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).
Contrary to the way that this series has played out, it was NOT all late 80's all the time in the cafeteria. *Most* of the time, sure ... but every now and then ... someone would play something old school ... as in something someone nearly two decades older would have played on their cafeteria jukebox had they been cool enough to put a jukebox in their cafeteria. I'm pretty sure that someone had a first name of Matt and a last name that started with H ... and I'm pretty sure that he was exposing us all to the classic rock stylings of Led Zeppelin via 'Stairway to Heaven'. What I'm unsure of is whether he had to pay twice as much for such a loooong song. (Note that the link accompanying this post is the remastered version from 2007 and not the classic jukebox version we would have heard.)
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 #8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4
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