College rock is a term that was used in the United States to describe 1980s alternative rock before the term "alternative" came into common usage. "College" refers to campus radio stations located at institutions of higher education in Canada and the United States, where the term "college" is interchangeable with "university". The stations' playlists were often created by students who preferred underground rock music.
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“A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The acorn’s not yet
Fallen from the tree
That’s to grow the wood,
That’s to make the cradle,
That’s to rock the bairn,
That’s to grow a man,
That’s to lay me.”
—Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)