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After perusing through both the "Updated Introduce Yourself" and "Are the Bands You Loved When You Were 16 Still Going" threads, it strikes me that most of you are a bit younger than m'self, but I think this thread will still bear out some common experiences. Back when I was in college (sometime between the Bronze age and the pre-Rennaissance), it seemed that there were certain albums that were (a) in virually every student's personal collection and (b) albums that seem to rarely be played outside of college dorms. There are several contenders, but most of the answers will vary with age. When I was in college, while all I had to do was stick my head out of a window onto "the quad" to hear LITTLE CREATURES by Talking Heads, LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT by R.E.M or THE JOSHUA TREE by U2, all these albums are rooted in that particular age (the mid-to-late 80's). The following two albums, however, seem to speak to the timeless college experience, and -- I wager -- are still fervently spun in college dorms and frat parties to this day -- and in days and years to come. Ladies & gentleman, boys and girls, I give you:

(1) LEGEND: THE BEST OF BOB MARLEY & the WAILERS

and

(2) VIOLENT FEMMES by the Violent Femmes.

....also, if you happen to agree on these two choices, please explain your thoughts on why. Personally speaking, it seems both of these albums offer an accessible sampling of rebellion that doesn't seem to require any adventurous departure into the unconventional. Despite the inherent irony of Marley's earnest paeans against opression being championed by BMW-driving, tobacco-chewing white guys in J.Crew shirts carrying lacrosse sticks, I've never heard fuckin' "Three Little Birds" or "Buffalo Soldier" that often outside of a college dorm. Simillarly, the `Femmes seminal debut offered the attitude and youthful snarl of Punk Rock without getting too messed up in agitprop or needlessly high decibels. It was the "Punk Rock" that was okay for the Preppys to espouse (despite the sound being cribbed wholesale off the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers, two bands heretofore reserved for the egghead musicologists and punky misfits).

Or, are these (and others) just simply great records that stand the test of time?

Pencils out, students!

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember Husker Du's Zen Arcade being extremely popular when I was in university.

― nathalie, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose it should also be noted that I haven't knowingly set foot on a proper college campus since I graduated in 1989, so maybe this whole theory of mine is moot. What'chathink?

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You nailed it. Doolittle by the Pixies might be in there also, and increasingly The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse.

― J Blount, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have still never in my life heard a Violent Femmes record!

EVERYONE owned Screamadelica. Everyone owned the first Suede album. Most people owned Nevermind. Everyone owned something by James - be it album or T-Shirt.

I don't know why. Comments about "easy rebellion" strike me as a bit smarmy - I was in no way a rebel and was listening to loads of high- decibel/agitproppy stuff, I just don't think the connection is there really.

― Tom, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In my experience the Violent Femmes album was popular with 16 years old schoolkids and Legend was ubiquitous both before, during and after college.

― Winkelmann, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep getting the feeling I go to the wrong uni, cos all the people in my halls last year owned Bloodsugarsexmagik or one of the Foo Fighters albums...

I'd probably say Weezer's blue album is the main student-type album today, tho. It's always in the sales at HMV and Virgin, in any case.

― Mr Swygart, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Calm, Morcheeba.

― chris sallis, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom observed: "I don't know why. Comments about 'easy rebellion' strike me as a bit smarmy - I was in no way a rebel and was listening to loads of high-decibel/agitproppy stuff, I just don't think the connection is there really."

I didn't mean to imply that this music was recorded in a spirit of "easy rebellion," but rather that it was conceivably being interpretted as such, possibly even subconsciously. I suppose the question there is what attracts one to listen to clearly rebellious/ agitprop stuff? A fascination with the messages' intent or a genuine empathy for whatever cause it happens to be espousing? The point I was making about the Femmes and Wailers was that despite the fact that both bands were making "rebel music" (the Femmes' rebelling against interpersonal strife and sexual frustration, the Wailers literally railing against Trenchtown poverty, racism, religious intollerance and corrupt Jamaican politics), it was largely *PALATABLE* "rebel music"....unlike that of more strident Punk Bands...or even more virulent Reggae bands...whose music isn't as immediately accessible.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here in Northern California, Camper Van Beethoven cut a mighty path through the college campus, and while they're earlier albums were better, KEY LIME PIE was the breakthrough record that spawned an army of pale, anaemic dorm rockers with paisley shirts and Syd Barrett fixations, noooodling on pawnshop guitars and rolling their own. College rock, indeed.

