namepeace said:

As far as Gen-X, they listed them as two distinct phases; the Atari wave, who were those that came of age during the 80's, played video games on the Atari 2600, listened to new wave, punk, hair metal, and early hip-hop, and grew up loving The Cosby Show on TV. Then there was the Nintendo wave, who came of age during the 90's, listened to grunge and gangsta rap, was increeasingly more tech savvy, was the first to surf the internet, and grew up loving Seinfeld and Friends on TV.

Well, as an Xer, I tend to agree. But I consider myself more of an 8-Track wave, which spent its formative years in the 70's and grew into adolescence and adulthood in the 1980's.

I remember the Atari as a 70's invention, recall listening to disco and 70's pop as much as hip-hop, Prince, etc. in the 80's, and look at Star Wars as a larger cultural landmark than the Cosby Show. I associate music with the record player and the 8-track as well as the Walkman and CD player. The 8-Track Wave are a bridge between the Atari/Nintendo Waves and the Baby Boomers.

One of my problems with generational comparisons as a whole is that they sell the experience of the 70's short.

Nice post.

Actually, there is a term for the type of bridge generation you describe yourself in. It's called Generation Jones. They are listed as born between 1955 and 1965, and they tend to exhibit some but not all of the social characteristics of their eleder Boomer bretheren, yet they also have social charateristics which acted as a precursor to Generation X. Here's a point to start at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...tion_Jones

BTW, Generation Y is the term usually listed for the Millenial Generation, but it probably is more appropriate as a term for the bridge generation between X and the Millennials. They would most likely consist of people born between 1977 and 1983.

[Edited 6/30/10 17:15pm]

Huggiebear said:

kpowers said:

The Interbellum Generation

Really you would have to be 86 to 94 years old there.

If thats the case I am Cavalier Generation being born into my first soul in AD1615

Been fighting crime since the 30's, and I can still kick ASS

uPtoWnNY said:

Baby Boomer - We Kick Ass!

Grown folks!

vainandy said:

I'm from Generation X but I'm one of the older ones (born in 1967) so I have much better taste than what's usually considered a generation X'er. They really should redefine the groups because most people born in 1967 have totally different tastes than people born in 1979. Hell, I was in the skating rinks enjoying the disco era and they were being born. I like disco and funk and most of them like shit hop and adult contemporary. My tastes are more Baby Boomer.

I am making you an honorary Boomer!

728huey said:

namepeace said:

As far as Gen-X, they listed them as two distinct phases; the Atari wave, who were those that came of age during the 80's, played video games on the Atari 2600, listened to new wave, punk, hair metal, and early hip-hop, and grew up loving The Cosby Show on TV. Then there was the Nintendo wave, who came of age during the 90's, listened to grunge and gangsta rap, was increeasingly more tech savvy, was the first to surf the internet, and grew up loving Seinfeld and Friends on TV.

Well, as an Xer, I tend to agree. But I consider myself more of an 8-Track wave, which spent its formative years in the 70's and grew into adolescence and adulthood in the 1980's.

I remember the Atari as a 70's invention, recall listening to disco and 70's pop as much as hip-hop, Prince, etc. in the 80's, and look at Star Wars as a larger cultural landmark than the Cosby Show. I associate music with the record player and the 8-track as well as the Walkman and CD player. The 8-Track Wave are a bridge between the Atari/Nintendo Waves and the Baby Boomers.

One of my problems with generational comparisons as a whole is that they sell the experience of the 70's short.

Nice post.

Actually, there is a term for the type of bridge generation you describe yourself in. It's called Generation Jones. They are listed as born between 1955 and 1965, and they tend to exhibit some but not all of the social characteristics of their eleder Boomer bretheren, yet they also have social charateristics which acted as a precursor to Generation X. Here's a point to start at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...tion_Jones

BTW, Generation Y is the term usually listed for the Millenial Generation, but it probably is more appropriate as a term for the bridge generation between X and the Millennials. They would most likely consist of people born between 1977 and 1983.

[Edited 6/30/10 17:15pm]

Oh no, I was born in the 1970's. I was saying, however, that if you're going to break the Xers into waves, there's a wave preceding the Atari wave.

