Pop-punk pioneers Generation X are more than just a footnote in Billy Idol's solo career! As this Pop Culture Graveyard episode proves, they laid the ground work for thousands of melodic pop-punk bands to come! Click SHOW MORE below for extra Generation X content! Are you a Billy Idol fan? Would you like to see a Billy Idol episode? Let me know in the comments...
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Dancing With My Wealth
If you follow no other link in this description, you have to check out this one! This is the VERY RAW demo for the earliest incarnation of Dancing With Myself (from the aborted Sweet Revenge album sessions), which Bob Andrews snarkily entitled, Dancing With My Wealth. Quite far from the Billy Idol hit you know and love, It sounds like Devo covering the B-52s. Yeah, it's that good!
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Your Generation
Here's a blistering live version of Your Generation on Marc Bolan's show back in 1977. This is a great snapshot of the young Generation X filled with hopeful enthusiasm and childish swagger. And that florid introduction from Marc is just delightful.
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Your Generation
Here's another live version of the song, this time on the show Impact. I've got this clip cued up to Gen X, but you can check out great performances by The Damned, The Adverts and The Rich Kids just by hopping around...
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Wild Youth
Here are the boys doing their leather-clad thing on Top Of The Pops. For lip syncing on a nationally televised show, Billy couldn't even be bothered to spit out his gum. When Tony's bass strap comes undone, he just says fuck it, and pumps the bass in the air. Punk...ROCK!
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Ready Steady Go
A more subdued performance from Generation X on this Top Of The Pops "performance," and it's easy to see why. What's the benefit of having a band do one and a half minutes of their song? Who's that helping? Anyway, the boys look good as always...
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Kiss Me Deadly
Great fan video using footage from the punk documentary D.O.A.
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King Rocker
This Top Of The Pops performance sees the boys promoting their first single off Valley of the Dolls, and DAMN does Billy's hair look good! The rest of the band really has a glam aesthetic here, looking like they raided Hanoi Rocks' dressing room. Rock rock rock...
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Valley Of The Dolls
Here's the band promoting their 1979 album on Top Of The Pops. If the band members themselves weren't ready for the oncoming '80s, at least Billy's hair was. This band faked "live" better than most. Billy's chewing gum makes another TOTP appearance--and check out Mark Laff's Keith Moon-inspired drumstick twirls!
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The Radio 1 Sessions
Here is the fantastic collection of all the John Peel sessions so you can hear just how good this band was live. Don't sleep on these versions of cool, lesser-known Generation X tracks such as Rock On and No No No, and a kickass cover of the Johnny Kidd & The Pirates song Shakin' All Over!
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Expensive Sound by Empire
As promised, here is my favorite song off Empire's AMAZING 1981 album, title track Expensive Sound. Bob Andrews handles lead vocals in addition to guitar, and does a fantastic job. I cannot recommend this album highly enough!
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Sonic Boom Boy by Westworld
Bob Andrews returns to the UK charts with the Top 20 song Sonic Boom Boy by his 1987 outfit Westworld. Check out Bob rocking an American flag shirt and Bo Diddley guitar. Elizabeth Westwood was a fun voalist too!
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Generation X REUNION
This is a fascinating watch from 1993, starring all the members of the original band (and a truly atrocious hairstyle on Billy), tearing through some of their classic material. It's fun seeing Billy trying to pull his vocals back from going full rock-god on these songs. Just goes to show you how far he'd come as a vocalist. Five years after this performance, Bob would release their third album sessions and piss off Tony and Billy. But on this night, they were tight as hell...
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Generation Sex
This is a fun concert from October 2018, featuring Billy and Tony from Gen X, and Paul and Jonesey from the Sex Pistols. Hence, Generation Sex. Get it...?
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