― Andy, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

as a college student i can safely say that the present most popular artist on the college circuit is Dave Mathews. Everysingle student i know loves D.M. so much that they buy his record even though they have downloaded all of his MP3's. second and third go easily to bob marley and U2.

― ddd, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that the `Femmes cheerily sing 'fuck' on that album ("Add it Up") and that the Wailers shamelessly champion marijuana also makes both acts veritable magnets for fans of cheap, surface-level rebellion on an immdediate-gratification level (i.e. your average college guy).

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus, my spelling/typing is truly going to the dogs.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose it's not your characterising of these things as surface- level rebellion that I disagree with, but I dont think thats why lots of college students listened to them. Time at college I think is more characterised by a general detachment from the outside world than an engagement with it - I don't think there's anything to 'rebel' against particularly. Sex and not getting sex, dope and vague spirituality on the other hand are constants in many a 19-year-old mind.

― Tom, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Living in a college town, I have to say that either of the first two Weezer lps have probably supplanted Violent Femmes at this point. The Soft Bulletin seemed like a strong candidate at one time also, but it seems to have faded a bit (a situation that only gonna get worse once Yoshimi comes out). Legend, however, remains ubiquitous. One thing I find amusing about Legend's success is how so many college students buy it and play it to death but very few actually go out and buy any other Bob Marley cds. That Shuggie Otis re-issue remains a dark horse - I can't begin to tell you how many college kids I know who own that but don't own any Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, ...

― J Blount, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Phish, any college you go to in the US is loaded with this shite. The Grateful Dead as well.

― Chris, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom sed: "Time at college I think is more characterised by a general detachment from the outside world than an engagement with it - I don't think there's anything to 'rebel' against particularly."

Fair point, but I think that depends on where ya went to college.

Tom continued: "Sex and not getting sex, dope and vague spirituality on the other hand are constants in many a 19-year-old mind."

Completely true!

Blount sed:"One thing I find amusing about Legend's success is how so many college students buy it and play it to death but very few actually go out and buy any other Bob Marley cds. "

Interesting observation, which I think also speaks to those listeners' committment level. If they took it seriously (i.e. beyond just surface level entertainment/'easy rebellion'), wouldn't they go seek out more than just the "greatest hits"? This, of course, begs the larger debate about how "real fans don't bother with Best-Of's and Greatet Hits packages," etc.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well partly it's that the original Marley albums, at least here, aren't promoted very hard - reggae is almost always marketed using compilations. But also with Marley it's not a committment thing so much as listening to Marley and smoking herb is a communal experience (or an invitation to one) and for communal experiences it helps if people know the songs, which in the case of Legend everyone does.

― Tom, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the mid 90s in the heartland of America, it was all Dave Matthews, Phish, Dead, Pearl Jam (way ahead of Nirvana),Candlebox, Cranberries Big Head Todd, and other crap. I could see where Key Lime Pie and REM's LRP were the most popular albums in your house or amongst your acquaintances, but at your university in general? I don't buy it.

― , Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the late 80 all the frat jugheads on campus seemed to own at least on Indigo Girls album so that they could show their "sensitive" side before getting a girl drunk in their lair. they of course all also had the Best Of Bob Marley.

― Jack Cole, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Late eighties UCLA -- KROQ rather a particular album or anything.

Present UCI -- no idea, but I suspect pretty much top forty rather than any set of albums per se. Probably The Eminem Show, actually.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Depends on the course, really. I doubt very much 99.99% of the students at my university actually know who the Violent Femmes are. "Entroducing" by DJ Shadow is pretty ubiquitous amongst the people who actually have a music collection, as "Doolittle" and "Louder Than Bombs".

