I feel Gen X is a great generation because we didn’t expect anything from anyone. We knew if we wanted something we needed to do it/get it/earn it and we carried that through life. We were the “just get on with it” generation.
We did everything ourselves - parents (that were actually around) would've been horrified if they knew the risks we took. Now the parents load the bikes into the transport and take the kids to a specially designed facility etc.
Ey and how many of us tried to construct elaborate aluminum foil extensions onto those rabbit ears so we could actually pick up that UHF station from the next city over? We were doing practical engineering at like age 7.
@@keepinmahprivacy9754 nah, me being one of the youngest in the bunch my default job title was test subject/technicians and my compensation was not getting a full nelson for obeying
In my opinion, Gen-X's greatest character trait is the ability to communicate with elders via eye contact and handshakes equally as well as communicating with youth via text messages and emojis. As an aside, the other day I saw a guy around my age wearing the funniest shirt I have ever seen. It read: "everyone older than me is a stupid boomer and everyone younger than me is a stupid millenial" LOL savage!
Not only did we have the music that came out int the 70s, 80s and 90s but we grew up listening to what parents listen to from the 40s 50s and 60s. So our taste of music is so diverse.
To be fair, the one positive attribute about Millennials and Gen Z is: many of them are VERY open to music from all genres and times, it's kind of the one nice consistent thing about a lot of them.
Gen X (1965-1980) grew up during the explosion of 1. Color TVs, Microwave Ovens, Garage Door Openers, Power Windows/Locks, Cable & Satellite TV (70s) 2. Drive thru Fast Food, Video Games, Video Recording, Remote Controls, Personal Computers (80s) 3. Digital Music Recording, Microsoft, The Internet (90s)
I was born in the 70s and my part of gen x kinda saw "We're not gunna take it" by Twisted Sister as our generational anthem. But then we grew up and took it.
We rocked to Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd in my hometown in Manitoba. Roughly 75% of my graduating class of ‘91 fled to Alberta and are still here. At least half of those that remained in that small Manitoba city are now dead. Meth and social justice took hold there not long after we graduated.
I'm a Boomer and I and many others were latch key kids. Because I was the first home as my parents and brothers were all working. I had to wash the breakfast dishes, vacuum and tidy the living room and clean the fireplace and make a new coal fire so it was warm when they got home. I was 12 and at no point did I feel hard done to, I felt I was helping my family.
See, GenX was neglected when parents were home. It was not about family, it was about them, them, them. We are not whining. We did not have the closeness you felt. Our parents, (virtually half my upscale high school) were out dating while we were at home doing chores and raising their other kids from other marriages. My mother once told me that I could not work weekends unless I paid for the sitter. I never dated until I fled from the home at 18. She would not let me leave at 17 when I graduated as she needed my child support check. Maybe, now, you see the difference?
@@BBMc107 I genuinely didn't have a closeness to my father. He was a WW2 vet and drank a lot. My mother tried to hold the family together but she had to go to work to help pay the bills for having three sons. I would agree that the divorce and separation rate was much higher for gen x. But to be honest, I wanted my parents to separate because my family was completely dysfunctional. It wasn't a happy home growing up.
I was talking to my momma (an only child) who is from The Silent Generation. She told me a story about coming home from school and being alone in an empty house. She wore a string around her neck with the house key on it. I told her, "Momma, you were a latch key kid." ❤
The 80s and indeed the 70s were too. Punk Rock, Trance, Rapping, Techno, New Wave, Glam Rock, New Jack Swing, Soft Rock, Synth-pop, New Romantic, Alternative dance, Grunge, Contemporary R&B, Europop, Smooth soul, Britpop, Nu metal, eatboxing and many more.
The early 90s is joked around about in Eastern Europe as the death of music coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The music of the 80s was objectively better by any metric.
I'm not sure we're the "best" generation but I do believe we are the most ingenious generation because of the circumstances in which most of us were raised . We just happened to be the last generation that came before technology took over the world. We were often left to our own devices and had to invent and adapt much faster that our parents or theirs. We have seen the world go from analog to digital and we adapted to it, unlike our boomer parents. We were the forgotten generation and now we are the backbone of our society, a role I'm sure many of us are not overly pleased with. Given our hard earned ingenuity we are more than up to the task, however, even if it's reluctantly.
I was born in the 60s, and we experienced hangers for antennas, and before the remote, if the turn dial on your tv broke or cracked, you had to use a wrench to turn the channels. 😂
And aluminum foil for extra clarity on the antennas. I still don't care for cable. Cursed them all for taking analog just as i did about inventing CDs. Still enjoy regular TV via digital and a long range antenna.
Our generation was the last to be taught cursive hand writing as a requirement, when I graduated high school in 1991 we had 5 computers in the entire school that was built in 1921. That Summer they tore it down and built a new school, so our class was literally the last class from the old school.
I was born in 79 and went back to college in 2016 for a couple years. I was shocked to learn my classmates couldn’t hardly read cursive and were not taught it at all.
Oh they definitely did care about the music genres. There were identifiable groups in schools and further education (college, universities) related to music types.
I remember a few things that I only noticed in retrospect: parents not once drove me to school or to ANYTHING. Parents were never home when I got home. Until dinner time, eating was... whatever you managed. If you had nice parents, you had food that was not bad to eat, somehow. Walking five to ten miles in a day was normal. Playing outside was beyond normal. Reading print books was what you did if you were alone. TV was a) whatever was airing at that time and b) what your parents wanted to see. If you were lucky, you liked what your parents wanted to watch. Pizza delivery was a revolution not just of food, but of society, in our opinion. Every technological development was a thing of wonder, that made you feel optimistic about the future. Except for the dark side of modern technology: you didn't know if the world was going to be destroyed in nuclear war, and were reminded that it might be, every week. Restaurants was something you go to go to maybe three times a year, and sometimes you didn't get to go -- your parents went, you ate leftovers or TV dinners. You were the maid, you were the gardener. Parents did not clean or do yardwork. That was for the children to do. If you were lucky, you got like $5 a week as an allowance. Working a part time job between 12 and 18 was not just something that happened, it was kind of common. Xmas was a time when you got one, maybe even two gifts. Rich kid house, like 3 or 4 gifts. I think, I don't know for sure, I didn't get invited to the rich kid houses. All TV shows depicted everyone as living in ultra rich houses and lifestyles, and it kind of puzzled a lot of us. Most of us lived more like the Byers family in Stranger Things, and knew that perhaps 5% of people lived like these houses in TV shows. If I could go back in time and have it all be exactly as it was, I would do it in a heartbeat.
_BRILLIANT_ ! Yeah, I'm English but can relate. I had a key on a dirty string round my neck, dodged traffic to get my dad's tobacco. Built my first decent bike from parts a spoiled kid was scrapping. Learned to cook or starve. Worked all summer and loved it. Cut class for 4 months straight aged 9. Went to 7 different schools .. . ..
@@dancarter482 lol I remember having to argue with the liquor store clerk to buy my dad his cheap cigars. I finally got them to stop questioning it when I looked them dead in the eyes as a seven year old and said "why would I ever want to smoke one of these stinking things, I don't even understand why adults like them."
Just looked that up about the albums, they were: x Metallica - Metallica (known as The black album) x Pearl Jam - 10 x Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion I x Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion II x Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sex Sugar Magik x Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger x Nirvana - Nevermind
@@williamgrissom1995 First and second, imo. Use Your Illusion was really really good, but it didn't compare. They were getting "edgier" and left behind a lot of the blues sound that Appetite and Lies had. Then my childhood was ruined when I saw them LIVE... one of the worst shows I've seen, luckily Metallica and Faith No More saved the show. They fully "fell off" with The Spaghetti ACCIDENT!
