Is college music stupid, now or then?

Is college music a genre? When I was is school most people listened to Britney Spears while I listened to Nofx, Bad Religion, and Jets to Brazil.

I don’t think going to a university affects your taste in music, except that after having listened to classical music for a humanities class, you may pick up an appreciation for classical music. But that doesn’t mean you listen to it.

My personal preference is for indie.

What exactly are you calling college music? Examples of what gets lumped under “college music” are bands like Vampire Weekend, White Rabbits, Talking Heads get played on NPR radio stations rather than on for-profit stations. Is that what you’re terming “college”?
Because if it is, the answer to your question is NO. Mainstream radio is generally crap.

And college music when I went to college was R.E.M., The Violent Femmes, Hüsker Dü and The Replacements. So, no. Not stupid.

I’m 26, and I’ve gotten a little too old to listen to the college radio station here in town. I still like some of their music, but some of it just isn’t good. It wasn’t ever good, but I’m finally noticing it I think.

I’m a jazz guy but I like to listen to college radio now and again because there’s always something new whereas most other radio puts songs in heavy rotation which means if you hate something you’re going to hear it a lot.

Like I said, I wouldn’t know the answer, never been. But it’s in the same category as REM and such? hmm?

When R.E.M. started, in 1980, the only radio stations that played their music were on college campuses, so the music press of the day called them and other bands that weren’t played on top 40 radio “college rock”. It was still called “college rock” when I got to college in 1987 (and that’s the year R.E.M. went mainstream). All that stuff was called “alternative rock” by the time I left college in the early 90s.

I don’t know what rock music played mostly on college radio is called now. I get my tunes from Oh My Rockness, Pitchfork and WEXP, and 3WK, and BBC 6Music for the Brit stuff. What terrestrial radio station can compete?

Some college stations are NPR affiliates. NPR affiliates generally cover alternative, jazz, classical and news programming. In some communities it’s all on the same station, in others, there separate stations for each programming type. Some colleges run a campus run station, but because of the cost of a tower, etc. are doing it via live streaming.

A popular station on a lot of campuses is www.woxy.com, which is out of Austin TX. As @aprilsimnel said, live streaming and internet access changes college radio.

@12_func_multi_tool, what genre of music do you like?

We have two jazz station one plays blues too, two classical, one up run by USC and one that is NPR. Then I dabble in EDM such as house, trance, deep house

The jazz station I listen to is broadcast from Cal StateLong Beach. My local college station plays more ‘college-y’ music however; the whole gamut of post rock…stuff.

…unless it’s too popular of course. Because that would be commercial and commercial is bad.

oh, why?
I just got back into classic rock despite my last post. By the way it’s KUSD not NPR but same dial setting.