Hipster Gen X douche wrote:

Looking back at my list, I see that all of the records I've chosen are baby boomer classics from the '60s and '70s. It's not that there aren't plenty of overrated records from my generation - I could have slapped on here half the British bands gracing the cover of the NME (ex: Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy), and far too many flannel-clad American alternaboys who have good taste in music but can't create much of their own (ex: any band who made any record on the SubPop label). It's just that the baby boomers have dominated our culture so long that a lot of mediocre music from the '60s and '70s has been elevated to a canonical status it doesn't deserve, and so I justly took some long overdue potshots at selected examples of it. I doubt any of the music from Generation X will be overrated in the same way, because for various reasons nearly all the great rock'n'roll since the advent of punk/new wave has been underground, or at least on the margins. People gaze fondly back on the '60s because the Beatles and Stones topped the charts; today the Spice Girls and Marilyn Manson do.