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hitokiri_
03-10-2006, 03:52 AM
everythings all crashing down. deadline's next week. anyone please suggest me some.
PunkMC
03-10-2006, 07:43 AM
I know I'm gonna get laughed at for this, but at our graduation, 94 thank you, one of our validictorians played Rod Stewarts - Forever Young. Yeah I know Rod's not hip, but the words really touched home. IF not that then how about Walk by Pantera.
Lubichev
03-10-2006, 07:46 AM
It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday by Boyz 2 Men. People will love it. LOVE IT!!!! Especially if you get members of the school chorus to sing it.

Then again...........
mattbib
03-10-2006, 08:40 AM
"Forever Young" Alphaville
"This Is the Time" Billy Joel
"Graduation" Vitamin C
"Graduate" Third Eye Blind
"Time of Your Life" Green Day
Michael P
03-10-2006, 08:45 AM
Someone should write a graduation anthem with the theme "Fuck you, I hope I never see any of you bastards again." In fact, that should be the title.
Lubichev
03-10-2006, 08:50 AM
"Time of Your Life" Green Day
If that song was played during my graduation, I'd start a riot.
Dennis K
03-10-2006, 08:50 AM
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? ~ Megadeth

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Kirayoshi
03-10-2006, 12:32 PM
"Everybody's Free(to Wear Sunscreen)" from Baz Lurhman's "Something for Everyone" album.
Adam Crocker
03-10-2006, 12:58 PM
I know I'm gonna get laughed at for this, but at our graduation, 94 thank you, one of our validictorians played Rod Stewarts - Forever Young. Yeah I know Rod's not hip, but the words really touched home.

I don't see what hip has to do with it. Rod Stewart's work post 1974 is just plain bad, especially in the 80s.

In any case his "Forever Young" (http://members.aol.com/hannuschka/lyrics/ly_frame.htm) is just a soft-rock reworking of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" (http://bobdylan.com/songs/forever.html).


Someone should write a graduation anthem with the theme "Fuck you, I hope I never see any of you bastards again." In fact, that should be the title.

I dunno, but I suppose playing Husker Du's "Never Talking to Young Again" might have roughly the same spirit. (I almost thought of Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" but realized that would be more appropriate to the reunion.)

And does anyone else find the concept of the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" and the Replacements' "Bastards of Young" as grad songs endlessly amusing?
Chiasm
03-10-2006, 02:48 PM
Someone should write a graduation anthem with the theme "Fuck you, I hope I never see any of you bastards again." In fact, that should be the title.

Hilariously thats pretty close to what "Time of your life" by Green Day is. Yet, its played all the time at graduations because people don't actually pay attention to the lyrics.

The song is about a girl who screwed over a guy. The guy is basically singing that he hopes she had the time of her life while doing it and "***k you" for it.
Lubichev
03-10-2006, 02:50 PM
Hilariously thats pretty close to what "Time of your life" by Green Day is. Yet, its played all the time at graduations because people don't actually pay attention to the lyrics.

The song is about a girl who screwed over a guy. The guy is basically singing that he hopes she had the time of her life while doing it and "***k you" for it.
But because that particular song has strings in it, it is a completely pussified song, no matter what the lyrics are.
howyadoin
03-10-2006, 02:59 PM
I remember people suggesting "Another Brick in the Wall" when I was graduating. Instead we had some shitty Styx song.
Michael P
03-10-2006, 03:03 PM
I remember people suggesting "Another Brick in the Wall" when I was graduating. Instead we had some shitty Styx song.
I remember some fucker suggested the Madonna cover of "American Pie" at my high school. I recall having to be chemically sedated.
Chiasm
03-10-2006, 03:07 PM
I've repressed the memory of what my graduation song was. Either that or very early senility has set in.

It was 1989 though so I'm sure it sucked it whatever it was.
Adam Crocker
03-10-2006, 03:10 PM
But because that particular song has strings in it, it is a completely pussified song, no matter what the lyrics are.

Ever listened to "Fairytale of New York"?
Sanagi
03-10-2006, 06:51 PM
I remember people suggesting "Another Brick in the Wall" when I was graduating.
That's what I came into this thread to suggest...
howyadoin
03-10-2006, 07:15 PM
Ever listened to "Fairytale of New York"?Or "Can't Hardly Wait"?
twilight
03-10-2006, 07:40 PM
R.E.M.-Shiny Happy People?
Valmore
03-10-2006, 11:30 PM
"These Are Days" - 10,000 Maniacs
"Here's To the Night" - Eve 6
"It's the End of the World As We Know It" - R.E.M.
howyadoin
03-10-2006, 11:42 PM
Someone should write a graduation anthem with the theme "Fuck you, I hope I never see any of you bastards again." Alice Cooper - "School's Out"