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I don't think he has much good to say about the RIAA and major labels either--fortunately, he's been small enough/smart enough to avoid them, yet he's been one of the most influential musicians of the past 25 years...

bonus question: what does his success say about the need for major labels?

I don't think he has much good to say about the RIAA and major labels either--fortunately, he's been small enough/smart enough to avoid them, yet he's been one of the most influential musicians of the past 25 years...

bonus question: what does his success say about the need for major labels?

Bow Wow Wow dedicated a song to it, "C-30, C-60, C-90 Go" (the numbers refer to tape lengths).

Generation X, the band, existed since 1976 The also shortened their name to Gen X and also documented here

An interesting repudiation of Gen Xers as slackers was listed by none other than David Schwimmer in 1995.

Douglas Coupland's Generation X dates from 1991 and is listed as the source of the term generation-x here

Now, I can't find a single source about Gen Xers, as in when the term was first used, but I seem to recall it being used for a long long time. Pre 1991? I can't tell you for sure. I can't even tell you for sure when the Baby Boomlet term was first used, nor when Gen-Y, what I consider the current youth generation to be, was first used. I can tell you that the "Gen-X" movement, attitude, etc, was already noticed as early as 1982. The media at the time just couldn't understand the punk movement at all. (Things got a little out of whack on a large scale right around then, teens wearing earings, dyed hair, spikes, etc.) It was also the time in the 80s that we noticed that gee, our economy wouldn't keep growing insanely, and thus the first of us to graduate college started looking at ever bleaker job prospects, getting paid barely enough to get by, with no real prospects of advancement if you happened to get a job. (Sort of one defining aspect of GenX)

But I want to say all 3 terms have been in use more than 10 years, and I would swear that Gen X was in use prior to 1991. I would love to have this nailed down, but who's to say for sure? It's been almost 15 years and predates most of the internet (there were only a couple of thousand USENET newsgroups around at that time, and the myriad BBS's, the survivors that eventually comprised FIDONET. But that's going down almost forgotten memory lanes...even the waybackmachine doesn't go far enough back for this.

Now having done the research, I do recall we were initially called the Post-Baby Boom generation, in the early 80s on some of the freakier stuff that got reported in the news. Oh well, at the very least, Coupland is not in my frame of reference when someone mentions Generation X. I always related it to the band, who's single, Dancing with Myself, was re-released on Idol's first solo album and was a big hit at my high school, anyways. So I've 100% dated myself now!:)

Nope. Not David Bowie. This guy.

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This is truely one of the worst things i've ever heard. And I own a gravel album so thats saying quite a lot.