Music for high school or college commencement parties & speeches
Looking for great graduation songs your commencement speech, ceremony, or party?
Here are songs about graduation related themes-- some fun song, some sentimental songs, and some dark and pessimistic songs. Pick and choose from this graduation songs list to find your perfect graduation songs.
Top 10 Overplayed Graduation Songs
1.Third Eye Blind. Graduate;Stephan Jenkins' fervent cry of "Can I graduate?"is sure to resonate with those who, in fact, can.
2.Matchbox Twenty.How Far We've Come: Go ahead, Class of 2009, look back with pride. Bask in your accomplishments over a sweet drum-and-acoustic-guitar backbeat. While "I believe the world is coming to an end" isn't necessarily a positive message, at least you graduated before the apocalypse.
3.Green Day:Good Riddance: It never fails to amuse me that the quintessential graduation song was written as one last kiss-off to a bad relationship. Nevertheless, it still stands proudly in the pantheon of overplayed graduation songs.
4.Semisonic:Closing Time: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning''s end." With that bit of pseudo-existentialism, Semisonic launches you on to the next phase of your lives.Fun fact: The drummer drums and plays the piano at the same time. Aspire to that same multitasking ability.
5.Natasha Bedingfield:Unwritten: Bless you, Natasha, for reminding us of the limitless opportunities of the future. This might be the most upbeat song of all time, and I''ll be damned if it doesn''t make you hopeful.
6.Vitamin C:Graduation Song: Awkward confession time: I cry every time I hear this song. I''s the ultimate in clichéd graduation songs, but somehow it still affects each of us. Because "as we go on, we remember all the times we had together. And as our lives change, come whatever, we will still be friends forever."
7.Pomp & Circumstance: There's something to be said for literalism. Everyone's favorite march is about to be trotted out once again. Both pompous and circumstantial.
8.Five For Fighting: 100 Years: Everyone's favorite sappy recounting of times past, with a vaguely sinister undertone reminding us of our own mortality.
9.Foo Fighters:Times Like These: One of the more palatable overplayed graduation songs. There's something strangely comforting about Dave Grohl's vocals, and between the album and acoustic versions, you've got enough material to last through high school and college! (Grad school is another story.
10.Oasis:Wonderwall: This song isn't actually about graduating—in fact, I don't know exactly what it's about—but somehow it winds up on every playlist and in every photo montage. After all, you will be my wonderwall, won't you?
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