# What was your high school class song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048 "2003-02-28T02:26:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/21 "2003-02-28T13:05:49Z")
There are two songs (at least) called “Forever Young”. Was one sung by Rod Stewart and was a hit for him a few years back. The another was sung by an obscure (in this country) band called Alphaville, came out on an album by that name in 1984 or so. The two songs have nothing in common except the title. The Alphaville song was recently revived in a commercial for Saturn cars. In another recent thread someone claimed the Alphaville song is played at proms and such, but I hadn’t heard it for years until the Saturn ad. I graduated in 1982 and I understand the prom song was “Follow You, Follow Me” by Genesis. Bleeaah. I didn’t attend the prom, in case you were wondering. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/22 "2003-02-28T13:27:22Z")
I don’t think we had a class song (class of '72, Parkville Senior High School) but the finale to our Senior Follies Varitey Revue was “We’re So Sorry, Uncle Albert.” Our principal’s first name was Albert. Clever, huh? ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/23 "2003-02-28T13:39:01Z")
Ours was “Far Behind” by Candlebox. As, to this day, I have never heard the song in full, I obviously had no part in the voting process. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/24 "2003-02-28T13:56:29Z")
In one of the few efforts where I pretended to give a damn about my school and stuff like this, I and some friends lobbied to have it be “Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds (This was 1986). We were told that we couldn’t have that because you can’t dance to it. Ah. So instead it was that Dionne Warwick “That’s What Friends Are For” song, which I think is blech. In my mind it’ll always be the Simple Minds song, even though I have pretty much forgotten about most of them and I’m sure they don’t think about me. ---
**Author:** ![ignatius\_reilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/db5fbb/32.png) [@ignatius\_reilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatius_reilly)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/25 "2003-02-28T14:12:10Z")
Our class song, which was our prom song, was “Turn the Page” by Bob Seger. This was in 1995. ---
**Author:** ![greenphan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@greenphan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenphan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/26 "2003-02-28T15:28:35Z")
Ours was, horrifically enough, “Time of Your Life” by Green Day. The same band that infuriated teachers in seventh grade, refusing to play their music at school dances because everyone became violent, had by five years later turned into something teachers and administration folk could say “oh! thats’ so _sweet_!” about. _shivers_ oh, green day, how I miss the days when you were GOOD. –greenphan ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/27 "2003-02-28T16:12:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peterW \* > \*\*errrrr… wasn’t “that dude” Rod Stewart, or am I missing an inside joke or something. Coincidently “Forever Young” was our high school song for 1989. I get nauseous just thinking about it. \*\* Oh yeah. I only remembered the GOOD one. I forgot (probably on purpose) that Rod Stewart had a crappy song by the same name. 🙂 (no offense to any RS fans. I personally just can’t stand his singing) ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/28 "2003-02-28T16:15:56Z")
I’m not sure I really understand the concept behind this. Is this something that was played during your graduation ceremony? At dances? That you voted on? ---
**Author:** ![deborak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@deborak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deborak)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/29 "2003-02-28T17:40:31Z")
Our class song (1990) was _Forever Young_ - Alphaville all the way, baby! I just hate hate hate when it gets confused with the Rod Stewart version. My school was pretty 80’s alternative (we played Front 242’s _Headhunter_ at pep rallies, if that gives you an idea), and we would never be so lame as to pick Rod Stewart to remember our youth by! 😃 **Barbarian** , for us, it was a song that the senior class voted on, to remind us of the school and our class and the time and all that, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/30 "2003-02-28T20:08:52Z")
“The Best of TImes” by Styx. Class of '90. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/31 "2003-02-28T20:18:57Z")
“This Is The Time” by Billy Joel Class of 1987 ---
**Author:** ![Rib\_Eye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@Rib\_Eye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rib_Eye)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/32 "2003-02-28T20:19:31Z")
Another “That’s What Friends Are For” from '86 for me. Terrible song and people totally forgot that it was song about supporting AIDS victims. Convict, though “TBOT” is perhaps the most cliched of Styx class songs, their anthems of youthful optimism were and are IMHO the best choices for class songs. Personally I wanted “Haven’t We Been Here Before” but the list could go on, “Don’t Let It End,” “Angry Young Man”… ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/33 "2003-02-28T20:24:23Z")
Incidentally, for those who will get to choose at some point, let me suggest ‘Prom Theme’ by Fountains of Wayne. The lyrics: [http://www.lyricsstyle.com/f/fountainsofwayne/promtheme.html](http://www.lyricsstyle.com/f/fountainsofwayne/promtheme.html) ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/34 "2003-02-28T20:50:34Z")
Class of '89 Processional - In My Life, “The Beatles” (though several of us strongly suspect that the Senior Class President rigged the vote because there was A LOT of pull for “Rawhide” for the processional by what seemed like everyone in the senior class except the Class President) Recessional - All Along The Watchtower ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/35 "2003-02-28T21:01:16Z")
It’s an elaborate setup to find out how old we are! Ahem… Class of '94 “In Your Eyes”, Peter Gabriel ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/36 "2003-02-28T21:01:26Z")
I’m a senior this year also. We don’t have a class song. At least, not that I know of. We could, but since I can’t even remember the prom theme (which was announced just a few weeks ago), I certainly won’t remember the title of some song I probably don’t like anyway. Though a certain group of individuals in my literature class are apparently vying to get a Russian pop song about the wonders of Vladimir Putin played at prom. If they manage to pull it off, I would be glad to consider _that_ our class song. However, I suspect it will go the way of the “Llama Proma” campaign for prom theme (in other words, dismissed without thought by the administration)…a pity, really, as it’s a hilarious song. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/37 "2003-02-28T21:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > ## Originally posted by beegirl13 > > Originally posted by hrhomer > Class of '91 > > “Wonderful Tonight,” Eric Crapton > > ## hrh > > Class of '00, same song. Things don’t change much, do they? I bet plenty of classes of '81 and previously had it too, back until whenever it was first performed. Shit, I hate that song… hrh ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/38 "2003-02-28T22:58:28Z")
Class of 1991: “Winds of Change,” Scorpion. I believe it was played during the recessional after we done gradjiated. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/39 "2003-02-28T23:17:52Z")
Class of 91 On the ballots I suggested “Too drunk to F\*\*\*” by the Dead Kennedys. I have no idea what ended up winning. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048/40 "2003-03-01T01:03:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Laughing Lagomorph \* > \*\*There are two songs (at least) called “Forever Young”. Was one sung by Rod Stewart and was a hit for him a few years back. The another was sung by an obscure (in this country) band called Alphaville, came out on an album by that name in 1984 or so. . \*\* Hmmmm…Of course, there’s also a song of the same name by some guy named, uh, “Dylan Bob” or something like that…😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-high-school-class-song/158048.md?page=3)