Soundtrack at the Crossroads
By Ms.Chelle
@Chellezhere (6318)
United States
July 25, 2025 12:28pm CST
Wow. Just look at that musical crossroad:
Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath)
Chuck Mangione ("Feels So Good")
George Kooymans (Golden Earring)
Frank Maffei (Danny and the Juniors)
Connie Francis
And just last month—Brian Wilson.
All gone within a single month.
It’s like an entire soundtrack of our lives fading out at once.
And yet, the direct marketers and demographers who split our generation into four marketing cohorts—Boomers, Gen Jones, Boomer-Xer Cuspers, and Gen X—could never have imagined how much we truly overlap, reaching straight back into those who came before us.
Generations are not static. They’re fluid, and so is our taste in music.
I know people from 30 to 100 who enjoy every one of these performers.
That’s contemporary music.
And remember:
A generation is approximately 20–30 years.
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@FourWalls (77276)
• United States
25 Jul
And this morning, jazz legend Dame Cleo Laine. Brutal month.
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@Chellezhere (6318)
• United States
25 Jul
@Ineeddentures I hadn't either, but I also had surgery earlier.
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@RebeccasFarm (95467)
• Arvada, Colorado
27 Jul
And Hulk Hogan..though I do not recall what song he sang
Yes RIP all..it surely is affecting me all this..I feel as if my generation are dying out.
Yes RIP all..it surely is affecting me all this..I feel as if my generation are dying out.2 people like this
@Chellezhere (6318)
• United States
28 Jul
That's only because you've not been in the shower to hear him. :)
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@Vikingswest1 (7239)
• United States
25 Jul
My grandparents liked classical music, and Western music. Not country, Western. Flatt and Scruggs, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and
My parents liked Big Bands, Instrumentals and popular artists like Ray Charles, Andy Williams and Buck Owens.
My oldest brother was into Elvis and 50's rock and pop and eventually Folk, then Acid Rock. He hitchhiked to Woodstock.
My oldest sister liked pop. Tom Jones, The Righteous Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys.
Second oldest brother liked current rock with a emphasis on Southern Rock. Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Elvin Bishop.
Third oldest brother liked alternative and Rock of the day. Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jethro Tull, early Metal.
My younger sister was a metal head. Anything loud and rebellious.
I am a mixture of all of the above. My music appreciation overlapped with several eras in music. To this day, I like most anything if it has a good melody or harmony or tells a story. Hip Hop, not so much.
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@Chellezhere (6318)
• United States
25 Jul
I am that kind of mix, too.
Dad's parents (b. 1914 and 1915) were from Oklahoma and liked Country.
Mom's (b. 1920 and 1921) were from PA and liked Big Band and Swing
We were a Ricky Nelson household—very few Elvis songs even liked.
Aunt Patti liked everything. She's who introduced me to Jefferson Airplane.
Mom's favorite song was "Wild Thing," but she loved Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Dad was into Phil Ochs.
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@Chellezhere (6318)
• United States
28 Jul
"A cusper is a person born near the end of one generation and the beginning of another. While the precise birth years defining when generations start and end vary,[1][2] people born in these circumstances tend to have a mix of characteristics common to their adjacent generations and do not closely resemble those born in the middle of their adjacent generations."
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@LindaOHio (196441)
• United States
26 Jul
It's been a horrible month for celebrity deaths.
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