[Playlist] College rock, or rather rock music from university radio

I first came across the term "college rock" when playing the Sims 2, and I totally expected in university to join a rock band. That didn't happen (though I did join a variety of music-oriented clubs (mostly choir and the guitar club) and perform at open mics), but what I did eventually was start hosting music shows on university radio.

While I eventually wound up hosting an electropop music show, my earliest picks when I was hosting the multi-genre Jumbalaya show as a shy new host were a lot more rock-oriented, since that was what I was into at the time. Looking back I don't think I was, to quote Ranker, fully "eschewing rock of the mainstream radio" as many college rock radio programmers of the 1980s and 1990s did, but if anything relatively unknown and unique did manage to catch my ears (and since there was a lot of talented musicians in Canada, they did fairly often!), I made sure to play them on the airwaves whenever possible.

Here are a bunch of songs I've managed to find on Spotify of the songs that caught my attention as a radio show host while I played more rock-oriented material. There are songs in the playlist that are from albums that have multiple great tracks, but for brevity's sake I kept it to one song per album. It includes tracks from well-known acts such as Jack White to the relatively underground artists such as Dearly Beloved and NEEDS. Also thrown in are a few tracks that I didn't exactly get a chance to play, but totally would play if there was an occasion that I'd ever host another rock-oriented radio show!





Sources:

https://www.ranker.com/list/college-rock-bands-and-musicians/reference

[Playlist] Embarrassment time! Eriko shares the songs that defined her teenage years

So I created this...initially as a birthday gift to a special individual, but since I had so much fun picking these songs I thought I'd share this with you folks as well to make up for lost time from being off this blog for so long. Here are some songs which I admit to enjoying in the past...some are masterpieces, some are kind of embarrassing in retrospect, but here they are. I wonder if my tastes back then kinda influenced my musical tastes today, or during my time hosting the PulsarSounds radio show? Do let me know if you notice a pattern!