Some of my most vivid memories are from my college years and certain albums/songs really transport me back in time. Just curious what those may be for you.
1. Pearl Jam - Ten. Nothing defines my college experience more than this, nothing. Every song has a special meaning.
2. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger. Lots of drinking happened to this album, memories a little fuzzy.
3. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy. New romance.
4. Tool - Undertow. I'm really sick of college (esp electromagnetics) at this point and this album lets me rage.
Along with those mentioned by @tostadosunidos, I would add The Flying Burrito Bothers’ Gilded Palace Of Sin, Louisiana Man by Doug Kershaw, A Salty Dog by Procol Harum, Lost In The Ozone by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Where’s The Money by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Sneakers by The Flamin’ Groovies, Loosen Up Naturally, The Sons, and Follow Your Heart by The Sons Of Champlin, Arthur, Lola, and Muswell Hillbillies by The Kinks, Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks, 12 Songs and Sail Away by Randy Newman, Sunflower and Surf’s Up by The Beach Boys, Seatrain (2nd album) by Seatrain, Crazy Horse by Crazy Horse, Moondance by Van Morrison, but most importantly The Band (aka the brown album) by The Band, along with it’s follow-ups Stage Fright and Cahoots. Also George Jones, Tammy Wynette (I’m still in love with her), Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, and Merle Haggard.
Then there were collections of the earlier artists and groups I was discovering in my explorations into Rock ’n’ Roll’s roots: Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell (discovered via The Band including his "Long Black Veil" on their Music From Big Pink album), Little Richard, Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Elvis’ Sun Sessions, Carl Perkins, The Everly Brothers, The Carter Family, The Coasters, The Clovers, The Drifters, all the girl groups of the late-50’s/early-60’s, and a whole lot more. THAT was my real education ;-) .
In Classical, it started with Stravinsky, Holst, Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart, working my way back to The Master, J.S. Bach.
Good- Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane) Happy Trails (Quicksilver Messenger Service) Get Together(Youngbloods) Crosby Stills & Nash Deja vu (CSN&Y) Get Yer Ya Yas Out(Rolling Stones) Skull & Roses (Greatful Dead) Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
Bad Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull)I had a housemate that played it non-stop for about a month when it came out. Over and over and over and over!!!!! Augghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
After the Goldrush (Neil Young); If I Could Only Remember My Name (David Crosby); "Won't Get Fooled Again" (the Who); The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (Spirit); New Morning/John Wesley Harding (Bob Dylan); Stage Fright (the Band); Agualung (Jethro Tull)
Early U2,REM, the cure, the Church,Sonic youth-Sister, JAMC -Psychocandy,the Fall,Echoe,the Smiths, the Wedding Present-bizarro, Pale Saints, Ride,Loop,Stone Roses, Primal.Scream-Screamadelica,Fugazi, Jesus lizard
6550C...you have some nerve telling me to "get on down to your WalMart job now" when you can barely even spell a single artist's name correctly.
Stevie Ray Vaughn=Stevie Ray Vaughan REM=R.E.M. Guns and Roses=Guns N'Roses Bon-Jovi=Bon Jovi White Snake=Whitesnake Biestie Boys=Beastie Boys Edie Brickhell=Edie Brickell RATT=Ratt Skid Row=Congratulations! You got one right! Motley Crue=Mötley Crüe Neil Young-Two correct! Good for you! Hendrix-Now you're rolling! Keep up the good work! Janis-I might have to dock a few points for all of the first/last name exclusion but I'll give you this one as well. Greatfull Dead-Grateful Dead
Stevie Ray Vaughn!! REM, Guns and Roses, Bon-Jovi, White Snake, Biestie Boys!!, Edie Brickhell,RATT, Skid Row, Motley Crue. Hair Metal. Really, i went to a college that has a great college radio station that played tons of traditional blues and started hanging out at clubs, so i got really into that and learned allot. I went more into a "60's retro phase" and stared listing to allot of Neil Young, Hendrix, Janis, Greatfull Dead etc.
