Post the song(s), any genre, that you think defined your generation

For me, it would have to be:

MeatLoaf - Wasted Youth & Everything Louder Than Everything Else

Twisted Sister - We ain't gonna take it

Van Halen - Right Now

 

NOT Generating, GENERATION! Moddies, please fix title! (hides face in embarassment) oi oi oi

 

(shameless BUMP!)

 

i don't think there are any really any songs that stick out to me in my generation. but if i was a few years younger i would have said "thriller" by michael jackson, as odd as he is now.

 

now that i think of it, i dont know how it would be a generation defining song, but it was a cool music video. haha

 

Thriller was an... interesting... video

Another Michael Jackson song that defined the 80's was Smooth Criminal, because it was the second "mini-movie" of Jackson's plus it was the very first video in which he did the moonwalk

 

Generation Defining song, here's my contribution:

Crosby Stills Nash Young Lyrics Four Dead In Ohio


Artist : Crosby Stills Nash Young
Song : Four Dead In Ohio



Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.

 

Well, OldMan should know a lot of Generation defining songs... he's been around since before a lot of us were born

to old and experienced ^__^

 

Here's another:

The Ballad Of Sam Stone
(John Prine)

Sam Stone came home to his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas
And the time he had served had shattered all his nerves
And left a little shrapnel in his knee
But morphine eased the pain, and the grass grew round his brain
And gave him all the confidence he lacked
With a Purple Heart, and a monkey on his back

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears, don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios

Sam Stone's welcome home didn't last too long
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
So Sam took to stealing when he got that empty feeling
For a hundred-dollar habit, without overtime
But the gold flowed through his veins like a thousand railroad trains
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose
While his kids ran round wearing other people's clothes

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears, don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios

Sam Stone was alone when he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
And he played his last request while the room just smelled like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
You see, life had lost its fun, there was nothing to be done
But trade his house he'd borrowed on the G.I. bill
For a flag-draped casket on the local heroes' hill

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose
Little pitchers have big ears, don't stop to count the years
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios

 

I'll throw this thread a bone...

Smells like teen spirit.. Not really my generationm but it was a movement larger then the pet rock