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 Dec 30, 2023
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Join us for the Ultimate New Years Countdown featuring the top 5 songs of every year between 1965 - 1989 for the top 125 songs of our generation!
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Join us for the 2023 Jingle Jam Top 50 Countdown with the ranked Christmas hits from 1938 - 1985! Filled with your favorite Christmas songs and nostalgia!
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Saturday Dec 23, 2023
Join us for the 2023 Jingle Jam Top 50 Countdown with the ranked Christmas hits from 1938 - 1985! Full of your favorite Christmas songs and nostalgia!
Saturday Dec 09, 2023
Saturday Dec 09, 2023
Join us for a musical journey back to this week in 1986 with a Top 40 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia!
Saturday Dec 09, 2023
Saturday Dec 09, 2023
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1986 with a Top 40 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia!
Saturday Dec 02, 2023
Saturday Dec 02, 2023
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1971 with a Top 40 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia!
Saturday Dec 02, 2023
Saturday Dec 02, 2023
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1971 with a Top 40 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia.
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1981 with a Top 40 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia!
Saturday Nov 25, 2023
Saturday Nov 25, 2023
Join us on a musical journey back to this week in 1981 with a Top 40 Countdown filled with great music, facts and nostalgia!
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Join us in a musical journey back to this week in 1976 with a Top 40 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.