Who Did That 1960s Song #1

Alice's Restaurant is also so long of a song that it probably deters people from wanting to listen to it. It's a roller coaster of adventure though.

Except the 60s were full of awful garbage music that we’ve all collectively forgotten. For every Maroon 5 song today there’s an Alley Oop or an Incense and Peppermints (a song so stupid the band’s actual lead singer refused to sing it) from the 60s. Anyway, if you take the best remembered 100 songs from any decade they’re going to seem pretty good compared to the weekly drivel of new music top 40 will play.

the music industry was in much better shape in the 60s, so record labels would take more chances. This would result in more interesting music being created, and lots of it. Obviously lots of garbarge was also made, but the shear volume of music being produced meant that even a small percentage of gold is quite a lot.

Music is now objectively different, production techniques have changed. Many people consider this a regression, but some people are just nostalgic for the imagined past.

Well said. I’d say the peak of music production was probably the 1970s, which I believe saw the fastest turnover in music on the charts than any other decade. I do think, though, there is far, far more music digested today than ever before simply because of streaming technology. I bet music gets more and more artistic and varied as streamers figure out how to reach their audiences better as time goes on.

Smash Mouth's obviously.