Graduation Songs

Sparkle

Was just wondering what was everybodies Graduation song (provided ya had one). Might be of interest to next years Leaving Certs.
Ours was Greenday-Time Of Your Life.

ella minnow pea

EVERYONE had that one!!

we'd a couple -
"True Colours" ('if this world makes you crazy and you've taken all you can bear, just call me up because you know i'll be there')
"Goodbye" (yeah by the Spice Girls... i know...)
"The Scientist" ('nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be this hard..im going back to the staaaaaaaaart...')"

Fast_Mover

we had one and it was by Vitamin C--forget the name of the song though!!clever ay?hehe

adser53

sniff I thought my year was the only one with Greenday- TOYL
god I hate that song now,it's so cheesy! All the losers cryin and swayin to tha beat. pfff I couldnt wait to leave the kip. I'll miss speakin Irish tho. ahh the memories

cartman

ours was a kick ass song by leonard cohen ..
****in genius of a artist

imp

We had "Lean On Me", "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor, "It's Getting Better" by the Beatles and the Happy Days theme.

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Sev

Happy Days was just... happy.

CuLT

Originally posted by adser53
sniff I thought my year was the only one with Greenday- TOYL

Its quite possibly the most stereotypical song that could be picked, thank God the people doing the music in our year had some originality.

Seraphina

heh, we did a parody of 'i will survive'
i wont revise, i wont reviiiiise
it was pretty funny, no sentimental tear-jerking crap for us, all glad to be out of the place.

romey

we had "lean on me" which our asswipe of a religion teacher picked.i suggested "stand by me" by ben e king.but they were like "oh like no way that song is sooooooo old!" what! and lean on me isnt? grr!:mad: and the stupid gits stole my idea for the poster! god im gonna miss those guys (not!)

Kappar

stand by me" by ben e king we had that and greenday.

Tazzle

We had the cheesiest thing ever, it was that one True Friends by Jerry Fish. So bad :mad:

adjodlo

Originally posted by CuLT
Its quite possibly the most stereotypical song that could be picked, thank God the people doing the music in our year had some originality.

amen, and to think, I used to be able to tolerate that song...but after hearing all the knackers "yer grainday and dah song" I'm finding it hard



The last song played at our gradnite thing was Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash. Nobody was getting emotional or anything, just rowdy for the night ahead!

Bounty Hunter

Closing Time by Semisonic

its quite a good song and has very appropiate lyrics

Squall

Wish you were here by Pink Floyd

Johnny be good to bring it up a notch

And then a nice thick slice of thin lizzy (whiskey in the jar)

And finally down to the pub for lots of beer and a Celtic match

Bounty Hunter

there were plans to do an improv version of another brick in the wall part 2 when they were supposed to do Closing time now that would have been funny

pseudonym

with a little help from my friends - beatles
song from hope street -david kitt
let it be - the beatles
forever young
love gets sweeter - finlay quaye

Caesar_Bojangle

yeah we had greenday too, pretty ghey stuff. Maybe we all go to the same school?

My prinicipal wouldn't allow me to play at our graduation. As at our christmas concert i played 'Rape me' to a bemused audience of teachers, students and the parent assocation, and then a guitar rendition of NWA'S 'straight outta compton'. Which he deemed i may do likewise at the graduation and jeopardise the night from running smoothly.

To be honest if i was allowed to play i probably would have went for that jimmy ray classic 'are you jimmy ray? who wants to know who wants to know'.

Zachary Taylor

We had hours of meetings trying to decide on music, with the basic ground rules of no Oasis, no U2, no The Scientist and for the love of god and all that is holy, no Greenday (Good Riddance, although everybody calls it Time of Your Life). At one point we had settled on Never Forget by Take That for the last song but it was far too complicated, and we toyed with the idea of the Cheers song (or Flaming Moe's), the Friends song and literally hundreds of others based on our own ideas and a questionnaire the year took from which the most popular suggestion was The Final Countdown (Europa), but eventually we settled on the ones imp said (You're Ian. I just found that out although I had my suspicions) and then when we were planting our traditional tree we all sang an adapted version of Irland's Call (With the name of our school instead of Ireland, obviously).

^whitey^

My prinicipal wouldn't allow me to play at our graduation. As at our christmas concert i played 'Rape me' to a bemused audience of teachers, students and the parent assocation

ROFL

CuLT

I heard a song this morning that really should have been a candidate.

Van Morrison - Bright Side of the Road .

I'm shocked that I didn't suggest that it be thrown in.

spaczed

yeh, we'd True Colours, You've got a friend and Oh happy days, among others at ours.

I really thought Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club- True Friends would be a class one to have , or Queens Friends will be friends.

imp

Originally posted by Zachary Taylor
(You're Ian. I just found that out although I had my suspicions)

Damn. I'm at something of a disadvantage here... I'll figure this out...

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Sparkle

Ok well seeing as it seems to be the same songs coming up each time, hows about - what song would YOU have chosen for your graduation?

romey

thats easy i totally would have LOVED! "another brick in the wall" by pink floyd but I would have added lots of curse's to vent all that built up "stuck in a stuffy all girls school for 6years "RAGE that would have been SWEET!!!!:p

CuLT

Originally posted by imp
Damn. I'm at something of a disadvantage here... I'll figure this out...

