POD X Music
Bringing you a weekly Top 40 countdown of the hits based on Billboard records from The Lost Generation Gen X We will also cover top 40 countdowns of various music genres from the Generation X years. Gen X’ers were often referred to as Latchkey Kids and dubbed the MTV Generation. Join us on a weekly music journey back in time from the Groovin sounds of the late 60’s through Disco and into early, Punk era, Top 40, Country, Rock and into Metal we will cover it all.
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4 days ago
4 days ago
Music has an extraordinary ability to transport us to different times and places, evoking memories and emotions that are deeply embedded within us. It serves as a powerful soundtrack to our lives. A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1974!
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Music has an extraordinary ability to transport us to different times and places, evoking memories and emotions that are deeply embedded within us. It serves as a powerful soundtrack to our lives. A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1980!
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Music has an extraordinary ability to transport us to different times and places, evoking memories and emotions that are deeply embedded within us. It serves as a powerful soundtrack to our lives. A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits from Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Hits of All Time!
Saturday Mar 22, 2025
Saturday Mar 22, 2025
Music has an extraordinary ability to transport us to different times and places, evoking memories and emotions that are deeply embedded within us. It serves as a powerful soundtrack to our lives. A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1987!
Saturday Mar 15, 2025
Saturday Mar 15, 2025
Music has an extraordinary ability to transport us to different times and places, evoking memories and emotions that are deeply embedded within us. It serves as a powerful soundtrack to our lives. A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1970!
Saturday Mar 08, 2025
Saturday Mar 08, 2025
Music has an extraordinary ability to transport us to different times and places, evoking memories and emotions that are deeply embedded within us. It serves as a powerful soundtrack to our lives. A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1986!
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1979!
Saturday Feb 22, 2025
Saturday Feb 22, 2025
A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1969!
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Alternative Hits of the 80's
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
A nostalgic journey awaits with the greatest hits from Generation X. Tune in and let the music take you back to unforgettable moments. Join us for a trip back to the Top 40 Hits of this week from 1981!
About Generation X
As children in the 1970s and 1980s, a time of shifting societal values, Gen Xers were sometimes called the "latchkey generation," which stems from their returning as children to an empty home and needing to use the door key, due to reduced adult supervision compared to previous generations (Hence the 1980 television series "The Latchkey Children"). This was a result of increasing divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce prior to widespread availability of childcare options outside the home.
As adolescents and young adults in the 1980s and 1990s, Xers were dubbed the "MTV Generation" (a reference to the music video channel), sometimes being characterized as slackers, cynical, and disaffected. Some of the many cultural influences on Gen X youth included a proliferation of musical genres with strong social-tribal identity such as punk, post-punk, and heavy metal, in addition to later forms developed by Gen Xers themselves (e.g., grunge, grindcore and related genres). Film, both the birth of franchise mega-sequels and a proliferation of independent film (enabled in part by video) was also a notable cultural influence. Video games both in Arcade's and in devices in western homes were also a major part of juvenile entertainment for the first time. Politically, in many Eastern Bloc countries, Generation X experienced the last days of communism and transition to capitalism as part of its youth. In much of the western world, a similar time period was defined by a dominance of conservatism and free market economics.