Freshman Year of College
HarveyCanal
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Or first year away from your childhood home.
What year was it? What albums were you listening to?
For me, '89-'90:
Also should note that my next door neighbors (to the right) in my dorm would constantly be blasting this...
While my suitemates (to the left) in my dorm would constantly be blasting this...
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What year was it? What albums were you listening to?
For me, '89-'90:
Also should note that my next door neighbors (to the right) in my dorm would constantly be blasting this...
While my suitemates (to the left) in my dorm would constantly be blasting this...
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tool - opiate
pfunk - the double cd best of...
james brown - some live joint i got on cd for cheap where james heralds the "princes of peace"
nin- downward spiral
Beatnuts - Stone Crazy
Wu-Tang - Forever (such a Stan in '97 -- took me a few months to realize how crap that album was)
Portishead - S/T
Dj Shadow - Entroducing
I was a cargo-short wearing, coffeehouse drinking freshman for sure
Was also starting to get into more sample friendly soul music, and various "indie-rock" like Built to Spill, Sunny Day Real Estate, Modest Mouse and other sappy music that any cute girl told me to like.
Coming from the burbs of DC to a frat-dominated, voluntarily segregated town in the heart of the bible belt was a massive culture shock....but it was my new reality. Mushrooms, Asheville buds and camping helped with the adjustment.
The albums that I remember being a big deal on campus were Outkast's Stankonia and Radiohead's Kid A. I didn't really enjoy either of them at the time.
I personally was digging all things Native Tongue and Wu-Tang. I also recall being kind of addicted to B.B King's 'Live in Cook County Jail'.
One random memory that comes to mind was somehow getting an album by some dude named Joefinite the IS:
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To....
MJ- Bad
Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now
Keith Sweat - Make It Last Forever
Whitney - Whitney Houston
Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
and still bumping Yo! Bum Rush The Show and the rest of the popular rap
along w/ taping radio shows from local NY Hip Hop radio.
Next door dorm neighbor was rockin' Stryper.
During my freshman year of college (1987-88), I was listening to:
-"Sign of the Times"-Prince
-"Criminal Minded"-Boogie Down Productions
-"Believe Me, That's Bad"-Steady B
-"Straight Out the Jungle"-The Jungle Brothers
-"In Effect Mode"-Al B. Sure
-"Music Madness"-Mantronix
-"Long Live the Kane"-Big Daddy Kane
-"Goin' Off"-Biz Markie
-"Make it Last Forever"-Keith Sweat
-"Zagora"-Loose Ends
-"Danger Zone"-Tuff Crew
-"Act a Fool"-King Tee
-"Court's in Session"-Kaos
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
That is an awesome list there, bud.
I was still in high school, but I loooooved that Still Hot Smoking Gun ish.
1997-1998 saw a move into turntablism themed tapes and the more serious beginning of record collecting.
Midnite Vultures and Black on Both Sides got a lot of play and I was still very much into jungle/techno. I started go-go dancing at glam clubs and getting more into that type of stuff.
a lot of rap. Purple tape ruled everything around me. a lot of underground tapes from back home like Mystik Journeymen, Murs, Hobo Junction, etc (nobody in NYC knew these and either loved them or really, really hated them). Project Blowed, Volume 10... Alkoholiks 2nd record.... Pharcyde Labcabincalifornia... Company Flow... uh, Organized Konfusion, Beatnuts, J-Live, Fugees "The Score" was pretty big. Liquid Swords. various one-off fat beats 12"s... Tunnel Bangers/guilty pleasures like Tracy Lee "The Theme" lol. Was getting into a lot of genesis shit like Fearless Four, Crash Crew, Younger Generation, Mike & Dave etc. Got turned onto Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon around this time. Ruben Blades, Eddie Palmieri. I was getting real into Stevie Wonder at the time too, but older music was still just "beats" for the most part. I didn't know shit about records
these were all in pretty heavy rotation my freshman year
...which opened the door to:
All in the span of a year! :face_melt: The thing is that the last year of high school and on into college is when I really started digging back into time with music. Routinely having my mind blown by exposure to all of these amazing records in such a short span of time is a big part of what made that era so special for me (and pretty much set me on the path as a full-on record junkie).
Georgia Southern University
Common Sense- Can I borrow a dollar
Diamond D - Stunt Blunts
Some random 2nd generation Stretch & Bobbito tapes.
The Alkaholiks-21 and over
During the fall, while I was there (1993)these albums dropped
Black Moon
ATCQ
Souls of Mischief
I had a 5 cassette changer too!!!
Had my dorm on lock!
I remember being stoned and lost, wandering around a new city with this in my the headphones.
I don't have many specific memories of LPs of the time. I think I've always been more into mixtapes and mixes, shit friends or I'd made, radio recordings or some free party dj tapes.
Some stuff that came out around that time that definitely spent time on the communal record player.
There were a bunch of blazing down tempo and UK hip hop lps/tapes in the mix as well but I cant remember them.
Outkast--Southerplayalistic
De La Soul--Buhloone Mindstate
Del--No Need for Alarm
Casual--Fear Itself
Souls of Mischief--'93 Til Infinity
KRS-One--Return of the Boom-Bap
Jeru the Damaja--The Sun Rises in the East
Gang Starr--Daily Operation
Alkaholiks--21 and Over
Cypress Hill--Cypress Hill
Beatnuts--Street Level
I also had a shitload of Red Alert radio shows on tape that I played pretty constantly.
On the non-rap side, my go-to was Liz Phair--Exile in Guyville, but I mostly left the rock selections to my friends.
Yes! That one was :raw: Played it over and over.
That K&D and Mezzanine were like foundational material for me, in my DNA ("Keep On Believing" had me open back in the day). Based on those picks, I would guess you maybe came up just one or two years ahead of me.
aside from the obvious cost advantages of cramming as many kids as possible in small rooms, universities will imply that the goal is to attempt/force a freshman to build a new relationship.
my freshman roommate i think listened to Disney songs (no joke) -- I know he wracked up at least a $1,000 charge on his new credit card for long distance phone calls to a "girlfriend in Canada" -- and the dude could sleep for ever, on some go to bed at 1am, sleep to 3pm schitt that would drive me crazy.
also -- i saw some of the foulest schitt (literally) in the dorms at the University of Texas. Like make you lose faith in humanity type foul.
many things i miss about my college days -- dorm life not one of them.
I didn't have a bad dorm experience. In fact, I met most of my friends in the freshman dorm. I do think it teaches you how to deal with other people and live in shared space with them (namely, to shut the fuck up and not be a pain in the ass because we all have to live here and nobody wants to put up with your shit), which is a good thing.
Island anthology of Black Uhuru
pharcyde bizzare ride II
Atcq midnight marauders
de la 3 ft high and rising
A shit load of dead and phish tapes
"classic rock"
buncha shit I don't remember
I still was listening to a lot of hip hop from well before my time boom bap and 80s stuff mainly.
Also I was starting to get into jazz, funk and disco through compilations and greatest hits CDs.
But in terms of contemporary music it was:
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Echo & The Bunnymen - ST
The Cult - Electric
Sinead O’Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
fIREHOSE - If’n
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Sonic Youth - Sister
i remember that year of being more about exploring farther back, especially into jazz & funk, than about new releases...
a lot of Herbie, especially Thrust & Man-Child
a lot of Lee Morgan
a lot of Grant Green
a lot of Fela
a lot of James Brown
a lot of Meters
the classic Parliament/Funkadelic albums
more contemporary stuff was jam-jazz-funk: Medeski Martin & Wood, Soulive, that kinda stuff
also some Supertramp :/