Gen-X had Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan, Madonna, the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty, the Olympic Dream Team, Eminem, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Alice n Chains, Tool, the entire Seattle Rock movement... all of which are regularly continders in the G.O.A.T. conversations of their respective fields. We were the first generation to normalize erasing the line of "gender roles" when it came to household chores (because we were alone, we had to learn how to do everything), which gave us not only exceptional, all-around skills, but also made us the first generation with fully developed interconnected acceptance. We got so good at self care, & helping each other out simultaneously, that we silently bridged the gap between generations & social groups so smoothly that our existence is overlooked in lists & when discussing who is to blame for all the problems. Most of the time, no one can point the finger at us for social faults, because we did it right. All of our problems are internal. And while we watch our parents (Boomers), little siblings (Millenials), & children (Zoomers) all fighting it out on social media, we just sit back wondering why we bothered to teach ALL of those groups to use that medium in the first place. Everything was fine when we were silently in charge. What happened? 🤣
Gen X always struck me as a recap of the young people in the latter part of the 70s. We wore flannels, worn out jeaes pocket tees and work boots. Hell i still dress like that.
I'm not really a boomer even thought I was born in 1964. I was only 6 when it was 1970, so as a kid of the 70's and a teen of the late 70's and early 80's. I totally can relate to Gen X more. I love the 70's and 80's movies and music the best. Everything you are talking about I experienced. Especially having to get up and turn the channel for my parents. LOL.
Yep. Same here. In fact, have you researched Generation Jones? That's us. We're NOT IN ANY WAY Boomers. WE have N O T H I N G in common with them. Check it out.
A couple of my best friends are technically boomers but fit the GenX way of life and thinking. i'm on the early part of GenX, they are on the very end of the Boomers.
So true! I ran around on our 130 acre farm all day everyday, nobody ever knew where I was nor did they check. I think that's why I'm such a free spirit and always have been. No complaints here! Vintage 1968 😊
We seen pop culture and technology grow and we grew up Independent because our parents working late hours...In the 70s and 80s the children help with house chores while our parents work late hours. Kids used to play outside until the street lights come on then we go home for dinner.
I remember $3.25. Problem is that inflation is outpacing income. I also think these guys were the same ones back in the 80's saying Hip-Hop was crap and just a fad. 😄But to be fair, Rap was much different (better) than what it is now. No matter where we grew up, us GenX'ers are a tough group; we grew up hard, and It's hard to impress us, because we got to see the first of many things. I lot of the stuff we see now is just regurgitated stuff. I hate how this latest generation thinks LeBron is anything close to Jordan. Basketball back then was a contact sport. Hell, even football was more brutal than what it is today. Action movies with corny one-liners ruled the theaters along with the coming of age stories like Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles. We did crazy stunts on our bikes without any padding or helmets, and if we got hurt, oh well. patch yourself up, rub some dirt on it. If this latest generation is soft, it's because we made them that way. We don't want them to go through what we went through, and maybe we should have let them.
Basketball is pro-wrestling - literally. They are classified as sports entertainment. The high courts ruled they can alter outcomes to improve ratings; same for the NFL And the younger generations are far better skateboarders than we were, and skateboards are why BMX bikes lost their popularity. And any bragging about movies is naive based on what has been revealed about that industry - not to mention movies in general have always been for the soft. And everything in mankind's 12,000 year history is regurgitated...
The few of us who said stop coddling them, get yelled at and told we are irresponsible. My wife constantly says I'm too tough on the grandkids. Guess who the grandkids like hanging out with the most. Me.
I still have, somewhere, my $3.25 pay stubs. Started a part-time job at 16. Which was a whole lot easier than all the work at home. Like many of my generation, always assumed my parents had kids for the free labor. Used to ask my dad, "Ever hear of a felller name of Lincoln?"
Yep. I agree. I'm 1969. The 70s and 80s were the best of times growing up. Very real. In your face. And no cultural insanity like now we have been foisted into. 1984 was a great year for music. I still go to metal shows to this day. It's great to see my generation still Killin it at shows with thier families and children.
we saw fm radio come out. we used to listen to all different genres on one am station and then fm came out and they came out with stations that play one genre. we went from dolly parton to glenn cam[bell to bay city rollers jackson five and johnny mathis and frankie valley led zeppelin heart journey van halen styx to disco to heavy metal
1970 X'er, and my man is right about the gold... if you had dropped $10K in gold and also in an S&P 30 years ago and forgot about it, even though the market account is compounding and the gold isn't, the gold would still be worth significantly more. I got a totally honest answer from my advisor when I asked "you're always saying diversify your funds, but why don't you promote metals?" "If you buy metals and put them in your safe, I'm not making anything on them"
that was the worst...I didnt earn enough money to even have anything after I got taxes taken out. All I could muster up is a box of pop tarts to eat at the grocery store I worked at during break.
My first several years of work. I only got a raise when minimum wage went to 3.85 and then 4.25. I paid rent, gas, food, and got married all while working for minimum wage and no benefits, no overtime, and no insurance.
Xennial here, definitely relate more with Gen X. I think growing up without a cell phone was the real difference. Wouldn’t trade growing up in the 90’s for anything, got to witness cassettes become cds and watched my high school go from a dozen kids having phones my freshman year to well over half the class by my senior year. Road Atlases and Map Quest made us all road pirates back then. Definitely a special time for music, still have quite a collection of grunge and hip-hop records.
The guy talking about his mom being home and having dinner made sounds like Boomer. Most of the people I knew had working moms, latchkey kids and we made our own breakfast, lunch and then dinner for the family. I did the dishes when I was a teenager and continue to do them without delegating to my kids. Maybe me being female caused a different experience.
false. Gen X had its share of households that had wives who stayed home...especially if you lived in the suburbs, and the husband had a good job and many kids. I knew many Gen-Xers had mommas who stayed home. I grew up with alot of em, at the same time, alot of us were latch-key kids too in the bunch. Often is the case, us latch-key kids all had that one friend who had their stay at home mom whose house you could goto after school from time to time before your folks got home.
@@DJ_BROBOT I stand corrected and can only go off my personal experience of all my friends in my neighborhood, all of the moms worked. I’m assuming we were considered middle class but didn’t know anyone considered poor except people I met at church. There was that strange timing of the Jimmy Carter presidency with inflation and layoffs when my mom and other moms began working. So I guess some of it is a timing thing.
Gen X is so much more scrappy and resourceful. We came up on Red #40 in everything, drinking straight from the hose, and being totally MIA all day after school (with no cell phones- gasp!) until the street lights came on. There were no "playdates." If we got a beatdown nobody came to save us. Then we let ourselves in the house and ate Cap'n Crunch for dinner in front of MTV. The Challenger blew up in front of us on live TV when I was in 1st grade and our teachers sent us to lunch like nothing happened. We took our Halloween candy to the supermarket to have it scanned for needles and razor blades and that was NORMAL. Adults thought all of us were either becoming satanists or joining gangs depending on which Parental Advisory music we were into. People can say what they want about us, but if any generation is most likely to survive a nuclear holocaust it's definitely gonna be Gen X. Just listen to our music. We're the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" generation. Kids coming up now don't even know how to sign a credit card receipt and their icons are (gag) Taylor Swift and random people on Instagram that open boxes and expect you to send them money.
Gen X takes care of ourselves. I mean, we can entertain ourselves with a plastic cube that you continually turn. Our music is fantastic! Static X! I have not heard of them in years! Saw them in Modesto,Ca. Twice in the mid 2000’s.
Honestly, I think any time post-WW2 through the mid-90s was a great time to grow up in this country. Although, when I asked my grandmother what the 1940s were like, she said it was okay, but that the 1930s was the bees-knees!
