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Best Jam Out Songs From Before 1999

"The music of the '70s and '80s is fun music and we wanted to party." — Marco Balich

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Best Jam Out Songs From Before 1999
Emma Clune

After a lifetime of being forced to listen to '80s music in the backseat of my dad's car, and having a friend whose mom's music taste was (and is) leagues better than my own, I learned to love everything from U2 to Fleetwood Mac. Here, I compiled a list of my favorite songs to jam out to that were released pre-1999, along with some of my favorite lines.

1. Friday I'm In Love - The Cure

"Dressed up to the eyes / It's a wonderful surprise / To see your shoes and your spirits rise / Throwing out your frown / And just smiling at the sound"

2. Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

"All your life you've never seen a woman taken by the wind / Would you stay if she promised to you heaven? / Will you ever win?"

3. Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze

"Now she's gone / And I'm back on the beat / A stain on my notebook / Says nothing to me / Now she's gone / And I'm out with a friend / With lips full of passion / And coffee in bed"

5. Wannabe - The Spice Girls

" If you want my future, forget my past / If you wanna get with me, better make it fast / Now don't go wasting my precious time / Get your act together we could be just fine"

6. Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

"These people 'round here, wear beaten down eyes / Sunk in smoke dried faces, so resigned to what their fate is / But not us, no not us, we are far too young and clever"

6. Linger - The Cranberries

"If you, if you could get by, trying not to lie, / Things wouldn't be so confused and I wouldn't feel so used, / But you always really knew, I just wanna be with you."

7. I Want You Back - Jackson 5

"Trying to live without your love is one long sleepless night / Let me show you, girl, that I know wrong from right / Every street you walk on, I leave tear stains on the ground / Following the girl I didn't even want around"

8. Beautiful Day - U2

"You're on the road / But you've got no destination / You're in the mud / In the maze of her imagination"

9. Tainted Love - Soft Cell

"Get away, you don't really want any more from me / To make things right / You need someone to hold you tight / And you think love is to pray / But I'm sorry, I don't pray that way"

10. Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin

"Ev'ry day I work so hard bringin' home my hard-earned pay. / Try to love you baby, but you push me away. / Don't know where you're goin', I don't know just where you've been; / Sweet little baby, I want you again."

11. Vienna - Billy Joe

"You got your passion, you got your pride / But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? / Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true/ When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?"

12. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield

"And I'm lookin' in the mirror all the time / Wonderin' what she don't see in me / I've been funny; I've been cool with the lines / Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?"

13. Island in the Sun - Weezer

"On an island in the sun / We'll be playing and having fun/ And it makes me feel so fine / I can't control my brain / We'll run away together / We'll spend some time forever / We'll never feel bad anymore."

14. You Make My Dreams - Hall and Oates

"Twist and shout my way out / And wrap yourself around me / 'Cause I ain't the way you found me / And I'll never be the same, oh yeah"

15. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye


"We're all sensitive people / With so much to give, understand me sugar / Since we got to be here / Let's live, I love you"

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