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Best Songs About School

We list the Top 11 Songs About School.


by K. Thor Jensen

Well, the time is here once more for us to leave behind the carefree days of summer in exchange for the never-ending grind of school. No matter where you are in your academic career, you are shedding a single lonely tear about the end of beach parties, late nights and later mornings. But don't lose hope, dear reader - we're going to lift your spirits a bit with the halcyon power of rock & roll. With these eleven essential tracks, you'll be able to assemble a back-to-school soundtrack that will almost make you forget that you're doing calculus, you'll be rocking so hard. Load your iPod up with these jams and we'll make even the most interminable lecture like a Van Halen video. The bell's about to ring - let's get to class in the School of Rock!

Eminem - Brain Damage
Eminem - Brain Damage

Eminem - Brain Damage

We're not surprised that Marshall Mathers has some bad feelings about school - it seems like every time he turned around, the rapper who would achieve worldwide fame as Eminem faced some new kind of abuse. On the track "Brain Damage", off of his breakout debut The Slim Shady LP, he tells a sad and sordid tale of his junior high abuse at the hands of a fat kid named D'Angelo Bailey. After a particularly brutal beating in the bathroom, young Marshall snaps and we get the first appearance of Slim Shady, as the tot runs off to the janitor's closet, puts his hands on a broomstick and starts whooping Bailey so hard that his Momma gets splinters in her. For all the times that you've been pushed around by those who are bigger, dumber, or just plain meaner than you, Em's got your back. Unfortunately, the song has a bit of a downer ending, but so does life, right?

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