The US has a skewed view if the 1950s & 60s, that a lot of the world doesn't. WWII rationing didn't in in Britain till 1954. Repairs, rebuilding and restarting manufacturing, following the war, took a toll on all of Europe and many other parts of the world, that the US was almost oblivious to because they had not had the war on their soil (or right it's doorstep in Britain's case). They also became a very rich country because of all of the profiteering the old USofA did during the years before they actually joined the fight and even for many years afterwards, as everyone else was replaying them wartime loans. I'm not blaming modern US Americans, that's just what happened at the time and the fallout was a transfer of 'Empire' to the US, along with the riches that came with it. Since then, well things have been good and bad for the US.
Our generation honors our parents and our elders. This is something that is lacking -- it's obviously not everyone, but we understand that we should have gratitude and forgiveness.
It was the philosophy that made the music great, they were showing us now, In many cases. I played music my whole life I'm 43 , born February of 80, generation x is what it is Bec we were submerged in the outside world saw things change for the worse over and over saw the technology grow into the greatest weapon the world has ever known the smart phone.
Ooo, you JUST made the cut, my lady was born April of '81 and is a Millennial. First year though, she likes to pretend she's genX, perhaps by proxy since I'm 5 years older. It's really amazing the difference in my music and hers and our experiences (she has no idea what "where's the beef" means!). Agreed about the smartphone, though cell phone in general. It gave kids a "safety blanket" so to speak... never had to just figure out how to get home or put their thumb out and grab a ride with a "dangerous stranger".
@@btetschner I have experience hanging out in large vans, there was usually a very big ashtray, someone that knew how to strum a few guitar chords and a LOT of weed being smoked! I'm sure you mean the blacked out window, free candy vans. I love the reference to "The Satanic Panic" garbage we had to deal with though!!!
2:15 That stretch of music was epic! I was a freshman in college, GA Tech, and we were able to catch most of those bands live on their promotion tours as they came thru Atlanta. Sometimes the shows would follow back to campus to a fraternity house where they would jam until morning. Usually it was the warm up bands for the headliners, but on occasion, the bigger names would just randomly show up. You couldn't plan for it and we didn't have cell phones. You either got lucky and caught it happening or were jealous hearing about it the next day.
Guns n Roses Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 came out in September 91. I think those were the two you were thinking of. I personally skipped school after 4th hour to go get those cds. Music today is dirty pond water compared to back then.
Our superpower is that we overcame adversity, neglect and overpowering narcissism and brought love and acceptance to our children. Are they spoiled, yeah. But they are loved for themselves, not as a reflection of us. Hell, yeah!
Hell, we're the original doomsday generation. We're the generation that for our entire generation, our entire childhood was filled with us being told that at any moment we would have 30 minutes until the world became a nuclear wasteland. And we just went out and played. Everything from "duck and cover", to radioactive mutants, robot apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, alien invasion entertainment. Even the ever cheerful Super Friends had an episode about humankind being wiped out and it took aliens from the future changing things because even the heroes couldn't save us. These kids want to lose their shit, demand therapy twice a month and anxiety pills because the world could end in a decade, for us that's just a damn Thursday. We expected to be living like Mad Max fighting alien, mutant robots at this point.
My first real job was cleaning up a lumber mill that was about to be shuttered. They told us that if we needed an opinion, one would be provided. One hour in, one of the idiots about 2 years older than me decided to have an opinion. He got punched in the face by a cranky 60 year old WWII veteran. I don't think Millennials or Gen Z can even grasp what that was like. When you have to work with Millennials or GenZ (not recommended), the first thing you notice is they stop at the first sign of adversity. ANYTHING will stop them. It will be a bit before they get going again. And they have feelings, oh so many feelings, about just about everything. I had an employer who brought in FREE donuts on Wednesdays. Just to be nice. Any idea how much time and energy was spent complaining about FREE donuts? Boomers are entitled, but not like the kids they produced. I outworked all but one of them regularly. They were half my age. I probably won't do it again unless you pay me a lot.
Omfg! I outwork all the boomers and millenials on a regular basis WITHOUT gloves or saftey gear in the hot sun. No sunscreen either. Im 44 btw. Doin fine. 😏
I was a latch key kid. My mom and dad both worked nights. We learned independence. We learned how to cook for ourselves, laundry, and keep house. We had to get ourselves up for school and off on time, then tuck ourselves in at night. It still has the best music.
Born in 1965 and music that defines me today..Rolling Stones, Dead, Zeppelin, Queen, DISCO, Stray Cats, Van Halen, Madonna and House Music. I am truly blessed and WILD!!!!
Because we _DID_ everything subsequent generations take for granted. Just imagine these weak posers being able to come up with skateboards or windsurfers etc.
I tell my wife all the time, a big thing growing up was "when i turn 18, I'm moving out!!!" Compared to the last 2 generations I moved out at 7yrs old. I got a bike and I was gone all day.
I was the remote control for the TV too. And I was the one who had to go out and adjust the antenna during a storm (Millenials don't even know what that means). We had four television channels...13, 17, 23 and 39. And WGN when the wind wasn't blowing.
I was born in 1984 i remember the tv antenna that had to be moved with the tin foil for better reception. I grew up as a genx im only millennial out of technicality.
If you guys want your minds blown, look up the year 1983. Look at all of the misic and everything happening that year and the one before and after. It was like the pinnacle of modern world history.
1 secret about a gen x guy... you can take ANY of these guys to a roller rink, and they will out skate every 16 year old in the rink. seriously, take a 50 year old to the rink and get ready to record the great content.
'71 here....The music I listen to in order from '74...mamas and the Papas, the carpenters, Wings, Mouldy Old Pigeon, Mike Oldfield, John Denver, Sally Boyden, Olivia Newton John, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Salt n Peppa, Malcolm McLaren, other break dance I can't remember, deep purple, pink Floyd, Wishbone ash, John Williams, Carlos Montoya, Andres Segovia, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Kiss, Metallica...oh Metallica, Sepultura, Osibissa, Ladysmith Black Mambosa, Pearl Jam Alice In chains, Rob Zombie, oh there are so many more. We had...have..it all from pop to acid rock, folk to death metal!
Godsmack is one my favorite bands but also Pink Floyd's biggest fan! Lol I remember running home from school everyday after i got Pink Floyd the Wall and playing both records. I did that for months. Of course Metallica is a big favorite, saw them in concert 3 times. I also saw Frank Zappa, yes im a Frank Zappa fan too. That's one of the best things things about when we were born...we were exposed to all the best music! Gen X Vintage 1968 ❤
@@kenkeller8158 Oh, okay... I was an AZ attached from AIMD to the AO's in G-4 Hangar Bay... Someone had to get all their paperwork in order. I had a tour shirt with all the Squadrons' logo's on it and I had to retire it last year due to holes. 26 years is a long run for a t-shirt...
I’m a younger Gen X (70s), I love growing up in those times. Things are so messed up and have gone to far nowadays! I still don’t use social media, and 50s to 90s music is my preference. Great video guys!
I was making $2.35 an hour. You are correct about the metals. The federal reserve tries to sell 8% inflation but gold was $35 an ounce when they took over....
as a gen Xer my self, i would say that we had the greatest time, we socialized and played outside and saw technology reshape the earth in our own eyes, we evolved from a cassette tape into cds into mp3 players, we accepted everyone the way they are and appreciated individuality, we understood from an early age that everyone is unique in their own style, with that being said Boomers deserve the title of BEST PARENTS EVER, they raised us very well to be the people we are
I loved my up bringing.I am independent and tough as nails .I was cooking and watching my younger siblings.playing outside all day going on adventures.
I can tell that you're a 1960s-born GenExer because I was 1970s-born GenExer. My mom had years when she stayed home, but most years, she worked outside the home. That's what makes GenExers the way we are. We're the first latch key kids which made us sort of feral.We'd leave our houses in the morning and wouldn't be back until the street lights came on. lAnd that's why we did so well during the pandemic. It was just like our childhood. You get home, lick the door, have a snack, do your homework, then watch TV. Isn't that essentially what we did for 18 months? We were the last generation that knew how to play with minimum technology, yet the first generation to have access to it in our youth. We knew how to keep our iwn company. We didn't need to export everything we did to the whole world. We weren't attention hogs. To the contrary, everybody forgot we even existed because the squeaky wheel gets the oil. We're Han Brady in a world of Marcias and Cindy s.
