CD 1
1. Artic Monkeys—“Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”
2. Dirty Pretty Things—“Bang Bang You’re Dead”
3. Franz Ferdinand—“Take Me Out”
4. Hard Fi—“Hard To Beat”
5. Kaiser Chiefs—“I Predict A Riot”
6. Kooks—“Naive”
7. Muse—“Supermassive Black Hole”
8. The Ordinary Boys—“Boys Will Be Boys”
9. Razorlight—“Golden Touch”
10. Blur—“Song 2”
11. The Dandy Warhols—“Bohemiam Like You”
12. Green Day—“American Idiot”
13. The Jam—“Start!”
14. LA’s—“There She Goes”
15. Oasis—“Cigarettes & Alcohol”
16. Primal Scream—“Loaded”
17. Reef—“Place Your Hands”
18. The Smiths—“Panic (Hang The DJ)”
19. The Stone Roses—“I Am The Resurrection”
20. The White Stripes—“7 Nation Army”
CD 2
1. Automatic—“Monster”
2. Fall Out Boy—“Dance Dance”
3. The Fratellis—“Chelsea Dagger”
4. Jet—“Are You Gonna Be My Girl?”
5. The Killers—“Mr Brightside”
6. The Libertines—“Don’t Look Back Into The Sun”
7. My Chemical Romance—“Welcome To The Black Parade”
8. Orson—“No Tomorrow”
9. The Zutons—“You Will You Won’t”
10. The Cure—“Close To me”
11. Feeder—“Buck Rogers”
12. Happy Mondays—“Step On”
13. James—“Sit Down”
14. Nirvana—“Smells Like Teen Spirit”
15. Ocean Colour Scene—“The Day We Caught The Train”
16. The Prodigy—“Fire Starter”
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers—“By The Way”
18. The Soup—“I’m Free”
19. Suede—“Animal Nitrate”
20. Underworld—“Born Slippy” (Nuxx 2003)
die
Pretty much pure torture from beginning to end.
Like:
“I am the Resurrection”
“Step On”
Can bear:
“Animal nitrate”
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Everything else is either stuff I though was OK when I first heard it, but I’ve head way too many times (specifically “born slippy”, “song 2 ” “Panic”, American Idiot“) or stuff so bad I’d actually leave any party/disco if they played more than one of them in succession.
this is why i dropped out of university.
The amusing thing about all these compilations is that they’re clearly put together by people who DON’T KNOW WHAT STUDENTS LISTEN TO AT ALL.
I mean, I don’t know what students listen to these days. I’m assuming that The Smiths and Franz Ferdinand might be a good guess but I’m also pretty sure that none of them except maybe Louis Jagger are listening to Place Your Hands by Reef.*
*And none of them will be until Lytton Ewing goes to university.
What we really need is for Dom Passantino to give his FINGER ON THE PULSE assessment of how studenty this record actually is. I was a bit worried that if I didn’t request it, it wouldn’t happen.
I would hope Louis had better taste than that.
Who are Reef?
The Smiths, Sigur Ros and Radiohead are the most popular student fare atm, of which I only approve of the latter.
I STRONGLY disapprove of EVERYTHING on these CDs except CD 1 tracks 10, 11, 16 and 19, and CD 2 tracks 10 and 20. If that’s what students listen to...
*remembers how diabolical his contemporaries’ tastes are*
...yeah, not particularly surprised.
I can safely say that I’ve never heard Arctic Monkeys, Dirty Pretty Things, Kaiser Chiefs, Automatic, or The Libertines.
A lot of the older tracks on this collection are things that they were running into the ground when I was in college a decade ago.
worst cover art ever
it is very poor yes
Bring back the unabomber.
Some would say that those are good songs and you people are dorks. I would be one of them.
why do we do this?
I love the cover. Its all the things students love: guitars, beer, pylons, beans, and so much more.
die
The fact that anyone would put MCR and Fall Out Boy on the same disc with The Happy Mondays makes me sad inside.
On the upside, hopefully people who listen to that horse shit might hear stuff on this disc they otherwise woudln’t?
The cover is actually pretty funny, I must admit.