DSOTM Europe 72 At Filmore East Eat a Peach Woodstock Déjà Vu Blue Bitch's Brew Tapestry Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs American Beauty Working Man's Dead
Led Zeppelin first five albums Who's Next, Quadrophenia, and Live at Leeds Parcel of Rogues and Below the Salt by Steeleye Span Allman Brothers live at the Fillmore East Humble Pie Smokin' and Live at the Fillmore Yessongs Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Tarkus & Pictures at an Exhibition Aaron Copland Columbia colection (Rodeo,Appalacian Spring,& Billy the Kid) Eugene Ormandy 1812 Overture Melanie Candles in the Rain
Where have all the flowers gone and Tbat's the way the world by Earth Wind and Fire. IMO some of the best times fir music. Of course everyone feels their day was the best.
prince- purple rain springsteen - born in the usa michael jackson - thriller duran duran madonna
a few albums that i got into in particular during college but released previously
velvet underground - 1969 live brian eno - another green world television - marquee moon (my future wife asked me the first time she heard this "why do you like this?") neil young - rust never sleeps
Started college in '79... Lynard - Street Survivors Van Halen I Sniff and Tears Led Zep - In through the out Door Dixie Dregs Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage The Cars Fleetwood Mac Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
In college from '77 - '81 so there were several albums & songs:
- Lots of friends were disco heads, but not me, so nothing in that camp - One Burbon, one scotch, one beer - UK - In the Dead of Night - Jean Luc Ponty - anything from Enigmatic Ocean & Imaginary Voyage - John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra - Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Chics do not dig progressive rock in general. Unfortunately, I did not come to a clear realization about this until after college. Better late than never.....
I saw "The Musical Box" Genesis cover band a while back. Packed house but virtually zero ladies in attendance save those humoring their guys most likely. Same true with Yes, Porcupine Tree and other progressive rock groups I've seen over the years. Prog rock is a guy thing for sure.
One exception I can think of is "The Moody Blues". They have lots of great tunes over the years about things that chics tend to relate to better. A more mixed crowd at "Moodies" concerts, and the ladies still dig Justin Hayward in particular.
I'm listening to one right now: Genesis, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." Always reminds me of that girl I foolishly broke up with at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) in 1982...
Others, in no particular order:
King Crimson, "Red" Ultravox, "Rage in Eden" Yes, "Tales from Topographical Oceans" Iron Maiden, "Number of the Beast"
Looks like you and I were sweating the same classes at the same time, my nightmare occurred at NC State Univ however. :)
I remember buying Nevermind and not really liking it, probably because Teen Spirit was being played ALL THE TIME. It's funny because now Nirvana is one of my favorite bands.
I remembered a few others which somehow I left out of my initial list:
Alice in Chains - Facelift (I'd put that right up there with PJ's Ten... almost)
Metallica - and justice for all, as well as the black album
Vanilla Ice - yep, freshman year.
Paula Abdul was everywhere too
Lots of R&B/Hip-hop types like Bell Biv Devoe, Boyz 2 Men, etc my freshman year. I was never a fan but after getting them drilled into your head on the radio they have to be acknowledged for brain pollution.
I was EE at Northwestern from '90 to '94, and I believe Undertow was in my CD player for my entire Senior year. Three REM releases occured that time - Automatic for the People, Out of Time and Monster (well, Monster was fall of '94). But Nirvana's Nevermind release late in '90 really defined my time in undergrad. Well, that and Vanilla Ice. :)
Boston; saw them while in college; the Cars; Van Halen (first album, w/ Eruption); Thin Lizzy; Crack the Sky; Pat Thrall; Joe Jackson ("Pretty women out walking with gorillas--classic line!). Since I roomed with other guitar players,some different things--Be-Bop Deluxe, Steve Morse. And country rock was big, so Outlaws, Charlie Daniels, even Asleep at the Wheel.
Jefferson Airplane- volunteers Youngbloods- Elephant Mountain Steve Miller- Your Saving Grace Tim Buckley- Happy/Sad Grateful Dead- American Beauty, Workingman's Dead, Europe '72 CSN (&Y)- CSN, Deja Vu
Probably lots more but since I really was there for the 60's, I don't remember any more ;~)
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....."
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.
I'm not that old but that was my phase at the time, along with 60's R&B. I'm old enough to be a fan of Aerosmith in high school and the beater I drove back then is a collector car now.
The Knack's My Sharona and Rick Jame's Super Freak. So much the soundtrack of every collegiate dance you just wanted to vomit.
Thank God the Clash came out with Sandinista and allowed me to participate via cassette and the first generation Walkman by tuning out the world, something that the iPod succeeds at even better today.