I agree. We were able to ride our bikes all day , play outside, no computers so we naturally got tons of excercise. Great cartoons like Bugs Bunny. When we got to drive, we were able to get fast muscle cars with a part time job. Our parents were born in the 30’s so we were raised by the greatest generation and were raised with good family values and we respected our elders and were taught to save money. Best thing was we were raised to be hardworking people not feel entitled to promotions after working at a company for 6 months. Freedom
@@DJ_BROBOT Well for us who grew up in the Midwest, it was Led Zeppelin, etc. Second up were the 80s bands like Van Halen, Def Leppard, etc. The 90s bands were doubtless composed of Gen Xers (and there were many great bands in that decade), but those were not the bands that Gen Xers grew up on! Gen X grew up on 70s and 80s bands.
I,m a 1966 Australian model and very proud about that too because i grew up before technology took over and found my happiness outdoors with my mates and our only limitations where our imaginations so life was happy and peaceful , 😊 , i miss those days so much when life was so much easier without any of the BS that we all have to endure in these current times .
my parents didn't have a clue what I was doing and what I was up to and rightly so, I've been through so many near death or near serious consequences to stupidity I got myself into and out of
Color TV in the US began in 1954, But it had a VERY SLOW adoption rate. The major networks began to be mostly color only in 1966. and it was not until 1972 when color console sets outsold B/W console sets. It took even longer for portables! Pittsburgh had a public broadcasting channel that was B/W only as late as 1985! Same slow "take rate" for FM radio. FM radio came out in the late 1940s. (And aired stereo in 1961) But the mass migration of music stations to FM only started in the late 1960s and was not "complete" before the 1980s!
Do you remember when tv went off at 11 o'clock and only am radio and I am 70 years old and I still listen to and enjoy it. And don't have stocks other than live stock and not some parts of me still don't worry about about anything. I am glad you guys have it all figured out. Good luck guys
Interesting for sure. Being a Gen-X'er myself ; for a long time I really didn't think about the differences between the generations. Every generation will have something that would become that generations Identity.
As an adult, I often wondered why, I just had a desire to push through on everything. Many moons ago I came to the conclusion that my feral childhood was the main culprit
I like the flow you guys have …. Its funny how we dont know eachother but we have same experiences ..its wild to hear other peoples lives …buy gold and silver …gen x is quiet but i have this feeling our role is yet to come
Fellow Gen Xr here! I just started dropping Gen X content as well, and launched my channel around Intermittent Fasting and Exercise. YT recommended your content. New sub here. Loved this breakdown which was 100% spot on.
I remember the pop radio stations played the living Jesus out of the top 40. When there was a tidel wave of really great "alternative" music being made everywhere.
to this day, i praise the internet for breaking us out of the stranglehold of mainstream media. same 30-40 songs. not bad ones by any means, tho punctuated by commercials for cars, sound systems, and of course, BEER. for the sensation of wanting to stick a gun in your mouth, be stuck listening to "the morning zoo" yuk yuk yuck. one song. oh great, more commercials. pre-internet: thank God for the 'alternative' kids
My first concert was Jerry Reed, when I was a pre teen in the 70s .... Saw bo diddley at an oldies show. Been to a bob Dylan show. Saw SRV 5 times. All versions of Van Halen. At a festival, we had to wait for the start of primus. We were waiting for the Dead to finish their set. The last show I attended was Tool, for the third time.
We werent tied to one genre of music. I had a 71 coronet with a 440-6 pk and rocked out with everything from slayer and iron Maiden to rap like run dmc and boogie down productions. People don't seem to realize Gen X created rap
The greatest generation of a live what’s the generation of fought World War II. Let’s get the street right here right now! I’m a Gen X and I’ll gladly be the second best leaving the greatest generation that ever lived was the boys before World War II
I used to joke that only an X-gener could love Barry Manilow and NIN equally.
That's not a joke.
Lol indeed, we are the generation that would doom shuffle to sisters of mercy but happily dance to Shannon’s let the music play. We just enjoyed 😂
Neil diamond and STP
I didn't but I do now that I'm 54yrs old..I like the song MANDY
And John Denver!🤣
I feel Gen X is a great generation because we didn’t expect anything from anyone. We knew if we wanted something we needed to do it/get it/earn it and we carried that through life. We were the “just get on with it” generation.
We did everything ourselves - parents (that were actually around) would've been horrified if they knew the risks we took. Now the parents load the bikes into the transport and take the kids to a specially designed facility etc.
Facts!
Yep, not everyone got that gold star....u had to wk for it..
Not only were we the remote, we were also the antenna
Ey and how many of us tried to construct elaborate aluminum foil extensions onto those rabbit ears so we could actually pick up that UHF station from the next city over? We were doing practical engineering at like age 7.
@@keepinmahprivacy9754 nah, me being one of the youngest in the bunch my default job title was test subject/technicians and my compensation was not getting a full nelson for obeying
@@cealy76 I was Steve Austin's stunt - double; had my first full concussion age 4.
Great Comment! 😊
With foil
In my opinion, Gen-X's greatest character trait is the ability to communicate with elders via eye contact and handshakes equally as well as communicating with youth via text messages and emojis.
As an aside, the other day I saw a guy around my age wearing the funniest shirt I have ever seen. It read: "everyone older than me is a stupid boomer and everyone younger than me is a stupid millenial" LOL savage!
That is truly funny
So Gen X that t-shirt😊
Righteous!!!
Those of us born in the early 80s can do this too.
Not only did we have the music that came out int the 70s, 80s and 90s but we grew up listening to what parents listen to from the 40s 50s and 60s. So our taste of music is so diverse.
Yes!
Totally!!!
Yessssss👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
So true!
To be fair, the one positive attribute about Millennials and Gen Z is: many of them are VERY open to music from all genres and times, it's kind of the one nice consistent thing about a lot of them.
Gen X (1965-1980) grew up during the explosion of
1. Color TVs, Microwave Ovens, Garage Door Openers, Power Windows/Locks, Cable & Satellite TV (70s)
2. Drive thru Fast Food, Video Games, Video Recording, Remote Controls, Personal Computers (80s)
3. Digital Music Recording, Microsoft, The Internet (90s)
Urethane wheels on our skates - windsurfing - pool riding - hang gliding - Dupont advanced materials .. ... ....
1985, my stepfather had a phone on his car. To this day, it was still cooler than any cell phone I've owned. Is "cooler" still a thing?
@@tenofivelips Motorola? The spark that ignited Iridium - decades before Starlink was even possible!
Don't forget us Boomer generation, we are still around!!
Yes…we were the crash test dummies for a lot of stuff.
I was born in the 70s and my part of gen x kinda saw "We're not gunna take it" by Twisted Sister as our generational anthem. But then we grew up and took it.
Lol. Truth
We rocked to Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd in my hometown in Manitoba. Roughly 75% of my graduating class of ‘91 fled to Alberta and are still here. At least half of those that remained in that small Manitoba city are now dead. Meth and social justice took hold there not long after we graduated.
Bahaahaa. So true.
Took TOO DAMNED MUCH of it😭.
😂😂😂😂 we took alright. Most of us are heading into retirement broke which ain’t funny but…yeah we had no choice but to take it😊
I'm a Boomer and I and many others were latch key kids. Because I was the first home as my parents and brothers were all working. I had to wash the breakfast dishes, vacuum and tidy the living room and clean the fireplace and make a new coal fire so it was warm when they got home. I was 12 and at no point did I feel hard done to, I felt I was helping my family.
