3 Nostalgic Songs You’ll Remember if You Were Born in 1980

If you were born in the year 1980, you got to enjoy a wealth of awesome rock and rap music in the early 1990s as a preteen. So much good music came out during that era, but I bet any person born in the year 1980 will recognize the following nostalgic songs with ease. Feel free to sing along!

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“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana (1991)

This Nirvana song might just be the grunge outfit’s most famous tune of their career. You would have been about 11 years old when this song came out. And if you’re a fan of rock and grunge music today, this Gen X hit probably influenced your brain when it was small and mushy. And that’s not a bad thing. This song is still killer today.

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” took the world by storm when it was first released. It was a sign that rock music had really changed. There’s so much emotion in the song, complete with the “new” grunge sound that was wildly different from the rock music of the 80s.

“Nuthin’ But A G Thang” by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg (1992)

If you enjoyed listening to rap and hip-hop in your younger years, you probably know the entirety of “Nuthin’ But A G Thang” by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg by heart. Dr. Dre already had a massive career behind him at this point through N.W.A., but his work with Snoop proved he still had it in him. It’s a G-funk classic, and plenty of 12-year-old kids heard this song and couldn’t help but memorize and belt the lyrics. Though, you probably got in trouble for singing that “contraceptive” line.

“Common People” by Pulp (1995)

This is one of the most nostalgic songs out there for anyone born in the year 1980. Jarvis Cocker was on another level in terms of swag, and “Common People” is a Britpop masterpiece for the ages. Any 15-year-old who heard this song for the first time, either across the pond or in the US, likely fell in love with Britpop through this very tune. Oasis and Blur are great, don’t get me wrong. But Pulp was a wildly good and very influential alt-rock outfit, and I’m glad they’re still together today.

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