High school for me but "Grand Illusion" is actually quite a good solid rocking album end-to-end by Styx. "Miss America" is one of my favorite rockers from the 70s and has a simple but killer guitar riff that I love to this day.
The rest of their subsequent output is less consistent.
"Leftoverture" by Kansas ain't bad either. |
at the risk of dating myself :
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Mcartney "Band on the Run"
Spirit, Blue oyster Cult, Queen Just a few of the many incredible pieces of work! |
Martyk1-I always confuse the following bands that positively SUCK too:
Kansas
Styx
Journey
REO Speedwagon
We listened to a lot of Dead, Stones, Kinks, Bowie, Talking Heads and Costello. |
I left for college with 2 suitcases, and in there were 2 CD's in those suitcases:
1) U2 -- The Joshua Tree
2) REM -- Green
And a couple albums/songs that were most memorable for me in college:
3) Pearl Jam -- Ten
4) Sir Mix a lot: Baby Got Back
Michael |
Anything from Supertramp "Breakfast in America", "My Sharona", The Cars, Tom Petty "Damn the Torpedoes"...all transport me back to freshman year '79/80. |
psychedelic furs and rem. can't listen to either without thinking about the good ol days. |
Bruce Springsteen. Mostly "The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" , "Greetings From Asbury Park" and "Born to Run". I don't think there was a single frat party that didn't blast "Rosilita" at least 3 times a night. |
Everyone's age is evident by their List of Songs !!! Far-Out Man . |
!.The Doors, S/T
2.Jimi Hendrix Are you Experienced
3.Cream,Disrali Gears,
4.Love, Forever Changes
5.Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow
And many more Psychedelic and Prog Rock Bands.
Then I turned on,Tuned in and dropped out..........Peace ! |
If college isn't one of the best episodes of your life, you're doing it wrong . . . my list is too long to include, but here's some of them
Neil Young - Harvest
Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Camel - Mirage and Snow Goose
Illusion - Out of the mist
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down |
The Cars first album was very big my sophomore year. |
1. Led Zepplin 1--Dazed and Confused was the song we played most often that first year in the dorm.
2. Cream--Wheels of Fire; I was psyching up for their concert at Olympia Stadium in Detroit that Fall.
3. MC5--Kick out the Jams; they were local and big at U of Michigan in the Fall of '68.
4. Joni Mitchell's first album, Song to a Seagull. I listened to this a lot, as I was learning most of the songs to teach a friend of mine. Helped that I knew she used open G tuning on her guitar, otherwise my friend and I would have massive arthritis in our hands today. |
Paul Westerberg's first foray into solo stuff (post-Replacements), REM, Live, and then some stuff that I just could not stomach like Blind Melon and the theme song to the show "Friends" and that type of soft edgeless music. |
Freshman year, some guy down the hall in my dorm played "Lady" by Styx (or was it Kansas?) over and over at high volume. I still shudder whenever I hear it.
Bob Seger (Live Bullet) was always in rotation in Michigan. The first Boston album was released just as I left for school. Talking Heads, Genesis, Springsteen, The Who, Rod Stewart, Patti Smith, Sly Stone and a bunch of others, including Elvis, played locally -Ann Arbor, Detroit and/or Pontiac- and were always heard a lot after the shows took place. Sometimes a song on the radio will recall one of those performances. Same deal with George Thorogood.
Marty |
Violent Fems, U2 Joshua Tree, Talking Heads Stop Making Sence, The Cult. I was young and foolish... |
Oh, let's not forget a big one:
Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica" |
Sun Ra "The Magic City"
The Stooges "Fun House"
Jackson Blues (Yazoo comp) |
Since I was in the military during what would have been my college years...
1. Sanford Townsend Band
2. Bob Seger-Night Moves
3. Climax Blues Band-Gold Plated
4. Heart-Dreamboat Annie |
