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 Sep 02, 2023
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Join Us for the end of summer special Yacht Rock Top 40 Countdown featuring a tribute to Jimmy Buffett
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Join us for a musical journey back in time to 1989 for a Top 20 Countdown filled with nostalgia!
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Come join us on a musical journey back to the summer of 1975! Top 20 countdown and facts about the times.
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Join us as we journey back to the week of August 12, 1987 for the Top 20 countdown and facts about the times of 1987
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Join us for a musical journey back in time to the week of 8-5-1968. Top 20 Countdown with artist and song facts, information on the times including commercials.
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Join us for this week's countdown from 7/29/1972, get ready for another musical journey back in time!
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
Saturday Jul 22, 2023
This episode feature the top 20 countdown of week ending July 22,1984. Full of facts about the songs that bring back memories and commercials from the time.
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
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.