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The reason (I assume) that the Violent Femmes had an appeal to college students (I'm a massive Femmes fan myself, btw) is because Gordon Gano is a perpetual teenager. He has two lyrical topics: teenage girls or Jesus Christ. They're really the only two things that ever enter the head of your average educated 19 year old.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not everyone.

― ^david_h(owie), Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of these answers are pretty good indeed, but it's just so PLAINLY CLEARLY DARK SIDE OF THE MOON that it hurts.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um... Sorry!
― Clarke B., Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Linkin Park is VERY BIG.

I'm in the worst cover band EVAH. When school's back in session we'll be playing the following at frats and campus functions: 311, Violent Femmes, Radiohead ("Creep"), Everclear, Green Day, Mr. Big (haha), Incubus, DMB (this means "Dave Matthews Band", outsiders) & the Red Hot fucking Chili Peppers, among others.

Radiohead is HUGE.

― Keiko, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

remember when it used to be Donovan? ahh, what an era that must have been...

― Steve K, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when i went to uni (graduated last year) I think ppl were keen on the Verve (and britpop was pretty big). I don't know abt canada (haven't been here long enough) but Dave is saying Dave Matthews band but i wouldn't know (wouldn't be surprised though).

― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't see what I'm typing here, but my lot at uni all had Dubsyatar disgraceful and music for the g jilted generation hopes this doesn't look too crap

― Dartmoor beats, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

on my campus it's a tie between weezer ("pinkerton") and the equally loathsome dave mathews ('specially that damned "under the table and dreaming".)

the black kids are a little more partial to nelly and taleb kwelli, the adeherents of each being really opositional and shit.

lastly there's the hordes of kids who love the promise ring.emo makes me want to eat glass...

― mike bott, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Slanted and (dis)Enchanted

― Lord Custos IV, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My first year of college I lived at home in NYC, but when I moved upstate to attend a suburban college (from '95-'98), there was a lot of DMB, Ani Difranco, Indigo Girls, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Sublime, Phish, Smashing Pumpkins, and Pearl Jam. And yes, a bloody shitload of Bob Marley. The Pulp Fiction soundtrack was very popular too.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the UK, in the early 90s - 'The Stone Roses'.

― Andrew L, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The two mentioned by Alex are probably the most stereotypical American Liberal Arts College CDs of all time.

I agree with Dave Matthews Band's Under The Table And Dreaming as well. Add A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory, the "It's OK to like rap" album of my generation.

― Chris Ott, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the usual suspects from my school days have been mentioned (Femmes, Marley, R.E.M., etc.). But the album that I don't think anyone's mentioned that seemingly every dorm room in my neck of the woord came equipped with was Roxy Music's Avalon. How else you gonna get those panties down after the mixer?

― Lee G, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How else you gonna get those panties down after the mixer?

When I was in school, it was the Squeeze Singles. College chix loved that for some reason. I never liked Squeeze.

― Dave225, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GOOD LORD, LEE G IS A GENIUS!

You're absolutely dead-on-target there! At college (indeed an American Liberal Arts college) everyone seemed to either pick AVALON or Sade's DIAMOND LIFE as their requisite "bump'n'grind" album.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Coldplay or the Stereophonics I guess. In terms of the album EVERYONE my age has maybe Moby-Play or U2-All That You yadda yadda yadda.

― Ronan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes! The Pulp Fiction Soundtrack, Madonna's Immaculate Collection, and more recently the Boogie Nights soundtrack as requisite dance albums.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

all I have got to say in the USA - the crap Spin Magazine has got alot to answer for !

Dave Matthews band ! Weezer ! next you will be telling Peter Yorn, and John Mayer are popular with College Kids !

― DJ Martian, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it becomes increasingly more difficult to pick any one album or even genre to sum up current college tastes in the US. As a member of the organization that books bands on campus, I have to say that we have gotten the best response with jam bands like Deep Bannana Blackout and the New Deal. Nobody in our group really likes DBB, and only one of us liked the New Deal (not me) but we made a lot of money back, which we used for better groups. Also well-received were various undie hiphop acts. Alot of people like Dave Matthews, a lot of people like Moby, and I think the Strokes are pretty big with the indiekids (as well as the smiths). Legend is certainly classic college material, although I find more people listened to that and Dark Side of the Moon at my prep school than in college. Since international students are very well represented at my school, it is hard to ignore the wealthy asian constituency who love Global Underground prog. house comps and designer clothing. NOBODY likes techno/house/d'n'b or jazz.

