this is still the most hilariously stereotypical butthurt baby boomer attitude I've ever seen online.
Hyperbole much? That's just the standard knee-jerk defensive reply.
"Look! It was better back then! When I was young and cool! What? No! that's not a coincidence at all, what are you implying...?"
You can keep repeating that any way you like. I'm sure you'd like that to be true, and it may even have a ring of truth to it. But I'm saying it's more of an empirical fact that's fairly easy to prove. We don't have to get in a time machine and travel 25 years into the future to compare the Billboard 100 of 2013 to the Billboard 100 of say...1977 to prove my point.
The Billboard 100
should contain basically all the fluff, as it is just pure pop. It doesn't represent what would subjectively be described as the "best" of 1977. Kraftwerk certainly didn't make the Billboard 100 in 1977, but they
were pioneering electronica. A small list of great artists of 1977 not in the top 100 would include Television, Sex Pistols, (oh yea, among many other things, there was a little genre called Punk music going on at the time), Throbbing Gristle, Bowie, The Clash, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Motorhead, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Yes, Eric Clapton, AC/DC, Genesis, The Damned, Peter Gabriel, Weather Report, Neil Young, Thin Lizzy, Muddy Waters, Jackson Browne, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull, Parliament, 10cc, Greatful Dead, Blue Oyster Cult, John Coltrane, Peter Tosh, Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, Santana.
That's just a partial list of talent that put out an album in 1977. And yes, you actually had to go to the record store and purchase it, and then take it home and put it on your turntable and play it. You admired the record cover and read it's contents. You actually paid attention to the music without multitasking.
And even the so-called fluff of the Billboard 100 charts for 1977 had some pretty good stuff....some great all-time classics....Walk This Way, Dancing Queen, Year of the Cat, Hotel California, Barracuda, Margaritaville, Carry on my Wayward Son, Blinded By The Light. And Some perfectly fine pop tunes from Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Carly Simon, Commodores, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Hall & Oates, ELO, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, James Taylor, Marvin Gaye, Peter Frampton, Queen, Rod Stewart, Steve Miller Band, Stevie Wonder and Supertramp. There was some really awful crap too.
And you honestly expect me to believe that we will look back at 2013 (or pick any post 1990 year you like) and will recognize it as a year with the same amount of musical talent as 1977?
