"Forever Young" by Alphaville. Even though that song came out a few years before we graduated, it was still the way we felt about ourselves back in the 80s.
Our class wanted Stairway to Heaven but the administration wouldn't allow it saying it was about drugs. Catholic School. I don't remember what it ended up being.
I don't know, I remember a whole group of us singing along to "Don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith. But I'm gonna say Gimme More by Britney, Bitch. And we left our graduation to the Breakfast Club Classic as chosen by our year advisor.
No prom for me! But I did get a class ring..It was stolen so if anyone sees one in a pawn store with the comedy tragedy symbols and a pink stone lemme know.
Prom? I didn't go. Went to the strip bar with a dozen or so guys that didn't want to go either. Morgana the kissing bandit was the feature that night. I have a polaroid somewhere with her breasts on my head.
Afraid I was getting high or tripping, a la the count. Proms considered very uncool. But the group they had was the tymes-"as we stroll along together", but I didn't know til after prom. May have listened in parking lot if I knew, lol
@Rowdy, they were totally jealous, which was really silly. Most of the downstate kids were accepted into the program, because so few of us applied. I worked for a Chicago-area state representative, whose biggest career contribution was her annual submission of "The Bunny Bill". It was designed to prohibit testing of cosmetics on animals.
The kids in the program stayed with "house parents", local families who agreed to let us live in their homes for the semester in exchange for a small stipend. My house mom, Gail, had been in Bill Clinton's first gubernatorial cabinet, as the head of the Arkansas Department of Human Services. She had nothing but wonderful things to say about him.
I had a lot of fun, and I learned a lot of good things about government. The biggest thing I learned was that maybe politics isn't for me. The artifice, by both politicians and the workers behind the scenes, shattered my naivete. I left the place with a view a little less like "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," and a little more like "Primary Colors." The program was discontinued a few years ago.
I hope your experience in DC was a much better one.
The Hokey Pokey, how would I even possibly remember...
ReplyDelete"The Best of Times" --Styx
ReplyDeleteI was out in the woods getting drunk and stoned with the cool kids. No clue about a prom song.
ReplyDeleteDidn't go, don't know.
ReplyDeleteAnd could care even less.
Hasn't this been asked before?
ReplyDeletethe "graduation song" by Vitamin C
ReplyDeleteMy school and most of my classmates were quite lame...
Didn't go to prom. Had better things to do, like work.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't have a prom, thank goodness. Class of '74, Brooklyn. I wouldn't have gone if we did.
ReplyDeleteYou went to prom? I was on an internship in our state capital during my senior year, and only came back to graduate.
ReplyDeleteWow, with the exception of Topper and Derek, you are all apparently soooo cool.
ReplyDeleteFor heaven's sake, the prom is a classic rite of passage for many.
That said:
"We've Got Tonight" by Bob Seger.
"Forever Young" by Alphaville. Even though that song came out a few years before we graduated, it was still the way we felt about ourselves back in the 80s.
ReplyDelete"I Can't Help Falling in Love with You" by Elvis. My prom was in 2002. I have NO idea why that song won.
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ReplyDeletemarvelous night for a moondance, van morrison. 1978
ReplyDeleteI don't remember, but probably something by Elton John, it was the 70's.
ReplyDeleteNights in White Satin
ReplyDeleteOnce again, us kids who had Junior-Senior Banquets are left warming the bench.
ReplyDeleteEnty's HS Prom Song?
ReplyDeleteOur class wanted Stairway to Heaven but the administration wouldn't allow it saying it was about drugs. Catholic School. I don't remember what it ended up being.
ReplyDelete@Kelly, you were an intern at your state capital? That's cool.
ReplyDeleteI spent a summer as a senate page in DC for our Senator at the time my Jr. year. Were people jealous of you, too?
They wouldn't let me in because I wasn't wearing my class ring.
ReplyDeleteMy song was hidden in a plastic bag with my class ring.
ReplyDeleteour class song was the Friends Theme Song.. back in 2005 which is still weird to me..
ReplyDeleteTime of My Lidw jr year. Firever Young sr year.
ReplyDeleteThey only played one song at your prom? Was Mom's record player broken? Or did she just shut off the power to the basement at 8:15?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, I remember a whole group of us singing along to "Don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith. But I'm gonna say Gimme More by Britney, Bitch. And we left our graduation to the Breakfast Club Classic as chosen by our year advisor.
ReplyDeleteNo prom for me! But I did get a class ring..It was stolen so if anyone sees one in a pawn store with the comedy tragedy symbols and a pink stone lemme know.
ReplyDeleteProm? I didn't go. Went to the strip bar with a dozen or so guys that didn't want to go either. Morgana the kissing bandit was the feature that night. I have a polaroid somewhere with her breasts on my head.
ReplyDelete"Hold On to the Night" by Richard Marx
ReplyDeletePrince- party like its 1999. Prom and grad in 1999
ReplyDeleteAfraid I was getting high or tripping, a la the count. Proms considered very uncool. But the group they had was the tymes-"as we stroll along together", but I didn't know til after prom. May have listened in parking lot if I knew, lol
ReplyDeleteA whole new world with this shitacious Aladdin set.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know proms actually had songs. We had a senior class song that is going to seriously date me: Forever Young by Alphaville.
ReplyDelete@Rowdy, they were totally jealous, which was really silly. Most of the downstate kids were accepted into the program, because so few of us applied. I worked for a Chicago-area state representative, whose biggest career contribution was her annual submission of "The Bunny Bill". It was designed to prohibit testing of cosmetics on animals.
ReplyDeleteThe kids in the program stayed with "house parents", local families who agreed to let us live in their homes for the semester in exchange for a small stipend. My house mom, Gail, had been in Bill Clinton's first gubernatorial cabinet, as the head of the Arkansas Department of Human Services. She had nothing but wonderful things to say about him.
I had a lot of fun, and I learned a lot of good things about government. The biggest thing I learned was that maybe politics isn't for me. The artifice, by both politicians and the workers behind the scenes, shattered my naivete. I left the place with a view a little less like "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," and a little more like "Primary Colors." The program was discontinued a few years ago.
I hope your experience in DC was a much better one.