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What song gives you an instant flashback to High school?

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Definitely Not A Cop
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Mathguy64 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

Stairway to Heaven. Literally THE song, played at every HS dance multiple times.


How do you dance to that song?
The first half? Slow and close.


Would they cut off before the second half? Or would you go from slow dancing to mosh pitting?
gigemags-99
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Right Now - Van Halen

They used to play that along with a motivational video in my high school auditorium. Did anyone else experience this?

I swear when that song comes on I remember the smell of that place.
maroon barchetta
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double aught said:

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I had Alexa shuffling through songs and "God of wine" by Third Eye Blind came on, and I got an instant image of 14 year old me with bleached frosted tips, Tommy Hilfiger polo and doc marten sandals in my mind's eye
Dang. What was being rich like?


Bet he had some Cavariccis as well
Furlock Bones
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Creed Higher came out my sophomore year. Quintessential turn of the century rock song.
EclipseAg
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This is a hard one for me, because I still listen regularly to songs from my high school days.

But if I had to pick one, I would have to say "More than a Feeling" by Boston. Roll down the windows, crank up the stereo, drive fast ... freedom!
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maroon barchetta said:

double aught said:

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I had Alexa shuffling through songs and "God of wine" by Third Eye Blind came on, and I got an instant image of 14 year old me with bleached frosted tips, Tommy Hilfiger polo and doc marten sandals in my mind's eye
Dang. What was being rich like?


Bet he had some Cavariccis as well


Pant leg bottoms folded and rolled. IYKYK
VP at Pierce and Pierce
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Outkast- Hey Ya
double aught
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maroon barchetta said:

double aught said:

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I had Alexa shuffling through songs and "God of wine" by Third Eye Blind came on, and I got an instant image of 14 year old me with bleached frosted tips, Tommy Hilfiger polo and doc marten sandals in my mind's eye
Dang. What was being rich like?


Bet he had some Cavariccis as well
Or Girbauds even!
nickstro66
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Great decisions were made to this song in high school
Belton Ag
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Anytime I hear Friends in Low Places or Smells LikeTeen Spirit I am instantly transported to a specific time and place at my high school.
Mega Lops
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Quo Vadis? said:

doc marten sandals
Quo Vadis?
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Mega Lops said:

Quo Vadis? said:

doc marten sandals



You could build your traps solely by buying two pairs of sandals at journeys and carrying them to your car in the parking lot.
Ragoo
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Scotts Tot said:

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

Came out when I was in middle school and was an absolute fixture of circa-2000 middle and high school dances.
freaking banger
Hub `93
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Def Leppard "Women"

Mainly because it was the first song from Hysteria that I heard. Saw the video one night after football practice. Hearing that song reminds me of how beat up I felt after practice.
Lathspell
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I mean... anything that came out between 2001 and 2005.

Specifically, when I was a freshman in high school, I was given a couple Best Buy gift cards which I used to buy Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (Blink) and All Killer, No Filler (Sum 41). That was the first music I ever bought with my own money. Up until that point, I either was listening to 102.1 or was borrowing a friend's CD.

For the next several months, I just listened to those two albums over and over again on the bus ride to school, every morning. When I happen across any song from those albums, but especially the songs that weren't singles, it immediately puts me back in that seat on the bus.
jah003
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I mean this entire album honestly, but specifically this song. Flashbacks of driving to my girlfriends (now wife's) house with this in the CD player.
Bruce Almighty
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Biggie died my senior year and Hypnotize was huge. Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey were probably the two biggest musical artists during my 4 years in high school. I'm pretty sure One Sweet Day was my class song.
Canyon Lake Agbu94
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Sweet child of mine and Pour some sugar on me are the two that come to mind for me. I hear those first few guitar licks of sweet child and I am instantly back in the summer before my senior year.
Bonfired
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The whole Licensed To Ill album...Fight For Your Right, Brass Monkey, No Sleep Til Brooklyn...spring break beach house parties my senior year.
Zombie Jon Snow
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Bonfired said:

The whole Licensed To Ill album...Fight For Your Right, Brass Monkey, No Sleep Til Brooklyn...spring break beach house parties my senior year.

