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#MyGeneration6Music - What song sums up your generation?

Tom Robinson wants listeners' suggestions for a special playlist inspired by the seminal tracks that symbolise a generation.

Next week is the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic songs of all time - The Who's 'My Generation' - heralded as an unstoppable force of noisy pop rock that symbolised the hedonistic nature of mid-sixties teen rebellion.

So it got us thinking, let's put together a playlist of songs that sum up YOUR musical generation.

Every so often a song comes along that has so much more than a great riff, a fat beat or a soaring vocal. Sometimes a song can transcend the sum of its parts and represent a movement, a fashion, a collective mood and even a generation. So on this week's Now Playing we want YOU to choose the one track that brilliantly exemplifies your generation.

It could be anything from Public Enemy to Sex Pistols, The Smiths to Oasis, Bob Dylan to Beastie Boys, NWA to The Who.

Whether you're a mod, a rocker, a goth, a punk, a raver, hip hop head, a nerd or a jock, let us know what song does it for you; the track that spoke (or still speaks) for you as an individual; an artist that perfectly symbolises you and your generation.

Get YOUR generational suggestions to Tom Robinson - including the reasons WHY - via the hashtag #MyGeneration6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@6music.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.

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Sun 29 Nov 2015 18:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Who

    My Generation

    • Polydor.

  • The Jam

    Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

    • Polydor.

  • Jamie T

    Sticks 'N' Stones

    • CD SINGLE.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 1.

  • Echobelly

    Great Things

    • Global Television.

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kenickie

    Come Out 2Nite

    • Fierce Panda.

  • Underworld

    Born Slippy

    • Junior Boys Own.

  • Bob Dylan

    Masters of War

  • Chosen by Andrew Hannah, associate Editor of 'Line of Best Fit'

    • Pavement

      Range Life

  • Arctic Monkeys

    I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.

  • MGMT

    Kids

    • Columbia.

  • Slade

    Cum On Feel The Noize

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Beastie Boys

    (You Gotta Fight) For Your Right (To Party)

    • I Love The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Streets

    Let's Push Things Forward

    • Lockedon.

  • The Stone Roses

    I Am the Resurrection

    • Cigarettes And Alcohol.
    • Columbia.

  • Suzi Quatro

    Can The Can

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1973.
    • Connoisseur.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • Fontana.

  • Missy Elliott

    Get Ur Freak On

    • Elektra.

  • David Bowie

    Starman

    • EMI.

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Give You Up

    • Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Someb.
    • RCA.

  • Primal Scream

    Loaded

    • Now.

  • Gorillaz

    Clint Eastwood

    • Now.

  • The Specials

    Ghost Town

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 1981 (VARIOUS).
    • Two-Tone.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Sun 29 Nov 2015 18:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music