Throwback Thursday: Songs That Defined Your Freshman Year of College
Detroit Today takes callers’ songs and stories.
If you’re a member of Facebook, then you know Thursday is “Throwback Thursday” – or #tbt – when people dig up pictures from the past and put them up online. It’s a fun way to remember points in our lives that had significance.
But for many people, such as “Detroit Today” host Stephen Henderson, it’s not photos, but songs that queue those kinds of memories. The show will ask listeners periodically to send in songs that remind them of a certain time in their lives and tell the stories that go along with those memories.
The shows kicks off its brand new #ThrowbackThursday segment with songs that defined your freshman year of college, you first year out of high school, and/or being an 18-year-old. For Henderson, that song was “My Philosophy” by KRS-One.
“I was a kid who, growing up in the mid-1980s, was a fan of rap music,” says Henderson. “It was a very different kind of musical genre, though, up until the late 1980s when groups like DBP, groups like Public Enemy started to really send it this very socially-concious space. And KRS-One, for me, was the truth at this point.”
He says the first year of college is frequently a defining time for young adults’ musical tastes.
“I always felt like that first couple of months in the dorm really is this great mixing bowl of musical sounds,” he says.
To hear the full conversation, click on the audio link above.
Here’s a playlist of the songs listeners sent to Detroit Today (some of the songs have explicit lyrics):
