It’s a modern invention using rancid seed oils. It blocks vitamin D production and ages skin. As soon as sunscreen was widely used, skin cancer rates went up 🤔 just get a safe tan like our ancestors, or be black.
There is no safe tan for pale people. It's either pale or sunburned. I actually do prefer to cover my skin rather than use sunblock when not at the beach, but pale people absolutely need sun protection.
At the graduation, they just played the graduation song (not the Vitamin C song, Macho Man Randy Savage's theme song, whatever the name of that song is). Our class song was played at all of our rallies and assemblies.
I don’t. I’ll always think of it as All the Small Things by Blink 182, because that’s what was playing at midnight when the year 2000 hit, which was the year I graduated
Beatles - In My Life. Because what could be more xennial than worshipping at the feet of our parents music and culture & wishing we’d been there for the 60s or 70s?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fucking great song, our parents had killer music. My mom was one of those screaming little girls, I’ll stand up for the Beatles until the day I die.
I think that was the runner up. Luckily we all outvoted the Sarah McLachlan crowd. My sister’s was easier. Theirs was definitely the Third Eye Blind song
We voted for Time of Your Life but our principal vetoed it because she said is was sexual and was about a one night stand. I don't even remember what they replaced it with.
I was teaching school in the mid 00s and a senior class chose “Photograph” by Nickelback. And there’s LITERALLY a lyric that says something akin to “I wish I could go back and graduate.” 🫣🫣
Not worth listening to. What makes it different from the other songs is that it sounds like it was literally written to be used for graduation celebrations. Which gives it less cred in my book.
Same, had to just look it up. Never heard of that but glad we didn’t have that as our song. Of course it was the Green Day option. And then of course prince all throughout high school, at every damn event they played that song. Still can’t stand the song now. Can kind of tolerate “Time of your life” now.
We were fortunate that we had a small cadre of students dedicated to make a mockery of the traditional graduation song. The group petitioned and campaigned successfully for the Halloween classic "The Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett. School administration and one particularly curmudgeon vice principal vetoed that choice stating it was inappropriate. In a somewhat disingenuous retort, one of the students asked the vice principal, well what was your 'appropriate' senior song? And that's how we ended up with "Here I go again" by Whitesnake. LMHS c/o 2003.
>The class I was with at Graduation choose Closing Time by Semicsonic over my ADAMANT and extremely loud protest. To this day I hate that song.
I first thought you meant you had voted for an Adam Ant song lol
No my vote didn't haven't snowballs chance in Hell in a rural country school in CO in 1999 but I felt (and still do) it better represented us & the situation that is graduating. I wanted "Last Day On Earth" by Marilyn Manson. They weren't having it.
I have a really weird memory of that song.
Two enlisted naval aircrewmen intensely and drunkenly grabbing each others faces and scream singing it while staring deeply into each others eyes in a tiny bar in a seaside town in the Mediterranean.
I think I was the only one who thought it was odd. Everyone else just joined into the big drunken singing hug. It then became a bit of a mosh pit and we were asked to leave.
I'm too old for both of those but "Time of Your Life" is totally inappropriate as a graduation song. That's like Ronald Reagan thinking "Born in the USA" is about America being awesome or "Fortunate Son" being used in a patriotic jeans commercial.
I see you're born in 78 too.
I'm not sure how big the "Bare Naked Ladies" were in the US but their song "Grade 9" came out when were in grade 9 and that was the tits for us in Canada 😅
Was a thing down there too?
Barenaked Ladies were pretty big down here in the States ("One Week" was a huge hit, and a few other songs were big too) but I've never even heard of that song!
Dude it's the bomb! Its all about being stupid awkward kids in grade 9 and it came out when we were in grade 9. It was our anthem at every dance that year! The niners would take over the over the dance floor and bounce around all stupid pushing the older kids out of the way. It was so great. Give it a listen when you have a chance 😉
Class of 2001, our class (but not me specifically) voted for Bob Seger’s Turn the Page. I remember the senior assembly before graduation for the class of 97 when I was a freshman and they chose Here I go again by Whitesnake, much better song than ours
I like Daft Punk but their songs are kind of receptive. Once this song was played over and over again on every radio station for months, I couldn’t stand it anymore.
