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 whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)