Top 10 Songs From High School

[Jesse]

This list should be different for everybody. However you want to do it: Favorite 10 songs from when you were in High School, Most Popular songs during your High School years. I'm actually not sure how I'm going to do my list. Part of me wants to list my favorite songs ever while I was in High School, but I think to be a little more focused, I should do favorite popular songs during my HS run between 1988 and 1991.

[Frank]

My high school years were 78 to 81. These were one's that I dug....

Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Girls Got Rhythm - AC/DC
Every Body Want's Some - Van Halen
Milk Cow Blues - Aerosmith
Don't Break My Heart Again - Whitesnake
Heaven & Hell - Black Sabbath
Surrender - Cheap Trick [At Budakon version]
Turn Me Loose - Loverboy
Heartbeat - Riggs
Dirty White Boy - Foreigner


This is just off the top of my head. I'm sure I could easily do a Top 100 for this list. These just happened to pop into my head.Music & my high school years was very influential on my love of music.

[Jesse]

This is tough because some of my favorite songs during High school weren't all that popular and those that were popular and I do like now, I didn't particularly care for in High school. Plus, my memory is getting fuzzy. Still, I had 3 years of woodshop throughout High School and the teacher had the local rock station on during shop time, so let me see if I can recall the 10 best I heard during the period in question:


10-Hard To Handle-Black Crowes
9-Good Clean Fun-Allman Brothers Band
8-Pretending-Eric Clapton
7-Slow Train-Dylan And The Dead
6-Blaze Of Glory-Jon Bon Jovi. Fuck you , I liked it!
5-Lift Me Up-Yes
4-Dangerous-Doobie Brothers
3-Sweet Child O' Mine-Guns n Roses
2-Rockin' In The Free World-Neil Young
1-Texas Twister-Little Feat. Just an awesome, awesome song!


Some runners up:
18 And Life-Skid Row
Bad Love-Eric Clapton
Mysterious Ways-U2. One of only a handful of listenable U2 songs IMO. Probably should have made the list, but......it's U2.
Brickyard Road-Johnny Van Zant
Give It Up-ZZ Top
Wind Of Change-Scorpions
Fly To The Angels-Slaughter. Yeah, I liked this one too.
Like The Way I Do-Melissa Etheridge
Seven Turns-Allman Brothers Band

[kim]

Well, my high school daze was from 1973 to 1977.
That said, there was a plethora of tunes to choose from back then.
We had all sorts of artists back then that are now considered classics.
To be honest, I was sheltered from some of the greats because the only
thing we had to listen to was AM radio and we all know how much that
sucked.

Fortunately, I had a few friends that had the sanity to reach out
and beyond to scope out some of the stuff that were missing out on.
I have to thank those guys for introducing me to some of the greater
music back in the day...my day...

Anyway...enough of that drivel...

Here's my top 10 during high school...

Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'(g)
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Elton John - Saturday's Alright For Fighting
Sweet - Fox On The Run
Queen - Great King Rat
BTO - Gimme Your Money Please
Lynrd Skynrd - Free Bird
Heart - Crazy On You
Steve Miller - Jet Airliner
ZZ Top - La Grange

There were a lot more...Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and Foreigner, but figured I'd
throw in the ones that come to mind first.

Thanks
Kim

[Trexx]

Righteous lists! Good work.

I'm from the same era and received the same radio play as Frank. (1978-1981) His is totally dead on and I can relate to it.

I'll give a list of my top-ten, super-popular over saturated crap rock that drove me to Black Sabbath and other Kick-Ass sh*t. LOL!

