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

[Dick Whitman]

How about y'all?

Music: Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart

 

[Songbird]

Current Billboard Hot 100 > anything by those ****ing ****-ass Eagles / @CD Boogie

 

[SpeedTchr]

Of course not.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Why are there like five artists collaborating on every song?

 

[playthrough]

Nope. I could barely tolerate the countdown of the Top 40 Billboard hits from 1989 last week on Sirius' 80s on 8.

 

[CD Boogie]

Current Billboard Hot 100 > anything by those ****ing ****-ass Eagles / @CD Boogie

Damn, son, were you a roadie for Don Henley or something? The Eagles aren't my flavor, that's all. Unfortunately I have heard a lot of these Top 100 songs. I have a 9-year-old daughter, so pop music is often what we listen to, though I have been trying to indoctrinate her more to my tastes in music.

 

[Spartan Squad]

I think I've only heard of two or three because my sister listens to current music and I rode in her car in the last couple of weeks.

My actual thought after glancing at the list was "Shakira is still making music?"

 

[Spartan Squad]

Why are there like five artists collaborating on every song?

I feel like this has been going on for the last 25 years, especially in rap music.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Nope. I could barely tolerate the countdown of the Top 40 Billboard hits from 1989 last week on Sirius' 80s on 8.

Yeah, but I feel like I look at the 1985 charts, when I was the age my son is now, and I remember the songs that were No. 1 and I'm sure my parents do, too. They were ubiquitous:

"Like a Virgin" - Madonna
"I Want to Know What Love Is" - Foreigner
"Careless Whisper" - Wham!
"Can't Fight This Feeling" - REO Speedwagon
"One More Night" - Phil Collins
"We Are the World" - USA for Africa
"Crazy for You" - Madonna
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" - Simple Minds
"Everything She Wants" - Wham! (I don't know that one)
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears
"Heaven" - Bryan Adams
"Sussudio" - Phil Collins
"A View to Kill" - Duran Duran (I don't know that one)
"Everytime You Go Away" - Paul Young
"Shout" - Tears for Fears
"The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis
"St. Elmo's Fire" - John Parr (I listened to it this morning!)
"Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits
"Oh Sheila" - Read for the World (I don't know that one)
"Take on Me" - A-Ha
"Saving All My Love for You" - Whitney Houston
"Part-Time Lover" - Stevie Wonder
"Miami Vice Theme" - Jan Hammer
"We Built This City" - Starship
"Separate Lives (Theme From White Nights)" - Phil Collins/Marilyn Martin (I don't know this one, but I have no doubt it is awesome)
"Broken Wings" - Mr. Mister
"Say You, Say Me (Title Song from White Nights)" - Lionel Richie (I don't know what "White Nights" is, but apparently it was big in late 1985)

 

[Starman]

I kept fairly current until the late 90s, then dropped off.
Now? Nuthin.

This music these kids listen to nowadays...

 

[Dick Whitman]

Damn, son, were you a roadie for Don Henley or something? The Eagles aren't my flavor, that's all. Unfortunately I have heard a lot of these Top 100 songs. I have a 9-year-old daughter, so pop music is often what we listen to, though I have been trying to indoctrinate her more to my tastes in music.

@Songbird is my guy, but he frequently loves some of the most milquetoast bands around and is surprised that others don't grasp the awesomeness. He was evangelizing for Bush a few days ago. Glad the target is off me now. :)

 

[CD Boogie]

Yeah, but I feel like I look at the 1985 charts, when I was the age my son is now, and I remember the songs that were No. 1 and I'm sure my parents do, too. They were ubiquitous:


"A View to Kill" - Duran Duran (I don't know that one)

Theme song to James Bond movie.

BTW, guessing Jerry Seinfeld can't name many either.

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[Dick Whitman]

I kept fairly current until the late 90s, then dropped off.
Now? Nuthin.

This music these kids listen to nowadays...

I bet in a lot of ways it's better than some of the ****-on-a-stick I listed from 1985, but it seems the 1985 charts were still being driven by grown-ups.

 

[apeman33]

I only listen to pop music now because one of my friends is a program director for one of the radio station clusters in Wichita and I don't want to keep saying, "Who's that?" when I go see him and end up having to listen to one of his stations in the car.

 

[Songbird]

@Songbird is my guy, but he frequently loves some of the most milquetoast bands around and is surprised that others don't grasp the awesomeness. He was evangelizing for Bush a few days ago. Glad the target is off me now. :)

Let's get something straight, ****, Bush is straight-up good rock 'n' roll. At least 3 or 4 of his songs.

Whereas Weezer? LOL is about the best way to define ****ing Weezer. What the **** is a Weezer?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Damn, son, were you a roadie for Don Henley or something? The Eagles aren't my flavor, that's all. Unfortunately I have heard a lot of these Top 100 songs. I have a 9-year-old daughter, so pop music is often what we listen to, though I have been trying to indoctrinate her more to my tastes in music.

Pop songs usually make it into our house via kids' movies. Neither Mrs. Whitman nor I listen to Top 40 radio, so they don't hear it anywhere. My kid knows who Justin Bieber is, abstractly, but I doubt he could name one of his songs.

 

[Starman]

Well, if you even look back at the charts from the 1960s, the alleged golden age of pop, a lot of the stuff they pumped out back then was ****, too.

We remember the great stuff, but there was a lot of dreck mixed in with it.

 

[Dick Whitman]

My brother knew all this **** for a while. I remember him name-checking "Tay Tay" in a text and I had to follow-up to find out he was referring to Taylor Swift. But then we saw the Stones together, he watched Sturgill on SNL and Prince and Chris Cornell died and he's been all guitars, all the time these days.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Well, if you even look back at the charts from the 1960s, the alleged golden age of pop, a lot of the stuff they pumped out back then was ****, too.

Agreed.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Let's get something straight, ****, Bush is straight-up good rock 'n' roll.

The marketing team who invented them in a laboratory appreciate the compliment.