Gen X all day baby! (1969)

namepeace said:

As far as Gen-X, they listed them as two distinct phases; the Atari wave, who were those that came of age during the 80's, played video games on the Atari 2600, listened to new wave, punk, hair metal, and early hip-hop, and grew up loving The Cosby Show on TV. Then there was the Nintendo wave, who came of age during the 90's, listened to grunge and gangsta rap, was increeasingly more tech savvy, was the first to surf the internet, and grew up loving Seinfeld and Friends on TV.

Well, as an Xer, I tend to agree. But I consider myself more of an 8-Track wave, which spent its formative years in the 70's and grew into adolescence and adulthood in the 1980's.

I remember the Atari as a 70's invention, recall listening to disco and 70's pop as much as hip-hop, Prince, etc. in the 80's, and look at Star Wars as a larger cultural landmark than the Cosby Show. I associate music with the record player and the 8-track as well as the Walkman and CD player. The 8-Track Wave are a bridge between the Atari/Nintendo Waves and the Baby Boomers.

One of my problems with generational comparisons as a whole is that they sell the experience of the 70's short.

Nice post.

I agree, I am at the younger end of X. I grew up with pop culture from 1983 onwards, and my childhood and preteens was the mid to late 80s, with Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson the Cosby show, sons and daughters, neighbours, Kylie Minogue etc. And New Zealand specialities TV Kiwi and Terry Teo. I rmember stuff likke the rainbow warrior in 1985 and the space shuttle exploding in 1986. We studied stuff like Apartheid and the Berlin Wall at school. My teen years were the early and mid 90s, but I listened more to rap and R and B. This period was charaterised by Family Matters, Fresh Prince, and my Prince obsession. I wasn't really a computer kid as in New Zealand we were a lot poorer in the 80s and early 90s, the computer explosion didnt happen until the late 1990s here (like 1998). My cousins had a PC 64 in 1984 (The ones with the cassette tapes), and we had a Sega master system in 1991, but I didn't get behind a computer for real until I was at University in 1996.

Early generation X being born 1973, I know nothing of disco when it wa sin vogue or pet rocks and the Brady Bunch.

namepeace said:

As far as Gen-X, they listed them as two distinct phases; the Atari wave, who were those that came of age during the 80's, played video games on the Atari 2600, listened to new wave, punk, hair metal, and early hip-hop, and grew up loving The Cosby Show on TV. Then there was the Nintendo wave, who came of age during the 90's, listened to grunge and gangsta rap, was increeasingly more tech savvy, was the first to surf the internet, and grew up loving Seinfeld and Friends on TV.

Well, as an Xer, I tend to agree. But I consider myself more of an 8-Track wave, which spent its formative years in the 70's and grew into adolescence and adulthood in the 1980's.

I remember the Atari as a 70's invention, recall listening to disco and 70's pop as much as hip-hop, Prince, etc. in the 80's, and look at Star Wars as a larger cultural landmark than the Cosby Show. I associate music with the record player and the 8-track as well as the Walkman and CD player. The 8-Track Wave are a bridge between the Atari/Nintendo Waves and the Baby Boomers.

One of my problems with generational comparisons as a whole is that they sell the experience of the 70's short.

Nice post.

OMG! I missed you! I'm hardly ever at P&R or Non-P Music.... and yeah, ditto for me.

Gen X here

X DUDE & PROUD

paintedlady said:

namepeace said:

Well, as an Xer, I tend to agree. But I consider myself more of an 8-Track wave, which spent its formative years in the 70's and grew into adolescence and adulthood in the 1980's.

I remember the Atari as a 70's invention, recall listening to disco and 70's pop as much as hip-hop, Prince, etc. in the 80's, and look at Star Wars as a larger cultural landmark than the Cosby Show. I associate music with the record player and the 8-track as well as the Walkman and CD player. The 8-Track Wave are a bridge between the Atari/Nintendo Waves and the Baby Boomers.

One of my problems with generational comparisons as a whole is that they sell the experience of the 70's short.

Nice post.

OMG! I missed you! I'm hardly ever at P&R or Non-P Music.... and yeah, ditto for me.

Gen X here

back to you!