Definitive Gen X song?
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Anonymous
It's fine if you don't like it/them but it was a massively popular song and they had 2 successful albums with a number of hits. |
Anonymous
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Suzanne Vega’s Tom’s Diner hits on a lot of GenX’s cultural impact-nostalgia. It was used in the creation of the MP3 format - which got steaming started. And it has a Seinfeld connection.
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-plan/tools-and-resources/documents/Interview_Susan-Vega.pdf |
Anonymous
Right, and I’ll add, I’m not a nirvana fan, but it’s not just the success of the albums. It’s that they fundamentally were part of the culture shift with music and in terms of the whole grunge scene. They weren’t the only part of that culture shift, but they were a big part of it. I don’t think that people are saying that SLTS is a song we should all automatically love. It was more that this song, the video, the other albums, Nirvana in general, and the grunge movement was definitive for GenX and that song sort of represented that more than any other. The song and video was parodied by weird Al so it definitely had a cultural impact. |
Anonymous
| Smells Like Teen Spirit is definitive for Grunge, but not definitive for Gen X. |
Anonymous
+1 since it has a Suzanne Vega and a Lemonheads version. |
Anonymous
| Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer….walking home from our house Christmas Eve… |
Anonymous
That's some boomer-azz chid there, not GenX. |
Anonymous
That song still makes me cry every time I hear it… |
Anonymous
| Any song from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. |
Anonymous
NP and + 1 million. I wonder if that PP was even alive back then? It was like Mariah Carey and Madonna and a bunch of cheesy hair bands and soft rock and then suddenly…Nirvana/grunge. It was a huge cultural shift. |
Anonymous
If you’re actually trying to say that Nirvana was a one-hit wonder, don’t expect anyone to take your opinion seriously |
Anonymous
| 1999 ! |
Anonymous
| we are the world |
Anonymous
This is a website for middle aged moms. Of course it's mostly pop and soft rock hits here. |
Anonymous
No the culture shifted took place in the mid to late 1970’s with the punk music scene out NYC and London. That Sex Pistols tour had a huge impact spinning up bands. By the late 1970’s early 1980’s hardcore, punk, speed metal, alternative, rap and grunge were all over in the place but were “underground”. This is when the first genx’ers were in their late teens. By mid 80’s these new bands were getting play on college radio and alternative stations(like 99.1 WHFS). When Madonna and etc were being pushed by the big record labels(by annoying boomers) a whole another scene had developed and the culture had changed. Even Madonna was reflecting this culture in her early style. Madonna had a bigger impact on style vs Taylor Swift. I remember when I went to college in 1984 and got involved in college radio. The radio station was playing Little Feat, Grateful Dead, etc. By my sophomore year all that had changed. The older kids were the last boomers, were graduating and being replaced by genx. The music changed. Genx had taken over. Soundgarden(1984) was the first grunge group followed by Mudhoney(1988 who everyone thought would make it big). Nirvana’s Dave Grohl acknowledged that the drum intro for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was taken from the Bad Brains song "How Low Can a Punk Get?". Bad Brains 1976-1986, Teenage Idles(1979-80) and Minor Threat(1980-83) all had a major impact on Grohl, Nirvana and countless other musicians. Those bands were around a few years before Madonna. Also they were DC hardcore bands. The interesting thing was Fuguzi(1987-2003) would have been the been bigger vs Nirvana but refused to sign with a record company. |