What music most reminds you of college?

[phillybri]

Gotta be Dave Matthews Band for me. I remember vividly walking to first college class in 1995 listening to "Under The Table and Dreaming"...

[SaveElmer]

1. Showin my age but...

Styx, Dan Fogelberg, REO Speedwagon, Blondie, early Police...

[Richardo]

3. Showing MY age: Steely Dan, Tower of Power, Clapton's "Slowhand"

...and yes, the terminally overplayed "Frampton Comes Freakin' Alive." :puke:

[Bunny]

43. Richardo, we must be pretty close in age.

College for me (freshman/sophmore years) was Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (COMPLETELY unavoidable - it was everywhere!)T of P, Outlaws, and good ol' C.D.B. (well before he became a wingnut). Did you go to college near the Burgh?

[Richardo]

54. That sounds familiar, bunnyj, I'd have to add Marshall Tucker Band too

...and the ubiquitous Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" album.

However, I went to school out west: UCLA to be exact. :)

[Bunny]

57. Dear lord, how did I manage to forget "Rumours"?

It was indeed ubiquitous! :)

[Richardo]

OMG! How could *I* overlook "Hotel California"?

Especially since the hotel in the cover photo (Beverly Hills Hotel) was only a few miles from UCLA?

Only heard "Life in the Fast Lane" and "Hotel California" about 6,000 times apiece... :eyes:

Although: "Victim of Love" is the Eagles' rockin-est track EVER. :thumbsup:

[Mr. Blonde]

51. "Have I ever heard of this

if you lived in the suburbs it came in the mail with samples of Tide"

[Momgonepostal]

15. REM, The Smithereens

[Momgonepostal]

16. REM, The Smithereens

[noonwitch]

2. The Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Police, Bruce

80s music.

[GainesT1958]

4. Earth, Wind and Fire--"All 'n All" and "I Am";

The Doobie Brothers' "Minute By Minute"; Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"; Pink Floyd and "The Wall"!:D

Along with the Cars, Blondie and The Police!

Also...years later, in grad school, when asked by an undergrad, "What's your favorite Seattle band?", answering: "Heart"!:D

Boy, do I feel dated!:eyes:

B-)

[tigerbeat]

5. George Harrison's "Cloud Nine".....

Talking Heads' "Naked", Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians' "Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" and XTC's "Skylarking" and the Dukes of Stratosphear albums.

[tridim]

6. The Cure, The Cult, Ministry, Jane's Addiction

Pretty much all the late 80's-early 90's, non-mainstream, pre-Seattle, college radio music. I miss that era so much.

[Search Party]

7. '84

The Dream Syndicate
R.E.M. "murmur"
The Gun Club
camper van beethoven

[Speck Tater]

8. The Beetles were just starting out when I was a frosh.

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. Cat Stevens

I still think his music was great.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Nirvana

Soundgarden, Black Sabbath (during my freshman year Sabbath revival), Beatles, Mudhoney, Wax Trax industrial music (rooommate's), etc. etc. Guess which decade I went to college??

When I went out to the bars, all that crappy club music (like the stuff heard on Jock Jams, which a neighbor of mine in the dorm had).

Oh, and then there was my Deadhead stage Junior year. Didn't last long, though.

[SoKalKyle]

11. 70's Rock

Even though I went to college in the eighties, I had a roommate who was entrenched in the Rock of the 60's and 70's. It was his stereo and his records so we listened to The Doors, The Who, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones ad nauseum.

I still can't hear The Who's "Mama's Got A Squeezebox" without being thrown back to that time....

[StClone]

12. The Police, Pink Floyd and Queen eom

=

[Jesse_W]

13. Heck - I'm in college! Irish, Celtic Anything!

I'm in college now, and I'll listen to anything, but I prefer Irish, Celtic, Folk stuff. (goes well with Contra dance. ;-) )

But what's really odd is how, when I was in Russia, and staying with a Russian teenager, the music he liked the best, and listened to constantly, was American 80's and 90's pop music. I actually came home with more of taste for, and knowledge of, that music than I had when I left. Strange.

