The Stroke by Billy Squier
Apologies to the music of 2021, but at this point in time, there hasn't been a song from that year that I've come across that speaks to me and I feel deserves a spot next to the other songs on this count up. So, I broke one of my rules and backtracked to 1981 for this year's choice.
During this summer in Minnesota, we were driving down I-90 when this song popped up on the classic rock station out of Rochester. I was dumbfounded-how had I totally overlooked it in consideration for the count-up? Perhaps it wouldn't have knocked out that year's choice (Watching the Wheels), but it was a shocking oversight given this song's role in my college experience.
I had the good fortune while attending WSU to ally myself with friends who were known to host a small mixer or two on occasion. Being aligned with these chums had several benefits-often times a free cup, VIP access to slip behind the bar to run the tap, and in my case, the cuing up of this song during the parties-as the song built towards the end and crescendoed with chants of "Stokes! Stokes!" in substitute of the song title's chorus, in those moments, I felt like this. *sigh* College.
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