A square wants to come on hip xp
― Mordy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
Seems v wrong to me that someone b in 1961, i.e. over 50 now, could be a Gen X-er.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
xp - of course, everyone else just is or isn't
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
Like "boomer minor vs boomer major".
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
W obv boomer major.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
Generation Wurst
― Euler, Thursday, 3 May 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Not a cola but definitely generational:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/OK_Soda_Original_4.jpg
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 3 May 2012 06:36 (twelve years ago) link
oh god, i remember when that came out! i think that's around the time me & my then-bf started referring to "K, the alternative consonant"
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 May 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, was so weird. like a "serious" alternative soda. was great to see clowes getting his work out there for the 7-11 massive to see, but otherwise incomprehensible. plus kind of gross.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago) link
also goes back to my earlier comments about gen x's "obsession with marketing". suggests the inverse of what's commonly assumed: what made gen x special wasn't, perhaps, their anxiety about being marketed to, but rather the ways in which corporate culture catered to that anxiety. the self-consciously robotized vacuity and despair of ok soda.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
Suck.com had a thing talking about Tom Brokaw's coining of "the greatest generation" being part of an effort to change how people thought about old folks, so that Gen Xers didn't treat old Boomers with the same disdain that Boomers exhibited to their own parents. So yeah, still self-directed.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Thursday, 3 May 2012 07:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh look, here it is:
"Year of the Rat"
http://www.suck.com/daily/98/12/29/
from 13 years ago, written by Reason.com's ex-libertarian-in-chief Nick Gillespie
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Thursday, 3 May 2012 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
When OK Cola came out, my friend started calling Pepsi Epsi-Pey.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
Crystal Skeksi
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 9:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
IRL LOL at this, thanking u.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
People born the same year as Obama:
Tom Araya (Slayer)Scott BaioGeorge ClooneyAnn CoulterDouglas CouplandWayne Coyne (Flaming Lips)Alfonso Cuarón (Dir. Children of Men)Dinesh D'SouzaKim Deal (Pixies/Breeders)El DeBargeLady DianaBilly Duffy (The Cult)The Edge (U2)Laurence FishburneMichael J. FoxVincent GalloJames GandolfiniBoy GeorgeRicky GervaisMartin GoreWayne GretzkyWoody HarrelsonBill HicksStephen Hillenburg (creator of Sponge Bob Square Pants)Peter JacksonJohnny B. (Jerky Boys)Daniel JohnstoncEvin Key (Skinny Puppy)Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM)kd langGeorge LopezJulia Louis-DreyfusDavid Lovering (Pixies)Ralph MacchioWynton MarsalisBruce McCulloch (Kids in the Hall)Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall)Todd McFarlane (creator of Spawn)Tim MeadowsDavid Mills (writer for The Wire)Jonathan Mostow (Dir. Terminator 3)Larry Mullen (U2)Eddie MurphyDave Mustaine (Megadeath)Vince Neil (Motley Crue)Michele Norris (All things Considered)Debbi Peterson (Bangles)Paul Raven (Killing Joke, Ministry)Panna Rittikrai (Dir Ong Bak 2)Henry Rollins (Black Flag)Tim RothArundhati Roy (God of Small Things)Meg RyanZander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Repo man)Campbell ScottAmy SedarisWill SelfChad Smith (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)Aaron SorkinGeorge StephanopoulosJohn Stockwell (Top Gun)Sarah Sutton (Nyssa in Dr. Who)Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)Lea ThompsonTitus Welliver (Silas Adams on Deadwood)Irvine WelshSimon West (Dir. Con Air)Forest WhitakerKip WingerMichael Winterbottom (Dir. 24 Hour Party People)
Obama is Gen X
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
Kip Winger for Presidetn
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
He took down that 17-year-old HARDCORE. DAMMMNNN.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
*pirouette*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3803974/Kip+Winger+KIPWINGER.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
AP has a point. america's post-WWII baby boom was in decline by the late 50s, and that's definitely a list of people who defined gen x more than boomer culture. i mean wayne coyne, kim deal, mj fox, eddie murphy, rollins, meg ryan, stephanopoulos, sheez. maybe gen x runs more 60 to late 70s.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Obv the borderlines are permeable. First wave punk rock is pretty much all late boomers born in the mid-late 50s.
