One thing I don’t admit to very often is that I have always been a huge Madonna fan. I fell in love with her music after hearing Borderline on the radio in February 1984. I was living in Northeast Oklahoma at the time and crossing the border into Kansas every day to finish at the high school...
Walkman made its way to American shores in June 1980. Happy Anniversary, Walkman. For an excellent essay on 80s music, aging and lies, check out Ted Anthony’s latest article on Medium, We Did Not, In Fact, Build This City on Rock and Roll: Aging, death and the lies of 1980s bubblegum...
…Those drifters days are past me now I’ve got so much more to think about Deadlines and commitments What to leave in, what to leave out Against the wind I’m still runnin against the wind I’m older now but still runnin against the wind Bob Seeger, Against the Wind, 1980 Bob...
Amy Grant has a new Christmas song, friends! (I loved her last one, Another Merry Christmas, so much!) This year, she’s teamed up with Matt Maher on his new album, The Advent of Christmas. It was released in October, and the single with Grant is my favorite. It’s called Always Carry...
…Our painted old nativity Is fragile like the lives we lead Silently reminding me God is with us Another Merry Christmas. –Amy Grant, Another Merry Christmas, 2016 One day in the early 1980s, my BFF came to school and told me about a new Christian singer she thought I’d like....
This is not the first We Didn’t Start the Fire parody I’ve come across, but it’s the first I’ve seen for Generation X. It was published on YouTube in 2009 and features a guy named Patrick on Karaoke. The original song by Billy Joel spans 40 years of history, 1949-1989. That...
Take a moment and listen to this beautiful song, When I’m Gone, by Joey Feek. Feek is half of the Joey + Rory bluegrass duo. Feek has cervical cancer and has entered hospice. CNN: Vaccine Too Late for Generation X Virtually all cervical cancer is caused by HPV, which more than 20 million...
And love is not a victory march It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah… Car maker Fiat recently commissioned a study through the University of London to determine the most iconic songs of all time. Topping the list is the Generation X angst-filled anthem, Smells Like Teen...
Love it or hate it, there’s a Band Aid remake and it’s the fastest selling single of 2014. In 1984, Band Aid brought famous musicians together to raise awareness and money to fight famine in Ethiopia. In 2014, the song was remade with some of the old talent along with a new generation...
For a brief time, I did a series called The Jennifer Chronicles. I miss doing it every time I come across a Jennifer like Jenn Grant. Grant is a Generation X folk singer and songwriter that hails from Canada. She was born on Prince Edward Island in 1980. When her parents divorced at the age of 10,...
{ We are just four people who like to make music together and thus…pass on a piece of God’s love. — La Diju } For nearly 30 years, I have loved the song No Surrender by Bruce Springsteen. Well, now young faces grow sad and old And hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers...
What is a Mixtape? Affection for the mixtape (mixed tape or mix tape) just seems to grow and grow. A homemade compilation of favorite songs by different artists, it is now legendary. They were a real mainstay of Generation X adolescence and youth, and I made dozens of them as a teenager. I...
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