I wouldn’t have laughed, but I would have reached out and grabbed ya.
Nope, tune in tomorrow morning.
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Couldn’t find it cited that way, either, in interweb searches, that’s just the way it came up in my playlist.
mmm, please disregard Appalachian Stomp.
My thumb is up.
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On the other hand, it’s the perfect accompaniment to the opening credits of Deadpool.
That was good! 
I have the Merrilee Rush version of Angel Of The Morning. It had to have been one of the first 45s I bought.
We were walking along the prom in Worthing on Saturday and I thought of about half a dozen songs, including this little gem. Bust a gut to remember them. When I got home and was ready to post, I just knew there was a song I thought of and it’s …it’s…gone.
Here it is, back again. Long fade in.
j
Good one–that almost made my list also.
Heheh, I was actually split between that and Alberto Balsam, and went with the Aphex Twin track instead of Eno. Pity, it would have gotten at least two votes. 
FINAL POLL – What are your favorite A songs? Select up to 3.
- Across the Universe – The Beatles
- Africa – Toto
- Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
- Alice’s Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie
- Alison – Elvis Costello
- All Along the Watchtower – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- All My Loving – The Beatles
- America – Simon & Garfunkel
- American Pie – Don McLean
- Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd
- Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In – The 5th Dimension
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The most recent song on that list (“Africa”) is from 1982.
Clearly this means that modern music is crap, and not that we’re just all old.
Weird that we could have reached these same results…[does the math]… 40 years ago.
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What are you talking about? 1982 is modern music!
j
Seriously, it is, most of it, objectively. (Not counting the hundreds of world/folk musics out there).
In the epilogue in his 1990s book Revolution in the Head, Ian McDonald explains this well (and of course the 90s look like melodic/harmonic/complexity/craftsmanship /originality heaven, form the standpoint of 2023.) Well worth a read.
Rick Beato’s videos over the last several years deal with this also, and well (if not quite as eloquently as McDonald).
(One of McDonald’s points is “recording as (mostly) performance” vs. “recording as post-production-style layering”.)
Seriously, no matter how many times this is posted, it’s still nonsense. I’ve never read McDonald’s book, but Beato’s practices as a producer are part of the “post-production-style layering” where you do dumb things like replace your poorly recorded drum part with samples that they’re triggering using the recorded drum part. Plus, the Beatles’ era where most people think of them as innovative is during the period where they really were using the studio as an instrument.
If you want to find musicians who don’t use the studio that way, they’re still out there. If one can’t find new music they like; then I feel that either their tastes have calcified and they can’t appreciate new things, or they just don’t look very hard. I’ve heard the “They stopped making good music in X year” argument from people of various ages over the decades, beginning with my parents who thought the Beatles ruined everything. Those claims never seem to hold up.
If you’re only talking pop music, then yes. Pop music has always sucked, including the pop music of your youth.
Of course, in many internet hangouts, if you dare voice this sentiment you’ll get excoriated a million times to Hades and back, even here. [Oh golly gee the old 9:55 ninja’ed me right on time]
As has already been mentioned in one of these threads, part of the reason there appears to be a cut-off in the '90s is also because the internet allowed for increasingly niche styles to flourish that previously wouldn’t have been played on the radio. So there are a lot of good songs about that have been made recently, but they may not have been heard by most people or indeed been enjoyed by a majority of people who did hear them because they are niche.
Of course some pop made today is good pop. I would have voted for As It Was over most of the finalists.
It is, because Sturgeon’s Law.
This^^
The songs we find to be worthwhile have been filtered over the years. They are the “10% that aren’t crap”. They’ve withstood the test of time. Empirically. we can see that “the test of time” is about 25-30 years for the denizens of the Dope. That makes sense. If you’re a really old fart 65+ (like me), your prime for discovering new songs was the 70’s and 80’s. If you are in your 50’s, it was probably the 80’s and 90’s. In ten years, maybe the line will have moved to the 2000’s (as we old farts fade into the aether).