Soundtrack of your High School days

[hutter]

Yeah yeah, we all dig new wave, but what was playing in your cars cassette player during your high school days? I just dug through an old box of cassettes from way back when (yeah, I'm a packrat) and came across these "gems":

-Crazy from the heat (David Lee Roth)
-Eat 'em and smile (David Lee Roth)
-Fair Warning (Van Halen)
-Tougher than leather (Run DMC)
-Greatest Hits(Aerosmith)
-The New Zapp 4U (Zapp)
-The nightfly (Donald Fagan)
-Back in black (AC/DC)
-Appetite for destruction (Guns 'N' Roses)
-Tejas (ZZ Top)
-Electric Cafe (Kraftwerk)
-Move somethin' (2 Live Crew)
-Oh no it's Devo! (Devo)
-Moving Pictures (Rush)
-Rattle and Hum (U2)
-Straight Outta Compton (NWA)
-Electric spanking of war babies (Funkadelic)
-more stuff like the above, tons and tons of it

I forgot how little new wave I actually listened to back in the day (unless it was on Mtv or the radio, or from my sis' record collection) and am slightly amazed that my musical tastes have broadened quite a bit. Hell, I even listen to polka every once in a while.

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[Max Murdoc]

They didn't have cassettes back when I was in high school.....we had to have the band in our back seat.

Seriously....I was listening to Colonel Tom and the Epstein Bros. (had a great version of "It's a Rainy Day Sunshine Girl" by Can), Tonio K, Godley Creme, Kraftwerk, Television, Dead Fingers Talk, The Hounds, Pop, Elvis of course and a bunch of Krautrock most of which I still have today.

Max

The music you listen to is the soundtrack of your life.

[zalasta]

wooo-hooo... good topic I was totally immersed in music during high school. Some things never change, heh [:)]

If I were to do a mixed CD, "Soundtrack to my High School years", it would look something like this (one song per artist):


1. Fascination Street - The Cure
2. Beethoven (I Love to Listen To) - Eurythmics
3. Fire Woman - The Cult
4. Lost in Dreaming - Red Temple Spirits
5. Three Days - Jane's Addiction
6. The Sweetest Perfection - Depeche Mode
7. Death of an Angel - Human Drama
8. The Deadbeat Club - The B-52's
9. Empire - Queensryche
10. The Evil That Men Do - Iron Maiden
11. The Sensual World - Kate Bush
12. Thunder - Prince
13. Like a Prayer - Madonna
14. Rockin' In the Free World - Neil Young
15. Time Will Crawl - David Bowie
16. Heart Like a Wheel - Human League
17. Joey - Concrete Blonde
18. Black - Pearl Jam


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[randy]

Making me feel old!!!

Queen--We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions
Santana-Shes Not There
Foreigner-Feels Like The First Time
Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
Nazareth-Love Hurts
David Bowie-Heroes
Blue Oyster Cult-The Reaper
J Geils Band-Musta Got Lost
Golden Earring-Radar Love
Alice Cooper-No More Mr Nice Guy
Doobie Brothers-Black Water
Dr Hook-Cover Of Rolling Stone
Joe Walsh-Rocky Mountain Way

Guess you youngsters were still in jammies then.[:D]

[scramjet]

I made a 2-CD compilation of high school music for some old friends a while back. Lots of classic rock with just a hint of new wave beginning to creep in. Here's the track listing:

Disc 1:
1. Back in the Saddle (Aerosmith)
2. Run Like Hell (Pink Floyd)
3. Beautiful Girls (Van Halen)
4. Cocain (long live version) (Eric Clapton)
5. Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid (Led Zeppelin)
6. Tom Sawyer (Rush)
7. I Like to Rock (April Wine)
8. Frustrated (The Knack)
9. Everybody Wants Some (Van Halen)
10. Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
11. More Than a Feeling (Boston)
12. My Love Is Like a Tire Iron (Ted Nugent)
13. Young Lust (Pink Floyd)
14. Train Train (Blackfoot)
15. Godzilla (Blue Öyster Cult)
16. Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin)
17. Cars (Gary Numan)
18. Happy Trails (Van Halen)

