Considering that this is primarily a Jazz room and not wanting to take away from the sprit of why everyone is here. My generation is a bit redundant , no ?
While not wanting to limit the bounds of time and place , if one were to say what defines their generation isn't that what you are asking them to do ? At the same time listening to music that is not of yours or my generation ?
Listening to Dexter blowing on Highway to the Stars defines as much about me as me listening to Alvin Lee jamming on Help Me.
What "defines my generation" and what "defines me" are totally different things.
I would argue that there is no one song or genre that defines "me."
I would also argue that there is no one song that defines "my generation." When I "came of age", it was everything from Madonna's "Material Girl" to Talking Heads. I felt aspects of both, but my real love was Billy Strayhorn.
I find it difficult to sensibly respond to this question.
I had all the usual supects tumbling around my head - '60s/'70s radio and so on.
But I quickly latched on to old-time country and while my 13-14yo buddies were still futzing around with Beatles songs, I had graduated through the Animals and Hendrix to Muddy Waters et al.
Then in 1977, I hit London with a head full Grateful Dead and Austin country rock, and for several years lived the schizoid musical life of a long hair/short (spiky) hair.
Later, back in NZ and then Australia, came grunge of the Stooges/Birdman variety and jazz.
Now it's more GD, Sun Ra, hillbilly boogie and sunshine pop. I have the Millenium box set on its way from Amazon.
But actually - now that I think about it - there is one song that enscapulates all this marvellous, magical stuff.
Dobie Gray's Drift Away.
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Kenny no longer on the radio. Seeking radio station that isn't so pigeonhole-bound that it can't handle an approach that takes in Louis Armstrong, Sun Ra, the Grateful Dead and Bob Wills.
What "defines my generation" and what "defines me" are totally different things.
I would argue that there is no one song or genre that defines "me."
I would also argue that there is no one song that defines "my generation." When I "came of age", it was everything from Madonna's "Material Girl" to Talking Heads. I felt aspects of both, but my real love was Billy Strayhorn.
And I would argue that you are either in denial about your Boomer past or unwilling to accept the fact that our generation had songs which clearly defined who we are.
Rock and Roll did that for us. Make no mistake.
If it is Jazz you want then I would humbly suggest that it is incumbent upon you to name those tunes.
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