While I enjoyed adrenaline hardcore, I did also like the Minutemen and saw them play at some little bar in Berkely the first time I ever went to San Francisco. I think D.Boone died soon afterwards in a car accident. This was in 1989 I think. I also loved X. You could study and drink beer listening to it. What ever happened to them? A couple of months ago I spend hours loading this music up to my dh's Ipod (whatever I could find). Was singing along with Youth Brigade's "We'll sink with California when it falls into the sea"--great anthem.
We used to put together shows-- 5 bands for 5 bucks kind of thing and had lots of fun. The same music lives now in alt.rock but it is way better produced and popular (plays on radio). A lot of the bands today are playing covers of our songs--basically ripping the old punk bands off.
A few things we all had in common besides music were The Iran Hostages (I was in 6th grade--vaguely remember Watergate and the images of Vietnam with Walter Cronkite), The Reagan Revolution, Mutually Assured Destruction, Perestroika, Berlin Wall going down. Also we had Jaws, the Star Wars series, ET (nobody thought it weird that these kids were home alone all the time?) Irreconcilable Differences with Drew Barrymore, Vacation, Monty Python, (in addition to all the gratuitous babyboomer era type films), and horror films like Halloween, and the 1970's realism --Taxi Driver. They are remaking all our movies now.
Also tv--Taxi, All in the Family, MASH, Barney Miller, Kojack, Hawaii Five-O, The Jeffersons, What's Happening. Happy Days, Dif'rent Strokes, Mork & Mindy, etc and Game Shows. We had 3 channels so there was always cartoons on in the early am (Bullwinkle & Rocky Showcase, Davey and Goliath) and after school, the 4 O'Clock Movie (old movies--that's where I saw The Birds and began a phobia with large flocks). Christmas specials were a treat, not common and annual viewings of "The Sound of Music" and "The Wizard of Oz" were family favorites. At the end of middle school cable tv came to town and then in high school, MTV only played music videos and they didn't broadcast until after 4pm. Remember Martha Quinn?
Many boomer parents were disappointed with our generation because we were more conservative, not protesting the bomb and Reagan like they thought we should. My parents weren't boomers -- they were born in 1939 and 1943.
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Yes, it is the answer to a trivia question.
X is still playing, and their country alter-ego the Knitters is on tour right now, with a new record out.
And Barney Miller was one of the most subversive shows ever on television.