High School Prom music

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So POOF, you're in high school again. And you're at the dance all dressed up with a lovely date. What music do you want to hear? Are you dancing or standing nervously by the refreshment table?

Also, what music did they actually play back when you were in high school?

― Honda, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The final song of the night at mine was Whitesnake's "Is This Love". Cultures don't come any more vacuum-like than that.

― dave q, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was 80s night at my High School prom...no surprise since it was 1987. A cover band played the hits of the day, pretty good as I remember it. Maybe now I'd like to hear Daft Punk, something off of Basement Jaxx Remedy. It would be an improvement.

― Mark, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ringfinger, by Nine Inch Nails. Me and my date requested it all night, and they never did play it (go figure...). So I would like to hear that at the prom. Also, "The Best Part of Breakin' Up" by the Ronnettes.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how did you know i was queer in high school?

probably the homecoming queen's got a gun....

what they played - a crap covers band that sounded better as i got drunker...gr8 footage of me doing a semi-strip to twist and shout.

― Geoff, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I went to the proms without a date...and danced with everyone else's over the evening. Rock!

Both junior and senior proms had cover bands doing the 80s alt/mainstream thing. Both the Smiths and Power Station, if you will.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to hear the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack and some lovely old waltzes. I have full faith that I will not, of course. My junior prom is in a few months.

― Maria, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've still never been to a high school dance.

I'd want to hear

the Pixies' "Velouria"

Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby"

The Trammps' "Disco Inferno"

the Velvet Underground's "Pale Blue Eyes"

Joy Division's "Atmosphere"

Sonic Youth's "Wish Fulfilment" and "The Diamond Sea"

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only prom I've ever been to was the Baxendale one a couple of months back. I'm not sure how realistic it was, from what I've seen in movies, it's customary to empty pig's blood over people, is this correct?

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've said thid before - and I ain't budging! - it's gotta be 'I'm Not In Love' - 10cc.
The school disco erection section! Ace!

― DavidM, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, *of course* Geoff beat me to it with "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun", but I'd like to add Red Cross-I Hate My School and Patti Smith-Piss Factory.

No, I didn't go to my prom, not even to get stoned and drunk in the parking lot. The theme, though, was "Netherlands". It had nothing to do with clogs and tulips, it was from a Dan Fogelberg song that was a soft rock staple back in the mid-70s. I remember they put up big snowcapped mountain mural in the cafeteria to represent the netherlands. God, it was lame.

They probably hired a local cover band who played Styx and Journey and Boston and Aerosmith. They'd get down and dirty with "Big Ten Inch". Their only nod to disco would be their cover of "Miss You" or "I Was Made for Lovin' You."

― Arthur, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to go to Sundar's prom.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

POOF yerself, hetboy! They still played "HiHo Silver Lining" at school discos when I wuz at school.

― mark s, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

+ 'Another Brick in the Wall' at mine- how we laughed.....

― stevo, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yay! A prom date!

Richard: Did you post to alt.music.sonic-youth back in the day?

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I barely remember a goddam thing about my prom, which was in 1985. I got my picture taken with my "date", and when it was seen by my female school principal, she remarked "Why, you look just like a matinee idol!" I think I told that story before, but I just like repeating it.

― Sean, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did post to amsy a few times, but it must have been about six years ago now.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only thing I can think of is "Elvira" by the Oak Ridge Boys. Which probably belongs in both categories.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" of course...on both counts. At prom in 1991 they played an edited version of "I Wanna Sex You Up" 3 times at my Catholic h.s (yep, they just dropped the word 'sex', thereby making us all hell-bent on fucking). Unfortunately, it was not the Shatner version.

― Spencer, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

Thinking about my prom again, my actual memories bleed into John Hughes movies. I even went to one dance with a girl that looked like Molly Ringwald. It's so hard to say what really happened.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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