, Freak Out!!!", everyone in the place would quickly grab a partner and bound out to take a spot on the dance floor.  Of course, the dancing I did at school parties wasn't choreographed (kudos to you for that).  For me it was more of the "get up and boogie" variety - always with a guy, fun for me.

...You can participate in one of two ways:

Option 1 - when you have the time and energy to be comprehensive.  For the selected school year, post your grade and also the calendar years.  If you like, tell a synopsis of the highlights/lowlights of that school year.  Then post a playlist of roughly 7 to 15 favorite songs that were your "soundtrack" that year.  Embed one or two special representative songs (i.e. make them clickable YouTubes).  You can hyperlink others if you like, or just list them, it's up to you.  That's about it.

Option 2 - if you want to post just one or two representative songs for a school year, or add on based on a prior post.  As in option 1, post the grade and calendar years, and optionally something descriptive.  Then embed your one (or two) song(s).  That's it.
...


A rule amendment - for any who might be squeamish about revealing when you attended school, you can omit the grade you were in from your post and just include the calendar years.  Only include your grade if you're so inclined.

My year - High School Senior (Fall 1976 - Summer 1977)

Regarding my senior year, the best I could call it is mixed.  There was the excitement of finishing high school at last, a good thing.  But among the tough things is that a large number of my friends were in the grade above and had graduated in Spring 1976.  Not to mention that I met a number of new friends during summer 1976 in another town; I had to leave them behind when returning to school.  So senior year had its tough aspects.  I was still enjoying my music, though.  I liked Disco to an extent, more entrenched now, but was leery of it being pushed too hard.

Here is a representative group of songs I loved then:

Aerosmith - Walk This Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8O2n1Gfto

Stevie Wonder - I Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0

Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
Jefferson Starship - With Your Love
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Heart - Magic Man
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Spinners - The Rubberband Man
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
George Harrison - Crackerbox Palace
10cc - The Things We Do For Love
Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way
Eagles - Hotel California
KC & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man

My year - High School Senior (Fall 1976 - Summer 1977)

Regarding my senior year, the best I could call it is mixed.  There was the excitement of finishing high school at last, a good thing.  But among the tough things is that a large number of my friends were in the grade above and had graduated in Spring 1976.  Not to mention that I met a number of new friends during summer 1976 in another town; I had to leave them behind when returning to school.  So senior year had its tough aspects.  I was still enjoying my music, though.  I liked Disco to an extent, more entrenched now, but was leery of it being pushed too hard.

Here is a representative group of songs I loved then:

Aerosmith - Walk This Way

Stevie Wonder - I Wish

Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
Jefferson Starship - With Your Love
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Heart - Magic Man
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Spinners - The Rubberband Man
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
George Harrison - Crackerbox Palace
10cc - The Things We Do For Love
Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way
Eagles - Hotel California
KC & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man

Some good selections you have there. O0 I know a handful of them myself.

Some good selections you have there. O0 I know a handful of them myself.


Thanks!  :)  You probably have heard most of these.  I will probably revisit this year later just because I had a lot.

Thanks!  :)  You probably have heard most of these.  I will probably revisit this year later just because I had a lot.

Yep. Most of them on radio, on classic hits or classic rock stations. (They were before my time, but I know lots of songs that were hits before I was born. And I have plenty of favourites!)

Okay, I'm finally ready to post my list for my first year of college, 1998-1999.

First of all... because the fall semester started in August, the summer break wasn't very long for me, so I'm gonna count any summer hits as part of the fall semester because their popularity continued into the fall months anyway. Plus, during the month of July I was preparing to start college life, at a community college that was close to where I was living.

So, here's my list, which I'm gonna split into "Fall Semester 1998" (which will cover the second half of the calendar year) and "Spring Semester 1999" (which will cover January through May); there will be one "representative" song for each half.

To start with, 1998:
I'll Be - Edwin McCain
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Can't Get Enough Of You Baby - Smash Mouth
Jump, Jive & Wail - Brian Setzer Orchestra
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
Ray Of Light - Madonna
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Inside Out - Eve 6
Wishing I Was There - Natalie Imbruglia
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Never There - Cake

And the first half of 1999...
Maria - Blondie
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Hands - Jewel
Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz
Every Morning - Sugar Ray
Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
Praise You - Fatboy Slim
That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
Sometimes - Britney Spears
Back 2 Good - Matchbox Twenty
I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer

Okay, I'm finally ready to post my list for my first year of college, 1998-1999.

First of all... because the fall semester started in August, the summer break wasn't very long for me, so I'm gonna count any summer hits as part of the fall semester because their popularity continued into the fall months anyway. Plus, during the month of July I was preparing to start college life, at a community college that was close to where I was living.

So, here's my list, which I'm gonna split into "Fall Semester 1998" (which will cover the second half of the calendar year) and "Spring Semester 1999" (which will cover January through May); there will be one "representative" song for each half.

To start with, 1998:
I'll Be - Edwin McCain
Can't Get Enough Of You Baby - Smash Mouth
Jump, Jive & Wail - Brian Setzer Orchestra
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
Ray Of Light - Madonna
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Inside Out - Eve 6
Wishing I Was There - Natalie Imbruglia
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Never There - Cake

And the first half of 1999...
Maria - Blondie
Hands - Jewel
Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz
Every Morning - Sugar Ray
Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
Praise You - Fatboy Slim
That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
Sometimes - Britney Spears
Back 2 Good - Matchbox Twenty
I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer


O0 Terrific list, Jeffrey!  Incidentally, during that timeframe I was a newlywed.  I also remember Y2K was becoming a major concern (as my hubby works in computer programming, more work for him).

O0 Terrific list, Jeffrey!  Incidentally, during that timeframe I was a newlywed.  I also remember Y2K was becoming a major concern (as my hubby works in computer programming, more work for him).

Thank you!! Yes, the Y2K issue was quite a concern throughout the late 1990s, even more so during the year 1999. In fact, during my first year of college, I was unsure what direction I wanted to take (academically), so I started out with general ed. I did take an Intro to Computers course during my first semester, and I found it interesting overall (and my professor was good too); and then in the Spring semester I took another computer course that was all about MS Office applications (specifically Word, Excel, and Access), which I also enjoyed. I found myself taking at least one computer-based course each semester, eventually learning about programming (with Visual Basic, which I learnt in 2000), so I thought it might be fun to do computer programming. But to make a long story short, that wasn’t exactly the direction I ended up going.