POD X Music
Bringing you a weekly Top 20 countdown of the hits based on Billboard records from The Lost Generation Gen X We will also cover top 20 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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Episodes
Saturday Jun 08, 2024
Saturday Jun 08, 2024
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1977 with a top 40 countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Join us for the top 100 hits of summer from 1965-1989, this countdown is filled with great hits, memories and nostalgia.
Saturday May 25, 2024
Saturday May 25, 2024
Join for a musical journey back to this week in 1970 with a top 40 countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Saturday May 18, 2024
Saturday May 18, 2024
Join us for a musical journey back to this week in 1982 with a top 40 countdown from 1982 filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Saturday May 04, 2024
Saturday May 04, 2024
Join us for a musical journey back to this week in 1981 with a top 40 countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Saturday Apr 27, 2024
Saturday Apr 27, 2024
Join us for a musical journey back to this week in 1965 with a top 40 countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Join us for a musical journey back to this week in 1987 with a top 40 countdown, filled with great music, facts and nostalgia!
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1975 with a Top 40 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1986 with a top 50 countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Join us for a musical journey back to this week in 1969 with a Top 50 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia!
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.