Super Tramp- "Breakfast in America" (F, that shit! Especially when I found out their singer wasn't a lady)
Kim Karns- "Betty Davis Eyes" (If I was suicidal, that would put me over the edge)
Billy Squire-"Don't Say No" (Admittedly, I liked it sort of, but then there was a video or two that repulsed me)
Heart-"Dog and the Butterfly" (Boy, did they go off the rails with that one. Hard rock band drowns us with syrup. Helped prep me for what was to come later with Def Leppard's de-evolution into sissy pants)
Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band-"We've got Tonight" (I'll never be mature enough to like it. Sorry!)
Devo-"Devolution" (Original or whatever, they're stupid!)
Rod Stewart-"Blonde Have More Fun" (...this was his disco shit and there was Mighty War going on between rock and disco back then and he was on the wrong side!)
Elvis Costello-"Armed Forces" (I just didn't get this. It's retro and obnoxious)
Rick Springfield-"Working Class Dog" (Girly pop, need I say more?)
Duran Duran-"S/T" (To my ears, they sounded like they didn't know how to play their instruments. I promptly and summarily reject this nu-wave shit)

[spacel0rd]

I started to make my list…but damn, there are too many. So I went a bit overboard…
Here is a list of my favorite songs that came out during my time in high school… year by year (in no order):

1988
All Fired Up- Pat Benatar
Astronomy- Blue Öyster Cult
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams- Cinderella
Infinite Dreams- Iron Maiden
Beds are Burning- Midnight Oil
Got it Made- CSN&Y
Talkin’ Bout- 3
Mountain Song- Jane’s Addiction
Here Comes the Weekend- The Moody Blues
I Don’t Believe in Love- Queensrÿche
Rhythm of Love- Scorpions
One- Metallica
Cult of Personality- Living Colour

1987
Rag Doll- Aerosmith
Bed of Lies- Cruzados
Love Removal Machine- The Cult
All the Fools Sailed Away- Dio
Touch and Go- Emerson, Lake and Powell
Seven Wonders- Fleetwood Mac
Into the Night- Ace Frehley
Rock Me- Great White
Sweet Child O’Mine- Guns N’ Roses
Farm on the Freeway- Jethro Tull
Tonight [Live]- Elton John
No New Tale to Tell- Love and Rockets
Paper in Fire- John Mellencamp
On the Turning Away- Pink Floyd
The One I Love- R.E.M.
Time Stands Still- Rush

1986
We’re Ready- Boston
Nobody’s Fool- Cinderella
Live in Peace- The Firm
I Must Be Dreaming- Giuffria
Wasted Years- Iron Maiden
Turbo Lover- Judas Priest
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)- Metallica
Your Wildest Dreams- The Moody Blues
One Last Ride- The Outlaws
Shot in the Dark- Ozzy Osbourne
Yankee Rose- David Lee Roth
American Storm- Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
She- White Wolf
Touch the Night- Neil Young

1985
Le Bel Age- Pat Benatar
Only Lonely- Bon Jovi
Don’t Lose My Number- Phil Collins
Rock ‘n’ Roll Children- Dio
So Far Away- Dire Straits
In My Dreams- Dokken
Say Goodbye- Krokus
Rain on the Scarecrow- John Mellencamp
Talk to Me- Stevie Nicks
Stereotomy- Alan Parsons Project
Cannonball- Supertramp
Sleeping Bag- ZZ Top

1984
The Last in Line- Dio
Just Got Lucky- Dokken
The Was Yesterday- Foreigner
Call to the Heart- Giuffria
Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)- Roger Hodgson
2 Minutes to Midnight- Iron Maiden
Less Cities, More Moving People- The Fixx
Some Heads are Gonna Roll- Judas Priest
Balls to the Wall- Accept
Midnite Maniac- Krokus
Fade to Black- Metallica
Satisfied Man- Molly Hatchet
Distant Early Warning- Rush
My Oh My- Slade
Stranger in Town- Toto
We’re Not Gonna Take it- Twisted Sister
Rock & Roll’s Gonna Save the World- Y&T
Turn Up the Radio- Autograph
We Belong- Pat Benatar
You Might Think- The Cars
Knocking on Your Back Door- Deep Purple

[Frank]

Jun 30, 2014 8:40:46 GMT -5 spacel0rd said:

I started to make my list…but damn, there are too many. So I went a bit overboard…
Here is a list of my favorite songs that came out during my time in high school… year by year (in no order):

