Did your school have a graduation song?

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UpkeepUnicorn@reddit

We had Good Riddance and hilariously, Here's To the Night by Eve 6.

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Sharptux44@reddit

Mine was this…https://youtu.be/yPYZpwSpKmA?si=1u_N-NcYt5l3UAdv

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Stock_Currency@reddit

I don't remember but everyone was playing Hey Ya ad fricken nauseam.

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Leeds13@reddit

Strangely mine went for a throwback 98’-“Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake

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Competitive-Tea-3517@reddit

Graduation by Vitamin C, same as every class of 2000 I'm sure.

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threebeansalads@reddit

Yup… 2000. Hated this song then and hate it now. I feel like eventually it was replaced with “Time of your life” 🤢🤮… which is weird bc I think it came out first?

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HimmelFart@reddit

All the senior night slideshows were set to Good Riddance, the Graduation events and parties played Vitamin C nonstop

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Moon_Noodle@reddit

2006 here, ours was Time of Your Life" even though I and many others begged our senior committee to reconsider.

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buffysmanycoats@reddit

lol my sisters was Graduation and mine was Time of Your Life 💀

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HS used Vitamin C for our May 2001 graduation but in the fall of 2001 my University’s Greek Org used Time of your Life as the rush song. On repeat. For a week. Took a while before I could listen to it again without getting annoyed.

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Competitive-Tea-3517@reddit

Yeah it was older, but more classic. Some of our classmates played an acoustic version at prom.

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robbeau11@reddit

Class of 99. Time of your life by Green Day. Hate that damn song

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scribblenator15@reddit

Yup, just happened to come out right as we were finishing production on our senior video. So it became the montage song

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bgva@reddit

Yep. Any time our local Top 40 station played this, they'd insert voicemails from seniors shouting out their school.

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Icy-Finance5042@reddit

Our 2000 song was by boys 2 men.

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changrbanger@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_NxOF7RB4

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todayIsinlgehandedly@reddit

Ours was supposed to be good riddance by Green Day voted on by students but the Chorus director whose daughter was in my class and loved vitamin C “couldn’t locate a copy of the sheet music” So we ended up with this trite bullshit.

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MartialBob@reddit

We had some kind of Senior class picnic. When someone played that song on ofy classmates asked, demanded, he play something else immediately.

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jennyann726@reddit

Yep and also that Baz Luhrmann Sunscreen song.

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trav1829@reddit

After we had all walked across the stage our principal took the microphone and said “ and now we will play some special music from vitamin d”

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quantum_leap@reddit

This was mine too

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xmadjesterx@reddit

Yup. That song annoyed us so much. There's a fun parody of it from Collegehumor. It's basically about going off to college and losing touch with your best bro from high school

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_sacrosanct@reddit

I graduated in 2000 and our choir sang Green Day’s “Good Riddance.” Lol.

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Spartan04@reddit

Yep, same here.

Aka Canon in D (though to be fair many songs use that as a base).

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Ok_I_Guess_Whatever@reddit

My friend was in that video 😂

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Username_NullValue@reddit

and as our lives change, come whatever

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Salty_Emu_9945@reddit

This was ours in 2001

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LetJesusFuckU@reddit

Oh, you mean the right year

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Aggressive_Economy_8@reddit

My friend’s mom called her “Orange Juice.” 😂😂😂😂😂

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slypmpkn19@reddit

1999 by Prince. That song was our theme song for everything including school dances, homecoming, etc. I'm c/o obviously.

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

As a Minnesotan, I feel this. We couldn’t escape the song, but TBF none of us were complaining!

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slypmpkn19@reddit

Same. To this day, I still kinda feel like this is my/our song.

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

I’m ok with feeling like this forever honestly. Even as a small kid I loved Prince!

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Wild_Manufacturer555@reddit

My brother had that and good riddance for his class songs in 1999

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MashedPotatoesDick@reddit

Same. It got to the point where I couldn't stand it. They even played it at Grad Night at Disneyland.

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dwooding1@reddit

I think it's why I avoided a deep dive into Prince for so long.

