Achievement Unlocked: Music Life

Has music really been getting worse during my lifetime? There can only be one kind of test...

Here are the number ones on my birthday (19th August) from the UK chart across my lifetime from 1981 until 2010...

1981	28	Shakin' Stevens - Green Door
1982	29	Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
1983	30	K C and The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
1984	31	George Michael - Careless Whisper
1985	32	Madonna - Into The Groove
1986	33	Boris Gardiner - I Want To Wake Up With You
1987	34	Michael Jackson - I Just Can't Stop Loving You
1988	35	Yazz and The Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up
1989	36	Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers - Swing The Mood
1990	37	Bombalurina - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
1991	38	Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
1992	39	Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
1993	40	Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own
1994	41	Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around
1995	42	Take That - Never Forget
1996	43	Spice Girls - Wannabe
1997	44	Will Smith - Men In Black
1998	45	Boyzone - No Matter What
1999	46	Westlife - If I Let You Go
2000	47	Melanie C - I Turn To You
2001	48	Five - Let's Dance
2002	49	Sugababes - Round Round
2003	50	Blu Cantrell feat. Sean Paul - Breathe
2004	51	3 Of A Kind - Babycakes
2005	52	James Blunt - You're Beautiful
2006	53	Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
2007	54	Kanye West - Stronger
2008	55	Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
2009	56	Black Eyed Peas - I Got A Feeling
2010	57	Flo Rida feat. David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me

List provided by boborst.com - This list as a spotify playlist.

You can't seriously tell me that looking at the first half of this list versus the second half you don't think either "Yay! Jive Bunny" or "Booo Shakira!" 16 weeks of Bryan Adams at number one annoyed the fuck out of us at the time but you gotta believe it's a better song than Babycakes by 3 of a kind. A song so staggeringly shit the record company wouldn't even put it on Spotify for people to liste to for free. For real. But Surely America was alright, they won't suffer from this half cool/half doggs eggs music? right? RIGHT?

1981	41	Diana Ross and Lionel Richie - Endless Love
1982	42	Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
1983	43	Police - Every Breath You Take
1984	44	Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
1985	45	Huey Lewis and The News - The Power of Love
1986	46	Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
1987	47	Madonna - Who's That Girl
1988	48	Steve Winwood - Roll With It
1989	49	Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
1990	50	Mariah Carey - Vision of Love
1991	51	Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
1992	52	Boyz II Men - End of the Road
1993	53	UB40 - Can't Help Falling in Love
1994	54	Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)
1995	55	TLC - Waterfalls
1996	56	Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
1997	57	Puff Daddy and Faith Evans feat. 112 - I'll Be Missing You
1998	58	Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine
1999	59	Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
2000	60	Sisqo - Incomplete
2001	61	Alicia Keys - Fallin'
2002	62	Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma
2003	63	Beyonce feat. Jay-Z - Crazy In Love
2004	64	Terror Squad - Lean Back
2005	65	Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
2006	66	Fergie - London Bridge
2007	67	Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
2008	68	Rihanna - Disturbia
2009	69	Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
2010	70	Eminem feat. Rihanna - Love the Way You Lie

List provided by boborst.com - This list as a Spotify Playlist

Again everything up to about 1996 is passable. Sure the Macarena is crap and was overplayed but really it is better than Terror Squad right? I mean Ghostbusters alone pisses over everything from the last ten years. Imagine it, Ray Parker Jr pissing in the faces of the Black Eyed Peas. Ray's laughing. One of the Peas says don't you know who will.i.am?" and gets a mouthful of Parker piss. O.K. maybe that's going a bit far...

In conclusion music in general is not getting worse, just the bad music is getting to number one more than the good music. In fact it might just be that the music released in mid August tends to be overly poppy and commercialised summer music. That's probably right. After all quite a lot of film songs on those two lists.

I feel like i might have wasted your time with this post so to keep everyone happy here's a Simpsons quote from Grampa...

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what's it seems scary and weird. It'll happen to you one day." - ABE SIMPSON 

Oh and some child pictures of me...