See, GenX was neglected when parents were home. It was not about family, it was about them, them, them. We are not whining. We did not have the closeness you felt. Our parents, (virtually half my upscale high school) were out dating while we were at home doing chores and raising their other kids from other marriages. My mother once told me that I could not work weekends unless I paid for the sitter. I never dated until I fled from the home at 18. She would not let me leave at 17 when I graduated as she needed my child support check. Maybe, now, you see the difference?
@@BBMc107 I genuinely didn't have a closeness to my father. He was a WW2 vet and drank a lot. My mother tried to hold the family together but she had to go to work to help pay the bills for having three sons. I would agree that the divorce and separation rate was much higher for gen x. But to be honest, I wanted my parents to separate because my family was completely dysfunctional. It wasn't a happy home growing up.
I was talking to my momma (an only child) who is from The Silent Generation. She told me a story about coming home from school and being alone in an empty house. She wore a string around her neck with the house key on it. I told her, "Momma, you were a latch key kid." ❤
@@FionaAdoreRose Seriously, I also had a key around my neck when I was very young. The key was always cold when I put it under my clothes 😲
@@davidholmes2283omg…maybe all our parents were wage slaves!!! Shocking revelation.
The early 90s was an explosion of all genres of music. Amazing time to become a teenager.
People use to communicate face to face instead of cellphone but we use landlines
it was crazy and insane, if we fell out of a tree, we got beat by our parents for our own stupidity
The 80s and indeed the 70s were too.
Punk Rock, Trance, Rapping, Techno, New Wave, Glam Rock, New Jack Swing, Soft Rock, Synth-pop, New Romantic, Alternative dance, Grunge, Contemporary R&B, Europop, Smooth soul, Britpop, Nu metal, eatboxing and many more.
The early 90s is joked around about in Eastern Europe as the death of music coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The music of the 80s was objectively better by any metric.
@billstrasburg384 80s was amazing for sure, but we're talking art, so objectivity" doesn't completely apply.
I'm not sure we're the "best" generation but I do believe we are the most ingenious generation because of the circumstances in which most of us were raised .
We just happened to be the last generation that came before technology took over the world. We were often left to our own devices and had to invent and adapt much faster that our parents or theirs. We have seen the world go from analog to digital and we adapted to it, unlike our boomer parents.
We were the forgotten generation and now we are the backbone of our society, a role I'm sure many of us are not overly pleased with. Given our hard earned ingenuity we are more than up to the task, however, even if it's reluctantly.
Going to the store at seven years old with a note to buy your folks a pack of cigarettes. The seventies were wild.
Didn't have a note. Just the money. That was in the 70s.
I was born in the 60s, and we experienced hangers for antennas, and before the remote, if the turn dial on your tv broke or cracked, you had to use a wrench to turn the channels. 😂
Don't forget zipping up ur gloria Vanderbilt/ jordash jeans w/those hangers in the eighties...
And aluminum foil for extra clarity on the antennas. I still don't care for cable. Cursed them all for taking analog just as i did about inventing CDs. Still enjoy regular TV via digital and a long range antenna.
Our generation was the last to be taught cursive hand writing as a requirement, when I graduated high school in 1991 we had 5 computers in the entire school that was built in 1921. That Summer they tore it down and built a new school, so our class was literally the last class from the old school.
I was born in 79 and went back to college in 2016 for a couple years. I was shocked to learn my classmates couldn’t hardly read cursive and were not taught it at all.
@@rachelraja7188😂😂 true
I wrote out a bread recipe for my 28 year old brother in law and he couldn’t read it because it’s in cursive.
@@Just-Nikki That's good he wanted to learn how to make bread, but yeah that's funny as hell.
gen z handwriting is atrocious. Like preschoolers.
Makes me proud to count myself among Gen X!
Gen x music is better because it was less boxed in. Nobody cared about the label/genre. It was all just good, bad or not my style.
Not true
Oh they definitely did care about the music genres. There were identifiable groups in schools and further education (college, universities) related to music types.
Speaking of "not my style", who remembers who did the first rap song?
I still haven't forgiven them for unleashing that on the world. 😮💨
@@sog4646 commercially accepted: Sugar Hill Gang, Rappers Delight.
@@judeemclaughlin7394 i was thinking Rapture by Debbie Harry.
I remember a few things that I only noticed in retrospect: parents not once drove me to school or to ANYTHING. Parents were never home when I got home. Until dinner time, eating was... whatever you managed. If you had nice parents, you had food that was not bad to eat, somehow. Walking five to ten miles in a day was normal. Playing outside was beyond normal. Reading print books was what you did if you were alone. TV was a) whatever was airing at that time and b) what your parents wanted to see. If you were lucky, you liked what your parents wanted to watch.
Pizza delivery was a revolution not just of food, but of society, in our opinion.
Every technological development was a thing of wonder, that made you feel optimistic about the future. Except for the dark side of modern technology: you didn't know if the world was going to be destroyed in nuclear war, and were reminded that it might be, every week.
Restaurants was something you go to go to maybe three times a year, and sometimes you didn't get to go -- your parents went, you ate leftovers or TV dinners.
You were the maid, you were the gardener. Parents did not clean or do yardwork. That was for the children to do.
If you were lucky, you got like $5 a week as an allowance.
Working a part time job between 12 and 18 was not just something that happened, it was kind of common.
Xmas was a time when you got one, maybe even two gifts. Rich kid house, like 3 or 4 gifts. I think, I don't know for sure, I didn't get invited to the rich kid houses.
All TV shows depicted everyone as living in ultra rich houses and lifestyles, and it kind of puzzled a lot of us. Most of us lived more like the Byers family in Stranger Things, and knew that perhaps 5% of people lived like these houses in TV shows.
If I could go back in time and have it all be exactly as it was, I would do it in a heartbeat.
_BRILLIANT_ ! Yeah, I'm English but can relate. I had a key on a dirty string round my neck, dodged traffic to get my dad's tobacco. Built my first decent bike from parts a spoiled kid was scrapping. Learned to cook or starve. Worked all summer and loved it. Cut class for 4 months straight aged 9. Went to 7 different schools .. . ..
@@dancarter482 lol I remember having to argue with the liquor store clerk to buy my dad his cheap cigars. I finally got them to stop questioning it when I looked them dead in the eyes as a seven year old and said "why would I ever want to smoke one of these stinking things, I don't even understand why adults like them."
Just looked that up about the albums, they were:
x Metallica - Metallica (known as The black album)
x Pearl Jam - 10
x Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion I
x Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion II
x Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sex Sugar Magik
x Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
x Nirvana - Nevermind
Guns and Roses first album was much better.
@@williamgrissom1995
First and second, imo. Use Your Illusion was really really good, but it didn't compare. They were getting "edgier" and left behind a lot of the blues sound that Appetite and Lies had. Then my childhood was ruined when I saw them LIVE... one of the worst shows I've seen, luckily Metallica and Faith No More saved the show. They fully "fell off" with The Spaghetti ACCIDENT!
Pantera
Gen-X had Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan, Madonna, the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty, the Olympic Dream Team, Eminem, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Alice n Chains, Tool, the entire Seattle Rock movement... all of which are regularly continders in the G.O.A.T. conversations of their respective fields. We were the first generation to normalize erasing the line of "gender roles" when it came to household chores (because we were alone, we had to learn how to do everything), which gave us not only exceptional, all-around skills, but also made us the first generation with fully developed interconnected acceptance. We got so good at self care, & helping each other out simultaneously, that we silently bridged the gap between generations & social groups so smoothly that our existence is overlooked in lists & when discussing who is to blame for all the problems. Most of the time, no one can point the finger at us for social faults, because we did it right. All of our problems are internal. And while we watch our parents (Boomers), little siblings (Millenials), & children (Zoomers) all fighting it out on social media, we just sit back wondering why we bothered to teach ALL of those groups to use that medium in the first place. Everything was fine when we were silently in charge. What happened? 🤣
_BRILLIANT_ !
