OK, I think we all agree that Funky Town is a horrible song to have as the # 1 song of 1980!  So, which songs do you remember from high school and why?  BTW:  Carry on my Wayward Son was # 1 from 1979, so we can lay claim to that, can't we?  Post away and I'll try hard not to delete it!

I remember Styx(sp?) Grand Illision album from our sophomore year.  I played it all the time and thought it was so cutting edge!  Just the fact that I'm talking albums is so far from cutting edge--and if you could see the stereo I used to play it on.  Oh yeah, I also remember having a Shawn Cassidy album where he was in a white suit on the cover and he sang; Da, Do, Run, Run and Hey Deanie.  Ugh, I'm feeling older by he minute!

What about the Stones, JJ Cale, Lynrd Skynard, Bruce Springstein, Bob Seger, AC/DC, Boston, Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Clash, The Ramones, Leonard Cohen, The Band, The Who, Velvet Underground, The Doors, Jackson Brown, Head East, Emerson, Lake and Palmer...to name a few.  Some of it was 70's music, but this is most of what I listened to

M. Fairall

I think REO Speedwagon was going pretty strong about then....along with Journey, Styx, Kansas, Boston, KISS, The Cars, Foreigner, Queen, AC/DC, ......I still listen to that music today....love it!  In fact, we just saw Heart and Journey at the Iowa State Fair this year and it was an incredible show....brought back lots of memories.

I think Lynard Skynard was the theme music for class of 80.  We did a lot of partying to Skynard music.  Skynard and Molly Hatchet.  We also listened to Nazarath and Ted Nugent.  These were for the partys.  Then we would go out dancing.  That was a whole new story and a whole different music, that I never admit too;)   But did enjoy.

For some reason I always think of you, Jeff when I hear Wild Cherry's Play that Funky Music.  I don't know why!

AHEM!!!  No one seems to be saying the infamous VAN HALEN!!!  Runnin With the Devil rocked the times!

Jeff-

    This doesn't have anything to do with songs from high school, but do you remember the Russian Club trip to Chicago with Mrs. Hall?  I always think about you when I go to Chicago--we had a wreck in the rented van from Burkhart-Jensen coming back from a Russian Orthodox Church, and I remember that you helped her deal with the guy who hit us and that you knew what do to post-wreck.  We also ate a Russian restaurant.   That was my first time in Chicago, and it made a big impression on me at the time.  Dosvedonya!  Sara

Jeff,

I will always remember when you told me about the morning that you woke up and decided

that you and your neighbors where all going to listen to some skynard and Dave V on the next

block could here it until you blew out your speakers.

Vince

Hi Sara, Those trips were fun weren't they!  That was my sister that chaperoned that trip.  I remember that after the wreck, she wanted cigarettes so I had to sneak away with her and walked across the street and went into a russian bar.  The Russians were actually in a circle, dancing a russian dance when we walked in.  We also talked with that big lady that had the really big hands and really deep voice.  After we left and talked about how we thought it was a guy, you wanted to go back and take pictures.  Then we got lost and ended up in South Chicago.  The cop stopped us, told us to roll up the windows, drive through the red lights and not stop for anything.  We were "in the wrong neighborhood".  Ahh, fun times.

Hey Vince, Yea, I remember some days I just felt like sharing;)  I did use and abuse those speakers.  Dave and I had a lot of fun in that neighborhood but I don't think the neighbors liked it;)  I just visited your web site.  That's great you're playing again, I use to love going into the rooms in Miller to listen to Maynard Ferguson.  Do you remember when the fire extiguisher went off in the auditorium while we were setting up the stage for the concert that night?  And when we use to sneak up into the auditorium ceiling to eat donuts.  Good times.

I wish I could have been at the reunion Shannon, from everything I have seen on the website, you did a fabulous job planning!  Not sure about the most popular songs, but I got to thinking about your car, gert (?) the gremlin.  I have really enjoyed the pictures of everyone, hope to see you in 5!

We missed you too Kelli!  About Gert, my parents sold her for $100 to the junkyard when I was at UNI.  They made my fiance' (my now husband) tell me!  I think I shed a few tears-I loved that bucket of bolts!

OMG, yes.  I thought those first two albums were mind blowing, and of course "Runnin' With The Devil"  is the iconic song.  I used to blast that through those good old Jensen Triaxials with the Craig Supertuner tape deck and powered up with Fosgate!