Disc 2:
1. And the Cradle Will Rock (Van Halen)
2. Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
3. Back in Black (AC/DC)
4. Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
5. Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) (Pat Travers Band)
6. Hot Blooded (Foreigner)
7. Roller (April Wine)
8. Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)
9. Ice Cream Man (Van Halen)
10. Flirtin’ With Disaster (Molly Hatchet)
11. I Want You To Want Me (Cheap Trick)
12. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
13. In the Evening (Led Zeppelin)
14. Heart Like a Wheel (Steve Miller Band)
15. Wango Tango (Ted Nugent)
16. Double Vision (Foreigner)
17. Games Without Frontiers (Peter Gabriel)
18. Could This Be Magic (Van Halen)

[Mechi]

High school?? I clearly remember those hours of extensive The Police listening. Here is my list:
When the world is running down...- The Police
Don't stand so close to me- The Police
Boys don't cry- The Cure
Lullaby- The Cure
Cities in dust- Siouxsie and the banshees
Transmission- Joy Division
Should I stay or should I go?- The Clash
Placebo- Special K
Yellow- Coldplay
Daysleeper- R.E.M.
Fragile- Sting (sorry.. but I like him!!)
Stay- U2
Walk on- U2
Bizarre love triangle- New Order
Tears in heaven- Eric Clapton
Under the bridge- RHCP

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[newwavepunkgirl]

This will no doubt raise a smile, here in the uk we leave highschool at 16 (unless it's sex-form shcool)and aren't old enough to drive so um, that would be a bit illegal, it would have to be sitting in parent's car which in that case probably Guns n Roses and Def Leppard.[:)]

Devolution is real

[brock]

[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]
<br>I made a 2-CD compilation of high school music for some old friends a while back. Lots of classic rock with just a hint of new wave beginning to creep in. Here's the track listing:


[/quote]Wow - my list would be eerily similar. I listened to quite a bit of Blue Oyster Cult, Ted Nugent and those Southern Rock bands before New Wave hit my town's airwaves in '83. Then I played REM, Romeo Void, INXS, U2, Boingo.

[Frau_Blucher]

This thread of pre-MTV favs sums it up for me...or at least my idealize recollection of it...

http://nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4111

It was a very rapid transition from Zep and Prog Rock to New Wave at my SoCal area HS.

[Spit]

Great list Blir . Man ,would I love to pick thru your collection of music . I'd be like a kid in a candy store.

[hutter]

Hey Blir...I'll be happy to trade some tunes. I have a killer collection of disco, barbershop quartet tunes and some kick-ass polka jams.[:D]

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[knightoboingo]

Awesome thread...here's mine (only featuring songs that came out during my HS days- can you figure out when I was there?)

I've Been Losing You- a-ha
The Great Commandment- Camouflage
Channel Z- The B-52's
Enjoy The Silence- Depeche Mode
Cult Of Personality- Living Colour
Only A Memory- The Smithereens
Chains Of Love- Erasure
Suedehead- Morrissey
Just Like Heaven- The Cure
Fire Woman- The Cult
Airhead- Thomas Dolby
Hourglass- Squeeze
What Have I Done To Deserve This?- Pet Shop Boys
Wild Sex (In The Working Class)- Oingo Boingo (Boingo A-Live version)
Desire- U2
What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)- Information Society
The Promise- When In Rome
Birthday- The Sugarcubes
Here Comes Your Man- The Pixies
Crazy- Icehouse
No Myth- Michael Penn
Mayor Of Simpleton- XTC

[glokstadt]

Having attended High School from 1978 to 1982, their were many, many new wave, punk, new romantic, etc. bands to listen to... so the soundtrack to my high school daze [8D] (days!) was like this...