1988
All Fired Up- Pat Benatar
Astronomy- Blue Öyster Cult
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams- Cinderella
Infinite Dreams- Iron Maiden
Beds are Burning- Midnight Oil
Got it Made- CSN&Y
Talkin’ Bout- 3
Mountain Song- Jane’s Addiction
Here Comes the Weekend- The Moody Blues
I Don’t Believe in Love- Queensrÿche
Rhythm of Love- Scorpions
One- Metallica
Cult of Personality- Living Colour

1987
Rag Doll- Aerosmith
Bed of Lies- Cruzados
Love Removal Machine- The Cult
All the Fools Sailed Away- Dio
Touch and Go- Emerson, Lake and Powell
Seven Wonders- Fleetwood Mac
Into the Night- Ace Frehley
Rock Me- Great White
Sweet Child O’Mine- Guns N’ Roses
Farm on the Freeway- Jethro Tull
Tonight [Live]- Elton John
No New Tale to Tell- Love and Rockets
Paper in Fire- John Mellencamp
On the Turning Away- Pink Floyd
The One I Love- R.E.M.
Time Stands Still- Rush

1986
We’re Ready- Boston
Nobody’s Fool- Cinderella
Live in Peace- The Firm
I Must Be Dreaming- Giuffria
Wasted Years- Iron Maiden
Turbo Lover- Judas Priest
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)- Metallica
Your Wildest Dreams- The Moody Blues
One Last Ride- The Outlaws
Shot in the Dark- Ozzy Osbourne
Yankee Rose- David Lee Roth
American Storm- Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
She- White Wolf
Touch the Night- Neil Young

1985
Le Bel Age- Pat Benatar
Only Lonely- Bon Jovi
Don’t Lose My Number- Phil Collins
Rock ‘n’ Roll Children- Dio
So Far Away- Dire Straits
In My Dreams- Dokken
Say Goodbye- Krokus
Rain on the Scarecrow- John Mellencamp
Talk to Me- Stevie Nicks
Stereotomy- Alan Parsons Project
Cannonball- Supertramp
Sleeping Bag- ZZ Top

1984
The Last in Line- Dio
Just Got Lucky- Dokken
The Was Yesterday- Foreigner
Call to the Heart- Giuffria
Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)- Roger Hodgson
2 Minutes to Midnight- Iron Maiden
Less Cities, More Moving People- The Fixx
Some Heads are Gonna Roll- Judas Priest
Balls to the Wall- Accept
Midnite Maniac- Krokus
Fade to Black- Metallica
Satisfied Man- Molly Hatchet
Distant Early Warning- Rush
My Oh My- Slade
Stranger in Town- Toto
We’re Not Gonna Take it- Twisted Sister
Rock & Roll’s Gonna Save the World- Y&T
Turn Up the Radio- Autograph
We Belong- Pat Benatar
You Might Think- The Cars
Knocking on Your Back Door- Deep Purple

Tons of good songs on there!

[Jesse]

Jun 21, 2014 13:03:51 GMT -5 kim said:

Well, my high school daze was from 1973 to 1977.
That said, there was a plethora of tunes to choose from back then.
We had all sorts of artists back then that are now considered classics.
To be honest, I was sheltered from some of the greats because the only
thing we had to listen to was AM radio and we all know how much that
sucked.

Fortunately, I had a few friends that had the sanity to reach out
and beyond to scope out some of the stuff that were missing out on.
I have to thank those guys for introducing me to some of the greater
music back in the day...my day...

Anyway...enough of that drivel...

Here's my top 10 during high school...

Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'(g)
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Elton John - Saturday's Alright For Fighting
Sweet - Fox On The Run
Queen - Great King Rat
BTO - Gimme Your Money Please
Lynrd Skynrd - Free Bird
Heart - Crazy On You
Steve Miller - Jet Airliner
ZZ Top - La Grange

There were a lot more...Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and Foreigner, but figured I'd
throw in the ones that come to mind first.

