On September 1, 1977 Jethro Tull and Blondie's newest label mate, Generation X , released their first major label single ,'Your Generation'. Billy Idol spits out what I always thought was a response to The Who's 'My Generation' with lines like 'Your generation don't mean a thing to me'. But forty years later Idol is joining Pete Townshend on a Quadrophenia tour so it occurs to me now that I misread the lyrics ( and found far too much meaning in the line 'ain't no time for substitutes' and guitarist Derwood Andrews's guitar hiccups).
If this is a punk rock attempt at addressing the generation gap, it's less interesting to me. Peaked at U.K #34.
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