― Aaron G!, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

In my early university years (stayed far too long), in New Zealand, between 92-96, it was all:

Pavement: Crooked Rain...
Shellac: At Action Park
Screamedelica
Sebadoh: Bakesale
Massive Attack: Blue Lines

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Outkast: SB/TLB

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Before I clicked on the thread, my first thought was that Bob Marley record.

I think Weezer is a good answer, too. College kids love Weezer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Weezer, yes.

Outkast is the new Bob Marley.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Im surprised it took so long for Sublime to show up on this thread. But I also notice that hardly any of these records got any play at my school other than 'Dave.'

My college fucking sucked.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Here in Norway Motorpsycho was definitely the one for a number of years, maybe Timothy's Monster and Demon Box in particular. They're of course still very popular, but seems to be more all-around popular now that they're pop-nannies instead of grungadin.

I had the impression that Tool was like that in America for some years... is that completely unfounded? Maybe more for younger people?

O, and back in the days, I suppose Keith Jarret's Köln concerto was a staple of any collunk. And before that again: "Time Out"!

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Combining the 12-CD person and American college students:

Nirvana - Unplugged
Weezer - Blue Album or Pinkerton
Outkast
Radiohead - OK Computer or Kid A
a classic-rock greatest hits, Beatles or Stones
?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I attended a major Big Ten uni during much of the '90s, and the album that seemed ubiquitous and refused to die was the Gin Blossoms. Many of these others were popular, but not just among college students.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

At least one Best of, Compilation or Mix CD that includes "Come on Eileen".

― Insomniette, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Everybody has a Beatles compilation of some sort.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the fucking flaming lips; fukcing franz ferdinand too probably

i hate college

― fcussen (Burger), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Here at my college nobody's ever heard of Pavement or the Flaming Lips or the Smiths or the Violent Femmes or any of that unpopular stuff. Who do we like? We like Dave Matthews. And 2Pac.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Throw in some pop-country and you've got my university, too.

This tells me that many ILMers went to liberal arts colleges.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

smashing punkpins - siamese dream

im pretty sure every kid born between 77 and 81 had that album..

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

err pumpkins

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, no one buys CDs in college anymore. They cost money. Everyone i know has a massive collection of mp3s and the requisite two-speaker-and-a-subwoofer-combo.

― k good, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot emphasize fecking Dave Matthews enough. Also, yes, Bob Marley, Radiohead, plus any and all hip hop dubbed 'socially-conscious'.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Matthews (ugh!)
The "Trainspotting" soundtrack
Weezer (the Blue album)
RATM (self-titled debut)

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

There are a lot of Incubus CDs floating around, too.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 06:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pixies, James, The Pixies, The Stone Roses, The Pixies, The Smiths and some more Pixies.
Hearing Monkey Gone To Heaven, Gigantic and Here Comes Your Man every time I entered a student union bar for 3 years was enough to completely put me off The Pixies - until a recent reassessment when I realised I was just being a bloody minded wanker for ignoring them.

And I still hate those feckin JAM ES t-shirts!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

In the UK nowadays, there's no acceptable answer to this other than "the fucking Flaming Lips".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Clubbers Guide To Ibiza

Soundbombing 2

Mos Def - Black On Both Sides

Portishead - Dummy

BIG SHINY TUNES

Handsome Boy Modeling School

Cafe Del Mar Vol. 12345678.......

Hot Hot Heat - Make Up THe Breakdown

― LC, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

WHAT WE SELL THE MOST OF TO COLLEGE KIDS:

BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - 20th CENTURY MASTERS

THE END

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracy Chapman
The The - Soul Mining

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was at college I reckon the most popular albums (it were all vinyl back in them days y'knaa!) were Legend, Dark Side Of The Moon, and possibly Thriller. After that you might expect to find a random Beatles / Bowie / Dylan / Police album -and if you were very lucky, a copy of Never Mind The Bollocks (which was usually displayed very prominently but only actually got played when it's owner had just got back from the SU bar pissed and wanted to annoy the neighbours).

