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ATL|12:52 UK time, Monday, 19 September 2011

Since its freshers week, we cast our minds back (a very long way in some cases..) to our student and school days and the ritual of the band poster. You cant just throw any old crap up on your bedroom or dorm wall, you need to make sure its going to make you feel happy, and more importantly, makes a shorthand statement on how cool you are and therefore attractive to potential love interests. This week we want to know what adorns (or used to adorn) your living quarters: Hit us on facebook or twitter and you can text in live to the radio show from 8pm tonight. Heres a couple to get your ponderings kickstarted..

************************************************************************************************************** Rigsy (ATL Presenter)

Kula Shaker



Being a teenager during Britpop meant my bedroom wall was plastered with posters of some astonishingly ugly young men. At least Blur and Oasis both looked like a band while Prodigy just looked awesome. But then you had the likes of Cast, Northern Uproar and (worst of all) Kula Shaker - a selection of bands which made it feel like I was falling asleep surrounded by images of geography teachers and trendy accountants....

Paul McClean (ATL Producer)

The Doors



When I was at school I developed an unhealthy obsession with the Doors, even though they'd broke up over 20 years earlier. My massive 'Alive She Cried' poster stayed up on the wall for about 6 years in pride of place. Jim Morrison was the shaman, all snake hips and leather. 'The End' was the ultimate nihilistic hymn to the original acid generation and the 'Morrison Hotel' album still holds up as a wonderful freakshow. Heck I even dug the 'American Prayer' album, carrying the vinyl around school in the hope that it might give the spotty teenage goon a semblance of the intense brooding cool of the lizard king. Fail.

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