Which songs/albums take you back to college?

Don't recall the album names... probably weren't any albums back then... but I do remember...

in fact I don't think there were too many instruments, mostly just hollow logs.

The big ones were the drums, the skinny ones became flutes.

The real skinny ones became forks.

The short ones were toothpick.

A couple years removed from THE show up at Max's farm in M.Y., some fallout was still going on and some new arrivals that gained ground rapidly with my friends and I.

Little feat's Waiting for Columbus
Marshall Tucker's A New Home
Van Zant & Co. got their deal Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Jackson Browne's For Everyman
Jimmy Buffet
E.L.O.'s Eldorado
Dave & Roger hit the big time on Dark Side Of The Moon.

I totally burned up on Stage by Loggins and Messina, as well as ';4 Way Street' by C.S.N.Y.

We paused long enough to listen to some island music from Bob Marley too.

following a brief pause, Southern Rock came into vogue. We went to as many shows as we could afford. $6 - $12 wasn't anything to sneeze at... one had to be picky!

With few exceptions though the flavor always was some southern based mainstay or firey newcomer.
KISS & Queen began to get attention and we had to see them.

I stuck with the local fare as my defaults.
The Outlaws Green Grass and High Tides
Black Oak Arkansas - Jim Dandy
Elvin Bishopp & dickie Betts with Great southern
Allman Bros minus 1.
Little feat
Little River Band
Charlie Daniels & and Marshall Tucker, seemed almost inseprable showing up at each others gigs routinely unanounced.

Billy Gibbons ZZ Top remains a fav today.

All in all, it was sort of a dull era wehn you stop to think and compare it to what passes for popular and hard rock now.

Oddly enough with all that, the songs that transport me to '71 - '74, are Gino Vaneelli's Storm at Sunrise, Robin Trower's Bridge of sighs, Golden Earring Radar Love, ELO's Can't Get you Out of My Head, and Marshall Tuckers Fire On the Mountain.

then disco came along and everybody lost their ever loving minds. Thankfully I was at ssea during much of that time.

Jackson Browne "For Everyman"
Lou Reed "Transformer" "Rock n Roll Animal"
Rolling Stones "Beggar's Banquet"
Frank Zappa "Over-Nite Sensation"
ZZ Top "Tres Hombres"
Little Feat "Sailin Shoes"
Led Zepplin "IV" and "Houses Of The Holy"
Richard Torrance "Eureka"

More I'm quite sure, but this will get me started.

Born To Run/Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Bat Out Of Hell, Horses/Easter, Late For The Sky/The Pretender, Turnstiles/The Stranger, My Aim Is True/This Year's Model/Armed Forces, Blues For Allah, Katy Lied/Aja, Wish You Were Here, Blood On The Tracks, Alive On Arrival, Look Sharp, Squeezing Out Sparks, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, Court And Spark, A Night At The Opera, Hearts Of Stone, Prisoner In Disguise/Hasten Down The Wind, The Cars/Candy O, The Roches, Steve Goodman, Excitable Boy, Hotel California, Some Girls... I'm sure I'm missing at least a few more, all 1975-79. Obviously, I don't think that the late 70's were bad at all for music.

Joe Jackson, The Police, The B-52's, The Specials, The Clash, Blondie, and yes, Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" was heard spilling out of dorm rooms all over campus 79-1980 and thereabouts.. oh and "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" played everywhere on campus also.

It was the Marine Corps for me. An erudite audiophile I am not.
But I did try to party and pick up some G.I. benefits when I got out, so...
I was at the beach with some kids I'd met, and you know how you'll have heard a song a couple of times, and your subconscious is starting to try to alert you that "Hey, dude, this song's pretty effing good", but your too busy doing other stuff and not paying attention, so its not in the banks as a "monster" yet, but its destined to be there?
So we're all sitting by the pier on the sand getting high, and someone brought a box that's playing a local station, and the first few notes of "Roll With The Changes" come on, and one of the girls says "Ohhh, REO!", and I say to myself "Oh THAT'S who plays that song", and I sit there and for the first time, really let it sink in.
Another time we're scoring weed at a guy's house (Hmm, I'm noticing a trend here...), and he's one of those cool dealers that lets you stick around and party; and he's got one of those great little seventies systems consisting of a couple of solid monitors, a nice receiver and a vinyl deck, and he's playing Supertramp's "Breakfast in America", and it's my first time hearing it.
Also, guys turned me on to Robin Trower and UFO.
Cheap Trick doing "California Man" became kind of my song.
The fringe dwellers listening to "out there" bands Judas Priest and Scorpions, and me liking them and trying to get their music accepted in my inner circle. Nobody ever said they didn't like them; but you could tell by their body language that I'd crossed a line.