I started with Billboard magazine Modern Rock Tracks number one hits of each year. The Billboard top lists are full of poppy crap and R&B, so I had to narrow it to rock. I wanted a top 100 Rock list, but I could only find #1s.
I gave each song a ranking 1-3. 1 = can't remember it, 2 = nostalgia, 3 = awesome. The first #, Sum of Score (by song) is the total score for the #1 songs for each year. But each song has multiple weeks at #1, hence the second total, Sum of Score (by week).
Par example, 1996 had a lower Sum of Score (by song) but the highest Sum of Score (by week) because a relatively few number of awesome songs stayed at #1 for several weeks. Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova and Swallowed combined for 20 weeks at #1.
If someone can find me a Top 100 Rock songs by year, my company's books will not be closed on time and FPNA will be mad at me for making them late with their forecast.
Would something like say...Beastie Boys and Regulate show up on Rock?
Neither were #1 1994 - 1998, but I would guess Yes and No.
"Marley explained his intention as follows: "I want to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead… but it's the same idea: justice."
And if so, who is the Deputy (whom he did not shoot)?
The only source I can find for this is an ex girlfriend who also says she cowrote it. Bob has never said this.
I think I was conceived on Bob Marley. He is in my DNA.
Apparently I was conceived in a movie theater, during The Rose with Bette Midler. I used to love that song but my mother had to go ruin it with her TMI.
Guys, I am down the wikipedia rabbit hole. I'm making pivot tables. Send help.
Why? Pivot tables are awesome.
And I totally agree with 13/14 being the best musical year. Of course for me that meant nirvana, soundgarden, (small voice, even dookie) Alice in chains, I think been folks came out around that time, too... which is objectively still the best.
Seismonic, matchbox 20, thumba wumba or whatever they were, just awful.
"55. Bob Marley’s “I Shot The Sheriff” is about birth control. Bob Marley didn’t want his girlfriend to take birth control pills. The doctor who prescribed the pills was the sheriff."
[stupid quote function!] I'm going to guess you're 34? Because I heard an NPR piece that said the summer you were 14 is always the best summer in music, and it is clearly objectively 1996.
Guys, I am down the wikipedia rabbit hole. I'm making pivot tables. Send help.
Why? Pivot tables are awesome.
And I totally agree with 13/14 being the best musical year. Of course for me that meant nirvana, soundgarden, (small voice, even dookie) Alice in chains, I think been folks came out around that time, too... which is objectively still the best.
Seismonic, matchbox 20, thumba wumba or whatever they were, just awful.
Pivot tables are awesome. My employer would prefer I use them for work rather than general music education.
I was shocked to learn that the old 80s song Turning Japanese is about masterbation
<----clueless
I did not know this one.
But I did know that Cyndi Lauper's She Bop is about it.
it's actually not about masturbation. I saw the lead singer on I love the 80's and he said it was about the rise of japanese culture/technology during that time.
But I did know that Cyndi Lauper's She Bop is about it.
it's actually not about masturbation. I saw the lead singer on I love the 80's and he said it was about the rise of japanese culture/technology during that time.
54. “Candle in the Wind” was originally written about Marilyn Monroe but rewritten about Princess Diana when she was killed and titled “Goodbye England’s Rose.”
you know, there is this version of semicharmed life that has a bridge in it that some radio stations edit out. the edgy radio station in town always included it so i know all the lyrics (i taped the song off the radio, lol!) and now when they play it on the classic rock station, they leave it out. it always messes me up when i am singing along.
leave in the version about doggy style/anal OK!?!
This is my favorite song to watch people sing at Karoke. The looks on their faces when it dawns on them what they are singing about is priceless.
Maybe Buzzfeed should write about who Carly Simon meant in You're So Vain
I could totally be wrong, it's probably a composite, but I always thought it was either about Frank Sinatra or Warren Beatty due to the line "...you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend." The latter part brings to mind Sinatra's alleged relationship with Bacall before Bogie died or Beatty's well-documented fling with Natalie Wood that broke up her first marriage to Robert Wagner.
But the real question is, "What does American Pie mean?" I've read all the articles, but it'd be neat if some new theory was uncovered. I love the line about James Dean. "But the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean, and a voice that came from you and me." (Bob Dylan, the Kennedys)