A list by paddlesteamer


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Gen-X were often defined through the horror film genre.
Generation X, originally known as the Baby Bust Generation, were born, according to most sources, between 1964 or 1965 and the end of 1980. They are outnumbered by the Baby Boomers in the US alone by some 30 million members, which is why their tastes have so often seemed marginal or 'alternative'. Open any 60s band on youtube and you will still find thousands of Baby Boomers suggesting all music since 1990 is garbage. Living in the shadow of the Baby Boomers, Generation X adopted the guerrilla tactics of the underdog: irony, skepticism of authority, and a refusal to subscribe to narrow definitions of self. Baby Boomer cultural critics typically misunderstood or pilloried these tactics. Wrapped up in an idealized narrative of their own 1960s activism, they saw Gen X as amoral and irresponsible- a view which was imposed as far back as the late 1960s, when a series of 'devil child' movies began to appear. The deeper truth may be that the Boomers were guilty of a kind of inter-generational oppression, marginalizing Gen-X voices and perspectives in mainstream media and privileging their own political agenda over Gen-X skepticism of corporations, mass marketing and mainstream media versions of 'the truth'. [This list has been expanded to include all birth dates of the included artists. I consider it to be the core but not the totality of any Gen-X musical canon.]
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