Albums that (practically) every girl you dated in College owned

Yes, the Lemonheads were also popular amongst girls. I think the looks of Evan Dando helped a lot.

It couldn't be his live vocal performances. Impossible.

I liked their albums though.

 

I seem to remember Sting's first two albums - Dream Of The Blue Turtles and Nothing Like The Sun - cropping up a lot.

Ten years later, of course, it seemed like every female under thirty owned The Miseducation of Lauren Hill, an album I have still yet to hear.

 

Dated?

 

Lionel Richie - S/T and Can’t Slow Down

 

Interestingly: Ani Difranco -- Out of Range

Those who didn't I made the mistake of introducing them to it. And then they owned it. And then we broke up.

This is one album that is very unhealthy for sustaining a relationship!

 

Late 80's early 90's:

popular crowd/mainstream girls
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2
Squeeze - Singles 45 and Under
U2 - Joshua Tree
Depeche Mode - Violator or 101

Hippie chicks
Grateful Dead - Skeletons From the Closet or In the Dark
Bob Marley - Legend
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Doors - Best of

Metal/Rock girls
Metallica - black album
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Ozzy - No More Tears
Def Leppard - Hysteria

Alternative girls
Violent Femmes - s/t
New Order - Substance
The Smiths - Meat is Murder or The Queen Is Dead
The Cure - Standing on a Beach: The Singles

 

The 1st Violent Femmes album.

 

It also assumes that all members went to college, and dated while they were there.

 

Somebody had a great time in college.

 

I didn't date any girls in college

 

In my very small sample size circa 1992-96, Garth and modern country were very popular. This was in a middle-America state school FWIW.

Sadly this did not mesh well with my angry young man music of the era (Alice in Chains, Rage, Nirvana, etc.).

 

And dated a lot of girls to the point of being able to create a list around their musical tastes.

 

Brooce - The River

 

Bob Marley - Legend

 

The girls I knew all had Tapestry by Carole King and they all hated Blondie (I, of course, had the hots for Debbie Harry.)
I found a girl willing to go to concerts with Deep Purple and Rainbow - and she liked them
She was a keeper.
Next year we have been married for 25 years
And she does remind a bit of Debbie Harry...

 

Blue

 

Not the kind of post I would have expected from a Gort. Please explain how you ascertained sexual preferences from this list of albums.

 

Funny, but the girls I dated in retrospect had better taste than me. It were the ladies who converted me to James Brown and Curtis Mayfield, jazz, reggae and lotsa dance stuff.

 

Not only did every girl I dated in college have Tapestry, every girl I didn't date also had it.

One girlfriend I had in college was a dead ringer for Debbie Harry. Lots of people at school just called her Blondie (which she hated).

 

Ok, I can see that, I was just looking at the albums. My apologies.

 

I was extraordinarily unsuccessful with girls at university but most of my female friends owned copies of What’s The Story Morning Glory by Oasis and Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morrissette. The blokes also had them, but they also had OK Computer and Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. I have never owned any of them, and, to the best of my knowledge, I’m the only one to frequent SHF.

 

Mid 70s - I saw lots and lots of "mellow" stuff. My main girl had, among others:

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Carole King - Tapestry
Eagles - Greatest Hits
Best of Seals & Crofts
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Queen - Night at the Opera
Bob Seger - Night Moves
Best of Bread

I pulled this Bread album out of my girlfriend's cardboard box of albums - "Put that back!" "I just wanted to play a song" "Oh no, you're just going to do what my last boyfriend did, you're going to put on Mother Freedom and crank it up". Full disclosure, this is exactly what I was going to do. Fuller disclosure, married her anyway.

 

Or had a girlfriend.

 

I think we dated the same girls! Did you ever live in New Jersey?