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).
Upon reflection, I'm not so sure that the words anyone wanted to be hearing as they walked into the high school cafeteria was old Axl shrieking "You're gonna dieeeeee!" ... and yet I seem to recall Guns N' Roses 'Welcome to the Jungle' blasting from the corner on an *almost* daily basis. So maybe, just maybe, somebody back in 1989 knew that twenty years later, in 2009, that song would be decreed to be "the *greatest* hard rock song of all time". More likely, though, is that someone was sick of all the pop songs and wanted to do some head-banging as an alternative. Unless they just wanted to bring the administration down to it's kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-knees -- that we'll n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-never kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-know.
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 #4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg
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