Artists, whose albums I owned, or listened to from a friend included:

DEVO
Adam And The Ants
The Police
The Ramones
The Clash
The Sex Pistols
PIL
The Plimsouls
Duran Duran
Roxy Music
Television
The Nerves
Holly And The Italians
Richard Hell And The Voidoids
The Vibrators
Fischer-Z
The Specials
The Selector
Madness
The Bodysnatchers
The Swingging Cats
The "English" Beat
The Stray Cats
The Go-Go's
Bow Wow Wow
David Bowie
OMD
ODW
Spoons
The Buggles
Gang Of Four
Altered Images
The Cars
U2
20/20
Joy Division
Elvis Costello And The attraction
The Cure
Burning Sensations
The Suburban Lawns
The Yachts
The Records
The Flamin' Groovies
Split Enz
Squeeze
The Jam
The Chords
The Vapors
The Standards
The Mods
Secret Society
The Lambrettas
The Who
B-Movie
New Order
The Knack
Simple Minds
The Buzzcocks
Pete Shelly
Magazine
Slow Children
Spandau Ballet
Human Sexual Response
Culture Club
Joe JAckson
D-Day
Human League
Heaven 17
The Damned
Gary Numan + The Tubeway Army
Joddie Foster's Army
Black Flag
The Germs
X
The Blasters
The Untouchables
A Flock Of Seagulls
Brian Briggs
Ian Dury And The Blockheads
The Teardrop Explodes
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Killing Joke
Iggy Pop And The Stooges
The Velvet Underground
Lou Reed
Japan
The Church
The Dead Kennedys
Depeche Mode
The Members
Oingo Boingo
Cheap Trick
Golden Earring
Mission of Burma
Missing Persons
Ultravox
Kraftwerk
Peter Gabriel
B-52's
Stiff Little Fingers
The Undertones
The Dickies
Butch And The Haircuts
Haircutt 100
The Eurythmics
The Thompson Twins
The Pretenders
Wall Of Voodoo
Wire
Blondie
The Stranglers
The Boomtown Rats
The Members
The Angelic Upstarts
The 4 Skins
The Business
Sham 69
999
Echo And The Bunnymen
Lene Lovich
Marianne Faithful
3-D
Mi-Sex
Maurice And The Cliches
X-Ray Spex
Martha And The Muffins
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Rockpile (also: Nick Lowe and Dave Edmonds)
Grahm Parker
The Normal
Soft Cell
Sparks
The Soft Boys
XTC
YMO
The Tubes
The Talking Heads
Visage
Yazoo
Blondie
Tonio K
Pearl Harbor And The Explosions
The Motors
Tom Robinson Band
Tommy Tutone
Rick Springfield
The Units
Jim Carrol Band
Kim Wilde
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts
The Runaways
Fear
The Psy. Furs
The Flying Lizards
The Comateens

And loads more, the list can go on for awhile, so I'll stop...

Now, mind you, the rest of the boys and girls were listening to Led Zepplin, Black Sabath, AC/DC, REO Speedwagon, Journey, Queen, Rainbow, J. Geiles Band, Peter Frampton, Shawn Cassidy, all that Disco (KC, Bee Gees, et al), and all the other arena/dinasour rock avail. at the time. [xx(]

[hutter]

[quote][i]Originally posted by lal008[/i]
I will also confess that I also have Move Somethin'. On cassette.... and on cd.
[/quote]
Heh...I still have it on vinyl.

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[New Wave Dave]

My high school edumacation daze were from 75-78 so for me the big groups were...

Jimi
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Doobie Brothers
Jethro Tull
Deep Purple
Ted Nugent
Black Sabbath
Aerosmith
Fleetwood Mac
David Bowie
and god, Led Zeppelin, too. Well even you hate that one. [:D]

Van Halen played a lunch time concert at our high school in 1976 so technically I could add them to that list but they just really sucked then.