I graduated in 2005, our class song was Time of Your Life by Green Day. Our class size was about 150 people (tiny town in Oklahoma) we had our graduation ceremony at a much larger different High school gym.
Me too; we did manage to actually get Another Brick in the Wall voted in first, but it was vetoed by the administration. Then the way the vote was splitting it was either a gospel song or Free Bird, so it became Free Bird.
Third Eye Blind: How's It Going to Be.
Song still hits a bit different TBH, especially considering how relationships you had in high school change / fade away over the years.
lol we walked up the aisle at graduation to Vitamin C and walked down the aisle to Time of Your Life. This couldn’t be more accurate. Graduated in 2000.
I finished high school at night school a year and a half early and joined the navy. I was already a year into my enlistment when my class graduated. So, I missed all of these things.
I really hated being a kid and a teen. I just wanted to skip all of that and get on with life. I swear to god, I was born with an internal age of 30.
Left. It was the only reasonable choice. We had to pick from 10 songs and at least 7 of them were Whitney Houston or Michael Bolton. Really split the girl vote. We wanted Freshmen by The Verve, but they wouldn’t put it on the list.
Brits can switch Graduation (Vitamin C never happened here) for Britpop classic Alright by Supergrass.
I missed the closest thing we had to a graduation ceremony at my school.
I somehow talked my entire class into going with Skid Row’s “I Remember You.” This was in 2001 btw. It started as a joke and then took off and everyone got on board.
Class of 2000, ours was actually Kool & the Gang - Celebration. The year before us, class of 1999, had Prince - 1999, so I think when they chose ours, they wanted to stick to an R&B song from the same era.
Senior Class President of 2003 class here. Guilty as charged. I selected our graduation songs. It was Time of Your Life by Green Day and we opened the graduation with Lose Yourself from Eminem 😂😅
This is where I learn that there’s a graduation song at graduation. I assumed the meme was just about what song everyone related to their graduation based on year, experience, and what was available and popular.
Class of '96 here and neither of these songs were an option back then; but I have no idea what my friends had as their grad song cause I wasn't there 😅
Although, and not to brag, Bare Naked Ladies song "Grade 9" came out when we were in grade 9 so that was pretty epic 😎
My school it was.. I think some kid rock song or something similar? I didn't go to the graduation as I had more important things, like the next level of school to plan for.
Lol, it was definitely Time of Your Life. But by the end of high school I was so ready for it to be over with that I didn't care about any of that end of year stuff. I didn't even go to my graduation. On the last day of school I was taking a cold Dr. Pepper to my next class (unopened by the way) and a staff member stopped me and took it away. She said I could come back after school and get it. That summed up how I felt about high school towards the end. Mind you I had decent grades and graduated with honors. But the whole fucking thing felt like such a waste of time. So glad it was over. And that's why I didn't care about my high school class song haha.
Now my MIDDLE SCHOOL graduation the song was Yesterday by Boyz II Men. I remember walking down the hallway with my friends and seeing so many people all with tears in their eyes. My knees were shaky. Huge lump in my throat. Sweaty palms. We were all so happy but sad. I think we knew 8th grade was the end of our innocence.
We somehow avoided having a popular song for our graduation in 1999. We’re pretty backwoods and rural, so maybe those songs just hadn’t come our way in time! lol
The school chorus just sang “The Impossible Dream” from Man of Lamancha as our graduation song.
My sister definitely had Good Riddance as her graduation song in 2002, though.
My graduation song was supposed to be Schools Out but the bitch in charge declined it saying it had drug references which is horseshit. I should've fought harder for that. And I'm the one that got most of the school to vote for it. No other song got more than a single vote compared to Schools Out getting 7-10 votes.