Thanks
Kim

Sometimes I wish I grew up in those times......but then I'd be old

[Jesse]

Jun 28, 2014 17:37:23 GMT -5 Trexx said:

Righteous lists! Good work.

I'm from the same era and received the same radio play as Frank. (1978-1981) His is totally dead on and I can relate to it.

I'll give a list of my top-ten, super-popular over saturated crap rock that drove me to Black Sabbath and other Kick-Ass sh*t. LOL!

Super Tramp- "Breakfast in America" (F, that shit! Especially when I found out their singer wasn't a lady)
Kim Karns- "Betty Davis Eyes" (If I was suicidal, that would put me over the edge)
Billy Squire-"Don't Say No" (Admittedly, I liked it sort of, but then there was a video or two that repulsed me)
Heart-"Dog and the Butterfly" (Boy, did they go off the rails with that one. Hard rock band drowns us with syrup. Helped prep me for what was to come later with Def Leppard's de-evolution into sissy pants)
Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band-"We've got Tonight" (I'll never be mature enough to like it. Sorry!)
Devo-"Devolution" (Original or whatever, they're stupid!)
Rod Stewart-"Blonde Have More Fun" (...this was his disco shit and there was Mighty War going on between rock and disco back then and he was on the wrong side!)
Elvis Costello-"Armed Forces" (I just didn't get this. It's retro and obnoxious)
Rick Springfield-"Working Class Dog" (Girly pop, need I say more?)
Duran Duran-"S/T" (To my ears, they sounded like they didn't know how to play their instruments. I promptly and summarily reject this nu-wave shit)

Shit always floats to the top, doesn't it?

[Jesse]

Jun 30, 2014 8:40:46 GMT -5 spacel0rd said:

I started to make my list…but damn, there are too many. So I went a bit overboard…
Here is a list of my favorite songs that came out during my time in high school… year by year (in no order):

1988
All Fired Up- Pat Benatar
Astronomy- Blue Öyster Cult
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams- Cinderella
Infinite Dreams- Iron Maiden
Beds are Burning- Midnight Oil
Got it Made- CSN&Y
Talkin’ Bout- 3
Mountain Song- Jane’s Addiction
Here Comes the Weekend- The Moody Blues
I Don’t Believe in Love- Queensrÿche
Rhythm of Love- Scorpions
One- Metallica
Cult of Personality- Living Colour

1987
Rag Doll- Aerosmith
Bed of Lies- Cruzados
Love Removal Machine- The Cult
All the Fools Sailed Away- Dio
Touch and Go- Emerson, Lake and Powell
Seven Wonders- Fleetwood Mac
Into the Night- Ace Frehley
Rock Me- Great White
Sweet Child O’Mine- Guns N’ Roses
Farm on the Freeway- Jethro Tull
Tonight [Live]- Elton John
No New Tale to Tell- Love and Rockets
Paper in Fire- John Mellencamp
On the Turning Away- Pink Floyd
The One I Love- R.E.M.
Time Stands Still- Rush

1986
We’re Ready- Boston
Nobody’s Fool- Cinderella
Live in Peace- The Firm
I Must Be Dreaming- Giuffria
Wasted Years- Iron Maiden
Turbo Lover- Judas Priest
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)- Metallica
Your Wildest Dreams- The Moody Blues
One Last Ride- The Outlaws
Shot in the Dark- Ozzy Osbourne
Yankee Rose- David Lee Roth
American Storm- Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
She- White Wolf
Touch the Night- Neil Young

1985
Le Bel Age- Pat Benatar
Only Lonely- Bon Jovi
Don’t Lose My Number- Phil Collins
Rock ‘n’ Roll Children- Dio
So Far Away- Dire Straits
In My Dreams- Dokken
Say Goodbye- Krokus
Rain on the Scarecrow- John Mellencamp
Talk to Me- Stevie Nicks
Stereotomy- Alan Parsons Project
Cannonball- Supertramp
Sleeping Bag- ZZ Top

