"My Generation," The Who's 1965 classic in which Roger Daltrey sang that he hoped he die before he got old, was named the
most popular teenage anthem of all time in a survey of 2,000 British adults. Cyndi Lauper's defining Eighties track "Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun" placed second and Alice Cooper's "School's Out" was third. The polling for youthful anthems was done to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first use of the term "teenager."
You would have to imagine a Stateside version of the same list would have to include Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run," Skynyrd's "Free Bird" and
The Secret Machines' "Alone, Jealous & Stoned." Well, maybe someday for the Machines.
Labels: The Secret Machines, The Who
