The song you remember age 16.

[justasking111]

Top songs from when you were 16 I'll start

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Baggy Trousers.

...Actually, I think I'd just turned 17 when it was released, but it remains the background sound in all my memories of the upper sixth common room at my secondary school - something so wistfully melancholic intertwined with that early-autumn, new-school-year feeling that fades before the end of September.

Seasons in the Sun, Terry Jacks, 1974. Oh, how I hated that fucking record. There was no escaping it that year - I swear I would have done better in my ‘O’ levels if I hadn’t had to hear that vapid pap whining drearily out from every radio in West Yorkshire, every fucking hour of every bastard day…

Okay, I’m only half-serious. I did grow to dislike it intensely, though. A dislike only surpassed by Bohemian Fucking Rhapsody the following year, but that’s another story.

Maggie May Rod Stewart

Been around the world and Aye aye aye, aye can’t fine ma babayyy - still have to run to turn it off if it comes on the radio

I'll be missing you.

Highlighted when Princess Diana died.

I don't particularly want the whole of the internet to be able to calculate my year of birth.

Suffice to say that there were a lot of memorable chart hits when I was 16, many of which even today's youngsters would know well.

Not sure I can narrow it down to 1!
Careless whisper
Like a virgin
Relax
Do they know it's Christmas
And the classic... Agadoo 😁

Lets Just say that it was the height of the New Romantics.

I am struggling to remember being 16 🤦‍♂️

Teenage Kicks by The Undertones. My 17yr old DS plays the bloody song in his band set. 😂

Life on Mars - Bowie
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Merry Christmas Everyone - Slade
Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
Can the Can - Suzie Quatro

There are loads more, it was a pretty good year for music.

September- Earth Wind and Fire
Mighty Real-Sylvester

Around the time I was 16 there was a huge variety of music, so my list is eclectic.
Abba - The Winner Takes it All
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Randy Crawford - Someday I'll Fly Away
Roxy Music - On the Radio
The Nolans (!) - In the Mood for Dancing

Loads by Bob Marley, The Specials, Roxy Music, Blondie, The Detroit Spinners...

Great songs and I remember them well. I drove my mother mad playing Bobby Davro Honey and The very first time one summer as well 🤣

I think James Blunt was around that age. It's not a song of that time but I have a very vivid memory of listening to ABBA Dancing Queen and thinking "'only' 17?! I'm 17 and that doesn't seem very young to me" 😂😂

I will survive by Gloria Gaynor. I was in my O' level year and we used to celebrate end of exams singing it.

Classic stuff!

Everything Ace of Base! I was obsessed!!

Cause you're mine ..The vibrations
At my first Northern Soul all nighter.
The dancing,the atmosphere,and a little bit of speed..amazing night.

I remember Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U being particularly relevant to me as I'd just had my heart broken for the first time aged 16

I doubt the “whole of the internet” will be sufficiently bothered to calculate your (presumably outing?) year of birth. 🙄

Perfect Skin by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. That song used to haunt me as I had terrible acne at the time. 😬

I wish I was 16 and know what I know now

Walking On Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves - just finished my O levels, in love, new Saturday job, planning my summer holiday.
Anything Live Aid related as that was a few weeks after my actual birthday.
I still have a mix tape I made for that holiday - Go West, Paul Hardcastle, Madonna, Jermaine Jackson, Debarge, Propganda.
I could not bear Frankie by Sister Sledge. It was on all summer.

Killing me softly, The Fugees

Say you’ll be there, The spice girls
Wonderwall, Oasis