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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's 100% "Don't You Forget About Me" and here's why:

Very few Gen Xers, aged 45-60, are turning the station or skipping that song when it comes on. It's just a perfectly constructed pop song that invites a deluge of memories to the average Gen Xer. While most Gen Xers in that same 45-60 age range will turn the station or skip "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

"Smells Like Teen Spirit's" alleged popularity is totally overblown thanks to MTV and the death of Cobain.[/quote]

I’m 49 and while I love me some John Hughes the peak of those movies was pre high school for me. So I wouldn’t call the movies of soundtracks definitive at least for me.

Agree Smells like teen spirit is overblown, but you cannot underestimate the influence Nirvana had on music and culture and anyone who tries to simply doesn’t have a grasp of that era. I’m not even a particular Nirvana fans, but I can see the impact they had on music and culture. And I’m sure part of that was Korba’s early death. We were able to place him on a pedestal and never taken him off. He never aged or got uncool. [/quote]

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