1984
The Last in Line- Dio
Just Got Lucky- Dokken
The Was Yesterday- Foreigner
Call to the Heart- Giuffria
Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)- Roger Hodgson
2 Minutes to Midnight- Iron Maiden
Less Cities, More Moving People- The Fixx
Some Heads are Gonna Roll- Judas Priest
Balls to the Wall- Accept
Midnite Maniac- Krokus
Fade to Black- Metallica
Satisfied Man- Molly Hatchet
Distant Early Warning- Rush
My Oh My- Slade
Stranger in Town- Toto
We’re Not Gonna Take it- Twisted Sister
Rock & Roll’s Gonna Save the World- Y&T
Turn Up the Radio- Autograph
We Belong- Pat Benatar
You Might Think- The Cars
Knocking on Your Back Door- Deep Purple

Lotta great songs, but I either didn't hear of them until later, or never liked them until later.

[Trexx]

Jun 30, 2014 8:40:46 GMT -5 spacel0rd said:

I started to make my list…but damn, there are too many. So I went a bit overboard…
Here is a list of my favorite songs that came out during my time in high school… year by year (in no order):

1988
All Fired Up- Pat Benatar
Astronomy- Blue Öyster Cult
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams- Cinderella
Infinite Dreams- Iron Maiden
Beds are Burning- Midnight Oil
Got it Made- CSN&Y
Talkin’ Bout- 3
Mountain Song- Jane’s Addiction
Here Comes the Weekend- The Moody Blues
I Don’t Believe in Love- Queensrÿche
Rhythm of Love- Scorpions
One- Metallica
Cult of Personality- Living Colour

1987
Rag Doll- Aerosmith
Bed of Lies- Cruzados
Love Removal Machine- The Cult
All the Fools Sailed Away- Dio
Touch and Go- Emerson, Lake and Powell
Seven Wonders- Fleetwood Mac
Into the Night- Ace Frehley
Rock Me- Great White
Sweet Child O’Mine- Guns N’ Roses
Farm on the Freeway- Jethro Tull
Tonight [Live]- Elton John
No New Tale to Tell- Love and Rockets
Paper in Fire- John Mellencamp
On the Turning Away- Pink Floyd
The One I Love- R.E.M.
Time Stands Still- Rush

1986
We’re Ready- Boston
Nobody’s Fool- Cinderella
Live in Peace- The Firm
I Must Be Dreaming- Giuffria
Wasted Years- Iron Maiden
Turbo Lover- Judas Priest
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)- Metallica
Your Wildest Dreams- The Moody Blues
One Last Ride- The Outlaws
Shot in the Dark- Ozzy Osbourne
Yankee Rose- David Lee Roth
American Storm- Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
She- White Wolf
Touch the Night- Neil Young

1985
Le Bel Age- Pat Benatar
Only Lonely- Bon Jovi
Don’t Lose My Number- Phil Collins
Rock ‘n’ Roll Children- Dio
So Far Away- Dire Straits
In My Dreams- Dokken
Say Goodbye- Krokus
Rain on the Scarecrow- John Mellencamp
Talk to Me- Stevie Nicks
Stereotomy- Alan Parsons Project
Cannonball- Supertramp
Sleeping Bag- ZZ Top

1984
The Last in Line- Dio
Just Got Lucky- Dokken
The Was Yesterday- Foreigner
Call to the Heart- Giuffria
Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)- Roger Hodgson
2 Minutes to Midnight- Iron Maiden
Less Cities, More Moving People- The Fixx
Some Heads are Gonna Roll- Judas Priest
Balls to the Wall- Accept
Midnite Maniac- Krokus
Fade to Black- Metallica
Satisfied Man- Molly Hatchet
Distant Early Warning- Rush
My Oh My- Slade
Stranger in Town- Toto
We’re Not Gonna Take it- Twisted Sister
Rock & Roll’s Gonna Save the World- Y&T
Turn Up the Radio- Autograph
We Belong- Pat Benatar
You Might Think- The Cars
Knocking on Your Back Door- Deep Purple

Wowie! Dang over-achiever. ...What!? No, "Men at Work" HAA!

