(or for those who did not go to College, songs that were big the summer after you graduated from High School)

Anyone else remember this period almost as well as I do? For some reason that particular summer sticks out for me more so than any other. Don't know why.

Mine would be the summer of 1992. Just a few I could remember...

"Jeremy" Pearl Jam
"Free Your Mind" En Vogue
"Friday, I'm in Love" The Cure
"Lithium" Nirvana
"All I Want" Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Life is a Highway" Tom Cochrane
"Give It Away" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Man On the Moon" R.E.M.
"Take a Chance On Me" Erasure
"Even Better than the Real Thing" U2

1988:
The main one that stands out (and OH how it stands out!) is:
"Don't Worry, Be Happy' by Bobby McFerrin

Although, I'm sure that stuff from The Joshua Tree was still big then, as was a bunch of hair metal stuff.

1998

Jay-Z "Hard Knock Life"
OutKast "Rosa Parks"
Fatboy Slim "The Rockafeller Skank"
Lauryn Hill "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
Big Punisher Featuring Joe "Still Not a Player"
Green Day "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"

Lemme think...

Summer of 1995, what we were listening to (though not all new releases):
Primus :: Pork Soda
Beastie Boys :: Ill Communication
Wu-Tang :: 36 Chambers
Korn :: Korn
Cypress Hill :: Black Sunday
That fucking Naughty By Nature that came out in time for Senior Week
Craig Mack :: "Flava In Ya Ear"
Mighty Mighty Bosstones :: Question the Answers

I know I'm leaving some shit out. I remember lots of Beastie Boys & Wu-Tang, because that usually was okay with most people, whereas Primus, Bosstones & Korn didn't mix well with the STP, Candlebox, Live crowd.

It was only two years ago, yet alcohol has taken it's toll on my memory

whatever was big in the summer of 93 - I don't friggin remember - probably grunge.

all i remember listening to the summer i graduated from high school is mr bungle's california and the donnas.

yeah i think it was something like that for me, but i don't remember much from when i was 18 because i was way too high.

The summer I graduated from high school, I remember "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel and "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood were played on the radio every 11 seconds. For my part, I spent the better part of the summer listening to "Standing On A Beach" by the Cure and "Shabooh Shabah" by INXS. I also remember making a mix that for some reason contained both "Spirit of '76" by the Alarm and "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz. Ah, to be young again.

I remember a lot of:
Outkast's first album
Method Man's first album
Mobb Deep's The Infamous
Raekwon's Only Built for Cuban Linx
^^^^^In my car, smoking blunts with folks, etc

Tom Petty Walflowers
that fucking LIVE disc that everyone had
Dave Matthew's Under the Table and Dreaming
^^^^^^^^^
In other people's cars, smoking joints with hippies

I am sure there are more.

Oh shit, I forgot about Wildflowers. And threatening to throw that fucking Dave Matthews CD out the window.

Another one that was around a lot 10 years ago today: Bush :: Sixteen Stone

More: Pantera :: Far Beyond Driven and some Danzig shit.

Oh shit, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

"O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

Subversive times, man.

it was probably the last summer i didn't buy a single album during. paula abdul & new kids were on the radio; oh, and rob&fab.

It was 'The Second Summer of Love' petering out and then the initial stirrings of what would later become grunge.

Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Blur and The Charlatans pretending they were actually from Manchester, Primal Scream doing E, techno by fuck knows who, all seguing into Mudhoney, early Nirvana, The Melvins, Seaweed, etc.

summer '95

GBV - Alien Lanes
Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid
Wilco - A.M.
Townes Van Zandt - No Deeper Blue
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
YLT - Electr-O-Pura
ODB - Return to the 36...
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Blue Mountain - Dog Days

My summer after HS was actually my first quarter of college (3 weeks after graduation, I was GONE to Athens). Lessee, our main spins during the glorious malt liqour and schwag herb summer of 1993 :

311- Music (was actually duct taped into our dorm CD player at one point)
Dr. Dre - The Chronic (was actually old at this point but i bought it the day be4 I left because it seemed like good "summer" music
Alice In Chains - Dirt (inspired some drunken property destruction, I'm not gonna lie)
Butthole Surfers - Independant Worm Saloon (some dude dared to ingest chemicals with us----probly still not right)
Frank Black - s/t (saw him back to back nights in Athens and ATL that summer.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (actually became more of a mainstay that fall)


Also, the dudes down the hall from us played the acoustic version of Stone Temple Pilots "Plush" constantly....

Also on our hall was Ryan Lewis (who went on to start Kindercore Records) who always had good taste though beyond Fugazi and Dinosaur Jr., I couldnt tell you anything else he spun for me.

wow you were listebing to GBV in '95..impressive. i was big time into music but it wasnt until like '97 that i finally heard/got into them.

It's not that impressive, really. 1992's Propeller started it all - introduced by my older brother. Not a diehard like SK, but charmed nonetheless.

Yeah me too & hell if I remember. I know what I was into but I didn't have MTV & didn't listen to radio so I have no clue what was big.

1991. Absolutely no idea what was "big" at the time. Probably a bunch of stuff I didn't listen to. Someone out there who remembers help me out. I'm curious now.

Summer 2000 - I have no freaking idea. I didn't really listen to the radio.

Chumbawumba- Tubthumping
Fiona Apple- Criminal

and I listened to a lot of palace music/bros. but I dont' think it was popular, per se.

Yeah, you're right Todd... I think U2 was still riding the wave of Joshua Tree. Also... I seem to remember "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" being biggies. Hmm, also a lot of crappy Def Leppard. I think Tom Petty's "Won't Back Down" and "Free Fallin'" were big too. "Stand" from R.E.M.

yeah, i'm waiting for this too...

so far, darrin has come the closest for me.

I may be older then you by a few days but I'm a year younger class wise, and for the life of me I couldn't tell you what was happening the summer of 89.