What was "THE HIT" when you were in high school....
 

Senior year of high school there was one song that was indisputably on top. It was on the radio, it was on everyone's CD player, it was everywhere.

The song?

Closer by Nine Inch Nails

"My whole existence is flawed/you get me close to God" are lines seared in my brain.

Of course, it was the line that followed these that made the song popular (and why it was largely misunderstood IMO):

"I want to f*** you like an animal"

I always interpreted the song as a type of confession: he was saying that he was using another person for sex to make up for all of his inadequacies.

On another level, as a music geek, I considered the song to be a passacaglia. I can't remember now, but I think it was every 8 measures a new theme was introduced in the song. It built, and built, and built until it was almost just noise because so much was going on...and then the tension breaks: finally release.

What was "THE HIT" your senior year of high school?

No one in high school had ever heard of a CD player.

Ice, Ice, Baby by Vanilla Ice.
Pump up the Jam by Technotronics.
Groove is in the Heat by Deee-Lite.
Anything by Pearl Jam, Alice n Chains, Nirvana.

No one in my high school had heard of tape...not even the 8 track was around.
Senior year? "Runaway" Del Shannon comes to mind...

That list just about sums it up for me too.

'92?

We had too many icons playing music in 1974 to name one song.

Eric Clapton
Steely Dan
Elton John
Jim Croce

Early HS was all Zepplin and Stones, not so much later.

Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo.

I don't know if it was the hit everyone else was listening too, I didn't pay attention to them, but it was the song I listened to.

Graduated in 1995.

You got my curiosity going, so I googled. Graduated in 1973, and yep it was as bad as I remembered.
The top 5 of 1973
1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando and Dawn
2. Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce
3. Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack
4. Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye
5. My Love, Paul McCartney and Wings

my generation was just waiting for the Ramones, Sex Pistols and the Clash.

Guns N Roses...Welcome to the Jungle.

Close..Graduated in '91

It was a high point for music, with hits such as:

Come On Eileen, Dexy's Midnight Runners
Der Kommissar, After The Fire
The Safety Dance, Men Without Hats

Many of my most memorable H.S. experiences happened with True by Spandau Ballet playing.

"Paint It Black".........Rolling Stones.........1966

Don

Boston- "More than a feeling" 1977

Need You Tonight---INXS

Inagodavida, Iron Butterfly

Stairway To Heaven , Led Zeppelin

Mississippi Queen, Mountain

Layla, Eric Clapton

Breathe, Pink Floyd

All on vinyl and 8 track

happy together...........the turtles
light my fire.................the doors
to sir with love............lulu
ode to billie joe...........bobbie gentry

My Sharona by The Knack.

Heard that every morning while the flag and song girls practiced their routines.
Of course, being a yell leader, it simply couldn’t be avoided.

My stoner buddies and I preferred the Ramones, Sex Pistols, and the Clash.
Still have every Joe Strummer recording acquired in our music library.

In 1971 it was 4-track by Craig. Everything Stones and Chicago.