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JaimePfe17@reddit

I will remember you, Sarah Mclaughlin, 1997

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midliferose@reddit

Eve 6 - Here’s to the Night. Class of 99

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KimberSliceAZDD@reddit

This was our class song for ‘02

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Wild_Manufacturer555@reddit

I think that was my class song in 2002

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cuentaderedd@reddit

Aww I used to love that song

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FakeNamesAreReal@reddit

IDK, I got suspended that morning and wasn't allowed to go to the graduation. Then, the assholes made me wait 10 days to get my diploma. Honestly, I went to VoTech, so I was really disconnected from my graduating class, so even if I had been allowed on school property I wouldn't have e known what was going with songs and the year book crap.

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sundayfunday78@reddit

Ahead by a Century by the Tragically Hip. Class of 96.

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Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit

Canadian?

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sundayfunday78@reddit

🇨🇦

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General_Tangerine_69@reddit

Graduated in 2001 and ours was “One More Time” by Daft Punk

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Cheeky-Chickadee@reddit

Ours was either “End of the Road” or “It’s so hard to say goodbye” -Boyz II Men (can’t remember which one) - C/O 1996

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Cook_New@reddit

Class of 94 and mine was one of these as well. I’m leaning towards the goodbye one.

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bloodpriestt@reddit

Ours was I’ll Make Love To You

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bloodpriestt@reddit

Just the deep voice guy middle part

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JasonTheMMAGuy@reddit

Same. I can’t remember which one either

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TheCatalyst5@reddit

Good Riddance was mine!

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TanglimaraTrippin@reddit

My school's yearbook for 1998 was titled Something Unpredictable.

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kimchiman85@reddit

Mine too

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KittenMittenz7@reddit

2001 checking in

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Confident-Cellist-25@reddit

Same here. Class of ‘98

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CheezeLoueez08@reddit

My cousin was class of 98 and they got Good Riddance. We really wanted it in 99 but according to the powers that be in our school, we couldn’t have the same song 2 years in a row. So weird. Now that I think about it, I can’t remember what ours was.

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iGingerBeard@reddit

Same in 2002. Played it on stage at graduation.

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DiscordianStooge@reddit

Our choir director wrote an arrangement for us to sing. It was quite fun. Class of 98.

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TheCatalyst5@reddit

Class of ‘99

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weepinwilo@reddit

checking in class of '99

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TanglimaraTrippin@reddit

We had two girls sing Because You Loved Me at our ceremony VERY badly. It was painful when they tried to hit the high notes.

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fragdoll4u@reddit

Yes. "It's time to go" choir performed and everything

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ancilla1998@reddit

I'm pretty sure the choir sang Go the Distance from Hercules at our graduation in 1998.

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SuperB7896@reddit

A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker’s version (same as The Wonder Years)…class of ‘96!

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hyzerKite@reddit

We all sang Help From Our Friends by the Beatles. . We were not allowed to sing the “get high” part. Yeah, we yelled it. What did they think would happen?

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Ambitious_Tip_8448@reddit

Yes. Our student body voted for Congratulations by Post Malone, and our superintendent vetoed that. Our song played was Hey Look Ma I Made It by Panic at the Disco

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ESPRE5S0@reddit

Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen.

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Pineapple-Due@reddit

Loser by Beck. It was perfect

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Historical-Piglet-86@reddit

How Can I Help You Say Goodbye by Patty Loveless and of course, Green Day’s Good Riddance. Class of ‘97

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NursemedicBigNasty@reddit

I Will Remember You by Sarah MacLachlan. Class of 1997.

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iwillgetthru@reddit

That was ours too. Class of '99

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DuskformGreenman@reddit

Got my GED, sooooo....I wanna say...killing in the name of by RAtM? Specifically the last half.

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Ezpionage_19@reddit (OP)

Whoa that's awesome 👌

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Comfortable_Tale9722@reddit

Wide Open Spaces by the Dixie Chicks. Class of 99 but also an all girls HS

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Odd-Buffalo-6355@reddit

The Beatles anthology came out. So we had a Beatles song in 96’.

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Grouchy-Substance190@reddit

Nope and from the comments looks like i dodged a bullet on that one.

