’Tis the season of proms and graduations, and wouldn’t you know it, Boyz II Men happen to be in the neighborhood to remind us all about it.
1 Boyz II Men, “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” (Cooleyhighharmony, 1991) “I don’t know where this road is going to lead/All I know is where we’ve been and what we’ve been through.”
2 Simple Minds, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” (The Breakfast Club soundtrack, 1985) “Will you recognize me?/Call my name or walk on by? ... Don’t you try to pretend/It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end.”
3 Vitamin C, “Graduation (Friends Forever)” (Vitamin C, 1999) “I guess I thought that this would never end/And suddenly it’s like we’re women and men/Will the past be a shadow that will follow us ’round?/Will these memories fade when I leave this town?”
4 Alphaville, “Forever Young” (Forever Young, 1984) “So hard to get old without a cause/I don’t want to perish like a fading horse/Youth is like diamonds in the sun/And diamonds are forever.”
5 Eric Clapton, “Wonderful Tonight” (Slowhand, 1977) “We go to a party and everyone turns to see/This beautiful lady that’s walking around with me/And then she asks me, ‘Do you feel all right?’/And I say, ‘Yes, I feel wonderful tonight.’”
6 Semisonic, “Closing Time” (Feeling Strangely Fine, 1998) “Closing time, time for you to go out, go out into the world/Closing time, turn the lights up over every boy and every girl ... So gather up your jackets, and move it to the exits, I hope you have found a friend/Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
7 Alice Cooper, “School’s Out” (School’s Out, 1972) “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks/Well we got no class/And we got no principles/And we got no innocence/We can’t even think of a word that rhymes!”
Boyz II Men. May 3-6, 8 p.m., $33-$60.50. Orleans Showroom, 365-7075.