We realized early on that the whole "Lords of the Earth" thing wasn't all it was cracked up to be....
Finally
A gen x who actually gets what makes yall great 👍
The birth of call waiting and 3 way calling. No caller ID until much later.
the value of the experience on the Oregon Trail ❤
Gen X always struck me as a recap of the young people in the latter part of the 70s. We wore flannels, worn out jeaes pocket tees and work boots. Hell i still dress like that.
I'm not really a boomer even thought I was born in 1964. I was only 6 when it was 1970, so as a kid of the 70's and
a teen of the late 70's and early 80's. I totally can relate to Gen X more. I love the 70's and 80's movies and music the best.
Everything you are talking about I experienced. Especially having to get up and turn the channel for my parents. LOL.
You are Gen X in spirit if not fact. I'd say you are on the edge, and you yourself leaned into X.
Yep. Same here. In fact, have you researched Generation Jones? That's us. We're NOT IN ANY WAY Boomers. WE have N O T H I N G in common with them. Check it out.
A couple of my best friends are technically boomers but fit the GenX way of life and thinking. i'm on the early part of GenX, they are on the very end of the Boomers.
We were probably as close to feral as children can be without someone going to jail because of it.
Love this comment!
How we were raised, daily, would have made national news with people staring bug-eyed in total alarm. Every. Single. Day.
The only things those kids didn't
try were the things they hadn't
thought of.
So true! I ran around on our 130 acre farm all day everyday, nobody ever knew where I was nor did they check. I think that's why I'm such a free spirit and always have been. No complaints here! Vintage 1968 😊
That's the word I use to describe us too, feral. Let out in the morning, expected to be home when the street lights came on.
We seen pop culture and technology grow and we grew up Independent because our parents working late hours...In the 70s and 80s the children help with house chores while our parents work late hours. Kids used to play outside until the street lights come on then we go home for dinner.
Gen X we are the best
I remember $3.25. Problem is that inflation is outpacing income. I also think these guys were the same ones back in the 80's saying Hip-Hop was crap and just a fad. 😄But to be fair, Rap was much different (better) than what it is now. No matter where we grew up, us GenX'ers are a tough group; we grew up hard, and It's hard to impress us, because we got to see the first of many things. I lot of the stuff we see now is just regurgitated stuff. I hate how this latest generation thinks LeBron is anything close to Jordan. Basketball back then was a contact sport. Hell, even football was more brutal than what it is today. Action movies with corny one-liners ruled the theaters along with the coming of age stories like Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles. We did crazy stunts on our bikes without any padding or helmets, and if we got hurt, oh well. patch yourself up, rub some dirt on it. If this latest generation is soft, it's because we made them that way. We don't want them to go through what we went through, and maybe we should have let them.
Basketball is pro-wrestling - literally. They are classified as sports entertainment. The high courts ruled they can alter outcomes to improve ratings; same for the NFL And the younger generations are far better skateboarders than we were, and skateboards are why BMX bikes lost their popularity. And any bragging about movies is naive based on what has been revealed about that industry - not to mention movies in general have always been for the soft.
And everything in mankind's 12,000 year history is regurgitated...
The few of us who said stop coddling them, get yelled at and told we are irresponsible. My wife constantly says I'm too tough on the grandkids. Guess who the grandkids like hanging out with the most. Me.
I still have, somewhere, my $3.25 pay stubs. Started a part-time job at 16. Which was a whole lot easier than all the work at home. Like many of my generation, always assumed my parents had kids for the free labor. Used to ask my dad, "Ever hear of a felller name of Lincoln?"
You forgot Stone Temple Pilots, Sound Garden, Alice n Chains,
Yep. I agree. I'm 1969. The 70s and 80s were the best of times growing up. Very real. In your face. And no cultural insanity like now we have been foisted into. 1984 was a great year for music. I still go to metal shows to this day. It's great to see my generation still Killin it at shows with thier families and children.
we saw fm radio come out. we used to listen to all different genres on one am station and then fm came out and they came out with stations that play one genre. we went from dolly parton to glenn cam[bell to bay city rollers jackson five and johnny mathis and frankie valley led zeppelin heart journey van halen styx to disco to heavy metal
Im a gen x and i am old enough to remember when comedy was funny.
Soo when a person is from our generation and they continue to do comedy they are no longer funny anymore lol.
@@wheelieblind sure seems that way, has been for 20 years.
1970 X'er, and my man is right about the gold... if you had dropped $10K in gold and also in an S&P 30 years ago and forgot about it, even though the market account is compounding and the gold isn't, the gold would still be worth significantly more. I got a totally honest answer from my advisor when I asked "you're always saying diversify your funds, but why don't you promote metals?"
"If you buy metals and put them in your safe, I'm not making anything on them"
I made $3.25 an hour my first job. I know the feeling lol
that was the worst...I didnt earn enough money to even have anything after I got taxes taken out. All I could muster up is a box of pop tarts to eat at the grocery store I worked at during break.
My first several years of work. I only got a raise when minimum wage went to 3.85 and then 4.25. I paid rent, gas, food, and got married all while working for minimum wage and no benefits, no overtime, and no insurance.
The minimum wage is currently 7.25/ hr.
I am a 1964 vintage but obviously have always felt more gen X.
Xennial here, definitely relate more with Gen X. I think growing up without a cell phone was the real difference. Wouldn’t trade growing up in the 90’s for anything, got to witness cassettes become cds and watched my high school go from a dozen kids having phones my freshman year to well over half the class by my senior year. Road Atlases and Map Quest made us all road pirates back then. Definitely a special time for music, still have quite a collection of grunge and hip-hop records.
As Gen X I kind of liked and got along with the next batch of young kids who got into grunge etc.
You know Hip-Hop started in the '70.s _RIGHT_ ?
The guy talking about his mom being home and having dinner made sounds like Boomer. Most of the people I knew had working moms, latchkey kids and we made our own breakfast, lunch and then dinner for the family. I did the dishes when I was a teenager and continue to do them without delegating to my kids. Maybe me being female caused a different experience.
false. Gen X had its share of households that had wives who stayed home...especially if you lived in the suburbs, and the husband had a good job and many kids. I knew many Gen-Xers had mommas who stayed home. I grew up with alot of em, at the same time, alot of us were latch-key kids too in the bunch. Often is the case, us latch-key kids all had that one friend who had their stay at home mom whose house you could goto after school from time to time before your folks got home.
@@DJ_BROBOT I stand corrected and can only go off my personal experience of all my friends in my neighborhood, all of the moms worked. I’m assuming we were considered middle class but didn’t know anyone considered poor except people I met at church. There was that strange timing of the Jimmy Carter presidency with inflation and layoffs when my mom and other moms began working. So I guess some of it is a timing thing.
We played "outside"......and fell down, got hurt, got back up, and kept playing....
We grew up with analog technology. Our Generation literally invented most of the modern technology used today.
Gen xer from Oc here... howdy fellas so good to have some " bros" giving credit where credit is due...we ARE the best generation hands down!!
Gen X is so much more scrappy and resourceful. We came up on Red #40 in everything, drinking straight from the hose, and being totally MIA all day after school (with no cell phones- gasp!) until the street lights came on. There were no "playdates." If we got a beatdown nobody came to save us. Then we let ourselves in the house and ate Cap'n Crunch for dinner in front of MTV. The Challenger blew up in front of us on live TV when I was in 1st grade and our teachers sent us to lunch like nothing happened. We took our Halloween candy to the supermarket to have it scanned for needles and razor blades and that was NORMAL. Adults thought all of us were either becoming satanists or joining gangs depending on which Parental Advisory music we were into. People can say what they want about us, but if any generation is most likely to survive a nuclear holocaust it's definitely gonna be Gen X. Just listen to our music. We're the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" generation. Kids coming up now don't even know how to sign a credit card receipt and their icons are (gag) Taylor Swift and random people on Instagram that open boxes and expect you to send them money.
