I could NOT resist!
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/...ry-of-rock-or-why-were-all-out-of-good-songs/
Or a more recent blog treatment.
http://www.good.is/post/rock-and-u-s-oil-production-is-dead/
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/...ry-of-rock-or-why-were-all-out-of-good-songs/
The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock
or
Why We’re All Out of Good Songs
posted by lee on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 7:14am
Many rock purists and music snobs (myself included) often lament the quality of most modern pop/rock music. “Music these days is so trite and derivative,” they say. “It’s just been downhill since the 60’s and 70’s. Those were the days.”
A few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine added fuel to the music snobbery fire with its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. Anyone casually paging through the list would notice that the bulk of the list was comprised of songs from the 60’s and 70’s, just like the music snobs always say.
I, however, wasn’t content with the casual analysis. So I punched the list into Excel, crunched some numbers, and found an interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production:
Click HERE for the full-sized bell-curve chart explaining the crisis.
Or a more recent blog treatment.
http://www.good.is/post/rock-and-u-s-oil-production-is-dead/
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