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sixmilesoldier@reddit

Class of 98 and we had Seasons of Love from Rent. 525,600 minutes is burned into memory.

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

My class did. 1999 by Prince. Being from Mn, it was basically the rule we HAD to use this song.

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Own_Physics_7733@reddit

My brother’s class (99) had two - Good Riddance and I Will Remember You

I was 2003 and our song was “In this Diary” by the Ataris. I went to HS in Texas. Then I went to Indiana for college and later found out that “In this diary” was written about… the college I went to 🤯

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Scrotchety@reddit

8th grade class of 93 was friggin A Whole New World courtesy of the Aladdin soundtrack

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cuentaderedd@reddit

Heck yeah!

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Phoniceau@reddit

R Kelly “The World’s Greatest” - class of ‘02

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wilcocola@reddit

“Photograph” by nickel back 🤮

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owlcityy@reddit

Class of 02’ here, ours was “So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” - Boyz II Men

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Ezpionage_19@reddit (OP)

Seems a few people had Boyz || men

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singleguy79@reddit

Class of 98, haven't a clue.

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easterbunny04@reddit

Closing Time was the big one for my class of ‘98.

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echelon_01@reddit

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

-Everyone's yearbook quote

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Pooh_Lightning@reddit

I'm not even sure what a graduation song is. Maybe it's not a thing where I'm from.

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_ficklelilpickle@reddit

Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days.

Which was a shame because we took a poll and Alice Cooper - School’s Out won, but the teachers vetoed it.

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Ezpionage_19@reddit (OP)

Always were the Fun Police

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Ok_Egg_471@reddit

I Hope You Dance- Lee Ann Womack. I hated every second of it. Graduated in ‘01

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adise25@reddit

Same, class of 2001. I truly hated it and probably haven’t listened to it since then.

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Crusty-Watch3587@reddit

same. class of ‘01 as well.

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Pony829@reddit

Time of Your Life by Greenday

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Sunshineal@reddit

Hero by Mariah Carey middle school and I believe I can fly by R kelly for high school. I graduated high school in 1998. I believe I can fly was thee graduation song for every where in the late 1990s.

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moonbunnychan@reddit

100% no joke, my graduating class voted The Thong Song as our class of 2000 song. They played it at graduation.

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Ezpionage_19@reddit (OP)

That's hilarious

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Myrnie@reddit

… were we the only class of ‘00 to use Smash Mouth’s “All Star?”

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Ezpionage_19@reddit (OP)

Seems like it so far. Nice one tho

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Kizenny@reddit

1999… we had no choice

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Sparks009@reddit

Everybody’s Free Baz Lurhman.

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subsonicmonkey@reddit

Yup. Class of ‘97.

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MalWinchester@reddit

Same here! Class of '99, baby.

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Murky_and_Lurky@reddit

Yes. The sunscreen song !!!!

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Nonsenseinabag@reddit

Desperado by the Eagles for some reason.

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bomchikawowow@reddit

Hahaha this is such a depressing choice for a bunch of teenagers!

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SunVoltShock@reddit

For '96, we got Smashing Pumkins Today at my suggestion. I knew they wouldn't let us have Bullet with Butterfly Wings, so that was about the edgiest I thought we could get away with.

Most of us really wanted Pink Floyd's We Don't Need No Ecucation... but surprise of surprises, the powers that be wouldn't let us have it (despite the school in the neighboring town having it the year before).

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FireMysteries@reddit

Mary Jane's Last Dance

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newhappyrainbow@reddit

Learning to Fly -Tom Petty

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klocp13@reddit

1998 End of the Road by Boyz II Men

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Icy-Finance5042@reddit

That was ours 2000

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eatsleepdive@reddit

Good Riddance was mine.

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ferropop@reddit

November Rain, and we performed it and felt like rockstars for a day.

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82ndGameHead@reddit

I remember having to sing "A Whole New World" at my graduation.

I also remember having a strong hatred for that song now.

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Illustrious-Lead-960@reddit

Not that I remember.

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tortical@reddit

Class of 2001… We got Green Day.

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Glass-Marionberry321@reddit

Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water. Class of '98

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Andress_Jade@reddit

That was my class graduation song.

