I don't think there's anything wrong with nostalgia affecting your tastes. Like you said, these songs & albums become the soundtrack to our formative years. So don't let us dinosaurs affect how you feel about your music. Just listen to us and nod so we feel like we're dropping some knowledge.

For us, fall of 93 was really heavy. That was the start of my sophomore year in college and we had:

Buhloone Mindstate
Midnight Maurauders
93 til Infinity (we saw Souls, De La & Tribe together in Dec. 93)
No Need For Alarm
Doggystyle
Enta da Stage
36 Chambers