nostalgic attack

Every day when I arrive in the office, the very first application I open is Winamp. It is on auto-play, shuffle mode and the loaded playlist contains all the songs in my MP3 folder. So this morning, the first song I heard was “American Junk” by Apo Hiking Society. Ok, so this may not be the type of song that would make anyone nostalgic. The beat, the lyrics, the song itself; they were just not right. But it did. This is one of the songs that would make me miss high school. Definitely, high school year were the best years of my life (and fourth year will be the best among the four). And so, I’ve thought about those songs that will never fail to remind me of high school. Here’s my top 10 high school songs: Songs: 1. “Hotel California” - Need I explain this? Ok, for those who don’t remember (kung meron man), two words: fair, amado. 2. “Vulnerable” by Roxette – I used to really like this song during 2nd year and so every time I hear it, I remember 2nd year. Haha! And I can still hear Basuel singing with it, “like china in japan…” 3. “Hilo” by Rivermaya – Amado’s interpretative dance. I can’t even remember mine, but I remember his. Never fails to bring a tear in my eye. 4. “Semi-Charmed Life” – During the time this song was so popular, all the bands (except Invictus of course) wanted to play it for the upcoming SAMAPI concert. But they were all thinking that the other bands might play it. So it ended up that no band played this song. 5. “Got to Believe in Magic” and “King and Queen of Hearts” – the ultimate prom songs 6. “Lea” by Toto– I just can’t forget it when Jonas sang it during SAMAPI’s Retro concert. Very nice. 7. “The Bomb” – the song we danced to in 3rd year, awakened my love for dancing and prompted me to create SAGALA. Does anyone know the title of the other song we danced to? Chinese ata yun or something e… 8. “Just Take My Heart” by Mr. Big – By 4th year, Invictus finally had the guts to play this in a concert. My favorite piece of ours. 9. “Beauty and Madness” by Fra Lippo Lippi – waah!! I miss Oliver’s piano playing. And jem singing with it. Hehe! 10. "Last Dance” – ok, I’m not sure about this; I think this was the last song played during Grad Ball. If not, I’m just definite this was played during grad ball. By the way, songs from Eraserheads 1st and Circus album were not included here, because they will already fill the list. Also not included are the songs from Parokya ni Edgar's Khang Khung Hernitz and Burugudunstuystugudunstuy albums. I've long before associated these albums to high school. *** Add: Included in my top ten: "Sana ay Mahalin Mo Pa Rin Ako" by April Boys. Yes, april boys: sobrang baduy. But the sampa boys, led by Marc Basuel have a very cute rendition of it, you just can't help but like it. Like i told Jae, I like this song, but haven't heard it for a long time so i kinda forgot about it. Hmm... maybe i should download it. Hehe! thanks for the reminder, jae.