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Crans10@reddit

Long November - Counting Crows

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One-Particular63@reddit

Class of 2000 NSW Australia. Everlong was ours, and then Even Flow then Good Riddance. My little sister graduated primary school the same year, and they had Vitamin C, Good Riddance

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tomdincan@reddit

“Please Remember Me” - Tim McGraw. 🤢

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MissedTakenIDidntHe@reddit

Combat Circus

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Pierson230@reddit

Good riddance

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NeonTankTop@reddit

Futures so bright, I gotta wear shades

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SlavaSobov@reddit

Vitamin C here too. 😂

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ewing666@reddit

no idea

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ItComeAFlood@reddit

Heck yeah! Mach Man Randy Savage's walkout song was played at my graduation.

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thrwaway070879@reddit

Black Hole Sun.

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RedCarpetbagger@reddit

10,000 Maniacs “These are Days,” please know that was the only cool thing my class ever did

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Frequent_Alfalfa_347@reddit

Ours too!

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velvetjacket1@reddit

No kidding it was Bout It, Bout It by Master P

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AndroidNumber137@reddit

My class was 60's-pilled by Dazed & Confused so our graduation song was Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird.

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EverLuckDragon@reddit

Drive by Incubus.

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DOCMarylandMD@reddit

Get The Party Started by Pink. Class of 2002

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SmCaudata@reddit

I don’t remembering a choir or pop song, however our band played the Throne room and end theme music from Star Wars during graduation as the recessional song.

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yellowduckcraft@reddit

Green Day - Good Riddance

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lizeee@reddit

That was mine too.

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Shredneckjs@reddit

Good Riddance. ‘01

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OkBiscotti1140@reddit

Yes. We were weird. We performed a mash up of ice ice baby and don’t you (forget about me) because we couldn’t agree.

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WittyAndWeird@reddit

Y’all. My class chose the FRIENDS theme song!

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miianwilson@reddit

I think this was ours in 1999 too

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Snowfall1201@reddit

We had two. Vitamins C and Good Riddance

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Correct-Ad8693@reddit

Dust in the Wind

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effitalll@reddit

Our valedictorian quoted that song in her speech. Yes, we had the time of our lives in high school 🙄

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Ezpionage_19@reddit (OP)

Such a great trip down memory lane with all of these tracks

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Unlikely-Strike-8753@reddit

"Remember Me This Way"

...from the fucking Casper soundtrack.

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LetJesusFuckU@reddit

Had my GED before graduation, couldn't tell ya. Personally" fuck you , I won't do what you tell me "

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BillG2330@reddit

WE GOT A BADASS HERE FOLKS!

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brzantium@reddit

I voted for Good Riddance, but Paradise City won class song.

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Land_Fisch@reddit

Sure did! Dru Hill - These Are the Times (King High School, Tampa, Fl c/o 99!)

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

With or without you. No idea why or who chose it.

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yeltrah79@reddit

It was a Garth Brooks song but I can’t remember which one (not friends in low places)

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This-Elk-6837@reddit

Yes. Our Alma mater. I remember none of it. Nunavut. I do remember the state song because I sang that shit 4 years in a row for all state choir. Hello, yes I am a choir geek.

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geekgirlwww@reddit

Okay so I don’t remember high school but 5th grade graduation the schools sound system broke and my neighbor had a DJ business so he stepped in. I don’t remember how we convinced but we hated the music teacher so at the end he played “We Go Together” from Grease instead. We had learned the song in music class so we did know the lyrics well enough and the parents thought it was a great graduation song.

It did help that his youngest was graduating so he never had to deal with anyone in the school again.

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

6 th grade was Winds of Change by the Scorpions for us

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TwoTimesTommy@reddit

Nice.

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RhombusColtrane@reddit

We had two:

Ist Draft: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2te1vYpAo

2nd Draft: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUuFPUO6K1I&pp=ygUhc2F2ZWQgYnkgdGhlIGJlbGwgZ3JhZHVhdGlvbiBzb25n

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I never heard of the song
I hated those assholes so I wasn't counting on them for shit

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