It was the Marine Corps for me. An erudite audiophile I am not. But I did try to party and pick up some G.I. benefits when I got out, so... I was at the beach with some kids I'd met, and you know how you'll have heard a song a couple of times, and your subconscious is starting to try to alert you that "Hey, dude, this song's pretty effing good", but your too busy doing other stuff and not paying attention, so its not in the banks as a "monster" yet, but its destined to be there? So we're all sitting by the pier on the sand getting high, and someone brought a box that's playing a local station, and the first few notes of "Roll With The Changes" come on, and one of the girls says "Ohhh, REO!", and I say to myself "Oh THAT'S who plays that song", and I sit there and for the first time, really let it sink in. Another time we're scoring weed at a guy's house (Hmm, I'm noticing a trend here...), and he's one of those cool dealers that lets you stick around and party; and he's got one of those great little seventies systems consisting of a couple of solid monitors, a nice receiver and a vinyl deck, and he's playing Supertramp's "Breakfast in America", and it's my first time hearing it. Also, guys turned me on to Robin Trower and UFO. Cheap Trick doing "California Man" became kind of my song. The fringe dwellers listening to "out there" bands Judas Priest and Scorpions, and me liking them and trying to get their music accepted in my inner circle. Nobody ever said they didn't like them; but you could tell by their body language that I'd crossed a line.
Joe Jackson, The Police, The B-52's, The Specials, The Clash, Blondie, and yes, Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" was heard spilling out of dorm rooms all over campus 79-1980 and thereabouts.. oh and "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" played everywhere on campus also.
Born To Run/Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Bat Out Of Hell, Horses/Easter, Late For The Sky/The Pretender, Turnstiles/The Stranger, My Aim Is True/This Year's Model/Armed Forces, Blues For Allah, Katy Lied/Aja, Wish You Were Here, Blood On The Tracks, Alive On Arrival, Look Sharp, Squeezing Out Sparks, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, Court And Spark, A Night At The Opera, Hearts Of Stone, Prisoner In Disguise/Hasten Down The Wind, The Cars/Candy O, The Roches, Steve Goodman, Excitable Boy, Hotel California, Some Girls... I'm sure I'm missing at least a few more, all 1975-79. Obviously, I don't think that the late 70's were bad at all for music.
Jackson Browne "For Everyman" Lou Reed "Transformer" "Rock n Roll Animal" Rolling Stones "Beggar's Banquet" Frank Zappa "Over-Nite Sensation" ZZ Top "Tres Hombres" Little Feat "Sailin Shoes" Led Zepplin "IV" and "Houses Of The Holy" Richard Torrance "Eureka"
More I'm quite sure, but this will get me started.
Don't recall the album names... probably weren't any albums back then... but I do remember...
in fact I don't think there were too many instruments, mostly just hollow logs.
The big ones were the drums, the skinny ones became flutes.
The real skinny ones became forks.
The short ones were toothpick.
A couple years removed from THE show up at Max's farm in M.Y., some fallout was still going on and some new arrivals that gained ground rapidly with my friends and I.
Little feat's Waiting for Columbus Marshall Tucker's A New Home Van Zant & Co. got their deal Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd. Jackson Browne's For Everyman Jimmy Buffet E.L.O.'s Eldorado Dave & Roger hit the big time on Dark Side Of The Moon.
I totally burned up on Stage by Loggins and Messina, as well as ';4 Way Street' by C.S.N.Y.
We paused long enough to listen to some island music from Bob Marley too.
following a brief pause, Southern Rock came into vogue. We went to as many shows as we could afford. $6 - $12 wasn't anything to sneeze at... one had to be picky!
With few exceptions though the flavor always was some southern based mainstay or firey newcomer. KISS & Queen began to get attention and we had to see them.
I stuck with the local fare as my defaults. The Outlaws Green Grass and High Tides Black Oak Arkansas - Jim Dandy Elvin Bishopp & dickie Betts with Great southern Allman Bros minus 1. Little feat Little River Band Charlie Daniels & and Marshall Tucker, seemed almost inseprable showing up at each others gigs routinely unanounced.
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top remains a fav today.
All in all, it was sort of a dull era wehn you stop to think and compare it to what passes for popular and hard rock now.
Oddly enough with all that, the songs that transport me to '71 - '74, are Gino Vaneelli's Storm at Sunrise, Robin Trower's Bridge of sighs, Golden Earring Radar Love, ELO's Can't Get you Out of My Head, and Marshall Tuckers Fire On the Mountain.
then disco came along and everybody lost their ever loving minds. Thankfully I was at ssea during much of that time.
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