A few people were just starting to get into U2; The Smiths only had the one single out before I left; and I strongly suspect I was the only person in the place who'd even heard REM - although I believe The Joshua Tree / Achtung Baby / The Queen Is Dead / Automatic For the People all subsequently became staples.

I suspect Nevermind and OK Computer probably belong somewhere in here too.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I come to think of it, there was a surprisingly large number of people with copies of Revelations / Fire Dances arounmd that college by the time I left there too!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

EVERYONE at my college had Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville. But I should point out that I went to an all-women college (ha ha, exile in non-guyville). I suspect Liz Phair was/is popular at a lot of all-female universities.

― queenbee, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Every shitty college party I've gone to ends up being soundtracked by the Beastie Boys: License to Ill. And Hello, Nasty was popular for a little while.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Great thread. I go to a liberal arts college and there are less frat bros and people of this nature. I know mostly know college radio affiliated people, but I am going to have to say Radiohead (and other even more bland brit-pop), Ani DiFranco (and she puts out an album every 6 months!), Modest Mouse, and Weezer. Nu-emo (Dashboard Confessional is passe and you are to be embarrassed for ever liking them, here try some Thursday or perhaps some Story of the Year) and elephant six stuff is pretty big. Tool and A Perfect Circle are favorites amongst a subset as are jam bands. For hip-hop Atmosphere is huge (this is MN) and as is the Deltron 3030. Pretty much all you have to do to have cred is have a Modest Mouse album. Maybe some Portishead too or something.

Then there are bands you name check even though you maybe just have a few mp3s of them or something. Fugazi has to top the list here. Who wants to hear "waiting Room" again? (Well, I do, yes.)

And thats for people who are into music! Otherwise its Coldplay/Evanessence/Norah Jones/Dave Mathews Band/Beatles/etc.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My year at a big ten school was marred by my first (and qute extensive) exposure to Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Pete Yorn and Howie Day. There was also a cottage industry of Pearl Jam tribute bands. Meanwhile, every undergrad sports-themed bar would end the night with 'Blister in the Sun' and Don McLean's 'American Pie' (the latter had a whole extra set of call-and-response lyrics known only to midwestern college students. The only line I can remember is "drinking beer with my fucked-up friends;" I'm not convinced Don McLean wrote that.)

I can't really generalise so much about uni back here because I never lived in halls, but everyone I speak to seems to love rjd2 and ninja tune-ish stuff, both of which are fine by me.

Hearing that the Shuggie Otis reissue is popular on US campuses makes me feel better about American college students, I must say.

― strophic (strophic), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

To answer the original question though I think OK Computer is the current most cliched college album. Legend might be the most cliched album of all time ever. I have know more people w/the Violent Femmes greatest hits that their eponynomous debut (great record!).

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I graduated in the early '90s--the albums that remind me most of college are Jane's Addiction's 'Nothing's Shocking,' Public Enemy's Apocalypse '91, and NIN 'Pretty Hate Machine.'

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

my junior year of college U2 came and played in the only really big concert of my tenure (crappy college town). Thereafter, you could not enter a restuarant, bar, store, or dorm room in town without hearing five different live versions of "One" pumping.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

though, come to think of it now, both the Mountain Goats and George Clinton came the same year, and neither had the same effect.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

hold up, hold up, Deltron 3030?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Cult favorite at my college radio station, yes.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in NYC, I kiss you! I was thinking of Legend as I opened this thread because I was at this "party" (ok, I was playing this card game "drunk driver" with a bunch of friends....) and our [shit for music taste] host asked us if we liked Bob Marley and everyone kinda agreed. Legend came on. (What's up with the microphone feedback in that one song?)

Everyone who mentioned Linkin Park, DMB, Weezer, Phish or Beasties OTM forever.

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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