Top 5 Back to School Songs

Jill’s List:

5. "to sir with love" - originally preformed by lulu, in the film "to sir with love" starring sidney poitier.

It's kind of like dangerous minds, but it takes place in london... in the 60s. the tagline for the movie was "a story as fresh as the girls in their minis. . .and as tough as the kids from london's east end!" anyways, lulu sings it on their last day of school. i prefer al green's version, though.

4. "cedar point '76" - the dirtbombs.

i think this song is actually about a dude macking on a chick playing pinball in an arcade. i include it though, because the title sounds like a grad class, and the arcade reference reminds me of ferris beuller's day off, when rooney thinks he sees ferris in the arcade, but it's actually a girl and she spits her coke all over his face. something tells me that because the guy who played rooney was busted for kiddie porn a few years ago, he probably didn't mind getting sprayed by a young girl.

3. "slow ride" - foghat. best song from the best movie ever made about school. ever. dazed and confused.

2. " sukie in the graveyard" - belle and sebastian.

because of this whole stanza:

Sukie was a kid, she liked to hang out at the art school

She didn't enrol, but she wiped the floor with all the arseholes

She took a bijou flat with the fraternity cat

She hid inside the attic of the sculpture building

She had a slut slave and his name was Dave

She said 'Be my photo bitch and I'll make you rich'

He didn't believe her but the boy revered her

He got her meals and he got her a bed

He watched behind the screen and she started to undress

He never got far

Just lookin' and playing guitar

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1. and my number one all time desert island song about school is: "making time" - the creation.

this is the song playing in rushmore when we get the rundown on all of max's extracurricular activities.

there, i'm done. sorry, that's long. i really don't want to do my readings.

Ellisa’s List:

1. "Back to school. -Billy Madison

Back to school, Back to school,

To prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight.

Ohhhh, back to school. Back to school.Back to school.

Well, here goes nothing.

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2. Breakfast Club Theme. Perfect 80s. Enough said.

Wikipedia fact: "In addition, its theme song titled " Don't You (Forget About Me)", performed by Simple Minds, reached #1 in the U.S. billboards in 1985 and has since then become a symbol of teen films, teen love and teen feelings."

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3. I Won't Back Down ~ Tom Petty

This song was the theme to my Valedictorian video address. Completely and utterly precious to me. Unlike some, high school was a phenomenal time in my life. I love every minute of it. Being valedictorian was such an honour. The prestige and glamour still makes my stomach turn when I think about it.

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4. Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65

This song will forever remind me of my grade 9 dance. At this time, Jayce, Tina and I all had a crush on the same guy, Ryan G------. He was tall, silent and incredibly sexy (to 15 year olds). This song had just come out, and the controversy surrounding what was being said in the song was surging. Ryan and I danced together to this song. Ahh, heart melting. He ended up dating Jayce and being a strange boyfriend. Tina and I: "Thank GOD we didn't go out with him. Yea Jayce; taking one for the team."

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Side note: Ryan still lives in Kelowna. I saw him this summer when I went home and his biggest news of the summer was his 5 year anniversary at Rona (the home improvement store). I think he is a department manager (or maybe just an assistant department manager). Regardless, he is a REAL winner! "I'm blue and I'm in need of a guy,""I'm blue, if I were green, I would die""I'm blue, I will bleed I will die""I'm blue I need a man in my life""I'm blue, n' I believe I will die"

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5. Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer Oh yea, you know it, She's All That. The movie that made every teenage girl swoon over Fred Prince Jr. and believe once again in Cinderella stories. I was always waiting for the day... Here is a nice montage video that someone made and then posted on YouTube. Description: "A video I made about Laney and Zack from the movie "She's all that"." How sweet; a Laney and Zack fan. Awww...(barf in mouth)

Prokopie’s List:

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5. Principal's Office - Young MC
4. Jeremy - Pearl Jam
3. Teachers - Daft Punk
2. Another Brick In The Wall, Part II - Pink Floyd
1. Eric Prydz - Call On Me
I don't know if this is bending the rules or not... the video is about school: dance school. May be the best music video ever made.

So I went to check out the supposed "best music video ever made" and it is restricted, PK! -You PERV!!

Ben’s List:

1. Money- Pink Floyd
2. Smells like teen spirit- Nirvana
3. No Sleep- Sam Roberts
4. Where is my mind- The Pixies
5. Wahoo, alright, yeah, uh huh- The Rapture

Dana’s List:

5.Tequila –Grade 8 band – I played the trumpet (poorly I might add)

4.Tuesdays Gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd – I first fell in love with this song in one of my all time favourite movies Dazed and Confused, which just happens to take place on the last day of school. To me the song has always had an air of dénouement- wrapping up of things and closure. I read that Tuesday is the name of a girl who ran off -an unrequited love - this furthers my resolve to have an impassioned and short lived romance with a musician. My favourite line is "Train roll on, on down the line"

3. It's like that - Run DMC – I had a boyfriend that was obsessed with this song plus it was a staple at school dances.

2. Crazy – Aerosmith – One of my all time favourite music videos. I am not sure how old I was but I thought that Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler were maybe the coolest girls ever, sneaking out of school, breaking boys’ hearts and running away to live wild and free.

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1. Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack – Featuring: The Cardigans, Garbage, Everclear, and Radiohead, among others. I cannot pick a song off this album the entire thing was pivotal to my development. This encapsulates my high school years.

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***Honorable mention: Everybody Wants Something - The Zit Remedy.... Oh Joey Jeremiah (sigh). I cant remember who I was talking to about this the other day but seriously they had a band for like 4 years and that was their only song.

Gerry's List:

1. “Teenage Dirtbag” – Wheatus -Because I was one

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2. “Another Brick in the Wall” – Pink Floyd -Now that I have officially started my PhD… I’m starting to think that we actually do need education.
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3. “Low Rider” – War - Picture this… me on the first day of school pulling up in my 1985 Camero blasting this song out of a not so hot sound system.

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4. “TLC” – Pretty - With the pressures of a new year… sometimes you just need to feel pretty

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5. “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” – The Ramones (Soundtrack from the Original Motion Picture “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, circa 1979)

Ciscal and Ebert provide this brief synopsis…. A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration. And people were shocked to hear that it didn’t win best picture.

Brad's List: The songs that will always remind me of school:

1. Hot Cross Buns - This is the first (and the last) song I was ever taught to play on the alto saxophone. I screwed it up so bad, that the teacher made me clean instruments for the rest of the year.

2. Magic School Bus Theme - This show was always the bane of my existence, my brother loved it, and somehow at 10 years old I was aware of the obvious attempt at racial unity (one asian, one mexican, one nerd, and so on). Plus that crazy teacher who took the kids into people's intestines, and flew them around in a shitty old bus....at my school she would have been required to take "mental leave".

3. Pip Pip Cheerio - As a member of the"chorus" for our 3rd grade production of the musical "Oliver", I will never forget rehearsing this song, and then how fantastic we sounded on performance night....I was so into it, I really thought I was a homeless 8 year old pickpocket being raised by a scary bearded hobo in a packrat community.

4. Wheels on the Bus - Can't leave this one out. I always associate this song with a shotgun aimed at whoever is singing it.

5. Hand In My Pocket - We thought we were so cool singing Alanis Morrisette on top of the monkey bars at lunch hour. We all blushed when the line about "Chicken shit" came.