This month ... it's all about the top 30 jukebox memories (see rules below) -- relevant because it was *our* class who got a jukebox installed in the cafeteria (along with Coke machines and one of those electronic message boards).
I find it pretty safe to say that very few and/or NONE of us were "woke" enough back in '89 to understand the social commentary within the next song on the countdown ... but as they used to say on Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand', it sure did have a funky beat and you could dance to it. The "it", of course, being the classic De La Soul's 'Me, Myself & I' -- not to be confused with the modern version by Bebe Rexha, which shouldn't happen anyways what with how this series is basically all (late) 80's all the time
RULES FOR THIS TOP 30 LIST: Songs are as remembered from when they were being played loudly in the cafeteria, making us all raise our voices at mealtimes in order to hear each other. All memories are believed to be accurate and will be fact checked on the interwebs to make sure that featured songs were actually released prior to June of 1989 (but since these memories are thirty years old, there is not a guarantee of 100% accuracy.) Also note that an appearance on this list is not necessarily an endorsement of the song or the artist. And if anyone out there wants to make a mixtape that we can all make copies of at the reunion, now is the time to start working on that task.
JUKEBOX MEMORY TRACK #17:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJmPTQipOeI
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