At one point in my life, I had a sizable collection of good, quality music. But when you factor in a crashed hard drive and a fondness for barhopping (read: I only heard rap, Top 40 cover songs and Ram Jam’s “Black Betty”), you can see how things sort of went downhill shortly before I graduated from Loyola in 2007.
Recently, for reasons beyond my immediate grasp, I started to get back into the music I loved when I was just a little bit younger (read: too young to get into bars and assault the jukebox).
Here’s my developing (read: I’ll add more as I go) “Best of College” mix (I attended Loyola from 2003-2007). Maybe I should just do “Best of Youth” or “Best of When I Was More Interesting,” but “Best of College” pretty much covers it.
So far, I’ve got (definitely in no particular order):
“Athems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl” by Broken Social Scene
“Brand New Colony” by Postal Service
“Jesus, Etc.” by Wilco
“Theologians” by Wilco
Just got a link to this one.
“Alison” by Elvis Costello (edit: This IS a jukebox song, from the old NON-ELECTRONIC ONE that used to live at The Oasis, the best damned dive bar in Chicago, at 6809 N Sheridan Road).
“Cannonball” by Damien Rice
“Hold You In My Arms” by Ray LaMontagne
“Fistful of Love” by Antony and the Johnsons
“Rebellion (Lies)” by The Arcade Fire
“Make a Killing” by Aimee Mann
More to come as I think of it … with explanations, probably ….
