Which songs/albums take you back to college?

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

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.

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.

The Cars first album was very big my sophomore year.

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