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The Rembrandts: I’ll be there for you (1995)

Du kender sikkert dette nummer som temasangen til tv-serien Friends. Den handler om venskab og at holde sammen, selv om ‘It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear/ When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month/ Or even your year, but/

og så kommer omkvædet, der er det hele værd:
I’ll be there for you/
(When the rain starts to pour)
I’ll be there for you
(Like I’ve been there before)
I’ll be there for you
(‘Cause you’re there for me too)

Alice Cooper: School’s out for summer (1972)

‘No more pencils/No more books/ No more teacher’s dirty looks’ synger Alice Cooper i fuld krigsmaling over en gang hård tråd. Han topper lige med omkvædet:

School’s out for summer
School’s out forever
School’s been blown to pieces

Chuck Berry: School days (1957)

Up in the mornin’ and out to school
The teacher is teachin’ the Golden Rule
American history and practical math
You studyin’ hard and hopin’ to passss’

Over et surf-agtigt beat synger Chuck Berry om en dag i skolen. Sangen kulminerer med verset:

Soon as three o’clock rolls around
You finally lay your burden down
Close up your books, get out of your seat
Down the halls and into the street
Up to the corner and ’round the bend
Right to the juke joint, you go in

Will Smith: Summertime (1991)

School is out and it’s a sort of a buzz
But back then I didn’t really know what it was
But now I see what have of this
The way that people respond to summer madness

Will Smith & Jazzy Jeffs klassiker er forevigt forbundet med skoleafslutning og lange sommerdage. En sommerferie-klassiker!

The Four Freshmen: Graduation Day (1956)

Vi er nede i de helt bløde vokalharmonier med The Four Freshmens sang om glæden ved dimission. Det kan godt være, at du ikke har helt samme følelser, men det er stadig smukt og lidt ømt, når de synger:

We’ll remember always/ Graduation day

Green Day: Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) (1997)

Ingen school’s out-playliste uden Green Days klassiker ‘Good Riddance’, hvor en ung Billy Joe Armstrong synger:

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don’t ask why
It’s not a question, but a lesson learned in time

Awwww!

Vitamin C: Graduation (Friends Forever) (2000)

Du er muligvis for ung til at huske girlbandet Vitamin Cs 00’er graduation-hit ‘Friends Forever’, men det er vi ikke. Så her kommer den – med de gyldne linjer:

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule

Semisonic: Closing Time (1998)

Amerikanske Semisonic er mest kendt for deres collegerock-hit om at være færdig med skolen. Og man bliver da også en lille smule nostalgisk ved linjerne:

Closing time
Open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time
Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl
Closing time
One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here

Pink Floyd: Another Brick In The Wall (1979)

Ingen skolesangs-liste uden Pink Floyds antiautoritære klassiker med omkvæddet:

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone

Kool & The Gang: Celebration (1980)

Vi slutter med lidt diskostemning og Kool & The Gangs udødelige festsang ‘Celebration’. Sjældent er trompet blevet spillet så stramt som på det nummer. Vi garanterer, at du har glemt alt om eksamensstress og læseplaner, når du har set videoen …

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