1994 MLB All Star National Anthem.
I'd argue today is more like if the Beatles and Stones and Stevie Wonder never cracked the charts or topped out at #20. You picked one week and ignored that 3 of the acts you selected (Beatles/Stones/Stevie Wonder) are some of the highest charting in history on the pop charts.
Beatles/Stones/Stevie Wonder you mentioned had 36 #1s on US pop charts ignoring the countless dozens (100+) of other top 40 hits. Not rock or R&B charts, top 40 charts.
Sly & Family Stone and Zeppelin are good examples though where they didn't chart well on pop charts but obviously objectively great music.
There have always been bad #1s and bad top 10s, but I'd argue with each passing decade good music is less likely to find the pop charts. It started in the 70s with progressive album rock and continued into the 80s with a lot of great punk/new wave rock being more underground. I don't follow a ton of new music but my best friend is a musician in LA and my wife is into it, I like a lot of the new stuff they put on (and a lot of it is by artists in their 20s), I don't like hardly anything on pop radio.
I didn't pick a bad week.
"Sugar Sugar" was the end-of-year #1.
"Sugar Sugar" was the weekly #1 from September 20 through October 11.
So yes, *that was the most popular song of 1969.*
That was a year with albums like, oh...
Abbey Road
Let It Bleed
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II
In the Court of the Crimson King
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Stand!
Space Oddity
Tommy
The Band "The Brown Album"
Willy and the Poor Boys
Green River
Bayou Country
The Velvet Underground
The Chicago Transit Authority
Then Play On
Blind Faith
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
The Soft Parade
I could go on. Nothing off any of those, though. Nope.
"Sugar Sugar"
My wife has awful taste in music. I'm not even sure she knows who the Rolling Stones are. But when I told her about this little anecdote one time, she sure as **** knew the tune of "Sugar Sugar."
1994 MLB All Star National Anthem.
His JFK assassination story is nuts.
I was born in 1960 and have been listening to music my entire life. Music is as good now as it has ever been.
I am of the opinion that music was at its heights in the 60's, 70's and 80's and has fallen ever since. I don't think anyone can change my mind.
Nirvana, G&R, U2, Motley Crue, Van Halen.. 80's wasn't bad if you got past the Madonna/Micheal Jackson crapYes. I love the 70's and 90's for music. Don't know what happened in the 80's, but it wasn't good.
My first concert was Air Supply and surprised me how good they wereAir Supply, Meat Loaf, and Bonnie Tyler are all cut from the same cloth.
(Air Supply rocks in concert. Seriously)
That time Meatloaf went bonkers on Gary Busey on the Celebrity Apprentice. Blows his top at Gary over some paints he can't find then John Rich calmly handles the situation and found his bag elsewhere in the room, LOL.
John actually just interviewed him recently too about his music career
The music snobbery in this thread is off the charts
My mom always did the Quaker Oatmeal recipe. My wife have been using ground up english muffins as the bread crumbs. It's pretty tasty.I prefer meat loaf using frosted flakes instead of breadcrumbs.
People telling people to relax on the internet? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US 2022???
Air Supply, Meat Loaf, and Bonnie Tyler are all cut from the same cloth.
(Air Supply rocks in concert. Seriously)
that is hilarious, it was already funny before they found the shopping bag, then I lost it, then fighting back tears of laughter at the shot of him creating art dropping the basketball