I have heard of a grand total of zero songs on Billboard's current Hot 100

Capital-U.

 

As far as 38 Special, so many good things about this song and video.

 

The comment about Eddie Vedder lol

 

Speaking of 1989, the Fine Young Cannibals are underrated.

 

I was going to single them out on that list as being a pretty good act from that year. Glad you did.

 

I find myself going down youtube music video rabbit holes all the time. The comments are spectacular in their consistency of how they know music was so much better then, and if they could just go back in time to their high school days.

 

Your impassioned defense of current Top 40 music is noted, although I'm not sure you've really defended it other than lobbing ad hominem bombs at other posters for not liking it or listening to it.

But I think what makes it difficult for a lot of us to get our heads around - self included - is that throughout the decades of the rock era, the Top 40 included music that seemed recognizably descended from Elvis-Chuck Berry-the Beatles-Dylan-Zeppelin family tree. Now, the electric guitar has disappeared from the landscape completely, and it's just unsettling. I get it. Time moves on. Kids today grew up with computers. Why wouldn't they make their music on computers? But for me, at least, it's a pretty stark realization that what you always somehow assumed was going to last forever just isn't. I know it was naïve. Why would 18-year-olds in 2050 worship at the altar of long-dead white guys? It really was fleeting after all. Dylan. The Stones. All of it. It's going to go away, and pretty soon.

It's weird.

 

I'm familiar with about half of the Top 20. Much of that is because I listened to Kendrick Lamar's CD to find out what the big fuss was.

Bob Lefsetz weighs in on Despacito:

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You know what TV show I really miss? The Midnight Special.

 

Maybe it goes without saying or is an oversimplification, but isn't knowing so few top 100 songs due to not listening to the top 40 stations? Haven't checked the ratings, but 20-30 years ago it seemed everyone listened to whatever morning zoo station was in their city. Just going by my friends and family, now everyone listens to pandora, satellite, music on their phones etc.

 

Yes.

These songs have absolutely no route into my orbit.

Here is how I discover new music: I pick up "Classic Rock" magazine at Barnes and Noble when a new issue hits the stands, and I search for and listen to the bands that sound interesting on Apple Music.

 

I think I'd be one of the few who did sill listen to top 40 if Sirius didn't come 6 months free in my car and then I got used to listening to it. Don't have any songs in my phone or listen to pandora or spotify. Wonder if any of us, only listen to AM/FM, CDs in their cars.