ArchieBasic Member Posts:458
5/13/2006 7:33 PM |
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Hi,
just wondering does anybody have any tips for a song for a graduation night? Looking for something fairly lively, relevant to 6th years leaving school forever ( :D ) but easy to cobble together a version with only one guitar and a load of girls singing along.
If your suggestions are an of the following, I appreciate it, but please go away:
Time of your life by Greenday
Either the Dance or the River by Garth Brooks
I hope you dance by either Ronan Keating or LeeAnn Womack
or please please please, not
The Graduation Song, by Vitamin C.
And for some reason they don't seem to approve of Pink Floyd or Alice Cooper either....
Any suggestions at all?!!
Possibilities at the moment are:
Oasis - Whatever
Beatles - With a Little Help from my Friends
or
An accousticy type version of the Killers. I don't know the why though.
By the way, the title of this post would make a good band name.
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aidanAdvanced Member Posts:638
5/13/2006 7:39 PM |
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'to the end' by blur? simple on guitar, a bit weepy but singalongy... it's from the time I did my leaving *types arthritically on steam-powered abacus*
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elmo95Basic Member Posts:156
5/13/2006 8:03 PM |
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We had 'Whatever' as well at ours but it was cringing as it just felt so naff it was unbelieveable. Give em some Alice Cooper if they know what's good for them or that boyband about why they go to school for and make twinkle eyes at the withering principle.Or do a barbershop quartet version of some pop song that'll strike the parents as really original even if it is a cover. Hell just burn your uniform like i wanted to but i was too drunk to set myself on fire. Ah memories...
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molateenNew Member Posts:25
5/13/2006 10:02 PM |
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Dont stop me now -Queen
Precious time - Van Morrison
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
5/13/2006 11:08 PM |
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No Surrender by the boss. If only for the "we learned more from a 3 minute record baby than we ever learned in school" line
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5/14/2006 9:00 AM |
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We did The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles at ours (minus the big orchestral bit in the middle!!!)
Went down a treat.
How about Let's Talk About Girls by the Undertones for the sheer craic of it (after all isn't that what school was all about!!!)
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ArchieBasic Member Posts:458
5/14/2006 8:42 PM |
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quote: Originally posted by molateen
Dont stop me now -Queen
They used that one last year. Wanted We Are the Champions too....no go :(
Must find that Blur song. Keep suggestions coming!
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
5/14/2006 11:27 PM |
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Bon Jovi ALWAYS
I'm joking
I think
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
5/15/2006 10:59 AM |
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I almost had the band playing "Independance Day" by Elliott Smith at my grad mass. I thought the lyrics were apt. Too bad the guitarist couldnt figure out how to play it. :( Not gonna register with the masses though, is it?
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loserbrianNew Member Posts:46
5/15/2006 11:52 AM |
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Arbeit macht frei - the libertines
Get skagged out first then rip off your uniforms
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
5/15/2006 12:32 PM |
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Last goodbye by Jeff Buckley????????????????????????
Today by Smashing Pumpkins
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5/15/2006 4:22 PM |
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i dont wanna grow up - tom waits...or the rammones do a cover of this as well
life seems to fly past after graduation!!...enjoy the now!!
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up
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GarretBasic Member Posts:244
5/15/2006 6:36 PM |
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High and dry
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
5/15/2006 7:19 PM |
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quote: Originally posted by kavobaggins
Today by Smashing Pumpkins
I don't see how a song about being still alive the day after hitting your lowest point is entirely appropriate? unless theres some sarcasm that's gone right over my head.
Extremely cheesy choice: The Beach Boys - Be True to your school
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cometBasic Member Posts:485
5/16/2006 11:42 AM |
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Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
Well, I don't hate my parents
I don't get drunk just to spite them
I've got my own reasons to drink now
Think I'll call my dad up and invite him
I can sleep in till noon anytime I want
Though there's not many days that I do
Gotta get up and take on that world
When your an adult it's no cliche it's the truth
(Chorus)
'Cause I'm an adult now
I'm an adult now
I've got the problems of an adult
On my head and on my shoulders
I'm an adult now
I can't even look at young girls anymore
People will think I'm some kind of pervert
Adult sex is either boring or dirty
Young people they can get away with murder
I don't write songs about girls anymore
I have to write songs about women
No more boy meets girl boy loses girl
More like man tries to figure out what the hell went wrong
I can't take any more illicit drugs
I can't afford any artificial joy
I'd sure look like a fool dead in a ditch somewhere
With a mind full of chemicals
Like some cheese-eating high school boy
Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts
And I guess it won't be long
Till I'm sitting in a room with a bunch
of people whose necks and backs are aching
Whose sight and hearing's failing
Who just can't seem to get it up
Speaking of hearing, I can't take too much loud music
I mean I like to play it, but I sure don't like the racket
Noise, but I can't hear anything
Just guitars screaming, screaming, screaming
Some guy screaming in a leather jacket
Wooah!
(Chorus)
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kavobagginsBasic Member Posts:199
5/16/2006 12:36 PM |
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quote: Originally posted by Binokular
quote: Originally posted by kavobaggins
Today by Smashing Pumpkins
I don't see how a song about being still alive the day after hitting your lowest point is entirely appropriate? unless theres some sarcasm that's gone right over my head.
U didnt go to my school! :)
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nerrawBasic Member Posts:475
5/16/2006 12:45 PM |
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Wear sunscreen, has all the gobbley gook about the future.
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ArchieBasic Member Posts:458
5/16/2006 6:39 PM |
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Final vote: With A Little Help from my Friends.
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