How many GenX'ers do we have?

[Wingo]

Gen X here. This guy nails it.

 

[Dave Hess]

'70
GenXer checking in. Love INXS, Flock of Segulls and that entire genre.

I would soooooo love to go back to the 1980’s and attend concerts that I missed. Lots of great bands.

 

[edyvw]

Screw that. I make fun of my wife regularly for being a millennial (1980). She sees this crap & I’m not hearing the end of it. Time to purge the interwebs of this nonsense

Actually, Gen X per academic articles is 1980, though some argue it ends really in 1983.

 

[bbhero]

September 11th 1975….

INXS was a great band with a great lead singer…

Robert Palmer a favorite of mine too…

And I like some Motley Crue too…. Jump start my heart is a great great song in my opinion…

Along with some Kenny Rogers and Kenny Loggins too …

And I like some Conway Twitty to boot. .

Huge LA Lakers fan from 1985 going forward… Magic Johnson my favorite player.. Though James Worthy was bad donkey too.

 

[bbhero]

You are Gen X and insted of Dire Straits you put INXS? Check out of this generation .

Easy now…. Don’t get my wrong… Dire Straights was great… No doubt…

INXS was great too though in my opinion.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I love this thread. 1971 here. The comments on this thread from the other generations couldn't be more stereotypical poetic if they were paid

 

[SC Maintenance]

1966. I was wearing out cassette tapes in my Firebird 400 with a set of Kraco speakers running thru a one button power booster.

Ha, I forgot about my Kraco speakers - and I had the matching kraco rubber floormats too!

 

[wemay]

My first cassette was License to Ill/Beastie Boys in '86. I had records and 45s....some cool ones.

My first cassette was a mix-tape. One side was British 80s, the other was 80s reggae. Thompson Twins (band) and Pass the Dutchie (song) are two I remember.

 

[4WD]

My first cassette was a mix-tape. One side was British 80s, the other was 80s reggae. Thompson Twins (band) and Pass the Dutchie (song) are two I remember.

Positive vibrations mahn

 

[dishdude]

Ha, I forgot about my Kraco speakers - and I had the matching kraco rubber floormats too!

I was more a Sparkomatic man myself...lol

 

[RAR]

1968

Don’t forget that guy who had not the Kraco or the Sparkomatic, but went all in with the Realistic car stereo from Radio Shack!

No auto parts store stereo for him!

 

[alarmguy]

We even allow the media to categorize age groups by creating names for them. Gen X and all the others. Amazing
The population, controlled by the media. Drones if you will to keep you tuned in. Just like yesterday's car explosion that was a nothing except some wacko but others believed it was a bomb.
Big payday in the media, keep the ad revenue rolling in

HaPpY ThAnKsGiViNg!


(Road Trip! Oh wait, I forgot to charge the EV, on no! Ha, glad I got gas *LOL*)

 

[dishdude]

We even allow the media to categorize age groups by creating names for them. Gen X and all the others. Amazing
The population, controlled by the media. Drones if you will to keep you tuned in. Just like yesterday's car explosion that was a nothing except some wacko but others believed it was a bomb.
Big payday in the media, keep the ad revenue rolling in

HaPpY ThAnKsGiViNg!


(Road Trip! Oh wait, I forgot to charge the EV, on no! Ha, glad I got gas *LOL*)

Choose your news outlet wisely...BOOMER!

 

[SC Maintenance]

Actually, Gen X per academic articles is 1980, though some argue it ends really in 1983.

Probably boils down to your parents age. If your mother tossed you outside at dawn starting around age 5 - younger if you had older sibblings, and told you not to come back till dinner time - your likely GenX

 

[andrew_j]

GenX, watched the INXS singer do a line of coke backstage at concert where I belong to college club who organized concerts.

 

[dishdude]

Probably boils down to your parents age. If your mother tossed you outside at dawn starting around age 5 - younger if you had older sibblings, and told you not to come back till dinner time - your likely GenX

I think that boils down to your parents. Mine were boomers, so seat belts weren't a thing. My kid brother chewed through the door panel on my mother's Accord. Under 5 unrestrained in a car, try that today!

 

[dishdude]

GenX, watched the INXS singer do a line of coke backstage at concert where I belong to college club who organized concerts.

Sounds like my kind of party!

 

[SC Maintenance]

I think that boils down to your parents. Mine were boomers, so seat belts weren't a thing. My kid brother chewed through the door panel on my mother's Accord. Under 5 unrestrained in a car, try that today!

On road trips I used to sleep laying across the back window of our Ford LTD, so I didn't have to fight for seat space with my two sisters.

 

[mrsilv04]

1971. Grew up going to Def Leppard and Van Halen concerts.

First concert was the inaugural Farm Aid in Champaign, IL.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I think that boils down to your parents. Mine were boomers, so seat belts weren't a thing. My kid brother chewed through the door panel on my mother's Accord. Under 5 unrestrained in a car, try that today!

Most common practices from our parents during that time would land our parents in jail today.