Fall Out Boy > Happy Mondays.
YSI?
I mean, I don’t know what students listen to these days.
FACEBOOK PULSE SEZ:
1. Jack Johnson
2. Coldplay
3. DMB
4. The Beatles
5. Green Day
6. Led Zeppelin
7. The Killers
8. Fall Out Boy
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Sublime
(but of course Facebook leans American in its tastes)
The Smiths, Sigur Ros and Radiohead are the most popular student fare atm, of which I only approve of the latter.
I hope you mean “the former.”
Well, at Cambridge the top ten reads thusly:
1. The Killers
2. Coldplay
3. The Beatles
4. Radiohead
5. Bob Dylan
6. Jack Johnson
7. Oasis
8. Jeb Fuckley
9. Snow Patrol
10. The Strokes
(when I mentioned The Smiths and Sigur Ros I was referring to the ‘highbrow’ (sigh) music tastes, there’s a lot of shit you gotta get through before you even reach that point)
NO I MEANT THE LATTER, a man’s gotta have his weaknesses, and I really don’t care much for the Smiths (although I realise that I will regret saying that one day).
Fall Out Boy > Happy Mondays. you obviously have never heard Fall Out Boy
Can’t I like Happy Mondays and Fall Out Boy?
A few good songs and a few shitty ones, can’t understand what’s that big deal with it.
Fall Out Boy > Happy Mondays. you obviously have never heard Fall Out Boy
— less-than three’s Christiane F. (MyNameIsActuallyStev...), December 9th, 2006.
lol at person in their 30s.
i’m under 30 but Fall Out Boy are the worst band of all time
You don’t even like Bowling for Soup, get out.
As a student I hardly condone this.
I quite like Fall Out Boy but since the Mondays are still, possibly, on some days, the GREBTEST FOCKING BAND EVER it was clearly an inept statement. (Wuz listening to Yes Please in the car yesterday and, as I always do, thinking about how stupidly underrated it is.)
I based the statement on the fact that the Happy Mondays are shite while if a Fall Out Boy song comes on the radio it doesn’t bother, I might even slightly enjoy it. But that’s probably because I’m not old enough to remember listening to the Mondays at a formative stage in my life (doubt even Louis Jagger of today’s youth would listen to them).
Fall Out Boy > Happy Mondays. you obviously have never heard Fall Out Boy
— less-than three’s Christiane F. (MyNameIsActuallyStev...), December 9th, 2006.
lol at person in their 30s.
— Dom Passantino (juror...), December 9th, 2006.
I’m not even 20 yet...
Aren’t you the cunt who wanted Wagemann back?
Back when I were a student and it were all fields round here I remember reading a survey that claimed that students’ favourite song was ‘Stay Now’ by Hazel O’Connor.
Most of you won’t have heard it, you should count yourself lucky.
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No! no no no; this is a misunderstanding; it’s not what it seems!!
when i was in college most people liked pop music...the same as in the rest of the earth....
My students union was pretty much at its emptiest for indie nights.
I had totally the inverse. Just about every guy was indie, and half the girls. The rest were into pop.
R&B seemed the most popular where I was. I only went to the drum n’ bass nights/big beat nights tho (which we mostly organised ourselves heh).
student anthems = mostly poor, hard-hitting pop music?
here at oberlin, people get excited when i play:
- prince
- r. kelly
- jeezy
- chic
- deep house (ie- newer stuff a la julien jabre)
- ‘full clip’
- anything by minilogue
but then again, oberlin is fucking gay.
haha
you laugh but do not answer my question about progressive house.
One of my HS friends is a freshman at Oberlin. He listens to Bright Eyes and the Decembrists.
Decemberists, rather.
it was a generalization, tree
I was just commenting
i realize that it was a generalization. i was just being aggressive.
yeah, cur1s, a lot of Decemberists-loving, whiny indie kids here. and a lot of people who LOVE Depeche Mode and New Order but bitch whenever I spin house music.
No Grease Megamix, no credibility, says I.
and a lot of people who LOVE Depeche Mode and New Order but bitch whenever I spin house music.
So, officially, nothing has changed since my student days.