Originally published at: "Institutionalized" is the most Gen X song of all | Boing Boing
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Here Dude, I got you a Pepsi.
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Of older quirky songs that i just can’t help but love “Institutionalized” is certainly at the top. Another one i have a lot of fondness for is:
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It would go well with a plate o’ shrimp.
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Not the same without sock puppets:
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Haven’t seen that video in years. I remembered Tom Araya and Mary Woronov being in it, but not Jack Nance. Nice surprise!
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If this post hadn’t come along this morning, I would have passed my whole life without realizing that Brak released a cover of Institutionalized…
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Hmm I’m going to have to go with Teen Angst myself:
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Surely this qualifies:
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I’ll see your Institutionalized and raise you this Replacements angsty anthem where they couldn’t be bothered to make a professional video. Or they could be bothered to make a video statement. I don’t, man. Whatever. Who cares. Got a cigarette?
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Institutionalized is a very solid choice for our theme song. I could get behind Creep by Radiohead as well, or anything by the Violent Fems or Sonic Youth. But for at least the next five minutes or so I’ll say it’s Generation X, led by Billy Idol, singing Dancing With Myself.
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All of this album:
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As much as I’d really like this to be true, I’m pretty sure that, as per my high school’s class song choice, it’s actually “Friends in Low Places”.
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Is there a more iconic Gen X song? I guess that depends on if there are any songs about signaling countercultural and revolutionary beliefs but ultimately selling out and shrugging at the struggles of the following generations in a world that Gen X failed to change. Hope this borderline Gen X-Millennial (I hear it’s called Xennial in some places) isn’t too bitter sounding.
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Wellll, maybe not technically music, but music related and it fits your description. I WISH my generation stayed politically active. Judging from my past on Facebook, most of my HS over the years became apathetic and then went full Trump. Yuck.
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omg I’m just now realizing that boingboing is the weird Gen X corner of the internet.
Anyway, here’s detachable penis: King Missile - Detachable Penis - YouTube
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All good candidates in the comments here. I also recommend “Popular” by Nada Surf
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yeah but especially this part, right?
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