Which songs/albums take you back to college?

Excellent Thread, another thread made me think about this recently:

INXS - Shabooh Shabaah

Prince - Purple Rain

U2 - War

U2 - The Joshua Tree

The Cult - Love

REM - Murmur

REM - Life's Rich Paegent

Somehow I forgot, all of the Beatles Albums. Even though it was 20 yrs later, everyone had, and listened to Beatles albums. Ironically, this week I met my nephew in Austin at the typical college house they live in, and spilling out of his speakers was The White Album (from his iPod, but one battle at a time). One of the pictures on the wall was the Abbey Road album cover picture.

It looks like our Mozart is going to be the Beatles. Re-discovered by every succeeding generation. Part of it is that most new music is just derivative of The Beatles and their contemporaries, so the actual source sounds better.

His other favorite band right now is Led Zeppelin, so there is hope for the next generation of audiophiles. They will want to hear it actually sound good and have impact too.

Great point on their influences, it's like it all led to kind of popular music apex with the mid '60 to mid 70's.

I wish something really cool and new would come along again. The last time I heard something I thought was different and took me by surprise was the first time "Smells like Teen Spirit" came on the radio. I loved Nirvana, and much of the Seatlle sound of the early 90's, but it never really evolved much beyond that for me. About 10 great albums in that time (although I don't count Stone Temple Pilots in with the Seattle sound, I loved 3 of their albums).

So anything really good and new on the horizon? Or all just, "well they sound like....."

So we are correcting spelling now for slights from another thread? Classic!! I love this thread all over again.

6550c, could you direct me to the mentioned offensive literal slight? I would love to investigate further.

Man, I hope my grammer and spelling are up to snuff!!