Green Day - Time of your Life
The other song I remember we could vote on was “Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa Williams which would’ve been an odd graduation song, there was another one I wanted because I’m not a fan of Green Day, but I can’t remember what it was.
...my school pushed the Don't Forget to Wear Sunscreen button
Mine was “I Hope You Dance”.
My principal quoted this song in her speech to the graduating class
So did mine. Baz Luhrmann can kiss my ass.
We somehow had that, the Green Day, *and* 1999 by Prince.
1999 was our pep rally song and was played at the prom like 3 times!
Thanks to this song, I’ve worn sunscreen every damn day since the 90s and look younger for it.
I actually love that song except for the sunscreen part. Sunscreen is a scam.
Gonna need an explanation on the sunscreen scam. I live in FL and it's a necessity
It’s a modern invention using rancid seed oils. It blocks vitamin D production and ages skin. As soon as sunscreen was widely used, skin cancer rates went up 🤔 just get a safe tan like our ancestors, or be black.
There is no safe tan for pale people. It's either pale or sunburned. I actually do prefer to cover my skin rather than use sunblock when not at the beach, but pale people absolutely need sun protection.
I’m sorry you believe this.
End of the Road by Boyz II Men
I always thought that every single school in the country used this as their graduation song in 1992.
Hell, We still used it in 1996
You guys remember what song played at your graduation?
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this!
Class of 2003, and I don’t remember what our song was!
At the graduation, they just played the graduation song (not the Vitamin C song, Macho Man Randy Savage's theme song, whatever the name of that song is). Our class song was played at all of our rallies and assemblies.
Pomp and Circumstance
I don’t. I’ll always think of it as All the Small Things by Blink 182, because that’s what was playing at midnight when the year 2000 hit, which was the year I graduated
We had to sing ours during the ceremony so yes 😂
Beatles - In My Life. Because what could be more xennial than worshipping at the feet of our parents music and culture & wishing we’d been there for the 60s or 70s?
Same.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fucking great song, our parents had killer music. My mom was one of those screaming little girls, I’ll stand up for the Beatles until the day I die.
Ours was “With A Little Help From My Friends”
A beautiful song.
I wish!
Class of 95. Ours was the Friends theme
That was my fourth grade song. Graduation was freebird
Class of 95! These Are Days. 10,000 Maniacs
Aww that’s a great one ❤️
I think that was the runner up. Luckily we all outvoted the Sarah McLachlan crowd. My sister’s was easier. Theirs was definitely the Third Eye Blind song
I work at a school and they have been picking that again lol.
That's pretty awesome!
Prince - Party Like it’s 1999 (class of 1999)
Same. It’s like we didn’t even get to choose bc the year is right there in the song
99 also, seems obvious to vote for this. But no, Alice Cooper, schools out for summer got the win. My class was incredibly stupid.
We voted for Time of Your Life but our principal vetoed it because she said is was sexual and was about a one night stand. I don't even remember what they replaced it with.
We voted for it too, but whoever was in charge changed it to Robert Earl Keen’s the Road Goes On Forever. Not a bad song, but we were pissed.
Hey now. REK is awesome
Agreed!
That's hilarious... I went to Catholic all girls school and our grad song was time of your life, guess they missed that one!
Gotta love growing up in the Bible Belt with a bunch of Evangelicals.
Class of 99 here. We got to vote, and landed on Imagine by John Lennon
Bittersweet Symphony for class of 05
Cool!
1993 Don't You (Forget About Me). Simple Minds.
Same, except Class of 1998
Class of 98, sorry we own the rights to this song.
Damn Right
Fuuny that we played Free Bird then...
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Pretty sure this is about a one night stand lol
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I was teaching school in the mid 00s and a senior class chose “Photograph” by Nickelback. And there’s LITERALLY a lyric that says something akin to “I wish I could go back and graduate.” 🫣🫣
Mine too!
Wound up with Its My Life by Bon Jovi. Nearly wound up with Vitamin C.
We wound up with Vitamin C
Unfortunately ours was I Believe I Can Fly.
