Anthems of your generation

[itcaptainslow]

Thought it would be interesting to hear what PH’ers thought as their generation’s anthems, being as we have a wide age range amongst us.

Obviously it would be helpful if you’d give a rough idea of age!

For me - born in the late 80’s, coming of age in the 00’s pop punk/indie era, certain songs really trigger strong memories, such as;

Mr Brightside - The Killers
Elvis Ain’t Dead - Scouting For Girls
Dakota - Stereophonics
Buck Rogers - Feeder
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
Insomnia - Faithless
Numb - Linkin Park

Doesn’t mean I don’t love other eras (I really do!), but tracks like these feel like the soundtrack to my generation.

What does everyone else think?

[Andy12J]

I was born in 89, so I m guessing a smidge younger than you(?), but I d agree with the above.

I d also add American Idiot (particularly Jesus of Suburbia and Wake Me Ul When September Ends) by Green Day, the Arctic Monkeys first album and The Black Parade by MCR. Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon was a huge track when I was at uni, even though I always hated it!

Hearing any of those today takes me right back, even though at the time I was much more into Rush, Pink Floyd and Genesis!

[Mr Tidy]

I was born near the end of the 50s.

Songs like

Rock N Roll Suicide and Drive In Saturday by David Bowie
The Great Gig In The Sky by Pink Floyd
Peaches by the Stranglers
Christine by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Brass In Pocket by the Pretenders

all feel like teenage anthems to me - as well as countless others!

[Terminator X]

Anything by Beastie Boys or Public Enemy. Child of the 80's

TX.

[Matt p]

Faithless - Insomnia
Stardust - Music sounds better with you
Underworld - Born Slippy
Laurent Garnier - Man with the red face
Jeff Mills - The Bells

Edit to add -

The Prodigy - Fire starter (was just a little too young for ‘No good start the dance’ )

Edited by Matt p on Wednesday 16th July 21:15

[NiceCupOfTea]

Born mid-70s.

Depends on genre really, but...

Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Beatmasters - Who's in the House?
The Prodigy - Charly
Blur - Parklife
The Shamen - Move any Mountain

Covers about 4 years late 80s/early 90s...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Mr Tidy said:

Drive In Saturday by David Bowie

Never heard of it.

[Flat6er]

Matt p said:

Faithless - Insomnia
Stardust - Music sounds better with you
Underworld - Born Slippy
Laurent Garnier - Man with the red face
Jeff Mills - The Bells

Edit to add -

The Prodigy - Fire starter (was just a little too young for No good start the dance )

Edited by Matt p on Wednesday 16th July 21:15

Pretty much perfect, just missed energy 52 cafe del mar, and binary finery

[Andy12J]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Never heard of it.

You’re in for a treat. Great track. The whole album (Aladdin Sane) is superb.

[Regbuser]

1979 was pivotal

Are friends electric?
Cars
I don't like Monday's
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Oliver's army
Eton Rifles
Brass in pocket
Making plans for Nigel
Babylon's burning
Another brick in the wall
Too much too young
Ring my bell
Dance away
Tragedy

[McGee_22]

Born mid to late 60 s so something along these lines;

ELO - Mr Blue Sky
JCM - Jack and Diane
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis eyes
Blonde - Sunday Girl
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Queen - Under Pressure
Stranglers - Strange little Girl
The Jam - Going underground
Poison - Alice Cooper
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Police - Message in a bottle
Heart - Alone

and stuff like that.

Edited by McGee_22 on Wednesday 16th July 23:10

[HBelder]

Andy12J said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Never heard of it.

You re in for a treat. Great track. The whole album (Aladdin Sane) is superb.

And includes the line “She’d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid”

Edited by HBelder on Wednesday 16th July 22:14

[Oberheim]

Regbuser said:

1979 was pivotal

Are friends electric?
Cars
I don't like Monday's
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Oliver's army
Eton Rifles
Brass in pocket
Making plans for Nigel
Babylon's burning
Another brick in the wall
Too much too young
Ring my bell
Dance away
Tragedy

Great list of songs from the first year I really started getting into music (I was born in 1970). I would add either Walking on The Moon or Message in A Bottle to that list. In 1979 I bought all of those singles apart from the Ruts one and the last 3.

