updated April 13, 2026
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Rob Berends writes:
From the Lost Generation to Generation Z, bypassing Gen X: how 1980s indie music is all the rage (not rave) nowadays
Did you read this, on the Independent’s site? “The scruffy, awkward music genre that was supposed to have been killed by the rave kids is back. As Gen Z can’t get enough of the soundtracks of the outsider lyrics their parents loved (…)”.
I’m one of the Lost Generation, the generation that was teenager or twenty-something in the late 1970s or ’80s. The time of doom & gloom, the time of mass unemployment, the time of the threat of World War 3, the time of the neutron bomb, the time of Reagan and Thatcher, etc.
In The Netherlands it was also the time of two consecutive prime-ministers coming on national TV to address our generation: “we have nothing for you. No work, no jobs“.
Joy Division was one of the bands expressing the doom & gloom. The best band of all times, if you ask me. And there was punk rock of course, expressing the same anger, but also often turning it into a weapon against those f*cking up the world. And punk rock often still does so.
In my hometown, we turned the doom & gloom into DIY-activities, also in squats that became centres of cultural and other activity.
As it also happened in the 1980s, many current at first excellent bands with an 1980s indie sound think making your sound more smooth and more stadium-ready is the way to go. My attention is quickly lost. Still, bands like The National, IST IST, and especially Red Dons stick to their unique sound and I welcome that very much.
Let me add, just to annoy many of you, that as a young man living in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, I did manage to see Joy Division four (4) times 🙂 ! One time in London/England, and three times in The Netherlands. Feel free to hate me for that!