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The only "everyone's talking about it" thing I really remember was when the first Kasabian Album came out. A girl working at HMV asked me out on a date just because I bought it.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
I listened to the whole album last night - tis brilliant! Thanks for introducing me to it.
Early 80s for me and there were two stand out albums that defined my college times. I was at Norwich school of art but I spent a year and a term living at the City college halls of residence. Most people hated it, but I loved it. One room on a corridor. I became great pals with a bunch of like minded guys from the city college and we managed to wangle it so that we all had rooms on the same corridor. It was brilliant, just an ‘open house’ scenario where we were in and out of all the rooms. They actually decided that they would never do that again as we were too much aggro – partying, loud music, playing murderball in the corridor at 2.00am etc.
Anyway, there were two great albums that we ALL bought – Marillion’s Fugazi and Rush Grace under pressure. Those two albums immediately transport me back to a brilliant time of life.
96 - 99 saw me widen my horizons from listening to just metal/grunge, towards drum and bass, hip hop, techno etc. DJ Shadow's Endtroducing and Wu-Tan Clan Forever were big albums for me. Roni Size, Air and Daft Punk were everywhere, which I liked a lot. The Chemical Brothers 2nd album Dig Your Own Hole brings back a lot of memories form that time. It was at the height ot Britpop, which I mostly detested, but I loved Radiator by the Super Furry Animals, also Manics' This is my Truth. In my final year I was listening to Live Rust by Neil Young and Dark Side of the Moon after being introduced to them by a housemate. Oh, and a lot of Ozric Tentacles!
The albums I listened to most were
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Elliott Smith - XO / Figure 8
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I dropped out and went to a different Uni a few years later so my college timeframe is quite long, but "Gold" is especially evocative for me.
The Cult Electric
GNR Appletise for construction
...they still are now!