Gen X takes care of ourselves. I mean, we can entertain ourselves with a plastic cube that you continually turn. Our music is fantastic! Static X! I have not heard of them in years! Saw them in Modesto,Ca. Twice in the mid 2000’s.
Honestly, I think any time post-WW2 through the mid-90s was a great time to grow up in this country. Although, when I asked my grandmother what the 1940s were like, she said it was okay, but that the 1930s was the bees-knees!
Even with the Great Depression?
@@detectivefiction3701 Well she was young and it's not like everyone was from the dustbowl and starving.
The US has a skewed view if the 1950s & 60s, that a lot of the world doesn't. WWII rationing didn't in in Britain till 1954. Repairs, rebuilding and restarting manufacturing, following the war, took a toll on all of Europe and many other parts of the world, that the US was almost oblivious to because they had not had the war on their soil (or right it's doorstep in Britain's case). They also became a very rich country because of all of the profiteering the old USofA did during the years before they actually joined the fight and even for many years afterwards, as everyone else was replaying them wartime loans. I'm not blaming modern US Americans, that's just what happened at the time and the fallout was a transfer of 'Empire' to the US, along with the riches that came with it. Since then, well things have been good and bad for the US.
Our generation honors our parents and our elders. This is something that is lacking -- it's obviously not everyone, but we understand that we should have gratitude and forgiveness.
Not very many respect their parents. But we loved our grandparents and great grandparents
It was the philosophy that made the music great, they were showing us now, In many cases. I played music my whole life I'm 43 , born February of 80, generation x is what it is Bec we were submerged in the outside world saw things change for the worse over and over saw the technology grow into the greatest weapon the world has ever known the smart phone.
Did you graduate in the class of 1998?
Ooo, you JUST made the cut, my lady was born April of '81 and is a Millennial. First year though, she likes to pretend she's genX, perhaps by proxy since I'm 5 years older. It's really amazing the difference in my music and hers and our experiences (she has no idea what "where's the beef" means!).
Agreed about the smartphone, though cell phone in general. It gave kids a "safety blanket" so to speak... never had to just figure out how to get home or put their thumb out and grab a ride with a "dangerous stranger".
@@Mike_H76 A dangerous stranger in a large van that would sacrifice you to Satan lol.
@@btetschner
I have experience hanging out in large vans, there was usually a very big ashtray, someone that knew how to strum a few guitar chords and a LOT of weed being smoked!
I'm sure you mean the blacked out window, free candy vans. I love the reference to "The Satanic Panic" garbage we had to deal with though!!!
2:15 That stretch of music was epic! I was a freshman in college, GA Tech, and we were able to catch most of those bands live on their promotion tours as they came thru Atlanta. Sometimes the shows would follow back to campus to a fraternity house where they would jam until morning. Usually it was the warm up bands for the headliners, but on occasion, the bigger names would just randomly show up. You couldn't plan for it and we didn't have cell phones. You either got lucky and caught it happening or were jealous hearing about it the next day.
Guns n Roses Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 came out in September 91. I think those were the two you were thinking of. I personally skipped school after 4th hour to go get those cds. Music today is dirty pond water compared to back then.
Our superpower is that we overcame adversity, neglect and overpowering narcissism and brought love and acceptance to our children. Are they spoiled, yeah. But they are loved for themselves, not as a reflection of us. Hell, yeah!
Hell, we're the original doomsday generation. We're the generation that for our entire generation, our entire childhood was filled with us being told that at any moment we would have 30 minutes until the world became a nuclear wasteland. And we just went out and played. Everything from "duck and cover", to radioactive mutants, robot apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, alien invasion entertainment. Even the ever cheerful Super Friends had an episode about humankind being wiped out and it took aliens from the future changing things because even the heroes couldn't save us. These kids want to lose their shit, demand therapy twice a month and anxiety pills because the world could end in a decade, for us that's just a damn Thursday. We expected to be living like Mad Max fighting alien, mutant robots at this point.
My first real job was cleaning up a lumber mill that was about to be shuttered. They told us that if we needed an opinion, one would be provided. One hour in, one of the idiots about 2 years older than me decided to have an opinion. He got punched in the face by a cranky 60 year old WWII veteran. I don't think Millennials or Gen Z can even grasp what that was like.
When you have to work with Millennials or GenZ (not recommended), the first thing you notice is they stop at the first sign of adversity. ANYTHING will stop them. It will be a bit before they get going again. And they have feelings, oh so many feelings, about just about everything. I had an employer who brought in FREE donuts on Wednesdays. Just to be nice. Any idea how much time and energy was spent complaining about FREE donuts?
Boomers are entitled, but not like the kids they produced. I outworked all but one of them regularly. They were half my age. I probably won't do it again unless you pay me a lot.
Omfg! I outwork all the boomers and millenials on a regular basis WITHOUT gloves or saftey gear in the hot sun. No sunscreen either. Im 44 btw. Doin fine. 😏
Yup, and we raised the little weirdos.
I haven't met many Gen Z capable of any real work to be honest. Most of them are all soft and feckless and cowards.
First sign of adversity they just break. Still blows me away.
I taught my kid the 10% rule. He has a hard time launching sometimes but once he starts…. He goes until it’s done with no prompting or pushing.
I was a latch key kid. My mom and dad both worked nights. We learned independence. We learned how to cook for ourselves, laundry, and keep house. We had to get ourselves up for school and off on time, then tuck ourselves in at night. It still has the best music.
Born in 1965 and music that defines me today..Rolling Stones, Dead, Zeppelin, Queen, DISCO, Stray Cats, Van Halen, Madonna and House Music. I am truly blessed and WILD!!!!
Since when have we been the greatest? I thought we were the most ignored and overlooked.
Because we _DID_ everything subsequent generations take for granted. Just imagine these weak posers being able to come up with skateboards or windsurfers etc.
I tell my wife all the time, a big thing growing up was "when i turn 18, I'm moving out!!!" Compared to the last 2 generations I moved out at 7yrs old. I got a bike and I was gone all day.
I was the remote control for the TV too. And I was the one who had to go out and adjust the antenna during a storm (Millenials don't even know what that means). We had four television channels...13, 17, 23 and 39. And WGN when the wind wasn't blowing.
I was born in 1984 i remember the tv antenna that had to be moved with the tin foil for better reception. I grew up as a genx im only millennial out of technicality.
I couldn’t have grown up at a better time! Born in 1968!
We saw MTV born
And saw it to turn to 💩
@@jackb348 yup 😂
Dave Mathews Band, Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Diana Krall, so many more excellent music/ musicians to name.
I am teaching my 2 girls to stand toe to toe with kids and call them out, instead of texting crap on the phone... Gen x will save the world....
If you guys want your minds blown, look up the year 1983. Look at all of the misic and everything happening that year and the one before and after. It was like the pinnacle of modern world history.
TRUTH
And you have to admit... it's the generation with the coolest name by far!
I remember when we called the TV remote "the clicker"! That's all that it did was make a clicking noise and change the channel!
1 secret about a gen x guy... you can take ANY of these guys to a roller rink, and they will out skate every 16 year old in the rink. seriously, take a 50 year old to the rink and get ready to record the great content.
like the dad on Malcolm in the Middle teaching Reese how to roller skate, lols
Lollapalooza in the early '90s was great. I went to 4 of them in different places in 1992...Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and chili peppers on the tour.
I was born in 58,raised on a 243 acre Farm.That life style taught me every thing I needed to know. We didn't have wait till we were 18 to become a man
1973 is the best year for Gen X... :)
'71 here....The music I listen to in order from '74...mamas and the Papas, the carpenters, Wings, Mouldy Old Pigeon, Mike Oldfield, John Denver, Sally Boyden, Olivia Newton John, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Salt n Peppa, Malcolm McLaren, other break dance I can't remember, deep purple, pink Floyd, Wishbone ash, John Williams, Carlos Montoya, Andres Segovia, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Kiss, Metallica...oh Metallica, Sepultura, Osibissa, Ladysmith Black Mambosa, Pearl Jam Alice In chains, Rob Zombie, oh there are so many more. We had...have..it all from pop to acid rock, folk to death metal!