[jedicord]

14. Bob Marley

Peter Tosh, anything Reggae.

My house mates were from Jamaica. I had the misfortune of being the one to tell them Bob had died. Very sad day, much more than I expected.

[AwakeAtLast]

17. 10,000 Maniacs

Blind Mans Zoo. It never left my car's CD player for a long time. I still love listening to Natalie Merchant's voice.

[skooooo]

45. I saw them play in a small bar in Bloomington IN in '86

...which is before they hit it really big. Quite incredible. I remember Merchant held some kind of diary book or something while she sang.

[skooooo]

46. Talking Heads....

[maxpower]

18. R.E.M. and the Pixies

I couldn't have survived college without them.

[XNASA]

19. Heroes - David Bowie

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

[pagerbear]

20. Well, I went to a church music school

...rather, a liberal arts school with a strong church music program, so what really brings back college days is some of the choral music I remember so fondly. Some great things we did on choir tour. The anthem we sang every year at graduation. The school's hokey alma mater. That sort of thing.

[mrboba1]

21. Pearl Jam & Nirvana n/t

[kcwayne]

22. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
Elton John's Funeral for a Friend
Dan Fogelberg - Illinois
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way

and of course...

Disco Duck (barf)

[cosmicdot]

23. (the original) Woodstock

... and the Beatles ...

Crosby Stills Nash Young - Carry On Lyrics

One morning I woke up and I knew
You were really gone
A new day, a new way, and new
eyes to see the dawn
Go your way, I'll go mine and
Carry on

The sky is clearing and the night
Has gone out
The sun, he come, the world
is all full of light
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice but
To carry on

The fortunes of fables are able
To sing the song
Now witness the quickness with which
We get along
To sing the blues you've got to live the tunes and
Carry on

Carry on
Love is coming
Love is coming to us all

Where are you going now my love?
Where will you be tomorrow?
Will you bring me happiness?
Will you bring me sorrow?
Oh, the questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Lover can you talk to me?

Girl when I was on my own
Chasing you down
What was it made you run?
Trying your best just to get around.
The questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Lover can you talk to me?

[Kat45]

24. Fleetwood Mac's albums with Bob Welch

We listened to them a lot. And their older blues albums w/ Peter Green.
Also Clapton (Cream and Derek & the Dominoes).
Frank Zappa (especially Overnight Sensation and Apostrophe).
Robin Trower
UFO
Dark Side of the Moon and the next Pink Floyd album (especially when we got stoned)


This wasn't what was on the radio at the time; this was what my friends and I were listening to. The last couple of years of college I would be hearing the underclassmen playing the current days' albums, Boston and Frampton Comes Alive. Then Meatloaf's Paradise By the Dashboard Lights.

[underpants]

25. WHY do you build me up (Build me up) buttercup, baby

Just to let me down (Let me down)and mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (Say you will) but I love you still
I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin'
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) buttercup, don't break my heart


"I'll be over at ten", you told me time and again
But you're late, I wait around and then (Bah-dah-dah)
I run to the door, I can't take any more
It's not you, you let me down again

(Hey, hey, hey!) Baby, baby, try to find
(Hey, hey, hey!) A little time, and I'll make you happy
(Hey, hey, hey!) I'll be home
I'll be beside the phone waiting for you
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo

Why do you build me up (Build me up) buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (Let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (Say you will) but I love you still
I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darling
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) buttercup, don't break my heart

To you I'm a toy but I could be the boy you adore
If you'd just let me know (Bah-dah-dah)
Although you're untrue, I'm attracted to you all the more
Why do I need you so

(Hey, hey, hey!) Baby, baby, try to find
(Hey, hey, hey!) A little time and I'll make you happy
(Hey, hey, hey!) I'll be home
I'll be beside the phone waiting for you
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo

Why do you build me up (Build me up) buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (Let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (Say you will) but I love you still
I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darling
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) buttercup, don't break my heart

I need you (I need you) more than anyone, baby
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) Buttercup, don't break my heart
{fade}

[underpants]

26. Well since I started college in '85 and finished in '96........

that leaves a lot of ground to be covered. But I will say REM.