}:>

tell me when u figure out ian .

imp

Originally posted by CuLT
tell me when u figure out ian .

Done. I had a vague suspicion which turned out to be totally correct. Go me!

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Epitaph

Didn't have anything at our school, but I think Radiohead's Motion Picture Soundtrack and a re-worked version of Airbag would be sweet!!

snickerpuss

Our theme is "Friendship is......"
:mad:
Yuck.
Anyway yeh we were meant to have some paddy casey song. But now its the Beatles.
I hate all that sentimental crap. (excuse my language)

oeNeo

I put down Eifel 65 - Blue, Electric 6 - Gaybar and Rednex - Cotten Eyed Joe. If any of them get played I'll be happy.

GoneShootin

Highway to Hell

but they didnt use it



****ers

joePC

THIN LIZZY

"This is the one"

Healio

21 seconds by dat so solid crew gang

PrecariousNuts

Barbie Girl by Aqua

Suaimhneach

I'm lovin "Another Brick in the Wall". But doubtful my class will vote for it, bunch of spa's that they are. Unless I manage to get them listen to it all...ie "teachers leave those kids alone". Which is also doubtful, short attension spans and all.

Agent Smith

Originally posted by GoneShootin
Highway to Hell

but they didnt use it



****ers

thats our song this year if i get my way!

Silent Grape

we had 'stand by me'.which was vaguely amusing seeing as most of my year were filled with stuck up posh bitches and everybody hated each other

**shudder** i didnt like school

Suaimhneach

Always look on the bright side of life - Monty Python.

OR

REM - It's the end of the world as we know it .........[and I feel fine!!!!]


Hell yeah. God I hope hope my class choose these, some good **** right there,

Mutant_Fruit

Originally posted by Epitaph
Didn't have anything at our school, but I think Radiohead's Motion Picture Soundtrack and a re-worked version of Airbag would be sweet!!

Woo Woo Woo! Radiohead. Thanks to me, we're playing street spirit by radiohead. It's the only one i could get them to agree to . I never thought of doing airbag, but i'll suggest that on moday. heh heh heh

goo

A friend of mine has promised me that if some person attempts to play "Good Riddance" at the end of the year, the guitar/cd is getting pulverised, and rightfully so, in my eyes.
Of course, the obvious suggestions are there. You know the type, really heavy and confrontational titles. Obvious is nice sometimes, so in the last few days of school I'll be listening to the Icarus Line's "Up against the wall motherf*ckers" for a bit of a giggle.
However, I am a sentimental soul, so a lot of Mogwai, Godspeed..., Silver Mt. Zion, Explosions in the Sky, Elbow and sigur rós will no doubt be listened to, reminiscing about people throwing up, being pushed on to piles of bags, falling over, breaking bones, being egged and looking silly.
Oh oh, first Leaving Cert tear...

Bottle_of_Smoke

We got my way but one of our students sang it so was changed to "our way"

think "mexico" by mundy might be good!

Kold

I'd like Eric Cartman singing "Come Sail Away" by styx from the Chef Aid album. That would so rock

pigeonbutler

As far as I've heard ours will be:

Fields of Gold - The Police
Every Breath You Take- Ditto
Whatever - Oasis (I love that song!!)
But unfortunately the inevitable Good Riddance will be there too.

garthv

hmm,my school didnt get a graduation ceremony,we destroyed our principal the day before with eggs and flour and a few of us streaked(that wasnt my ass i swear!)so she wouldnt let us,we still had the after party tho

Agent Smith

people who pick good Riddance for a graduation song deserve to be shot....






that is all

Scarinae

In my school its 'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed, and '(I've Had) The Time of my Life' from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack... How random is that...?

Jammer

Counting Crows - Hangin Around
Greenday - Good Riddence (with Basket case halfway thru)
Beatles - Let it be (Beefed up, light distortion, 2 guitars..drums etc)
??? - Lean on me

Bunch of us have been in a band since 3rd year, so we're performing them. Doin a musical medley too, consisting of;

Smells Like Teen Spirit (Yawn) - Nirvana
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
Like I Love You - Justin timberlake
HArdest Button to Button - White Stripes

senordingdong

KISS:
Rock'n'Roll All Night!!!!!!!




OH YEAH!!!!!

Chinafoot

i didnt go to my graduation but i can only imagine what the song was!!! pack of losers......its was probably a scooter song or that mark mccabe thing......maniac.

but if i had to choose mine.....it would be....

*Schools Out by alice cooper

orangerooster

We had some damned good songs ready to go but of course the bitchie section took over and now we have

Graduation Song-Vitamin C(dear god!)
Crazy World-Aslan(CHRIST!)

and of course no ****ty grad mass soundtrack would be complete without-<drum roll please>-
Good Ridance/Time of our lives-Green day(choke!)
So all those with taste will bring some noisemaking implement to wreck the ceremony.I hate my class.

Agent Smith

i've heard "thank you for the day's: by kirsty McCall being mentioned on friday...

not a bad song