#Popular music

[stone-cold-groove]

Ringos.

[citizenscreen]

“American Bandstand" began broadcasting nationally #OnThisDay in 1957.

The show that evolved into "American Bandstand" began on Philadelphia’s WFIL-TV in 1952. Dick Clark took over as host in the summer of 1956 and pushed for a national audience.

[cultureconnoisseurs]

On August 8, 1969, on a street in north-west London and almost directly outside a celebrated recording studio, one of the most famous ever album covers was shot.

Photographer Iain MacMillan took the image that would adorn the cover of the brilliant new record named after the street where he stood, Abbey Road. The zebra crossing, almost exactly in front of the studio where The Beatles had created the vast majority of their body of work, was about to become one of the most recognized sites in London and one of the most iconic album covers of popular music.

[schibborasso]

Peter Gabriel photo by Clive Arrowsmith, 1978

[anxietyfrappuccino]

why are there so many sex songs on the radio

[fashionlandscapeblog]

That older generations always criticized younger ones' taste in music is no novelty (old man yells at cloud). It's a fact of time and aging (when we become older, we're less flexible + tolerant to new ideas). Furthermore, traditionally, older generations criticized newer ones because of being 'too rebellious', 'too loud', too 'progressive in ideas' and 'too out there'. However, when a Gen Xer criticizes Gen Z's music it is quite often because of the opposite: it lacks the rebelliousness, loudness, and experimentation our generation's music had. Rock, the ultimate loud, iconoclastic, and rebellious genre of music is basically extinct. The Gen Z top 40 is traditionally poppy and agreeable with the status quo. So doesn't it seem the opposite? Am I really old, or is this generation too conformist in terms of music? Bob Dylan called this generation's music 'too smooth and painless' and people being now 'pill poppers, cube heads and day trippers'. If that's an old man yelling at the sky, is the average Taylor Swift listener an iconoclast and a punk? Am I the only one who doubts the latter?

P.S. There has never been in history more diversity and creativity in music than there is now in the Internet/Information era, yet music has never sounded more the same and you gotta spend hours to find something listenworthy outside the top 100 on Youtube/TikTok, while we, Gen Xers had experimental/alternative music in the Top 40 (admittedly, amongst a LOT of crap). Gen Z is politically superior to the coward Gen X, a big part of it is the contemporary 'hippie' generation, just not in terms of music, and that's what this rant is all about.

[lysergicfunk]

Rest In Peace Burt... 

Burt Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Filthy Fifteen

One of the actions taken by the PMRC was compiling a list of fifteen songs in popular music, at the time, that they found the most objectionable. This list is known as the "Filthy Fifteen" and consists of the following songs along with the lyrical content category for which each song was considered objectionable

[artofkhaos404]

Do you ever put on a random playlist purely because you want to hear something different than your usual and find yourself wondering why an explicit song about murdering children has millions of views? And is popular with teens and pre-teens?

It's not just teenagers anymore, HUMANITY scares the living shit out of me.

Jesus, come quickly.

[music-is-my-life-man]

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bob Dylan hanging out at Mick Jagger’s 29th birthday party, 1972

[citizenscreen]

On March 14, 1958, the RIAA awarded its first official Gold Record to Perry Como for his smash-hit single “Catch A Falling Star.”

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Some disc jockey had the audacity to play Taylor Swift on the oldies station and I wanted to swerve my car into oncoming traffic. Do words not mean anything anymore? I guess every single sond is "technically" an oldy because they were all recorded in the past; there aren't too many songs from the future, and every time a song is released in the present it's suddenly from the past! What has society come to when they follow up King of Wishful Thinking (1990) with Shake It Off (2014) and pretend they're both oldies?

Context: Johnny B. Goode was released in 1958 and was considered an oldy 27 years later in 1985, so I'm more than comfortable calling a 33 year old song an oldy, sure, but a 9 year old song? NINE?!? Nine years is considered old now?

Put in the tags whether you make a distinction between "oldy" and "classic." I could be swayed towards calling Shake It Off a classic, MAYBE, if the argument was convincing and it came from someone whose opinion I respect, but I refuse to call it an oldy until at least 2030, and even that's pushing it.

[teayoungg]

the only information we have about 4*town’s unreleased songs is that they’re tagged as pop.