Lol! I was the Ol'man's remoto too. I'm still glad we only had two channels.
Godsmack is one my favorite bands but also Pink Floyd's biggest fan! Lol I remember running home from school everyday after i got Pink Floyd the Wall and playing both records. I did that for months. Of course Metallica is a big favorite, saw them in concert 3 times. I also saw Frank Zappa, yes im a Frank Zappa fan too. That's one of the best things things about when we were born...we were exposed to all the best music! Gen X Vintage 1968 ❤
This felt like a nice hangout. Great job y'all!
5:17 He’s not wrong about gold, but the other guys were correct as well. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Hey, Ken... Were you in VFA 103? We had them on our Med Deployment on the USS Enterprise in 1996... They were pretty cool people.
I was ships company Air Department V3 USS America CV66 91-95.
@@kenkeller8158 Oh, okay... I was an AZ attached from AIMD to the AO's in G-4 Hangar Bay... Someone had to get all their paperwork in order. I had a tour shirt with all the Squadrons' logo's on it and I had to retire it last year due to holes. 26 years is a long run for a t-shirt...
I’m a younger Gen X (70s), I love growing up in those times. Things are so messed up and have gone to far nowadays! I still don’t use social media, and 50s to 90s music is my preference. Great video guys!
I was making $2.35 an hour. You are correct about the metals. The federal reserve tries to sell 8% inflation but gold was $35 an ounce when they took over....
as a gen Xer my self, i would say that we had the greatest time, we socialized and played outside and saw technology reshape the earth in our own eyes, we evolved from a cassette tape into cds into mp3 players, we accepted everyone the way they are and appreciated individuality, we understood from an early age that everyone is unique in their own style, with that being said Boomers deserve the title of BEST PARENTS EVER, they raised us very well to be the people we are
I loved my up bringing.I am independent and tough as nails .I was cooking and watching my younger siblings.playing outside all day going on adventures.
I learned to break into houses because I forgot my key a few times 😊
I can tell that you're a 1960s-born GenExer because I was 1970s-born GenExer. My mom had years when she stayed home, but most years, she worked outside the home. That's what makes GenExers the way we are. We're the first latch key kids which made us sort of feral.We'd leave our houses in the morning and wouldn't be back until the street lights came on. lAnd that's why we did so well during the pandemic. It was just like our childhood. You get home, lick the door, have a snack, do your homework, then watch TV. Isn't that essentially what we did for 18 months? We were the last generation that knew how to play with minimum technology, yet the first generation to have access to it in our youth. We knew how to keep our iwn company. We didn't need to export everything we did to the whole world. We weren't attention hogs. To the contrary, everybody forgot we even existed because the squeaky wheel gets the oil. We're Han Brady in a world of Marcias and Cindy s.
I agree. We were able to ride our bikes all day , play outside, no computers so we naturally got tons of excercise. Great cartoons like Bugs Bunny. When we got to drive, we were able to get fast muscle cars with a part time job. Our parents were born in the 30’s so we were raised by the greatest generation and were raised with good family values and we respected our elders and were taught to save money. Best thing was we were raised to be hardworking people not feel entitled to promotions after working at a company for 6 months. Freedom
Resilient and Self Reliant...
That is Gen X
RIP Jimmy Buffett… definitely a classic. Gone too soon. 😢🌴🩴🦈🍔
Nirvana is "old school" for Gen X? What? Led Zeppelin? The Who? The Stones? Pink Floyd?
but that wasnt our music...it was our parents music that we just happened to like. Those dudes weren't Gen Xers, where Nirvana was.
@@DJ_BROBOT Well for us who grew up in the Midwest, it was Led Zeppelin, etc. Second up were the 80s bands like Van Halen, Def Leppard, etc. The 90s bands were doubtless composed of Gen Xers (and there were many great bands in that decade), but those were not the bands that Gen Xers grew up on! Gen X grew up on 70s and 80s bands.
Two words. MOSH PIT.
I,m a 1966 Australian model and very proud about that too because i grew up before technology took over and found my happiness outdoors with my mates and our only limitations where our imaginations so life was happy and peaceful , 😊 , i miss those days so much when life was so much easier without any of the BS that we all have to endure in these current times .
my parents didn't have a clue what I was doing and what I was up to and rightly so, I've been through so many near death or near serious consequences to stupidity I got myself into and out of
Color TV in the US began in 1954, But it had a VERY SLOW adoption rate. The major networks began to be mostly color only in 1966. and it was not until 1972 when color console sets outsold B/W console sets. It took even longer for portables! Pittsburgh had a public broadcasting channel that was B/W only as late as 1985! Same slow "take rate" for FM radio. FM radio came out in the late 1940s. (And aired stereo in 1961) But the mass migration of music stations to FM only started in the late 1960s and was not "complete" before the 1980s!
We could and can change a tire without looking up a youtube video.
Do you remember when tv went off at 11 o'clock and only am radio and I am 70 years old and I still listen to and enjoy it. And don't have stocks other than live stock and not some parts of me still don't worry about about anything. I am glad you guys have it all figured out. Good luck guys
Interesting for sure. Being a Gen-X'er myself ; for a long time I really didn't think about the differences between the generations. Every generation will have something that would become that generations Identity.
As an adult, I often wondered why, I just had a desire to push through on everything. Many moons ago I came to the conclusion that my feral childhood was the main culprit
I like the flow you guys have …. Its funny how we dont know eachother but we have same experiences ..its wild to hear other peoples lives …buy gold and silver …gen x is quiet but i have this feeling our role is yet to come
Fellow Gen Xr here! I just started dropping Gen X content as well, and launched my channel around Intermittent Fasting and Exercise. YT recommended your content. New sub here. Loved this breakdown which was 100% spot on.
I remember the pop radio stations played the living Jesus out of the top 40. When there was a tidel wave of really great "alternative" music being made everywhere.
to this day, i praise the internet for breaking us out of the stranglehold of mainstream media. same 30-40 songs. not bad ones by any means, tho punctuated by commercials for cars, sound systems, and of course, BEER.
for the sensation of wanting to stick a gun in your mouth, be stuck listening to "the morning zoo" yuk yuk yuck. one song. oh great, more commercials.
pre-internet: thank God for the 'alternative' kids
You guys are from where i grew up cuz i can tell by your accents!! I grew up in DE born in NJ, moving back in 3 weeks!
Min. wage in the early 80's $3.35 an hour. The house I lived in in Norcross GA. was under $20'000.
My first concert was Jerry Reed, when I was a pre teen in the 70s .... Saw bo diddley at an oldies show. Been to a bob Dylan show. Saw SRV 5 times. All versions of Van Halen. At a festival, we had to wait for the start of primus. We were waiting for the Dead to finish their set. The last show I attended was Tool, for the third time.
No, the dude with a Jeep cap is right. We should have bought physical gold. Also, Megadeth and Alice In Chains are excellent bands
I was born in 1980. I remember the good old days.
We werent tied to one genre of music. I had a 71 coronet with a 440-6 pk and rocked out with everything from slayer and iron Maiden to rap like run dmc and boogie down productions. People don't seem to realize Gen X created rap
The greatest generation of a live what’s the generation of fought World War II. Let’s get the street right here right now! I’m a Gen X and I’ll gladly be the second best leaving the greatest generation that ever lived was the boys before World War II
I thought everything was black and white until I was born, even life😂😂😂 I simply thought we is it
I remember my mom teaching me how to do my own laundry when I was 7 years old. We really were independent.