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The most difficult 'find this song' ever...you have been warned

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TinyRick · 29/07/2017 11:48

Late 90's, early 2000s.

British band (from the south) Punk/industrial/rock.

I am pretty sure the song title is 'Generation X'. Lyrics include 'Generation's grown up'

Have googled so much over the years. Only comes up with the old band Generation X.

If someone could find it for me I would be forever grateful.

Challenge accepted?

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MargotMoon · 29/07/2017 13:09

@StealthPolarBear Is the woman black/white/other? Braided in cornrows or dangly? Any other clues??

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Happyeverafter73 · 29/07/2017 13:12

Mrs overtheroad your post made me really laugh 😂
It's true though. MN is amazing at finding answers to the most random of requests! with the exception of the book from TONGA that doesn't exist

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StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2017 13:22

White I think but she might not have been. Braided in those thick plaits I think. Dark hair.

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TinyRick · 29/07/2017 13:28

Nothing posted so far.

They were pretty underground. Lead singer may have had a beard/goatie

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TinyRick · 29/07/2017 13:32

Definitely not Divine Comedy.

More in a Pitchshifter kinda vibe.

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coughingbean · 29/07/2017 13:50

I will ask DH when he comes home from work, he has a weirdly good memory for music!

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MargotMoon · 29/07/2017 13:51

Generation Z by NOFX
Generation Freakshow by Feeder
Generation Lost by Motionless in White
My Generation by Limp Bizkit
Blank Generation - Richard Hell and the Voidoids

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Whisky2014 · 29/07/2017 13:53

I had a difficult one and was found within 15 guesses. Good luck!

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MargotMoon · 29/07/2017 13:53

Generation Day - Godsmack. Lead singer has a goatee by they are from LA not U.K.

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Whisky2014 · 29/07/2017 13:55

Oh godsmack are good!

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coughingbean · 29/07/2017 13:57

Ah Godsmack, i had forgotten all about them!

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Eight36 · 29/07/2017 14:03

Operation Ivy perhaps? Or Rancid?
Not British but that's who immediately came to mind.

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MargotMoon · 29/07/2017 14:04

Generation Lost - Rise Against

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MargotMoon · 29/07/2017 14:05

Genexus - Fear Factory

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MargotMoon · 29/07/2017 14:06

Sorry my stupid phone keeps posting twice!

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TinyRick · 29/07/2017 16:12

No sorry to all suggestions.

I'll never find it :(

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TinyRick · 29/07/2017 16:14

Not a well known band. I have heard of songs by all that as been listed (sine awesome bands btw)

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lougle · 29/07/2017 16:22

Prolific - Post Generation X?
Call me Jack Kerouac, James Dean, Bob Dylan,

Yo wussup everyone now tell me how you're feeling!

I'm the next young prophet, kills himself when he's young,

Fucked up in the head with no place left to run,

Got a gun but I know that I'm too afraid to use it,

So I took what I was feeling and I started making music,

The neighbors say I'm useless, my friends just think I'm fucked,

And the girls in my life I just don't want to bring them up,

So What, I spend most of time wandering the streets,

To see the poverty that creeps between the models and the geeks,

Walk in a dark cafe see what they can offer me to eat,

Punk guitarist next door always rocking me to sleep,

I was brought up in the reeds, middle class mom and dad,

Dog and cat, on the track to be another college grad,

It all went fast, really never knew why I ever started rap,

I guess I started, and I was off, so I never stopped to ask


Chorus

Let me be your anti-hero, mister anti-pop,

It doesn't sound good, and it's not what the family wants,

Just a whole lot of noise that doesn't amount to much,

But this music (music) it's all about the rush!


This is for all of us, the youth, the kids who never listen,

With umbilical cords attached to the back of televisions,

Prozac players, punks and preps,

Raise up, this is Post generation X!!

Jack Kerouac
It's the beat generation, it's be-at, it's the beat to keep,
It's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world,
And like old time low down….



I've found this life's a can't miss, an empty last wish,

it's like falling in love with the girl who can't kiss
,
Fact is, at 2 in the afternoon, I'm still in bed,

mattress smells like old sex, room smells like cigarettes,

On the floor bottle of liquor, ashtray, candles,

Across from a desk, beside pack of camels,
I
t's raining outside, the weather talks to my soul,

Turn the tap on but the hot water was cold,

Get sober off left-overs ignore the dishes in the sink,

Get rid of the hangover with a little bit to drink,

Need a little time to think today's no different from tomorrow,

Let it Repeat till I'm the old man buying tickets for lotto,

Drinking liquor out my bottle and just living in a condo,

Wondering if my life will ever be written in novel,

Most of these nights I'll lay down but I won't sleep,

Be looking up at the ceiling and counting cloned sheep,

Chorus X 2

This is for everyone who's ready for change,
For people doing something different with their lives,
Our generation's grown up in a strange world,
And it's time we take control of it,
It's time to find out who we really are,
To figure out what really matters,
And together as a youth movement, as an anti-culture,
We can finally give meaning to this generation,
This post generation X...

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Ghostontoast · 29/07/2017 16:24

The The - Beaten Generation

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BabychamSocialist · 29/07/2017 17:23

I hope you find it, there's nothing more irritating than knowing the melody and some lyrics but not being able to think of the name!

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CatchingBabies · 29/07/2017 17:25
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StealthPolarBear · 29/07/2017 17:39

Op you didn't go and see less well known bands did you?

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DubiousCredentials · 29/07/2017 17:47

East17 Generation XTC?

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Jellytussle · 29/07/2017 17:56

Not 'Future Generation' by the Auteurs?

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AlternativeTentacle · 29/07/2017 18:02

Mine is. A music video from the mid 90s I think. A woman with braided hair standing in front of a cliff or maybe a waterfall.

Not TLC and Waterfalls then?

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