123. "I Do' Wanna Know" by REO Speedwagon
The Speedwagon had some massive chart-topping hits during my high school years, and this song wasn't one of them. The single came out just a few months before graduation, so it didn't have a lot of time to rack up the old high school memories either. But the timing of its release is why it's in my top 200. I think it was sometime in February of 1984 that I decided to renew my membership in the He-Man Woman-Haters Club, and I stopped going to dances of any kind and swore off dating. I also stopped caring about my classes, my classmates (except for the Arimo Mafia), church, scouts, and, truth be told, my family. Hanging out with the Arimo Mafia, running track, and going on band tour were the only things I cared about. I had also adopted a rebellious attitude toward pretty much every adult I knew, except for Uncle Wayne and Ivalue. I was turning 18 and was ready to claim my independence of everything and everyone. And that's why this song perfectly distills my general frame of mind during those last three months of high school.
This song also reminds me of the school trip to Lagoon when the Musik Express operator played the same REO Speedwagon song over and over and over and over as we went around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around. Because he had it turned up so loud, we also heard it anytime we rode nearby rides, like the Wild Mouse or Collossus or the Centennial Screamer or the Rock-o-plane or the Sky Ride. I'm pretty sure it was this song and the trip was our senior sneak. But I could be wrong. My brain got pretty scrambled from all those rides, and as a result my four years of high school Lagoon memories may be completely jumbled.
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