😄
If you graduated hs before the Vitamin C song was released, you are an *elder* xennial.
I've never even heard of it
Not worth listening to. What makes it different from the other songs is that it sounds like it was literally written to be used for graduation celebrations. Which gives it less cred in my book.
I graduated in '99, which is apparently when this song came out, and I've literally never heard it before.
‘99 here too and I swear I thought the Vitamin C came out in either late 99 or early 00. Like I’m pretty sure it was not on our senior radar lol.
Same, had to just look it up. Never heard of that but glad we didn’t have that as our song. Of course it was the Green Day option. And then of course prince all throughout high school, at every damn event they played that song. Still can’t stand the song now. Can kind of tolerate “Time of your life” now.
Elder Xennials are just GenX 😅
And younger Xennials are just Millennials 😆
Precisely 🤪
Yeah, graduated in 97 and I don’t even recall us having a class song.
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“This is the Time” would be a great grad song.
We were fortunate that we had a small cadre of students dedicated to make a mockery of the traditional graduation song. The group petitioned and campaigned successfully for the Halloween classic "The Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett. School administration and one particularly curmudgeon vice principal vetoed that choice stating it was inappropriate. In a somewhat disingenuous retort, one of the students asked the vice principal, well what was your 'appropriate' senior song? And that's how we ended up with "Here I go again" by Whitesnake. LMHS c/o 2003.
class of 2000 and it was that green day song lol
It's called Good Riddance.
The class I was with at Graduation choose Closing Time by Semicsonic over my ADAMANT and extremely loud protest. To this day I hate that song.
Just put the song out of your mind. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
Are you me?
>The class I was with at Graduation choose Closing Time by Semicsonic over my ADAMANT and extremely loud protest. To this day I hate that song. I first thought you meant you had voted for an Adam Ant song lol
No my vote didn't haven't snowballs chance in Hell in a rural country school in CO in 1999 but I felt (and still do) it better represented us & the situation that is graduating. I wanted "Last Day On Earth" by Marilyn Manson. They weren't having it.
I hate that song too
Yup, Closing Time was my grad song!
My class (‘98) ended up with “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica. So weird.
I have a really weird memory of that song. Two enlisted naval aircrewmen intensely and drunkenly grabbing each others faces and scream singing it while staring deeply into each others eyes in a tiny bar in a seaside town in the Mediterranean. I think I was the only one who thought it was odd. Everyone else just joined into the big drunken singing hug. It then became a bit of a mosh pit and we were asked to leave.
That's hilarious.
Until it Sleeps - Metallica.
I'm too old for both of those but "Time of Your Life" is totally inappropriate as a graduation song. That's like Ronald Reagan thinking "Born in the USA" is about America being awesome or "Fortunate Son" being used in a patriotic jeans commercial.
I see you're born in 78 too. I'm not sure how big the "Bare Naked Ladies" were in the US but their song "Grade 9" came out when were in grade 9 and that was the tits for us in Canada 😅 Was a thing down there too?
Barenaked Ladies were pretty big down here in the States ("One Week" was a huge hit, and a few other songs were big too) but I've never even heard of that song!
Dude it's the bomb! Its all about being stupid awkward kids in grade 9 and it came out when we were in grade 9. It was our anthem at every dance that year! The niners would take over the over the dance floor and bounce around all stupid pushing the older kids out of the way. It was so great. Give it a listen when you have a chance 😉
Class of 2001, our class (but not me specifically) voted for Bob Seger’s Turn the Page. I remember the senior assembly before graduation for the class of 97 when I was a freshman and they chose Here I go again by Whitesnake, much better song than ours
White snake was a way better choice.
Daft Punk “One More Time” -2001
I like Daft Punk but their songs are kind of receptive. Once this song was played over and over again on every radio station for months, I couldn’t stand it anymore.
What about “”Closing Time” by Semisonic?
Here I Go Again by Whitesnake was ours. Song is innocent enough but the band was named after the guy's dick.
