YSJ Replay – The Ultimate Playlist
We hope you’ve had fun looking back on the music of your student days through YSJ Replay! You can check out the suggestions of your fellow alumni by decade on Spotify.
But now it’s time to get serious, because there can be only one winning song for each graduation year.
Check out your graduation year below, and see which song is currently in the lead to represent your student experience! If you disagree with the current ultimate song or don’t see your year represented, make sure you get your entry in by 30th September.
The ultimate YSJ Replay playlist will be finalised soon, so don’t delay!
YSJ Replay – As It Stands…
| On The Sunny Side Of The Street | Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra | 1948 |
| When I Fall In Love | Nat King Cole | 1955 |
| Every Time We Say Goodbye | Ella Fitzgerald | 1963 |
| Stranger On The Shore | Acker Bilk | 1964 |
| In Dreams | Roy Orbison | 1965 |
| Ruby Tuesday | The Rolling Stones | 1966 |
| Mr Tambourine Man | The Byrds | 1967 |
| San Francisco | Scott Mackenzie | 1968 |
| Whiter Shade Of Pale | Procol Harum | 1969 |
| Suzanne | Leonard Cohen | 1970 |
| Albatross | Fleetwood Mac | 1971 |
| Not enough entries! | 1972 | |
| American Pie | Don McLean | 1973 |
| Maggie May | Rod Stewart | 1974 |
| Tubular Bells | Mike Oldfield | 1975 |
| Nutbush City Limits | Ike and Tina Turner | 1976 |
| Born To Run | Bruce Springsteen | 1977 |
| Not enough entries! | 1978 | |
| Mamma Mia | ABBA | 1979 |
| Hotel California | The Eagles | 1980 |
| I Will Survive | Gloria Gaynor | 1981 |
| Not enough entries! | 1982 | |
| I Will Survive | Gloria Gaynor | 1983 |
| I Am The Beat | The Look | 1984 |
| Eye Of The Tiger | Survivor | 1985 |
| Together In Electric Dreams | Phil Oakley and Georgia Metoder | 1986 |
| Ghostbusters | Ray Parker Jnr | 1987 |
| China In Your Hand | T’Pau | 1988 |
| Break Out | Swing Out Sister | 1989 |
| Take On Me | a-ha | 1990 |
| I’ve Got My Mind Set On You | George Harrison | 1991 |
| Going Loco Down In Acapulco | Four Tops | 1992 |
| The End Of The World As We Know It | R.E.M. | 1993 |
| It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over | Lenny Kravitz | 1994 |
| Not enough entries! | 1995 | |
| Common People | Pulp | 1996 |
| Never Forget | Take That | 1997 |
| Disco 2000 | Pulp | 1998 |
| Angels | Robbie Williams | 1999 |
| One More Time | Daft Punk | 2000 |
| The One And Only | Chesney Hawkes | 2001 |
| Castles In The Sky | Ian Van Dahl | 2002 |
| Bohemian Like You | The Dandy Warhols | 2003 |
| Lola’s Theme | Shapeshifters | 2004 |
| Toxic | Britney Spears | 2005 |
| Mr Brightside | The Killers | 2006 |
| Mr Brightside | The Killers | 2007 |
| America | Razorlight | 2008 |
| Valerie | Amy Winehouse | 2009 |
| Men’s Needs | The Cribs | 2010 |
| Fireflies | Owl City | 2011 |
| We Found Love | Rihanna | 2012 |
| I Gotta Feeling | Black Eyed Peas | 2013 |
| Levels | Avicii | 2014 |
| Wake Me Up | Avicii | 2015 |
| Lush Life | Zara Larsson | 2016 |
| Chandelier | Sia | 2017 |
| Intoxicated | Martin Solveig | 2018 |
| Galway Girl | Ed Sheeran | 2019 |
Get in touch to let us know your thoughts and music memories!
1982: Madness -“Our House”
1984 – only one winner Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
TSJ Replay – The Ultimate List:
1953 – I Believe – Frankie Laine
1957 Rock Around the Clock
Song sung regularly on coach journeys to Ripon, Bingley etc was “The Monks of St Bernard” or “We’re off to see the Wild West Show”
YSJ Replay – The Ultimate List:
1972 – A Horse With No name – America.
Thanks for your entry!