Here we are at the end of my project to determine my “Peak Music Year”. If you are just joining us, let me provide some background: this all started back in October when, inspired by a post I read at the estimable Althouse blog, I wrote What Does My Taste In Music Say About Me? I then wondered exactly how one might determine their “Peak Music Year”. So I arbitrarily devised a plan to select a time frame which I believed was most likley to include my Peak Music Year, examine the popular music of those years, and somehow declare on of those years a “winner” and therefore my Peak Music Year. With me so far? Good. I chose the years 1965 through 1975 – eleven years during which I aged from 11 years old to nineteen years old because I thought it was unlikely my musical tastes formed before age 11 or after 19, and I believed there was a high likelihood that my Peak Music Year would be somewhere in that range. I then decided the measure of popular music would be the BillBoard Magazine Hot 100 Music Charts for those years. I would examine the charts, determine an annual “winner” based on something like how many #1 songs an artist or group had that year, or the artist or group with the song that spent the longest stretch at #1. Completely subjective but I am attempting to determine how I formed my taste in music, a completely subjective subject.
If you like to waste time on the internet like I do, waste a few minutes reviewing the first ten years’ analysis:
Music Friday – 1965 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1966 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1967 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1968 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1969 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1970 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1971 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1972 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1973 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Music Friday – 1974 BillBoard Hot 100 Edition
Now you know what’s happening here and I’m sure you can’t wait to see how this all turns out. I know I can’t. So here we go with the 1975 BillBoard Hot 100. Crap….gotta go to work so I’ll finish this tonight. See you in approximately 12 hours.