"Institutionalized" is the most Gen X song of all

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I did not realize I needed that. Thanks. The Amanda Palmer version is better IMHO

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here’s one partly inspired by institutionalized:

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Excellent! Never heard that before. You know, one problem with Institutionalized is, it’s too long.

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Violent Femmes - Gimme the Car

Pixies - Hang Wire

Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy

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And the most GenX track you probly never heard…

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This is more my jam, just a weird gay kid and not prone to that tone of white suburban angst.

I preferred weirder jams like this shit and I gotta say this is so 90s it hurts:

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It wasn’t all angst…

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One of my faves:

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I can’t say I was every really a fan of this song, like, I didn’t hate it, I guess I kind of liked it ironically or something, you know, so yeah . . . that would make it the most Gen X song of all, wouldn’t it?

[ETA: Like, I dunno, maybe? Right?]

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Oh, wow, thank you for finding and posting this. It made my day!

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While I agree all of the lovely songs posted are excellent, but I would suggest that surfer rosa and Doolittle built the sound that gen-xers are most associated with

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I fuckin’ love every tune posted here. You people are alright, y’know?

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Not really an angsty or punk-ish song but i’ve always had a lot of love for this one

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Killing Joke - more pertinent than ever. What a band.

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Long time reader. First time poster. Some observations. No one has posted Nirvana yet. No not that song. This one.

"Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old"

In addition, apparently many of you think the most GenX songs of all time consist of spoken word deliveries. Interesting.

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yeah lots of odd choices. surprised no one has posted this

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First date. We realize we both love that song (Institutionalized). Turns out she knows ALL the lyrics. I’ve been listening to that song for a decade and have no idea. “Where did you find the words,” I ask.
“It was the only cassette I had when I was in jail. I had lots of time to work them out.”

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first day here?

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