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May 16, 2024 · 1. R.E.M. Jangle pop, Alternative rock, College rock. 298 votes. As pioneers of the alternative rock scene, R.E.M. has unapologetically and undoubtedly earned their spot as one of the best college rock bands of all time.
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- Ranking The Top 10 Bands That Met in College
- The Doors – UCLA
- Talking Heads – Rhode Island School of Design
- The Strokes – NYU
- R.E.M. – University of Georgia
- Steely Dan – Bard College
- Phish – University of Vermont and Goddard College
- Commodores – Tuskegee University
- Public Enemy – Adelphi University
- Pixies – University of Massachusetts
There’s something distinct about bands that met in college, crystalizing in the special pressures and freedoms of college life. They tend to be tight, for one thing; a band that forms in college, when there are no other real responsibilities and stresses, often becomes a family. That spirit has a way of infusing a band with a whole other sort of ch...
Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek met while both were students at UCLA, studying in the school of Theater, Film, and Television at what was quite possibly the world’s foremost such school. Morrison’s artistic – or, some might say, pretentious – proclivities were evident from the very beginning, in choosing the band name “The Doors” as a dual reference ...
One of the formative bands of the New York first-wave punk scene didn’t even start in New York; David Byrne and Chris Franz (along with Franz’s girlfriend Tina Weymouth, not yet a member of the band) met at the Rhode Island School of Design, and predictably called themselves The Artistics. When the three of them moved to New York, and Weymouth lear...
There was a time, around fall of 2001, when The Strokes sounded like the second coming of New York punk, when Is This Itburst into the cultural consciousness with the urgency of Blondie, Talking Heads, and Television. October 2001 – another world, where a band of extremely privileged sons of New York’s upper crust could sound like a revolution. But...
When rock critics talk about “college rock,” they’re talking about R.E.M. – literally, and figuratively. Figuratively, because before it was called “indie rock” or “alternative rock,” and long before it became the dominant mode of rock and roll, the kind of music R.E.M. made was called “college rock,” because the main place it could be heard was co...
Steely Dan is a litmus test; either you get them, or you don’t. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen met as students at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York (which would get named checked in their song “My Old School”: “I remember your 35 sweet goodbyes / When you put me on the Wolverine up to Annandale”). Fagen was impressed by Becker’s jazz...
Yes, Vermont legalized possession of marijuana in 2018. No, it has nothing to do with Phish, and yes, it has everything to do with Phish – although it may be more correct to say that Vermont has everything to do with Phish. Everybody’s college roommate’s favorite band, Phish formed in 1983 when Trey Anastasio, Jeff Holdsworth, Mike Gordon, and Jon ...
In its chart-dominating heyday, Motown Records was known as a hit factory, in a quite literal sense; the singles and albums were created on assembly line, matching the right song with the right artist and the right musicians, and mixing it up when the formula didn’t work. It’s a surprise, then, that Motown’s biggest group of the 70s started totally...
When Carlton Ridenhour and William Drayton met as students at Queens, NY’s Adelphi University, hip-hop was still on the verge of its Golden Age, growing out of its early years as an up-tempo party music and an early-80s interim as a dance-pop novelty. Calling themselves Chuck D and Flava Flav, the two decided that something new – the harder, new-sc...
It’s a safe bet that, without the Pixies, there would have been no 90s alternative rock to dominate the airwaves and MTV. Sure, the college rock bands of the 80s, like R.E.M. and the Replacements, would have still been influential on the next wave of rock and roll, but the sound everyone thinks of a “alternative rock” – that’s the Pixies. The viole...
Nov 19, 2020 · Guess Don Knotts went home early. Camper Van Beethoven, “Take the Skinheads Bowling”. Camper Van Beethoven formed at UC Santa Cruz and packed their songs with scenester in-jokes you could sing ...
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Sep 17, 2018 · 90s College Rock: A guide to the best albums. By Sian Llewellyn. published 17 September 2018. College rock in the 90s was comprised of solid, predominantly American rootsy rock – here are 10 of the best albums the genre produced. The 1990s saw musical genres collide like never before.
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Mar 19, 2024 · 1. R.E.M. As trailblazers within the alternative rock scene, R.E.M. undeniably secures its place among the elite college rock bands of all time. Drawing inspiration from post-punk roots, they masterfully fused jangle pop, folk rock, and socially conscious lyrics to define the quintessential “college rock” sound.
Mar 15, 2017 · Yeah, yeah, we know: Boo hoo. But in the spirit of recovering some of that lost thrill, we’ve decided to pull together a list of 10 phenomenally great college rock bands you might have overlooked while combing through the stacks for a beaten copy of Murmur or Let It Be. They may not all be your cup of tea, but that’s the point.
Listen to the College Rock Essentials playlist on Apple Music. 100 Songs. Duration: 6 hours, 27 minutes.