[Andy12J]

HBelder said:

Andy12J said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Never heard of it.

You re in for a treat. Great track. The whole album (Aladdin Sane) is superb.

And includes the line She d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid

Edited by HBelder on Wednesday 16th July 22:14

Bloody hell Didn’t twig (see what I did there?) your username.

I’ll get me coat…

[cherryowen]

Having been born in 1970, apart from Gary Numan / Tubeway Army / Marillion nothing else from the 1980''s interested me which is when - as a teenager - I suppose you develop an ear for your favourite tunes / genre.

Then, in 1989, I picked up the guitar. Then I discovered Led Zep / Black Sabbath et al. Then I discovered Chicago Blues guitar. And that was me done............until 1996 when I borrowed 'Dubnobasswithmyheadman'; the debut album by Underworld.

Game changer. From then on, it was dance / trance all the way for the next six years. Sold my guitar, recorded radio 1 Essential Mixes, chemically enhanced clubbing weekends when breakfast was taken at four in the afternoon of a Sunday and all that sh!t.

After a long hiatus, tunes in the car are now on a carousel of Oakenfold / Digweed / Sasha and various Global Underground releases. Ignominious for someone now mid-50's driving the motoring equivalent of a carriage clock!

[CaptainScarlet1967]

itcaptainslow said:

Thought it would be interesting to hear what PH ers thought as their generation s anthems, being as we have a wide age range amongst us.

Obviously it would be helpful if you d give a rough idea of age!

For me - born in the late 80 s, coming of age in the 00 s pop punk/indie era, certain songs really trigger strong memories, such as;

Mr Brightside - The Killers
Elvis Ain t Dead - Scouting For Girls
Dakota - Stereophonics
Buck Rogers - Feeder
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
Insomnia - Faithless
Numb - Linkin Park

Doesn t mean I don t love other eras (I really do!), but tracks like these feel like the soundtrack to my generation.

What does everyone else think?

I'm in the same age bracket as you.

I resonate with your point about certain songs triggering strong memories. There's also a phenomenon known as anemoia, worth looking into.

I feel like I do have a connection with the various genres or eras of music for the years I have been on this planet! I don't know whether anyone else does. The best way to describe it is knowing where you were and what you were doing then, your memories of the time, popular culture, technology, cars and transport and maybe being able to vaguely remember hearing it.

For example, if I hear early 1990s or 'old skool' music, including anything rave/breakbeat, then I feel like I am being transported back in a way, even though I would not necessarily have been out at a club or rave.

I recall a primary school morning assembly during which some older children performed a breakdance to 'Get Ready for This' by 2 Unlimited and I also remember playing back radio-recorded songs like 'It's a Sin' and 'Rhythm is a Dancer' on a cassette.

There are so many other songs that I'd say 'take me back', from the likes of 'Step by Step' by TNKOTB and 'A Girl Like You' by Edwyn Collins, all the way through to 'A Little Less Conversation' by Elvis vs JXL, 'I'm in Heaven' by Jason Nevins, 'America' by Razorlight and, dare I say it, 'Evacuate the Dancefloor' by Cascada.

I'd say that collectively those have formed the musical medley of my younger years / generation.

[Terminator X]

HBelder said:

Andy12J said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Never heard of it.

You re in for a treat. Great track. The whole album (Aladdin Sane) is superb.

And includes the line She d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid

Edited by HBelder on Wednesday 16th July 22:14

You found him out

TX.

[blueg33]

Born in the mid 60’s

Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life
Bowie - Heroes, Sound and Vision
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
OMD - Enola Gay
Undertones - Teenage Kicks

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Andy12J said:

HBelder said:

Andy12J said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Never heard of it.

You re in for a treat. Great track. The whole album (Aladdin Sane) is superb.

And includes the line She d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid

Edited by HBelder on Wednesday 16th July 22:14

Bloody hell Didn t twig (see what I did there?) your username.

I ll get me coat

[Regbuser]

blueg33 said:

Born in the mid 60 s

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

In the summer of 1981 I did work experience on a coastal freighter, and that was endlessly repeated on Radio Caroline / Luxembourg

Edited by Regbuser on Thursday 17th July 13:29