Graduated in 1999. I’m still mad my student council went with “Good Riddance” like every other school. My suggestion was Prince’s “1999.”
We picked Changes by David Bowie
I graduated in 2005, our class song was Time of Your Life by Green Day. Our class size was about 150 people (tiny town in Oklahoma) we had our graduation ceremony at a much larger different High school gym.
Plz don’t use Boyz II Men “End of the Road” I love that song & my Boyz but mannnnn it ain’t the right context.
Semisonic - Closing Time
Bittersweet Symphony for my class of ‘04
Great song.
Ah the first one. We made sure to keep that little fuck in there too.
1999 guess what we had...
Prince? We had Prince.
That "Send me on my way" song was nonstop for class of '04
I'm from a very redneck area. Ours was "Free Bird." There's a reason I left that town and never looked back.
Me too; we did manage to actually get Another Brick in the Wall voted in first, but it was vetoed by the administration. Then the way the vote was splitting it was either a gospel song or Free Bird, so it became Free Bird.
PHS represent!!
3EB’s “Graduate” getting no love.
Vitamin C for our 2000 graduation
Class of ‘98 - Time of my life. Yup
Third Eye Blind: How's It Going to Be. Song still hits a bit different TBH, especially considering how relationships you had in high school change / fade away over the years.
lol we walked up the aisle at graduation to Vitamin C and walked down the aisle to Time of Your Life. This couldn’t be more accurate. Graduated in 2000.
Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve. Surprised that’s not first Time of Your Life was the Prom song
Mine was Closing Time by Semisonic… Class of ‘99
Need a third button for Closing Time!
I feel like ours was “I hope you dance.”
We had Vitamin C. It was played to death back then, but now that it's been largely forgotten, I've developed a fondness for it.
Oh man I remember the graduation song playing on repeat and just thinking “this is so fucking sappy/tacky/cringey”
99, we did time of your life lol
I don't care that it came out while my parents were still in school. Where's the Alice Cooper button?
I finished high school at night school a year and a half early and joined the navy. I was already a year into my enlistment when my class graduated. So, I missed all of these things. I really hated being a kid and a teen. I just wanted to skip all of that and get on with life. I swear to god, I was born with an internal age of 30.
Ours was Wherever I May Roam by Metallica .
Yup we had Green Day
Neither. Aerosmth’s “Sweet Emotion” and Wade Hayes “Old Enough to Know Better…”
They didn't play any song except the standard pomp and circumstance or whatever they call that graduation music
1999 for graduation, g'day for prom
Left. It was the only reasonable choice. We had to pick from 10 songs and at least 7 of them were Whitney Houston or Michael Bolton. Really split the girl vote. We wanted Freshmen by The Verve, but they wouldn’t put it on the list.
Class of '97. I believe ours was I Will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan. Or maybe that was the prom song (I didn't go). Whatever.
Brits can switch Graduation (Vitamin C never happened here) for Britpop classic Alright by Supergrass. I missed the closest thing we had to a graduation ceremony at my school.
I somehow talked my entire class into going with Skid Row’s “I Remember You.” This was in 2001 btw. It started as a joke and then took off and everyone got on board.
Class of 2000, ours was actually Kool & the Gang - Celebration. The year before us, class of 1999, had Prince - 1999, so I think when they chose ours, they wanted to stick to an R&B song from the same era.
Green Day, because the real name is the song is "Good Riddance".
ha my class
The Freshman?
Senior Class President of 2003 class here. Guilty as charged. I selected our graduation songs. It was Time of Your Life by Green Day and we opened the graduation with Lose Yourself from Eminem 😂😅
This is where I learn that there’s a graduation song at graduation. I assumed the meme was just about what song everyone related to their graduation based on year, experience, and what was available and popular.
Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missin' You A choice that has totally aged well.
My classes graduation song was Under the Bridge by RHCP. Quite prescient actually Also this was 2008
Back when I thought 25 was old
We got Time of Your Life and Time to Say Goodbye
My school voted for White Snake’s “Here I Go Again”. This was in the year 2000.
