How's this?
 
https://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1974

bitflipper
 
"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact."
 
 

Of course it did.  I was born that year, and music was in a downward spiral afterwards.

bapu
How's this?
 
https://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1974

Hi,
 
If this isn't Pedro's list it doesn't count

There's always been a lot of terrible pop music. Even when I was 11 or 12 I knew Paper Lace and Chicory Tip were pants. I watched a 1984 episode of Top of The Pops last night, and it was pretty bad ('Breakdance Party', anyone?) with a couple of decent tunes from Marillion and Ultravox (toe curling videos for both mind you).
 
I do wonder where the good pop songwriters are now though - Ed Sheeran and his contemporaries can't hold a candle to Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Chrissie Hynde or Difford & Tilbrook. There also seems to be a marked lack of any kind of sense of humour or 'fun' in the pop that I hear now, it all seems to be angsty imaginary relationship problems. 
 
Likewise, no-one appears to be interested in writing anything political; I can't imagine a song like 'Shipbuilding' or 'London Calling' getting airplay nowadays.

Where's Pedro's tl;dr post?

POP goes the weasel?
 

bapu
Where's Pedro's tl;dr post?

 
Oh, it's coming...
 
 

It seems like music turned a corner for the worst when it was no longer about the music; when it became more about which Disney Star we could turn into the next Pop Star and how the beat would work with dance moves.

Talent no longer seems to be a measurement of whether or not the person can actually write their own tune, then play an actual instrument while singing the song without auto tune.

michaelhanson
Talent no longer seems to be a measurement of whether or not the person can actually write their own tune, then play an actual instrument while singing the song without auto tune.

I'll get me coat.