[spacel0rd]

Oh, I love me some "Down Under". But in 1982 I was in grade school.

[bucky]

Great lists Space!!

I went from 1978- 1981

1) Rock & Roll All Nite by Kiss from Kiss Alive

2) I'm 18 by Alice Cooper from The Alice Cooper Show

3) Shattered by the Rolling Stones from Some Girls

4) Won't Get Fooled Again by the Who

5) The Party by Max Webster from Mutiny Up My Sleeve

6) Rock & Roll Machine by Triumph from Rock & Roll Machine

7) Train Kept A Rollin' by Aerosmith from Get yer Wings

8) Sin City by AC/DC from Powerage

9) Eruption/You Really Got Me by Van Halen from Van Halen

10) Wang Dang Sweet Poontang by Ted Nugent from Double Live Gonzo

[duojett71]

I started High School in '85 and graduated in '89. At first I was going to list my favorite songs that were released during that time, then I thought I would just list my favorite songs during that time. I think my list will be a mixture of the two. I can't narrow it down to 10....at least not without thinking about it for a long time....so I took Trexx's approach....sorry for the long list.

1985/1986:
Accept-Metal Heart, Teach Us To Survive, Bound To Fail
Mercyful Fate-A Dangerous Meeting, Desecration Of Souls, Evil
Iron Maiden-Powerslave, 2 Minutes To Midnight, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Yngwie Malmsteen-I Am A Viking
Dokken-Unchain the Night, Into The Fire, Tooth And Nail
Queensryche-Walk In The Shadows, Neue Regel, Screaming In Digital, I Will Remember
Anthrax-A.I.R., Medusa
Metallica-Master Of Puppets, Orion, Welcome Home, Disposable Heroes
John Mellancamp-Rain On The Scarecrow
Saxon-Crusader, Just Let Me Rock
Ozzy-Killer of Giants

1986/1987:
Iron Maiden-Somewhere In Time, Wasted Years, Sea Of Madness, Stranger In a Strange Land, Alexander The Great
Accept-T.V. War, Russian Roulette, Heaven Is Hell
TNT-Seven Seas, Last Summer's Evil
Europe-The Final Countdown
Judas Priest-Turbo Lover, Out In The Cold
Tesla-Modern Day Cowboy, EZ Come EZ GO, 2 Late 4 Love
Megadeth-Peace Cells, The Conjuring
Stryper-To Hell With The Devil, The Way
Fates Warning-Guardian, The Sorceress

1987/1988
Iron Maiden-Moonchild, Infinite Dreams, Seventh Son of A Seventh Son
John Norum-Let Me Love You, Back On The Streets, In Chase of The Wind, We'll Do What It Takes Together
Amored Saint-Long Before I Die, For The Sake, Aftermath, Nervous Man, In The Hole, Raising Fear, Saturday Night Special, Human Vulture, Isolation
Flotsam And Jetsam-No Place For Discrace
King Diamond-Abigail, A Mansion In Darkness
TNT-Everyone's A Star, 10, 000 Lovers, Desperate Night, Sapphire
Queensryche-The Mission, Suite Sister Mary, Eyes Of A Stranger
Great White-Rock Me
White Lion-Fight To Survive, Hungry, Lady of The Valley
Yngwie Malmsteen-Rising Force, Deja Vu
Megadeth-Mary Jane, In My Darkest Hour
Malice-Chain Gang Woman
Fates Warning-Silent Cries, In A Word, Anarchy Divine

1988/1989:
Thin Lizzy-Warrior, Massacre, Johnny The Fox, Emerald, Suicide(live versions)
Europe-Aphasia, Stormwind, Wings of Tomorrow
Molly Hatchet-Dreams
Dirty Looks-Cool From The Wire, Get Off
Powermad-NIce Dreams
Fates Warning-Part of The Machine, Through Different Eyes