Favorite song in 9th grade? Me 1st - Scorpions "The Zoo"

[The Polack MSgt]

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[chicoescuela]

1. American Pie by Don McLean- I'm old

[returnee]

2. Strawberry Fields Forever. nt

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3. Even older. Sorry

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4. Ours were good years for music.

Glad I was there.

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5. Certainly better than today

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6. My tastes are different now.

I’ve expanded. Plus, there was plenty of stuff I didn’t like in the 60’s and 70’s.

[chicoescuela]

8. Agreed but I did love the disco. Not sure why but probably had something

to do with dancing with cute young ladies. Just a hunch

[happybird]

7. I was just getting into the Dead that year

so my best guess is something off American Beauty (Ripple/Brokedown Palace or Till the Morning Comes), or Europe ‘72 (ChinaCat, Ramble On Rose).

Checked out the Billboard 100 and of those:
Bust A Move: Young MC or Never Tear Us Apart: INXS

Still a banger, with some funky-ass Flea bass.

[The Polack MSgt]

9. Both INXS and Young MC are worthy of inclusion in a list like this

[returnee]

14. I liked St. Stephen...

…and The Eleven. A bit earlier. I got heavy into the Dead with Workingman’s Dead.

[LSparkle]

10. Raspberries: Go All The Way

[lastlib]

11. Signs -- Five Man Electrical Band

"I said, 'Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me,
I'm alive an' doin' fine!'"

[Buzz cook]

12. 1970 hard to pick just one.

Chicago 25 or 6 to 4.
But if I hear something else I might change my mind.

[pfitz59]

13. Could it be I'm Falling in Love

There was a girl...

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Your Choice Is A Good One

Alas, that song cane out when I was out of college in 1980.
In 9th grade, I was just getting into rock, after years of playing jazz piano.
I didn't know many bands, other than The Beatles & other MAJOR acts.
Thinking about it now, it's probably Black Sabbath. The first song off their first album.
When that opening riff comes in and lands on a flatted fifth, I thought "You can do this in rock music?" I was hooked.
If you would have said junior year, I'd have said Superstition by Stevie Wonder.