[Commendatori]

27. Jefferson Starship's "Freedom at Point Zero"

[GumboYaYa]

28. The Neville Brothers, Phish, The Meters, John Mooney,

and all the other great acts that I got to see on a regular basis in the clubs around New Orleans. It was a shock to me when I got out of school. I had gotten so used to going to see a different band every night of the week. I had trouble adjusting to a "normal" lifestyle.

[ceile]

29. Live!

Every time I hear "Lightening Crashes" I have flash backs of driving around town with my college roommate.

[bigwillq]

30. Tupac

In my first semester of college in the fall of 1996, Tupac's life ended to shortly. All that semester, my friends and I would listen to him while drinking a 40 and smoking a philly.

Also, a lot of Bob Marley and later in my college years when I went through my rave phase, a lot of trance and deep house music.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

31. They Might Be Giants, Fetchin Bones..........

Camper Van Beethoven, Love and Rockets, Siouxsie and the Banshees

[Jesse_W]

41. A fellow TMBG fan! Cool!

Glad to find a fellow enjoyer of TMBG. :D If you don't mind me asking, when did you listen to them in college?

[Taverner]

32. Echo and the Bunnymen

even tho I didn't listen to them much then...but all my friends did.

At the time I listened to Pixies and Sonic Youth....

[leftofthedial]

33. Steely Dan

Eagles

Outlaw Country

i forget

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

34. First year of college = The Police last album

With one breath
With one flow
You will know
Synchronicity

[Ilsa]

35. Fleetwood Mac's Sarah, Cheap Trick, & the song My Sharonna.

Earlier years included disco-sucks music. 1976-1980.

[HEyHEY]

36. Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Niel Young, Spirit of the West

[DuckFan4ever]

37. Am I the only one who listened to Smokey and Barry?

Music that reminds me of college? I don't know about the rest of you, but while I was in college my priorities were studying, beer, and girls. The music has to be Smokey Robinson and Barry White. Guaranteed to go over well. :loveya:

[flamingyouth]

38. Nirvana, Mudhoney, Melvins, Girl Trouble, Fluid

"Four Bands for Four Bucks" era at the HUB Ballroom at the UW. :thumbsup:

[GOPisEvil]

47. Show-off!

:P

[July]

39. LAY-LAAA!!!

Blasting from speakers in a dorm window onto the quad. I am getting old.

[Karenina]

40. Sons of Champlin...

New York Rock & Roll Ensemble...

[NightTrain]

42. Early '80s New Wave

[m-jean03]

44. The "Star Wars: A New Hope" soundtrack

As bizarre as it sounds, I played that a lot when I was in college. :freak:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

48. Cardigans "Lovefool"

It was on the air incessantly my first semester. And my gf at the time kind of looked like their singer

[Magrittes Pipe]

49. The Pokers

They really sucked.

[Kenneth ken]

50. Jerry Jeff Walker

more than anything. Somehow he got played a lot at college, but no where else in my life. :shrug:

[SW FL Dem]

52. As a Freshman, Boston and Fleetwood Mac

Senior year, it was disco. I just attended my 25th college reunion, aside from catching up with friends, the best part was watching a bunch of 47 yr olds on the dance floor making total fools of ourselves trying to disco.

[realisticphish]

53. still in college...

so its kind of contemporary lol. But i'd say Phish, The Who, RATM, and the Lion King soundtrack, which some whacko asshole blasted from across the hall at least twice a day

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

55. Dancehal Reggae, The Fugees and Jeru the Damaja

Oh, and Redman

[JCMach1]

56. THE SMITHS...

Who else...

[Bertha Venation]

58. Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith

Youth misspent at Los Angeles Baptist College, where secular popular music and much "contemporary Christian" music -- the "hard stuff" -- were strictly verboten.

[sus]

59. REM, The Smiths, The Cure