Thursday, September 22, 2011

Spurgeon's General Warning: School Songs

Posted by on Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM

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Back 2 Skool! Hot wet teenage rebellion! Calculus! The nips are getting nippier, the earth is getting crunchier and that sort of outside business will always, always remind me of school time. Probably will until I die! And I’m not the only one. Music-type people are always trolling their minds for archetypal school memories so they can relate to the kids who are still there (and take their money), or evoke nostalgia in old squares (so they can take their money). School is cynical business! Now, there are hundreds of songs about school, and I probably didn't mention your favorite one. Leave it in the comments! Unless it is "Jeremy." No songs about LOSERS here!

This one is a given, really. Though I much prefer the work of P.J. Soles in that other, more accurate high school movie, Carrie.


The mere thought of David Lee Roth having sex with a human woman sends me straight to vomiting, this song especially. It's the soundtrack to so many sexual assaults, you guys! And before you say "I was a teenage boy, I would have been happy to nail a teacher!" please go look at your high school yearbook. If you think teen boys are anything other than children with acne, you are sorely mistaken.


Now this? Totally different. I know because I was a teen girl, and I've always kind of regretted that I never had a hot teacher (or, more realistically, hot professor). Like I said, totally different, especially if the teacher looked like young Mr. Sumner here. (This song, by the way, might be the original #humblebrag. Sting, though handsome, is the worst.)


Some songs, of course, are much more innocent and/or boring.

Innocent:


Boring:

Yeah, The Beach Boys can be very boring. Stay after class and give me 500 words on why I'm wrong.

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