Best Known Song of Your Generation

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This thread is the equivalent to a box full of junkmail

[Anonymous]

I'm GenX and I think most of us would probably know the top songs from the 90s. I could sing (or dance in some cases) along to any of these:

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
I'll Make Love to You - Boys II Men
I Swear - All-4-One
Jump - Kriss Kross
The Sign - Ace of Base
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Waterfalls - TLC
Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
MmmBop - Hanson

I don't know if these are necessarily "representative" though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is the equivalent to a box full of junkmail

Omg this made me laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:I reject the notion that Don't Stop Believin' is a boomer song. It came out in 1981. That makes it squarely Gen X. I will not entertain debate on this point.

But they claimed it w/ the Clinton ads. Gen X would probably be Smells Like Teen Spirit.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think Mr. Brightside is the mark of Gen X.

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Anonymous wrote:I reject the notion that Don't Stop Believin' is a boomer song. It came out in 1981. That makes it squarely Gen X. I will not entertain debate on this point.

Born to Run is more of a boomer song. Maybe Sound of Silence. Or Fortunate Son.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I reject the notion that Don't Stop Believin' is a boomer song. It came out in 1981. That makes it squarely Gen X. I will not entertain debate on this point.

Born to Run is more of a boomer song. Maybe Sound of Silence. Or Fortunate Son.

I think the disconnect here is songs made by a generation versus songs listened to by a generation. Journey is a band made up of Baby Boomers but their target audience is younger. Simon and Garfunkel are both late silent generation. CCR is on the line (John Fogarty was born in '45, his brother was '41). I think it makes more sense to qualify based on who is the prime listening audience when something comes out (who is a teenager basically), but I can see it both ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Smell’s Like Teen Spirit or maybe Sweet Child O’ Mine.

It drives me nuts that people always go on and on about Nirvana being the "voice of Gen X" (one of the reasons I never felt like I fully fit into Gen X and why I was not at all surprised when demographers decided there is actually that microgeneration of x-ennials that I fall into)

But if we're going by that marker, then it likely IS Smells Like Teen Spirit

I prefer Weird Als parody

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm GenX and I think most of us would probably know the top songs from the 90s. I could sing (or dance in some cases) along to any of these:

I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
I'll Make Love to You - Boys II Men
I Swear - All-4-One
Jump - Kriss Kross
The Sign - Ace of Base
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Waterfalls - TLC
Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
MmmBop - Hanson

I don't know if these are necessarily "representative" though.

You've got to be an Xennial, right? This list would resonate **way** more with me (born 1979) than my solidly GenX spouse (born 1971), who would roll his eyes at most of these songs while I sang along.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Smell’s Like Teen Spirit or maybe Sweet Child O’ Mine.

It drives me nuts that people always go on and on about Nirvana being the "voice of Gen X" (one of the reasons I never felt like I fully fit into Gen X and why I was not at all surprised when demographers decided there is actually that microgeneration of x-ennials that I fall into)

But if we're going by that marker, then it likely IS Smells Like Teen Spirit

I prefer Weird Als parody

Same! Weird Al is the true voice of Gen X!

[Anonymous]

Late gen x - born ‘78, graduated high school ‘96

Bon Jovi - Livin on a Prayer
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Ace of Base - The Sign
Macarena

Those were the go-tos at every high school dance, and bars when I was in my 20s, to get everyone on the dance floor and singing along.

And Kriss Kross “jump” was great at seeding the dance floor, not because any of us particularly loved the song, but because you could “dance” without actually having to know how to dance and not feel stupid about it!

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Fight for your right to party

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I reject the notion that Don't Stop Believin' is a boomer song. It came out in 1981. That makes it squarely Gen X. I will not entertain debate on this point.

But they claimed it w/ the Clinton ads. Gen X would probably be Smells Like Teen Spirit.

The Clinton song was Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac, not Don’t Stop Believing by Journey.

[Anonymous]

Born in 1957. Loved pop as there were dance shows, but The Doors, The Byrds, Crosby Stills Nash (and sometimes Young) and my favorite, The Who, reigned supreme in my life. LI still love Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark. Yes, I am old and okay with it😀

https://youtu.be/eswQl-hcvU0?si=6vvgs0-dnipe7E5N
The sarcasm is 👍

[Anonymous]

PP and add The Animals. Later War.