My Generation

[senseandsensibility]

Just heard that song in the car for the first time in years. The Who, baby. I was probably five or something when it came out, so it's not really speaking to my generation, but still....the lyrics and delivery are amazing.

I would think that any generation could relate to it and think it was speaking to and for them. The exhaustion with the criticism, the feeling that you are not understood, and the attitude that comes with youth that you are RIGHT and have nothing to learn. We've all been there, I think.

[arlyellowdog]

1. I just hate that the most well known person of my generation is Donald Trump

Please defeat him so someone else can represent us in the history books (Joe Biden is the generation ahead). I don’t know, maybe Paul McCartney or someone.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Sorry, but I'm not following the part about Biden being the generation ahead?

Aren't Biden and cheato only three years apart?

[LeftInTX]

10. Obama is a baby boomer also! So is Bill Clinton!

[arlyellowdog]

11. Obama is Gen X, Biden is the "Lost Generation"

[LeftInTX]

12. Obama was born in 1961. Boomer generation ended in 1965

[MLAA]

2. Is this the right song?

[senseandsensibility]

4. Yup

Thanks! I have to say though, that the visuals in the link are way too distracting to me. When I listened to only the audio today, the lyrics and music really stood out. However, I do like all those 60's scenes and fashions!

[MLAA]

6. I love the song and I love 60s fashions.

I was born in 60, so I missed out. My sister is six years older, so she had the late 60s style to enjoy. 2 more of my favorite 60s songs below. I do remember hearing Downtown when I was 4 or 5. Dad was in the Army and we were stationed in Germany. Most weekends he took us on road trips. We were in the family car, a green Chevy, parked and looking out at the North Sea when somewhere in Holland when it came on the radio.

[Gruenemann]

5. As you said, it appeals to different generations

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[senseandsensibility]

7. I didn't know who the Zimmers were

so I expected some kind of punk rock rendition (which could be good). Really shows the way the lyrics can be adapted to young and old, doesn't it?

[marked50]

8. The Who played at my high school in 1967--- so great.

The Who played a concert with The Buckinghams at Shawnee Mission South on November 17, 1967

[Jack Valentino]

9. However, according to the lyrics we are both long past our expiration date

from the point of view of the singers! lol and they are further past, those who remain.


That was one of my favorite songs in the '80's, although I could remember having heard it before then.
I was heavily into hard rock for the first time in my life, with favorites being The Doors, The Who, The Rolling Stones and Blue Oyster Cult.

One morning in the mid-80s I won the chance to do a "sing-along" on my favorite FM rock station,
and that was my song of choice. I was also in the habit of talking to the DJs when I could on the phone, they were quite friendly.

They told me that the format called for them to cut me off after the first chorus,
but that I was 'doing such a great job' that they just let me go on and finish it! LOL


Below is the definitive WHO documentary, "The Kids Are Alright" (1979)
The opening scene is their famous appearance on the Smothers Brothers tv show,
where they sang "My Generation", tried to destroy their guitars, blew up the drum kit,
and reduced Tommy Smother's guitar to splinters on live television!

Gotta watch the opening if nothing else!

"My Generation"

[Roger Daltrey (Pete Townshend & John Entwistle)]
People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

My, my, my generation

Why don't you all f-fade away (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to cause a big sensation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-generation (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

My, my, my generation
My, my, my generation

People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

My, my, my generation

[(Pete Townshend & John Entwistle) Roger Daltrey]
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
(Talkin' 'bout my generation) My generation
(Talkin' 'bout my generation) My generation
(Talkin' 'bout my generation) This is my generation, baby
(Talkin' 'bout my generation) This is my generation
(Talkin' 'bout my generation) This is my generation
(Talkin' 'bout my generation) This is my generation
(Talkin' 'bout my generation) This is my generation