The Gen X Jukebox Question of the Week!
#14
Dear Gen Xer,
Last week I asked you which album title best resembled your ‘first time’:
Screamadelica
The Soft Bulletin
Live Through This
Blur
It was a sad but predictable race between Live Through This and Blur.
And the winner was…
BLUR!
That’ll teach you to have sex before marriage. Or before me.
And now…
The moment your therapist warned you about…
The Gen X Jukebox Question of the Week!
All great things must come to an end.
That being said, dying sucks.
Whose untimely passing hit you the hardest?
Probably Prince, followed by Bowie, followed by Cobain, then Cornell, all because of the influence each had on me. My very first LP (that wasn't a K-Tel record) was "Let's Dance", and I got the cassette of "Purple Rain" around the same time. It was a gut-punch when he died - so much potential just gone. Bowie...felt like he got a good long time, despite hiding his cancer.
Cobain's death brings back that era (which was not about grunge for me - that was my thrash metal period), and the surprise of someone so young taking their life. Cornell's didn't have much impact at all - I wasn't into Soundgarden when it first came on the scene, and only got into their music in the last 20 years or so.
These are excellent posts, Sonny! Thank you!
Chris Cornell, his suicide, much like Chester Bennington’s, such a loss.