Example of Cultural Decline...This Song is #1 For Longest in US History

[JoeMoma]

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Sadly, what passes for "music" today can't hold a candle to the classics. The days of groups like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones who could hold up over generations are gone.

This is the song it replaced...do you consider it a classic?


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I never mentioned those songs. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones have nothing to do with that. Though Carey did have a tremendous vocal range in her prime.

That is the song that was replaced as the longest running number 1. My point, which you totally missed, was that this song taking over number one is not really that big of a deal. The best music often does not sell well.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[pknopp]

Sadly, what passes for "music" today can't hold a candle to the classics. The days of groups like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones who could hold up over generations are gone.

Perhaps the best performance on SNL ever. Ever.

 

[CrazedScotsman]

Otis Redding
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Parliment
Prince
Earth, Wind and Fire
Led Zepplin
Rush
Marvin Gaye
The Persuasions
Enchantment
Kool & the Gang pre Taylor
Slave
Tower of Power
Ohio Players
The O'Jays
The Isley Brothers
Zapp and Roger Troutman
Frankie Beverly and Maze

The list goes on and on. Music from the 70's and early 80's was the best.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

My “shitty music” was the Beatles, Stones and Who. Classic as Mozart.

Um, it is now. That's my point. Classically trained musicians laughed at those guys as amateurs and grifters at the time.

 

[fncceo]

Just to put things in perspective ... in 1969, the 'Summer of Love', the height of the counter-culture, the year of Height-Ashbury, the moon landing, political assassinations, and so much turmoil in our land ... the number one hit of the year was ...



Quite literally, the day the music died.