Show me you’re Gen X without telling me your Gen X

Posted by iamcomotose@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 62 comments

I am sure that this is the topic of many posts but I was driving in my car, turned on the radio and thought “hmmm I am repping my generation through the stations I have on the first screen”. Like the mechanical saved stations on the old AM/FM car radios lol.

Anyone have any other recent pics that show you are Gen X?

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MrBones2k@reddit

No Pearl Jam radio???

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Dillenger69@reddit

I haven't listened to anything but Spotify in my car since 2019. Mind you, I have worked from home since 2020, so I barely drive at all. My music is mostly electronic industrial. Occasionally I'll do some Men Without Hats, or RUSH, but not often.

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Antelope-Subject@reddit

Anyone like yacht rock radio channel 15 ? For some reason that shit hits just right for a few hours a day.

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Independent_Wrap_321@reddit

Love me some Yacht Rock. My daughter cracks up when I do the Thurston Howell announcer voice lol

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Captn76@reddit

Ozzy’s Boneyard and Hair Nation are my favorites

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Ksqd_Squid_103@reddit

I miss Buzzsaw stupid merger

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handsomeape95@reddit

Hey, get out of my car!

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Bot_No_5@reddit

Hey (hey), you (you), get out of my cah!

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handsomeape95@reddit

Well, because you implanted the ear worm, now everybody must suffer!

https://youtu.be/DM0X5gY5yio?si=0CD-Ct4Gw6sLaFkT

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

lol

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Gnarledhalo@reddit

You guys still listen to the radio?

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alfundo@reddit

Right? I’m here with 18000 mp3s on my iPhone thinking are there really that many GenX paying for radio!

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Bot_No_5@reddit

Mine are on a flash drive. CD rips, a few Napsters, some saved from online. Zero Apple Music; the only purchases are the CDs.

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7eregrine@reddit

Show me you're stuck in the past without telling me. 😃

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

Two things. I don't own a car new enough to have this and I aint paying for that! If I want to listen to 70-90 rocks just turn on one of the 10-15 local channels on FM that play it. It is either that or country in my place on this earth.

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Bot_No_5@reddit

I listen on the 2 or 3 holidays per year it's free. I hop around a lot because I am not the audience for unknown album tracks.

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Bot_No_5@reddit

Classic Rewind > '80s on 8

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Obwyn@reddit

Does anyone besides GenX still subscribe to XM? I haven't had an XM subscription in over 10 years. I usually listen to Pandora and well, my station selection on there trends heavily towards classic rock, 80's, and 90's stations....along with what started out as a sea shanty station and has morphed into a weird eclectic mixture of folk music, sea shanties, Irish/Scottish traditional (performed mostly by modern groups), and Scandinavian rock styles that has grown on me.

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7eregrine@reddit

My boomer receptionist and her husband.

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ZweitenMal@reddit

My boomer parents do because there are no more oldies stations. The ones that remain play things from the 80s. They want to hear 50s and 60s music just like I only want postpunk and alternative from the late 70s and 80s.

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Standard-Cockroach64@reddit

We still do since we often have to drive thru areas without radio and cell service.

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radioactivecat@reddit

I’m genX and I always refused to use Sirius.

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TinyFugue@reddit

Hrmmm

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

Hmmm?

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TinyFugue@reddit

mmm mmm mmmmm

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Ice_crusher_bucket@reddit

AM Sports Talk and NPR

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memymomeddit@reddit

Lucy, Fred, Fungus, Liquid Metal, and the decades channels

Yes, I know the merger was almost 20 years ago now. Yes, I'm still salty about it being a move to Sirius's dogshit programming and losing those awesome stations.

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MarkItZeroDonnie@reddit

I have lithium , 80s and classic vinyl but my other 3 are classic rewind , alt Nation and Metallica

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

Those are on page 2 lol

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afschmidt@reddit

You forgot First WAVE (CH 33)

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yanknga@reddit

It’s #1

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afschmidt@reddit

Sorry, cognitive decline...

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

No worries it happens to all of us!

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Educational_Bid_5315@reddit

You’re using XM radio, that says it all

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

lol truth!

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bourginsrevenge@reddit

Download Radio Unbound. Its First Wave, Lithium, and Alt National rolled into one. Oh, and it’s also free.

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

Thanks for the tip. I will check it out!

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SpecificStatic@reddit

Your Preset 3 should be Classic Rewind, then it would be identical to mine.

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

So it shall be!

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random14330@reddit

Same

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Th3R00ST3R@reddit

You forgot Hair Nation

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iamcomotose@reddit (OP)

It is on the 2nd page lol.

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polyblackcat@reddit

I listen to Boneyard, the Metallica station, Turbo and Octane

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drhman1971@reddit

Pretty similar to my list but I have Classic Rewind, 70's on 7, 90's on 9 as well.

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MaximumJones@reddit

I still only listen to NPR on the radio.

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Exotic_Criticism4645@reddit

I listen to FM radio, zoomer.

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NachoPartyGuy@reddit

Left of Center. Sirius 26. That was my fave

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ZweitenMal@reddit

RIP Fred. First wave is crap.

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Outrageous_Drag6613@reddit

Rock on

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MarcusAurelius68@reddit

Classic Rewind, and Hair Nation are 2 I listen to.

Used to listen to Howard 100 but he’s a fraction of what he was back when he first signed with Sirius.

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Shoehorse13@reddit

I have four of the six on the main screen, but swap out classic vinyl for underground garage and the 80s station for outlaw country

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wolf19d@reddit

Classic Rewind FTW!

We travel to remote places, so SiriusXM wins.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

Missing LL Cool J's "Rock The Bells Radio"

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DunkinEgg@reddit

Those are all presets in my car.

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Fight_Tyrnny@reddit

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Head_Effect3728@reddit

Don't subscribe anymore because I refused to call in every 6 months to get a some new retention offer. When I did, I liked First Wave and the Spectrum. I had to give up on Lithium because it was just Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Green Day over and over. There was not a really good 90's alternative station.

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slasherbobasher@reddit

First menu on my car is in chronological order, more or less: Yacht Rock, 80’s on 8, First Wave, 90’s on 9, Lithium, Alt Nation. :)

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redrumham707@reddit

My first preset is XMU so I can stay on top of the new stuff coming out. It reminds me of the cool stations from back in the late 80s in the Massachusetts area, WBRU, WFNX, WBCN etc. Next is of course First Wave, which plays most of the songs I heard on all those cool radio stations in the 80s.

Something about hearing and enjoying new music before it becomes mainstream feels very gen X to me.

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alanbowman@reddit

I'm the same. SiriusXMU first, then Lithium, then 1st Wave.

To be honest, my radio almost never moves off those channels. Although if Indie 1.0 was available on the car receiver I'd probably stay there quite a bit too.

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