That album is the bane of my junior year of college Spring semester.

We got our upstairs neighbors evicted because of it and it came up specifically in court.

Out of control parties all night long every weekend and they played that album front to back over and over and over. We called security repeatedly and eventually after three visits the security would call the cops and then they would disband for the night. Only to return the next night and repeat.

This continued for weeks on end and they started retaliating by destroying things on our balcony, throwing eggs at our door and trashing my moped parked out front. We reported everything until the apartment had enough of it and filed eviction papers. Which then went to muni court.

We were called by the apartments lawyer. Anyway in court they asked me and the security guy separately about music we heard playing and we both referenced that album. The defense lawyer asked me if I owned that record. I said no. And then he asked me to name as many songs as I could and I rattled off 5 or 6 which seemed to prove they played it often enough and at high volume. Oops. Bad move on his part.

I did get my revenge the last weekend they were there before they had to vacate - as expected they had the biggest rager yet as they had no fear of repercussions. We expected it and actually vacated that night. I stayed at a buddies place. But at 5:30am the next morning I came back and all was quiet. I turned my Bose tower speakers up toward their ceiling and turned on something (I forget) at full volume blasting up to their apartment and left again. I had a better stereo than they did I'm just not a jerk. But that day I was. I let it go for 4 hours before I came back. Later *****es. Not a peep the next night and then they were moving out on Sunday with only like 3 weeks in the semester. Sorry. Not sorry.

I actually later learned to like the album but I did not at the time.

Treehouse apartments if anyone is wondering. Over by the baseball stadium.
91_Aggie
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Jack & Diane
Owner of a Lonely Heart
West End Girls
The Final countdown
Here I Go Again
Don't stop Believing
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Btron
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"Sherry was a waitress at the only joint in town…."
AJ02
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Definitely "Graduate" by Third Eye Blind. I remember friends blaring that from their cars on the last day of senior year.
NoahAg
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Various 90s alt rock/grunge songs:

Space Hog - In the Meantime
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Candlebox - Far Behind
Capstone
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Half of Back in Black album
Beastie Boys - Fight for your Right to Parrrrrrrrtay
Quiet Riot - Come on Feel the Noise
MJ - Thriller
Cars - Best Friends Girl
StinkyPinky
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NoahAg said:

Various 90s alt rock/grunge songs:

Space Hog - In the Meantime
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Candlebox - Far Behind
Was college for me, but was a Candlebox fan
aggiebird02
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Reveille

I went to a military school…
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BadMoonRisin
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I forgot what a dime Natalie Imbruglia was (and still is!)
Duckhook
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Ah, I'm old. So many, but The Joker by The Steve Miller Band always does it. Can remember riding around with girls in my '65 Beetle listening to it.
maroon barchetta
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BadMoonRisin said:

I forgot what a dime Natalie Imbruglia was (and still is!)


She is quite lovely.
HollywoodBQ
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HECUBUS said:

Hotel California. One kid played that song every day after school in his Transam as he left school. You could set your watch by it. Many, many more, but that's the main one that reminds me of my senior year of high school.
Reminds me of my Junior Year in HS after I moved to the USA. This All State Trumpet kid had some speakers he would put on the roof of his Ford Pinto (seriously, a Pinto) and crank Van Halen's - Why Can't This Be Love? every single day before summer marching band practice.

Tragically, he was killed in a car accident my Sophomore Year at A&M. Wear your damn seatbelt!
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132999833/david-thomas-delucenay
Ag87H2O
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91_Aggie said:

Jack & Diane
Owner of a Lonely Heart
West End Girls
The Final countdown
Here I Go Again
Don't stop Believing
Great list. I would add Don Henly - Sunset Grill
scd88
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Great thread!

Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Hell's Bells - AC/DC
Any David Lee Roth led VH song
Cheap Sunglasses - ZZ Top
Tom Sawyer - Rush

Just to name a few. My friends and went to most of the concerts that rolled through The Summit from late 1982 through graduation in May 1984.

97 Rock and 101 KLOL were the radio stations.
maroon barchetta
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The Silver Surfer head logo was the best KLOL logo.
 
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