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
You guys know that, like, John Lennon and Bob Dylan were not themselves boomers, right?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but the people that defined gen x werent the actual gen x people! i mean yeah every teenage jerk had a rollins spoken word record but rollins was already old by then.
xpost so yeah what he said
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
In any case, if the people on that list (mostly celebrities from my early childhood) are Gen X, I'm definitely not part of Gen X. When did Gretzky peak? 1987?
xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
i mean james gandolfini is on the list and he got popular during the millenials so he must be one right
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
betty white is generation z
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
generation zzzzzzzz
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
AP and sund4r both OTM. A) the barriers are permeable, with years of overlap, and B) the figures who influence and represent the culture of a "generation", especially in its early days, aren't always precisely of it.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Vince Neil Generation O_o
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
my xp - which just restates the obvious point that the culture that defines any given generation is probably in large part the product of the previous generation. the boomers were influenced by the music of artists who were born at the end of the silent generation (like otis redding and bob dylan), gen exors were influenced by folks born at the end of the boom era, banksy and young jeezy are gen exors, etc.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Punk & Proto-punk Boomers:Siouxsie Sioux, b. 1957Chad Polling (The Suburbs), b. 1957Johny Lydon, b. 1956Joey Ramone, b. 1951David Byrne, b. 1952Richard Hell, b. 1949Gerald Casale (DEVO), b. 1948Iggy Pop, b. 1947David Bowie, b. 1947
a couple avant-garde dudes from the Silent Generation:Captain Beefheart, b 1941 Frank Zappa, b 1940
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Jello Biafra b. 1958
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables was released spring semester, Obama's freshmen year at college.
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, sophmore year.
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Siouxsie and the Banshees released their first album first semester of Obama's Senior year.
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
^^^senior year of high school
Albums released during Obama's freshman year of high school:
Wish You Were Here - Pink FloydCaress of Steel - RushThe Who by Numbers - The WhoRock of the Westies - Elton JohnCome Taste the Band - Deep purpleDreamboat Annie - HeartLazy Afternoon - Barbara StreisandNighthawks at the Diner - Tom WaitsRadio-Activity - KraftwerkSun and Steel - Iron ButterflyZuma - Neil YoungABBA's Greatest HitsA Night at the Opera - QueenCrisis? What Crisis? - SupertrampDiscreet Music - Brian EnoNazareth's Greatest HitsEquinox - StyxWe Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll - Black SabbathStation to Station - David BowieFuturistic Dragon - T. RexLook into the Future - JourneyRun with the Pack - Bad CompanyEagles Greatest HitsA Trick of the Tail - GenesisDiana Ross self-titledThe Third Reich 'n Roll - The ResidentsDestroyer - KissSad Wings of Destiny - Judas PriestRamones self-titledRocks - AerosmithHigh Voltage - AC/DCThe Royal Scam - Steely DanTurnstiles - Billy JoelAlice Cooper Goes to Hell - Alice Cooper
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
That's 1976, right?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Rocks was 1975 though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
No, it wasn't, sorry. I meant Caress of Steel.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, it seems pretty obvious that anyone old enough to be releasing albums in 1977 would have to have been born during the baby boom or earlier, unless they were a child prodigy, perhaps.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKt6zz6mws
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Nevermind came out my senior year of high school
Albums released during Barak Obama's senior year of high school:Love Bites - BuzzcocksRoad to Ruin - RamonesNever Say Die! - Black SabbathBlue Valentine - Tom WaitsMusic For Films - Brian EnoNervous Breakdown - Black FlagNot Available - The ResidentsOutlandos d'Amour - The PoliceGive 'Em Enough Rope - The ClashThe Scream - Siouxsie and the BansheesGerm Free Adolescents - X-Ray SpexMidnight Oil - Midnight OilFirst Issue - Public Image LimitedD.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle - Throbbing GristleThe Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle - Sex pistolsLive at the Witch Trials - The FallRemote Control - The TubesIt's Alive - RamonesThree Imaginary Boys - The Cure
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Obama freshman year = 75-76senior year = 78-79
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
I totally want to send this thread to the WH and see if we can get some clarity on Obama's HS listening favorites
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
obama was only listening to hawaiian and indonesian music during that period of his life
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
gen x-y hawaiin music
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
god that is a horrible word to spell aiia
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Probably just sermons from an Indonesian madrassa
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link