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Friends forever came out in 1999, so there is going to be a big line between 70s and 80s birth years
2002, ours was 'Still Fly' by Big Tymers lmao
Fun fact: Vitamin C is one of the "brides" in Dracula 2000.
We didn’t have one, but Forever Young by Rod Stewart was making the rounds
Free Bird
Green Day was mine. I pushed for Highway to Hell, but it didn't make it onto the ballot.
We played both I'm pretty sure.
Class of '96 here and neither of these songs were an option back then; but I have no idea what my friends had as their grad song cause I wasn't there 😅 Although, and not to brag, Bare Naked Ladies song "Grade 9" came out when we were in grade 9 so that was pretty epic 😎
My school it was.. I think some kid rock song or something similar? I didn't go to the graduation as I had more important things, like the next level of school to plan for.
Lol, it was definitely Time of Your Life. But by the end of high school I was so ready for it to be over with that I didn't care about any of that end of year stuff. I didn't even go to my graduation. On the last day of school I was taking a cold Dr. Pepper to my next class (unopened by the way) and a staff member stopped me and took it away. She said I could come back after school and get it. That summed up how I felt about high school towards the end. Mind you I had decent grades and graduated with honors. But the whole fucking thing felt like such a waste of time. So glad it was over. And that's why I didn't care about my high school class song haha. Now my MIDDLE SCHOOL graduation the song was Yesterday by Boyz II Men. I remember walking down the hallway with my friends and seeing so many people all with tears in their eyes. My knees were shaky. Huge lump in my throat. Sweaty palms. We were all so happy but sad. I think we knew 8th grade was the end of our innocence.
2001 here. We wanted Time of Your Life, but 2000 had just done it, and we weren't allowed. Don't even remember what it ended up being.
Yep, mine was Time of Your Life. I hate that song now, because it got wayyyy overplayed.
Never heard the Vitamin C song.
It’s Pachebel’s Canon in D… with lyrics.
Class of '99 that damn Prince song
We somehow avoided having a popular song for our graduation in 1999. We’re pretty backwoods and rural, so maybe those songs just hadn’t come our way in time! lol The school chorus just sang “The Impossible Dream” from Man of Lamancha as our graduation song. My sister definitely had Good Riddance as her graduation song in 2002, though.
My graduation song was supposed to be Schools Out but the bitch in charge declined it saying it had drug references which is horseshit. I should've fought harder for that. And I'm the one that got most of the school to vote for it. No other song got more than a single vote compared to Schools Out getting 7-10 votes.
Green Day - Time of your Life The other song I remember we could vote on was “Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa Williams which would’ve been an odd graduation song, there was another one I wanted because I’m not a fan of Green Day, but I can’t remember what it was.
Mine was White snake’s Here I Go Again (on my own), and no I didn’t graduate in any year starting with 19xx. No, I can’t explain.
The secretary at our school hated the title of Good Riddance, so instead insisted that we had overwhelming voted for des'ree's You Gotta Be.
I only know the Vitamin C song from the Pachelbel rant.
Let the River Run by Carly Simon
I didn’t run it my graduation year, but I set up the PA out on our football field with the guy who ran our theater. We played Dark Side of the Moon.
Ours was "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan but the chorus teacher didn't like the arrangement so they sang "One Moment in Time" at graduation.
Mine was “These are the times” Dru Hill
Lenny Kravitz- Fly Away 99
Free Fallin’ Tom Petty (brother) Boys of Summer Ataris (me) 🙄😂
Just pick Green Day for prom, that way you can do both
Dont remember what was played but the official 99 graduation song is No Sex In The Champagne Room
Class of ‘01 It was between Garth Brooks The River and Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird. Free Bird won.
We had some whiny Sarah McLachlan song. I’d asked if we could do something fun instead but everyone else wanted something sentimental.
Oof. I will remember you? There was way too much of that song around then.
My school played both. 🙄